SQUEEZE - Tempted (1981) (Original Video)

#SQUEEZE

[@Nayops23]

0:09 I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste A flannel for my face Pajamas, a hairbrush New shoes and a case I said to my reflection "Let's get out of this place" Passed the church and the steeple The laundry on the hill Billboards and the buildings Memories of it still Keep calling and calling But forget it all, I know I will Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered What's been going on Now that you have gone There's no other Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered I'm at the car park, the airport The baggage carousel (The people keep on grindin') Ain't wishing I was well I said it's no occasion (It's no story I could tell) At my bedside empty pocket A foot without a sock Your body gets much closer I fumble for the clock Alarmed by the seduction I wish that it would stop Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered What's been going on Now that you have gone There's no other Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered I bought a novel, some perfume A fortune all for you But it's not my conscience That hates to be untrue I asked of my reflection Tell me what is there to do? Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered What's been going on Now that you have gone There's no other Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered🎤🎶

[@mjh5437]

Such brilliant Beatles-y lyrics.

[@damovanb]

this is some funky English R&B. could be a Motown track. love the story.....

[@willgamer0849]

I love seeing the vids and singing along to the lyrics. Thanks.

[@hislatestflame7861]

Pyjamas…

[@kennybegeske8824]

Gay

[@qwj68boots]

And let us not forget, the Great Elvis Costello produced this Gem! ❤😊🎉

[@billybillington2479]

Love. .

[@FranKairos]

Marvelous! Interesting

[@lolls76]

And sang backing vocals on it....

[@crystalp7242]

@@lolls76And a couple of lines in the second verse. (Glenn Tilbrook also shares some vocals in the second verse.)

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I always thought the production is a little plodding. A great song that never gets going. A version with a little more urgency would be perfection.

[@YAMISOOLD2009]

Awesome song that never gets old. Paul Carrack has such a great voice.

[@fitnova_]

I came here just to see if his voice matched his face and .. nope!

[@scoonman]

@@fitnova_ He is the anonymous voice behind so many great songs. How Long by Ace The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics are just a couple

[@Rfoz51]

He’s my favourite singer

[@wpdoyle]

Totally. About as perfect a pop song as there has ever been

[@williammanser]

I am still in awe of this group. The writing was often very sophisticated lyrically, and musically. Some bands imitated the Beatles. These guys built upon the influence and brought it somewhere new and exciting.

[@69Mucci]

Well said. I think that description would fit XTC as well. They both took the Beatles influence and updated it and added to it.

[@damianbroderick3913]

Very well said!

[@AnalogOpher]

They are giants.

[@middle-aged-mom-discoversstuff]

Definitely my favorite band of all time.

[@eshrug]

you're not wrong

[@kingblah687]

Although this came out in the 80’s, it was was definitely one of those songs I heard growing up in the 90’s. That cadence is is legendary

[@gmar7836]

Well said

[@Cyberfender1]

80's

[@robertschmus9943]

This song always reminds me of the winter of 97-98. Love this band

[@saiyamanGXT]

You should hear the version they did for the film Reality Bites.

[@n.b.1483]

I have no idea what’s going on in this video but I love it. 41 years and have not never seen this clip before. What a great, great, great song. And Paul Carrack on vocals… Just the absolute best!

[@marywatkins6798]

I don’t get it either. LOL. But I loved this song then and still do. Amazing. Paul Carrick on vocals is fantastic.

[@xiongfa2152]

I see people not giving a fuck. I could be very wrong. But, I think I understand that the choice of Paul as the lead singer for this song was not one made by the band but the producers. So, what I think I see is some discontent from the other band members. I mean, D&T were the writers and singers for so much of the body of work and then for a producer to decide that Paul was the better voice for this song (not incorrectly, IDK who it was that decided, but they were right) had to sting.

[@James-if3kc]

@@xiongfa2152 I thought that watching this video and also the other "official" video for this song. Tilbrook and Difford both look incredibly bored and almost angry in both versions.

[@drianhoward]

The best video version of this song

[@crystalp7242]

‘80s music videos were an interesting breed, many of the earliest ones were usually videos like this of artists just goofing around on a soundstage with no real concept or plot. No gimmicks or flashy set pieces needed, really. They didn’t have to be like short films or anything like that. Much simpler times.

[@jimgraf9483]

Paul Carrack,,great musician, immensely underrated.

[@davidensor794]

Not by anyone with any developed sense of taste...

[@jimmuscle2891]

Good work with the lyrics, but forget it all I know I will...

[@malloryg4251]

@@davidensor794 Good point!

