Cool for Cats (album)

Cool for Cats is the second studio album by the English new wave group Squeeze, 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.

Cool for Cats
Studio album by
Squeeze
Released4 April 1979 (1979-04-04)
Recorded1978 and 1979
StudioOlympic Studios, Britannia Row Studios and Sound Techniques (London, UK)
Genre
  • New wave
  • power pop
Length38:12
LabelA&M
ProducerJohn Wood and Squeeze
Squeeze chronology
Squeeze
(1978)		 Cool for Cats
(1979)		 Argybargy
(1980)
Singles from Cool for Cats
  1. "Goodbye Girl"
    Released: 2 November 1978
  2. "Cool for Cats"
    Released: 9 March 1979
  3. "Up the Junction"
    Released: 18 May 1979
  4. "Slap and Tickle"
    Released: 31 August 1979

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.

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