Snack Attack - Godley & Creme
Snack Attack is unfortunately just about a one-joke album -- and the joke is over about halfway through the title cut, a rap about too much food and too little willpower. There are high points here and there, especially with the haunting "Under Your Thumb" and the jubilant Motown pastiche of "Wedding Bells" (which had a wonderful video to go with it), but far too much of the album is taken up with self-indulgent rubbish such as "The Party, " "The Problem" and the amazingly awful "Ready for Ralph." It's no wonder that the duo went off to develop a career making rock videos.
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Godley & Creme - Cry
"Cry" is a song released by the British music duo Godley & Creme on 11 March 1985. It was included on the duo's album The History Mix Volume 1.
The song reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming Godley & Creme's lone Top 40 hit in the US apart from their former band, 10cc. It reached No. 19 on the UK Singles Chart. The duo also directed the song's music video, which featured faces blended into each other using dissolving and wiping effects.
The second version of this song is with clips from "Miami Vice"
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10cc & Godley & Creme – Greatest Hits And More - American version part 6
13. I'm Not In Love – 2 versions: clip from Top Pop with karaoke lyrics
(Brady Bunch Version), Honest Jack Tripper Version from “Three’s Company”
14. People in Love - with clips of Carole Lombard & Clark Gable, Steve & Kayla from "Days of Our Lives"
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10cc & Godley & Creme – Greatest Hits And More - American version part 5
11. Feel The Love (Sky & Raven Whitney Version from “The Edge of Night”)
12. Golden Boy (with clips from the 1939 film, “Golden Boy” with Barbara Stanwyck)
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10cc & Godley & Creme – Greatest Hits And More - American version part 3
6. I'm Mandy Fly Me (with scenes from the 1972 TV movie, “The Woman Hunter” with Barbara Eden, Stuart Whitman & Robert Vaughn)
7. The Wall Street Shuffle (Dutch TV)
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10cc & Godley & Creme – Greatest Hits And More - American version part 4
8. Wedding Bells
9. The Things We Do For Love (Shane & Kimberly Version from “Days of Our Lives”)
10. Dreadlock Holiday
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10cc & Godley & Creme – Greatest Hits And More - American version part 2
4. A Little Piece of Heaven (Slice of Wedding Cake Version with Stefan & Chloe, then Sonny & Brenda)
5. It Doesn’t Matter At All (with relevant scenes from the 1980 TV drama movie, “The Promise of Love” with Valerie Bertinelli & Craig T. Nelson)
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10cc & Godley & Creme – Greatest Hits And More - American version part 1
Playlist:
1. Good Morning Judge
2. Food For Thought
3. Save A Mountain For Me
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10cc - Headline Hustler
‘Headline Hustler’ at last moves us away from the doo wop spoofs for a spoof of the journalists of the world, nice boys pretending to be nasty in order to get better splashes for their front page. You really don’t need to know about the lyrics of this song, though, as much as the music which includes a distinctive riff, a chorus that erupts out of nowhere, a classic Eric Stewart guitar solo and a catchy drum pattern from Kevin Godley. Eric takes the lead on this song (one thing that does work well on this track listing is the way the four singers switch around more or less equally) and it’s one of his best, part innocent kid in a world out of depth and part raving troublemaker, desperate to secure the scoop his rivals can’t. No scandal is too small or too private for this private eye, with his morals gone by the board the moment he sniffs money and power. Having been or at least been around journalist for some years I can say that this song is all true, especially concerning music writers! Hmm a catchy tune with the lyrics mixed low, a spoof of a section of the society with control over the masses and words quite unlike any other song of the day, this is surely where Gouldmann and Stewart get their future writing template from and makes for a rocking end to this album’s first side.
