10cc - Life Is A Minestrone Reaction

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

Great band '10cc', a big fan of their stuff, my favourite tracks by them: "Donna", "Rubber Bullets", "The Wall Street Shuffle", "I'm Not In Love", "Art for Art's Sake", "I'm Mandy, Fly Me", "Good Morning Judge", "The Things We Do for Love", "Dreadlock Holiday". There are many more but these are some of my favourites by them.

[@GeorgetteHolloway-g4q]

Love this!!!!! What a great band from the 70's all their songs were different such a versatile sound absolutely fabulous I grew up listening to this band. You can't go wrong going down this rabbit hole they had so many hits it's unbelievable you won't be sorry!!!! See belows comments all great hits!!!!! This group was around the same time as Supertramp you need to listen to this band as well, had so much creativeness in their music!!!!!!

[@GeorgetteHolloway-g4q]

Please listen to more of these hits they were so great, good production and sound always makes you happy!!!!

[@heathcornbeef]

Yes you do have to do more 10CC

[@cyclops60]

So glad you enjoyed this, one of my favourites of many from 10cc! This takes me back to a school trip in the mid 70's, crammed into a mini-bus going along with this on the radio. Fantastic musicians combined with quirky (a little eccentric maybe?) British humour. So many hits and great albums - Donna, Rubber Bullets, The Dean and I, Silly Love, The Wall Street Shuffle, Art for Art's sake, I'm Mandy fly me (pick me, pick me!), Dreadlock holiday. Cheers

[@JamesDickson-vs5of]

Brilliant 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

[@delorangeade]

It's ridiculous and brilliant. Pop music used to be able to get away with being clever if the hooks were strong enough. I'm Mandy, Fly Me is the clear favourite for me of 10cc's singles.

[@mightyV444]

I just listened to it for the first time! 😍 Its main guitar lick sounded vaguely familiar, though 🙂

[@simonlitten]

10cc were brilliant! They were always prepared to experiment and push boundaries. My earliest personal favourite of the band was "Wall Street Shuffle". The bands two best albums were "How Dare You" (lots of great tunes there) and "The Original Soundtrack" - please check out Une Nuit A Paris. Life Is A Minestrone is from that album.

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

Cracking request mightyV 👌 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@heathcornbeef]

Kia ora hello brother hope you are doing well 😁 I've got teeth 😁

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

@@heathcornbeef I’m fine sir , hope your well too .. well it’s after 3am here now and I’ve had my fix of the Haniers new music so it’s time for “ beddy baw baws “.. as I used to say to my kids when they were little 😝.. catch ye soon Heath ✊ 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@JamesDickson-vs5of]

@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering yet another auld yin, cmon bawbaw time 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

@@JamesDickson-vs5of aye it was a remnant from my own childhood which I transferred to my ain weans 😂 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jornspirit]

...10cc were so much fun overall in the seventies - absolutely brilliant!! ...one album banger after the other... 💖

[@JohnLovesSpain]

OMG one of my favourite bands in my youth. Wonderful band, still touring in UK, depleted members of course. Pleas review Un uit de Paris, ie One night in Paris... this song of theirs inspired Fredy Mercury to write and compose Bohemium Rhapsody as I understand. Genius musicians 10cc

[@nicensleazy1892]

Have always loved 10cc - very talented band.

[@TheoZoffrok]

Let me add another vote for I'm Mandy, Fly Me, which is one of the most brilliantly constructed and executed pop songs I've ever heard. It's simply a masterpiece, and for my money even greater than I'm Not In Love.

