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Ik haalde vroeger altijd 10cc en Ten Sharp door elkaar. Maar Ten Sharp is een Nederlands bandje met een hitje in de 90s (You) en 10cc, dat is toch die band bekend van Dreadlock Holiday? Dat album krijgen we uiteraard niet, maar wel die met de oorwurm Wall Street Shuffle. Ik vind dat op zich best een lekker nummer, maar het blijft altijd dooremmeren in mijn hoofd. Een echte oorwurm dus. We krijgen hier het album Sheet Music, als enige van 10cc. En dat is misschien ook wel prima, blijkbaar waren ze met name populair in de UK en in NL. Er zit voor mij net wat te weinig yacht rock in om het echt lekker te laten luisteren. Het is wat artsy fartsy 70s pop, avant-garde zegt de wiki ook. Neem bijv het begin van track 3, Hotel, dat start met gekke spacey geluiden en een maf hoog gezang. Om vervolgens heel blij te gaan doen. Raarrrr. Ik weet daardoor ook niet goed wat ik van het geheel moet denken. Er staat een geinig hitje op, dus het had misschien beter gepast in een 1001-songbook ipv een albumboek. Want het hele album bevalt me verder maar matig. Doe uit dit hokje dan maar gewoon Steely Dan ofzo. Ik had er misschien iets meer van verwacht vooraf, het is me allemaal iets te maf nu. En dat straalt uit naar het cijfer. Ik ga er een ietwat zure 2 van maken.
Is it a joke band? There's a song called The Worst Band In The World where they sing about how terrible they are. Is this the 70s version of Weird Al Yankovic, or the rock version of The Monkeys? Why am I listening to this? Goddammit, I'm so over this project, man.
They brought a refreshing musical style to pop rock. With smooth lush grooves fore runners og electronic pop. A couple very good songs here and some in depth playing on others. Bigger things on the horizon.
Hit or miss and a little odd.
Echt wel een zeer 3-sterren album.
IT was OK. Nothing special or memorable
They have a song called The Worst Band in the World and while I don’t quite agree with their self assessment, this is not a good album. More British bull shit.
I'm not really sure what to think of this. I mean it's one thing to have fun with your music but they take 'we don't take ourselves seriously' to a whole new level. The Worst Band In The World was hilarious. But I'm not really sure who this is for. I mean it's good music but it's just so silly for the most part it's kind of hard to take it seriously. They do sound a lot like Queen sometimes but then you listen to the lyrics and it's more like something from Dr. Demento. There's a lot going on throughout this whole record. I think that's where the Queen comparisons come in too - lots of layers, movements, harmonies and layered vocals, differing styles. It's really well done but sort of odd at the same time. 3/5
Enjoyed quite a bit, but wouldn’t call it a 5
Pretty good pop rock I think, consistently some pretty fun songs with a couple filler tracks
Classic svante pop album
Me ha sorperndido para bien, no me esperaba nada y es bastante cautivador en muchos momentos.
Tenía 0 expectativa y la verdad que me gustó. Sorprendió.
2.5
Multiple really cringy moments on this one. Not a fan. 3/10
2.5 - ok
6/10 - I was expecting something more like Dreadlock Holiday but I'm pleasantly surprised by the group's range
Bizarre, but pretty fun.
Is 10cc simply Queen without the voice and charisma of Freddy Mercury?
Rocks a little harder than the Beatles. Vocals find of like Zeplin. If zeplin and the Beatles had a baby. Not bad listening
What was this? Weird as hippy rock music... it was a joyride
art rocky quirk was surprisingly enjoyable
meh meh meh
Possibly 10CC's finest album. imaginative and intricate songwriting, superbly crafted arrangements and harmony vocals. Some of their biggest successes were still ahead of them, but this is a cracking album.
Ale chujstwo Nie no nie jest takie zle
Not what I was expecting. Not better, not worse, just different.
<<Insert canned joke about "The Worst Band in the World">> This was not very enjoyable. 2/5
meh
Sheet Music by 10cc is an interesting and eclectic album and I'll admit I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. They definitely don't take themselves too seriously and have some fun catchy pop hooks but the album as a whole struggles to find it's identity. Is it a rock record? Is it a bubblegum pop record? The description on Apple Music calls it "glam-prog", which I guess is somewhat accurate... I like a lot of the ideas they came up with but every song seems to have one or two elements that just don't fit making it fall a little short for me.
Shit Music
I like it, but it's definitely very empty. This album isn't anything essential by any means, but it scratched my brain for some reason. 10cc's kinda just dicking around for 40 minutes and everything is sticking. The weirdness that peaks in every song is strangely refreshing and it's a diddly listen. Each song is consistently interesting, blending all sorts of frazzled twists on genres. Enjoyable.
I’ve been under a prog free rock apparently because I’ve never heard of these guys. Def not for me, but I guess it was interesting background music while navigating NYC traffic.
the album overall was not something that would surprise me, but the grooves and everything were flawless. it's a quite good mix of the oldies rock'n'roll sound with modern rock. I'd play this album at some gathering where I'd need something to the background, but still energetic, which would be non-confcliting to the elders as well as youngs
What the ever-loving fuck.
I had never heard of them or heard them, I enjoyed the album
Ugh. The auditory equivalent of someone trying too hard to be quirky and unique. Too novelty to be enjoyable while also seeming to take itself seriously
I just found them a little annoying- the word that comes to mind is frenetic.
meh
I don’t know what I was expecting but it wasn’t this! Did not love the front but they really got me from Somewhere in Hollywood onwards. How fun!
many sounds but I don’t know if many of them were that pleasant
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10cc: of course, we all have heard the pop masterpiece "I'm Not in Love". 10cc seems like the kind of band I should enjoy with their eclectic and technically proficient approach. This is where I can't understand why artists with one hit wonders have entire albums of theirs on the list. I'm having trouble getting into this in particular, as it's often actively irritating and "clever" rather than fun and whimsical. Not as witty as Harry Nilsson, not as ambitious as ELO, not as sonically blistering as Can, not as charming as a dozen other British 60s-70s bands I can name at the top of my head. What is this doing on this list? *checks book* "In a word, inventive." Yes, but so is Spam, and you don't see me eating that every day.
This kinda funny and weird. I’m familiar with 10cc’s one hit, but have heard nothing else from them. It’s kinda fun. It's also kind of self-indulgent; I don't think 10cc wrote this record with much of a thought for an audience or for radio airplay. Like, it seems like they're having fun, but there isn't a lot to grab onto from a listener's perspective. I guess I'm saying that I enjoyed this well enough, but I don't think I'll ever feel compelled to listen to it a second time. 7/10
A great fun album, solar guitars, atmospheric sounds, groovy and danceable rhythms and a nice voice. only has few hiccups
Never heard of this before. Not my sort of sound.
3/5. Sounded like a mashup - very little cohesion across the album.
Some of the songs like "Silly Love" had some genuinely jamming guitar riffs. But there was also a lot of just odd music and lyrics going on.
Should I know these guys? This was fun. Very of it's time it feels. Some were a bit boring in the middle but overall great workday music.
First listen Saved 2/10 Top track: The Worst Band in the World
This a motley collection of zaniness. I love it.
It was another meh album for me. I need to give this another listen because it actually sounded quite a bit more new than its year, but I can’t say I was inspired.
