10cc / Sheet Music
Artist 10cc
Album Title: Sheet Music
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Art Rock
Format Vinyl
Released 05/00/1974
Label UK Records
Catalog No AUKS 53107
Bar Code No none
Packaging LP Sleeve
Tracks
A1. The Wall Street Shuffle (4:02)
A2. The Worst Band In The World (2:45)
A3. Hotel (5:00)
A4. Old Wild Men (3:18)
A5. Clockwork Creep (3:30)
B1. Silly Love (3:56)
B2. Somewhere In Hollywood (6:38)
B3. Baron Samedi (3:40)
B4. The Sacro-Iliac (2:30)
B5. Oh Effendi (4:49)
Date Acquired 00/00/1975
Personal Rating
Purchase Price 15.00

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Notes

Notes:
Audio Manufacturing Record Co. pressing, denoted by "AL" suffix on label matrices and "AL" etch in runouts.
Recorded at Strawberry Recording Studios (UK) Ltd., Stockport, Cheshire, England.
Master cut at Sterling Sound, New York City, USA.
Comes with color 11" x 11" lyric/credit insert.

Credits:
Artwork [Tinting] – Maurice Tate
Engineer, Engineer [Mix], Engineer [Final Reduction] – Eric Stewart
Graphics – George Hardie, NTA
Lacquer Cut By – LH
Performer [10cc Are] – Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley, Lol Creme
Photography By – Hipgnosis
Producer – 10cc

Companies, etc.:
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Strawberry Productions
Copyright © – Strawberry Productions
Recorded At – Strawberry Studios
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound
Pressed By – Audio Manufacturing Record Co.
Designed At – Hipgnosis (2)
Printed By – Queens Litho
Record Company – London Records, Inc.
Distributed By – London Records, Inc.
Published By – Man-Ken Music Ltd.

Barcode and other Identifiers:
Pressing Plant ID (On labels): AL
Rights Society: BMI
Matrix / Runout (Label A): ZAL 12963 AL
Matrix / Runout (Label B): ZAL 12964 AL
Matrix / Runout (Runout A, variant 1): ZAL 12963 GL-1 AL STERLING LH
Matrix / Runout (Runout B, variant 1): ZAL 12964 GL-1 AL STERLING LH
Matrix / Runout (Runout A, variant 2): XZAL 12963 AL STERLING LH 2
Matrix / Runout (Runout B, variant 2): XZAL 12964 AL STERLING LH 2

Reviews
AllMusic Review by Dave Thompson:

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," he proclaimed, "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, and most of the other tracks could have followed suit; 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.

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