SQUIRE Something Old... LTD EDITION (#0207) FAN CLUB Rare UK MOD REVIVAL

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SQUIRE Something Old Something New Something Borrowed
The Official Fan Club Album - California Edition
Used Vinyl Record
Sleeve/Vinyl: EX/NM

Record Label: No Label - Limited Edition #0207

Limited Edition, Numbered Fan Club LP. "California Edition," with hand-stamped cover text, hand-inscribed, hand-numbered and initialed "AM" (Anthony Meynell), Includes xeroxed insert. White labels printed SFC1 on both sides.

Condition: Generic white record jacket has ring wear and stains on top and bottom. Corners have wear but are mostly sharp. Bottom glue has given out - not split. Vinyl looks as if it's been played but well cared for. Minor paper scuffs and light hairlines. Plys well with a minimum of surface noise.

Side One
1. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
2. Teenage Girl
3. We Are The Numbers
4. Get Ready To Go
5. Face Of Youth Today
6. I Know A Girl

Side Two
7. My Mind Goes Round In Circles
8. Stop That Girl!
9. You're The One
10. The Young Idea
11. Has Our Love Gone Bad?
12. Don't Cry To Me
13. It's A Mod Mod World

Review: Though they never received the recognition they deserved, Squire was undoubtedly one of the earliest and finest Mod Revival bands of the late 70s. Squire were able to transcend the limits of the genre with their high quality pop which drew equal parts from punk spirit and the 1960s.

Named because they rehearsed above a shop called Squires, this lot went to school with Paul Weller in Woking, Surrey and formed in Guildford not long after Jam, The as a covers band consisting of Enzo Esposito (vocals/bass), Steve Baker (guitar) and Ross Di'Landa (drums).

In June 1978, songwriter/guitarist Anthony Meynell joined just prior to a high profile gig opening for The Jam. The addition of Meynell changed the band's focus to producing original material, and by 1979, they had released their first single for ROK Records, Get Ready to Go.

While the single gained them some airplay, their biggest break came with the newly termed Mod Revival movement and their appearance on the now legendary Mods Mayday '79 album which featured two new songs by the band.

An incredibly hard to find relic of the mod revival years, Something Old Something New Something Borrowed... is a 13-track roundup of rarities that peaks, on side two, with a fiery live sequence that reminds listeners just how ill-suited many of these bands were to the studio environment -- and just how readily Squire bucked that trend. Their natural habitat remained the sweat- and beer-soaked atmosphere of a tiny club packed with parkas and Union Jacks, and the seven live songs here are delivered with a frenzy that can readily be compared to a maniacal cross between vintage Jam and classic Kinks.