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10cc Alive
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by 10cc
Sales Rank: 189998
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$3.99
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on 9-4-2008.
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10cc has always been respected for their musicianship and their melodic, at times complex, compositions. They share many characteristics with GENTLE GIANT and QUEEN--both contemporaries of the band. What makes this album unusual and interesting is the retrospective nature of the set--founding members Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman cover material from 10cc mach1(featuring Godley & Creme)and integrate fully with the latter day mach 2 releases(where the band functioned like Steely Dan with the founding members surrounding themselves with a shifting core of talented players). It's surprising how well this mixed bag comes off. "I'm mandy fly me" and "Worst band in the world" fit pretty seamlessly with "The things we do for love" and "Dreadlock Holiday". The playing is spectacular and remains true(sometimes too true)to the original studio recordings. It would have been interesting to hear the band play with the arrangements ! a bit more and to feature some of the Godley/Creme material as well(although this is fairly represented by the live King Biscuit Flower Hour concert from 1975). Stewart's vocals are terrific. There are a few moments where one can tell he is stretching to reach a note just out of his grasp, but that's the fun of live recordings--one gets a terrific mixture of flaws and spontaneous changes from the original recordings. Although this isn't the best live album by 10cc(the honor falls to the King Biscuit recording), it, nevertheless, does a very good job of covering the music of their broad and inspired career.
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