[3] It established the band's trademark vocal style, with Chris Difford singing an octave lower than Glenn Tilbrook.

Tilbrook explained of the song's sound: "We hired lots of synths and a bloke who knew how to work them and pretended to be Kraftwerk.

"[8] Tilbrook cited engineer John Wood as "very helpful" in that he "knew how to rein in what we were producing and gave us some structure".

[3] The single's success not only established Squeeze as a new wave player, but provided manager Copeland the leverage to negotiate a favorable deal with A&M Records for another band he was managing: the Police, featuring his brother Stewart on drums.

[10] Record World said that "the synthesizer underpinnings make this offbeat love song stand out; it's a bit like 10cc.