Music from Consequences/L

Music from Consequences/L Artist: Godley & Creme
Label: Diablo Records UK
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 740155885823
EAN: 0740155885823
ASIN: B0002ADXZM


Release Date: 2004-07-01

Music from Consequences/L


Related Categories:

General General
Categories | Pop | Styles | Music
Pop Rock Pop Rock
Categories | Pop | Styles | Music
General General
Categories | Rock | Styles | Music
Progressive Rock Progressive Rock
Categories | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music
Rock Rock
Categories | Imports | Stores | Music

Tracks:

  1. Five O'clock In The Morning
  2. When Things Go Wrong
  3. Lost Weekend (Ft Sarah Vaughan)
  4. It's Cool, Cool, Cool In The Morning
  5. Sailor
  6. Rosie (Ft Peter Cook)
  7. Sleeping Earth
  8. Honolulu Lulu
  9. Flood
  10. Burial Scene
  11. Sporting Life
  12. Sandwiches Of You
  13. Art School Canteen
  14. Group Life
  15. Punchbag
  16. Foreign Accents
  17. Hit Factory
  18. Business Is Business

Similar Items:

  1. Freeze Frame/Ismism
  2. Birds of Prey/History Mix, Vol. 1
  3. Bloody Tourists
  4. How Dare You!
  5. Consequences

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Deranged.......2007-02-09

These two albums show Godley And Creme at their deranged best...or worst, depending on how you look at it. These two seemed to work best with a normalizing influence, like in 10cc with Eric and Graham stopping these two from flying off into the stratsophere. Once they left, something like Consequences was perhaps inevitable. No doubt feeling pretty good, after the commercial and critical success of the first four 10cc albums, they probably felt they could do anything. The result was Consequences, one of the most over the top, ambitious etc. albums of all time. It effectively killed their career in the critics eyes: 10cc continued on for four more albums, each strong in their own ways, with various strangeness running throughout, illustrating Eric and Graham were also a bit strange themselves.

However, Music From Consequences, the album containing the songs from Consequences with some of the instrumental stuff, also illustrates Godley And Creme's "normal" aspects. Indeed, to call this stuff "normal" is like calling Clint Howard "handsome." These are tuneful songs, but full of the weird push and pull of classic 10cc. This album shows that, in the impenterable nonsense of Consequences, there was a great little weird pop album waiting to come out.

After the massive failure of Consequences, the band scaled back their ambitions, and released the short L. However, just because they scaled back their ambitions didn't mean they scaled back their insanity: this is one of the most complex, twisted, confusing, and just plain weird albums to ever be released by two formerly succesful pop stars. The interesting thing about the album is it's TUNEFULNESS: though it becomes weird, twisted, dissonant, it never forgets the importance of GOOD MELODY. It's sort of sad, though, to see them operate here: if they would have stayed in 10cc, these songs would have fit in well with the more normal stuff the other two were doing. Imagine hearing "Sandwiches Of You" sitting next to "Things We Do For Love." Twisted indeed!

4 out of 5 stars Classic albums full of wit, humor and invention.......2004-07-27

Perhaps the consequence of ambition is to be savaged by critics and fans alike. "Consequences" was torn to shreds by many critics for its pretentions when it was first released. A narrative double disc album, it featured a story about nature rebelling against man along with songs and instrumentals by Godley & Creme who had recently left 10cc. While ambitious and, yes, perhaps pretentious the sprawling album offered something music hadn't seen in awhile--artist attempting something on a large scale with wit and intelligence. The drawback to "Consequences" was its reliance on, perhaps, too much narration by the talented Peter Cook when fans had come to expect something different from Godley & Creme.

The "Music from Consequences" came to market to salvage a disasterous reception for the duo's album double concept album. It focused primarily on the songs and instrumentals with a bit of narration by Cook to hold it all together. On the whole, it works equally as well as the original double album. The best songs are very much the equal of what the duo had accomplished within 10cc. "5 O'Clock in the Morning" stands as, perhaps, the best track on the album with its observations about the life of the working person.

"L" on the other hand didn't have ambition of "Consequences" but it did have just about as much creativity going on. "An Englishman in New York" features Godley & Creme's sarcastic wit at its best and the galloping melody and vocal delivered by Kevin Godley reminds me of "The Dean and I" in terms of its ambitious scope and musical changes. It's not a perfect album but does benefit from a better, more focused "message" than "Consequences". Featuring gutarist Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music, 801)on many tracks, the album shows the duo's Zappaesque word play and musical invention frequently in top form.

Music Album:

  1. Play the Music Louder ~ Curtis Gordon
  2. Pleasure & Pain ~ The Divinyls
  3. Bedrock in Concert (Bonus DVD) ~ Wishbone Ash
  4. Ookina Furudokei
  5. Modern Day Troubadours ~ Various Artists
  6. Vehicles & Animals ~ Athlete
  7. The Best of Roxy Music ~ Roxy Music
  8. Mann Made Hits & Other Delicacies ~ Manfred Mann
  9. In a Real Country Dark ~ The Love Scene
  10. Fun Filth & Fury: 18 Prime Punk Cuts ~ Various Artists

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

No Pain for Cakes ~ The Lounge Lizards

Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: The Music of Annette Peacock ~ Marilyn Crispell

Portrait in Jazz ~ Bill Evans Trio

The Color Of Apples

Winter in America ~ Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson

New World ~ Do as Infinity

Hmv Recordings V.2 ~ Mohamed Abdel Wahab

Me Abrace Na Saida ~ Danilo Franca

A Dama Do Fado ~ Amalia Rodrigues

Parade ~ Plastic Tree