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Godley & Creme - 7 Albums / DSD Remaster 2010 (Japan SHM-CD 2011)
Format: FLAC / Level 8 (img + *cue / *cue with ISRC + log, AccurateRip) | Covers: format PNG 300dpi, full scans
Released Year: 2011 | Label: Mercury Records / Polydor Records / Universal Music Japan | Size: 3.9 GB
Genre / Style: Rock / Progressive Rock / Pop Rock / Soft Rock




Cardboard sleeve (mini LP) reissue from Godley & Creme featuring the high quality SHM-CD format (compatible with standard CD players). Part of a seven-album Godley & Creme SHM-CD cardboard sleeve (mini LP) reissue series featuring the albums "Consequences," "L," "Freeze Frame +4," "Ismism +3," "Birds Of Prey +5," "The History Mix Vol.1 +2," and "Goodbye Blue Sky +5." Cardboard sleeve (mini LP) features replica of the original UK LP artwork.

Allmusic / Biography by Michael Sutton
British vocalists/multi-instrumentalists Kevin Godley and Lol Creme have one of the most eclectic resumes in rock & roll. Godley and Creme were session musicians when they joined 10cc in 1970. Originally called Hotlegs, 10cc were an art pop group that frequently appeared on the U.K. charts in the early '70s, eventually hitting number two in the U.S. with "I'm Not in Love." The two departed from 10cc a year later so they could experiment with the Gizmo, a gadget that enabled the guitar to create sounds with symphonic textures. The device, which they had invented, became the inspiration for Godley & Creme's 1977 debut triple-LP Consequences. A concept album about mankind battling a vengeful Mother Nature, Consequences was ripped to shreds and ridiculed by critics for its pretentiousness and excessive length. The bad press and poor sales generated by Consequences nearly destroyed the duo's career. However, in 1981, Godley & Creme landed on the British Top Ten with "Under My Thumb." But Godley & Creme achieved the most commercial success and critical acclaim in the '80s as video pioneers. The pair directed MTV clips for the Police, Duran Duran, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood that stretched the boundaries of music video and proved that the form was capable of producing art. In 1985, Godley & Creme had their only American smash with "Cry." Not surprisingly, it had an eye-popping video with groundbreaking special effects that showed people's faces morphing into one another. Godley & Creme were unable to climb the heights of "Cry" again and released Goodbye Blue Sky in 1988 before leaving music behind for video production. Creme joined the Art of Noise in the late '90s. 

1977 Consequences 2CD Box Set
Original Release: Mercury UK 3LP Set 9199 062/3/4
Allmusic / Review by Donald A. Guarisco
This album, the solo debut of former 10cc members Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, is generally considered to be one of the most notorious examples of '70s music-business excess. Consequences began its life as a single designed to show off the "gizmo," a musical device created by Godley & Creme that allowed an electric guitar to create symphonic-sounding textures when attached to its neck. Somewhere along the line, this single blew up into a triple-disc concept album about nature taking its revenge on mankind through hurricanes, floods, and the like. The first disc is almost entirely instrumental, using the "gizmo" to create all sorts of different textures as a hurricane dubbed "Honolulu Lulu" trashes Hawaii and heads for the United States. This stuff is a feat of clever engineering (there is a particularly funny part where an obnoxious rock band at an outdoor festival is swept away by a flood), but the musical content is lacking in hooks or melodies and thus fails to involve the listener. Consequences moves into its story line on the second disc, dividing its time between songs from Godley & Creme and spoken word comedy sketches written and performed by legendary British comedian Peter Cook that push the plot forward. The story focuses on a married couple working out the details of their divorce with their respective lawyers as the storms and earthquakes kick in. Their only hope is the downstairs neighbor, an eccentric composer named Blint who is working on a concerto that may be able to stop nature's revenge. The songs are mainly cutesy fluff: although they have clever arrangements and lush vocal harmonies, they lack the kind of memorable melodies that would bring the album's many concepts to life. The one song that stands apart from the dross is "Five O'Clock in the Morning," a clever and subtle portrait of suburban malaise that became a minor European hit. The comedy bits have some clever moments of wordplay, but weigh the album down because they go on too long and distract from the music. When the climactic "Blint's Tune" finally arrives, it is merely a meandering and overlong piano-led instrumental. Simply put, Consequences is a disaster: its humor is labored, its musical content is dull, and the mind-numbing length of the album proved that neither Godley nor Creme knew when to quit. The duo later proved they were capable of better and more focused satirical pop on albums like Freeze Frame, but they are lucky this creative train wreck didn't end their career before it could start.