3/5 generic need more listen
Big Star called and they want their vibes back. Steely Dan called any they want you to stop pretending you're as cool as you think you are. Roxy Music called and said you're not glam or camp enough to pull off this bit. Seriously though, there's moments of pop brilliance here but it's so far up its own ass that it's impossible to enjoy the music. These guys make me wanna roll my eyes out of my skull, even if they are talented as hell.
You know what? I actually really like this. I wasn't super sure how I'd feel about 10cc, but I enjoyed this album. Sheet Music is an odd little album. It's kinda hard to categorize it as just one genre. Each song on the album does things a little differently from the last. Honestly, I think it's great. I mean, between the genre diversions, the sense of humor, and the genuinely good songwriting, these guys kind of feel like a 70s equivalent to Ween, and I LOVE Ween, so I'm here for this! For specific songs to highlight, "The Wall Street Shuffle" is a fun opener with a great guitar lick. "The Worst Band in the World" is notable not just for being a good song, but for its use as the core sample on "Workinonit" from J Dilla's accalimed 2006 album, Donuts, which is somehow not on this list despite being one of the best instrumental hip-hop albums of all time, but I digress. Songs like "Old Wild Men," "Silly Love," and "Somewhere in Hollywood" are good times too. I've got to say, this album's pretty neat. It's not perfect or anything, but I had a good time with it. I've got respect for these guys and I can't believe that the reviews on here skew more negative. 4/5.
I really like their sound but the actual songs and writing are kinda cheeks and not for me. I know the one guy on campus that thought this was 2000 IQ comedy was insufferable in 2007. Favorite Song: The Saco-Iliac
I was vaguely aware of 10cc before my group got this, but good god, there's a reason this album is on the list. Solid 5 Stars.
I’m at a 5. I’ve loosely heard of 10cc before this, with a pair of songs from two of their other albums in my big playlist. I think I added them just because they sounded nice, honestly. This album has shown me that my past self was justified in doing so. This is a rather silly album with a lot of technically extravagant execution behind it. It feels like a mixture of both Queen & ELO; if you take Freddie Mercury’s ability to make a bicycle seem like the centerpiece of a troubled world & combine it with the loose electric bombast of something like Mr. Blue Sky, you end up with whatever it is 10cc has done here. There’s a flippant energy underlining the whole thing, managing to take the piss out of these subjects that they’ve also got a healthy respect & a mild disdain for. “The Wall Street Shuffle” feels like the right tonesetter in that sense; there’s clearly some amount of respect towards a businessman’s hustle for the dollar while portraying them as an asshole, yet making the whole thing seem a bit goofy by effectively saying they’re dancing for paper. That ethos applies to most of the tracks here. They’re making fun of stereotypical sounds while acknowledging it’s a path to success on “The Worst Band in the World”. There’s a bit of sadness over old rock stars continuing to perform while acknowledging they deserve their respect on “Old Wild Men”. There’s an implicit acknowledgement of sexism being rampant in golden age Hollywood while acknowledging the silliness of a dog being treated with more respect on “Somewhere in Hollywood”. They’re clearly knowledgeable about what they’re tackling here, and their tracks read to me as loving pastiches, for the most part (“Hotel” feels a bit too racially stereotyped, I can’t lie). The biggest knock I can see against this album is that it’s sort of a “jack of all trades, master of none” situation, with the mishmash of musical ideas feeling all over the place & nowhere near as potent in totality as a result. I can hear that, to a degree, but I just don’t think it matters too much as long as the tracks end up being fun to listen to. It’d be one thing if this were stuffed with too many styles for its own good within each track, but I think they all stay within their lane once they set their tone. There’s lots of variety, sure, but you’re not gonna hear “Baron Samedi” turn into smooth jazz halfway through, you know what I mean? The peaks & valleys of this album aren’t as jarring as they’re made out to be, and I think it generally flows well. My only real complaint past the poorly aged stereotyping of “Hotel” is that “Oh Effendi” feels a bit out of place as a closing track. The abrupt ending feels unbefitting for an album that tries to have so much flair behind it, & I think this probably should’ve ended on “Silly Love” (or “Clockwork Creep” with an actual explosion). Regardless, I thought it was just a fun album to listen to. I understand the complaints, but I’m also the type of person who thinks Todd Rundgren’s similar-ish approach with a bit of acid behind it on “A Wizard, A True Star” made for one of the most compelling albums I’ve ever heard in my life. If you can accept the genremorphing & innate silly creativity behind this album, you’ll probably like it. If you can’t & you need a bit more rigidity in your musical diet, you probably won’t. I happened to enjoy it a lot, and I think it’s a 5 that’s definitely earned a spot on the list. I need to listen to more of 10cc.
When I see or hear a 10cc album or track I automatically think of the ten to two panic pull in a nightclub when you are desperate for a snog. The music generally on at that time is I’m Not In Love which is not on this album so probably an unfair comment to make. But my lack of knowledge of them and this album made me automatically jump to that thought. Once I had dispelled that musing together with other thoughts concerning activities after 2am I settled down and listened to the album laid out on my bed. It immediately struck me that some other 10cc tracks had entered by sub conscious without me knowing. So followed a very pleasant 40 minutes or so. So pleasant that I fell into a gentle slumber. This is a good thing when I listen to music and a mark that it is not annoying me. Not an album I would part money with to buy but good enough to press that heart shape and add to my Apple Music library. Also immediately after it ended,I sought out the aforementioned track - it’s just a silly phase I’m going through. 3/5 31/7/76
Muito bom, umas músicas interessantes. Vale a pena conferir mais
Heard before?:❌️ Will listen again?:❌️
This album was not 10cc's best.
Silly Love to Baron is fine. Everything else here kinda insufferable
Some bangers and then some really annoying sons (looking at you Clockwork Creep - sounds like an awful broadway musical). Pretty wide range of musical styles which kept this album quite interesting at least. Honestly sounds like beach boys mixed with broadway lol. Fave songs: Wall Street Shuffle, Baron Samedi
Wasn't all that familiar but it was good! Kind of weird but in a good way.
I like 10cc in small measures. A whole album is a stretch. Clockwork Creep being annoying as hell. That stage musical talking quick to explain plot not for me. A case of throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. Not much. Listened further my god is this annoying. Somewhere in Hollywood if you want to write a musical go and write one and leave the rest of us alone. If they were as clever as they think they would be Einstein
Got sidetracked listening to Tim Barry. But I know this is fine. Should’ve given it more attention, but…
Loved this. Sort of retro yet current, a bit rock opera or musical soundtrack. Five stars
Nice. Short.
Just a bunch of Broadway nerds who play rock. Loved it.
Enjoyable enough I guess
It’s like Beach Boys meets ELO. 6/10
So fun. Distracting because I wanted to jam. Better than most of what we’ve listened to. Fun.
It’s weird, but fun weird. Very varied and stays interesting throughout. Some of the songs are more my thing than others, but as an album it’s a good experience. And it’s always going to help me like an album if it opens with critique of capitalism. Some of the songs reminded me of Queen. I get why it’s maybe too quirky for people but I think it’s really fun. Fav song: The Wall Street Shuffle Least fav: Old Wild Men
I hadn't heard of 10cc before (although I do recognise some of their bigger songs and have definitely seen some of the music videos they went on to direct). I really really enjoyed the album, it's so creative and varied and just the right side of weird. Some really fun moments too, love that The Sacro-Iliac is a "dance" where you just sit still. Favourite song: Clockwork Creep Least: Baron Samedi
Clearly not the Worst Band, but I’m not sure what sets this album up to be on this list?
