Squeeze - Hourglass (1987)

[OOOooermilindaooOOO]

I grew up with the small town "illusion"...... was a road hill that looked as if you were driving up hill ... but no.... the "hill" was not a hill...... & I remember the families that gathered there.... makes me wonder who they are in today..and I giggle at how easily they are tricked!

[ancele007]

A surpisingly entertaining video. Thumbs up!

[mrkoolmarky]

simply awsum beats!!!! :D *thumbs way up*

[mahermis1]

Forgot all about this song. EXCELLENT song and video. Man the eighties rocked. Find me a better decade, I dare you.

[xlogold]

Thanks for the good memories! I remember this song in the Fall of 1987 in the USA. I actually remember buying this song on a 45 record for my 9th birthday. What I liked about this song was the video and lyrics were funny (atleast to me as a child) and it's just a catchy song in general.

[serphant101]

i love this band!!!

[boichop]

i fukkin love the 80's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LightningChimp]

This is the coolest house possible!

[ZyxthePest]

11 people are just mad that they can't afford a giant novelty phone.

[Modighen]

The music is good, but I still love this video for its awesome collection of optical illusions and camera tricks. It still hasn't lost its charm for me even after all this years.

[bucky468]

No Paul Carrack?! WTF???

[sliv812]

@bucky468: Paul Carrack was first a member of the band for the group's 1981 studio album "East Side Story" (as a replacement for Jools Holland). But he left Squeeze in 1982, replaced by keyboardist Don Snow. Carrack did rejoin Squeeze in 1993 for the group's studio album "Some Fantastic Place" (and its accompanying tour), but left Squeeze again after about a year with the band. Carrack was not a member of Squeeze for their 1987 album "Babylon and On" (which included this track "Hourglass").

[hawkguy74]

@sliv812 Carrack's solo hit "Don't Shed A Tear" was climbing the US charts about the same time "Hourglass" was on its way down the chart (January - February of '88)

[sliv812]

@hawkguy74: Yep! That I do remember. :)

[dharmaseed]

@bucky468 Jools rejoined the band in 1985, staying through 1989.

[WorldFamousNobodies]

Great, great timeless song and a fun video. Thanks for posting:)

[BettinaBalser]

Director: Adrian Edmondson, aka Vyvyan on THE YOUNG ONES

[yukimaruzam]

Ah... the 80s. The suits, the videos, the disproportionally small doors... This song is one of their greatest but also the crown jewel of babelonandon and on...

[femmzoil]

this song is great the beat melodyandthat sax!

[mrkoolmarky]

Brilliantly funny and oh-so-fabulous!!!! :D 'Hourglass' and 'Footprints' are my FAVS!!! :D

[balzenschaft]

brilliant



[perpetual61]

I can't believe I Found this Great Song. I have been Looking for it like forever. I knew that Squeeze did it but I didn't know what the Name of it was. Thanks sliv812 for Posting it so Others may Enjoy it You have Made my day.

[KingIceBear]

A Great shipyard song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FlipJick]

A week ago I heard this song for the first time, and loved it. Now after I see this video... I love it SLIGHTLY more. I love all of the works of art they parody in this!

[ChendesValeria]

hahahah

[DarkComet360]

One of my most favorite songs by Squeeze, right up there next to the song 'Tempted'. Whatever happened to the good music?

[dharmaseed]

@DarkComet360 Good music stopped once it became a product for fat guys smoking cigars to fill their pockets.

[Larrymh07]

@dharmaseed I didn't know Rush Limbaugh was in the music business!

[dharmaseed]

@Larrymh07 Lol, good one!

[sportshooter101]

really liked the sound...the music and vocals...nice nice nice

[soccerlegs21]

still love this song...

[fuzter2007]

in it`s moment, this video was very creative. notice at that time the special effects with computers didn`t exist for use on music video...

[cap5macca5jack5]

whos the fellow with the hat?

[topog1976]

@cap5macca5jack5 That would be Jools Holland.

[williamkatt81]

I am so GLAD that UMV allows this here not UNLIKE VEVO.... This is a great song and Chuck E cheese had a killer version of this in one of the shows last yer... Great song and VEVO SUCKS! UMG you ROCK....

