Cool for Cats (album)
Cool for Cats is the English new wave group Squeeze's second album, released in 1979. "Cool for Cats" contains four UK hit singles, more than any other album the band has issued. The album peaked at number 45 in the UK Albums Chart, spending 11 weeks in that listing. Its 1997 CD release, as part of the "Six of One..." box set contained two bonus tracks. This collection included the band's first six studio albums, each digitally remastered. In 1998 the six CDs were released individually. In 2007, the album was digitally remastered and  released with 5 bonus tracks exclusively in Japan. Each of the 5 tracks came from B-sides from the singles released from the album. Content. Musical style. "Billboard" said "Cool for Cats" was a "hard-rocking" album with "hard-edged power pop". Alluding to the record, Steven Thomas Erlewine of "AllMusic" described "Cool for Cats" as "the work of a rock & roll band [...] that lathered on the keyboards and herky-jerky rhythms". Critical reception. In 1979, "Billboard" selected "Cool for Cats" as one of its "recommended LPs" and cited "Slap and Tickle", "Hop, Skip & Jump", "Up the Junction", and "It 's So Dirty" as the album's "best cuts". Reviewing the album in "" (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "Power poppers (remember them?) suck this stuff up, and I understand why—not only does its songcraft surpass that of the band's debut, but it also isn't quite as sophomoric. It's sophomoric enough, though, and like so many such records makes you wonder where the power is. Not in the vision, that's for sure. And not in the beat. Great song: 'Up the Junction.'" In 1995, Chris Woodstra proclaimed "Cool for Cats" to be a "pure pop masterpiece" in  the "All Music Guide to Rock". Track listing. All songs written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook except "Hop, Skip & Jump", by Difford and Jools Holland. Laurence Burrage - assistant engineer