10cc Album: “Greatest Hits [Masters]”

The music here is good. The need here is none. "The Very Best of 10cc" was released in 1997, covering most of the music on this CD, and yet someone decided this narrower collection still needed to be released. The only two songs on here not on the more comprehensive collection are covers of "Across the Universe" and "Silly Love Songs."

Another in a series of CD releases for 10cc that offer less than "The Very Best of," and were ultimately unnecessary. Pass this one by in favor of the more comprehensive collection.

"I'm not in love" the band's best known hit, was over played during it's heyday and may well have contributed to the demise of the band. Years later, as nostilgia has grabbed me, I've embarked on a hobby of acquiring live versions of songs and artists familiar to me.I have on line file sharing to thank for this new hobby (So put that into your "stats" RIAA) And Amazon's easy browsing and wide selection have made the acquistion of many artists more obscure recordings do-able while the reviews written by persons with more musical history and knowledge have made me more venture some.

10cc is not someone I would have purchased a "Live" album of were it not for a review someone wrote about the Moody Blues solo artists' "Bluejays" album where I learned some of the artists of 10cc played on that album. The bargain price also play an important part in my decision. I was more than pleasantly surprised just how good they made their signature song sound live and enjoyed their renditions of Beatles/Paul McCartney songs.

Would I have paid [item price] for this album? Heck no. But as a bargain bin album, this is and remains a great find. Of course, if you are a 10cc fan, this would be a must have album. For the rest of us, its an enjoyable live performance with much better than anticipated sounding vocals.

I used to listen a lot in my ELO, Queen and Moody blues era. The album I have is slightly different from this one, mine has more songs: "Donna" (you don't miss anything) "The dean and I" (Too bad for you) but I miss "Across the universe" (it's from the Beatles anyway). What a metling pot! beach boy style, opera-rock and even reggae.

Favorite songs: "Good morning judge", "The wall street shuffle", "deadlock holiday" and "Art for art sake".