[@ramibaghdadi1255]

Of course Paul Carrack was great as the lead singer of Ace.

[@lovly2cu725]

@@ramibaghdadi1255 AND PLAYING KEYS FOR CLAPTON

[@juliejacobs3707]

My favorite one hit wonder of the 80's. Came out when I was being tempted big time!! 😮

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

You’ve got to spill what your temptation was now Julie?! 😂

[@iirachelmadness8677]

If someone asks me why I love Squeeze I shall show them this absolute masterpiece of a video.

[@GuyHindle]

It's SHOCKINGLY bad! Fab song, dreadful video.

[@James-if3kc]

You mean this cheap thing that cost ten bucks to make?

[@LeeLeeWilliams-1908]

This song has everything vocals, lyrics and production this was the jam 💃🏽🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@davidmundow1074]

I'm sure it is Squeeze? 😉

[@LeeLeeWilliams-1908]

@@davidmundow1074 Hehe 😉

[@seehearpodcast3470]

I saw this clip on TV years ago, but when I couldn't find it on KZbin, I wondered if I'd imagined this peculiar clip. It's half arsed, but I like it a ton.

[@tonystpierre2006]

It seems to be a rare clip online

[@johnroberts3723]

Paul carack has the same wonderful bluesey feel as Paul Rodgers and bonnie Rait, just brilliant.

[@suen5006]

Purple elephants, dancing mop heads. Always loved this song.

[@jean-paulbovee4010]

Paul Carrack, the man with the golden voice!

[@okrajoe]

Man, so many memories of great 80s music!

[@wonderXweapon]

My favourite song of all time , strong lyrics way ahead of its time . Will always stand up through time !

[@johnbadalamenti8034]

Of course, the great Paul Carrack on vocals. Voice of many hit songs.

[@James-if3kc]

How Long, Don't Shed A Tear, The Living Years, Silent Running, just to name a few.

[@brianhalljr.2637]

I love this song. It's a good one.

[@Kfir6]

I think this song is one of the best of the best... A true Classic that the world really needed to hear! Thank you Squeeze guys ;)

[@harrycasper762]

It's about a five-minute walk between the Quaker Bridge Mall in Lawrenceville, NJ, and the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles. About halfway between them is a car dealership called Coleman Cadillac. EVERY time I walk past Coleman, in either direction, this song is playing there.

[@James-if3kc]

So you walk past the car park, the airport, the baggage carousel? The church and the steeple, the laundry on the hill, billboards and the buildings?

[@johnhayes3698]

this song also was soundtrack to the film "Reality Bites" featuring Winona Ryder(🔥🔥)

[@shawncann7170]

This is the first song that introduced me to their music. Never saw the video until now. Thanks for sharing 😊

[@barbarahecht4617]

Yeah, poor Paul- attacked by mops. What a way to go....

[@charliegeorge.]

Carracks voice born for this song.

[@selkins6167]

Man has a voice.... love it

[@James-if3kc]

Yeah he's better than singers with no voice.

[@ntilewills5679]

Man life was so good back then, I could listen to this on AM radio at the old style KFC drive in.

[@aaronflowers8881]

This song randomly popped in my head. I had to come listen to it.

[@NeilLeSheepyEpstein]

This just happened to me too. 2 years after you 😊

[@aaronflowers8881]

​@@NeilLeSheepyEpsteinCool

[@bigguys45s29]

Only peaked as high as No. 49 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Charts in 1981. Great song.

[@bathset1119]

This song just never gets old!

[@thedude3620]

This song reminds me of when I used to drive around and hang out with my father, listening to music, such great times!

[@danmccarthy4700]

This song is so timeless, and I never go very long without hearing it somewhere.

[@rondarnell949]

I remember when this hit the air around 80-81 and loved it first time I heard it. This is one of the great timeless classics. Thank God the radio didn't slam it in the ground and played it a million times the first week it was out. This was one you caught every once in a while and made you stop and listen. Being Zeppelin, /Sabbath/ Dead Head from birth, to flip genres was grounds for excommunication from my peers. But they knew I had great taste in music and followed suit.

[@inabind416]

Proud of you. I never let even my closest friends dictate to me what I could or couldn’t like, musically or otherwise.

[@ravenhill-the-hospitaller-1968]

this reminds me of going to weddings in the 80's, a great track.

[@gilsouza7]

VERY GOOD SONG.. VOICE OF MIKE AND MECHANICS..