[WAIATA4U]

Sliv812,

Thanks for posting this music video...I've always loved happy tunes...A rarity these days.

Hearing this song, all of sudden it's the holidays 1987 and my first job was making pizzas at Pizza Hut...This song was played constantly on "video" box (P.H. had a 36 inch t.v. screen with the channel always on MTV...When MTV played music videos).

[bluegrasscotty]

One underated 80's band!! Everyone always mentions "Tempted", good song but Squeeze had many with "Hourglass" being their best; I believe! Thanks for posting this!!

[tecnoborg75]

fucking good songgggg!!!!! XD

[lakebay972]

take it to the bridge, throw it overboard, see if it can swim, back into the shore, no one's in the house, everyone is out, all the lights are on and the blind's are down

[hadders81]

Classic!!

[blakewaugh]

not their best song by any means...but squeeze r LEGENDS

[ThePacketoscar]

you have to respect their versatilty bruv its catchy but thers so much effort and it comes from the heart they're cool man the surrealist vid is so cool too

[djthalie]

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooooo!!!! *favorited*!

[potofgrass]

i like lamb of gods more.

[jarrodmon]

That's pretty funny. Not as funny as Lamb of God's career sales figures compared to Squeeze's, but funny still.

[GWhiz99]

SQUEEZE is unrelated to 242-16-9604 just as GLENN M. TilBROOK is unrelated to "Cooley High" star GLYNN RUSSELL TurMAN; the film was released JUNE 25, 1975--34 years to the day before pop star Michael Jackson died & rocker George Michael turned 46. DonZELL is not fmr. U.S. Senator ZELL MILLer (D-GA), born 2/25/32 and turned 54 the day football QB Pat White was born in Daphne, AL. He's also not football's GLYN CURT MILburn (b. 2/19/71)--a StanFORD teammate of Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker

[MrChirpsky]

This video is a beautiful tribute to the Belgian painter, and pioneer of surrealism, Rene Magrite (a painting of his was also used by Styx for their Grand Illusion album cover). He is my favorite painter and the music of Squeeze is certainly more fitting than Styx's. [The bendy instruments/clocks reference Salvadore Dali.]

[dharmaseed]

Wow, is Julian wearing makeup?!? Was the clock thing a nod to Chaplin?

[flooberbloob]

from one son of edmond to another edmondson, this is brilliant but just a small part of your excellent body of work....

[chickitychat]

in the beginning they looked like the wiggles

lol

[cap5macca5jack5]

lol at craze!!! well people have opinions mate

[Pitt412050]

I wouldn't recommend watching this video on acid.

Squeeze kicks ass.

[missNYCmodel]

LOL @ Paladin696969....i'm goin' on 26 and i feel sad of the remembrance of the 80's, especially 1987. Elementary, family trips, B. Days, hell, even gettin' dressed before Elementary School in the mornings seems so sad to remember simply because it was cool to be a kid in the 80's. O, and this song along w/ MTV, when they had videos every hour on the hour. YAY 80's childhood : )

[paladin696969]

i want to be a teenager agaIN!! .. im 40 this year ,, wheres my life going

[Cath3Mar]

LOL! I'm 35 but I feel ya'.

Love this song, love the video - those optical illusions are really cool and they go with the song. And Jools and Glen are so adorable.

[bigmamakaboose]

I'll be 41 this year, its all a state of mind! I refuse to grow up. hah

[cap5macca5jack5]

me to lol

[14rnr]

Reminds me of Savador Dalhi paintings I've seen.

[belmontzar]

love this video it so well done..

[potofgrass]

lamb of gods hourglass is better!! these guys suck!

[katyu16]

God, I remember this song like it was yesterday...but 21 years ago? Wow, time flies! Thank you for posting this and IGNORE the loser / butt-munch who keeps putting negs on everyone's comments.

[Craze21AD]

What ass as negativly voted everyones comments?

[sliv812]

I don't know. Some total brainless loser (and his friends) who didn't like a comment I left on someone else's video. I'm ticked off about it. I need to find out if there's a way to remove all those recent thumb downs.

