Difford & Tilbrook

Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook - Difford & Tilbrook

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Artist: Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Music Label: Hip-O Select

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Music Review: A bit of an embarrassing reach for the charts?
Rating: 2 Stars

I wasn't familiar with this album in the '80s. I couldn't stop listening to Singles 45s and under and East Side Story to notice Squeeze had made another record (Sweets For a Stranger) and then broken up, Difford & Tilbrook making a record together and then reuniting Squeeze for Cosi Fan Tutti, I didn't catch up with them again until Babylon and On. Recently I started filling in the gaps in my Squeeze collection, especially their earlier records and their mid-'80s stuff. The point of saying that is I have no nostalgic memories of this D&T record to fall back on.

And so: Ack! It's not as swamped in synths and fretless basses and big synthy drums as Cosi Fan Tutti is, but it is certainly dated. The strangest thing for me about this record is how it veers into '80s R&B and blue-eyed soul territory, with Tilbrook actually channeling Michael Jackson a couple of times.... there's female backup vocalists on some songs. It's just odd, and out of place, and feels a little bit like they said "hey look at that Hall & Oates duo, they're selling millions, why aren't we?" Almost like an album's-worth of genre songwriting exercises by very talented songwriters writing outside of their "niche". And then the kicker for me: the complete absence of Difford's oddball low voice! Not only does he not sing lead on anything, there's none of that great Difford-an-octave-below-Tilbrook sound. None!

Despite all this, I think "Picking Up the Pieces" is pretty good and "Man For All Seasons" is almost as excellent an Elvis Costello-esque jaunt as "I've Returned" was on "Sweets From a Stranger". I would have liked to have heard a lot more of the album go in that direction. But that's just me.

This record is absolutely worth having for Squeeze completists, but the casual fan might want to avoid it.

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Songs Include : 1. Action Speaks Faster / 2. Hope Fell Down / 3. Tears For Attention / 4. Picking up the Pieces / 5. Man For All Seasons / 6. Wagon Train / 7. You Can't Hurt the Girl / 8. Love's Crashing Wave / 9. Apple Tree / 10. On My Mind Tonight

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