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 UKAL 1007
Bar Code No none
Packaging LP Sleeve
Tracks
A1. The Wall Street Shuffle (4:02)
A2. The Worst Band In The World (2:47)
A3. Hotel (4:52)
A4. Old Wild Men (3:18)
A5. Clockwork Creep (2:45)
B1. Silly Love (3:58)
B2. Somewhere In Hollywood (6:38)
B3. Baron Samedi (3:44)
B4. The Sacro-Iliac (2:31)
B5. Oh Effendi (2:50)
Date Acquired 00/00/1975
Personal Rating
Purchase Price 15.00

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Notes

Notes:
Recorded at Strawberry Recording Studios (UK) Ltd., Stockport, Cheshire, England.
Sleeve reads: Master cut at Sterling Sound, New York City, USA.
but was actually cutted at I.B.C. Studios by Mr. Melvyn Abrahams
St. Annes Music is printed differently and record released in a later poly-lined dust bag.
Earlier pressing with Stereo indicator inner sleeve and smaller printed St. Annes Music is 10cc - Sheet Music
UK Records, Decca House 9, Albert Enbankment, London SE1 7SW.
Includes insert with lyrics and credits.
Labels have silver print on a pale blue background.
Made in England (back cover [left side down] and label).
Sleeve printed by Senol Printing Ltd.
Insert printed by Record Graphics Ltd.

Credits:
Artwork [Tinting] – Maurice Tate
Band [10cc Are] – Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley, Lol Creme
Design [Sleeve], Photography By – Hipgnosis
Engineer, Mixed By, Other [Final Reduction] – Eric Stewart
Graphics – George Hardie
Lacquer Cut By – Mely (tracks: A1 to A5), Mels (tracks: B1 to B5)
Producer – 10cc

Companies, etc.:
Record Company – The Decca Record Company Limited
Record Company – UK Records
Recorded At – Strawberry Studios
Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Strawberry Productions
Copyright © – Strawberry Productions
Printed By – Senol Printing Ltd.
Printed By – Record Graphics Ltd.
Pressed By – Decca Record Co. Ltd., Pressing Plant, UK.
Published By – St. Anne's Music

Barcode and other Identifiers:
Matrix / Runout (Label side A): XZAL 12963 P
Matrix / Runout (Label side B): XZAL 12964 P
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 - runout side A, stamped / "MELY !." hand-etched): XZAL-12963-P-3 MELY !.
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 - runout side B, stamped / "MELS ?" hand-etched): XZAL-12964.P-4 MELS ?
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 - runout side A, stamped / "MELYS AGAIN!" hand-etched): XZAL-12963. P-4 MELYS AGAIN!
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 - runout side B, stamped / "MELS ?" hand-etched): XZAL-12964.P-4 MELS ?
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 - runout side A, stamped / "MELY !" hand-etched): XZAL-12963.P-3 IM 2B MELY !
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 - runout side B, stamped / "MELS ?" hand-etched): XZAL-12964.P-4 CU MELS ? 2B
Matrix / Runout (Variant 4 - runout side A, stamped / "MELY !" hand-etched): XZAL-12963.P-3 BA 2B MELY !
Matrix / Runout (Variant 4 - runout side B, stamped / "MELY !" hand-etched): XZAL-12964.P-5 BK MELY ! 1
Matrix / Runout (Variant 5 - runout side A, stamped / "MELY!" hand-etched): XZAL-12963-P-3 1 MELY!
Matrix / Runout (Variant 5 - runout side B, stamped / "MELS?" hand-etched): XZAL-12964.P-4 MELS?
Matrix / Runout (Variant 6 - runout side A, stamped / "MELYS AGAIN!" hand-etched): XZAL-12963.P-4 C V MELYS AGAIN! 1
Matrix / Runout (Variant 6 - runout side B, stamped / "MELY !" hand-etched): XZAL-12964.P-5 H C MELY ! 1
Matrix / Runout (Variant 7 - runout side A, stamped / "MELY!" hand-etched): XZAL-12963-P-3 MELY !. CN 2B
Matrix / Runout (Variant 7 - runout side B, stamped / "MELS?" hand-etched): XZAL-12964.P-4 MELS ? CU 3C
Other (Stereo indicator, on spine): Ⓢ

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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