THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

I will continue to review 10cc's fabulous albums of the seventies and now we face their third studio record, called "The Original Soundtrack". It was released 1975, now fourty years ago and it is perhaps their most famous and common album. The cover goes in black and white and shows a film machine and a screen where a film is played. I have spent many hours of my childhood in second hand shops searching for cheap vinyl records and long before I was interested in non-Swedish music this black and white record was a common sight in the record boxes. Is it strange that this record is so common? Not at all, it is an absolutely wonderful record.

It is the third album with the fabulous four musicians Eric Stewart, Lol Creme, Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman and their capabilities fourty years ago were extraordinary. With "The Original Soundtrack" 10cc took one more step into a progressive and pretentious direction. The album starts with a long suite, the amazing "Une Nuit a Paris"(10/10) of almost nine minutes which is so totally wonderful. It is something special with the atmosphere which is present all over this album. It feels like the musical theme is romantic, old films, shows and love. It feels like 10cc did a hit album by not trying to do a hit album. The musicians use a lot of instruments and almost every song here is as perfect it could be. "I'm not in love"(10/10) is a perfect atmospheric romantic piece and "Blackmail"(10/10) is a heavier rock song of splender. "The second sitting for the last supper" is one of the highlights in 10cc's carreer(10/10). It is a progressive and inpiring track with different themes in a row, I love it. Then comes "Brand new day"(10/10) a soft and lovely piece and then comes "Flying junk"(10/10) which is progressive and beautiful as well. "Life is a minestrone"(8/10) is great but a bit too humouristic for me and "The film of my love"(9/10) is an almost perfected ending of this album.

As you have seen on my ratings on every track a really love almost everything I hear on "The Original Soundtrack" and it is hard to pick favourite songs. What is sure though is that the band now had become very professional and probably was on its peak. What is so great with 10cc is that every member sings a lot. Eric Stewart is lead singer on: Une nuit a Paris, I'm not in love, Blackmail, The Second Sitting for the last supper, Brand new day and Flying Junk. Lol Creme is lead singer on: Une nuit a Paris, Blackmail and Life is a minestrone. Kevin Godley is lead singer on: Une nuit a Paris, Blackmail and Brand new day. Graham Gouldman is lead singer on Une nuit a Paris, Blackmail and The Film of my love". That was a bit more Eric Stewart than the others though. A perfect album of amazing music that should please both prog and rock listeners well. My rating ends at 4.8 which is as close as five you can get. Five stars!