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Godley and Creme Golden Boy - collage video with clips from the 1939 film Golden Boy
lost pop song made from 1985
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10cc - Dreadlock Holiday - promo video from 1978
Why is denial funny? 10cc tracks, particularly the best known songs, are full of it: I’m Not In Love where the vocal says oh-no-I’m-not and the backing track says oh-yes-you-are, the freedom-denying jailors of Rubber Bullets and charity-denying bankers of Wall Street Shuffle; many 10cc songs derive their humour because of what the song’s narrator doesn’t know and can’t see– and which the audience, hopefully, can. Nowhere is there a better example of that than this album’s first track, [74] Dreadlock Holiday, perhaps the most famous 10cc song of all. A surprise #1 hit after two top-10 less years for the band, this song is gentle mickey-taking reggae pastiche that is actually quite harsh in its portrayal of rough, criminal Jamaicans exploiting the poor white man on holiday. However, nothing is quite what it seems in this song: the narrator’s naiveté in many ways means he deserves as good as he gets – he expects to be ‘safe’ while out alone in a rough part of a neighbourhood he has never explored before in the first verse, he protests far too much about the sentimental value of a watch the criminals are looking to steal from him, thus drawing their attention into it and is positively clueless about the ’come-on’ line of the pretty Jamaican back at the hotel. Completely out of his depth, the narrator’s cultural shock is a theme continued throughout the album, which seeks to ask – in a jovial, informal way – just why one culture is so different from any other. The song has a weird history too: Graham based it on a holiday he took with The Moody Blues' Justin Hayward in which the two men (the politest in rock?) got the urge to be wild and decided to try para-sailing (ie you're strapedd to the back of a motorboat with a parachute on) in the West Indies and felt incredibly out of their depth. Two muggers came to 'ask' for their belongings and threatened the two men, with Graham suddenly wrenched out of the predicament by his para-sail (you can only imagine what song this might have become if the incident had happened to Godley or Creme!) The most famous part of the song is its many choruses, which tells us ‘I don’t like cricket/reggae/Jamaica – I love it/her!’, a re-working of the I’m Not In Love formula by second-guessing the listener’s reaction. 10cc obviously do love reggae on this track (their later mock-reggae songs are a mite embarrassing, but this track’s swinging time signature, calypso drumming and loose patois are all spot on and affectionate rather than sneering) and presumably love Jamaica too, given the sheer amount of these reggae songs that fill up the rest of their work right up until their split. The mention of cricket, though, is confusing as it comes out of nowhere in the song (it’s not in the promo video either) - is this 10cc hedging their bets by talking about something so resolutely English that audiences couldn’t possibly get the wrong end of the stick? Either way, this song’s attractions have been rather killed off as late, thanks to countless re-playings on radio and its presence on every 10cc compilation to date. However, familiarity breeds contempt (another theme throughout this album, incidentally) and listened to fresh this is a clever song, with its witty and much-copied chorus a winning singalong for folks at home. It also – finally – rights the balance that had seen the other three original members of 10cc take lead vocals on big hits, but not Gouldman: surely 10cc are the only group, before or since, who had four lead singers capable of scoring hits? (Crème on the #1 Rubber Bullets, Stewart on the #1 I’m Not In Love, Godley on several other smaller hits).
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Donna - 10cc
‘Donna’ is another spoof doo-wop song, better than either of the songs listed above, but personally I find it by far the most trite and annoying song on the record. The problem might well be with me rather than the band though – in its day, when comedy records consisted of impressions of boring celebrities or were unfunny spoofs of rock stars by the ‘elders’ of the day getting their own back at the youngsters, ‘Donna’ must have seemed like a breath of fresh air. Alas for collectors like me, we’ve heard this sort of thing too often in modern times and there’s no getting away from the fact that the song borrows heavily from two other AAA songs, The Beach Boys’ cover of ‘Then I Kissed Her’ and The Beatles’ own doo-wop spoof ‘Oh! Darling’ (for which the tune of ‘Donna’ sounds like an identical twin). Strangely, given that 1973 was also a big year for plagiarism court cases, nobody ever took issue with this strong-selling single – perhaps they were lulled by its gentle beat, fun harmonies and the contrast between Creme’s high falsetto and Gouldmann’s gentlemanly calls on the telephone. There’s honestly not much more to add, with Donna a bored and lonely housewife waiting for the phone to ring – and receiving one of the oddest calls in the history of rock and roll (its Creme, again, doing his best Clark Gable impression, albeit Clark Gable doing his impression of Mickey Mouse). As most fans probably already know, this song was dashed off by Godley and Creme in about five minutes after Stewart and Gouldmann’s ‘Waterfall’ had been chosen for the A-side (the band had struck up a suprirngly fair sounding deal whereby whichever two writers got the A side the other two would always get the B-side thereby splitting the money, although this idea rather peters out after the first three singles). Unable to get a record contract, however, 10cc played Jonathon King the B-side which he loved, causing him to flip the single and release ‘Donna’ instead. (Not for the first time, Mr King got things badly wrong as ‘Waterfall’ might well be the best single song 10cc ever did in the 1970s, although I do have to grudgingly give him respect for recognizing 10cc’s talent when every other record label boss in the UK seemed to have cloth ears).