What a unique assortment of sounds. I could honestly see going for 5 on a re-listen
Kind of Beatles-esque or Byrds-esque at times. Fine overall, but unlikely to return to it. 2.5/5
niecodzienny album, zespół, którego sposób wykonania utworów może zaskoczyć
Proto Oingo Boingo BULLSHIT 3.5/5
Pop. But not great pop.
J Dilla gives this album 1 additional star. This shit sucks.
Reminds me of Queen. I hear sounds of Billy Joel as well. Not necessarily a bad thing, but won’t move the needle. Nothing special, but hardly offensive.
Just couldn’t appreciate this. I found it incredible annoying and have no interest in exploring this band further.
Shocked by how much I liked this. Expected 70s pop trash but it's super weird - abstract novelty song lyrics and super rambly angular song structure then occasional beautiful 4 part harmony. The album cover is so low resolution on spotify I think they just uploaded a screenshot from an iphone.
The influence of 10cc on the Manchester music scene is undeniable. The debut albums for Joy Division and The Smiths (partially), the sophomore from the Happy Mondays (partially), as well as The Stone Roses debut double A-Side (and the early sessions for their debut) were all recorded at 10cc's Strawberry Studios in Stockport... where I was born incidentally... the town, not the studios... I'm not the illegitimate offspring of some musician (Paul McCartney, Phil Collins or Cliff Richard, who also all recorded there) and a groupie... I digress. Musically, I'm not so sure, although there is some humour to the lyrics which is a hallmark of many Manchester bands that would follow. The Worst Band in the World they are not, but nothing particularly stood out for me in a musical sense that merits this being on the list.
Good, fun and interesting but it doesn't tickle my fancy.
I mean, it's alright but it's nowhere near as good as it sounds. They're obviously talented and they have a lot of interesting ideas, it's just they employ said ideas very haphazardly and thus the songs become less than the sum of their parts. Several songs skirt very close to being quirky for the sake of being irritating, yet the other songs sound fun and interesting. Very mixed bag. It's kind of exhausting, 5 songs in and it's as if I've listened to a whole album of halfbaked ideas wedged into a small amount of songs. It's like having a musical theatre student with untreated adhd as your roommate. As thee title suggests, some of thees music ees very sheet.
So quirky as to be almost unlistenable. But I don’t like quirk. Or musicals, and it has that vibe
You can’t deny the breadth of style that they crammed into this album, unfortunately though, diverse as it may be its didn’t land for me, just not an album I would listen to again. 2.2
Unlistenable mostly with way too much going on. Occasionally sounds like Steely Dan to it's credit but this is trying to be too smart for its own good.
I had only heard "I'm Not in Love" and "The Things We Do for Love" by these guys, two big AM radio hits from the 70's. So I wasn't prepared for the delightful weirdness of this album. It's like someone put Paul McCartney, Queen, Harry Niilson, and Steely Dan in a blender and came out with this. They had to have been a big influence on the band Ween since their music has the same satiric melodicism and cynical observations on life. I love how they poke fun at themselves on "The Worst Band in the World" and the whole concept of love on "Silly Love." Charming, quirky, and skillfully played and produced, this was a great surprise.
Credit where its due, this thing is just curveball after curveball and doesn't settle for one sound. Like Steely Dan meets Queen. Genuinely dont know if I like it or not and I listened twice. Been on a Ween kick lately, and they kinda remind me of Ween in the sense that they're clearly really talented guys who love the music but love taking the piss maybe a little more. Bewildering one.
I'd give this 3.5 stars. It's creative and fun, but I don't hear enough to rise it up above 3 stars on this scale. It just lacks the weight and memorability after even a day. I might go back to it sometime, as it is good and fun to listen to, but it just doesn't stand out as something more significant to bump it up to 4 stars for me.
The Worst Band in the World? No, but close.
Enjoyable if i'm in the right mood. I like their U.S. hits + Good Morning Judge and that's about it. They're good though.
Hey look! Another obscure British rock band that is definitely not something you have to listen to before you die. I’m finding it hard to not penalize these bands because I’m mad at the author of the book. So is this any good? Eh. It’s like celebrating Short’s Brewing for being inventive and adventurous while still being annoyed that they put out so much bad beer. It’s great to experiment, but maybe don’t release the garbage results. 2.4 rounded down to 2/5.
This album is fun but unfocused, with a few standout songs, but now I know the original source of that J Dilla sample!
..What is this? What a confused and confusing mess. It's Prog rock meets Pop Rock and all without a point or stylistic direction. It's just all over the place not only within the album, but within *each song*. It's all too clever for itself and because of it just comes off as grating and irritating. So, is this music you must 'hear before you die'? Of course not. They're English and clever, so of course they "need" to be here, because there is NO OTHER MUSIC IN THE WORLD and nothing even remotely better or more interesting than this.. 🙄🙄 (2/5)
Having only heard their hits (none of which are present here), this was another I was unfamiliar with and had no idea what to expect. The cheeky, somewhat dated British humor was hit or miss, though the music was middle of the road enough to not be too obnoxious. A fairly unremarkable 2.5/5 that I don't care to round up.
135. Sheet Music - 10cc (1974) 7.7.26 Variety: 2 Adequacy: 1 Listenability: 1 Uniqueness: 1 Emotionality: 1 = 1.2 rounded down to a 1 I've heard this at least once before, decades ago, and at the recommendation of another similar list. I don't remember much except that, from their discography, the only tracks I kept on my iPod were "The Things We Do for Love", "I'm Not in Love", and "Rubber Bullets" - all fine songs, and none of them on this album. The first two I'd rate as very solid classic rock pieces that still hold a place in my mind, the third is a bit foggier, and the rest... I honestly can't say much except they must not have impressed me as much as those guys I consider to be their peers - E.L.O. and Supertramp. But if anything, this experiment has shown that my tastes have sometimes swung pretty wildly over the past 30 years, so let's see. "It's one thing to know it, but another to admit/ We're the worst band in the world" THE TRACKS Side one "The Wall Street Shuffle" - Not off to a great start. As far as indictments of capitalist pig-dogs and the culture of greed, it's a bit anemic, and the subject is handled in a vastly superior fashion just the previous year by Pink Floyd's "Money". I'd argue that, as selfish and inward looking as it ultimately is, even the George Harrison penned "Taxman" works better in that regard. Speaking of, these guys are very obviously influenced by the Beatles at this point ( who wasn't in some way?) in the scattershot, slightly humorous kind of avant-pop approach they are taking here. It doesn't all fall together for me though, with the emphasis on the scattershot part seeming more like a lack of focus, and less like a quirky, endearing choice. "The Worst Band in the World" - We geta a promising, almost proto "Tom Sawyer"-ish opening that immediately swerves into something both weirder, and a bit cringe inducing in its attempt at a jokey self-deprecating attitude. The proggish influence slips through here, along with more bits and pieces of Beatles/ McCartney-isms that seem to be drawn out of a hat at random and ham-fistedly bolted into place. This ends up being more Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and less the Rutles though. "Hotel" - Another take that was already done way better, this time by the Kinks in "Apeman". That track at least has the good