HOTLEGS: THINKS - SCHOOL STINKS

This album is not 10cc, but proto-10cc. Three of the four original menbers of 10cc (Eric Stewart, Lol Creme and Kevin Godley) were in this group. The fourth original member (Graham Gouldman) guests on bass on one song. So I suppose this album belongs here.

First, the hit single from this album, Neandethal Man is just terrible. It's a simplistic rhythm, with one line sung over and over again (I suppose that was the joke of the song). But besides that, the album is splendid art rock, and fits right in with the 10cc catalog.

Highlights are You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think Of It, a piece that would fit well on any 10cc album, and even includes an early verse that ended up in Fresh Air For My Mama, and Take Me Back, that starts as one of those Kevin Godley falsetto light ballads, but builds into a nice orchestration. Suite F. A., a three movement piece approaches prog, but doesn't quite get there.