As I recall, it was the summer of 1975... that song was on all the time. When we compare music like that to today I could cry for what's been lost. Today's music is disposable. Instantly forgettable. No musicianship, no lyricist, just some generic machine generated background noise. No one forty and fifty years from now will be reacting to it.
@@dvnlsh22 It’s not all bad but you really gotta dig for it. Back then, (50’s-80’s) there were VOLUMINOUS amounts of classic hits EVERY DAY! It was just how it was. We didn’t know any better and we thought it would never end. The sheer amount of music and originality was mind-blowing. Now, not so much. I’ve had young ppl over the years tell me how lucky I was to have grown up in that time for music and I remind them that old music is just new music to new ears. Enjoy it! I love finding good, original music today, it’s just MUCH harder to find.
David -- It's true. The 70's were a golden era for music.... and musicianship! An outpouring of talent, inspiration, and imagination. Most pop music now is written on computers by cutting and pasting chord sequences, rhythms, and digital instruments. Then, to top it off, the singers are auto-tuned to perfection. To say that it's inauthentic is an understatement. For people who came of age in the 70's, it's sad to see. Perhaps TH-cam is performing a service by sharing that music on its platform.
Correction: mainstream music is terrible. The alternative/indie scene is very influenced by 70s and 80s pop. Listen to In your arms by sunbeam sound machine, they use analogue gear to get that older sound (reel to reel recorders, tune consoles etc) it’s incredible.
I copied this for you from another Reaction comments section: " There are 12 tones in the musical scale. 4 people in the band 10cc. Each member recorded themselves singing each of the 12 notes 3 times (if I remember correctly) making that 144 vocal tracks. Those tracks were then looped and the appropriate parts were increased or decreased in volume along with the chord progression of the song. " There is also a video on TH-cam "The Making Of Ten C.C.'s "I'm Not In Love"....:)
They recorded themselves singing aaahhhs multiple times on different notes, then made tape loops of the aaahhhs and fed them into mixer tracks where they used the faders to bring in the notes they wanted.
You are groovy and would have loved living in the 70s. i was born in 60 and spent my teenage years emersed in in the most innovated ,creative and diverse decade in ALL genre's of music. Ever. Everything was on the radio stations and music played in the streets with portable radios and later boom boxes. We shared the sounds not earbuds everywhere. plus we had 8 tracks and Cassettes and stereo. Lol
I hate you! That last sentence is from a damn tune that I love and being old I can't remember who does it. I freaking remember who when I hit the send button. I hope the last thing they pack up is your freaking piano. Tell the roadies to slow down. I just want to play a little bit longer. Oh god bless it I'm just gonna hit send. Lol PS Jackson freaking Browne
This was a product of the production duo of Godley and Cream. The sound comes from human voices recorded over and over. It was groundbreaking at the time. This was before the technology available today. It was a huge hit! ❤
The song was originally going in another direction, I think it was either Kevin Godley or LoL Creme suggested it should be done with a mass of vocals, instead. And they recorded the 4 band members vocals over & over again. Perhaps, hundreds of times or more, to get that atmospheric effect. All on 8-track, I believe too. Just amazing what they did, considering the technology that was avalible to the band at the time, in the mid-1970's. Such a brilliant & timeless classic of a song, as well. Love 10cc, very much!!
@@Mark28644 at first they were gonna do a voices only version. But to record all the voices they ran a basic track to sing along to. In the final edit they kept both. Wow!
Driving home on the freeway in LA,when this song came on the radio back in70-80s it sure made the long day easier to absorb and helped me unwind. See the movie Cherish,this great song is in the movie!
Such a great band , not underrated by anyone who listened to them in the 70’s .one of my favourite albums was The original soundtrack which this track is taken from.
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen someone react to this song and not even say one word about the lyrics. Her comments about the music were good though.