[Craze21AD]

People who argue on youtube are just pathetic Im having problems with a idiot who is apparently 31! he should get a job! lol either way I would just take off the ability to vote on comments :-)

[ECOOL76]

very cool.

[zerox13]

omfg what have they done??

shud have kept it cool for cats style

this is plain awful

[SpydermanGST]

Lol zerox I agree. I am definitely cool for cats haha

[MinoTheShow]

@zerox13 At first I thought it was bad because it sounds nothing like their first 2 albums, but now that I think of it, it was a very XTC-style progression they made. In fact, this sounds almost exactly like mid-to-late 80s XTC.

[BCraingirl]

this is reminiscent of Salvador Dali...cool vid!

[Craze21AD]

my dad showed me this video months ago and I was like this is crap n then at work I kept humming it 2myself and that was it I was hooked! Ever since then I ave been a big squeeze fan!

[clockworkreactor]

that video is awesome!

[101Volts]

Anyone have Bass tabs for this?

[101Volts]

I'm asking because I can't find any bass tabs and I like the song, Who decided it was a good idea to neg my comment?

[bardrock]

cool

[krazynite]

This song has more HOOKS than a fishing store!!!!!

Love it!!

[introseptic]

Squeeze were the first band I ever saw live, back in 1988, on tour for this album. Great show!

[68NYC]

Great song-

Nice Memories-

Thanks...

[omddeb]

LOL! How cool is that! Man, the 80's were such a fun time. Everybody was so carefree and laid-back, and it was ok to be silly.

[texastigress]

I just saw Squeeze at La Zona Rosa here in Austin, TX this past Friday night...bloody awesome!

[HippiexSassy]

Meaning The ADRIAN Edmondson

[HippiexSassy]

My baby Ade directed this! ^_^

[sliv812]

He did an excellent job! Thank you Ade!

[HippiexSassy]

I agree to that! He also did an excellent job in bed last night! (Joking I can only wish that)

[BeezoHow]

@HippiexSassy Top job, Ade!

[1234milky]

reunited one day maybe

[firedupsag]

They have reunited for a tour this year---I'm going to see them at a club in Seattle on September 16th.

[indigoquill]

I get a huge Magritte vibe from this video. Nonetheless, love it!

[jrenae75]

I remember when this vid came out. It's so fun and how I, as a naive 12 yo at the time was introduced to Squeeze. Loved them!

[babystrange]

I loved this song when it played on the radio and I miss Squeeze and their great songs.

[NeverGiveUpBoy]

Best tune of 1987!

[hardrocker04]

you know what i dont understand the music from the 80's were great todays music is real shi##y i know i wasn't born in the 80's but i've listen to it ever since i was a little kid and i think it would be a great time period to live in.

[ayajedi]

It was an interesting time to grow up in, lots of changes. I feel sorry for kids today

[rnp129]

Great video. Love the song!

[studaldo]

great vdeo.....hello from mexico

[sgtmetal]

Adrian Edmonson is a great director. Fantastic job on the video. Song kicks ass, too!

[AdeEdmondsonFan]

Ade directed this... I love anything that Ade does. Great concept... although it has a little bit of a Peter Gabriel feel to me. I could be wrong though... fell free to correct me. I've been really wrong before. Anyway not a bad vid.

[hsnterprize]

Squeeze was one of my favorite bands back in the 80's. Back in the days when you bought "cassette singles", I got this one, and almost wore the tape out...this song was that good. However, I think this was really the only "hit" for the band here in the States. They put out some great stuff before this, but I think this is their most popular song.

Still, 80's music was nothing short of awesome. I was in high school when this song came out.

LONG LIVE THE 80'S!!!!!!!

[OdinRavenEyes]

1987 was a great year for music and vids, but this has to be one of my fave pop vids, period. it was FUN. why is it no one is "fun" anymore? everyone is either brooding or all about sex. doesn't anyone just like to joke and play around anymore? And I know I'll sound old, 'cause I don't keep up with pop and haven't since 1994, but doesn't anyone wear suits anymore? (pimps/rappers dont count). I thought suits on band members always looked smart.

[TheJediCharles]

For some reason, it has become cool to look miserable and depressed while inversely "fun" and "happy" faces are seen as out-of-touch, valueless and stupid.

