Everything is a hook. They are transcendent. I’ve seen them three times — all in the early 1980s.
When you get to 2 minutes and there are those repeated guitar chords, if I’m hearing it right, the chord strikes are on the “and” (the and of one and two and) and bass is playing 8th nodes, which creates that spinning effect. Ands are catchy.
By the way this song is about him having sex perhaps for the first time. Pulling mussels is British slang for fucking. So — that’s what you’re singing about.
But behind the chalet, my holiday’s complete
And I feel like William Tell, Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from the shell
Pulling mussels from the shell
OK, I clicked on this yesterday to listen to it and wound up with the biggest case of earworm ever! The song refuses to leave my brain – Squeeze really had a knack for catchy tunes.
Everything is a hook. They are transcendent. I’ve seen them three times — all in the early 1980s.
When you get to 2 minutes and there are those repeated guitar chords, if I’m hearing it right, the chord strikes are on the “and” (the and of one and two and) and bass is playing 8th nodes, which creates that spinning effect. Ands are catchy.
By the way this song is about him having sex perhaps for the first time. Pulling mussels is British slang for fucking. So — that’s what you’re singing about.
But behind the chalet, my holiday’s complete
And I feel like William Tell, Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from the shell
Pulling mussels from the shell
OK, I clicked on this yesterday to listen to it and wound up with the biggest case of earworm ever! The song refuses to leave my brain – Squeeze really had a knack for catchy tunes.