Agreed. What I also got from it was that while obviously in love, he was trying to convince himself, unsuccessfully I might add, that it wasn't he who was in love, but that it was she who was hung up on him instead - "So if I call you, don't make a fuss, don't tell your friends about the two of us."
YES, "He" IS "In LOVE"❤️and denial!! "Some" of us have given our ALL 💯 to a relationship, and there's always a chance of Heartache 💔, But when you find that "ONE" It's so worth the risk 💯❣️💯❣️
It's about his wife that he loved dearly, but was saying I don't need to say I love you all the time for you to know I love you, so he says the opposite to show his love ...
@@FoamySlobbers where did you hear that 🤣🤣...try listening to a few interviews where Eric Stewart explains why he wrote the song as his wife kept saying you don't say you love me enough ...although saying it's about his dog still made me laugh 👍👍
this song was way ahead of it's time. They tracked hundreds of their voices to make those backround harmonies. HUNDREDS. It's like an instrument. You should watch the making of.
After reviewing the comments l had to add my own about the words that made the song significant and emblematic of the '70's! Back then as a middle aged teenager l recall all the bravado and faked confidence that came with relationships and the tug and pull of girlfriends and best buddies and how we all tried to pretend to be above it all, when all we were doing was copying our moms and dads relationships as we understood them to be at that very tender age of being on the cusp of adulthood that we all wouldn't even really get to, maturity wise, until if we we're lucky, our actual 30's! Puppy love is a lost term that was used a lot back then by parents and was the name of a song, l won't get into here, but the actual feelings were as strong as wild horses when they came over you and as inseparable to get over and move on from but with time we all did. That l must say was a wonderful time to grow up in, as a kid at least!
Back in 1978 a friend of mine couldn't find anyone to go to a concert with him. So, I went with him. After about 4 songs I poked him in the ribs and said, "This is the best live band I have ever heard" Move over Pink Floyd, Queen, Kansas, Yes, Supertramp, Stevie Wonder, Joe Bonamassa, and Led Zeppelin, there's a new sheriff in town. Just check out 10cc "Art For Arts Sake" live from Wembley Conference Center in 1978. You'll understand.
The Female Voice in the Middle (Big Boys Don't Cry) is actually one of the Office Secretaries of the Music company office. The band convinced her to add her Whispers on the song out of the blue...which in part totally made the song
He doesn't want his heart broken he is acting as if he isn't in Love but he already took to long fall with LOVE... Just like every dream you ever had when you fell out of the SKY and woke up the moment you hit the ground... Remember it's a song to his WIFE....
I don't comment a lot but I have to say something here.....First of all, congrats on discovering 10CC Cash. Now, as you look thru the comments you'll see a long succession of "The Things We Do For Love" and "Dreadlock Holiday" Yes yes yes ok This, Dreadlock Holiday, and The Things We Do For Love are great songs, incredibly produced and performed songs (especially this one) but those are the commercial, the band has to make money songs. Dig a little deeper and you'll find the real 10CC. Songs like Silly Love, Life is a Minestrone, Good Morning Judge, Donna, Rubber Bullets, The Dean and I, Wall Street Shuffle, I could go on and on. Phenomenal band, IMHO one of the most underrated bands ever next to Triumph. Dig a little deeper (And not The Things We Do For Love LOL) you won't be sorry...... Peace
Scribe, you'll love their "The Things We Do For Love" and "Dreadlock Holiday". The backing vocals were a masterpiece of production work with the 4 band members vocals.
The four of them made tape loops of their voices. At the mix they all had fingers on different faders playing the tape loop like a notes. No digital tech or sound samplers to help them.
It reminds me of the actual sound of silence while l was partying with close friends on acid, back in the seventies. Not the song, mind you, but the very sound of silence itself! I'm talking about all the sythisized background that comes and goes both almost deafening and smoothly in wave like sounds throughout the song itself. I think that's what she was talking about concerning the meditative feel of being on a cloud! Who is with me on this? It was so reminiscent within that memory!
