The Elephant Ride

"The Elephant Ride" is a song by the British new wave band Squeeze. It was written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, and it appeared on their 1982 album Sweets from a Stranger.

"The Elephant Ride"
Song by Squeeze
from the album Sweets from a Stranger
ReleasedMay 1982
Recorded1981
GenreRock, new wave
Length3:22
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook
Producer(s)Squeeze
Phil McDonald

Background

Glenn Tilbrook said, "This is one of my favorite songs. It's beautiful and very much influenced by The Beach Boys in its arrangement, if not the tune. I'd been listening to Pet Sounds an awful lot at the time and this was one of the songs where rather than oppose the mood of the lyric, I tried to reflect it."[1]

Chris Difford said, "This comes from a set of songs with "elephant" in the title. It was a story I came up with about a skinhead who had fallen in love with an Indian girl in Charlton. They couldn't hang out with each other because their parents wouldn't go along with the cross-pollination of their relationship. I thought it would make a good musical, because it was a racial story."[1]

Reception

AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine said in his review of Sweets from a Stranger that "The Elephant Ride" was "shimmering" and "gorgeous."[2]

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References
  1. Tillbrook, Glenn; Difford, Chris; Drury, Jim. Squeeze: Song by Song. Sanctuary.
  2. http://www.allmusic.com/album/sweets-from-a-stranger-mw0000193270
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