taste to provide some upper tier melodies to ground it's whimsy and even manages a bit of existential dread in its lyrics, where this one is all effects and poorly thought out sentiments, some of which in particular most certainly do not hold up. Give me Weird Al's "George of teh Jungle" over this any day of the week. Hell, I'd even take a "Tarzan Boy" or a "Cheesburger in Paradise" before revisiting this. "Old Wild Men" - An actual, somewhat serious sounding song. I think? It seems to possibly be a meditation on the (already) aging rock stars of the last couple of decades? If so it's barely an idea, and there seems to be a lot of mood, and less than a little decent melody and hooks to back it up. Not as offensively obnoxious as some of the prior bits, but just as boring. "Clockwork Creep" - Man. Ok, how come when a band like ELO, or Queen, or Roy Wood, or Supertramp, or even Sparks pulls some goofy unembarrassedly whimsical stuff like this I can handle it just fine, and even end up having a good time mor often than not? This is aggressively unmusical I think at it's core, and feels more like a sort of musical theater piece that's been unmoored and dropped into a pop album. Would this work in a cartoonish musical number in the Broadway adaptation of The Brave Little Toaster or something? Maybe, but it sure doesn't as a pop song. Side two "Silly Love" - This is a considerable step up, and borders on being as good as some B-tier Sparks stuff. The mock menacing tone from Godley and Creme works much better than the bridge sung by Eric Stewart though. And the track is still nothing to write home about. "Somewhere in Hollywood" - This was nigh unlistenable, and suffers badly in comparison to similarly themed songs about how the Hollywood machine can chew you up and spit you out. "Celluloid Heroes" by the Kinks for example. And as far as songs with Marilyn Monroe's sad life as the subject matter, this also doesn't hold a candle to the Elton John thing ( which I don't even like). "Baron Samedi" - Just... why? Was this inspired by the recent Bond release "Live and Let Die" from a year earlier? This was so bad, for a number of reasons, none of which I feel obligated to outline here. "The Sacro-Iliac" - This feels like songwriting by way of Magnetic Poetry. Like there's some sort of casual jokiness that really wants to amuse you, but the constant, jarring shifting between the Mungo Jerry sound and the bargain basement CSN harmonies does this thing no favors. "Oh Effendi" - We get a sort of country rock on this one I think? This sounds like Steve Miller and Joe Walsh got really drunk while watching Lawrence of Arabia and woke up the next morning in the studio with no memory of having shat out this unfortunate piece. What a strange spot to end on, but if anything these guys have been consistent. I'll give them that. HIGHLIGHTS MIDLIGHTS - "Silly Love" LOWLIGHTS - "The Wall Street Shuffle" - "The Worst Band in the World" - "Hotel" - "Old Wild Men" - "Clockwork Creep" - "Somewhere in Hollywood" - "Baron Samedi" - "The Sacro-Iliac" - "Oh Effendi" FINAL THOUGHTS This was pretty disappointing, but glad I got it out of my system. Turns out 20-somehting me had the good enough sense to just keep those three songs from their discography, and despite the foggiest of memories, I am in no way tempted to revisit their other albus when I got so many probably way better ones to go, and that clock is tick a tick a ticking away. If I want some slightly funny progressive pop I have a host of other bands that are far more easy on the ears than these guys, and who pack in just as much humor, without sacrificing and listenability. If I want a melody machine I'll visit good old Jeff Lynne. If I want something more esoteric and whimsical, I've got Roy Wood or Sparks. If I want a band who can crank wry looks at modern life I've got Supertramp and Flo and Eddie. If I want a band with wide-ranging influences that I can rely on to incorporate all of all that and more into even their reliably good B and C material - I've got the Kinks. All these bands take elements of what 10cc is doing here and outperform them in every conceivable way. No contest. This album gives off very strong high school freshman who has just discovered Monty Python and WILL NOT stop quoting them vibes. Worse yet, this poor kid will randomly break into snippets of their songs, badly misremembering lyrics. This album has even got me doubting those three hits I mentioned in the intro. Is "I'm Not in Love" really as good as I think? ( I went back after and listened to all three, and thankfully the magic is still there for at least two of them - "Rubber Bullets" is considerably outclassed by any given ELO track that treads similar ground). PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - Happy to never revisit any of this ever again FURTHER LISTENING - Boulders by Roy Wood - Face the Music by Electric Light Orchestra - Moving Targets by Flo & Eddie - Everybody's in Show-Biz by the Kinks - Kimono my House by Sparks - Breakfast in America by Supertramp
*Big sigh* Okay, another English band I've never heard of. Looks up the origin of their name. Well, look at these cheeky fellows. At first listen these guys seem like they want to be The Beatles but without the whimsy. The vibes I get are English guys that found "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" a right good laugh and wanted to make an entire album just like that song. Also, they probably thought "Taxman" didn't go far enough in its scathing commentary hence “The Wall Street Shuffle.” So they did what enterprising youths with time on their hands do, they formed a band and made their own record. Good for them. Maybe on a more generous day this would get a three from me. Not today. 2/5
Sounds like songs from a musical that I have no interest in seeing. Clearly talented, but blegh, just blegh. Honestly the cover and halfway clever title are the best thing about this.
Another album that really doesn’t fit my description for an album I must hear.
Gosh darn this was boring. Didn’t even have the one good song they made
This was very forgettable, I didn’t strongly dislike it but it just doesn’t have enough of a hook to keep it interesting. It sounds like they had fun making it which helps but not my thing.
A lot better than I thought it would be - I was pleasantly surprised
Acutally good, wow.
Interesting and technically sound, the humor is just not my thing. I like wry or comedic music, but I like it to be a bit more intelligent (?) ... not really the right word, but the lyrics don't quite do it for me. A little surprised the album chosen is not the one with their huge hit ...
I like the quirkyness.
Masterpiece. I like it. It lifts the mood.
🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑 Chanced it with this one because of so many comparisons to bands I love (XTC, Sparks) and bands I'm ambivalent towards (Queen, Cheap Trick, ELO) and while I see the resemblance, I'm not sure it clicked as I'd like it to. I wanted to defend these guys wholeheartedly for their scatterbrained creativity, but I can sort of tell where the annoyance bit comes in for one reason or another. One of those things I struggle to quantify, even more so when I realize they're likely responsible for both the nerdier eclectic bands I like (They Might Be Giants, Of Montreal) and the nerdier eclectic bands I absolutely do not under any circumstances endorse (Tally Hall, Weezer). Saved many songs nonetheless! 1: Bad | 2: Okay, No Desire to Revisit | 3: Good, Conditionally (OR Inconsistent Mix of Qualities) | 4: Great (OR Technically amazing but missing the sauce emotionally) | 5: Amazing
URGH! I could not decide on a rating for this one because the end of this album is def better than the beginning. Especially at the beginning, every time I thought, "okay, this is actually cool," it was IMMEDIATELY counterbalanced by something extremely annoying. Overall vibe was like music theater if it was even MORE obnoxious, though I will not deny that there were a few moments of cool instrumentals or harmonies. I ultimately have to give this a 2 because of my strong negative reaction to the first half, but the second half is def closer to a 3.