This song and Paul Davis' I Go Crazy are two of my all-time favorite top 20 songs. Glad you reacted to it and liked the groove. Dude's obviously smitten and sure trying to deny it or is he?
All the people saying the backing track was the 4 members of the band, in fact it was only 3 and they created 624 voices! Check out the making of I'm Not in love and hear the uncut (like other videos) version at the end. Just a black screen with no distraction to look at, so put the headphones on, lie down in a dark room and let the magic wash over you. th-cam.com/video/3oxe4mlsQos/w-d-xo.html
" be quiet big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry". Boy this takes me back to my teens a real breakup song. Scribe check out their track " Art for arts sake " one of my favorites along with " Dreadlock Holiday " an unusual but catchy tune.
What I could never understand was why they didn't simply use a Mellotron instead, to essentially do the same thing with its internal tape loops. Maybe they just couldn't get the right sound from those built into the keyboard? Or maybe they just wanted to do something unique, simply for the sake of it's uniqueness?
@@Retroearthling agreed, it wouldn't have been the same...but then imagine John, Paul & George singing the opening of Strawberry Fields Forever, lol...
Great reaction and thankfully you were listening to this 70's gem on headphones & got the full richness of the sounds. Please check out their other hits: Art For Art's Sake I'm Mandy Fly Me Life Is A Minestrone Your ears will thank you.
That was indeed an instrument blended together with over 600 voices. It took them 3 weeks to arrange it and afterwords they disassembled the tape loop. So they could play all the voices with all the notes as needed.
This song is very much a product of it's time. In the 70's it was all about being a player; that was the front men were expected to put forward no matter where they were from. That's all well and good, but what happens when you actually fall in love and you're no longer playing? How do you cope with that? That's what this song is all about; dealing with the dichotomy of the era. Also; the 70's was in LOVE with the synthesizer; so you get a lot of songs that harmonize vocals with it; it gives the whole song an ethereal vibe.
This was a unique moment in experimental music. The created all these tape loops to product over 600 voices which could be played like an instrument. The girl in the middle of the song was actually the studio receptionist who got coaxed into sitting behind a mic. Check out also, I'm Mandy fly me, Art for Art's sake, On Wall Street, Wanna rule the world, People in love. 10cc were one cool setup.
Written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, Stewart came up with the idea for the song after his wife of eight years asked him why he didn't say "I love you" more often.
These guys were a bit special, but now largely forgotten. As individuals, they must have written dozens and dozens of hits going back to the early 1960s, had been stars in other bands, invented new instruments, and had a large influence on the video boom of the 1980s/'90s. Try 'I'm Mandy, Fly me'.
I won't be able to explain it well, someone will put it in words better. But with the background sounds, they recorded each of the 4 members using 4 different vocal cords and then edited all 16 of them of the them together.
I love this song I was old when this song came out my sisters played the 45 of this song all the time I read it was number one for four to six weeks in 1975 and Elton John was upset because it beat out one of his songs love you videos you rock
Eric Stewart spent three weeks recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing "ahhh" 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, creating a 'choir' of 48 voices for each note. Creme suggested they could keep the voices going for an infinite time by using tape loops. Stewart created 12 ft long loops by feeding them at one end through the tape heads of the stereo recorder, and at the other end through a capstan roller fixed to the top of a microphone stand. Stewart played each loop through a separate channel of the mixing desk, turning the desk into a musical instrument. He also put gaffer tape across the bottom the channels, making it impossible to completely fade them down, creating constant background vocals.
That has nothing to do with this song. Why was the annoying loop repeating Kathy's last dimwit spoken line, "big boys don’t cry" that made that song go off? I would like to know why it was repeating it like that.
I never cared much for this tune. I thought 10cc was a highly underrated band, because about, 2 or 3 years before they came out with this, they had a completely different sound. If you ever get a chance to see their video " Rubber Bullets." These guys were highly underrated. On another note completely unrelated to this topic, I was wondering if I could suggest to you " One thing Leads To Another." The Fixx. 1983.
