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“If I Didn't Love You” by Squeeze

From the album Argybargy (1980)

“If I Didn't Love You” by Squeeze appears on 15 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 1999 and 2024. It was first released in 1980 on the album Argybargy. Its best result is #681 on the Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,669 alternative song of all time.

15countdowns

4stations

#681best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1999–2024years charted

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If I Didn't Love You

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"If I Didn't Love You" is the ninth track on Squeeze's 1980 album Argybargy, and it's the Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford partnership doing what it does best: Tilbrook's music, Difford's words, and a lyric about the jittery early stages of a romance and all the insecurity that comes with it. Tilbrook sings it and takes the slide guitar solo, with Jools Holland on keyboards, John Bentley on bass and Gilson Lavis on drums, and the band produced it with John Wood.

In Britain it stayed an album track, but in America it went out as a single and got heavy radio play, especially on the East Coast, without ever charting. Tilbrook put its appeal down to Difford's gift for small, almost irrelevant details, the ones that make a lyric ring true.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

#2,669 of all time

Indie & Adult Alternative

#8,341 of all time

All Rock Formats

#4,580 of all time

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1999	681	Q101	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	1017
1999	1372	CD101	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	2000
2000	1372	CD101	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)	2001
2001	1374	CD101	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)	2002
2002	1373	CD101	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)	2003
2003	1359	CD101	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)	2004
2003	1691	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)	2044
2004	1359	CD101	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	2005
2007	1790	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2008	1762	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	1794	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	1840	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	1917	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2013	1996	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2024	1021	WYEP	WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years	1049

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