Frank

Squeeze

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 24, 1989)
• Original Release Date: September 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B000008L2B
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #239,545 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

2007 digitally remastered edition of one of the previously overlooked album favorites from the band's discography. Frank was warmly received by critics and fans, but failed to catch commercial fire due to a series of changes at the band's record company. Highlights include the single "If It's Love", "Slaughtered Gutted & Heartbroken" (sung by Chris Difford), Jools Holland's "Dr. Jazz", "She Doesn't Have To Shave" and "Melody Motel". This edition adds two previously unreleased songs, "Good Times Bring Me Down" and "Any Other Day" plus the single b-side "Who's That", a demo of "If I'm Dead" and acoustic versions of "She Doesn't Have To Shave" and "Melody Motel". Universal. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Squeeze do Rhythm and Blues (with a few pop songs too), February 27, 2004

By	Ian Evans - See all my reviews

After the lush production of the 2 previous albums, Squeeze stripped down to quite a live sound for Frank. There are very few additional instruments, and it's straight ahead rock and roll, from five brilliant musicians in the same room. The piano and lead guitar and especially good, and sound as if you're sat right next to the band on this album.

As usual with Squeeze, every song is wonderful, and I really can't agree that it has filler.... Personally, I prefer Play, but much prefer Frank to Some Fantastic Place.

Apart from a few pop songs on side one, the album is mostly American styled R&B (Perhaps to keep Jools Holland happy?). My only criticism is that it has too many songs in the same genre, while the classic Squeeze albums go through every style with aplomb. I'd give this five stars, if Squeeze's other albums hadn't set their standards so high.

4.0 out of 5 stars Hidden gem - give it a chance., May 7, 2009

By	Father Time "I wait for no man, but several w... (Stone Mountain, GA United States) - See all my reviews

Though this isn't as sublime as Argybargy or East Side Story, there are a lot of great tracks on here, with just a couple of fillers.

The band stretches out in ways that, perhaps, some Squeeze fans are not accustomed to. Melody Motel is a classic piece of irony with music out of an evening at your local good times honky-tonk paired with a dark tale of personal misery. Is It Too Late takes them rockabilly in a way that never fails to get me bouncing. And while Dr. Jazz finds Jools Holland gone completely bayou, Chris Difford's tune Slaughtered, Gutted and Heartbroken is nearly Cole Porter.

As evidenced by the first track, the band is really having fun on this album, so loosen up and let yourself stretch with them. You won't be disappointed.

4 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Squeeze with Writer's Block?, August 23, 2003

By	Dan (Kodiak, AK United States) - See all my reviews

As a die-hard Squeeze fan, I must advise others that, in my opinion, this is their weakest offering. Holding perhaps two listenable pop tunes ("If It's Love" and "She Doesn't Have to Shave") the rest is best described as medicocre filler. Both albums that came afterward ("Play" amd "Some Fantastic Place") are FAR superior and highly recommended.