Orion and I rang it and I'll ring it again June take John Cougar Mellencamp you ever heard of John Cougar Mellencamp that's the artist the song would be check it out check it out to get this sweetie coming up there with a violin and you talkin about sweet playing violin John Cougar Mellencamp The song is called check it out
Sounds like he was in love to me.really that was a mean song he saying he just there for a booty call ..Yeah that was skating rink music they played every time I went skating on friday nights everybody would skate closer when they played it..funny. that and "heard it in a love song" Marshall Tucker
As I recall, it was the summer of 1975... that song was on all the time.
When we compare music like that to today I could cry for what's been lost.
Today's music is disposable. Instantly forgettable. No musicianship, no lyricist, just some generic machine generated background noise.
No one forty and fifty years from now will be reacting to it.
But they’ll still be talking about this one.
not all songs from today are that bad
@@dvnlsh22 It’s not all bad but you really gotta dig for it. Back then, (50’s-80’s) there were VOLUMINOUS amounts of classic hits EVERY DAY! It was just how it was. We didn’t know any better and we thought it would never end. The sheer amount of music and originality was mind-blowing. Now, not so much. I’ve had young ppl over the years tell me how lucky I was to have grown up in that time for music and I remind them that old music is just new music to new ears. Enjoy it! I love finding good, original music today, it’s just MUCH harder to find.
David -- It's true. The 70's were a golden era for music.... and musicianship! An outpouring of talent, inspiration, and imagination. Most pop music now is written on computers by cutting and pasting chord sequences, rhythms, and digital instruments. Then, to top it off, the singers are auto-tuned to perfection. To say that it's inauthentic is an understatement. For people who came of age in the 70's, it's sad to see. Perhaps TH-cam is performing a service by sharing that music on its platform.
Correction: mainstream music is terrible. The alternative/indie scene is very influenced by 70s and 80s pop. Listen to In your arms by sunbeam sound machine, they use analogue gear to get that older sound (reel to reel recorders, tune consoles etc) it’s incredible.
If you were a teenager when this song was out, you will have good memories of it!
No doubt!!
I was 9 years old and even back then "I'm Not In Love" was the most beautiful love song for me.
this song was in constant rotation on FM stations back in the day
A master class in music production with the ethereal overdubbed vocals. Makes this an all time classic.
I copied this for you from another Reaction comments section:
" There are 12 tones in the musical scale. 4 people in the band 10cc. Each member recorded themselves singing each of the 12 notes 3 times (if I remember correctly) making that 144 vocal tracks. Those tracks were then looped and the appropriate parts were increased or decreased in volume along with the chord progression of the song. "
There is also a video on TH-cam "The Making Of Ten C.C.'s "I'm Not In Love"....:)
Dude is right, and in 1975, that was bold and out there. Beautiful.
Actually, they had 620 voices when they were finished.
I heard 624 but we won't split hairs....
They recorded themselves singing aaahhhs multiple times on different notes, then made tape loops of the aaahhhs and fed them into mixer tracks where they used the faders to bring in the notes they wanted.
I believe that this process had never been done before I think they created it.
I just heard an interview of the group. If I heard correctly, they ended up with over 600 voices.
They were playing that mixing board like an instrument all by itself
Beautiful
I love a good aaah
You are groovy and would have loved living in the 70s. i was born in 60 and spent my teenage years emersed in in the most innovated ,creative and diverse decade in ALL genre's of music. Ever.
Everything was on the radio stations and music played in the streets with portable radios and later boom boxes. We shared the sounds not earbuds everywhere. plus we had 8 tracks and Cassettes and stereo.
Lol
I hate you! That last sentence is from a damn tune that I love and being old I can't remember who does it. I freaking remember who when I hit the send button. I hope the last thing they pack up is your freaking piano. Tell the roadies to slow down. I just want to play a little bit longer. Oh god bless it I'm just gonna hit send. Lol
PS Jackson freaking Browne
A song for the ages. Stunning.