Tights instruments, not Japanese enough
Mid all the way through for me
funky!
hotel
I didn't realise I had actually heard of 10cc before, with their hit, 'I'm Not In Love'. I think based on this album, I can forgive myself for not realising... because this album has such a different sound from them that I would expect based on that song. This is such a fun album from top-to-bottom, with arguably no weak tracks... extra points for mentioning Yorkshire in 'Oh Effendi'. I didn't know what to expect going into this, but then as soon as 'Hotel' started playing, I knew I was in for a good time. This sounds very classic 70s, but with a unique feel to it. The mood of this album is high for pretty much the whole time. Favourites: Hotel Clockwork Creep Silly Love Oh Effendi
This is the only 10cc album in the list and contains none of their hits. I guess new and experimental is a bigger criteria than commercially successful. That makes it hard to rate. This sounds very experimental before they really found their feet. First track is good and grew on me on the second time around. One track does not make an album however. I listened to 10cc's greatest hits after this and that is pretty good. This not so much so. I do wonder (and not unique to this album) if I'd been around and listening to it on it's release and heard it lots of times, then I might have rated the album highly. I can hear elements in the music of what later they turned into commercial hits. Reading about their biggest hit "The Things We Do For Love" it would seem that was very technically innovative and might be more deserving a place over this album? Apparently one of the first uses of loops by actually creating a loop of tape so it can be played continuously and then recording voices to "play" these as a backing track. I nerded out for a bit. Read the Wikipedia article about the song if you want to learn more. TLDR: 10cc cool & talented - 4 or 5 stars. This album not so much. Bonus fun fact Godley and Creme from 10cc also had a hit in 1985 with "Cry", I will never forget the video. (Also "Under your thumb," 'An Englishman in New York" all interesting)
era pra ser engraçadinho ou algo do tipo? hahaha humor inglês em músicas hahaha ri muito é uma puta mistureba de queen com deep purple com ELO né, na real poderia ser qualquer banda da década de 70 to doente e de péssimo humor, então vai se fude
eh bem o que o amigo falou, uma mistureba que tenta nao se levar mto a sério o problema eh que algumas funcionam e são bacaninhas, outras são só irritantes mesmo.
Quirky, interesting listen. Even thought-provoking at times. I'll take it.
Had some good elements but I won’t be back.
Never listened to a whole 10cc album before. I was expecting something slightly different based on what I had heard. At times this seemed kind of decent and clever but mostly not.
More goofy British shit
3.4 I dont know if alot of it was meant to be tongue in cheek but it sure did sound like a lot of other bands at the time it spots. I heard Wings, queen, Grateful dead, among others. Mildly interseting, nonetheless
Has the song that Dilla used to sample for Workin on it. Worst band in the world.
I guess it's not offensive...but WTF
Weird--it's like the worst songs by all my favorite bands.
So far the most surprising and unpredictable album on the list. Do random? And fun? And just the joy of making and listening to music, what a wonderful experience 👁️👄👁️
"Sheet Music" is the second album by the British band 10cc. They are rightly regarded as one of the most creative and innovative bands of the 1970s, capable of effortlessly transforming the most complex structures into hit songs. If there was such a thing as the Beatles of the 1970s, then it was indeed Lol Creme, Kevin Godley, Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman. Whilst the band had merely hinted at their potential on their self-titled debut, it was here that the full breadth of their style unfolded for the first time: progressive pop in all its guises, spiced with intelligent, often highly ironic and pointed lyrics. The only other band that springs to mind is Gentle Giant, where all the musicians were accomplished multi-instrumentalists who could step into each other’s shoes at any time. The album features “The Wall Street Shuffle”, one of the band’s biggest hits, but the best tracks tend to be deep cuts such as “Clockwork Creep”, "Somewhere in Hollywood" and “Silly Love”. Maybe it isn’t even the best work from this four-piece line-up – which was soon to split into 10cc and Godley & Creme – but it surely is an impressive testament to the band’s boundless creativity.
ooh this is funky i like it. very 70s who is the worst band in the world making fun of? hotel... where else do i know this pew pew sound effect from?? WAIT the czech alien rock flower kid thing short!!!!!! coincidence, obv. if i had a nickel for every '70s song about a hotel you can't leave.... oddly this one from before the other one. i would expect them to be making fun of the eagles, not setting trends old wild men clockwork creep--this is too tongue in cheek silly love--there's a reference in that little interlude halfway but i can't place it ahhhhhh driving me mad ok by baron samedi i'm starting to count down until the album is over. never a good sign the album is enjoyable, but i can't take it seriously. i think if they tied it together a little more, the humor would be a strength, but they're a little too all over the place. clockwork creep is almost like operatic and stands out like a sore thumb. i think probably the unifying theme are elements of '70s culture that escape me.
I only know these guys from Dreadlock Holiday, another British band that loves ska/reggae, on the Snatch Soundtrack. The Wall Street Shuffle isn't doing it for me...another band that hates capitalism. The laser sounds are a great addition. And they hate Americans too, this is tremendous. They're like terrible prog rock Harry Nilsson. Add prog rock to the "I know this is going to suck just by the genre" list. Baron Samedi is like a Santana cover. There's a Mothers of Invention vibe to this album...and the comparison is not flattering to 10cc. I'd rather listen to Dreadlock Holiday on repeat for eternity than this album.
A little classic rock, a little Devo, a little Sparks, a little Ween. I like it.
Not overly memorable but not bad.
Fun and strange and funny, but not going to be on repeat.
Favorite track: Wall Street Shuffle other picks: worst band in the world, silly love, somewhere in Hollywood
6.5/10
Never listened to anything from 10cc beyond I’m Not In Love and Dreadlock Holiday and it was a good album but nothing I’m gonna rush to listen to again. Top Track - The Wall Street Shuffle
Pop/rock, nothing notable
The lyrics are dumb, the music is dorky. Sometimes they have a cool groove or part but it'll last 8 bars and they'll switch to being dorks again. Silly Love starts off great, love the fuzzed out guitars and dry 70's drum tones. I thought, this is your chance boys, don't fuck it up. And then they fucked it up with dumb lyrics and a corny bridge. So much potential but just not for me.
Didn’t know ‘em. Fascinating for the time?
I sometimes find ELO a bit annoying. They are nowhere near as annoying as this
This was nothing special, but it was fun. It was silly but not in such a bad way.
Not bad, not great
Ik had eerlijk gezegd veel kutter verwacht tbh
Wat een gigantisch overschot aan dit soort Engelse rockbands uit de jaren 70 heeft deze lijst zeg. Kap eens. Waardeer het wel dat deze plaat humor heeft, gezien humor in muziek notoriously moeilijk is.
Bonus points for the J Dilla sampling. Some of it’s extremely cheesy though.
First album that I added to my list right after listening to. I have added a song or two to my favourite list but not an album. Why did I add it? It is fun while still having some good musicianship. I had heard one of this songs but hadn't realized how consistent the whole album was. Some of it is clever. Both 'The Worst Band in the World' and 'Clockwork Creep' while mining the same process, produce a fun song that I want to listen to again. Reminds me a bit of ELO. Now in terms of influence... These guys wrote and recorded music for other people. Music was a different type of hits machine back then. They also found ways to make stuff sound fuller so they didn't have to have more musicians. See, they were music businessmen. This album, though, while it had an innovation here or there, isn't one I would call influential by itself. Though this has one of my favourites, it will get a 3. However, it is one of the first where I want to go out and make my friends listen to a song or two from it.
This is definitely an interesting album. Not really my thing, but I get the brilliance.
This was so amazingly good. I had only really ever heard a couple of 10cc songs before, mostly "I'm Not In Love", which is good, but not as musically inventive and energetic as practically everything on this record. I heard bits of The Beatles, Queen, Billy Joel and Supertramp in their sound -- all of which are in my top 10 musical acts of all time. I was really genuinely impressed with the sound of this album, especially considering that I don't think I've ever heard of it or any of the tracks before today. I purchased the record on eBay to add to my collection. Five stars, easily.
Standouts Oh Effendi
I mixed these guys up expecting a synth-y 80s pop band. This wasn’t that. It was pretty dull. Needed more synths.