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Sand in My Face - 10cc
‘Sand In My Face’ is another song that takes its smug tongue-in-cheek look a bit too far for some but, again, the song is so cleverly constructed that 10cc are entitled to feel a bit smug about it. I actually prefer this song to ‘Johnny’, as this time around its spoof of beach movies and the nine-stone weakling wanting to ‘better’ himself features much funnier lines and a much more satisfyingly rich backing track. For the most part this song is about nervous tension, with a throbbing opening bass riff that will be recycled by the band for their similar pastiche ‘Silly Love’ the following year that really sets the scene for the poor narrator who wants the perfect body. The use of the chorus joining in every other line makes more sense here as well, with a slightly huskier than normal sounding Godley being asked a bunch of inane questions by the others which actually punctuate a series of clever lines. The song is ever restless, especially in the middle eight when the ‘hands like hounds, knees like trees, 200 pounds, surfboard Hercules’ enters the picture with Creme’s breathless narrator sounding like he’s spreading the neighbourhood gossip to the listener, as in all the best Beach films (the other great AAA beach spoof you need to buy, incidentally, is The Monkees’ TV episode ‘At The Movies’ which perfectly spoofs the arrogance and hopelessness of the stars of the day). Godley’s falsetto then gives us a rebuttal, telling us that he’s lost his girlfriend and wants to get her back anyway he can – although, in true 70s style, ‘what convinced me is your money-back guarantee’. Thankfully there is a happy ending, because we really do get quite fond of the narrator throughout this song and he gets to kick sand ‘in the ears, in the eyes and the nose’ of his love rival. You’d never want to hear this song too many times in a row – as I must confess I just have writing this review – as you’re likely to start going mad, but as s poof songs about body-building courses go this is one of the best! Incidentally, 10cc must go to the same body-building courses as The Who on their ‘Sell Out’ album (see review no 19), with the ‘dynamic tension’ promised in the song actually coming from a 1960s advert for guitar strings.
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Eric Stewart - Interview from Swedish TV with foreign language removed- US version
Eric Michael Stewart is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer best known as a founding member of the rock groups The Mindbenders from 1963 to 1968 and 10cc from 1972 to 1995.
The Story of 10cc - changed version part 1
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of smash hit I'm Not in Love, the original members of 10cc - Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme - reunite to tell their story. The documentaryshares the secrets to some of their most successful records, from the writing and the recording to the tours and the tensions.
With contributions from an impressive array of music industry legends including 10cc's band manager Harvey Lisberg, lyricist Sir Tim Rice, broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, legendary producer Trevor Horn, Stewart Copeland (The Police), Graham Nash (The Hollies) and Dan Gillespie Sells (The Feeling), not only does this film highlight the diversity of these four brilliant musicians' songwriting talent, but it also delves into the influence they had, as well as the politics beneath their acrimonious split in 1976, at the height of their fame.
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The Things We Do For Love - 10cc
"The Things We Do for Love" is a song by British band 10cc, released as a single in 1976. It later featured on the album Deceptive Bends released in 1977 and was the group's first release after the departure of band members Godley and Creme. The song was a hit in various countries worldwide, reaching number one in Canada,[2] as well as peaking at number 6 in the UK,[3] number 5 in the US[4] and Australia, number 13 in the Netherlands,[5] and number 2 in Ireland.[6]
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I'm Mandy, Fly Me - 10cc
"I'm Mandy Fly Me" is a single by 10cc released in 1976. It was taken from the How Dare You! album. It reached No. 6 on the UK singles chart.
Writing and recording
In a radio interview,[1] Stewart recalled the origins of the song "I'm Mandy Fly Me":
“ National Airlines used to have this beautiful poster that they displayed of this gorgeous stewardess inviting you onto the plane. Now her name wasn't Mandy actually, it was something like, er, oh gosh knows, "I'm Cindy", a very American name. "I'm Cindy, fly me" which was a quite sexual connotation as well, but I remember seeing in Manchester this beautiful poster and just below it was this tramp, I mean a serious tramp, quite a raggedy guy, looking up at this girl, and I thought God, do you know, there's a song there. Look at that guy looking up at Cindy-fly-me and I know he's never gonna get on an aeroplane, I don't think, except in his dreams.
So I brought it back, the idea back to the studio, where we were writing for the How Dare You! album, and put it to the guys: "Anybody interested in this 'I'm Mandy Fly Me'". I'd switched it to Mandy. And Graham said "yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I've got some ideas, I've got some chords. Let's slot those things in, try it, mess it around". We wrote it, and we didn't like it. We, we scrapped it. It just wasn't going anywhere.
