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They do it down on Camber Sands, they do it at Waikiki
Lazing about the beach all day, at night the crickets creepy
Squinting faces at the sky, a Harold Robbins paperback
Surfers drop their boards and dry, and everybody wants a hack
But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell
Pulling mussels from a shell
Shrinking in the sea so cold, topless ladies look away
A he-man in a sudden shower shelters from the rain
You wish you had a motorboat to pose around the harbor bar
And when the sun goes off to bed, you hook it up behind the car
But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell
Pulling mussels from a shell
Two fat ladies window shop, something for the mantelpiece
In for bingo, all the nines, a panda for sweet little niece
Coach drivers stand about, looking at a local map
About the boy, he's gone away, down to next door's caravan
But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell
Pulling mussels from a shell
But behind the chalet, my holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell
Pulling mussels from a shell
| camatcba (Lumberjack Software Hack Node) | Posted: May 08, 2013 - 15:42  |
| LPCity (Salt Lake City, Utah) | Posted: May 08, 2013 - 15:41 Way back in 1983, Squeeze announced that they were breaking up as a band. Their final appearance was on Saturday Night Live and this was the final song they were to play as a band. Thankfully, the boys didn't hold true to their words. I saw them last summer and they've still got it! |
| cShaggy | Posted: Mar 06, 2013 - 23:59 .."pooing musses for michelle"..?!?.. |
| jocelynsart | Posted: Feb 03, 2013 - 16:19 goofy but nostalgic |
| BKardon (Louisville, CO) | Posted: Dec 02, 2012 - 23:25 Just a great, great pop song. |
| Boy_Wonder (Bath, back in the UK) | Posted: Nov 01, 2012 - 15:21 ST: One of your most intriguing titles is "Pulling Mussels from A Shell." Difford: That song was influenced really by The Small Faces. I used to adore the way they would write about English situations. Very British picture postcard situations really. I wanted to write about the experience that a lot of working class English people do of going to the seaside and what a day out for them would be. And then taking it a step further by talking of old people, young people, and family people at the seaside. So you'd have a cross-section in each verse, virtually, of how I saw seaside villages. So you have the old people looking round the shops, and then in the chorus you have the young people who are trying to have sex with strangers behind the chalet on the beach. A lot of working class people in Britain go on holiday in England. That's as far as they ever go, you know. I suppose it's the same here in the States. People only go to the end of their garden for a holiday and they come back and they're satisfied with that, that's their life. I find that really intriguing. I think it's island mentality. I don't like to travel. If I wasn't in a group, I wouldn't go anywhere. It must be something steeped way back in your past, hundreds of years ago. |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Oct 01, 2012 - 05:08 10 all day long... |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Jun 28, 2012 - 19:42 Holy crap. Haven't heard this since Shep was a pup. |
| leafmold | Posted: Jun 28, 2012 - 19:40 Still sounds great after all these years. |
| mindless (Auckland City, New Zealand) | Posted: May 27, 2012 - 22:22 Hearing this has brightened my day. Great song back then and today. |
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: Apr 24, 2012 - 18:50 Saw them play this on the web-cast from Coachella a couple of weekends ago. Glenn still sounds great after all these years. |
| RKeaton (South of Paradise) | Posted: Mar 25, 2012 - 11:32 contractor07 wrote: stupid song, my kids are begging me to turn it off This is why people should, under no circumstances, listen to their children's opinions. |
| ziakut (Unmoon) | Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 18:55 A great tune from a great band!!!! |
| EssexTex (Above and Beyond) | Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 08:19 A great and timeless song... |
| contractor07 (Ann Arbor Michigan) | Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 08:16 stupid song, my kids are begging me to turn it off |
| G_Raffa (How far is all the way?) | Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 08:15 Another of my All Time Favorite Songs Ever. |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 08:13 Bridieboo wrote: Fantastic song by a fantastic band!! +1! |
| MiracleDrug (Earth) | Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 08:13 Bridieboo wrote: Fantastic song by a fantastic band!! couldn't agree more !! |
| Bridieboo (Halifax, NS) | Posted: Sep 17, 2011 - 09:23 Fantastic song by a fantastic band!! |
| Bridieboo (Halifax, NS) | Posted: Sep 17, 2011 - 09:22 sirdroseph wrote: One of my favorite Squeeze tunes. 8
Me too. |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: May 14, 2011 - 08:50 One of my favorite Squeeze tunes. 8 |
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: Apr 12, 2011 - 18:23 bindi wrote: HA! since refrigeration, that's a myth - don't perpetuate it. http://www.salishseafoods.com/pages/myths.html since over building and pollution, I guess you should never eat them. |
| seiferth (MA) | Posted: Mar 12, 2011 - 06:07 Reminds me of college- when the excitement end of the Spring semester was emerging out of the depression of late February and northern New England. Finding something to be happy about. |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell) | Posted: Mar 12, 2011 - 06:02 bindi wrote: HA! since refrigeration, that's a myth - don't perpetuate it. http://www.salishseafoods.com/pages/myths.html from your link. |
| kcar | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 00:06 lord_love_rocket wrote: excellent: The Beatles and the Fin Brothers wrapped up in a package peter_james_bond wrote: Great summation! I hear both too. Yeah, count me in... |
| Synth80s (*Beautiful* Southern California (cough, choke, honk)) | Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 00:05 One of my favorite singles of all time. Squeeze makes fairly complicated chord progressions feel like simple pop music. Their ability to craft a great tune belies the great musicianship that's required to pull it off. |
