Frank (Squeeze album) explained

Frank
Type:studio
Artist:Squeeze
Cover:squeezeFrank.jpg
Released:24 August 1989
Studio:The Chocolate Factory and Nomis Studios (London, UK)
Length:45:19
Label:A&M
Producer:
Prev Title:Babylon and On
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:A Round and a Bout
Next Year:1990

Frank is a studio album by new wave group Squeeze, released in 1989.[1] [2] The album sold poorly, and Squeeze was dropped by A&M Records while on tour. Forced to take offers from different major labels for the first time in their career, the band soon signed with Reprise Records and began working on their next studio album, Play.

Frank peaked at number 58 in the UK Albums Chart.[3] It peaked at No. 113 on the Billboard 200.[4]

Style

Susan Whitall of The Honolulu Advertiser described Frank as having a "typically Squeezian diversity of songs". The album was described as post-punk.[5]

Production

Frank was recorded live in the studio with producer Eric "E.T." Thorngren.[6]

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album the band's best since Argybargy, writing: "Relocating its original magic with memorably inventive material and spirited delivery, Squeeze here seems exuberantly youthful, as if music-making had suddenly become fun again."[7] Phoenix New Times wrote that Squeeze went "for a live garagey sound that finally gives [Gilson] Lavis' powerhouse drumming center-stage placement."[8] The Rolling Stone Album Guide called the album "well-crafted" but "only occasionally involving."

Track listing

All songs written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook except as indicated.

  1. "Frank" (Public domain, no author) – 0:15
  2. "If It's Love" – 4:02
  3. "Peyton Place" – 4:08
  4. "Rose I Said" – 3:36
  5. "Slaughtered, Gutted and Heartbroken" – 4:37
  6. "(This Could Be) The Last Time" – 3:49
  7. "She Doesn't Have to Shave" – 3:27
  8. "Love Circles" – 5:34
  9. "Melody Motel" – 3:51
  10. "Can of Worms" – 4:47
  11. "Dr. Jazz" (Jools Holland) – 4:04
  12. "Is It Too Late" – 3:12

Bonus tracks on 2007 CD reissue

  2. "Red Light" (b-side of "Love Circles") – 4:23
  3. "Frank's Bag" (b-side of "If It's Love") – 3:43
  4. "Good Times Bring Me Down" (previously unreleased) – 5:14
  5. "Any Other Day" (previously unreleased) – 3:42
  6. "Who's That" (demo, b-side of "Love Circles") – 2:41
  7. "If I'm Dead" (Glenn Tilbrook demo) – 2:14
  8. "She Doesn't Have to Shave" (live, BBC Radio 1 Acoustic Session 19/10/1989) – 3:11
  9. "Melody Motel" (live, BBC Radio 1 Acoustic Session 19/10/1989) – 3:52

Personnel

Squeeze

Additional personnel

Production

Notes and References

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/squeeze-mn0000790732/biography Squeeze | Biography & History | AllMusic
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&dq=frank+squeeze+1989+rough+guide+to+rock&pg=PA999 The Rough Guide to Rock - Google Books
  3. Book: Roberts , David . 2006. British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th. Guinness World Records Limited . London. 1-904994-10-5. 522/3.
  4. https://www.billboard.com/artist/squeeze/chart-history/tlp/ Squeeze | Billboard
  5. News: Whitall . Susan . Band puts the squeeze on post-punk sound . The Honolulu Advertiser . 4 February 1990.
  6. Web site: Fresh Squeeze . Chicago Tribune . 20 January 2021.
  7. Web site: Squeeze . Trouser Press . 20 January 2021.
  8. https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/suicide-squeeze-6421457 Suicide Squeeze | Phoenix New Times

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