Lol Creme / Kevin Godley*Consequences

Label:

Mercury – 6641 658

Format:

3 x Vinyl , LP, Album
Box Set

Country:

UK

Released:

Genre:

Pop

Style:

Experimental

Tracklist

Part One
A1 Seascape
A2 Wind
A3 Fireworks
A4 Stampede
A5 Burial Scene
B1 Sleeping Earth
B2 Honolulu Lulu
B3 The Flood
Part Two
C1 Five O'Clock In The Morning
C2 When Things Go Wrong
SaxophoneMel Collins
C3 Lost Weekend
FeaturingSarah Vaughan
D1 Rosie
D2 Office Chase
D3 Cool, Cool, Cool
Part Three
E1 Cool, Cool, Cool (Reprise)
E2 Sailor
E3 Mobilization
E4 Please, Please, Please
F Blint's Tune (Movements 1-17)

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded AtStrawberry Studios
  • Recorded AtThe Manor
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗Phonogram Ltd.
  • Published BySt. Annes Music Ltd.
  • Lacquer Cut AtI.B.C. Studios
  • Pressed ByPhonodisc Ltd.
  • Marketed ByPhonogram

Credits

  • Lacquer Cut ByMelys*
  • Layout, TypographyJack Wood (3)
  • Mastered ByMelvyn Abrahams
  • Mixed By, EngineerMartin Lawrence
  • Music By, Lyrics By, Written-By, Arranged ByCreme*
  • PerformerPeter Wheeler
  • Performer [As Lulu]Judy Huxtable
  • Photography ByLew Long
  • ProducerCreme*
  • Written-By, Performer [All Dialogue Written And Performed By]Peter Cook

Notes

Released in a box with a 20 page booklet that includes drawings and pictures of the band performing this recording and 3 individually coloured inners.

Recorded at Strawberry Studios. 3 Waterloo Road, Stockport, Cheshire.
and The Manor Studios, Shipton-Cherwell,Oxon.

Made in England

℗ 1977

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (A-side runout): 9199062 1Y//3 IB 1 1 6 MELYS
  • Matrix / Runout (B-side runout): 9199062 2Y//3 IB 1 1 6 MELYS
  • Matrix / Runout (C-side runout): 9199063 1Y//5 IB 1 1 9 MELYS
  • Matrix / Runout (D-side runout): 9199063 2Y//6 IB 1 1 9 MELYS
  • Matrix / Runout (E-side runout): 9199064 1Y//3 IB 1 1 MELYS
  • Matrix / Runout (F-side runout): 9199064 2Y▽4 IB 1 1 2 MELYS
  • Other (Individual cat. number, record 1): 9199062
  • Other (Individual cat. number, record 2): 9199063
  • Other (Individual cat. number, record 3): 9199064

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
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Consequences (3×Cassette, Album, Box Set, ) Mercury 7299 629, 7299 630, 7299 631 UK 1977
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Consequences (3×LP, Album, Box Set, ) Mercury SRM-3-1700 US 1977
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Musical Excerpts From Consequences (Promo, Sampler, LP) Mercury MK-41 US 1977
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Consequences (3×LP, Album, Box Set, ) Mercury CONS 017, 6641 658, 9199 062/3/4 Europe 1977
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Consequences (3×LP, Album, Box Set, ) Mercury SRM-3-1700 Canada 1977

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Reviews

  • FrankHardenbol's avatar
    FrankHardenbol
    In many ways this is all pre Art Of Noise. No wonder Lol jumped on he AON/T.Horn train (but then again it is maybe the other way around) The track Sleeping Earth even has some sounds sampled by AON?? (only guessing)
    • ecomusicaddict's avatar
      ecomusicaddict
      Ahead of its time - great music, but Peter Cook's not at his funniest. Worth a punt, though.

      (not the most useful of reviews, but to appease natural forces, I kept it to 17 words)
      • jeniferallan888's avatar
        Edited 4 years ago
        Bizarre.
        Some wonderful tracks.
        The Flood for example.
        Peter Cook had far too many lines.
        It might have worked if the percentage of words was out weighed by Godley and Cremes' musical inventions.
        Definately some gems.
        If only they had the energy to pursue more musical outcomes.
        I like it but just a little disapointed that it just does not contain enough music/noise especially on part two.

        • janobg's avatar
          janobg
          Edited 4 years ago
          A gem, no less! I bought a copy of this 3-LP set in 1985 and sadly it was lost not very long after during a break-in. Today my local record shop had no less than two copies(!) of this box set and the one I got home with me looked and played like new. Almost mint. Way ahead of their time as you can easily hear in 2020.
          • plasticwax's avatar
            plasticwax
            The soundtrack to my life, so brilliant, so ahead of its time
            • Numanoid's avatar
              Numanoid
              Edited 5 years ago
              Godley & Creme were post-punk before punk was even invented.

              The first record of the set is a gem, they were doing music that KLF/The Orb would be doing to great acclaim 15 years later.

              The two last records is a jumbled up Peter Cook comedy album, with added 10cc schmaltz.
              • TheDjProducer's avatar
                TheDjProducer
                Edited 6 years ago
                OK. Not good enough. Consequences has really no comment???? Not good enough. If you don't know about this album let me break it down a little. A prog rock concept vinyl album spanning 3 discs. The basic narrative being mans fight against nature or how powerless we are at its mercy when it starts to get really fucking lively.

                My overall memories on the underneath are overall pretty horrible actually. My dad would put this on when he was in a really fucking bad mood -- quite sadistic in hindsight really as he knew there were sections in this record that would literally terrify us.

                Kevin Godley & Lou creme divided this device called "The gizmo" which I believe was a box with 5 wheels inside that would align with guitar strings and clamp to the guitars neck. The wheels had wire brushes affixed and were rotated at speed -- when pressed to the guitar strings it would create these other worldly -- almost string section type noise, & with added studio effects would make some of the weirdest noises recorded. Being constitute of 10cc who were renowned for crazy studio trickery, Consequences saw that taken to another level.

                3 standout sections include a man trapped in his house being attacked by the wind and having it slowly destroyed around him (that fucked me up as a kid), The section where there is a firework display in the jungle & all the animals start freaking out (total art noise & also intense) -- but the real shocker is "the flood" which literally starts with a guy in the bathroom brushing his teeth. He leaves the bathroom and we are left in the bathroom with a dripping tap. the drip becomes drips. the drips become a trickle. The trickle becomes a torrent. the torrent becomes rhythmical & before you know it we are listening to a band doing their final number at a rock concert -- and its raining -- hard. As the last number creshendos-- they finale & it finishes.

                you can hear the band leader say to the crowd "Hey -- if we all chant together maybe we can stop this rain?!?!"

                then BOOOOOOOM ----THE HEAVENS >OPEN< ----FESTIVAL DROWNED --EVERYBODY & THING -- >DEAD<

                Just left with the sound of a heartbeat ......that fades.

                One of the greatest ambient albums (not totally ambient) of all time .....if you ever knew about it <3
                still amazing

                & FUCK the Chemical Brother for stealing the art & doing jack shit with it ....So unimaginative ..........

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