Some Fantastic Place by Squeeze

Some Fantastic Place, the tenth Squeeze album, came out on A&M in 1993, the first without original drummer Gilson Lavis. Pete Thomas took the stool, and Paul Carrack, who had last turned up on East Side Story, came back briefly on keyboards and sings lead on "Loving You Tonight". Bassist Keith Wilkinson brought in "True Colours (The Storm)" and sang it himself, and no earlier Squeeze album had carried a song penned by anyone outside the Difford, Tilbrook and Holland circle.

The band produced it with Peter Smith in Glenn Tilbrook's newly built studio, and the sessions were full of arguments over song structure that the band credited for the record's fire. For once, Tilbrook and Chris Difford wrote side by side rather than apart, and it shows: this is warm, grown-up pop rock with real heart in it. Critics loved it, and Difford and Tilbrook still name the title track as their favorite Squeeze song.

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