[@spencerbrowning4126]

Best song ever written, love love love it

[@mrmaxxx94]

This cut has a motown and doo wop feeling and vibe, still slamming

[@mikemontgomery5755]

This is LIT, stands up over time

[@cherylhulting1301]

That is because it is literally a PERFECT piece of art. It's without flaw.

[@gmar7836]

Thank you for not using the word “epic”, the most overused word in the English dictionary by every day millennial out there. Lit. Good word

[@James-if3kc]

This isn't Lit, it's Squeeze. Lit sang "My Own Worst Enemy". (this is a joke obviously)

[@ronk9652]

Such a nostalgic wonderful song. It amazes me that music is soooo transformative. It takes you back to a specific time abd place of a simpler time.

[@matt7382]

This is one of those songs that played the long game. It’s been popular ever since it came out even if it didn’t chart really high. Elvis Costello turned it apparently from a reggae style to this blue-eyed soul style.

[@patrickcross5195]

i have never seen this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHH ITS AMAZING!!!!

[@spazniik_gaming3356]

Song before it’s time

[@numarkaz]

Fuckin song gets stuck in my head every few years and it will never go away. This video is weird. Why am I like this?

[@johnhanson5943]

You’ve got both soul and spirit!

[@lamarwest9467]

The organ gives a bluesy, relaxed feel to it-like one of those songs you hear at the bar & you drink vodka & observe.

[@herbcraven7146]

I have been a Squeeze fan since the early 80's. How have I not seen this clip before? I've only ever seen the other version.

[@rudramishra9369]

That's why I love this band.

[@kennygr8ify]

Glenn Tilbrook is criminally underrated!

[@juliuscepeda9655]

Squeeze were the Beatles of the New Wave

[@anthonyblavos8713]

I just read that Elvis Costello traded vocals with Glenn Tillrook on this song.

[@sarahm.5356]

It's not Glenn singing.

[@kennygr8ify]

@@sarahm.5356, who is providing the vocals in this video?

[@lunachickfringe5319]

That's Paul Carrack doing the main vocals, while Glenn does one verse. Paul Carrack was also the main singer/songwriter for the band "Ace", while also being in Mike and the Mechanics later on in the 80s. He's quite talented on his own.

[@retailhutch9108]

After 40+ years ... how have I not seen this before. Gotta love the Gilson does Elvis backing vocals.

[@thickivicki89]

😅 I love this song. I heard it on Grand theft auto Voice City lmao😅 when I would change the radio station in the cars

[@James-if3kc]

I love you.

[@goofygirl5576]

Just watched the version with the young ladies. Gotta say, this one is so much better and a hell of a lot funnier. They looked so bored in the other one. Loved the mop heads!

[@cherylhulting1301]

I like this version better too! It captures their loopy, Beatle-esque sense of humor so well.

[@James-if3kc]

The mops have more personality than the girls.

[@jomama5186]

Still love this song !

[@bill.lee00]

Insane chord changes, yet they make it work!

[@timbuckxxi9690]

I enjoy SQUEEZE music.. This has be my favorite...🌹

[@wilburmcbride8096]

I remembered this song from the "Fruit of the Loom" commercials. Those were good times. The commercial used to be on KZbin. I guess it got taken down by copyright.

[@James-if3kc]

It was also in a Heineken commercial I think.

[@James-if3kc]

It would be hilarious if the whole song was just a list of things he bought, like the opening line about a toothbrush, toothpaste, flannel, pajamas, hairbrush, shoes and a case. He should have kept going on about a bunch of other stuff he bought.

[@fredgervin9930]

They penned some great songs. Always enjoy listening to them.

[@THEFrankieFlo_]

Carrack is one of the greatest to ever do it. This collaboration is undoubtedly one of the greatest of all time.

[@johnhanson5943]

Massive. Underrated !

[@benjaminpavsner6626]

40 years loving this song and, until a month or two ago, had no idea this particular video existed I grew up on the performance version.

[@GIG312]

Pauls voice is amazing

[@chomocharlie3997]

I used to listen to "Tempted" while I was closing a Taco Bell in Columbus, OH back in 1988! But finally I know who sang "Temped!"

[@tinasuccarotte3669]

I had no idea John C. Riley was in this band!

[@James-if3kc]

For your health!

[@gmar7836]

Good Lord, I knew this song came out in the 1980s but I did not know it went back as far as 1981!

[@layoung.]

This song today has real gain. Great rhythm, in style no matter the time

[@jeffreyharper2731]

Burger King commercial brought me here. Love this song.

