Anything by Kate Bush? Hard to pick 1 song of hers as there are so many, but one of my favourite albums of hers is Sensual World....though I'd be really happy for you to cover any of her records. Thanks!
1977, my future wife and I were teen agers, riding in my Mercury Marauder, when she remarked that "some couples have 'their song', but we don't". I flicked on the car radio and out came "I'm not in Love". We both busted up laughing! "Honey it's our song!" We're in our 60's now and still in love and still listening to this brilliant piece of music. Also check out the album simply titled L by Godley and Creme.
Dave, to you and our wife and the incomparable 1970's - I'm Not In Love still resonates. Greatest song to come out of those days by a country mile . . .
Yes! It irked me as a 5yr old child that I did not know who sang this and heard it on the radio yrs after it was released. I absolutely love this song- it has a very meditative, etheric feel to it. ❤️❤️❤️
I did one of the last recording sessions in Strawberry Studios in 1993 as engineer and producer. I was there for about a month and on the few late nights when no one was there, I secretly listend to some of the legendary master tapes that were stored there. One of them being "I'm not in love"
A song produced like no other before (or after) it. So unique. So beautiful. It's hard to believe this song is as old as it is. It still sounds refreshingly uncommon today. What they went through to end up with this glorious tune demonstrates what 4 incredibly talented individuals can achieve with open ideas. Genius!
The spacey sounding choir was just other worldly at the time. It had that ghostly, sad, ethereal feel that still to this day is unique. Another great tune and awesome analysis, Warren!
Still has the same effect to this very day. Has stood the test of time. I was 13 years old when this hit the radio waves, remember it like it was yesterday.
I have seen other videos on "I'm Not in Love." No matter how many times I hear the in depth, it is stunning. Not how 10cc did it, but what technologically they had at hand. No samplers or Pro Tools at all. That's what always gets my respect.
Well, the tape-loop thing had been around since the 1950's, pioneered by Pierre Schaeffer, and was of course at the heart of the Mellotron. But 10cc really took it to a whole new level.
This ABSOLUTE BELIEF in the song which has driven the band to spend weeks on just one arrangement element is overwhelming. Thanks for the episode, Warren.
There was a melotron in a dark corner of Wessex no 2 studio when the Damned recorded Machine Gun Etiquette.. we were told it belonged to 10cc. Anyway, we fired it up and the lush vocal pads therein became the dreamy backing for I Just Can’t Be Happy Today. Thanks guys! 👍
Hi Captain! Love your band! :-) I once was driving in my car with my then 6- and 8-year-old Sons in the back and with 'Lovely Money' playing on the stereo, when one of them suddenly exclaimed, "He just said the S-Word, Papa!", and the other pointed out the "P*ss off!" bit! :-O And I'd been listening to that song for decades and had *never* picked up on it myself! x-)) And speaking of 'I Just Can't Be Happy Today': That OGWT performance is hilarious! I keep going back from time to time :-)) Greetings from NZ!
@@Producelikeapro - I reckon his input deserves a Damned episode! 'New Rose' or 'Smash It Up'. He was giving an entertaining lesson on how to play Pt.1 not long ago, too! Looks like I'd played it wrong for all those years! x-))
Amazing that you mentioned those 2 songs as both could be inspired by The Byrds! Drone harmony on “if your gone” TTT Album 1965 and the b side to Mr Tambourine Man “I’d like to love you”
I was a 12 year old kid when that jam hit the airwaves in Chicago, Illinois and it was one of those songs that mesmerized me from the first time I heard it. It still mesmerizes me almost 46 years later!😄
Two years older and same feelings, heard this the first time on the radio in the car of a school friend's mother while driving thru woods with raindrop falling from the branches. It was heaven on earth. Bought the album then only because of this song. greetings from Germany.
Same. I often rewatch the various documentaries on how this song came to be and I always marvel at how they did it. This video has really added to my great appreciation for this masterpiece song. Time to go put on the headphones and get lifted up on those voices!
@@Producelikeapro only knew them for I'm not in Love and thought they were a one hit wonder. Then heard them name-dropped in LCD Soundsystem's Losing My Edge and decided to listen to The Original Soundtrack. Great band.
Well, I'll watch "them" (only Graham Gouldman is left of the original four) every time they visit Copenhagen and that's quite often. Sometimes twice a year on the Amager Bio stage.