Real melancholy in the lyrics and the music. Trying not to cry and hold up his pride by denying the hurt.
This was a product of the production duo of Godley and Cream. The sound comes from human voices recorded over and over. It was groundbreaking at the time. This was before the technology available today. It was a huge hit! ❤
The song was originally going in another direction, I think it was either Kevin Godley or LoL Creme suggested it should be done with a mass of vocals, instead. And they recorded the 4 band members vocals over & over again. Perhaps, hundreds of times or more, to get that atmospheric effect. All on 8-track, I believe too. Just amazing what they did, considering the technology that was avalible to the band at the time, in the mid-1970's. Such a brilliant & timeless classic of a song, as well. Love 10cc, very much!!
@@Mark28644 at first they were gonna do a voices only version. But to record all the voices they ran a basic track to sing along to. In the final edit they kept both. Wow!
One of my favorites songs to play on my guitar!! I was 7 when it came out in '75..
Driving home on the freeway in LA,when this song came on the radio back in70-80s it sure made the long day easier to absorb and helped me unwind. See the movie Cherish,this great song is in the movie!
Such a great band , not underrated by anyone who listened to them in the 70’s .one of my favourite albums was The original soundtrack which this track is taken from.
I was hoping you’d dig into the lyrics a bit on this one, very ironic, he’s obviously very much in love!
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen someone react to this song and not even say one word about the lyrics. Her comments about the music were good though.
Agreed. What I also got from it was that while obviously in love, he was trying to convince himself, unsuccessfully I might add, that it wasn't he who was in love, but that it was she who was hung up on him instead - "So if I call you, don't make a fuss, don't tell your friends about the two of us."
This reminds me of my childhood in the 70's
YES, "He" IS "In LOVE"❤️and denial!! "Some" of us have given our ALL 💯 to a relationship, and there's always a chance of Heartache 💔, But when you find that "ONE" It's so worth the risk 💯❣️💯❣️
Try their "Dreadlock Holiday". You'll love it. :-)
INDEED!!!!
Not sure she will understand the cricket references, but yeah it is a great song. About as far way as I'm Not in Love in musical style...
He’s trying to convince himself that he doesn’t love her, even though he does.
...by trying to convince himself that it was she who was in love with him.
Nah. He's just trying to make that skank fall in love with him and give him all her hard earned. Reversed psychology.
It's about his wife that he loved dearly, but was saying I don't need to say I love you all the time for you to know I love you, so he says the opposite to show his love ...
@@glastonbury4304 this was about a family dog that died.
@@FoamySlobbers where did you hear that 🤣🤣...try listening to a few interviews where Eric Stewart explains why he wrote the song as his wife kept saying you don't say you love me enough ...although saying it's about his dog still made me laugh 👍👍
this song was way ahead of it's time. They tracked hundreds of their voices to make those backround harmonies. HUNDREDS. It's like an instrument. You should watch the making of.
And NO autotune back then either.
Thank you for your genuine appreciation of one of the most talented and professional bands of the 1970s.
After reviewing the comments l had to add my own about the words that made the song significant and emblematic of the '70's!
Back then as a middle aged teenager l recall all the bravado and faked confidence that came with relationships and the tug and pull of girlfriends and best buddies and how we all tried to pretend to be above it all, when all we were doing was copying our moms and dads relationships as we understood them to be at that very tender age of being on the cusp of adulthood that we all wouldn't even really get to, maturity wise, until if we we're lucky, our actual 30's!
Puppy love is a lost term that was used a lot back then by parents and was the name of a song, l won't get into here, but the actual feelings were as strong as wild horses when they came over you and as inseparable to get over and move on from but with time we all did.
That l must say was a wonderful time to grow up in, as a kid at least!
Back in 1978 a friend of mine couldn't find anyone to go to a concert with him. So, I went with him.
