Tempted (Squeeze song)

"Tempted"
Artwork for original UK vinyl single
Single by Squeeze
from the album East Side Story
Released10 July 1981 (UK)
Recorded1981
Genre
Length4:04 (album version)
3:53 (US single edit)
4:07 (Tempted '94)
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Glenn Tilbrook, Chris Difford
Producer(s)Roger Béchirian & Elvis Costello
Squeeze singles chronology
"Is That Love"
(1981)
"Tempted"
(1981)
"Labelled with Love"
(1981)

"Tempted" is a song by the British rock band Squeeze. Written by the Squeeze songwriting team of Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, the song features lyrics inspired by Difford's experiences on an American tour and an arrangement inspired by the Temptations. "Tempted" is one of a few Squeeze songs with Paul Carrack as lead vocalist, at the suggestion of producer Elvis Costello.

"Tempted" was released as the second single from their fourth album, East Side Story, in 1981. The single was only a moderate chart hit at the time; however, it has since become one of the band's most famous songs, appearing in movies, TV shows, video games, and commercials. It has also seen critical acclaim and has become a mainstay of the band's live setlist, often being sung by Tilbrook.

Background

"Tempted" was cowritten by Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford. Difford wrote the lyric while the band was taking a taxi to Heathrow Airport. The descriptions of the city and airport sights are interspersed with the narrator's ruminations on a relationship that is failing, or has failed, due to his own infidelities. As Difford recalled,

The original story behind "Tempted" is we're going on another American tour. I got on a taxi and I started writing down what I saw lyrically. I don't know the course of time of how long it took, but then I gave Glenn the lyrics and then Glenn put the music to it. It's an extraordinary song. It's one of the most played songs that we have in our catalog.[5]

Unlike most other Squeeze songs, which are sung usually by Tilbrook or Difford, the song's lead vocal is sung by newly recruited keyboardist Paul Carrack. According to Carrack, this was the result of a suggestion by co-producer Elvis Costello:

They’d actually recorded a version of that song before I was on board. Dave Edmunds produced it, and it was completely different. The song was in the can, and we were recording the other songs from East Side Story when we had some downtime and played 'Tempted' but in that slow, soulful, Motown groove. Elvis Costello, who was producing, ran in and said, 'Let's put this down on tape!' So, we did, and Elvis said 'Paul, you should sing it.'[6]

Costello noted that, while Tilbrook initially took offence to ceding lead vocal duties to Carrack, the personnel change benefitted the song: "Guess what, we had a hit with it, so I guess I was right in that respect. I heard Paul putting it over to a broader audience."[7] Tilbrook similarly recalled, "[Carrack] did a remarkable job [although] my ego was bruised initially."[8] Though the original arrangement, according to Tilbrook, "sounded like ELO," the final version song instead features a Temptations-style performance that featured Tilbrook and Costello performing parts of the song's second verse.

Tilbrook considers this one of his favourite songs: "It was our first song. It was when we grew up, really, as a band. When we finished it I couldn't quite believe it was us."[9] Difford also named the song as a favourite, saying "I do love 'Tempted'. It's so visual and again floats me back to that time when youth was a cloud I drifted around on from day to day".[10] Squeeze bassist John Bentley ranked it his fourth favorite Squeeze song.[11]

Release

"Tempted" was released as the second single from the band's 1981 album East Side Story. The single was only a moderate success on the charts, reaching number 41 in the UK,[12] number 45 in Canada, number 49 in the US, number 90 in Australia. Over the years it has become one of Squeeze's best-known songs; as Stewart Mason of AllMusic remarked, "Although its increasing ubiquity on '80s hits radio and on television (it was used in a successful clothing commercial in 2003) would suggest otherwise, Squeeze's 'Tempted' was not actually a hit single."[1]

In 1993, Squeeze remixed and overdubbed the original recording to create a 'new' version of the song for the soundtrack to the film Reality Bites. This version received some radio airplay and was dubbed "Tempted '94". The song has also appeared in commercials by Burger King and Heineken,[9] and in the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (on the in-game radio station Emotion 98.3, and subsequently on the real-world CD, volume three of the game soundtrack), and downloadable content for Rock Band 2. It can also be heard in the TV show Ashes to Ashes and The Office.

In 2010, the song appeared in re-recorded form on Spot the Difference, a retrospective of Squeeze hits performed by the 2010 edition of the band. Though Carrack was no longer a member of Squeeze at this point, he sat in as a guest and sang lead vocals on this re-recorded track.

Reception

Record World said that Squeeze provides a "somewhat novel approach" to the common pop music theme of temptation.[13]

Stewart Mason of AllMusic lauded the track "a blue-eyed soul classic like no other".[1] Rolling Stone praised Carrack's singing on the song, commenting, "Paul Carrack's soulful crooning, a highlight of the blue-eyed R&B strut 'Tempted,' is a welcome addition."[14] American Songwriter similarly praised the song, calling it the "centerpiece" of East Side Story and stating, "Difford and Tilbrook, with a big assist from Carrack, sure captured Beatlesque pop perfection with 'Tempted.'"[15]

Other versions

"Tempted" has been covered numerous times, including versions by Sting, OK Go, Richard Thompson, Joe Cocker, Mickey Thomas, Rockapella, Rita Coolidge and Jenny Morris. Jools Holland also covered this song on his album Lift the Lid, which was a nod to Jools' history with the band. In 2017, a version of the song was sung by Minnie Driver in the film The Wilde Wedding. In 2019, Erykah Badu recorded her version.

Track listing

7"

  1. "Tempted" (4:04)
  2. "Yap Yap Yap" (4:13)

7" (US release)

  1. "Tempted" (3:53)
  2. "Trust" (1:45)

Charts

Chart (1981/82) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[16] 95
Canada (RPM) 45
United Kingdom (Official Charts Company) 41
United States (Billboard Hot 100) 49
United States (Billboard Mainstream Rock) 8

References

  1. ^ a b c Mason, Stewart. "Tempted" review. AllMusic. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  2. ^ Fricke, David (17 September 191). "Squeeze: East Side Story". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 14 February 2008. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  3. ^ "New Wave Music Songs". AllMusic.
  4. ^ "Squeeze Songs Ranked". Returnofrock.com. 2 August 2021. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  5. ^ Nolasco, Stephanie (22 August 2019). "Squeeze's Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook reveal the strangest fan encounter they've had: 'She wins the award'". Fox News. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  6. ^ Arrieta, Vincent. "Paul Carrack, the Greatest Singer You've Never Heard of, Comes to DFW With Eric Clapton". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  7. ^ Leas, Ryan (25 January 2022). "We've Got A File On You: Elvis Costello". Stereogum. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  8. ^ Tilbrook, Glenn; Difford, Chris; Drury, Jim. Squeeze: Song by Song. Sanctuary. pp. 81–83.
  9. ^ a b Tempted by Squeeze. Songfacts. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  10. ^ "What's New (and Old)?: A Q&A with Squeeze's Chris Difford". Rebeat Magazine. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  11. ^ "Q & A with John Bentley". The Rebel Magazine.
  12. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 522/3. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  13. ^ "Single Picks" (PDF). Record World. 27 June 1981. p. 14. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  14. ^ Fricke, David (17 September 1981). "Squeeze: East Side Story". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 14 February 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  15. ^ Beviglia, Jim (30 June 2013). "Squeeze, "Tempted"". American Songwriter. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  16. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 316. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.

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