That song had the "it" factor back then and still does to this day! Loved it from the first time I heard it after it was released in the 70's. Still one of my favorites today.
A few years ago I watched the documentary on how this song was recorded. I was then as I am now totally awestruck at the ingenuity and technical prowess that brought about this masterpiece.
I've seen plenty of people talk about production techniques employed in songs. Ditto the musical theory behind a song. But I don't think I've ever seen someone put both of them together so clearly and so well at the same time. You really are a first rate educator, because you're teaching whilst making it entertaining at the same time. That isn't easy, but you do it all so effortlessly.
@@BrunodeSouzaLino Watch Rick too. Just as entertaining but doesn't present the information as clearly and systematically. Makes this seem more thorough.
They picked a great band name; 45 years later and I'm still grabbing that song to listen to as it sits at the beginning of my alphabetical list. Song is pure genius, too.
I stumbled on 10cc as a kid via a full-page ad on the back cover of HIT PARADER or CIRCUS for their 1974 album, “Sheet Music”. It’s turned out to be my favorite album of all time, and my favorite song, “I’m Not In Love”, was to follow shortly thereafter. I was ripe to be musically branded for a lifetime, and that’s exactly what happened. And what a pedigree; Kevin Godley & Lol Creme [inventors of the Gizmotron guitar attachment & directors of rock videos like “Every Breath You Take”, “Girls On Film” & “Rockit”], Eric Stewart singing lead on “Groovy Kind Of Love” with the Mindbenders and Graham Gouldman writing classic British Invasion songs [“For Your Love”, “Bus Stop” & “Heart Full Of Soul”, among others]. They had that fantastic creative tension & high standards the best bands have [as well as the best comedy groups: Monty Python also included 2 writing teams]. The tons of bubblegum music they’d recorded @ Strawberry pre-10cc got their studio thing together much like the Beatles laying their groundwork @ Hamburg’s Star Club. Stewart & Gouldman’s part ownership let them grab the virtually unlimited unbooked studio time [“Sure we’ll work around McCartney & Wings recording “Red Rose Speedway”] so essential to what they achieved. And that custom Helios desk! And knowing exactly what to do with it! Also, thank you for citing the fact that “I’m Not In Love” is very much the vibe-father of Billy Joel’s “Just The Way You Are”. Two career-making songs born out of one. And from that same “The Original Soundtrack”, album “Un Nuit a Paris” [1974] is a lovely precursor/companion piece to “Bohemian Rhapsody” [1975]. Art rock, art pop...art, for sure. Warren, you guys have once again outdone yourselves. And given the amount of times I lobbied for this song, thank you for not considering a restraining order!
One of the greatest love songs of all time . How the technology of that time still produced such a melancholy and human sound that is timeless and belies the title . A classic !
This is exactly why I have always said that 70's music was the most ambitious music ever produced. There are countless examples. From Peter Frampton to Pink Floyd; The Doobie Brothers; Grand Funk Railroad; The Allman Brothers; The Moody Blues; ELO; Jethro Tull; Donna Summer's "I Feel Love"; Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein"; Blondie; The B-52's; Elton John's "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"; The Cars; DEVO; and so on and so on.
I was a freshman in high school when this song came out. I also remember “Someone Saved My Life Tonight”, by Elton John and “Dream Weaver”, by Gary Wright being popular hits on the radio at the time. Between these three songs, plus many others, my freshman year was very memorable. I’m so glad I grew up when I did, not having to tolerate the garbage that passes for music today!
Again, this song just sends you back in time to 70s bars with that wooden bar and the smell of whisky and wine in the air with the cigarette smoke like a mist floating through the atmosphere. This song IS art. So beautiful.
@@petesawchuk A friend of mine played it for me a little over a year ago and I bought a copy right away and listened to it non-stop for about a month. Could not believe I had never heard it before. My first listen I was like “oh these guys liked Zappa... oh wait, they liked Queen... oh, they liked Harry Nilson...” eventually I figured out they liked doing whatever the hell they wanted! The production is fantastic and the song ideas are odd but captivating. Clockwork Creep quickly became a favorite. I am old enough to have started recording on tape, but I love hearing stuff that old and going “how the hell did they do that back then?!?”
Agreed! I didn't realize it at the time, but so much of the magic of this song is in the innovative production that is ALL in service of making it a stronger, more compelling experience.
