10cc: Sheet Music CD Track Listing

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10cc Sheet Music (1974)
Originally Released 1974\nCD Edition Released \nRepertoire CD Edition Released May 3, 2000\nOriginals CD Edition Released March 2002\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Sometimes weird, sometimes jovial, sometimes downright snippy, Sheet Music is probably the single most sarcastic 10cc album available, with "The Worst Band in the World" qualifying for top satirical honors. The versatility and technical qualities of the band could be baffling to many listeners, but when they were on form, they were terrific. -- Steven McDonald\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: 10cc's second album was the next phase in what guitarist Eric Stewart called the band's "masterplan to control the universe. The Sweet, Slade and Gary Glitter are all very valuable pop," heproclaimed, "but it's fragile because it's so dependent on a vogue. We don't try to appeal to one audience, or aspire to instant stardom, we're satisfied to move ahead a little at a time as long as we're always moving forward." Sheet Music, perhaps the most widely adventurous album of what would become a wildly adventurous year, would more than justify that claim."It grips the heart of rock'n'roll like nothing I've heard before", raved Melody Maker, before describing 10cc as "the Beach Boys of "Good Vibrations", the Beatles of "Penny Lane", they're the mischievous kid next door, they're the Marx Brothers, they're Jack and Jill, they're comic cuts characters, and they're sheer brilliance". Stewart certainly agreed -- he told that same paper, 10cc's music was "better than 90% of the sheer unadulterated crap that's in the charts" and, 20 years on, bassist Graham Gouldman continued, "Sheet Music is probably the definitive 10cc album. What it was, our second album wasn't our difficult second album, it was our best second album. It was the best second album we ever did."Three hit singles spun off the record (the bonus tracks here were pulled from their b-sides), most of the other tracks could have followed suit, and it says much for Sheet Music's staying power that, no matter how many times the album is reissued, it has never lost its power to delight, excite and set alight a lousy day. -- Dave Thompson\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\n10cc come of age, February 26, 2003 \nBy "utchidiah" (Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, UK)\nWith their apprenticeship served and the eponymous '10cc' out of the way, the band didn't just change up a gear - they upgraded their vehicle. 'Sheet music' remains a masterclass in the composition of popular music classics, and reaffirmed the composers' status as major contributers to the genre. Starting right here, their work would weave itself through the popular music culture for decades. 'The Wall Street shuffle', 'The worst band in the world', 'Silly love' - many a lesser band, and there are many, would have been eternally fortunate to come up with anything half as good. In the words of 'The Sacro-Iliac', sit back and relax, 'cause its good for you. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nSomewhere, anywhere near Burbank, August 1, 2007 \nBy T. A. Smith "addison" (iowa city)\nThis album made a really horrible summer over into a great one for me in 1974. Fresh out of hospital, supposedly dying from pulmonary emboli in both lungs, new apartment, beautiful summer evening, a young girl, and a tab of something strawberry...Totally unlike me, NOW, but THEN, I dug this album the most since chicks seemed to dig it. Rolling stone dug it. Clapton's release from Miami sucked, period. These guys were like evil twin genius Lennon-McCartney clones gone horribly wrong and kind of glam, corny, and gay all at the same time, an arrow shot straight into the heart of where rocknroll was headed. Springsteen was the other dude who was gonna rock the cradle a bit. But do not forget! No! Not once, ever! To facetiously quote a lamented recently impeached president--these guys were Cambridge and Oxford material who happened to dig music too. So, panegyric re the music business, natch, forthright economically sound "Shufflin" on "Wall Street", some what politically incorrect "Oh Effendi" and "Hotel" and perhaps "Baron Samedi" as well, but these guys were Brits, a mad, Monty Pythonesque, pop sensibility twisted like Terry Gilliam's, predicting disco and ridiculous dance crazes("Sacro-Iliac") forecasting the Western World's Waterloo in the Middle East, all over that black gold ("Oh Effendi") and even using the Republican's war words "liberate the region" some thirty years in advance...breathless as I am, so is the music. It just never stops. The "Silly Love" song, pre-Sir Paul, and much better, thank you, because it really is silly, and monstrously guitarish at the same time, will play in your head for days. "Samedi" and "Hotel" are a hoot, listened to uncritically, like on the beach, smearig the lotion on yr sunglasses...that kind of music. Have a beer. "Clockwork Creep" is a tense little totally pop masterpiece dialog betwixt a plane and a bomb. Did I say prescient? Well, I suppose if one were only smart enough, we woulod have seen all this coming, but... These guys were very intelligent, very musical, I suspect they had read Kenneth Anger and Robin Wood, and out popped "Somewhere in Hollywood" which would absolutely outdo any other genre mashup, satirical piece ever written before or since. Brian WIlson got in here as well,in "Wild Old Men", as someone else mentioned, but these guys were simply encyclopedic in their musical knowledge, both pop and theoretical, and not too proud to show it. Every single beat of every song has been absolutely marbleized by tiny little fingers. Whew. Frank Zappa finally took a bath. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nNo Sophmore Slump, March 17, 2005 \nBy ElvisCostellosWeiner "Chekhov Is The Greatest" (Michigan)\n10cc was a band that got better with every album, up until How Dare You! any ways: I've only heard Deceptive Bends and Bloody Tourists after this (though Look Hear and Ten out of Ten are in the mail) so I can't really judge those albums. But while the first album was a perfect mix of goofy jokes, innovative song writing and playing, and great satire, this album not only one ups that album musically, but ten ups it! sorry, bad pun. \n\nThe music gets much more complex on this album: the strange styles have amagalized into a style of complex genre changes, complex chord changes and harmonies, multiple parts, and on somewhere in hollywood, a sweeping, dramatic feel. \n\nThe lyrics are good too: funny, catchy, very great word play. Not my main focus in the band: gotta love those songs! \n\nPick up the Double Disc Uk Records Collection. It has this album, plus the first, all their b-sides from the two albums, and the single versions of the singles, plus some cool liner notes. It's easy to find if you live in america, and a steal! \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nSheet Music, February 8, 2003 \nBy Mr. S. St Thomas "suckerfly" (UK)\nThis is a pop classic that many critics have hailed as one of the best releases of the 7o's, that not alot of people know about. Its not 10cc's fault. Their popularity at the time was still growing after the colossal success of their first album (1973's 10CC). When I say colossal I mean this. In 10cc's career from 1973 - 1976, they were rarely out of the Top 10 charts in Europe, with quite a few No. 1's. By 1975 that success repeated in the States. They were virtually the most successful of the 1970's British 'pop' groups. And practically no one knows.\nI first picked up SHEET MUSIC on a whim in 2001. Being familiar only with their songs 'The Wall Street Shuffle',

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