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

I’m first n this a huge fav of mine 😅 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@JamesDickson-vs5of]

The other week we spoke aboot the Beatles being a huge influence on today's music, I think the same can be said of Graham gouldman, my ain fav is , Pamela Pamela, hope yer guid ser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

@@JamesDickson-vs5of totally agree James , prolific songwriter for others . I’m good cheers 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@mightyV444]

Aaaahhhh!!!! 😆 I'd popped into the local community centre a bit over an hour ago to grab some lunch at the 'Koha Café' event, and when I saw the soup this week was minestrone, I straight away broke into singing the chorus of this song! 🤣 Massive synchronicity there! 😄

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

Kismet!.. there’s a word for that sort of synchrony and I’m venturing that one 😅.. cracking good request V ..👌 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@mightyV444]

@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering - I only know Kermit, sorry! 🐸😅 And thank you, Jay! 😊 Yes, a fun song indeed! 😁 I'd actually heard it only _twice_ , before today! 😀 But that chorus had stuck with me right away! 😄 Have a great Fiday! 😀👍☀️

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

@@mightyV444 and you mate 👌 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ghichens3418]

Great Choice Squire !!

[@mightyV444]

@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering - Thank you, Jay! 😊🙏 After a couple of cold, grey and rainy days, the Sun is back today, which feels sooo gooood! 😊 This is when Winter is well bearable! 😁👍☀️

[@lawrencefeldman7744]

First rate , wonderful choice! The more 10cc I hear the deeper I want to dive having only heard their hits!

[@mightyV444]

Thank you! 😊 I mostly know only their hits myself and am starting to feel like doing a 10CC deep-dive! 😄

[@colrhodes377]

Definitely one for your playlist. Great suggestion, V! 😊

[@mightyV444]

@@colrhodes377 - Thank you, Col! 😀 I hope all's been well with you meanwhile! 😉👍☀️🎵🍀

[@paulkenney4021]

love this song . love how young lady boogies too :D

[@Starburst_Candy]

I love this song, and I also like Rubber bullets from the same band.

[@alanwhitney3263]

Great band, The Dean and I is another good track 🎉

[@colinwilliams3619]

Talented band....like a workshop. Art For Arts Sake and I'm Mandy Fly Me are two of my favs.

[@mightyV444]

@@colinwilliams3619 - I used to understand "Paparazzi" instead of "Art For Art's Sake", until only maybe a couple or three years ago! 😅

[@notanotherenigma7759]

I remember many nights, partaking in a certain herb, listening to the How Dare you album. Just brilliant! Songs like I'm Mandy, Iceberg, Head Room, I Wanna Be The Boss (that one always bought fits of laughter from my ex, who also was enjoying that herb!) and of course, Art For Art Sake. Now, that would be a great album for your Patrion channel! Godley and Creme splintered off and had some success, with albums like Freeze Frame (another album that is more enjoyable with herbal enhancement, songs like Strange Apparatus/An Englishman In New York, not the Sting song, I Pity Inanimate Objects, Freeze Frame) and Ismism (Under Your Thumb, Joeys Camel, Cry to name a few) Godley and Creme also got into making videos, for example, they did the Falling Down The Mountain video for INXS. They did what was leading technology video for their song, Cry, where peoples faces morphed into other faces. It was so cutting edge in its day, the process was used in Michael Jackson's Thriller video!

[@hanierfamily]

We thought that video for Cry was absolutely brilliant!

[@DamienCalnon-uq7zj]

10cc songs are fair enough - well played and inventive. However, don't be tempted to stray into the dodgy Wedding Bells from Godley and Creme - a crime against synth pop! Incidentally, the best minestrone i ever had was in a restaurant on the slopes of Claviere ski resort. So good, that even the miserable hag who served it couldn't spoil the delicious flavours. Molto bene!

[@mightyV444]

I'd come across 'Church Bells' only fairly recently and for the first (and hopefully last) time! 😅 Great to hear about that delicious soup, too! 😊👍

[@ELOnut142]

You can't beat a bit of 10cc👍

[@ragnarmyhr7238]

One of my favorite band. Lots of instruments and a fun lyrics. The album Sheet music was the first I heard. Wall street shuffle!! I've seen them live.

[@heathcornbeef]

No pressure

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

C n C please put my name against Mandy , Wall Street Shuffle and Rubber Bullets in that order if you’ve not heard any or all of them please . This is just a brilliant piece of pop/rock written by 4 consummate musicians and writers . Very clever lyrics backed up by a superb melody . This puts yesterdays one chord dirge into the “ phook off “ cupboard 😅 Such a joyful song , great band , great request - I remember watching this on TOTP when I was around 12 , good times . Thank you for reaction 🙏 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@mightyV444]

'Wall Street Shuffle' was that other 10CC song they'd checked out 😀👍

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

@@mightyV444 great minds think alike V 😆 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ginevras]

"I'm Not in Love" and "Somewhere in Hollywood" are songs I'd recommend.

