GODLEY & CREME - Parts Of The Process - The Complete Godley & Creme - 11 x CD Box Set [FEB 28]

11 X CD - Limited Edition 105 track/11 Disc Box Set containing all of Kevin Godley and Lol Creme's studio albums. Two additional discs containing all the single edits, alternative mixes/versions and non-album tracks. Extensive sleeve notes include an essay by biographer Liam Newton, plus intro from Kevin Godley.

'Parts Of The Process' is a 105 track/11 Disc celebration of Kevin Godley and Lol Creme's recordings between 1977 and 1988 and includes all seven of the duo's studio albums released in this period. As well as two additional discs featuring single edits, alternative mixes/versions and non-album tracks. 

In an introduction written specially for this release, Kevin Godley sums it up as, "All the mud we threw at the wall during that period. (We) occasionally found a target we weren’t even aiming for... a hit record."

As founding members of 10cc, Kevin and Lol wrote, produced and played on four Top 40 albums, and nine Top 40 singles between 1972 and 1976 (including two No. 1s) before branching out in 1977 to perfect 'The Gizmo', a guitar attachment they used to create the concept album 'Consequences', which is presented here in its original three-disc form. It features contributions from Jazz legend Sarah Vaughan, and from comedian and actor Peter Cook. A series of eclectic and innovative albums ensued, beginning with 'L' (1978), rapidly followed by 'Freeze Frame' (1979). It included contributions from Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, backing vocals from Paul McCartney, and Ska legend Rico Rodriguez on 'An Englishman In New York’.

In 1981 they released 'Ismism', which included the UK hit singles 'Under Your Thumb' (No. 3), and 'Wedding Bells' (No. 7). 1983 bought us 'Birds Of Prey', which included the singles 'Save A Mountain For Me', and 'Samson'. Their 1983 album 'History Mix Volume 1' marked 25 years of the duo working together, a groundbreaking re-working of their solo and 10cc output, that Lol described as "vinyl archaeology". Their last collaboration was the critically acclaimed 1998 album 'Goodbye Blue Sky', which once again found a wider market in Europe, thanks to the single 'A Little Piece of Heaven'.

The box set is completed by a tenth disc that collects together 21 non-album singles and B-Sides, and an eleventh containing extended mixes. This stylishly packaged 11 disc box set presents all of the albums in replica sleeves, with a booklet containing a 10,000 word essay written by Liam Newton, author of the 10cc biography “The Worst Band In The World”.

Tracklist: 

CD1: CONSEQUENCES Part One
(1977)
1. Seascape 2:51
2. Wind 3:54
3. Fireworks 1:00
4. Stampede 6:15
5. Burial Scene 2:31
6. Sleeping Earth 6:42
7. Honolulu Lulu 3:22
8. The Flood 6:49

CD2: CONSEQUENCES Part Two
1. Five O’Clock In the Morning 3:56
2. Dialogue 4:05
3. When Things Go Wrong 3:42
4. Dialogue 6:40
5. A Lost Weekend 4:53
6. Dialogue (1) 6:25
7. Rosie 3:07
8. Dialogue (2) 1:06
9. Office Chase 2:34
10. Dialogue (3) 4:17
11. It’s Cool, Cool, Cool In The Morning 2:53
12. Dialogue (4) 0:07

CD3: CONSEQUENCES Part Three
1. Cool, Cool, Cool [reprise] 0:30
2. Dialogue (5) 0:47
3. Sailor 2:10
4. Dialogue (6) 5:11
5. Mobilization 1:45
6. Dialogue (7) 2:12
7. Please, Please, Please 1:57
8. Dialogue (8) 5:49
9. Blint’s Tune (Movements 1 - 17) 14:17

CD4: L (1978)
1. The Sporting Life 7:27
2. Sandwiches Of You 3:19
3. Art School Canteen 3:03
4. Group Life 4:11
5. Punchbag 4:45
6. Foreign Accents 4:37
7. Hit Factory / Business Is Business 7:07

CD5: FREEZE FRAME (1979)
1. An Englishman In New York 5:51
2. Random Brainwave 2:39
3. I Pity Inanimate Objects 5:25
4. Freeze Frame 4:47
5. Clues 5:24
6. Brazilia (Wish You Were Here) 6:10
7. Mugshots 3:53
8. Get Well Soon 4:37

CD6: ISMISM (1981)
1. Snack Attack 7:15
2. Under Your Thumb 4:45
3. Joey’s Camel 5:28
4. The Problem 4:05
5. Ready For Ralph 2:22
6. Wedding Bells 3:25
7. Lonnie 4:49
8. Sale Of The Century 4:24
9. The Party 8:07

CD7: BIRDS OF PREY (1981)
1. My Body The Car 2:25
2. Worm And The Rattlesnake 3:25
3. Cats Eyes 3:44
4. Samson 5:30
5. Save A Mountain For Me* 3:35
6. Madame Guillotine 5:04
7. Woodwork 4:39
8. Twisted Nerve 4:03
9. Out In The Cold 4:50

CD8: THE HISTORY MIX VOL.1 (1981)
1. Wet Rubber Soup 12:26
2. Cry 6:33
3. Expanding The Business 17:07
4. The ‘Dare You’ Man
5. Hum Drum Boys In Paris
6. Mountain Tension

CD9: GOODBYE BLUE SKY (1988)
1. H.E.A.V.E.N.
2. A Little Piece Of Heaven] 5:03
3. Don’t Set Fire (To The One I Love)
3:21
4. Golden Rings 4:11
5. Crime & Punishment 7:17
6. The Big Bang 2:28
7. 10,000 Angels 5:12
8. Sweet Memory 4:47
9. Airforce One 3:39
10. The Last Page Of History 3:58
11. Desperate Times 3:36

CD10: NON-ALBUM TRACKS & 7” VERSIONS
1. Wide Boy 3:29
2. Submarine 3:59
3. Marciano 3:29
4. Power Behind The Throne 3:36
5. Babies 4:42
6. Welcome To Breakfast Television 2:31
7. Golden Boy [7” 1984] 3:49
8. Light Me Up 4:31
9. Love Bombs 3:55
10. Golden Boy [1985 Remix] 4:05
11. Bits Of Blue Sky 5:46
12. Rhino Rhino 3:20
13. Hidden Heartbeat 4:31
14. Can’t Sleep 2:08
15. Sandwiches Of You [7” Edit] 2:40
16. An Englishman In New York [Single Edit] 3:55
17. Silent Running 3:59
18. Cry [Single Edit] 3:55
19. Wet Rubber Soup [Edit] 3:22
20. Snack Attack [1987 7” Remix] 3:50
21. A Little Piece Of Heaven [7” Single Version] 3:38

CD11: EXTENDED MIXES
1. Snack Attack [Extended Version] 6:50
2. Strange Apparatus (An Englishman In New York) [12” Version] 5:34
3. Samson [Dance Mix] 5:52
4. Golden Boy [Long Version 1984] 5:52
5. Jack Attack Dub 6:40
6. Cry [Extended Remix] 7:25
7. Golden Boy [1985 Full Length 12” Mix] 4:56
8. Snack Attack [1987 Extended Remix] 9:45
9. A Little Piece Of Heaven [Extended Mix] 6:08