"Don't Hang Up" by 10cc C/D?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUhjVWA2S8Y&feature=related

Felt like devoting a thread to this excellent piece of musicianship. By far my favourite 10cc track, better than any of the singles.

I think you posted this same youtube on another thread somewhere along the line, Geir - and you made a 10CC fan outta me ... it is a pretty awesome track ...

OK, it has some good musical moments, bit it's pretty much the track that's skippable on "How dare you", which is a shame as it's the last track.

"Iceberg" is basically 10cc anticipating "American Psycho" decades ahead of time.

"Headroom" is, um, interesting.

"I'm mandy" and "Minestrone" you all know...

"Don't hang up" is basically comedy, and I guess it's lost it over time.

I played this a lot back then, seeing as I owned about five albums then...

i prefer the sacroiliac

LOVE the song, LOVE the official video too :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2pth8_10cc-dont-hang-up_music

wonder why they made a video? was it a single in some 'territories'?

I guess it meant they didn't have to leave the studio if they didn't want to, for TV appearances, etc.

it's pretty much the track that's skippable on "How dare you"

Totally disagree, "Headroom" and "Rock and Roll Lullaby" are shite and "Iceberg" makes me want to punch someone, preferably someone from 10cc. Why hasn't Geir been banned yet?

Oh, I looked the album up on Wiki, and I admit, R&RLul is the worst track on it.

"Headroom" and "Iceberg" are both, um, different...

Of course, there's "Art for Art's Sake" also, that's alright, what else? Oh, the instrumental opener...

Side One.
1."How Dare You" (Kevin Godley, Lol Creme) – 4:14
2."Lazy Ways" (Creme, Eric Stewart) – 4:20
3."I Wanna Rule The World" (Godley, Creme, Graham Gouldman) – 3:57
4."I'm Mandy Fly Me" (Stewart, Gouldman, Godley) – 5:24
5."Iceberg" (Gouldman, Godley) – 3:43
Side Two.
1."Art For Art's Sake" (Stewart, Gouldman) – 5:59
2."Rock 'n' Roll Lullaby" (Gouldman, Stewart) – 3:58
3."Head Room" (Godley, Creme) – 4:21
4."Don't Hang Up" (Godley, Creme) – 6:16

"i wanna rule the world" is my favorite 10cc song

When I were a lad, my cousin, who lived with my granny, had to come and stay at our house for a few months because the council was doing up their house and this is one of the albums he had (along with some Cockney Rebel and Frampton's Camel, can't remember what else). I only heard this album recently again for one of the first times since then, the track I remembered best was "I Wanna Rule the World", which was bound to make an impact on an impressionable mind. Overall this album isn't great though.

I wanna be a boss, I wanna be a big boss
I wanna boss the world around
I wanna be the biggest boss
That ever bossed the world around

I wanna do it right, I wanna do it right away
I wanna do it right now, I wanna do it right away
I wanna do it now

Don't wanna be a dancer
in the Bolshoi Ballet.
Don't want to work for daddy,
In daddy's shop, OK?

I get confused, so confused
I get a pain, I get a pain up here in the Shirley Temples

What you gonna do, how you gonna do it?
What you gonna do, how you gonna do it?

Little by little - oooh!
Little by little - bit by bit!

Sssh, not too loud, don't tell everybody, don't give away the game
Ooooooh, I ain't quite ready to reveal my campaign

This is not the time....
My heroes are alive and well in a cave
I'm keeping them on ice in suspended animation,
Til the very right occasion comes along

To our rally come along, come along to our rally
Come along to our rally, come along!
To our rally come along, come along to our rally
Come along to our rally, come along!

A Brave new world will rise from the ashes
And there upon a wrecked Titanic
I'll cast a giant shadow on the face of the deep
And never again will they dare to call me:
A freckled, spotty, specky, four-eyed, weeny, little creeeeeeeeeeeeep

No more tremblin' and quakin' in the gym
No more come on fellas, let's get him

What you gonna do, how you gonna do it?
What you gonna do, how you gonna do it?

Little by little - oooh!
Little by little - bit by bit!
Little by little - oooh!
Little by little - bit by bit, bit by bit, bit. By. Biiiiit......

Everyone's going to be free..
But they'll have to agree to be free!
They'll have to agree to be less free than me,
Cause I rule the world you see!
So wait for the army of kiddy-winkies and terrible tiny tots
In armoured school buses, firing poison pea-shooters
And sinking their milk teeth into your thighs..
Delapsus resurgam when I fall I shall rise..

Yeah, that last verse sort of ruins it, but hey.

Reminds me a bit of that Alice Cooper song, "Generation Landslide", lyrically I mean

mark g i always fade it out before that bit..

We are of a mind, yes.

Tbf, I have no need to play this, as thanks to my "perfect pitch" actually playing the album is not necessary..

Actually, thanks to my tune-recall, I know it too well to have to actually play it 'real-time'

One of those, alyway...

Oh, definitely a classic, though this and "I'm Mandy" really are about the only two decent tracks on this album ("Art for Art's Sake" I guess, but I'm not hugely keen on that though).

It is indeed a patchier album than the two that came before it. Although I, too, love this track and "I'm Mandy Fly Me" (and, well, gotta love "Art For Art's Sake" too), I still rank "The Original Soundtrack" and "Sheet Music" ahead of it, although I count all three albums as Classics with a bit C.

Is that a Christgau style C?

No, they are all Christgau style A+. :)