[@hanierfamily]

We know I'm Not In Love very well. We will add the other one to our list.

[@heathcornbeef]

BACON AND CHEESECAKE PROOF THAT LIFE IS WORTH HANGING ON TOO 😁

[@ghichens3418]

Great band Tis Thy " 10CC " make up such a huge part of the Soundtrack of the 70 s ! Specially a lot of Discos last song was "Im Not In Love " by this band which is a must to hear ! Cheers !

[@hanierfamily]

We know that one quite well.

[@ghichens3418]

@@hanierfamily Hi ! Hope you Both are Fighting Fit and full of beans . Have a great Week End that is nearly here again ! Blessings and Peace ! from Graham and his long suffering Wife ! Cheers

[@johncarr2806]

Eric Stewart began his successful career in The Mindbenders, singing lead vocals on their No.1 hit, "A Groovy Kind Of Love," in the mid-sixties.

[@GutsGrizzle]

Before 10cc, they were called 'Hotlegs'. They had a sort of hit with 'Neanderthal man' .

[@KillerBl8]

@@GutsGrizzle’Sort of hit’ - it got to Number 2, held off by Elvis.

[@GutsGrizzle]

@@KillerBl8 I wasn't sure how high up the chart it got.. No'2 you say? Excellent

[@mightyV444]

On that note, there's quite a good 10CC documentary on YT, with one of its highlights being the making of 'I'm Not In Love'! 🙂

[@ELOnut142]

When 10cc switched record companies (because they were doing all that work, but, were broke). The company bosses picked a 'Safe' song to release. They picked a classic!!

[@TeresaMosby-sm4js]

Their masterpiece, next to I'm Not In Love, is Feel The Benefit.

[@jameswarner5809]

As well as all the hits so far mentioned, I'd also recommend the quirky Clockwork Creep and Iceberg, the instrumental How Dare You and the heart-rending Don't Hang Up.

[@stuartmorriss]

Bit of trivia for you guys.They had 11 uk top ten hits.

[@davidmacgregor5193]

My favourite 10cc track is "Feel the Benefit" from their "Deceptive Bends" album, the track is a Rock Opera lasting over ten minutes, it is probably too long for you to review, but is a great album track in three parts.

[@777petew]

10cc were a genius band. I listen to their albums such a lot. On one of their albums "How Dare you" someone wrote "Very 10cc, very wonderful" It sums them up. A lot of it is listening music, but there are some great rock aspects. Please listen to them if you can.

[@sdwill66]

And as everybody knows, the bassist, Graham Gouldman, has written many hits for other artists including The Yardbirds & The Hollies.

[@mightyV444]

@@sdwill66 - I think he also was in a band called Wax in the mid Eighdies, who had a Hit song with 'Building A Bridge To Your Heart' 🙂

[@GutsGrizzle]

Love 10cc. May I request a Patreon for the album 'SHEET MUSIC' by 10cc. Would love to hear that again and your reactions to it.

[@GutsGrizzle]

Getting an eyeful of the tower (eiffel) in France 😂

[@barbararees604]

Another band I looorve 🥰 More suggestions for you are dreadlock holiday, I'm not in love, rubber bullets, the things we do for love and good morning judge (another silly one). Enjoy? 😘💖

[@hanierfamily]

We know I'm Not In Love, and The Things We Do For Love very well! We will add the others to our list.

[@barbararees604]

@@hanierfamily I thought you must know at least a few that I listed, most are pretty famous songs. I'm surprised you didn't mention dreadlock holiday, but maybe you'll know it as "I don't like cricket", as a few I know often say that, meaning that song.

[@hanierfamily]

Yes. We know that one too.

