I'm being stalked by Squeeze.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

I turn on the radio yesterday, 'Tempted' is on.
I turn on Much More Music, it's the video for 'Another Nail in My Heart'.
I find some old files on my computer and, surprise, surprise there's 'Up the Junction' which makes me cry, because I'm such a bloody sentimentalist.
I go into Starbucks and (oh, the irony) they're playing 'Black Coffee in Bed'.

Oi! Vaguely successful new-wave types! STOP STALKING ME.

That will be all.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Much better than that other stalker you had.

I'm sorry I scared you. :(

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. It wasn't the stalking so much as the Cyndi Lauper mask you wore.

:scared:

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. That was not a mask.

I'll be sending you my plastic surgery bill.

[Fenris]

2. I was stalked by the Fixx once.

I honestly didn't want it to end in a Ruby Ridge-style shootout, but it did. RIP those guys from the Fixx.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. That's why they had no other hits after that one.

You know, that one where he sounds like Robert Smith.

Weren't they just Wang Chung in disguise?

[Fenris]

11. Every bottom-tier New Wave band was Wang Chung in disguise

Squeeze could have been too. But we'll never know. Because they're all dead. I think. I hope.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

13. I don't know. I thought the Blue Nile were dead. But they're back!

You can never escape cinematic Scots gloomsters the Blue Nile. Just 'cause it takes them seven years between records, it doesn't mean they're not dead. No.
:scared:

[GOPisEvil]

7. I know you wanted it to end differently, but One Thing Leads To Another.

:7

[Fenris]

9. I'd try to respond with another Fixx title

But I think that was their only song.;)

[Pale Blue Dot]

12. Oh poor, naive Fenris.

How about "Stand or Fall"? "Saved By Zero"? "Are We Ourselves?"? And my personal favorite, "Secret Seperation"?

And, yes, I do own their Greatest Hits. So what? :P

[Kolesar]

20. Every time I hear "Saved By Zero"

I get this mental image of Sergeant Snorkle of Beetle Bailey being saved by "Zero", one of the supporting characters of the comic strip.

Yes, I have "Saved By Zero" on a various artists tape I made in the 1980s.

[GOPisEvil]

21. Red Skies At Night!!!!

I own their greatest hits, too. :D

[tigereye]

14. oh my god the Fixx

now I feel like I am in a time warp. Husb was obsessed with them for a while. But not a stalker. :)

[eyesroll]

5. We thought we were being stalked by "Nights in White Satin" once

Turns out it just goes on for hours.

[Kolesar]

6. I remember the first time I heard "Tempted", their break-through hit

I thought it was Hall & Oates.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

10. It's surprisingly bland by their standards.

They had had hits in Canada and the UK before that one, thankfully. 'Cool for Cats', 'Take Me, I'm Yours', and the two classic power pop singles 'Another Nail In My Heart' and 'Pulling Mussels From The Shell' were far better singles.

[tigereye]

15. Byron!

What about Lizzy Mercier Descloux? We just saw that she died this past spring. :( We loved her version of "Fever." And she was a protege of Patti Smith.

ps they are advertising insurance with "White Wedding." That is just sad.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. Yeah, I sorta recall. She was the French Patti Smith-type punk grrl.

[tigereye]

19. she had several albums- we had 1 or 2

I will have to look for the link.

[Kolesar]

16. Mussels and Cool for Cats were my favorites

One had to peruse the record stores to find good music back then. All we could get in little-town USA was commercial rock stations. We used to drive an hour to the big city to buy cut outs and promo albums that were given to the radio stations. I think that Squeeze used MTV to break through with "Tempted". MTV was a breath of fresh air in its first years.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

18. Jeez, talk about an unlucky band.

Cool for Cats made it to #2 on the UK charts to be held off by Art Garfunkel's abysmal 'Bright Eyes'. Then, two months later, the exact same thing happens to Up The Junction behind 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' by Gary Numan.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

22. IT'S STILL HAPPENING!

It's a Starbucks conspiracy. Every time I go in, they're playing Squeeze. What nefarious deal have Difford and Tilbrook come up with the coffee devils? I have to know!