Oh, you've just given me some great ideas for volume II of the 70's cheeze mix CD (Volume I will be revealed as soon as I can get lipstick thespian to help me with the cover art).

I can't YSI at the moment but I'd just like to say that 10cc were pop gods and Deceptive Bends is a fantastic album. Thanks.

Matilda: My dad once made my girlfriend a mix of 70s cheeze that was all culled from songs on Napster that were labelled as Blue Öyster Cult (she had never consciously heard them). It was pretty funny, thinking that people had labelled Cheap Trick, T. Rex, Manfred Man, Fleetwood Mac etc. all as BÖC. Great stuff...

I've had the same problem with 10cc as you klangklangston (and G and C were in 10cc and their video for cry still gives me nightmares). A friend wrote a little bit about them, though, so I thought I'd give it a shot. No, don't like them, not even with a dash of irony. When I get home tonight, I'll see if I still have anything on the computer to send ya. And if not, well, I'm sure I can dig some up somewhere.

I'll post the two obvious tracks.

I'm Not in Love - 10cc

I'll assume "I'm Not In Love," (which is actually a rather good song) is one, and "The Sacro-Illiac" is the other.

Cry - Godley & Creme

No, but I might post that one later.

Thanks Weretable! I found the Sacri-iliac on the Bubblegum machine site while I was downloading those two.

The Things We Do for Love? Was that 10CC?

Yeah. I always got that song confused with "Everybody Plays The Fool," by the Main Ingredient, probably because they were both staples on the oldies stations I listened to from the backseat of the car as a kid.

Ah, 10cc. One of those bands where, every time I’m in a record shop music store, I think, “Oh yeah. I should at least pick up that anthology”. And of course, I never do.

They were a happy collision between art and pop, such as was commonly attempted at the time but rarely pulled off quite so well. Sorry I haven’t got anything to YSI, but some fondly remembered cuts from 30-some years ago include “Rubber Bullets”, “Wall Street Shuffle”, “I’m Mandy, Fly Me”, “Art For Art’s Sake”, “Good Morning, Judge”, and of course “I’m Not In Love”.

(A side note on “I’m Not In Love”, from an article in Uncut a while back: “The sumptuous chorus was Crème’s idea: the group spent three weeks multi-tracking each note of the chromatic scale until they’d amassed a staggering 256 voices. For the arrangement, Godley employed tape loops to create a wash of sound. Finally, (band member Eric) Stewart used the mixing desk as an instrument, playing the faders like a keyboard.”)

Olive does a cool cover of "I'm Not In Love." IJS

Dreadlock Holiday

Rubber Bullets

I'm Mandy, Fly Me

The Wall Street Shuffle

wow, i may have to give them another chance just on bmarkey's side note alone.

Everybody else beat me to the best ones, but I still occasionally break out singing the refrain from "Life is a Minestrone"
minnie, minnie, minnie, minnie-stronie!

Love this, thanks guys!

And I remember the video for "Cry" which I think was in black and white. It was a series of people staring into the camera as they began to cry. If I remember correctly, it was one of the first videos that utilized 'morphing'. I was absolutely fascinated by the video, but could barely finish watching the entire thing without breaking into sympathy tears.

that's the one, frisbee girl. now that i think about it, i'm not sure if it was the sympathy sadness or the faces melting that freaked me out so much as a kid, but it definitely has stuck with me over the years. i tried to find it somewhere, but didn't come up with anything... oh well.

Yeah, it was actually seeing that video on Bevis and Butthead again that kinda sparked the memories of 10cc/Godley&Creme...

you got it. i want it. you make me and i'll take it.

soundtrack to my childhood. you people make me feel old.

came here to say last.fm have upgraded everyone to subscriber status for the month, but then figured out you have this radio thing here, so thought i'd just whisper it down here, since i don't want to drag people away from that...