Oh no! I suddenly have a yearning to track down and hear "Consequences" by Godley and Creme!

Right, so.

I've not finished it all yet -- I'm just back home, having got as far as Please, Please, Please during the course of two bus journeys and a session in the gym (boy, that was an unlikely soundtrack) -- but: this is absolutely fucking wonderful. Crazy, bug-eyed, dope-addled, fucked-up wonderful, but fucking hell, the ambition. The stonedness. The shockingly bad timing of releasing it in 1977.

I love this band.

So, uh, Godley & Creme's History Mix: good? bad? worth getting from the local charity shop?

(is the UK LP version, since that wikipedia article says there were several different versions)

Kind of a bummer "Wedding Bells" isn't on there.

Definitely worth picking up for cheap.

But it's not much of a "best of" - I had to cobble one together from a couple of others and still had to track down a single or two.

Tonight I realized how sad I am that I never got Consequences in the mail.

Hooray! As might be somewhat appropriate given the subject at hand, I just discovered my mp3 copy somehow survived the Great Harddrive Crash of 2010.

The 10cc doc got me checking this out again. So insane...

The wonderful weirdness slowly drained away fro their work by the late 80s and then they disappeared. They were such studio rats, I'm surprised they didn't return in full force when studios moved into the home and became digital.

I love how hilariously down on the whole thing Kevin Godley is in that 90s Uncut interview posted upthread

Once we had that amount of time, we could fuck around forever, we could spend three days getting a guitar to sound like a clarinet. So what? Why?

especially when contrasted with Lol Creme's cheery enthusiasm in his interview for the same feature: http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blint/lol.shtml

I have still never listened to the whole thing, I really like the truncated Music From Consequences album, but people have told me that contained literally all of the decent bits?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h28R5LhTRCw

Been crushing my mp3 copy of this the past few weeks. For a record reviled for its extra-musical ambitions, there are some outstanding tunes here. “Five o’clock In the Morning” is just a stunning fucking song (and employs the “I’m Not In Love” vocal trick for those interested).

The announcer "we can beat this if we join together" but ends suddenly as if this was his last words..

I didn't know this was a direct lift from Woodstock until this morning, listening to the 3cd recent best of. (The one with no hendrix)

I quite liked it, Grateful Dead was a snooz but hey..

Fucking hell! I just heard "Under Your Thumb" on the radio today for the first time and I haven't heard anything that jumped out at me like that on a major radio show since forever ago.

I haven't heard Consequences, but I have been listening to their subsequent three albums. I like L, but didn't find Freeze Frame and Ismism very listenable behind the cleverness.
Their 10cc songs had such interesting melodies and textures that spoken-word/rapped lyrics over sequencers and drum-machine beats were never going to be the best way for them to display their talents. Also, Lol Creme eventually handed all the lead vocals to Godley, which made the records even more monotonous.

I'm gonna go for Ismism first, on the strength of "Under Your Thumb", taking note that the earlier albums are supposed to be better.

That song and one or two others on Ismism have melodies, the rest are one-chord Talking Heads-like "grooves" with raps on top.

Yeah, that single completely buried "Consequences" and the fall-out of after. Minimalistic, direct and to-the-point.

Big hit, in other words.

Well, part of what jumped out at me was how busy and detailed it sounded

That, as well.

It's a cracker. M.R. James meets Giorgio Moroder. It was a surprise hit, apparently, and they didn't have time to shoot a video for it, which is a shame. With such an atmospheric song to work from, they could have dreamed up some great visuals.

I got the deluxe edition of Consequences a while ago because it was the only thing I saw in Fopp and I mostly listen to the music-only version of the album. I absolutely love "Honolulu Lulu", makes me think of bits from Zappa's We're Only In It For The Money but more cinematic

One of my favorites as well. The Rogers and Hammerstein is strong with that one.

It's one of those tracks that makes me want to say "can we have a few albums like that, please?"

I've only seen The Sound Of Music (film), so I'm not that familiar with Rogers & Hammerstein, I will youtube them.

I think you will find that you are familiar with Rogers & Hammerstein, even if you don't think you are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81NROmUb7o0

Thanks, that's really nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuHBAnMfKQ

Did anyone hear Kevin Godley's Muscle Memory? I seen it on someone's year end list for 2020 and they said he's still doing amazing stuff.