Oh yes! When I was a teen in the 80s I considered this old folks' music, then I became a musician and I love this song, Roxy Music's Avalon album and all that silky smooth adult early 80s sofisticated stuff. Great video! OMD had a great song with choir tapes played with the mixer faders, it's Souvenir and it deserves a video for sure, no?
I've been a big 10cc fan since the beginning and I remember hearing Rubber Bullets and realizing they were not your average pop band. I was fortunate enough to see them live three times. Witty, saucy, and creative beyond their time. I still have all of their vinyl albums.
I was at university - a music student, no less - when this came out. I was mesmerized the first time I heard it and even today will stop what I am doing when it comes on the radio. It was obvious that this was something very different. You could listen to it as a pop tune but you could also dig deeper to try to understand what was going on. I've watched every "making of" video on this tune that I could find, but this video is succinct and clear. Thanks for taking the time to make this!
It was circa 1978/79, I was 12 or 13 and my Maternal Grandparents were visiting from the UK. They didn't get on with My Dad, so they were staying at the Parkroyal Hotel in Brisbane, which coincidentally, was where most touring artists stayed when they were performing, up the road at Festival Hall... We were playing around the swimming pool, and (you guessed it) Out came 10CC for a dip. I was too shy to say anything, but my younger siblings, most Notably my Younger Sister, were hamming it up, and having Photo's Taken with the Band Members. Flash forward to 2003, and Graham Gouldman was touring Australia as a Solo Act (With an awesome band) and I was the Promotions Manager for a Radio Station in Townsville. He Played the Local Entertainment Centre, and afterwards I joined the Queue to have my Albums Signed. (I SWEAR TO GOD THIS NEXT BIT IS TRUE.) He was making small talk and I asked him if by any chance he recalled meeting a Family of English Children in the Late '70s in Brisbane... He looked thoughtful and said... "Kathy?" I nearly burst into tears. What an incredible Man. (The concert was brilliant BTW and he did all his Herman's Hermits, Yardbirds, Hollies etc etc... Hits.)
Wow! What a beautiful story! I believe it, there are many things I remember that have touched me and others that are special memories like that, things where you connect with people properly! I love that ‘Kathy?’. Beautiful
Wow, just wow. Not because of the very interesting and creative process, but because I was really convinced (until now) it was an 80's song. When this came out, I was 1 yr old, yet I remember knowing this song from the eighties, which means it survived a long time in the radio playlists. For me, it was clearly ahead of its time, awesome ! Really good video, too, thank you so much, Warren, you bring a lot to us !
For years I had no idea that the song was basically hundreds of vocals on tape loops fed through a recording desk like a keyboard. Truly amazing for it's time. This has been in my all time top ten for all long as I can remember. Just brilliant
I was in high school and my girlfriend had just broken up with me when this song came out. Oh how it spoke to my pain. I soon after found out she had been dating someone else and so another top song popular that summer, "How Long" (Ace) became the B side to my life. To this day both these songs remain on my top 10 list as they pull at my heart for a lost love... Thanks for this wonderful reveal.
I am old enough to remember this all over the radio in 1975. I was a fan of harder material. But this song was undeniable, it just had a sound that made you like it. I still like it.
Saw 10cc live in 2014 Taupo New Zealand summer concert. They weren’t the head liners but completely stole the show...songs still sound fantastic even today
I got called in to guitar tech for a local show pre covid with the current 10cc reunion lineup , I was never a big fan of the band but after listening to the show you can hear what a boundary pushing band. I believe the bass player is the last original member but still cool to have worked a show for such a player and writer,
You reminded us this exceptional masterpiece in such a nice way that I have the vinyl behind me as I type now screaming "play me!". What a band...45 years later still jaw dropping.
I've gone back to college at the ripe old age of 51 to do audio and music production I remember being 14 and recording my first song in a studio I was fascinated by that ahh sound from this song and Billy Joel and McCartney used it too of course musical tastes have changed so much since then and my teenage fellow students want to rap and lay down beats I'll probably be to old when I get this degree but I'll never stop feeling the thrill of writing and producing
@@jeffblack5024 That's true. Over 30 years playing bars and clubs and recording. I'll be 55 with an honors degree. That's still a good ten years before retirement. I know one thing, the worst thing you can do with your life is nothing.
