1985 Godley and Creme: Cry

bad morphing video

Godley and Creme: Cry 1985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjTPA7y0fPw

This Godley and Creme (from 10cc – they were a successful MOR band) video from 1985, Cry uses continuous film lap-dissolves with carefully registered eyes, to create an effect that was to become a digital motif called ‘Morphing’ from the early 1990s. Video effects just before the digital revolution of MPEG and MPEG2 in the 1990s used analogue techniques – in-camera effects, post production overprints and lap-dissolves – now wholly replaced by digital post.

Godley & Creme "Cry" dir. Godley & Creme (1985)

Nominated for Video of the Year at 1986 MTV VMA's - an early classic, and groundbreaking video.

YouTube (by comparison)

         

commissionergordan, June 7, 2006 3:20:33 PM CEST

Brilliant, probably one of the most important music videos, done without computers years before morphing. A display of technical genius.

         

dickensian_hero, June 7, 2006 6:08:21 PM CEST

wonderful. great faces too.

         

funtoosh, June 8, 2006 4:05:49 AM CEST

another copy/hommage (rather not sure, which term i'd use) here:
videos.antville.org/stories/1356386/

         

captainmarc22, June 8, 2006 7:27:05 AM CEST

anyone ever see beavis and butt-heads take on this? funny shit. And am i wrong to guess the two wacky looking white dudes w/ the big hair are godley & creme?

         

kevathens, June 8, 2006 12:46:09 PM CEST

Yep, that's them. (The two that appear before the fella above)

         

kappadonna, February 9, 2010 3:54:51 PM CET

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10cc: “It Doesn’t Matter At All” (1980)

Kronomyth 9.1: INCONSEQUENCES. This soft, fluffy ballad was floated as the first single from Look Hear?and promptly disappeared from the airwaves. It’s not an awful song, in the same vein as “People In Love” and “For You And I,” both of which were a blanching of something that used to be so colorful. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, 1980 was a turning point where bands were either looking ahead or looking back. “It Doesn’t Matter At All” is guilty of being nostalgic at a time when 10cc could (should?) have embraced new wave like Alice Cooper (Flush The Fashion) and Paul McCartney (McCartney II). There’s also a video of the band lip-synching to this in which you can clearly make out Eric Stewart’s Dracula teeth, proving that all pop music is made by undead vampires who keep recycling the same melodies every hundred years (and harvest the organs of drummers, but that’s another story).

Original 7-inch single version
A1. It Doesn’t Matter At All (Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman) (3:59)
B1. From Rochdale To Ocho Rois (Graham Gouldman)

The Plastic
Released on 7-inch single in 1980 in the UK (Mercury, LOOK 2) and Germany and the Netherlands (6059 279) with picture sleeve. Also released as promotional 7-inch single in 1980 in the US (Warner Bros., WBS49266) feat. A stereo and mono.

10cc: “People In Love” (1977)

I’ve always heard this as a pale successor to “The Things We Do For Love.” THAT song was a roller-coaster ride; this is more of a swan ride. Still it’s a lovely track, fit if not for a king than at least one PM I know. Like most of their singles, the B side is a nonalbum track, promisingly titled “Don’t Squeeze Me Like Toothpaste.” It’s not as silly as it sounds, but a country-pop song with some sweet guitar playing and a good melody. Toothpaste or not, the band lost most of their teeth when Godley and Creme dropped out, as these two tracks confirm.

Original 7-inch single version (UK)
A1. People In Love (Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman)
B1. I’m So Laid Back I’m Laid Out (Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman)

Original 7-inch single version (US/Japan)
A1. People In Love (Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman) (3:42)
B1. Don’t Squeeze Me Like Toothpaste (Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman) (3:44)

The Plastic
Released on 7-inch single in May 1977 in the UK (Mercury, 6008 028), the US (Mercury, 73917) and Japan (Mercury, SFL-2181); reached #40 on the US charts (charted on May 21, 1977 for 7 weeks). Regional versions feature picture sleeve. Also released as promotional 7-inch single in 1977 in the US (Mercury, DJ-496) feat. A only.

Godley & Creme - Cry

 

Cry - Godley And Creme
Although not a musically or lyrically complex song, "Cry" is intensely beautiful, and expressive, and will always remain one of my favorites.  The video was groundbreaking at the time, and if you can get past the creepiness factor of it, it's quite stunning, and some of the facial expressions are amazing...as an artist, I truly appreciate that.

Godley & Creme were an English rock duo composed of Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. The pair began releasing albums as a duo after splitting from the pop band 10cc. In 1979 they directed their first music video for their own single "An Englishman in New York". After this, they became involved in directing videos for such artists as Ultravox, The Police, Duran Duran, Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Wang Chung, as well as directing the ground-breaking promo for their own "Cry" in 1985. The duo split at the end of the 1980s and have both been involved in music videos, TV commercials, and sporadic music projects since.
If you love this song, Check out "Wedding Bells" by Godley and Creme

10cc - I'm Not in love - Serious Version - with clips from "Days of Our Lives" - with end song credits

shorter version is better without Kathy's part

 

10cc ~ I'm Not in Love - Julie-not-in-love-with-Nick version- fan music video

 

the story is told that "Eric Stewart" did first a more or less "Bossa Nova" version of the track. The other members "godly & creme" didn't like the track at all and so the track was put beside. But as the people from the studio where whisteling the tune "Stewart" was able to convince his band partners and they went to the studio to do another, more down tempo version of it.

another side story is, that "stewart" told in an interview that the band was really struggling financial wise and as they had already a deal with a small company their position was more or less tragic. The production of "I'm not in Love" changed... of course ... everything. world wide monster hit.