Remember how models in ads were always smiling and happy in the 70's and back? Now look at them. They all look like manic-depressive crackheads as pleased be photographed as having their stomach pumped.

The irony is that the opposite is what's true.

Let's at least be grateful we at least had it as recently as the 80's.

[KaitainCPS]

My hypothesis is that whatever holds connotations of richness becomes fashionable. Back in the 18th century, only the rich were fat, so plump women were held as being desirable. These days, many rich kids are thin, vacuous and miserable, so, an image of distracted, affluent ennui becomes fashionable.

The misery is understandable. You have to have self-respect to be happy, and most rich kids have none because they aren't pushed by life to achieve things under their own steam.

[TheJediCharles]

What a thoughtful reply. :)

"These days, many rich kids are thin, vacuous and miserable, so, an image of distracted, affluent ennui becomes fashionable."

Well, while I don't disagree exactly, then are you suggesting that "the wealthy" were once truely happier than they are now?

I don't think so. Didn't Mother Theresa say, "depression the rich man's disease"?

[ilawn43]

A great Squeeze song, a real feel good tune

[Cigarmark]

Of all the hits they produced, this was the absolute best,IMO. Long live Squeeze.

[mordanai]

God this song rules. I was 18 when this was released. I remember cheering when MTV would play the video. Long live the 80's.

[ilawn43]

My favourite Squeeze song & vid

[JesseStreets]

A classic Squeeze song!!!

[JudeMaris]

Always loved the optical illusions in this one! "sigh" not a lot of folk make fun videos like these anymore.

[XxmcrlooneyxX]

I hate the way that people now days say that kids today dont respect decent music...im 12 squeeze are legends!! i'm a mod and hate most of the crap around today!! but other than that great song lol :)

[alcogol2]

right on mate, good to hear there are still people with taste out there

[chamberl]

I loved this song, but never understood it. After reading Zriggo's comments I understand

it less.

[Catspas]

I would have to agree with that statement. (LOL)

[greatmahoo]

There's nothing to understand but a bunch of overanalyzed numerological bunk. If you look hard enough you can find links like that between anything.

[Zriggo]

GLENN TilBROOK: born in WoolWICH, also S.E. London. Plane carrying David Leslie & Richard LLOYD: bound 4 FRANCE & crashed into a HOUSE, prompting "Hourglass" lyric: No one's in the HOUSE, everyone is OUT", since the home was unoccupied. The plane being bound for FRANCE coupled with victim name LLOYD & TilBROOK's middle name MARTIN could evoke thoughts of high school French studies, only the Sherry is missing. 3/30/08 was 27th anniversary of John WARnock Hinckley Jr shooting Ronald WILSON Reagan

[Zriggo]

That David Leslie & Richard Lloyd are associated with RACING links 2 "Oreo/LEE/ Uncle TOM" & "holding your own (RACE)" themes. Leslie born on transverse of 9/11 or 11/9(1953). This David Leslie shouldn't be confused with Lord NEWARK, an officer N the English & Scottish Civil Wars. He also liberated Kincardine Castle, being HELD by Clan MacNab--not 2 be confused with NFL QB Donovan McNabb. The founder of the Clan MacNab is said 2 be ABBOT of GLENdocHART, not 2 be confused with ABBOTT Laboratories

[Zriggo]

David Leslie, Lord Newark shouldn't B confused w/NEWARK, NJ mayor Cory A. Booker, although NC's junior senator, Richard Burr (R-Winston-Salem) is married to BROOKE, which sounds like the end of Squeeze singer GLENN M. TilBROOK's surname. On the same off-year election cycle: mayor of Winston-Salem, NC; New Jersey governor; mayor of New York City. R.J. Reynolds tower in Winston-Salem designed by same architect as look-alike Empire State Bldg. In NYC & Richard Burr graduated RJR High in Winston.

