![]() So that was where it all went finally, decisively wrong. From Eric Clapton via 10cc through to Olly Cunting Murs, is there anything more cringe-inducing than dabblers in reggae? Especially when they do the accents. It had the chart-topping 'Dreadlock Holiday' on it, which was the last thing everybody remembered about 10cc which I found repellent from the first time I heard it and which underpins Bennun's First (and only) Law Of Reggae: only those who play nothing but reggae should be permitted to play reggae at all. But what the hell was Deceptive Bends doing there? Or Bloody Tourists? The other sleeves stacked up beside my second-hand Thorens turntable bore the legends "New Order" or "Cocteau Twins" or "Talking Heads" - I was catching up, y'see, for one reason and another - and that was all very commendable, according to folk who knew about this sort of thing. There was so much stuff going on here that kept snagging my attention. I was listening - not because I was smarter or more alert than anybody else, nor because I was one of those dreary twerps who embraces what most dismiss purely because most dismiss it. 10cc sounded bland only if you weren't listening. People thought 10cc were bland, if they thought about 10cc at all. The road itself was cut through ever-changing terrain and full of hairpin turns. They were weird in a middle-of-the-road way. Or rather, there were lots of things that were a bit like bits of them, but nothing at all that was like all of them, all at once.ġ0cc were weird, in one of the weirdest ways. It took me a while to realise there wasn't anything else like them. I bought everything I could find by them. 10cc, by contrast, were in the bargain boxes at the second-hand record fairs where I did my monthly rounds. Even Status Quo were invited to open Live Aid. I'm trying to think of things that might have. And More compilation from 2006, available as a DVD.When I became fascinated with 10cc in the late 80s, nothing could have seemed less current. The video has since been repackaged as the companion to the Greatest Hits.
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