Amazing stuff, never realised it inspired Billy Joel's just the way you are... Love both songs!! Went to see Graeme Gouldman's 10CC about 3 years back, some great songs and they were fantastic live, albeit without Lol, Kevin and Eric!! Great video :)
I get goosebumps everytime I hear this song ! I love the way this song makes me feel ! I'm a little bit late to the party but I'm here and I love it ! Thank You 10cc for years of happiness with this song !
@@Producelikeapro Why don't you... seriously Warren give us your version, I bet there's plenty of people out there who would love to hear that! Also how did they get that Rhodes sound it's so lush what's going on? I know it's delay and reverb but I just can't get near it. And thank you Warren for this one they should put you on the new years honours list! 👍🏻 🙂
Great reminder on how much effort and time is required to get to the place where your vision leads you. Thanks for the reminder Warren! Song is just immortal.
It was so great to grow up in the 70s. This song, along with others, like Year of the Cat, Dream Weaver, and Baby come back, just to name a few, created a magical time for a young boy who loved music.
10cc…my original favourite band from when I was a young teenager. My love of the band has never diminished. These four guys, all songwriters, singers and musicians (and inventors…remember the Gizmo?) created some lightning in the bottle. I managed to see them play live three times but, unfortunately for me, the first time was on the Deceptive Bends release at the long gone Wembley Arena in 1977, shortly after Kevin Godley and Lol Creme departed. And I say that only because I’ve never seen the original group with Lol and Kevin live . They were still good…really good but the original foursome for me were off the chart. Endlessly creative, lyrical, yet they could rock too (Second Sitting for the Lasst Supper/Silly Love). All their songs were different. One was never predictive of what the next would be. Great video. Thanks.
This song turned me towards prog and alt rock and I am forever grateful. Nothing on the radio was like it at the time! And I learned the wonders of a electric piano lurking in the background like a beautiful ghost.
As a young teen, my earliest of influences in the contemporary music scene, were sparked by a friend and his love of the band 10cc (he even gave me a home tape with 10cc's Original Soundtrack on one side and Queen's a Night at the Opera on the other). Before this, I'd heard of the band, but didn't know much about them. Even, back then, he told me stories of how they achieved the sound of INIL - most of which were borne out in later years documentaries - which I found magically fascinating. And so began my own love of the band. By the time the original band had split up, post 'How Dare You' album, my love and interest in the band had all but burnt out, and anyway, Punk had started to blow apart much of what I now saw as dated - I was young, remember, and Punk couldn't be ignored. So, it wasn't exactly 'cool' to like the soft focus, smooth, 'chocolate-box' sounds of 10cc. But, for about 2 years (a long time in the life of a youngster) they were for me, the coolest band on the planet. Add to this, they had great songs, clever lyrics, were all multi-instrumentalists, owned their own studio, and produced this masterpiece of great songwriting and studio craft, this made them a band apart from so many of their contemporaries. There is a great quote in one of the documentaries on this song, from Trevor Horn - no stranger himself to the arcane world of studio mastery - where he says (paraphrasing), when he started to get too enamoured of the work they were doing in the studio, they would listen to 'I'm Not in Love', to remind themselves of what great artistry really was, so they didn't get too big headed. Quite a compliment
Warren, thank you so much for talking (and playing wonderfully on your guitar) about the most beautiful song of the 70s (and probably all the era's after that). This song has always been in my life, ever since I was a little boy. Where ever, when ever I've been listening to it. Thousands of times, always mesmerized by the sound. After watching your video, I've been listening to the song and then again... And then again...
What a wonderful episode, this reminds of Lol Creme demonstrating the ‘Gizmo’ on ‘Tomorrow’s world’ back in the 70’s. 10cc! what a brilliant combination of talented, dedicated musicians. Thank you Warren.
I've seen other videos on the production of this song, but this one was definitely the best. I also really appreciated the harmonic analysis. Well done! Thanks!
What a great video! Love this series. I never made the connection that the same technique was used on Just the Way You Are! Different topic but the sax solo by Phil Woods is awesome.
Epic. Looking forward to tucking into this. Heard this on a reel to reel when I was a child and that set the standard for me as a listener of audible arts.
Dude, you nailed it with this one again, I was thinking only a few days ago about this this song, and how it was one of the greats, from one of the great song writing bands! ("...I'm Mandy...fly me! ...I don't like reggae, oh no. I love it...yeah!" Great story behind the song, thank you for relaying it to us!