10cc - "I'm Not In Love" --- Love it or hate it?

[Floogeldy]

Love it.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Love it.

Warts and all.

--p!

[Miami Liberal]

25. It's okay n/t

[norml]

2. Absolutly love it!

I have all of the 10cc albums.

[K8-EEE]

3. HATE LOATHE AND DESPISE IT!!

You're kidding...right??

[Floogeldy]

9. No!

Some people hate it, I swear.

[Pale Blue Dot]

4. Great, great song.

I also loved "The Things We Do For Love". I love lush, intelligent pop music.

[RandomKoolzip]

5. Love it.

Great fucking song. That's a melody that is irreduceable.

[Patsy Stone]

6. Love it n/t

[brentspeak]

7. I...like it

It's a very good song. Somewhat ahead of its time in terms of production (the female looped "sample" of 'Big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry').

[Voltaire]

8. Love it

Funny, I was just thinking about it when I came into the lounge and there was this post.

[LeighAnn]

10. Love it

classic. Did I make it to the 700 Club yet?

[countmyvote4real]

11. Love it.

In the 80's, an obscure group (for me) called Will To Power or something like that did a decent cover of it, too.

[Must_B_Free]

12. Love it

plus they use Hipgnosis

[Lex]

13. I hate it, and listen to it EVERY time. :sigh:

That probably means I love it.

Kind of like the song . . .

[K8-EEE]

14. WHINER ROCK!

You guys are all kidding me. You mean that song that goes "I'm not in luuuve....oh noooooo...."

You guys LIKE that????

This really geeky guy in high school once left this message on my answering machine, I mean, singing this song!! But I don't like it separate and apart from him.

[RandomKoolzip]

17. No, I love that song. But I love great pop craftsmanship....

And "I'm Not in Love" features a melody that any songwriter would envy, and the production is a decade ahead of its time. And I'm not some sappy easy-listening fan; my favorite band is Guided by Voices. I just like good melodies.

10CC were a great band, sort of a lusher British version of Steely Dan.

[K8-EEE]

24. 10cc Not Fit To Shine Steely Dan's Shoes!

Gasp!!

OK if you like melody/harmony how about this one: The Rain The Park & Other Things by the Cowsills!! Now yer talkin'.

[RandomKoolzip]

26. You mean "Steely Dan's bad sneakers."

Cowsills: Sure, never heard it, but if it's a good melody, then I'll dig it.

Seriously, though: that chromatic chord change up, from a seventh to a minor seventh a half-step above, under the third line of the verse, where they sing "Don't tell your friends you've got it made..." Speaking as a songwriter myself, most songwriters would give their first-born kids to come up with something that good.

[brentspeak]

27. There is some similarities b/t 10cc and Steely Dan

Immaculately, slickly produced pop, married to sardonic lyrics. (10cc usually wrote songs with titles like "I'm Mandy: Fly Me". Steely Dan got very jazzy, and were much more beatnik. (And more commercially successful, too).

[RandomKoolzip]

32. Right: the sardonic lyrics are the link.

Plus they were both total studio-heads. 10cc were obviously more British than Steely Dan (less jazz chords, more Beatle-y pop production)

[Must_B_Free]

42. so 10cc sucked in concert too?

steely dorks ripped me of for $160 for two tickets in Hawaii last year.

No joint smoking. No dancing. A bunch of 55 year old folks having a boring time.

[Gemini Cat]

15. I like it, I don't love it.

It's okay.

[Itchinjim]

16. Pot + 10cc = Plooking!

Worked everytime.

[RandomKoolzip]

18. Are you using "plooking" in the Zappa sense of the word?

As in, "I used to use drugs and 70's British studio pop bands to seduce women?"

Nice.

I like your sig line, too.

[Itchinjim]

22. I most certainly am, and I most certainly did.

And I thank you, Mr Garcia thanks you, and Mr Hunter thanks you.

[RandomKoolzip]

30. Cool. I'm listening to 6/16/74 Des Moines right now....

After this "Greatest Story," there will be a "Ship of Fools," so seeing your sig line was a bit serendipitous.

[Itchinjim]

33. The Dead are like that.

The music never stops ya know!

[Must_B_Free]

43. Heard Jerry / Robert from 1961 today

thank god for sugarmegs.org

[Must_B_Free]

44. Also heard a 78 show with "If I had the world to give"

nd I don't know what but it sounded like the band was mad at Jerry.

At the end where its supposed be a slow crescendo to peak in his solo, they like faded out, then he acts like he's going to end it so they build it up a bit, then he starts playing hard again and they fade out again on him.... :shrug: WTF?

[brentspeak]

19. There was also Godley & Creme, the offshoot from 10cc

They were the bit players in 10cc, and had a top 20 hit of their own in the 80's with "Cry".

[RandomKoolzip]

21. 10cc had two songwriting teams...

Stewart and Gouldman carried on the 10cc name after Godley and Creme left in 1978 to work with an instrument called "The Gizmo." That went nowhere, and they eventually got back to writing intelligent, lush pop (thank you, FinnFan!)

"Cry" was great video, too.

[brentspeak]

38. I've got a "best of" that features both 10cc and Godley & Creme

Probably out of print, now. Has all the well-known stuff on one CD.

[Wapsie B]

20. Neither fish nor fowl.

I can appreciate it, the melody's ok, but it takes me back to a time I'd just as soon not relive.

[njdemocrat106]

23. Like it...

but I like "The Things We Do for Love" better.

[Gothic Sponge]

28. Love

[mitchum]

29. Love it

[Kire]

31. alphabetically, it's the first song on my iPod

and it starts playing against my will quite a bit, so I guess that is why I hate it. not because it is a bad song, just because I associate it with my iPod going kaplooey

[6000eliot]

34. One of

my all time favorite groups and a great song. It's a great musical expression of irony.

[EstimatedProphet]

35. I do love it-for nostalgic reasons

[Mark H]

36. Love it.

Great late evening song.

[donheld]

37. It's an OK song

very well done i thought.

[Baja Margie]

39. Absolutely LOVE IT !

[Cadence]

40. Love it. But....I'm not in love so don't forget it...

it's just a silly phase I'm goin through.... ;)

[K8-EEE]

41. GAK!! I'm Totally In Shock,!!

You guys aren't in luuuuuv with this song so don't forget it

It's just a silly thang yer goin' thru

Jess becuuuz.....

I cannot believe so many people like this song. It's astounding! It's so empty and reptitive IMO. Yer not in lllluv oh no....just becuuuz!!

[bettyellen]

45. hate it, i love the Pretenders version though!

[AntiFascist]

46. At first I liked it....

but then I grew to hate it because it would get played over and over and over.....I think it was a corporate plot to plant the idea in your head so that you would never fall in love, and then have to go out and buy stuff as a substitute.

[MercutioATC]

47. Love it.

[musiclawyer]

48. Speed Killls is the best "strange" song in rock

10CC Should never have broken up. Together they were great. They could all write, sing, produce and play (cheesy lyrics aside).

[snoochie]

49. Love it,

always have.