Sucky CD Sunday

10cc's of pure bubblegum pleasure

I have a treat for you this week kids! This week's feature item on Sucky CD Sunday is anything by 10cc.

Let's get the paperwork out of the way:

Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley & Lol Creme are the band. Godley and Creme had a hit called "Cry" in the '80s which was largely unmemorable except for the video where the face morphing thing was done for the first time and was pretty damn cool. The song was ok.

10cc - for those of you youngsters who were not subjected to 1970's commercial AM radio because your parents only had a push button one band in the 1974 Toyota Corolla -were the '70's equivalent to Maroon 5. I like Maroon 5, at least that "Sunday Morning" song, and I like 10cc, especially "I'm not in Love" and "Dreadlock Holiday". "The Things we do for Love" can still be heard on the easy listening stations but it is the kind of song you only hear because you can't reach the tuner. Having said that, I probably have it on my iPod because that's the kinda girl I am. I can't stomach a good percentage of what I have on my iPod. It's all nostalgia. I will dig deeper into two 10cc cuts this week.

"I am not in love" is a great make-out at the school dance song when you are slow shuffling under the spinning disco ball. Its a great chick song because if you listen to the lyrics, it is basically a guy telling a girl that he couldn't give a shite about her and he is just stringing her along; BUT there is a heavy handed implication and sub-theme that the reason he is an emotionally unresponsive and unavailable asshole is because he loves her too much. You have to read inbetween the lines. Girls love to read in between the lines. I have had the same conversation with my friends as the subject of this song so many times, I can do it in my sleep. Sex in the City ran for a million seasons on the basis of this conversation. 10cc put it to music. Brilliant. Then they have that english girl whispering with her half sexy/half London fish-monger whisper "Big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry" as if every guy that never called me was sitting, tortured, by the phone, sobbing his eyes out and wrestling with his insecurities. I knew it! Ha!

"Dreadlock Holiday" is one of those ones that God forbid you get it into your head before having to do brain surgery or make a speech before congress. Its reggae-like beat and kind of funny lyrics create an infinite loop in your brain. You IT geeks know what infinite loops do, don't you? They drain your system of processing power and it just slows down and clogs up everything. Such is the effect of this song on your ability to manage your day. If it gets in my head, I am useless for the rest of the day until such time that the loop is terminated but some more powerful force - like the Alan Parsons Project.

10cc are the self-professed, "Worst band in the world" and while they are not out of the running, they do not hold the title. We have yet to bestow that title on anyone here on Sucky CD Sunday.

But we are working on it.

posted by pog mo thoin @ 5:54 PM