― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― zaxxon25, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything, Friday, 2 March 2007 04:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― babedad, Saturday, 3 March 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― pisces, Saturday, 3 March 2007 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― grebtesthit, Saturday, 3 March 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 3 March 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― everything, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link
every so often i find myself with an overwhelming desire to listen to 10cc. and every time i find myself thinking, jesus, they *really fucking were* that good. walking up the street earlier, blasting "rubber bullets" into my ear, was a moment of utter joy.
as with so, so many bands, i need to get more of their albums.
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
also: WTF with whoever it was above who doesn't understand/get/whatever "i'm mandy"? that song ROCKS my SOUL.
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
("dreadlock holiday" is kinda blowsome, though.)
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 29 June 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh no! I suddenly have a yearning to track down and hear "Consequences" by Godley and Creme!
― Mark G, Friday, 29 June 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Things We Do for Love. Fuck me.
― pisces, Monday, 8 October 2007 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought the Best Of for 4 quid in HMV on Saturday, to replace a dusty cassette of Changing Faces. It's ninja.
Can I say "it's ninja"?
― Matthew H, Monday, 8 October 2007 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link
yes.
― pisces, Monday, 8 October 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i was a kid when this was a hit and my mother and i used to sing it together when it would come on the radio. that song is still totally classic!
― BATTAGS, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
The National Guard, The National Guard The exercise yard, the exercise yard
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 30 December 2007 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Jonathan King may be a child molester, but I am still thankful for the fact that he discovered two of my all-time favourite bands.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 30 December 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Just listened to "I'm Not in Love" on repeat. What a brilliant track. This song must have been a balearic hit, fits perfectly within that sound.
― oscar, Friday, 13 June 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
have you heard their other song like this, Godley & Creme's "Cry"? http://youtube.com/watch?v=B1Z8pSXCNFI freaky video
― jaxon, Friday, 13 June 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
wow that track is nice. i have a couple of their lps from the 70's which are really good, but beyond that i never investigated their later stuff. i am going to now.
― oscar, Friday, 13 June 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
10cc were the British Steely Dan. I say it is so, so it is so.
Not sure about this. I'm sure I'll be crucified for this (bring it, bitches), but Steely Dan never wrote anything as sublime as "I'm Not In Love".
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 14 June 2008 12:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Erol Alkan has been halting intense electro sets at 2 a.m. in vast warehouses before thousands of people by playing I'M NOT IN LOVE. IN FULL!
― piscesx, Sunday, 8 March 2009 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link
If you regard the fact that 10cc were indeed very typically English whereas Steely Dan were very typically American (at least in an East Coast way), then this may well be a very good way to see it.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 8 March 2009 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
That makes me LOL so hard.
― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 8 March 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
If the name had been deliberately chosen for the reasons cited, it would have been a misnomer: The average male ejaculation actually contains only about 3cc of semen.
― derelict, Sunday, 8 March 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Wasn't 9CC supposed to be the max male ejaculation rather than the average?
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 9 March 2009 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
props to lol creme for his incredible name
― all-seeing eye of horus (psychgawsple), Monday, 9 March 2009 03:27 (fifteen years ago) link
how have i never heard about this group
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i get the feeling theyre more of a singles band, right?
― Michael B, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
and maybe not so much of a "any american has heard them" band
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
besides xhuxk of course
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
'im not in love' was surely a big hit stateside
― Michael B, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
ive only heard the album 'bloody tourists' (dreadlock holiday was on it) and it was dissapointing. i might pick up their greatest hits sometime if i see it for cheap.
― Michael B, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
god, i heard i'm not in love all the time when i was a kid. i certainly knew who they were in the 70's in the u.s. that and the things we do for love were huge on the radio.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i wonder what kind of station would have played 10cc. they don't seem like they really fit. i was born in 1974 and the earliest thing i ever remember hearing on the radio was eddie rabbit.
"i wanna rule the world" is like.. ambient techno ambient highway 61 style queen or something.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 April 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazing BBC doc online here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kn4q5/The_Record_Producers_10cc_6_Music_Producers_Cut/
Lol Creme, Kevin Godley, Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart provided the entire package. Not only were they great musicians but they also wrote all their hits in various group combinations, produced their own recordings and, in Eric Stewart, had a built-in engineer. They also owned their own recording studio which made them a highly productive self-contained unit.
Featuring new interviews with all four band members and exclusive access to the original multi-track recordings of Donna, Wall Street Shuffle and I'm Not In Love.
This extended 6 Music Producer's Cut includes additional 10cc tracks and related music. Broadcast on:BBC 6 Music, 9:00pm Saturday 9th May 2009 Duration: 120 minutes
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
No, they were much better.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
"Please install Real Player".
Fuck that noise.
― Vast Halo, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe not so much of a "any american has heard them" band
Most Americans above a certain age have probably heard their two huge sellout hits "I'm Not In Love" and "The Things We Do For Love." Beyond that pair (and among younger Americans), maybe not, though.
(Ha ha, just looked up their chart positions and found out their third biggest U.S. hit -- only went to #40 -- was something called "People In Love." I can't even think of how that goes. And like their two top fives, it has the word "love" in its title.)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, "Cry" would be their third biggest U.S. hit if it counts, and "Neanderthal Man" their fourth biggest.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazing BBC doc online here
AH DUDE thank you for sharing this link: I knew nothing about this. That's one to luxuriate in tomorrow.
Fuck that noise
WTF, you keeping it real with your Babbage Engine there or something?
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
"People In Love." I can't even think of how that goes
"People in love do funny thingswalk under buses, um tum ti tum tum..."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Fascinating article about the recording of "I'm Not In Love" here: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun05/articles/classictracks.htm
About recording the a cappella backing:
"Each note of a chromatic scale was sung 16 times, so we got 16 tracks of three people singing for each note. That was Kevin, Lol and GiGi standing around a valve Neumann U67 in the studio, singing 'Aahhh' for around three weeks. I'm telling you; three bloody weeks. We eventually had 48 voices for each note of the chromatic scale, and since there are 13 notes in the chromatic scale, this made a total of 624 voices. My next problem was how to get all that into the track.
"I mixed down 48 voices of each note of the chromatic scale from the 16-track to the Studer stereo machine to make a loop of each separate note, and then I bounced back these loops one at a time to a new piece of 16-track tape, and just kept them running for about seven minutes. Because we had people singing 'Aahhh' for a long time, there were slight tuning discrepancies that added a lovely flavour, like you get with a whole string section, with a lot of people playing. Some are not quite in time, some have slightly different tuning, but musically a lovely thing happens to that. It's a gorgeous sound. A very human sound, very warm and moving all the time."
― Space Is The Place, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link
as nice as this thread is, it is still SERIOUSLY lacking in worship and praise for the guitar sound(s) on silly love. and it sounds just as glorious live:
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, the BBC doc is absolutely tremendous: thanks again for sharing, piscesx. I didn't realise it'd cover so much of Godley & Creme's later material, too (must go and revive that G&C thread) ... what, with that and the Sound on Sound article I can become the world's most tedious I'm Not In Love bore.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
So basically, "Hotel" on Sheet Music (1974) sounds like Vampire Weekend, three and a half decades before the fact. (Lots of the album sounds too indie/twee to me, in retrospect. Convinced nothing much matches th side openers, "Wall Street Shuffle" and "Silly Love" -- well, maybe "The Worst Band In The World" I guess -- though feel free to try to convince me otherwise. Also guessing they liked Zappa a lot.)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 13 March 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link