"Tempted"

"Tempted"

Squeeze

Featured on Greatest Hits
A & M
Album released 1992, song originally released 10 July 1981
CD

New Wave

A-

"It's no story I can tell," but of course it is their best story-song, and I'm stunned that it didn't hit the Top Forty anywhere.  It's exactly the sort of thing I loved at 13, and at quadruple that.  Impossible not to sing along with, especially that opening inventory of items to pack.