I'm Not in Love Archives

Album: The Original Soundtrack
Year: 1975

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Let me start off by saying that I’m flying a little bit blind here, because if I’ve heard a half-dozen 10cc songs in my life, I’d be surprised. The only thing I really know about them is that they were named after the same thing that The Lovin’ Spoonful and Pearl Jam were named after. But a little bit of my patented half-assed research turns up that they were one of those bands who made post-1967 sophisto art-pop that were much bigger in the U.K. than they ever were in the U.S. Way bigger: from 1972-1977, they had 11 top ten singles in the U.K., including three number ones. Said number ones of which got some airplay on FM radio here in the U.S., so people of a certain age might remember “Rubber Bullets” or “Dreadlock Holiday” from KFIG or Rock 96FM or KKDJ or whatever your local FM stations were in the 1970s.

Album: More Songs About Buildings and Food
Year: 1978

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When I first bought it, More Songs About Buildings and Food affected me differently from just about any album I’ve ever owned: I knew I enjoyed it, maybe even loved it, but I couldn’t figure it out, so I kept playing it for two reasons: to get to the bottom of it, and to differentiate the individual songs on it. The opening gallop of “Thank You For Sending me An Angel” and the closing chill-out of “Take Me to The River” and “The Big Country” were easy to wrap my head around, but all of the songs in between — with their tempo changes, weirdly funny lyrics, and spaced-out instrumental sections — were hard for me to distinguish for a long time.

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