But, enter from stage left, ha ha, the "wicked villain" Kevin Godley, twiddling his moustache, says "I know what's wrong with it. Let's sit down again." He said "I think it just gets too bland, it just goes on, on one plane, your verses and your middles and your der-der-der, they're all going on the one plane. What it needs is someone to go 'Bash' on the side of your head". So we changed the rhythm completely, and we put two whacking great guitar solos in there, in the middle of this quiet, soft, floaty song. Once we'd got that idea in, it, it just gelled into something else. Again, impossible to dance to, as a lot of 10cc tracks were, but once Kevin had put that in, he became the third writer in the song so we were quite democratic in that way.
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The intro to "I'm Mandy Fly Me" features one of the bridge sections of the band's 1974 song "Clockwork Creep". The section, whose lyrics are "Oh, no you'll never get me up in one of these again / 'Cause what goes up must come down", is rendered soft and tinny, as if heard playing from a portable transistor radio or an in-flight audio system.
Personnel
Eric Stewart – lead guitar, lead and backing vocals, piano, whistle
Graham Gouldman – electric six-string, electric four-string and acoustic bass, backing vocals, zithers
Kevin Godley – drums, backing vocals
Lol Creme – lead guitar, backing vocals, Moog synthesizer, vibes
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Memories - 10cc
Memories is a 10cc single . It comes from their album Ten out of 10 . The single was probably only released in the Netherlands, but did not make the hit parades .
The song, written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman , is about the loss of innocence. This was well present in childhood, but was then lost.
B-side was Overdraft in Overdrive , which was also on the album.
Musicians
Eric Stewart - vocals, electric piano , synthesizer , piano , background vocals, guitar , percussion
Graham Gouldman - bass guitar , double bass , backing vocals, percussion guitar
Paul Burgess - percussion
Life Is A Minestrone - 10cc
"Life Is a Minestrone" is a 1975 single by 10cc. It charted at No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart.
Background
The track was written after Lol Creme and Eric Stewart were driving home from Strawberry Studios and a BBC Radio presenter said something that they only partly heard, but which Creme interpreted as "life is a minestrone". Stewart and Creme believed the phrase to be a good title for a song on the grounds that life is, according to Stewart in a BBC Radio Wales interview, "a mixture of everything we pile in there". They had the song written in a day.[1]
On the Startrax compilation CD recording, "A Decade of Hits", the title is misspelt "Ministrone".
Release
The song was released as the lead single from The Original Soundtrack on the grounds that the band had reservations regarding the 6:00+ ballad "I'm Not in Love" as the lead single.[1] In most territories, the song was backed with "Lazy Ways". In America, 10cc were unheard of until after the release of I'm Not in Love, so they re-released the record over there in 1976 with "Channel Swimmer". Channel Swimmer appears as a bonus track on the Japanese version of The Original Soundtrack.[2]
Reception
Commercial
The song charted at No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart,[3] No. 12 on the Netherlands Singles Chart,[4] and No. 7 on the Irish Singles Chart,[5] in 1975 and No. 104 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976.[2]
Critical
Dave Thompson reviewed the song for AllMusic, calling the song "utterly daft, wholly compulsive" "deadly accurate barrage of disconnected theories, thoughts and ghastly geographical puns, all tied together by that bizarre nomenclatural observation and a fadeout which is pure Paul McCartney", elaborating "Reducing the human condition to the contents of a well-stacked pantry, composers Lol Crème and Eric Stewart combine for a truly joyous slice of pop nonsense, and one of 10cc's most effervescent hit singles.[6]
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For You and I - 10cc - 1978 - Frankie Crocker Version from Early VH-1
For You and I is a 10cc single . It comes from their album Bloody Tourists .
The song is about the people who are good always comment on people who have bad and especially in the big context (The world is full of other people, we're quick to laugh when they've got troubles) . One would have to look around a bit more and take account of each other to make this world exist for everyone.
The single with on the b-side I'm Not in Love almost never reached the hit parade.
Musicians:
Eric Stewart - vocals, electric piano , moog , polymoog
Graham Gouldman - six string bass guitar , acoustic and electric guitar, backing vocals
Rick Fenn - moog, electric guitar, background vocals
Stuart Tosh - background vocals
Paul Burgess - percussion , big drum
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10cc - Feel The Love - American Homemade Version w/ Sky & Raven Whitney
Feel the Love - Oomachasaooma is a single of 10cc . It comes from their ninth album Windows in the Jungle .
The song is about an unattainable love ( I need you to give me a helping hand ). With B-side She Gives Me Pain (2:14), it hit the Dutch charts. She Gives Me Pain is not on the album Windows in the Jungle .