10cc – Bloody Tourists

While the original 1978 vinyl release reveals terrible sound quality, this Japanese SHM-CD version is far better than any other versions. Highly recommended.

Super compressed. Like damn. Sounds like they are singing through a bed sheet. Very disappointed in this.

It's a good album but the geniusses of Kevin Godley and Lol Creme are definitely missing! The latter two continued the great work of (earlier) 10 CC as "Godley & Creme" much more convincingly and artful than this formation!

Classic album from 10cc, some great tracks... probably my fav album of theirs... good solid pressing of that era...

The vinyl sound quality is amazing.
About the sleeve - its came with few stickers on that front and back, that were a pain in the but to remove. Also, the inner sleeve didn't had the same print as presented in the preview, instead it was just a blank page.

Picked up this album on the weekend. Side 1 of Bloody Tourists is actually side 1 of Pat Travers album Putting it Straight. Side 2 is side 2 of Bloody Tourists

Stellar pressing, but you are only buying this for Dreadlock Holiday. The rest of the album is sub-par.

BASICS: 10CC, Steely Dan, Hunter Thompson ... I put the three of these in the same class ... and as I think about it, I might want to throw Frank Zappa in that mix as well. 10 CC are extremely brilliant, seem completely natural, unpretentious in the development and execution of their art, and they have a way of bending words that brings on a big “Ah Ha ...” Once you hear what they have to say, you are left wondering why you weren’t able to have seen or said things in such a cinematic manner ... it’s all about the word play, and there are fewer things finer in music or literature then that.

Probably the biggest problems, if one can call it a problem is that there were no less then two really strong writing teams within the ranks of 10CC ... those being Kevin Godley and Lol Creme [and] Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman. The first half of the team took a very artsy, and as I said, cinematic view of the music, while latter were more straight forward in their approach to pop music. Non of these people could be considered a ‘flash in the pan’ in any manner ... Eric Stewart had been a member and writer for Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders and had a super hit with “The Game Of Love,” “A Groovy Kind Of Love” and several other songs. Gouldman succeeded in knocking out the world by writing both “For Your Love” and “Heart Full Of Soul” for the Yardbirds [remember Eric Claption and Jimmy Page], the songs “Bus Stop” and “Look Through Any Window” for The Hollies [and of course you remember Graham Nash from CS&N] and he even wrote two hits for the group Herman’s Hermits. They were also part of, if I may put it this way, a music factory, who turned out one hit after bubble gum and pop hit after another. The point being, that individually, these guys had tremendous street credits, all it took was for them to merge their talents and take the world by storm.

Man O Man [please, use your best reggae accent when you say Man O Man] ... the ride was more then great, but due to changes in the group, this is where I had to finally had to leave off with 10 CC.

This is not to say that “Bloody Tourists” does not have it’s high points, or its bright spots, because it does ... it’s just that with this release I felt a stress, something I just can’t put my finger on, but ever present non the less. “Dreadlock Holiday” was the hit, and there are many out there who feel that this was a bit of a racist song ... and in defense of the band, I don’t think those people actually got it, because the point 10 CC were making [with there ‘on purpose’ very bad rendition of a reggae song] is that one can have a “Dreadlock Holiday” anywhere, at anytime.

I was very disheartened to feel this was the end, ‘My Dreadlock Holiday’ ... because after all, “I didn’t like 10 CC ... I loved them!”

Review by Jenell Kesler

I listened to this LP once to playgrade it.... I still want those 40 or so minutes back to this day.
I wonder if I am the only one who finds the lyrical content to "Dreadlock Holiday" racist and also a prime example of what NOT to write? Check this fuckery :
I was walkin' down the street
Concentratin' on truckin' right
I heard a dark voice beside of me
And I looked round in a state of fright
I saw four faces one mad
A brother from the gutter
They looked me up and down a bit
And turned to each other

and blah blah blah. google it. the worst part is how repetitive the hook is, and how it makes absolutely no sense, as it ends with " Don't you walk thru my words
You got to show some respect
Don't you walk thru my words
'Cause you ain't heard me out yet"

As if to imply "No, faithful listener.... there is a left turn coming up... there is a punchline to this"

This should appeal to the closed minded, but for all else, hit the dump button on this LP. :>