Holy shitballs! 10cc were one of those bands whose name I was familiar with, but had no idea about their music. I had this idea that they were kind of a big dumb riffy rock band... nope, turns out that they're an eclectic and imaginative group.
The band have something going for them that I always love to see in bands: they're all multi-instrumentalists and all songwriters, so you get 4 different flavours to each track. Because they play the different instruments, each member understands the role of each, rather than just waiting to play drums on a song that someone else wrote, or playing a bassline that someone else has come up with or whatever. The mix of musical viewpoints can either go totally wrong with everyone stepping on each other's feet and nobody agreeing on the direction things should take, or it can be entertaining and wonderful like it is here. "Clockwork Creep" in particular is brilliant, insane and occasionally theatrical.
The only song I was vaguely familiar with was the opening track "The Wall Street shuffle" and given that it's a bit of a rocker it temporarily made me worried that this might indeed be a big ol' rock album. Little did I know....
NB: after I listened to this for the list, I made a point of tracking down a copy.
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