Squeeze - Hourglass (1987)

This is the promo music video for the 1987 top 20 U.S. pop hit single "Hourglass" by the British rock band Squeeze. The single peaked at No. 15 on The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in late 1987, and was the group's highest-charting hit in the States.

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[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. :)

[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.

[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

[potofgrass]

i like lamb of gods more.

[LBjim]

I wore the cassette out in 1988..Great song !!

[bucky468]

@mahermis1 Well, despite that lame disco crap, the 70's had some good rock too. The 70's was also the decade of prog-rock. Not everything 80's was good especially the synth pop aspect of new wave (Howard Jones, Thomas Dolby, Dead Or Alive, ABC, Spandau Ballet, A-Ha, etc.) The AOR sector of (new wave) was way better (Duran Duran, Blondie, Men At Work, Tears For Fears, Motels, Missing Persons, Quarterflash, The Fixx, Big Country, Mr. Mister, etc.) Squeeze was in between the 2 sides.

[dharmaseed]

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

[ancele007]

A surpisingly entertaining video. Thumbs up!

[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.

[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.