Squeeze - Tempted

Is this one in the database?

I've always wondered how songs that were relatively insignificant hits during their chart runs work their way into gold rotation. Don't think I ever heard it until the early-ish 90s. I'm sure it scored well in some auditorium test, but I wonder what possessed whoever initially tested it to test a song that wasn't well known. Was it a big MTV hit?

Same here. I wonder if its inclusion in "Reality Bites" (1994) caused any of this.

Found this on a web site, too: "...this was used in a commercial for Burger King, and another for Heineken."

This song was a staple of my college days in the mid-to-late '80s. "Tempted" was in the same category as "What I Like About You" - teens at the time knew every note and every syllable, and I couldn't DJ a frat party back then without playing both.

"Tempted" was even on Vol. 1 of the "Rock Of The '80s" series from Priority, which came out in 1990.

The song didn't get any Z100-style pop airplay in 1981, but it was huge in the modern rock world (or as much as there was of that, back then).

It's actually because of this song's legendary status that it was used in "Reality Bites" at all!

When Paul Carrack released his first solo album in 1982, "Suburban Voodoo", there's a good reason why the first single, "I Need You", was a virtual rewrite of "Tempted".

And later on, when he sang with Mike And The Mechanics, he was known as the guy who sang "Tempted". When I saw Mike And The Mechanics in 1986-ish, they even played "Tempted" as an encore.

Really, this song was much bigger than the pop charts give it credit for.