Satisfied (Squeeze song)

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"Satisfied"
Squeeze satisfied.jpg
Single by Squeeze
from the album Play
ReleasedJuly 1991 (US Promo), 4 November 1991 (UK)
Genre Rock
Length4:33
Label Reprise Records
Songwriter(s) Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook
Producer(s) Tony Berg
Squeeze singles chronology
"Sunday Street"
(1991)
"Satisfied"
(1991)
"Crying in My Sleep"
(1991)

"Satisfied" is the second single released from Squeeze's ninth album, Play , in the UK, and the first in the United States. Although only a promotional radio single was released in the US, the song climbed to #3 on the Modern Rock charts there. In the band's homeland, a full commercial single release failed to chart at all.

Contents

Track listing

US Promo CD

  1. "Satisfied" (4:33)
  2. "Satisfied (album version)" (5:09)

7" vinyl and cassette

  1. "Satisfied" (4:33)
  2. "Happiness Is King" (4:01)

12" vinyl and 5" CD

  1. "Satisfied" (4:33)
  2. "Happiness Is King" (4:01)
  3. "Laughing in My Sleep" (4:07)


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