10cc Original Soundtrack CD - Import

 production production!
It must have took them a year to produce this album! Great production, especially on track 2. I'm curious how other 10cc albums sound. This one is my first.
Submitted by mrshepp6 (cape coral florida) 
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 One of the greatest art-rock albums ever
As with Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" or Yes's "Close to the Edge", 10CC's "The Original Soundtrack" stands out among their several great recordings as the crux of their achievement. And like those other two mid-70's icons, this one is a musical, technical and lyrical masterpiece, a poster child for what rock can be when it successfully reaches for the Art label. Even after 10CC's first two brilliant albums (the self-titled 10CC and Sheet Music) this album stands out as one of the most original, technically innovative, and musically ingenious disks in a genre that ranges from prog to alt to art. Among its cuts, most people know only the one U.S. hit, "I'm Not in Love" (and usually in the compressed single version rather than the luxurious album edit). On its own, the song sounds like a pleasant riff on Hall and Oates. But in the context of its studio siblings, it is easily recognized as an audio masterpiece, with the sarcastic double entendre "It's just a silly phase I'm going through" giving away the deep layering of phase-shifted tracks. The opening cut, "One Night in Paris", is a work of both technical and musical genius, a blend of cabaret, rock and operatic styles that intensifies musically as the combination of seedy melodrama and cultural parody in the lyrics unfolds. And so it goes with almost every cut; even the initially odd-sounding tonal pastiche of "Brand New Day" eventually works its harmonic magic into your veins. Check out Eric Stewart's guitar work on cuts like "Blackmail" and "The Second Sitting for the Last Supper", Godley's drumming on "One Night...", and Graham Gouldman's bass solo on "I'm Not in Love". The inclusion of "Channel Swimmer", one of 10CC's most beautiful songs, makes the CD even better than the original album. Did I fail to mention "Flying Junk" and "Life Is a Minestrone", the latter a bit of a UK hit? So buy the disk and listen for yourself. One caveat: the tune from the closer of the original album, "The Film of My Love", now sounds to me like an almost complete plagiarism of Jacques Brel's "Sons of..." (Perhaps no coincidence, given the motif of French parody in the opening track.) On the other hand, 10CC's ability to fill their lyrics with sexual double entendres reaches an apotheosis here! 10CC may be an acquired taste, like Zappa or Gentle Giant. My advice is, if you appreciate great harmonies, instrumental perfection, state of the art studio production technology, clever lyrics, and songwriting that is at once adventurous and appealing, acquire it! There was no more creative ensemble in the 1970's, and there's certainly none today.
Submitted by tonyalt (Brooklyn, NY)
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 10 CC DOES IT AGAIN
AFTER THE RELEASE OF THEIR GROUNDBREAKING ALBUM, SHEET MUSIC, 10 CC PROVED, ONCE AGAIN, THEY ARE MASTER SONGWRITERS AND MUSCIANS. THE SHEER INVENTIVENESS OF THE MUSIC AND THE CLEAVERNESS OF THE LYRICS TELLS US THAT 10 CC WERE WAY AHEAD OF THEIR TIME. AS A MATTER OF FACT I DON'T THINK TIME HAS CAUGHT UP WITH THEM YET!
Submitted by DMARTIN (WILMINGTON, DE. USA)
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