[@thunderspike1892]

Vocals by Lol Creme. You should check out Art For Art's Sake, Good Morning Judge and I'm Mandy Fly Me. Talking about Godley & Creme you should check out An Englishman In New York. Cool song. Not to be confused with the Sting song with the same title.

[@mightyV444]

That song had been my first Godley & Creme impression, and also a bit of a creepy one because they'd performed it together with an orchestra of moving mannequins (on TV in early '81) 😅

[@TerryKrysinski]

Guys- their entire Sheet Music album is worth checking out...fab stuff! Cheers, T

[@samguberman2288]

Great band , hope you go on to check out I'm mandy fly me and Rubber bullets , they had so many varied hits, they were a little underrated by not having a charismatic front man but they were all very talented.

[@stevedotwood]

They're making use of the "Gizmo", a device they invented (?) and introduced at that time. It's supposed to go on the guitar neck, and it has knobs for your fingers, an then you psh some knobs and you slide it along the neck. I loved Godley & Creme. I bought their "Body Of Work" a few years back.

[@heathcornbeef]

They almost got it right. Life is a lemon and passion fruit CHEESECAKE

[@hanierfamily]

We've yet to try that kind.

[@heathcornbeef]

@@hanierfamily it's good my mum makes a mean cheesecake but my German step father makes a better one he even makes the cheese. He's a retired chief and makes the traditional cheese for cheesecake their not very sweet mostly the sweet is from the fruit but oh Man they are good. Mum makes a better lemon meringue my second favorite food after CHEESECAKE 🤤

[@KillerBl8]

Happy happy happy happy song. Daft as Basil Brush and twice as funny. Lol Crème at his finest with a song he wrote with Eric Stewart, an unusual combination. It’s so daft but so good. The follow up was I’m Not in Love! Lol was always on the verge of a fit of giggles even when it was serious. He was so notorious they named a TLA after him. My wife is a teacher and she was doing songs about food (no buildings). So I suggested this - it became a school fave. You should see the TOTP performance of this as they are clearly having a ball. See also Donna, The Dean and I and Rubber Bullets for more of Lol cracking up. Great Eric based songs of Wall Street Shuffle, I’m Mandy - Fly Me, The Things We Do for Love, Good Morning Judge and, obviously, I’m Not in Love. Graham’s most well known lead is Dreadlock Holiday. Kevin used to pop up in Lol songs - weird that he became pretty much the sole vocalist in Godley and Creme when all the others had UK number 1s.

[@KillerBl8]

Missed Art for Art’s Sake

[@heathcornbeef]

I'm not a Shaker I'm a wobbler

[@user-Chris.Alger11]

FYI, the name '10CC' refers to the amount of 'male sauce' produced during 'romance' & was the suggestion of Jonathan King, a UK record producer. Huge fan of 10Cc, if you want them at their greatest, try 'Une nuit et Paris' from 'The original Soundtrack' album.

[@heathcornbeef]

Mighty V 👏👏👏. please sir may i have some more?

[@mightyV444]

Some more minestrone? 😄

[@GP-mw8ce]

Wall Street Shuffle should be next!

[@mightyV444]

Already done it! 😉

[@Malfie657]

Chris mentioned that the band members went on to do much more - try Kevin Godley and Lol Creme's "An Englishman in New York", which is brilliantly clever but totally bonkers. BTW is has no connection with Sting's far better known song of the same name.

[@heathcornbeef]

Chris mucking fuddling up ya words

[@heathcornbeef]

With bacon

[@btj-oo8xc]

Please do 'The Party' by Godley and Creme (Album: Ismism). This is from the same album as 'I'm Not In Love' and is by far their best effort. The opening track is 'Une Nuit a Paris', an 8 minute pop opera in three parts. Not seen it done yet. Freddie Mercury reputedly wrote BoRap after hearing it

[@martinsmith500]

Cute

[@richardjones4466]

Check out Silly Love which just rocks, and The Worst Band In The World. Maybe try Cockney Rebel and Be Bop Deluxe.

[@grahamrogers3345]

On bended knee I beg you. React to Sad Sweet Dreamer by Sweet sensation.