Genuinely awful
10cc is/was (all of them are still alive today) a quirky band with a sense of humor. Not my fave of their albums, but I loved Wall Street Shuffle.
I've never heard of these guys, but I had heard Wall Street Shuffle. Overall, I really like their style.
I liked it
This was alright. The highlight was definitely catching the sample that's on J Dilla Donuts
Pleasant. Nothing to write home about
Meh
10cc loves humor. I wish they would keep their humor in their lyrics instead of the music. If the song is "the worst band in the world" they don't have to prove it in the music. Honestly, this album is more prog rock than anything. But with a touch too much novelty music. 3/5
i am neutral about this
Oh shit, J Dilla sampled this! Ha! He barely changed it! The rest, I mean... 10cc album without 'I'm Not In Love' is not really worth it
My brain ended up tuning this out. Nothing grabbed my attention at all
it walks a fine line between fascinating and boring yet leans toward the former at last. 3.5/5
2.1
Another band I had heard of but wasn't really familiar with. As with most art/glam/pop rock from this era, it does nothing for me. It feels as though it has no reason for existing other than to show off fancy arrangements or production techniques. It's apparently intended to be witty or satirical in places, but didn't raise a smile from me.
This cuaght me by surprise in a good way. I have heard "Worst Band in the World" after learning that it was smapled by J Dilla on "Donuts " This album does not sound of its time. It sounds more futuristic, or maybe better said other bands/artists who are more popular sounded like 10cc in the 80s and 90s.
2.5 stars
BOOOOOOOORING!!!!!!!! The most interesting part of this entire album is that time when the dilla sample appears. And that song is so much better than the song it samples. So much better. To the point where the original song isn’t even a song to me honestly. It’s just a place where Jay Dee got his fucking samples from. And everything else in the album predictably is boring as shit. I don’t care about these white guys talking about capitalism, but that’s not because I don’t think white guys talking about current events is bad. Just look at yesterday’s review! No, in fact, I actually really just hate when they’re vapid as fuck and only give surface level commentary on anything, which these guys do. Idk. So many ideas feel like they’ve been taken from this and yet. They’re all done better elsewhere. 4.3/10
Fun, noodle-y rock with a sense of humor. Like Ween from the 1970s. Had a great time!
I do like 10cc, but not this particular album - nothing of any worth here
Dit is wel een leuk album. Muzikaal gezien is het niet slecht, maar tegelijkertijd lijken ze het allemaal niet te serieus te nemen. En dat levert wel een lekker luisterbaar albumpje op. Ik weet niet of je deze gehoord moet hebben voor je dood gaat, maar zo richting het einde van deze lijst begin ik daar steeds vaker over te twijfelen lijkt het. Uiteindelijk kijk ik maar vooral naar of ik er nu blij mee ben dat ik het aan heb staan en dit album vind ik voor een keer dus wel leuk. Een typische 3,5 wat mij betreft. Omdat ik net nog Neneh Cherry had ga ik deze een keer gunstig afronden naar 4 sterren. Leuk album.
The guy who thinks he is really clever but is really just a douche asshole, but in album form.
Overall Rating - 3.10/5 (6.20/10). Overall a fun album. I can hear the beginnings of late 70s non-Disco pop in it. Worth listening to.
Creo no haber entendido estar escuchando un mismo disco. Rarísima mi experiencia. Pero no es algo loco. Por eso digo, rarísima mi xp.
Not bad, not the best. 2 stars
Man, things got weird in the 70’s. This was so arch and clever that I kept getting annoyed by it. I don’t want to hear you ironically being a “band” and making “an album”. Just do the thing well. Don’t do a commentary on the absurdity of doing the thing. Yall were not as postmodern as all that. This came out 60 years ago. GTFO shittier ELO. Anyway that’s what I would have “written” if I were to “write” a “review”. As I got into the album and realized that they were making goofy meta-pop songs about pop music, but that the songs were also really well-crafted and clever, they won me over. This is a good album.
Some nice tunes but sometimes a bit weird. Weak three stars also just because I'm not 100% into the vocals. favourite: "The Wall Street Shuffle" 2,5
meh
It was ok. All over the place. Standout songs: Silly Love Baron Samedi
Okej, förstår varför jag inte behöll vinylen, men ok ändå, vad ska man ens kalla detta.
I see what they're trying to do, and the fact that it was attempted in 1974 would have been impressive. If, of course, the Beatles hadn't done it so much better by then. There is nothing offensive here, and I'll even concede that an alt-Beatles act belongs on the list. But it's not great by any stretch of the imagination.
Very peculiar. That's the best way to describe this music. Some songs are nice. Others are too weird. It has a sense of conceptual album, but I don't know if it actually is. Maybe if I had more time to listen to it I would appreciate it more. 2,5/5.
A pretty typical rock album.
Good Album. 10cc were full of interesting ideas, tho' sometimes they tried to squeeze too much into a single song.
Quite enjoyable; smooth and will relisten.
Quirky and fun
Started off intriguing but didn’t keep my interest.
I actually really liked this album. I loved the cheeky lyrics, the bombastic instruments of the opening song, all the vignettes of the later songs. I was reminded a bit of queen.
I like the variety and risk-taking. Even if it doesn't all work, it's interesting.
Yuck
I liked it very good in the bg sounds like any rockish album 3.5 ye
I was absolutely delightfully surprised by this. It was fun, and weird, and all over the place while still being cohesive as an entire album. In the era of Beatles and Zepp and Pink Floyd etc, I thought it was an awesome change of pace to listen to an incredibly sonically rich project that lyrically and stylistically didn't take itself too seriously. These dudes were clearly crazy fuckin talented, but still they were just having an awesome time in the studio and chasing wherever inspiration took them. I will for sure be returning to this.
Great to hear the source of the iconic Dilla Donuts Sample, but… Dis shi was ahyusss
this album is awesome. I wasn't familiar with this before, though I knew J Dilla had sampled "The Worst Band In The World" and I won't ever be able to hear that song without also hearing "Workinonit" in my head. they bring so many great ideas, with such variety, from start to finish. even the songs where on first listen I thought were nice little curios, after 2nd and 3rd listen I was all in. this stayed on repeat for a few days. the guitars rock. the harmonies swirl. the vocals aim for the rafters and hit. each song is its own little world, but they all work together across the album. some moments were like peak of Montreal. so far this is the closest we'll get on this list to the Elephant 6 sound [crazy that there's not a single Elephant 6 album on this list anywhere].
Whole lotta fun, never knew where it was going next, self-aware and funny, doesn’t sacrifice musicality for zaniness.
fun. the sample for "Workinonit" by J Dilla was a jumpscare.
Decent songs throughout. The Was Street Shuffle had a nice message and good music. Hotel was funny. Clockwork Creep was really fun. Silly Love was nice. Solid album, enjoyed it. Best song: Clockwork Creep
Хороший альбом, але в мене є стійка думка, що якби група сробувала зробити альбом більш прямолінійнішими, він вийшов би краще. Загалом, єдина моя конкретна претензія до альбому це саме прог елемент. Є стійке відчуття, що замість бажання написати хорошу пісню було бажання креативно виїбнутись. І це чутно на альбомі, він супер різнокольоровий, гітарний звук, барабанні філли. Тут ціла купа класних ідей на кожній пісні, але ні одна з них не вийшла прям хорошою, от щоб прям розйоб. Короче, шо маємо: купа класних, цікавих ідей, з яких не вийшло зшити зв'язний альбом. Оцінка: низька-середня 6
7/10 Divertido, no se me hizo pesado
more like shit music
prior to this, the only song of theirs i'd heard was i'm not in love. was very surprised to hear a less interesting version of sparks when i put this on. i unfortunately don't like sparks and the wall street shuffle was the only song on here i would probably consider listening to again. i absolutely get the appeal here, just isn't for me
You've got to ignore some of the lyrics, but I really loved this one this time around. Absolutely immaculate production and songwriting here I would say .
