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What the Dickens is a Gizmo!?
After hinting at the symphonic extravaganzas to come with "One Night in Paris" from "The Original Soundtrack" and "Don't Hang Up" from "How Dare You", Lol and Kevin left 10C.C. to put out this 3 album boxed set to showcase the Gizmotron. The "Gizmo" was a small unit of rotating wheels attached to the bridge area of a guitar. When the wheels were pressed and made contact with the strings, a bowing sound emanated. Cool huh? Well, maybe just a little too late for commercial success with the advent of things like the E-bow and cheaper PCM synthesizers, but the haunting sounds that Lol gets from this thing are fantastic. As an interesting side note, the venerable Jimmy Page used a gizmo'ed guitar for some of the great sounds on "In The Evening".

Anyway, I still love this album 25 years on. I only gave it 3 stars to scare off those who are not Godley/Creme afficianodos who might not get the "concept". The concept of "nature taking revenge on a world gone mad" plays out with a sprinkling of great pop songs spaced between the dry Peter Cook dialogue(which may take several listens to get the gist of what's going on).

Other highlights include a highly prized Sarah Vaughn guest vocal on "Lost Weekend", a haunting ode to the men who sail the seas in "Sailor", and a very lovely pop work out on "Five o'Clock In The Morning."

The rest of the instrumental tunes that serve to help the story line show off more of the Gizmo's talents, and the accompanying booklet(that came with the 3-album set)showed such artifacts as the boys shoveling dirt down a staircase onto a Sennheiser dummy head to simulate the burial scene.

And last but not least, they saved room for a beautiful symphonic extravaganza with "Blint's Tune-Movements 1-17", which show that these guys were certainly more than just your average pop rockers.

All in all, a great display of talent, but just not your usual 10C.C.-type release, and certainly not for everyone, what with the unusual British dialogue and such. But for those that go for the slightly left o' center with a twinkle in their eyes, this just might hit the bullseye. Enjoy!!

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Peanut butter and roast beef
This is a very unusual album. I recall hearing a Canadian album in the late 70's called Music From Consequences and enjoying it a lot. Essentially it was most (if not all) the actual songs from Consequences the three album vinyl set. The music on this album explained something I had wondered about. 10cc had been a band whose music I liked from way back in the days of Sheet Music but when I saw them in concert it was a sad disappointment. The show lacked something that was unique to 10cc but I couldn't put my finger on what. After hearing this album I realized what was missing... kind of like seeing the Beatles without Lennon and McCartney.

The music on Consequences is indicative of one big reason 10cc worked. The melodies are catchy enough but very rich and colourful as well. There is certainly nothing thin or "simple pop" about them and yet they remain accessible and enjoyable. Unfortunately the dialogue, although interesting to a point, has a tendency to go on... people who are into music might not have the patience for such extensive talk and fans of Peter Cook may find the music distracts from the story. I like peanut butter and I like roast beef but in order to get into three full albums of it mixed together I'd have to be pretty ripped!

That being said it would be nice if the CD set had included text of Peter Cook's dialogues in the liner notes.

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Still extraordinary
When I listend to this triple album first in 1978 I was completely surprised about this complex stuff on six vinyl sides. I had to listen over and over again to the story to discover more and more details hidden in this sound scene. Unfortunately this album was not mine, so I had to gave it back to my friend :-( In 1998 I purchased a 2-CD limited edition re-release of this fantastic concept album. This set came with a very poor booklet with no lyrics and dialogs and so I wrote a complete transcript of the album on my own...Through the years I became a virtual member of the staff around Mr. Blint and every time I listen to the album I'm really caught in the scene.
There are (also) very fine music peaces (my favorite is "Lost Weekend" sung by Sarah Vaughn) which apparently have nothing to to with the albums theme and the divorce negotiation.
The issue of this album, natures revenge to the mankind, today becomes more and more significance.
Listen to this "Movie for the blind" and you will stick to it!
After the very last track when you listen carefully, you can hear the birds sing again...