After about 4 songs I poked him in the ribs and said,
"This is the best live band I have ever heard"
Move over Pink Floyd, Queen, Kansas, Yes, Supertramp, Stevie Wonder, Joe Bonamassa, and Led Zeppelin, there's a new sheriff in town.
Just check out 10cc "Art For Arts Sake" live from Wembley Conference Center in 1978. You'll understand.
The Female Voice in the Middle (Big Boys Don't Cry) is actually one of the Office Secretaries of the Music company office. The band convinced her to add her Whispers on the song out of the blue...which in part totally made the song
Great band! Two main members, Godley & Creme, had a big hit with a very popular video on MTV in the 80's called, "Cry" that you'd like!
Also Godfrey and Creme directed a lot of music videos from Duran Duran to guns n roses and a lot more
Ready for the flip side Scribe, “The Things We Do For Love” by 10cc next, if you please 🙂.
He doesn't want his heart broken he is acting as if he isn't in Love but he already took to long fall with LOVE... Just like every dream you ever had when you fell out of the SKY and woke up the moment you hit the ground... Remember it's a song to his WIFE....
Those were a lot of vocal tracks. Most of the dream tones you heard were voices. 620 voices in total.
I don't comment a lot but I have to say something here.....First of all, congrats on discovering 10CC Cash. Now, as you look thru the comments you'll see a long succession of "The Things We Do For Love" and "Dreadlock Holiday" Yes yes yes ok This, Dreadlock Holiday, and The Things We Do For Love are great songs, incredibly produced and performed songs (especially this one) but those are the commercial, the band has to make money songs. Dig a little deeper and you'll find the real 10CC. Songs like Silly Love, Life is a Minestrone, Good Morning Judge, Donna, Rubber Bullets, The Dean and I, Wall Street Shuffle, I could go on and on. Phenomenal band, IMHO one of the most underrated bands ever next to Triumph.
Dig a little deeper (And not The Things We Do For Love LOL) you won't be sorry......
Peace
I'd like to add "The Worst Band In The World" to that outstanding list of yours Paul.
A fine list, to which you may choose to add "Art for Art's Sake".
❤️🎶⭐️🙏 and the colours of the video match your shirt 🦋
What a song
Scribe, you'll love their "The Things We Do For Love" and "Dreadlock Holiday". The backing vocals were a masterpiece of production work with the 4 band members vocals.
Yep! He’s in love folks! I’ve ALWAYS loved this song!💜🧡✌️✨
The four of them made tape loops of their voices. At the mix they all had fingers on different faders playing the tape loop like a notes. No digital tech or sound samplers to help them.
I've loved this song for like 35 years, and I'm just now getting the joke... finally.
Better late than never!
Beautiful song. Words men say to ourselves when we're on the cusp of love because it's scary and surreal for the first time.
It reminds me of the actual sound of silence while l was partying with close friends on acid, back in the seventies.
Not the song, mind you, but the very sound of silence itself!
I'm talking about all the sythisized background that comes and goes both almost deafening and smoothly in wave like sounds throughout the song itself.
I think that's what she was talking about concerning the meditative feel of being on a cloud!
Who is with me on this? It was so reminiscent within that memory!
Great reaction! "The Things We Do For Love" is another one of their hits.
This song and Paul Davis' I Go Crazy are two of my all-time favorite top 20 songs. Glad you reacted to it and liked the groove. Dude's obviously smitten and sure trying to deny it or is he?
Flashback.. AM Radio driving to the beach this song would come on... very popular and played alot in its day..
All the people saying the backing track was the 4 members of the band, in fact it was only 3 and they created 624 voices! Check out the making of I'm Not in love and hear the uncut (like other videos) version at the end. Just a black screen with no distraction to look at, so put the headphones on, lie down in a dark room and let the magic wash over you.
th-cam.com/video/3oxe4mlsQos/w-d-xo.html
Best wishes $cribe!
