there's another thread somewhere.
― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 9 April 2004 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jez (Jez), Friday, 9 April 2004 09:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 9 April 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I've only got "The Original Soundtrack" myself, and while it's a good album, its singles are clearly the best things on it, though "The Film of My Love" is a fine cinemascope finale. "How Are You?" also, has this great album track called "Bad Days" IIRC...
One would have liked to see an album, perhaps, with as much complex emotion and insight throughout as in "I'm Not In Love"... they could very easily become quite hidden behind the parodist's screen, and while that worked sublimely with the above 3 early singles, it can be wearing and the phrase 'diminishing returns' seems apt for how they progressed.
"Sheet Music" and the debut are albums I plan to listen to at some stage, but having heard all the singles, they are subconsciously lower on my 'to-buy' mental list. Do the wholes of these 2 records match up to the singles I mention...?
― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 9 April 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 9 April 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 2 December 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 2 December 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 2 December 2004 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 2 December 2004 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 December 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 3 December 2004 03:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 3 December 2004 04:23 (nineteen years ago) link
i got "The Original Soundtrack" recently and have really enjoyed it. it's almost like a Nilsson record, has that Beatles-in-the-70s vibe. "One Night in Paris" is such a cool psychedelic pop song. of course "I'm Not In Love" is so nice to listen to, with those deeply layered vocals.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
the production on The Original Soundtrack is so sick. that muffled heart beat kick drum on "I'm Not in Love". the buzzy tremelo of "Blackmail" which sounds like a Devo-Spark collab.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
Devo-Sparks
"I'm Not in Love" wasn't taken seriously by most of the band at first. they thought it was a nothing of a song and happened to remake it in order to experiment with the poly vocal technique.
Stewart spent three weeks recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing "ahhh" 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, building up a "choir" of 48 voices for each note of the scale. The main problem facing the band was how to keep the vocal notes going for an infinite length of time, but Creme suggested that they could get around this issue by using tape loops. Stewart created loops of about 12 feet in length by feeding the loop at one end though the tape heads of the stereo recorder in the studio, and at the other end through a capstan roller fixed to the top of a microphone stand, and tensioned the tape. By creating long loops the 'blip' caused by the splice in each tape loop could be drowned out by the rest of the backing track, providing that the blips in each loop did not coincide with each other. Having created twelve tape loops for each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, Stewart played each loop through a separate channel of the mixing desk. This effectively turned the mixing desk into a musical instrument complete with all the notes of the chromatic scale, which the four members together then "played", fading up three or four channels at a time to create "chords" for the song's melody. Stewart had put gaffer's tape across the bottom of each channel, which meant it was impossible to completely fade down the tracks for each note; this resulted in the constant background hiss of vocals heard throughout the song.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Not_in_Love#Recording
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Not_in_Love#Recording
now that background hiss fuck up - that error - is largely responsible for this song having an incredibly magical nostalgic sound to it that has made it a global hit 40 years on.
it's important to fail in art. look at what they created from that failure.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
the production on this record is sooooo good. those arrangements. they have so many tracks going on at once and yet it's very dynamic and you can make everything out.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 September 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
adam, have you read this? https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/classic-tracks-10cc-not-love
― brimstead, Friday, 15 September 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
start with the Tori cover of I'm Not In Love
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 04:39 (six years ago) link
Jeez, I never heard that version before, very cool. Kudos to her for her song selection on "Strange Little Girls", too!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 15 September 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
thanks for posting that article, that was a great read!
someday im going to have to put myself into debt and get a U67 tube mic. the second that came up i was like, oh shit, they had the secret weapon!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 September 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtnqZj76H4E
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
I got 100cc as a kid. I had no idea who they were. At first, I thought they were too soft, but they really grew on me.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
Is that Steve Lukather on guitar?
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
Okay, I can live with the studio version of “Dreadlock Holiday” even though it is no “Safe European Home,” but that live version really highlights its awfulness.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
Vintage TV used to show the Graham Gouldman version of 10cc doing DH live in a small Swansea venue, everyone seated and still, the band similarly motionless and inert. Then in the coda Graham changes it briefly it to "I don't like Swansea, I love it" to, say, two or three very muted squeals in the audience. Bless.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
Graham stretching the bounds of credibility there.
― Let's Get Ready to Trimble (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
Why would the guy who wrote For Your Love, No Milk Today and Look Through Any Window choose Dreadlock Holiday as his showcase number?
― everything, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 05:50 (one year ago) link
I guess it's the only 10cc hit he sang.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 28 July 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link