Freeze Frame/Ismism [Extra tracks, Import]

Godley & Creme | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 31, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Edsel Records UK
• ASIN: B0002476GK
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #275,688 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Englishman in New York

2. Random Brainwave

3. I Pity Inanimate Objects

4. Freeze Frame

5. Clues

6. Brazilia (Wish You Were Here)

7. Mugshots

8. Get Well Soon

9. Silent Running [*]

10. Wide Boy [*]

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Snack Attack

2. Under Your Thumb

3. Joey's Camel

4. The Problem

5. Ready for Ralph

6. Wedding Bells

7. Lonnie

8. Sale of the Century

9. The Party

10. Power Behind the Throne [*]

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Two great Godley & Creme albums, August 2, 2004

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This review is from: Freeze Frame/Ismism (Audio CD)

If Godley & Creme had never made another record after they spilt from 10cc, they'd still have made a huge impact. "Freeze Frame" is one of their best most consistent album mixing the melodic approach on "Consequences" with the unusual arrangements seen on "L". The title track along with "I Pity Inanimated Objects" percolating beat at the heart of "An Englishman in New York" and "Brazilia" (featuring Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera)are all stand out tracks. What's more important, though, is the inclusion of the bonus tracks here. Some of them are little more than an excuse to experiment while other such as "Submarine" and "Wideboy" could easily have been included on one of their albums. Both of these tracks along with the rest of the bonus tracks on disc one were only available on CD before as part of the "Images" best of compilation.

The album "Ismism" aka "Snack Attack" features one of the duo's best and most popular tracks (outside of "Cry"). "Wedding Bells" has a soulful and powerful vocal from Kevin Godley. Once again many of the bonus tracks compare to their best work including the underrated and witty "Power Behind the Throne". The remastering for both albums is very good. I just wish that the 10cc back catalog had been treated with as much care particularly the stuff remastered by Roger Wake for the reissued Polygram CDs. Unfortunately, some of these (such as "Bloody Tourists") were botched during the mastering process.

Just a warning, the last bonus track on "Ismism" is the single edit of "An Englishman in New York" and "Submarine" is the instrumental version of "The Power Behind the Throne."

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4.0 out of 5 stars Godley And Creme Selling Out?, February 8, 2007

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ElvisCostellosWeiner "Chekhov Is The Greatest" (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freeze Frame/Ismism (Audio CD)

Uh, not quite. These two albums are not quite as deranged as past classic Godley and Creme albums like Consequences and L. But this is a relative thing: while relatively, these albums are pop music compared to their earlier stuff, if Britney Spears was to release this music, it would either kill her career or garner her great critical respect. Somebody else here said that "Freeze Frame" mixed the melodic aspect of Consequence with the weird arrangements of L, and I couldn't agree more. The songs here are MUCH more tuneful than on L, but the arrangements almost reach the level of strangness of L. For example, I Pity Inanimate Objects, with the strangely encoded vocals, and Random Brainwave, which definitely sounds like it. In some ways their strongest albums, as it mixes their weirdness with their tunefulness better than anything since 10cc.

Ismism (or Snack Attack) is more of the same in many ways. The songs continue to grow more melodic, and less twisted. However, the album still has much to chew on: two of their biggest hits in Under Your Thumb and Wedding Bells. Lots of weirdness on the album, it is however more "normal" than one would expect from the two. The preponderance of synthesizers might slightly date the album, but much less than on the next two albums.