“I’m Not In Love” (1975) by 10cc is almost a SURREAL experience of a song

[quote] I am laying down while reading articles etc. online

Oh dear.

OP, watch this documentary about the making of this terrific song. The technical accomplishments on the song are groundbreaking.

The guy on the left in R2’s pic is a hottie

Sounds like the Beatles.

The Beatles music never sounded like that.

This song creeped me out as a kid. No thanks.

This was my coming of age song. Even though I had never been in a relationship in the way the song describes, it summed up how empty I felt at that age. Whenever I listen to it all these decades later, it brings me back to a very specific moment in time, making me feel as though it was just yesterday.

INIL has such an ethereal quality and the lyrics, although relatively simple, complement the aura of its techno sound very well.

You sound “special”, R6. It’s hard to comprehend how this song could be creepy to anybody.

Amazing song

R7 he also said it sounds like The Beatles… I would love to know what Beatles song sounded like this.

Loved this song from the first time I heard it, and still love it today. Masterpiece, an eargasm.

R1, I'll have to Oh, dear you.

It's "Oh, dear." Don't forget the comma.

It's a wonderful, wonderful song.

The first time I heard "Playground Love" by Air (on the Virgin Suicides soundtrack) it made me think of this.

Love this song. I also love the Will To Power remake.

Beautiful song. Nostalgia is sweet. I find myself listening to mixes of sixties and seventies tunes for hours some days, despite keeping up with new music.

[quote] and far before it’s time. It’s brilliant

Oh, dear, verse 3.

Gen Z-er hears nearly 50 year old song for first time, runs to internet to tell EVERYONE!

Pissing on the joy of others, oh aged one?

Ganking the joy of elders and calling it your own, twonk? 10CC's band members are as old as your grandfathers. Piss off.

Even if OP is of a younger generation, we elders should applaud his/her good taste in music. I'm glad OP made the thread, and it gave me the opportunity to enjoy it again.

I love it when younger people find themselves fans of this era.

Forgot to add: Truly good music is timeless!

This song depicts a dead end relationship I was addicted to 30 years ago.

This song and ‘One of These Nights’ by the Eagles was on heavy rotation in the summer of 1975. Great memories, thanks OP.

OP only "found" it because it's on the soundtrack of "Guardians of the Galaxy," as shown in the YouTube link. It's a passive and lazy "discovery;" nothing to "salute." Next up, hell "discover" Redbone:

R23 Who cares how OP "found it". You sound like a massive cunt.

[quote] nothing about it sounds like 1975

HOw would you know, idiot OP? Actually, it's [bold]the[/bold] definitive tragic ballad of 1975, from back when your gramps was fingering girls in his Camaro while listening to it on an eight-track tape.

And fuck right off, cunt-certina R24.

R25 I'm tired of you negative nellies. Even you find a way to make a great thread CUNTENTIOUS. Why can't you simply share the live if the music, without besting the OP?

You're a buzzkill. Not cool.

Then block me, douche. Not sure what part of 'pointless bitchery' eludes you, but deal with it or move on.

Up next: OP shares a "curated" playlist of '70s music he "discovered, while R26 replays a '60s song about him:

R23 Probably "only" picked up on Redbone a few years back whilst hearing an Appleby's commercial.

R27 You are a bitch. Does it make you feel proud?

You are an imbecile, R29. You don't know what you feel.

Also, OP's use of "SURREAL" is trite and incorrect. The song has an even and traditional narrative, structure and flow. The ethereal sounds are mistaken as "surreal," when actually surrealism as a visual art form that incorporated the use of non-linear composition and unreal juxtaposition of subjects.

R27 so you totally missed OP stating "I forgot how much I liked this song": i.e. hearing it on The Guardians Of The Galaxy mix brought back his memories of it. He hasn't 'just' discovered it.

So not only are you a cunt; you're a lazy cunt with poor reading comprehension skills.