| Propayne (Richmond VA) | Posted: Oct 05, 2010 - 16:59 Terrific song. Brings back lots of great art school memories. |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 07:04 bindi wrote: HA! since refrigeration, that's a myth - don't perpetuate it. http://www.salishseafoods.com/pages/myths.html since over building and pollution, I guess you should never eat them. Especially in North Carolina - anything caught in the sound system will be full of toxic run-off and E-coli thanks to our greedy politicians. Don't think refrigeration can help that. |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell) | Posted: Jan 24, 2010 - 15:14 bindi wrote: HA! since refrigeration, that's a myth - don't perpetuate it. http://www.salishseafoods.com/pages/myths.html since over building and pollution, I guess you should never eat them. If you want to go to California and eat some wild-caught clams in July, have at it. |
| bindi (North Carolina) | Posted: Nov 22, 2009 - 19:06 LongGoneDaddy wrote: only eat shellfish in months that have an "R" in them. HA! since refrigeration, that's a myth - don't perpetuate it. http://www.salishseafoods.com/pages/myths.html since over building and pollution, I guess you should never eat them. |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Oct 22, 2009 - 09:17 only eat shellfish in months that have an "R" in them. |
| DaveInVA (VA) | Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 07:51 I hadn't heard this song in years and just a couple days ago I dug out the vinyl copy I have and played it. Holds up really well still. Nice to hear it yet again days later :) |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 07:50 I like it! |
| Dahnyul | Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 07:47 Somewhere in here is a clue to why TB had no cash.... treatment_bound wrote: Great Song! It takes me back to a simpler, carefree time (early 1980), when I had no cash, but seemingly no worries, and went to rock shows all the time. I think I saw Squeeze twice within the next year. How does it work like that? Thanks for playing this 29 years later... |
| Brooky (Upstate NY, where at all nothing makes sense) | Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 07:46 Yeah —- Love these guys |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: Jul 19, 2009 - 17:04 lord_love_rocket wrote: excellent: The Beatles and the Fin Brothers wrapped up in a package Great summation! I hear both too. |
| Jungle_Jim (Brighton UK) | Posted: Jul 19, 2009 - 17:02 Maybe this song isn't the best example, but boy these guys can write a tune, in a McCartney kind of way. I saw them last year at Womad in Britain, and they were doing hit after hit. Great tunes. |
| sarahbean26 (waukegan,IL) | Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 12:59 like this band not this song!!!  to Elvis Costelloish |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Mar 23, 2009 - 08:10 fluffybum wrote: sounds alot like the posies. |
| Deadwing (Cincinnati OH) | Posted: Mar 14, 2009 - 23:56   |
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 10:17 Great Song! It takes me back to a simpler, carefree time (early 1980), when I had no cash, but seemingly no worries, and went to rock shows all the time. I think I saw Squeeze twice within the next year. How does it work like that? Thanks for playing this 29 years later... |
| fluffybum | Posted: Jan 10, 2009 - 18:23 sounds alot like the posies. |
| irabecker | Posted: Oct 08, 2008 - 00:23 Hard to argue with such a pop song that is so tuneful. Reminds me of simpler days long ago with the top down in the summer. |
| andrewimft (North Californie) | Posted: Jul 05, 2008 - 05:23 fredriley wrote: They were pretty highly rated, and as a consequence highly/over played over this side of the Pond. Perhaps if I'd heard their numbers a few hundred less times on FM radio I'd appreciate them more. They were underplayed here in the U.S., so I think they're about the greatest band that never made it in the U.S... too lyrically clever and tunefully smart for US radio. I'm a big fan of their brilliant little stories contained within songs made in a pretty chord progression then a bridge, then a key change, with harmony throughout and arpeggios at the end. One of my most favorite bands. Bands that have been overplayed here I sometimes had to listen to after they were big to appreciate and enjoy them, after I had to ignore them. |
| arserocket (Way down South West Scotland near boredom) | Posted: Jul 05, 2008 - 05:20 lord_love_rocket wrote: excellent: The Beatles and the Fin Brothers wrapped up in a package
Hmmm....another Rocket and from Uranus?? |
| Arcee | Posted: Jun 03, 2008 - 16:51 I hear an 11-year-old Costello in everything...  
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| Phlegmaticman (270 miles south of Paradise, CA) | Posted: Jun 03, 2008 - 16:50 The phrase "Maid Marion on her tiptoed feet" used to drive me crazy. I could never figure out what he was singing. Then the Internet came along and I was able to look it up. |
| Art_Carnage (DeepintheheartofTexas) | Posted: May 03, 2008 - 06:45 RP is lightyears better than anything Clearchannel offers. But this song still sucks. |
| redeyespy (Clandestined in the bamboo thicket.) | Posted: Apr 01, 2008 - 18:51 Odyzzeuz wrote: I feel like I'm gravitating toward the physicsgenius camp. Because the stuff played on RP is all this listener-submitted tripe, we end up listening to stuff that's no better than what you get on a Clear Channel. No commercials, that's good. But in terms of getting out of the same old box, only marginally better.
If you listen to the LRC, you'll hear a fair amount of this so-called tripe, but also many gems as well. Now, as far the main channel, Bill manages to mix the familiar with the obscure beautifully, IMO. When "Reeling in the Years" or "Pulling Mussels" plays, yes, it may be part of the "same old box." But keep listening and you'll hear many tracks that weren't as worn (or even played very much at all). Does your local Clear Channel station play much Crack the Sky, Guadalcanal Diary, or even Patty Griffin? |
| Xeric (Up on the Roof) | Posted: Apr 01, 2008 - 18:46 Odyzzeuz wrote: I feel like I'm gravitating toward the physicsgenius camp. Because the stuff played on RP is all this listener-submitted tripe, we end up listening to stuff that's no better than what you get on a Clear Channel. No commercials, that's good. But in terms of getting out of the same old box, only marginally better. You must have some real fuckin' good Clear Channel wherever you are. Or you're off your meds. That's about the whole list of options. . . . |