CD1
Part One
01 Seascape
02 Wind
03 Fireworks
04 Stampede
05 Burial Scene
06 Sleeping Earth
07 Honolulu Lulu
08 The Flood

Part Two
09 Five O'Clock In The Morning
10 Dialogue
11 When Things Go Wrong 
12 Dialogue
13 Lost Weekend

CD2
01 Dialogue
02 Rosie
03 Dialogue
04 Office Chase
05 Dialogue
06 Cool, Cool, Cool
07 Dialogue

Part Three
08 Cool, Cool, Cool (Reprise)
09 Dialogue
10 Sailor
11 Dialogue
12 Mobilization
13 Dialogue
14 Please, Please, Please
15 Dialogue
16 Blint's Tune (Movements 1-17)

1978 L
Original Release: Mercury UK 9109 611
Allmusic / Review by Mark Allan
Together, these two multi-instrumentalist studio freaks were the British Frank Zappa. Overwhelmed by their own cleverness, they often wasted brilliant production and gorgeous vocal harmonies on trite material. The title of this album and a song called "Sandwiches of You" offer a hint of the problem. It's impossible to feel any emotional attachment to the material because of a sense that everything these guys do is tongue in cheek. This is a thoroughly forgettable outing by two chaps capable of much more. 

01 The Sporting Life
02 Sandwiches Of You
03 Art School Canteen
04 Group Life
05 Punchbag
06 Foreign Accents
07 Hit Factory / Business Is Business

1979 Freeze Frame

Original Release: Polydor UK POLD 5027 (2442 166)
Allmusic / Review by Mark Allan
It's impossible to mistake this for a 1981 J. Geils Band release of the same name. This album gets the nod over some other Godley and Creme ones because sometimes they actually stay with a tune to the end instead of sailing off on a Frank Zappa-like tangent. That might be because the part-time presence of Paul McCartney and Phil Manzanera keeps their hosts grounded. "An Englishman in New York" sounds remarkably like Queen in spots and is the strongest track on the album, although its smugness wears thin after awhile. 

01 An Englishman In New York
02 Random Brainwave
03 I Pity Inanimate Objects
04 Freeze Frame
05 Clues
06 Brazilia (Wish You Were Here)
07 Mugshots
08 Get Well Soon
Bonus Tracks
09 Silent Running
10 Wide Boy
11 Submarine
12 Marciano

1981 Ismism

Original Release: Polydor UK POLD 5043 (2442 193)
Allmusic / Review by Mark Allan
Prone to pretension, these two English Frank Zappas revel in outright silliness on much of this album, which was also released as Snack Attack. The mix puts their voices higher than usual, highlighting some truly bent tales of munchy madness, desert skullduggery, and JFK assassins. For contrast, there's the gorgeous "Wedding Bells," a rare AM hit for the former 10cc mates. Throughout all of this, you get the nagging feeling this pair was capable of so much more. 

01 Snack Attack
02 Under Your Thumb
03 Joey's Camel
04 The Problem
05 Ready For Ralph
06 Wedding Bells
07 Lonnie
08 Sale Of The Century
09 The Party

Bonus Tracks
10 Power Behind The Throne
11 Babies
12 Snack Attack (Extended Version)

1983 Birds Of Prey

Original Release: Polydor UK POLD 5070 (2383 653)
Allmusic / Review by Dave Thompson
The least successful inclusion in the Godley & Creme catalog, Birds of Prey finds the duo stripping back the crazier idiosyncrasies that made its earlier albums so intriguing, and working more in the realm of melody and, dare one say it, easy listening. Lyrically they remain as offbeat as ever, and an evening with the Birds of Prey lyric sheet will send you scrabbling to hear the music. Bad move. "Save Me a Mountain," the album's almost-hit single, is a saccharin lament that might be directly descended from 10cc's "Brand New Day" and "Don't Hang Up," but lacks both the melodic and the emotional punch that made those earlier ballads work so well, while "Samson," "My Body the Car," and "Madame Guillotine"