The vibe is nice here lately, everyone is getting along and it really feels like a community

R32 Ha! The music threads are ordinarily quite refreshing that way, but it only takes one cunt to spoil the mood, doesn't it?

R31 Good call!

"It’s brilliant and nothing about it sounds like 1975."

Honey I was in junior high/high school when that song came out and it reminds me of my mother driving me all the way to fucking Encino from L.A. for an orthodontist's appointment.

In other words, it's very much 1975.

I agree that the production was innovative and high quality.

The actual song is cringe inducing if you listen to the vocals.

But I never did listen to the words in 1975. I enjoyed the soothing sound. It felt like I was falling asleep. My baby brother was crying in the next room. But that was the sitter's problem.

R31 cuntabulous fail.

R33, stupid ass.

R34, good storytelling.

I never liked it.

Queen Latifah did an amazing cover of it in 2007.

I always assumed it's from the '80s. I'm surprised it's 1975.

Tori Amos covered it on her album of covers of songs written by men about women.

Not my favorite Tori song by a long shot but I like he vocal performance a lot.

R30: Be quiet. Big boys don’t cry.

I still prefer the Will To Power remake.

People didn't mistake it for a Beatles song. They mistook it for a Paul McCartney and Wings song.

R2 “ The Making of” was such a great series.

It s amazing to hear the original concept of a song and how the producer and band turned the songs into what what we actually heard

"One of These Nights" is one reason I have no nostalgia for the 70s. You knew you were living through a cultural nadir.

10cc had songs that were more clever as well as more catchy. They had a a giftfor the tune of a phrase (see, e.g., Don't Hang Up), but depressing shit like "Im Not in Love" just reminds me why the 70s seemed like stale crumbs compare to the years that had come not long before.

I met the lead singer at an event here in LA a few years ago. He seemed a nice reserved older English gentleman. He had a young girlfriend, pretty in a normal way, not flashy or trashy.

I should say it might have been his wife, not a girlfriend. Anyway they were "classy," not really rock and roll.

This song is so sensual and it reminds me of Miracles by Jefferson Starship. As a teenager in the 70's I day dreamed about many boys to those songs.

This song made a comeback in 1989/1990 as the "love theme" for Eden Capwell and Robert Barr on Santa Barbara.

My strait male boss was obsessed with the Robert Barr character, which to this day I still find suspicious.

[quote]depressing shit like "Im Not in Love"

You're listening wrong.

It sounds nothing like the Beatles.

It does sound "like 1975," albeit forward thinking; the moody electronic sound was prescient but not entirely out of place for a pop song in the disco era.

I don't find it "creepy" because it's not off putting. It's "otherworldly," dreamlike. It draws you in.

I love this song. I was 8 when it came out.

My fave version from a fave album...Philly Soul at its best

This song is kind of like….a psychological deep dive. I remember being weirded out by it at the time.

All these posts yet no comment yet on the meaning of “10cc”???

Is this still a gay site?

R52 I’m old enough to know but I won’t tell.

And it was used in the novelty song, "Mr. Jaws"

Next up, OP declaring "hey, have you guys heard Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen?! OMG life changing!!"

[quote]“I’m Not In Love”

Neither is Jan...

R52 Hint hint: It's not a motorbike engine displacement designation either...

Yes we know R57. We've known about that for much longer than OP.

JFC.

R58 Wow, six posts later, you learn what it is, and you give this kind of attitude? You actually R52?

R58 If you are R52 You have sock accounts here. Ignoredar activated on your arse and R52 remains. Dumbkopf.

I’m glad that OP likes this song, but it reminds me of depressing teenage years, sorry to say, probably stoned. Other songs from that era bumb me out too. Just sayin…

I was a kid when this came out. Actually it came out the year I was born, so I heard it growing up. I agree with r6, as a kid the song sounded very haunting, the minor chords and the lyrics made it feel like a sad song - creepy, as in uneasy. We were too young to get the meaning of it. Kids don't understand meaning, just feeling. I mean High Anxiety scared the shit out of me as a young kid - especially when DVP's ears started bleeding.

