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Canadian Music Store Music CD CoverArtist: 10ccEdition: Music CD Format: Import, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2000-02-08 Music Label: Repertoire Soundtracks:
Free Music Notes for 10ccFree Music Review: glam/beatles/brain wilson/evil parody: and smart tooThis first album, wh I bought b/c of "Rubber Bullets" and a prescient Rolling Stone review, never disappointed. At the time, the parodic "Johnny Don't Do It", "Fresh Air etc.", "Dean and I", all sounded great, and still do, but we all have simply forgotten how annoying it could be for those of us later baby boomers who were still infants when the doo-wop thing was going. So if you were like me stuff like Flash Cadillac and the Grease band and Shananas was really rather irritating. Why go back to Brylcreem when we had all these cool frizzies and afros now? Got lard? Turned out 10cc also did good Beatles and Beach Boys takeoffs as well, ("Rubber Bullets", "Headline Hustler") and, even though these bands were somewhat defunct and at the last had become parodies of themselves, whether intentionally or not, it was fresh funny stuff to listen to if you like intellipop. Then when they cut loose on things like "Speed Kills" or "Ships Don't Disappear in the Night, Do They?" you can see where they are headed. One thing about "Speed Kills", it is the most evocative song about the absolute inanity of days-long hyperstimulation and the inability to focus that comes with it I have ever heard. A little like "White Lightning", but more piercing in a way. Have fun with this, and think of all the pretense and pseudo-heaviness they were trying to blow up right at the time. Very good band, and bright minds on their way up. I find the addition of the singles, wh I had not heard before, a real plus. "Waterfall" is Beautiful, and "4% of..." is incisive and angry, like all really good satire. I hate to intrude with anachronistic revisionism, but this was really a specimen of its time that stands outside it, since it has this reflexive nature of being a commentary on that time and a really sick retro movement already going on, back into the 50's. These guys were progressive in every way, including rather advanced theoretical values, and I think they simply had to lash the Pharisees a bit before they got into their main text. "Hospital Song" is a venture into a gay kind of scatological humor and frankness about illness and bodily functions you don't find very far outside "The Boys In The Hall" and Monty Python. If some people are troubled by it, just remember, as Yanks, we live in a country without bidets in our necessary room, and bits of toilet paper kinked up in our posteriors. Filthy business we don't mention, like Iraq and the preponderance of pedophilia. Well, these guys are LOOSE of all that. Dig it.
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