A classic quintessential song from 1978 and the band Squeeze. However in Australia they were called UK Squeeze. Used to hate it when that happened. It would wreck the album and single sleeves. Having UK or British or English plastered over the art work. No matter, this song was just mesmerizing and is every bit as strong today. Another story song set in the world of the sixties, kind of, with it's reference to Clapham Junction and the Nell Dunn novel and movie "Up The Junction" Also one of my favourite films.
In 1978 I was watching all those English movies and devouring the literature. Billy Liar, Bond movies, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Blow Up. I was building up a little world which began to influence what I wrote about and led to Little Murders becoming Melbourne's first Mod band at the end of 1979. When I look back now it wasn't so much the Mod thing that grabbed me but the idea that I wanted to be living in Swinging London in 1965. I think I still do sometimes. And the coolest thing was Modernism. And pop art. And the Who and the Kinks. And the list is endless.
Then when the punk thing came along I leant towards the the cool sixties references in songs like Elvis Costello's "I don't want to go to Chelsea" But now I'm just wandering. "Up The Junction" is a great song with a great storyline with some fantastic and odd rhymes. And Squeeze had plenty more good songs too. Actually I pinched the title of their first single "Take Me, I'm Yours" for my debut single.
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