10cc and What People Did Before DAWs and Samplers!

I guess they didn't have a mellotron?

That's a great link Space... imagine competing with the Bee Gees and the Eagles for number one in the U.S. charts ;-)

I have always thought that the harmonies on I'm Not In Love - where they recorded tons and tons of Ahhhs and had the engineer fade the chords in and out was just friggin amazing. I love to listen to that song knowing that fact.

Sheet Music - Is that the one with "tick a tick a time bomb tick a tick a time bomb..." and "Wall Street Shuffle"?

ORIGINAL: space_cowboy

Sheet Music - Is that the one with "tick a tick a time bomb tick a tick a time bomb..." and "Wall Street Shuffle"?

Yes. Also listed on Progarchives http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=86092

I only have the original vinyl LP so can't vouch for any of the cd's (sound, etc)



Tracks on the original album:

1. Wall Street Shuffle
2. Worst Band In The World
3. Hotel
4. Old Wild Men
5. Clockwork Creep
6. Silly Love
7. Somewhere In Hollywood
8. Baron Samedi
9. Sacroiliac
10. Oh Effendi

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oh I think get it... maybe I should have said invigorator.... no wait!

I don't know if I should feel special or gay.

Sound snippet from Anne Clark (the original album with Sleeper in Metropolis)

'Ere mate - you queer?' ('orribly thick cockney)

'No ..... just peculiar' (normal voice)

Hilarious.

One very interesting aspect of this article is the number of times they mentioned the secretaries, the girls in the office, etc. picking up on the tune and humming or singing it.

Maybe since there are not so many secretaries around any more, this has led to the decline of the music industry ?? (just kidding...)

JR

I like Roxy Music as well as boosting the economy and music business.
I'll have these.

Slug
I like that cover better too but was afraid that it might offend someone with two of the four things most obvious on the cover. By that I mean eye shadow of course.

You know those girls look like this now

I like Roxy Music as well as boosting the economy and music business.
I'll have these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9QpI3wVvek

And look who we have there on bass.... maybe their best live perfomance recording evah.

That drummer kicks butt, too.

Roflcopter, the bassist looked vaguely familiar. Who was it?
Was that Paul Thompson drumming? He's always brilliant!

John Wetton.

Yeah that's Paul Thomson - guy looks he works on a building site, big too, and AFAIK that was actually his day job just before, or maybe even still at that time. This was still early days.

ORIGINAL: Fog

apart from the multi track voice thing... 10cc... helping couples cop off at 70's discos *smirk* , they used to play it at the end of a night.. obviously I'm not old enough to remember as I was a kid and only know what a "party seven" "blakeies" is from watching life on mars

space_cowboy, if that side of things interests you, well many will quote the BBC radiophonic work shop.. what they did with tape splicing was very good and people like Delia Derbyshire who did a remake of the Dr Who theme.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7512072.stm

hhmm what others can I think of that era, Kate Bush.. some of her work featured taped stuff the instruments etc being played backwards etc (not back masking.hehe)

thats why I'm happy to do prep work BEFORE working on a tune.. older times you had no choice... mess something around.. then sample it back in.

Good advice on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. I already have some of it though. I am a music nurd - remember?

It is odd. I have something with a collection of "sounds' they were doing for commercial jingles.

Back on 10cc - their music was so much more complex than the other stuff popular at the time. People just know I'm not in love and miss so much of the other great work.

I don't even think it was that space ya know.. more the case of they did something subtle , that was clean.. well to most if they didn't know the complexity of it.

they remind me of a friend I have, when you hear his work you'd not thing it as particularly complex, but when you see him working on a tune you realise why it takes him so long to mix stuff (the track count is stupidly large and even splitting it into groups, it's still a task)

ah well you can see their work more in video form more so these days.

it's funny someone I used to know years ago did a cover of the song Cry . I was surprised when I saw him on TV, they G+C made the video for it. Although that person hhm was truly living the rock n roll lifestyle so I didn't have much time for him.

ORIGINAL: space_cowboy

Slug
I like that cover better too but was afraid that it might offend someone with two of the four things most obvious on the cover. By that I mean eye shadow of course.

You know those girls look like this now

I got to go to her Disco party on Miami Beach.... near riot. Lots of fun!

best,
mike

ORIGINAL: Roflcopter

Yeah, but even on their simpler, more accessible 'sweeter' tracks, they just can't stop themselves from mucking around with it. This wasn't bad, brings some fond memories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ANr-OXMork

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As I recall, I'm Mandy, Fly Me was a continuation of the bomb on an airplane story that was the foundation to Clockwork Creep on Sheet Music. In fact, you can hear a distant "Oh, no you'll never get me up on one of these again. Cause what goes up... must come... down down down down..."

there is a few people well known , obviously John Baker , Delia Derbyshire were well known.. did they ever show the programme on BBC worldwide about radio phonics workshop?

it was sad what happened to it, it was pretty much disbanded / downsized. They were converting the original material to a digital format , the last thing they were doing on it.

BBC used to do loads of records / cd's like that.. errm stuff like sound fx things for home movie makers.. a fair few of them turned up in hardcore / jungle tunes..hehe

where the radio phonics workshop originally was , maida vale.. I think it's the same building that the beatles did that world broadcast at. It's probably hhm 10-15 minute drive from me, quite near abbey road also.

I did hear a plan that the main bbc building in Wood Lane, there was a plan to sell it and turn it into flats..pity really it's an iconic building.. used to go there the odd time (a family member worked there)

they do tours of it, maybe maida vale also, a lot of bands did live sessions there. dunno if you know of things like "old grey whistle test" etc.