10cc - Ten out of 10 - album reviewBest songs:
Memories
Run Away
Worst songs:
"Don't Ask"
Overdraft in Overdrive
Don't Turn Me Away
Notell Hotel
Les Nouveaux Riches
Action Man in a Motown Suit
Listen with Your Eyes
Lying Here with You
Survivor
The Power of Love
Overdraft in Overdrive
Tomorrow's World Today
We've Heard It All Before
Ten Out of 10 is the eighth studio album by 10cc and was released in November 1981 (with the US version not following until later in 1982). It failed to chart in the US or UK. The album marked the first involvement with the band by American singer-songwriter Andrew Gold, who was also invited to join the band, but declined because of other commitments.[2]
Gouldman said the band's label in the U.S., Warner Bros. Records wanted more of an American flavour to the album. "They were keen for us to work with an American producer or writer. Well, we hadn't had any big success since '78, and we wanted to get hot again. When they suggested Andrew Gold, I was over the moon. I'd always adored his work, and I reckoned he would be a kindred spirit ... I felt really we needed some new blood, but it didn't work out. Andrew was doing so much stuff in America that it just wasn't practical, although he really wanted to do it."[2]
Gouldman later admitted greater involvement by Gold might have lifted the band's early 1980s output from its mediocrity. "We should either have tried to change direction, which we didn't, or got someone else in the band, which we almost did. The albums weren't really bad, there was always the integrity, and the production values, but in retrospect, I find them rather dour, rather lackluster. That's why I thought we should have got someone else in, to kick us up the buttocks. We didn't see what was going on around us, maybe we should have got a producer at that point."[2]
