10cc Album: “Mirror Mirror”

This is an awesome CD and I was glad I found it. I'd had the cassette years before and lost it. I'm Not In Love is probably the most familiar song on the album, but believe me they are all excellent. I wanted this particular album badly because it is the only 10cc album put out that has the song "The Monkey and The Onion".

I didn't know anything about this album when I bought it. I just played it and listened. Regardless of how it was made or who made it, there's a lot of good listening. I've heard a couple of other 10cc albums by the original group and this one rivals them in every way.

I love this album. It reminds me of the American version of "Ten out of 10" in that the music roughly alternates between Eric Stewart songs and Graham Gouldman songs. I love Eric Stewart songs but some of 10cc's later albums are a little Stewart heavy. To some extent, Stewart's material is very consistent while Gouldman's is consistently surprising. "Mirror Mirror" contains some of the best of both artists. Yes, it does become obvious that this is not a Stewart-Gouldman album so much as half a Gouldman album and half a Stewart album, but so what? I wish they had continued to release half an album each, together, as 10cc. That way you knew you were going to get great songs by both artists, just like always. Stick in a Kevin Godley song now and then. I have to say I am a little reluctant to buy Stewart and Gouldman's latest solo recordings but if they packaged them as 10cc I'd buy them today. And I'm a big fan. It's for sure that casual fans will be 10cc biased. But back to "Mirror Mirror"... It's great. Buy it. You'll love it.