Certainly would have an unique appeal certainly with the lyrics , but not one for me 3*
was kinda good sometimes Will I listen to again: 24%
Surprised to see this album on the list. I’m a fan of 10cc, but this record is pretty disjointed.
Deliciously weird. Poppy, but not quite poppy enough to be bubblegum. Weird and silly, but serious technical musicians here. It's a wink and a nod and let's enough ourselves.
First song was good, it's about a 2.8
Electronic bit odd
This is a tough listen and I had a hard time processing what the hell this record is. (I hadn't really heard 10cc, but this is NOT what I expected them to sound like.) This isn't a "so-so" record, it's constantly teetering between "really interesting" and "utterly terrible." Sometimes they sound like some of the freakier post-psychedelic acts but with their act cleaned up. Sometimes they sound like audaciously pompous rock showtunes. Extra credit because Dilla heard something in here.
10cc are a lot of fun. Perhaps missing the absolute peak hits here - 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry' - but still a pleasure to listen to.
4 - BAD
A nice change from yesterday. An album that could be in the late 90s
Bit weird
Δυνατό ξεκίνημα για άμπουμ. Σίγουρα road trip worthy. Κάποια κομμάτια έπεσαν σε παλμούς αλλά δεν με πείραξε πάρα πολύ The Wall Street Shuffle
alright
They were doing too much
Quirky ever so English classic of rock satire.
um...I am not sure. Loopy.
Pretty good.
Disliked, bands like this were the reason for Punk Rock
Definitely not 'the worst band in the world' I have a bias towards 10cc, so this is never ever gonna get a bad review from me Wall Street Shuffle is one of theit best tunes.
i liked it a lot!
Aceptable mientras uno prepara el desayuno.
This album is delightful. I was expecting some more generic 70s rock that I would give a ⅗ but instead I got this kinda hilarious album that I’ll give a 3/5
I found myself really caught off guard by this album. How could I have never heard this one before? *Sheet Music* sonically sits in this space, that's a little bit Zappa &a little bit Queen, and giving me strong Ween vibes with their writing. Perfectly sitting in this pool of sounds that my dad would play on the stereo in my youth. Regardless, *Sheet Music* was an incredibly fun listen, a little witty and frequently saturated in sarcasm and satire. It's a great anti-pop entry of the time that I think typically flies under the radar for many, mainly because it's not the *best* entry, just a strong one. I highly doubt someone is going to reach for this album, or recommend this as a starting spot to the genre and era over some Zappa, as his work is just a better execution all around of the themes you find in *Sheet Music*. But, if you know you like that sort of shit, this is a fantastic spin. Across the album, I would say that songs are all solid, period accurate pop pieces with some great playing & and amusing lyrics. Favorite Track: "Baron Samedi"
Some clever writing , very quirky , was in love with the thick harmonies , the falsetto used reminiscent of early queen , I liked the turnarounds of the tunes kept you guessing what section was going to land next not your average pop writing 4 but nearly a 5
Never listened to a full 10cc album, just tracks here and there so I'm excited to see how this plays out! Awesome tracks great songwriting and the production of 10cc is always sublime, I have to listen to more of these guys!
I have seen 10cc albums around but I had never listen to one, so I am not sure how ‘normal’ this album is. That said, this album felt like “the world band in the world but they don’t give shit!” This album was cool because there was no real form or structure, just songs that they felt like making. An album like this would never get produced. Musically, I appreciated the blend of slower ballads like Old Wild Men, the psychedelic rock of Clockwork Creep, and the driving rock of Silly Love all back to back. The entire album felt like CSNY meets late-career Beatles and was produced by Frank Zappa. I’m coming back to this album because I don’t honk I got it the first two times. Overall, to quote Blazing Saddles, “we’re awake…but very puzzled.”
Random thoughts: * I was really only familiar with 10cc from the song "I'm Not in Love" which was on a random compilation. But then you go look at their top tracks and you're like I also know these other 4-5 songs. * One of those songs is the "Wall Street Shuffle" which is a staple of the old classic rock radio stations. And is definitely the most well known song from this album. * 10cc is a weird one. They contain multitudes. 70s pop rock a la Cheap Trick. Some operatic rock a la Queen. Some reggae. I bet people just didn't know what to do with 10cc back in the 70s. * I like them. I think I would have been a huge fan in the 70s due to their varied styles which were on display on Sheet Music. * Worst Band in the World was a funny song and had to be a bit of a shot at their critics. lol * "Hotel" brought that weird white-boy reggae. * I have no clue what "Sacro-iliac" means or is about but I dug the song. * I'm going to explore more 10cc, they seem to be an underrated 70s band.
A whole lot of influences, and a whole lot of ideas, many of them bad or cheesy.
knew that second track from the j dilla album, but otherwise…
Fun rock album with non-serious comedy style writing and performances. Neat little record! 3.4/5.0
Based on their American hits I was ready for a half hour of melodic soft rock. Instead I get the musical equivalent of Monty Python. I really don’t enjoy Monty Python. Very disappointing!
This album is as serious as it is unserious. I can't tell which 10cc is here, but it's working. There's also a bunch of variety here, which also works.
I'm not at all sure what I'm listening to here, and even less sure how to talk about it. I think I can compare this album to a painting in a museum: I enjoy look at it, appreciate the work and technique, can see the artistic talent and merit of the piece, but I don't think I'd buy it or hang a print of it in my house. I might later be in a conversation and say "oh, there's this painting by so-and-so that expresses that idea. Have you seen it?" and that would be it. ⭐⭐⭐
Very strange album, maybe hasn't stood the test of time because it's so all over the place. 2*
Day 259 Enjoyed this, last 3 songs all bangers Highlights Baron Semedi The sacro-iliac Oh Effendi
It's few and far between that an album on this list surprises me. I really like this album! I was expecting another mid-70's straight rock album, but this isn't that. It's fun, and cheeky, and the harmonies and guitars are fantastic. On "Clockwork Creep" I can hear Kate Bush and Panic and the Disco. My only reference for 10cc is the scuba album cover was featured on the Hipgnosis documentary.
Talented prog rock joker version of Queen 4
This album is much better than their “Not in Love” hit. Is it dad rock or Prog rock?
4/27/26. Quirky and fun, this band definitely has range based on other songs I've heard not on this album. Enjoyed the artistic direction and eclectic nature, but still sounding accessible.
4.5 Disagree so much with some of the top reviews here. This was really good, sounds so ahead of its time and some really fun lyrics
Hmm, this album was pretty cool and after everything that GPT told me about this album, I think I'll rate it a 4 and that's being generous. Some catchy tunes in here and good melodies, good hooks.
Listens: 2 Standout Tracks: None I did not care for this. It felt like off-brand Queen. Very weird and not very entertaining. I've had a cold the past few days, perhaps this is influencing my opinion, but this just wasn't good.