2021. Hey I'm Not In Love. But I'm still here.... still try'n to convince myself...big boi's don't cry........love your reaction.....😎
" be quiet big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry". Boy this takes me back to my teens a real breakup song. Scribe check out their track " Art for arts sake " one of my favorites along with " Dreadlock Holiday " an unusual but catchy tune.
"be quiet big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry, big boys don't cry" Why was the loop repeating it like that?
no synth hundreds of voices overdubbed. It's amazing.
What I could never understand was why they didn't simply use a Mellotron instead, to essentially do the same thing with its internal tape loops. Maybe they just couldn't get the right sound from those built into the keyboard? Or maybe they just wanted to do something unique, simply for the sake of it's uniqueness?
@@mikeking7710 thank god they didn’t.
@@Retroearthling agreed, it wouldn't have been the same...but then imagine John, Paul & George singing the opening of Strawberry Fields Forever, lol...
Mike King - the mellotron note doesn’t last long enough and goes out of tune at the end.
Great reaction and thankfully you were listening to this 70's gem on headphones & got the full richness of the sounds.
Please check out their other hits:
Art For Art's Sake
I'm Mandy Fly Me
Life Is A Minestrone
Your ears will thank you.
That was indeed an instrument blended together with over 600 voices. It took them 3 weeks to arrange it and afterwords they disassembled the tape loop. So they could play all the voices with all the notes as needed.
That's a damn good line "Sounds like you are floating in a cloud"
My favourite song of all time song, never get tired of hearing it !!
Floating off and discovering the newness of being whatever, in the moment and slowly fading feeling new.
This song is very much a product of it's time. In the 70's it was all about being a player; that was the front men were expected to put forward no matter where they were from. That's all well and good, but what happens when you actually fall in love and you're no longer playing? How do you cope with that? That's what this song is all about; dealing with the dichotomy of the era. Also; the 70's was in LOVE with the synthesizer; so you get a lot of songs that harmonize vocals with it; it gives the whole song an ethereal vibe.
Things we do for love...next song by these guys
This was a unique moment in experimental music. The created all these tape loops to product over 600 voices which could be played like an instrument. The girl in the middle of the song was actually the studio receptionist who got coaxed into sitting behind a mic.
Check out also, I'm Mandy fly me, Art for Art's sake, On Wall Street, Wanna rule the world, People in love.
10cc were one cool setup.
Written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, Stewart came up with the idea for the song after his wife of eight years asked him why he didn't say "I love you" more often.
These guys were a bit special, but now largely forgotten. As individuals, they must have written dozens and dozens of hits going back to the early 1960s, had been stars in other bands, invented new instruments, and had a large influence on the video boom of the 1980s/'90s. Try 'I'm Mandy, Fly me'.
Hella smooth! Maybe one of the smoothest of all time!!
Also he is such a liar, he is so crazy in love with her.. lol
❤️
Wow... One of my favorite bands :)
I won't be able to explain it well, someone will put it in words better. But with the background sounds, they recorded each of the 4 members using 4 different vocal cords and then edited all 16 of them of the them together.
You did a decent explain, much better than i. However, here is the Pros and the explanation in great detail: th-cam.com/video/3oxe4mlsQos/w-d-xo.html
I love this song I was old when this song came out my sisters played the 45 of this song all the time I read it was number one for four to six weeks in 1975 and Elton John was upset because it beat out one of his songs love you videos you rock
One of the all time greats. Gets me everytime. Everytime.
Great song to chill out in the night on the roof. Yeah she can be there, just because I may need something from the ❤️ fridge.
☮️💟. Your reactions to the 60s & 70s stuff is the best. ☮️💟☮️💟
These guys were groundbreaking in there day there another deep rabbit hole to enjoy with them
this sound blew my tiny 12 yr old mind in 77 when i first heard it .....
I also thought he was trying to convince himself he was not in love. This was one of my top songs back when it came out.
