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Oct 11, 2016
Great album.
10 cc are such an innovative band. They sound like no one else and are completely original. They prove this on Sheet Music, only their second album.
The sheer variety of styles is amazing. It all kicks off with a standard rocker in Wall Street Shuffle, a scathing critique on the whole financial system with all its greed and avarice. Wordplay, as elsewhere, plays a major role in the clever lyrics: 'Oh, Howard Hughes, did your money make you better?'
Self-parody follows in the second track: The Worst Band in the World, a weird (in a good way) stop-start melody with, again, tongue-in-cheek lyrics about roadies and vans.
'Hotel', the third track, is a samba-ish romp satirising American island colonialism, but gently and humorously. The pace changes drastically with the beautiful ballad 'Old Wild Men': yes, even rock stars get old one day.
Clockwork Creep is a frantic, humorous song sung from the point of view of a proud aeroplane with a bomb on it. I'm aware of how weird that must sound in the light of the very real problem of international terrorism. But 10 c.c. have this wonderful art of being able to make a joke out of anything without somehow being offensive.
'Silly Love' is a straightforwardish rocker, and the heaviest track on the album. Full of throwaway lyrics and bad puns ('cliches and toupes and threepes'), it's fun, and screams 'enjoy us, and don't take us too seriously'.
Somewhere in Hollywood is beautiful, complex, again with clever wordplay, and not so much satirical as a paean to that superb film industry. Baron Samedi is a fast rocker, possibly the weakest on the album, but is a stonker in its own right, which goes to show how brilliant the whole album is.
The Sacro-Iliac is a gentle, acoustic guitar driven, short song, a little pastiche on the world of dance(s), and the album finishes with a (that word again) humorous take on the whole Middle Eastern rich oil sheik scene with all its shady deals and gun running, Oh Effendi.
This album iis fun and serious. Its pace is fast and slow. No two tracks sound the same. It's a breath of fresh air and hugely enjoyable. Buy it.
Mar 26, 2019
Great album
1 of 1 found this helpful I like this. It seems to show a softer and more intelligent side to The Who. Not to say The Who are normally unintelligent, far from it, but that might be some, perhaps older people's impression when they hear the harder, louder numbers with Roger's aggressive vocal style, Pete's guitar technics, and 'wild man' Keith's brilliant but manic drumming (I'm sure 'Animal' from 'The Muppets' was based on him!) No, there are a lot of quiet, gentle interludes and songs on this album, alongside hard, brilliant rockers like 'Pinball Wizard', which means you could probably play it to your granny, let alone your parents! So it's varied, intelligent and subtle, and tells a really good story as well. You feel so sorry for Tommy at first with his crippling, multiple disabilities and the horrendous physical and sexual abuse he encounters from his cousin and uncle respectively. But he has this great gift of pinball and becomes a champion, then as a leader who people want to follow. Triumph through adversity. Tommy wins and you feel really uplifted. Yes, a great, classic album which will still be popular centuries from now. Can't wait to see it live!