Squeeze This!

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Squeeze This!
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Studio album by
Released12 July 1994
Genre Rock, pop, polka, comedy
Length42:20
Label Flying Fish Records
Producer Paul Rogers
Those Darn Accordions chronology
Vongole Fisarmonica
(1992)
Squeeze This!
(1994)
No Strings Attached
(1996)

Squeeze This! is the second studio album by American accordion band Those Darn Accordions, released in 1994 on Flying Fish Records. This was the only TDA album to be released on Flying Fish, as the rest of the band's discography was released by the Petaluma-based independent label Globe Records.

Accordion Bellows-driven free-reed aerophone musical instruments

Accordions are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist. The concertina and bandoneón are related; the harmonium and American reed organ are in the same family.

Those Darn Accordions, commonly abbreviated as TDA, are an American accordion band from San Francisco, California, originally formed in 1989 by Linda "Big Lou" Seekins.

Flying Fish Records was a record label founded in Chicago in 1974 that specialized in folk, blues, and country music. In the 1990s the label was sold to Rounder Records.

Contents

Overview

With a significantly reduced line-up from the seventeen members on TDA's debut Vongole Fisarmonica , Squeeze This! captured the group at their transition from a loose ensemble of accordionists into a tighter rock band, featuring a noticeably stronger emphasis on original material under the new leadership of primary singer-songwriter Paul Rogers rather than the cover songs that made up the majority of the preceding album. In addition to their rock, pop and polka originals, Squeeze This! covers such broad styles as ska, swing and bluegrass.

<i>Vongole Fisarmonica</i> 1992 studio album by Those Darn Accordions

Vongole Fisarmonica is the debut album by American accordion band Those Darn Accordions, released in 1992 by Globe Records. The album was originally released only on cassette tape before later being made available for digital download on iTunes and similar digital media stores.

Cover version later version of a song already established with a different earlier performer

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, revival, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat. It was developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads.

Critical reception to Squeeze This! was largely positive. The Los Angeles Times praised the album as "fun", putting particular emphasis on the original songs that "inhabit a loopy middle ground between The B-52s and Talking Heads" and making note of the "stylistically credible" musicianship, something which The Santa Cruz Sentinel also echoed, dismissing the "novelty" tag and calling them "inspired performers". [1] [2]

<i>Los Angeles Times</i> Daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California

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Talking Heads American rock band

Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz (drums), Tina Weymouth (bass), and Jerry Harrison. Described by the critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine as "one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s," the group helped to pioneer new wave music by integrating elements of punk, art rock, funk, and world music with avant-garde sensibilities and an anxious, clean-cut image.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel is a daily newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California, covering Santa Cruz County, California, and owned by Digital First Media.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."We're An Accordion Band" D. Brewer 2:51
2."The Bowling King"P. Rogers/B. Schwartz/L. Wallace/A. Peterson3:30
3."The Story of Lawrence Welk"P. Rogers5:07
4."Viva Seguin"S. Jiménez2:29
5."The Devil Went Down to Georgia" C. Daniels/T. Crain/T. DiGregorio/F. Edwards/C. Hayward/J. Marshall3:39
6."Trouble In The Love Bubble"P. Rogers2:51
7."Yoo Hoo Polka"L. Seekins2:26
8."Grodno In The Moonlight"P. Rogers2:36
9."Fire" J. Hendrix 2:34
10."Miner's Polka"A. Peterson1:26
11."Sing, Sing, Sing" L. Prima 4:18
12."Autumn In Vilnius"P. Rogers/R. Borelli/T. Torriglia3:14
13."Pump It Up" E. Costello 2:48
14."Boy Crazy"L. Seekins/E. Whiteway2:31
Total length:42:20

Personnel

Those Darn Accordions

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References

  1. Lewis, Randy (September 22, 1994). "New Pick of the Week: Those Darn Accordions! - Squeeze This!". Los Angeles Times.Cite web requires |website= (help)
  2. Gaynor, Christopher (July 29, 1994). "Squeeze This!". Santa Cruz Sentinel.Cite web requires |website= (help)