10cc - Old wild men

Poignant ballad with great lyrics and guitar solo with the unique gizmo-guitar.
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9E9p7i7mhE&fmt=18

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 10cc
• kevin
• godley
• lol
• creme
• graham
• gouldman
• eric
• stewart

[redsfanstu]

"They'll play and play to pass the time, the old wild men, waiting for miracles", 10cc, "Sheet Music", "Old Wild Men" timeless! Thank you jonasjar for the upload and the excellent accompanying visuals! A you tuber recently referred to the 70's music scene as craptacular, well, I'm sorry but nothing that I've listened to lately can hold a musical candle to this classic! Rock for the agges!

[jonasjar]

@redsfanstu my pleasure! :-)

[eventcone]

Liked your video! How poignant (and almost prophetic) to see pictures of the band members, as they are now, set to this great song.

[jonasjar]

@eventcone yes I agree the song is a bit prophetic (and also auto-biographic?) apart from a general validity. Aren't we all waiting for some miracle in our stagnant lives, on some level?

[jackthehatuk]

My step dads nephew was Graham Gouldman, so i was kind of forced to listen to 10cc, To this day i am glad about that. Sheet Music was a great album and i still listen to it from time to time. 'How Dare You' was bloody good too.

Good post (saved me some work) ;-)

[jonasjar]

@jackthehatuk I'd say you were a priviliged kid. You could have been forced to listen to things a lot worse than cc!!

[aldiakaroofus]

I am not ashamed of admitting that this song always makes me cry.

[jonasjar]

I can recall when I bought it - and I'm 50!

[hollowedhead]

Sometimes here on Youtube you find tiny corners that are filled with gems and this is one of them... It makes me feel old but in a good way. What a band.

[2322Hoover]

Strangely prophetic. I saw the Who on the G8 thing. Those guys are pushing on a bit now, but they made everybody else on there seem pretty geriatric. What a wonderful song.

[Blompcube]

@TheSSMusicChannel there's probably hundreds of them stacked up in lol creme's shed :P if only i could find one...

[jackthehatuk]

@jonasjar Funny 'ol circle, my brother in law is currently working for some guy who is doing the tours .

Might get some freebies :-)

[Misty33Blue]

Music does not get any better than this!

[TheSSMusicChannel]

sounds like a hymn to me, always did. Love this track. I'm only sad that Godley and Creme broke away to do their own thing. Amazing music. Does anyone know where the Gizmo is now??????? lol

[glomag]

Love this band and this record. I have read that this song refers to Led Zeppelin, imagining them as old men. Interesting as 10cc seems to have at least admired LZ to some degree, citing them as an influence for "Silly Love."

[Gooseberry51]

@jackthehatuk Graham is a hell of a songwriter.. maybe in the 60th the bands who played his songs were nor fully capeble to do his songs right.. most of what he did was absolutely great....

[Gooseberry51]

Love this song....

[jonasjar]

@BermMary absolutely, strange that it didnt get more attention at the time, I think it's an absolute gem.