10cc -The Original Soundtrack - album review

In this video Ross Goodall and I look at the album The Original Soundtrack by 10cc from 1975 containing the classic song Im not in love.

Best song:
Im Not in Love (Serious Version)

Worst songs:
1. Une Nuit a Paris
2. Im Not in Love (Original Epic Version)
3. Blackmail
4. The Second Sitting for the Last Supper
5. Brand New Day
6. Flying Junk
7. Life Is a Minestrone
8. The Film of My Love

Heres the story:

10ccs third album, The Original Soundtrack, finally scored them a major hit in the United States, and rightly so; Im Not in Love walked a fine line between self-pity and self-parody with its weepy tale of a boy who isnt in love (really!), and the marvelously lush production and breathy vocals allowed the tune to work beautifully either as a sly joke or at face value. The albums opener, Une Nuit a Paris, was nearly as marvelous; a sly and often hilarious extended parody of both cinematic stereotypes of life and love in France and overblown European pop. And side ones closer, Blackmail, was a witty tale of sex and extortion gone wrong, with a superb guitar solo embroidering the ride-out. Thats all on side one; side two, however, is a bit spottier, with two undistinguished tunes, Brand New Day and Flying Junk, nearly dragging the proceedings to a halt before the band rallied the troops for a happy ending with the hilarious The Film of My Love. The Original Soundtracks best moments rank with the finest work 10cc ever released; however, at the same time it also displayed what was to become their Achilles heel -- the inability to make an entire album as strong and memorable as those moments.