10CC - The Original Soundtrack (1975)

Artist:  10CC
Title:  The Original Soundtrack
Release: 1975
Format:  LP
Label:  Mercury Records
Catalog#  6310500

“The Original Soundtrack” is the third studio album by the English art rock band 10cc. It includes the singles “Life Is a Minestrone” and “I’m Not in Love”, the latter of which is the band’s most popular song and walked a fine line between self-pity and self-parody with its weepy tale of a boy who isn’t 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 album’s 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 one’s closer, “Blackmail,” was a witty tale of sex and extortion gone wrong, with a superb guitar solo embroidering the ride-out. That’s 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 Our Love.” The Original Soundtrack’s 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.


Side one
1.  Une Nuit A Paris   (8:39)
     Part 1 – One Night In Paris
     Part 2 – Same Night In Paris
     Part 3 – Later The Same Night In Paris
2.  I’m Not In Love  (6:04)
3.  Blackmail   (4:55)

Side two
1.  The Second Sitting For The Last Supper  (4:23)
2.  Brand New Day  (4:03)
3.  Flying Junk  (4:10)
4.  Life Is A Minestrone  (4:30)
5.  The Film Of My Love  (5:03)

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