This song and What's Love Got to do with It deal with the same theme. I'll say I am not in love, when it's obvious that I still am.

And the ethereal, haunting sound of this song has been used by the so many other artist since. I think that is one of the reasons I really like Washed Out. They lifted it right from INIL it feels. It's almost a non-stop Fleetwood Mac harmony throughout,

It's a good song but I prefer Baker Street to it.

The will to power version is dreadful.

R63 I LOVE Baker Street. It's actually a playlist of mine that generates songs like INIL to listen to. And Ventura Highway from which Prince got his Purple Rain lyric.

I love this song. It reminds me of being 20 years old and living life as a young man in Fairfield County Connecticut.

First song I remember with synthesizers. I walked from the beach to Orange Julius on Balboa Island (so Arrested Development) when I was 12 and played this song 4 times in a row on the jukebox while I slurped my OJ drink. It's a song that always invokes summer to me.

I bought the album when it came out because I thought it was the soundtrack to a movie called 10cc, and it had a cool cover. And then I heard that song....and have loved it ever since.

Professor of Rock has a good video on this song

Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty has nothing to do with this song and is by a different artist. Why even mention it?

It reminds me of being at a party at Maureen’s house in the summer. People were going in and out and the living room had really dim lighting. I was 14 and remember thinking the song was mystical.

The song I really of theirs is Dreadlock Holiday:

It's interesting R69 that in that video the guy said as a kid he also found the song haunting and scary, as if there were ghosts in the recording and the soft voice of the woman saying, "Big boys don't cry."

This song, and Gary Wright's "Dreamweaver" album got me through my freshman year of high school.

I always through "The Things We Do For Love" was a great follow up to "I'm Not In Love."

R70: We know that, they were making a comparison. They liked some other heavily played song better.

R9... I'm not R6

I used to live on a canal and the teenage boy who lived across the canal used to get high and then lay on the bank by the water listening to 'Dream Weaver', that is another trippy 70's song.

OP, this is one of my favorite songs of all time! Thanks for reminding me that it’s time to listen to it again.

LOVE Washed Out, R62. It's an ethereal nostalgiafest for those who can hear it.

Another great song by Godley & Creme - half of 10cc.

I hate this song.

I remember the first time I heard this song. I was an working as an extra in the Babylonian sequence of Intolerance. I had a crush on Wally Reid and a guy who looked just like him was playing it on the concertina.

I heard this cover right after my first break up and I replayed it for a month.

They got their name from the amount of semen that the average man ejaculates--10cc.

R62, R79 I love that song too! It was also used for the intro of that show Portlandia.

Love it. Have probably listened to it 500 times in my life but I dont tire from it. Diane Krall did a really nice cover, not as great as the og but still really beautiful

I met a guy around Thanksgiving, 1975, and we were still dating through the winter. I would stay in his apartment to take care of his cat when he went away on business. He was an alcoholic, I learned by reading this large book he'd put together that was part art and part journal.

He wrote about wanting to take a picture of me that he could put "upon the wall, to hide a nasty stain that's lying there," and I realized he might be in love with me. He was so nice, but I wasn't really in love with him. And then I met someone I did fall in love with in the summer of '76. I only saw Randy infrequently after that. I was so comfortable around him, more so than I was with the new guy.

On occasion, I've wondered what my life would have been like if I'd stayed with him. Maybe he'd have started going to AA when I did. Maybe he'd still be alive. I learned on google that he died of AIDS in the early '90s. I wish I could see him again. I wish he'd asked me to take that picture.

Didn’t Chrissie Hynde record a cover of it for that Robert Redford buys Demi Moore’s pussy from Woody Harrelson movie? I can never find her version anywhere.

r88 You mean this one?

70s music was the worst.

To Datalounge.....I hate that FUCKING SONG!!!

I will tell you later.