Godley & Creme - Consequences [1977] (5 x CD's)

 

GODLEY & CREME GIZMO

Godley & Creme - Consequences [1977] (5 x CD's)

Consequences is the debut album by English pop artists Godley & Creme. It was released in 1977 as a boxed triple-LP. The album was recorded over 18 months at Strawberry Studios in Stockport and The Manor in Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, with Godley, Creme and engineer Martin Lawrence going to extraordinary lengths to create its special effects.

The album comes with an illustrated booklet containing a new interview with Godley and Creme and the original notes that came with the original triple album. The album has been digitally remastered and sounds fantastic on CD. When Consequences came out it was a commercial and critical disaster.

The timing was all wrong- the punk explosion destroyed prog rock and all its pomposity. The triple concept album (with an estimated budget of £500,000), and 18 months in the studio, selling at the high price of twelve pounds, was a prime target for derision, a typical review; “Consequences is a disaster: its humor is labored, its musical content is dull and the mind-numbing length of the album prove that neither Godley nor Creme knew when to quit”

Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, devised and developed the Gizmo, a small box which clamped onto the bridge of the guitar and which mechanically bowed and vibrated the instrument’s strings thus allowing a violin and cello sustained sounds. The album is a Radio play, a mixture of a Monty Python inspired comedy all written and voiced by Peter Cook.  Godley and Creme add special effects, ambient soundscapes, piano sonatas, jazz, hard rock, disco and music hall. It’s a bewildering but also magnificent, near-revolutionary instrumentation, and excellent melodies. This deserves to be played with headphones in a darkened room. It’s so welcome to see a reissue of a near forgotten masterpiece.  (Amazon)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Seascape 2:53

02 Wind 3:54

03 Fireworks 1:00

04 Stampede 6:14

05 Burial Scene 3:04

06 Sleeping Earth 6:39

07 Honolulu Lulu 0:56

08 The Flood 10:18

CD2

01 Five O'Clock In The Morning 3:54

02 Peter Cook Dialog 1 4:04

03 When Things Go Wrong 3:41

04 Peter Cook Dialog 2 6:39

05 Lost Weekend 4:50

06 Peter Cook Dialog 3 6:25

07 Rosie 3:06

08 Peter Cook Dialog 4 1:06

09 Office Chase 2:34

10 Peter Cook Dialog 5 4:16

11 Cool, Cool, Cool 2:52

12 Peter Cook Dialog 6 0:08

CD3

01 Cool, Cool, Cool (Reprise) 0:31

02 Peter Cook Dialog 7 0:46

03 Sailor 2:10

04 Peter Cook Dialog 8 5:10

05 Mobilization 1:46

06 Peter Cook Dialog 9 2:12

07 Please, Please, Please 1:57

08 Peter Cook Dialog 10 5:49

09 Blint's Tune 14:16

CD4

01 Five O'Clock In The Morning 3:59

02 When Things Go Wrong 3:49

03 Lost Weekend 4:55

04 Cool, Cool, Cool 2:59

05 Sailor 2:11

06 Rosie 3:09

07 Sleeping Earth 6:45

08 Honolulu Lulu 3:21

09 The Flood 6:54

10 Burial Scene 2:31

CD5

01 Seascape (Edited) 1:29

02 Wind (Edited) 2:17

03 Stampede (Edited) 2:17

04 Burial Scene (Edited) 2:34

05 Sleeping Earth (Edited) 1:35

06 Honolulu Lulu (Edited) 0:56

07 The Flood (Edited) 5:04

08 Five O'clock in the Morning (Edited) 3:52

09 Dialog 1 0:54

10 When Things Go Wrong (Edited) 3:41

11 Dialog 2 2:06

12 Lost Weekend (Edited) 3:48

13 Dialog 3 0:30

14 Rosie (Edited) 2:03

15 Dialog 4 0:37

16 Office Chase (Edited) 1:36

17 Dialog 5 0:22

18 Cool, Cool, Cool (Edited) 2:07

19 Dialog 6 0:04

20 Cool, Cool, Cool - (Reprise) (Edited) 0:29

21 Dialog 7 0:46

22 Sailor (Edited) 1:00

23 Dialog 8 1:31

24 Mobilization (Edited) 1:21

25 Dialog 9 1:13

26 Please, Please, Please (Edited) 1:52

27 Dialog 10 4:01

28 The Flood (Edited) 3:57

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