A 10 cc siempre se le recordará con el baladón I´m not in love, de su siguiente álbum, su obra maestra. No son unos cualwuiera, Graham Gouldman, fue compositor tras de los Yardbirds y los Hollies o Herman's Hermits. Otros dos fueron Godley y Creme que luego dejaron la banda para ir como duo. Este disco, el segundo del cuarteto, tiene cómo no, un producción exquisita y un buen nivel melódico e instrumental. Suena a Steely Dan, y son una referencia obvia para Supertramp, que ese mismo año encontrarían su sonido y el camino del éxito con Crime of the century... Sin embargo a mi no me seduce apenas nada. Sí, son buenos, intelectuales, con un humor particular, etc etc. Pero no me llegan. La portada, de los imprescindibles Hipgnosis (las de Pink Floyd tantos otros). Apertura con The Wall Street Shuffle, con toques de progresivo (como todo el disco) y sigue con un tema mucho mejor como es el potente The Worst Band In The World. Hotel es una mezcla de varios ritmos como el Calypso o latinos, demasiado todo para mi gusto. Old Wild Men, más normal y por tanto más digerible a la primera, lo que se agradece. Clockwork Creep vuelve a mezclar cosas, pero parece más una obra de teatro que un tema para un disco o Silly love, tirando más a Queen, pero sin serlo. Somewhere In Hollywood, tras una larga e instrumental intro puede ser disfrutable, pero me vuelve a traer a Queen a la mente y no hay comparación, aunque es de lo mejor del disco. Baron Samedi, no, me desagrada incluso.
heaps o fun
I am not sure what happened here but it wasnt the music that made me understand why it was on this list. I can understand choices I don't like but I know how they changed music, but what is this?
Fun songs, band and production were great. Probably something more for the background than to sit down and listen to.
Most albums try to be unified by a common theme or at least a similar sound, but not 10cc's second album. It's hard for me to even generalize here; everything is so different, both musically and lyrically. A seven-minute piano ballad sits alongside a bongo-driven song about voodoo, and a seemingly serious guitar attack on Wall Street traders is followed by self-indulgent jabs at the level of "we're the worst band in the world, we've never done a days work in our life". And yet, the melodies are complex, the rhythms are jagged, but it's hard to call it prog. However, it seems the band themselves wanted to craft their music in a more sophisticated way: the homophone of the album's title speaks for itself. It's a very overloaded album, but I didn't get any negative emotions from listening to it, so it gets a light three.
It was fun. Hotel started slow but ended up being my favourite.
have to say, this is a very eclectic album. light and airy with stories to tell. At times, it had to double take because it had a vibe of some original Weird Al songs. totally wasn't expecting this.
This was super cool!! Wow. I was entertained the ENTIRE album. What great art rock. It was mainstream and easy to listen to, while still having so many layers of interesting stuff going on. This was experimental Queen before Queen started experimenting! I have a lot of respect for this band after listening to this. Great songwriting, great instruments, commendable singing, great studio work, and great production.
Was expecting better.
Not overly impressed. I was expecting more than this. I grew up listening to music when this was released. Even with that said, I wouldn’t even enjoy this back then!
mate. yeah, i didn't expect this. I thought i was getting something harder than this. I was not expecting 70s rock that sounds like Sparks to me. what a revelation. its albums like this that make this worth it so far, would never have listened otherwise. BANGER. i'll explore other stuff and may reassess this score.
All just a bit too wacky and quirky for me to appreciate much. Can't settle on anything for more than a passing moment, and isn't the better for it...
Fun, glammy gem. It seems like a fun eclectic group to hang out with.
ADHD - the album.
1974. The band experimented and explored new creativity while making the album.
lovely. adding.
Bit strange, some good bits, some that didn't interest me, overall an ok listen
Honestly this was trash. There were moments of potential, but nothing ever came. I can almost always find something good in an album and give it at least 2 stars, but I could not.
2.5
Rv
Tämä oli kyllä ihan kamalaa. Tuli mieleen joku musikaalilevy, tai biisit joita vois olla jossain putouksen sketsissä. Pitäisikö sanoa että "tekotaiteellista paskaa".
Melko laidasta laitaan eksperimentaalia. Ei oikein jääny mitään käteen, 3/5
A strange album. Solid songs interspersed with weak ones. It started out well, but ended poorly.
Solid rock album i could see myself listening to on a long roadtrip.
Parece una mezcla entre Queen y Boney M. Me gusta.
not bad, not bad at all. I enjoyed the contrasting tracks in each one; lowk felt like a disney musical in a way. not my favorite, but not the worst.
Awesome variety and creativity. Includes the inspiration of one of the best instrumental hip hop records by the legendary J Dilla.
Started off ok then some of the songs got weird
I don't get it
I don't exactly know why but I really liked this album, it's variety, singing, music, everything.
Started reading the Wiki entry just as the album started and I was immediately shocked at the year; it sounded a lot more modern than 1974. Definitely reminds me of Sparks (I heard "Kimono My House" for the first time from this list), but I like the fact that there's so much more variety in this album. It touches on a bunch of different styles and sounds, uses a nice mixture of instruments - it's clearly experimental and it's just fun... It's definitely a bit hit-and-miss, at least in terms of my own tastes, but overall a pretty decent listen and I'm counting this one as another positive discovery from the list.
The first song had this really raw guitar sound that I adored, unfortunately they then forgot how to achieve that sound and the rest of the album was super disappointing Unsatisfied 2
Wow, this is the kind of album I subscribed to this list for. I didn't knew 10cc, and now I absolutely have to listen to their discography. This album sounds like a prog version of Beatles and Beach Boys with the whimsical aplomb of Queen. What a rollercoaster, and very catchy too...a mandatory 5/5
wow. How is this is a must listen to LP?
Worst Band in the World is a cool track but my interest in the whimsical Brit Pop degraded as the album went along.
j dilla did it better
2 for production. Not for me otherwise.
Hotel sounds like Simon and Garfunkle. Somewhere in Hollywood sounds like Queen. That's my only thought on the matter.
Es un experimento
This is album that I would think sound wise be right in my wheelhouse, but it didn’t catch me the way I thought. The Wall Street Shuffle begs to be used in a movie or some sort of financial media campaign. The rest has bits and pieces I like but nothing really I feel like getting into right now .
caught a dilla sample here hehe solid classic rock that dips the toes in the kind of psydelic kind of prog territory, knows very well when to be goofy, killer lead guitar and vocals
We get it man, you're kooky
Very funny haha
A fun album that I was happy to discover, but I don't really get why it's here.
A few great songs, okay overall! I think it's a 3.
This must mean something to the English
Ok
Laid back, repetitive Favourite track: The Wall Street Shuffle
This started well. Then, as other reviews have said, went all over the bloody place even in the same song. Some of that was fun. Some irritating. This could barely be called an album as well. The songs bear literally no relation to one another. I'm kind of interested to listen again but more from curiosity than enjoyment so this stays a 3 for me.
This was fine
I honestly have no idea if I liked this. I appreciate the attempts to be unique and each song is a whole mad journey, though some of it felt a bit forced, like they really wanted it to be weird so they could tell people they were intellectual or something. Maybe they are. None of the 10cc songs that I am fond of are featured here, and I feel like all those ones are total bops that have weird parts in them while these are all totally weird songs that have bop parts in them. I think I generally prefer the former.
Pretty good listen. Nothing terrible about this album. It’s a strange all over the place album. The lyrics are odd too. Overall it’s bearable. Favorite song: The Wall Street Shuffle
Buena propuesta musical, me gustó.
Thought this was kinda fun.
I mostly didnt enjoy this