[@fowleheidi482]

One of my all time favorites 😍

[@maryclark5329]

My favorite song of 1981

[@bubbaz554]

Wow! I have never seen this video. Great discovery, and thank you for posting!

[@Jennpup]

This video made me so happy. Thank you for posting.

[@kayshawnsimmons6822]

I love this song❤🎶🎵🎼💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾

[@markplotkin2182]

Love this song its so awesome

[@nicomedy2010]

happy bday Glenn Tilbrook ;-)

[@Annie-ez4ol]

I love GT’ voice.

[@nealeger8154]

It would have been cool if Elvis Costello poked his head in to sing his vocal parts.

[@freakfoxvevo7915]

Plot Twist: He's actually controlling one of the mops

[@joan_sneezes]

This must be the most low budget music video I've seen.

[@snakewhitcher4189]

I was in an airport in Australia when I was 11 or 12. There was a comedy group doing a routine in the middle of the airport. I found it unnerving. Australian locals found it entertaining. I had just come from an airport in Toronto where I had just been scolded for using the word bomb in a sentence. These guys at the Sydney airport were fooling around, having a good time, and Australian people thought nothing of it. My father and I (both American) were un nerved by these antics. The TWA hijacking had just happened a year or 2 before. Seeing this improv comedy group erupting in the terminal put us both on edge. They were making as scene, and everybody was into it. My dad and I didn't see the humour in it until about a day and a half later.

[@hislatestflame7861]

WTAF?????

[@jasondudash5501]

Squeeze "Tempted" The East Side Story A&M Records, 1981

[@stevewright2972]

I saw these guys (without singer Paul Carrack) Three years ago. They were Incredible. Two Encores.

[@cubswincubswin]

Awesome song!! 👍😎

[@OGSontar]

I've enjoyed this song on the local 'oldies' station, but had never seen the video. Delightfully weird, at least to my American eyes. Loved it, thank you.

[@MrEkolocation]

I was born in ‘89 and heard this and other 80’s songs a lot growing up in the 90’s. I had my 80’s phase in the early 00’s when the music was very different. Like catching up on the decade I missed out, made easier by the internet and limewire😅 Kids nowadays are crazy about the nineties.. Man I’m Old! 😂😂

[@innocenteventiorbetello]

What a fucking masterpiece. Among the most beautiful lyrics EVAH.

[@cherylhulting1301]

Chris Difford is a GOD of lyric writing. He can take those intimate, homely details of life and build the most brilliant conceits. I swear, he always makes me feel I'm not worthy. 😄😄

[@joannevona9020]

Jersey Shore... Will ALWAYS LUV this Band!! XO.. Pray ALL U GUYS/FAMILY.... XO

[@10tendogsdonie]

Class!

[@Coolcavespider]

Bill Murray is a great singer!

[@jimmuscle2891]

Don't even look like him...

[@DiaperGranny11]

Sebastian Stan on the right in the thumbnail

[@grapenuts2292]

Underrated comment

[@levibondjr4650]

LMAO! 😂😂😂😂

[@damianbroderick3913]

Utter class- C Difford at Hangar Farm last night- QUALITY ALL ROUND!!

[@dmw1280]

Paul Carrack a golden voice who was overshadowed by Phil Collins.

[@burlingtonpark4136]

Wonderful song and band.Witty and vibrant perdormance.This This video made for early days' 1980s music video TV is so deliberately lame and funky punk that itz fantastic...both then and today.Heavily inspired by Stevie winwood and Traffic me thinks.

[@Cyberfender1]

This song is about my San Fransico 80's experience woman I loved whilst we were involved. I wonder how she is doing? This song is a audible memory

[@nancycarroll489]

My fav band and fav song. Have seen them play numerous times.

[@Ihad9eyes]

This vocal performance !

[@Ihad9eyes]

Tho

[@themity9673]

I love this song❤ its nice was going way back💫

[@kathyguerndt2795]

Just love this song

[@richardmurphy8744]

When they hit with this song, how sweet it was! ✌️♟️🕶️🙏👊✝️

[@maxxlindley9425]

This is poetry sung by a really great voice

[@middleburgmom]

Classic.

[@blakerascon7745]

Thanks for bringing me here Emotion 98.3.

[@MedalionDS9]

For some reason I heard this song a lot back in the mid 90's as I was getting into modern music at the time... and thought this song was released around that time. I still thought this to this day until I looked up this song when I heard it over a Grocery store radio randomly... and to my surprise it came from the 1980's... weird.

[@matthewaffeltranger7654]

Solid groove

[@bobcox4396]

They made a better choice scrapping this for the concert like performance video.