I love it when people realize they are listening to something great..................after only a few lines.
Interesting Jamel just reacted to this song and The Kinks Lola 🤔
maybe they are the same person...lol...she puts on a hat and becomes Jamel
@@madkow007 They're all on rotation. This one is only interested in promoting her new album.
I think there is a longer version where it almost sounds like someone is painting a room with music, never seems to end.
She will be beside you
You’ve got to try Rubber bullets and good morning judge they are great songs.
Remember big boys dont cry
Kathy Redfern's last spoken line in the middle that was repeated too often to make that song go off-topic is not true. It's a lie.
Please listen to Kelsey Lu’s cover of this song. It’s so beautiful, and it gives such a different feel.
The story behind the sound of this song is that they each layer down 100’s of layers of vocal’s then mapped them to the synth as full cords
Eric Stewart spent three weeks recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing "ahhh" 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, creating a 'choir' of 48 voices for each note.
Creme suggested they could keep the voices going for an infinite time by using tape loops. Stewart created 12 ft long loops by feeding them at one end through the tape heads of the stereo recorder, and at the other end through a capstan roller fixed to the top of a microphone stand.
Stewart played each loop through a separate channel of the mixing desk, turning the desk into a musical instrument. He also put gaffer tape across the bottom the channels, making it impossible to completely fade them down, creating constant background vocals.
I can't stop telling people, "Youlookatme and Ilookatyou, that is what we do."
You do know that that phrase is from Weird Al's song Trapped in the Drive Thru.
Brought love and break up emotions both back to me....
One of the great love songs.
Guinness book of records for greatest amount of overdubbing ever on a audio track.
I have read a lot of people talking about the bassline, think they mean the kick drum throbbing, am I right?
....big boys don't cry..
"Big boys don't cry" - that has nothing to do with this song.
Someone makes him laugh at 3.40 and he can't mime till he gets his shit together. Brilliant.
Big boys don’t cry
Big boys don’t cry
That has nothing to do with this song. Why was the annoying loop repeating Kathy's last dimwit spoken line, "big boys don’t cry" that made that song go off? I would like to know why it was repeating it like that.
They loaded hundreds of voices onto a Mellotron so as to pay them as notes.
What a wonderful song! Fun fact: look up what the band name means/ refers to? 🤣😂
Check out the documentary on the making of the song "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc th-cam.com/video/3oxe4mlsQos/w-d-xo.html
You go girl.....................................I'm not in love.
Every time I hit your site I regret it!
It's all about you!
Great soundtrack for LSD.
I never cared much for this tune. I thought 10cc was a highly underrated band, because about, 2 or 3 years before they came out with this, they had a completely different sound.
If you ever get a chance to see their video " Rubber Bullets." These guys were highly underrated.
On another note completely unrelated to this topic, I was wondering if I could suggest to you " One thing Leads To Another." The Fixx. 1983.
Check out MORE THAN WORDS by the group EXTREME
great tune and nice response!
Please from this to “Dreadlock Holiday” please
Harden your heart. Love is illusion.
Why do people have to interrupt great music when they haven’t got a clue
Absolutely
He's still deeply in love with her but they are no longer together so he is in denial of his feelings.
I still think you should listen to Gypsy Kings - Hotel California cover.
Until a breathing perfect creature
Isley brothers..... fight the power
I love your reaction...try same group 'Don't Hang Up'
Orion and I rang it and I'll ring it again June take John Cougar Mellencamp you ever heard of John Cougar Mellencamp that's the artist the song would be check it out check it out to get this sweetie coming up there with a violin and you talkin about sweet playing violin John Cougar Mellencamp The song is called check it out
I like her, she's alright
Sounds like he was in love to me.really that was a mean song he saying he just there for a booty call ..Yeah that was skating rink music they played every time I went skating on friday nights everybody would skate closer when they played it..funny. that and "heard it in a love song" Marshall Tucker