[Zriggo]

Squeeze singer GLENN Martin TILbrook: 1st name matches Piedmont Triad (NC) high school linked 2 seminal alternative experience. Lyric: "No one's in the HOUSE, everyone is out" could link to 3/30/08 jet crash in Kent, SOUTHEAST London, killing auto RACING's David Leslie & Richard Lloyd & on same day U posted 2 MYSPACE forum that TilBROOK's 48th birthday (8/31/57) was same day the granny (246-64-1175; "64" in the middle like Beatles "When I'm 64") died. 3/30/08 also the father's 64th birthday.

[dharmaseed]

Jools has got the whole Charlie Chaplin makeup thing going there....

[rezuleta]

One of the first Top 20 hits 'SQUEEZE' scored following the departure of 'PAUL CARRACK.' He later reunited with them in the mid-90's.

[sliv812]

Actually, it was the only top 20 hit Squeeze ever scored in the U.S.  "Tempted" (which did feature Paul Carrack as most people know) missed the top 40 in 1981, peaking at # 49. And Squeeze's follow-up to "Hourglass", which was "853-5937", peaked at # 32 in early 1988. The group has never scored a top 40 pop hit in the U.S. since then.

[Vincek88]

I remember 'Footprints' from this album getting some play on the MTV, but probably didn't chart. Can't understand how every song in their repertoire wasn't a hit, myself; brilliant stuff.

[timothysliao]

One of favorite bands growing up. I think most people think about "Tempted" and the movie Reality Bites when Wynona Ryder pulls up next to guy and sings Tempted. I really like the saxophone in this song

[carrieyazel]

This song is significantly better than "Tempted". Tempted didn't even crack the Top 40 when it was first released. Everybody decided they loved it years later.

Hourglass was their biggest hit single in America. More hooks, more rousing and better arrangements.

[PhoenixRising2145]

Love the optical illusions! :-D

[oldirtycaffrey]

Catchiest chorus ever? Probably.

[ec100]

Does anyone know what this song is about?

[sprunglikedonkeykong]

does it matter?

[ec100]

One of my favorite songs of the 1980s and still today. Very upbeat and bright song.

Another one that sounds similar to this song was George Harrison's "I've got my mind set on you".

[sliv812]

Funny you should mention George Harrison's "Got My Mind Set On You", since it was released not long after "Hourglass" was released. In fact, "Got My Mind Set On You" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 exactly 1 month after "Hourglass" debuted on that same chart.

However, "Got My Mind Set On You" was not a Harrison original, as it was originally recorded by James Ray back in 1962.

[ec100]

I did not know George Harrison's video/song came out after Squeeze's.

[DastardlyMatt]

Salvador Python as your video director.

[keithpas]

Great song, great video. I love this group.

[jaseywasey49]

Ok i have since gone on to realise that isn't the finest song Squeeze have ever done. But i was 11 when this came out and was my first introduction to them. i love it then and now!

[spyderj1999]

I was spinning at a club in Ann Arbor, MI when this came out. The club was called CJ Barrymore's and we used to play this video all the time. Love this song!! Too Funky!!!

[challesboy]

This IS old, but this IS GOOD!!! Takes me back to party,fun,girls,good friends and good memories;)

[thisistheguy]

i love this video!

[foofoo2k1]

Best video ever...maybe second only to Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer".

[NijelBoswell]

This song became an instant hit when the Music video was shown on MTV. Its a cool video. But how does the stairs work? thats a mystery we can never find out...(DONT REPLY WITH ANSWER ON STAIRS, ITS A SECRET, AND WE DONT WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH)

[Lemjok]

Ahh, sweet mystery of life!

[NijelBoswell]

Now thats one abstract house...

[dootza]

one of the best videos i've ever seen

[destructivedandy]

I love Jools' look in this!

[rotsa1]

NB---Gilson Lavis is really Bill Parcells in disguise. Glenn, Jools, Chris and Gilson were

the heart and soul of Squeeze. Although Glenn might not possess the vocal chops of Paul Carrack, the songwriting abilites of Difford and Tilbrook can be compared ONLY to Lennon and Mc Cartney. They were indisputedly second best to the two Beatles during the halcyon days of rock.

[acetremendous]

Directed by Ade Edmondon!

[edwardromunde]

Twenty years old and still great to watch!

[asiansual]

I agree. It never gets old.

[GamerPhreek]

Awesome. Just pure awesome.