Changing Faces – The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme

Changing Faces – The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme
Greatest hits album by
10cc
ReleasedAugust 1987
GenreRock
LabelPolygramTV
Producer10cc, Trevor Horn
10cc chronology
Windows in the Jungle
(1983) 		Changing Faces – The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme
(1987) 		...Meanwhile
(1992)
Singles from Changing Faces
  1. "Snack Attack (Remix)" b/w "Wet Rubber Soup (Edit)"
    Released: June 1987
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]

Changing Faces – The Very Best of 10cc and Godley & Creme is a compilation album that included the hits of 10cc and Godley & Creme, the first album to include both bands.

Release and reception

The album featured 16 tracks including a newly remixed version of "Snack Attack" by Godley & Creme, that originally featured on their 1981 album Ismism. The track was also issued as a single with an edit of "Wet Rubber Soup" from The History Mix Volume 1 (1985) on the B-side. The single failed to chart.

The album was very successful in the UK reaching No.4[2] and achieving platinum status for selling over 300,000 copies.[3] It was also the catalyst to Polydor conducting market research to see if the public would welcome a new album from the band which eventually resulted in ...Meanwhile (1992).

The cover

The cover featured a composite of all the band's faces placed on top of each other - a reference to the famous morphing video for Godley & Creme's "Cry" single from 1985.

Track listing

  1. 10cc "Dreadlock Holiday" (Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman) 1978
  2. 10cc "The Wall Street Shuffle" (Stewart, Gouldman) 1974
  3. Godley & Creme "Under Your Thumb" (Kevin Godley, Lol Creme) 1981
  4. 10cc "Life Is a Minestrone" (Creme, Stewart) 1975
  5. Godley & Creme "An Englishman in New York" (Godley, Creme) 1979
  6. 10cc "Art for Art's Sake" (Stewart, Gouldman) 1975
  7. 10cc "Donna" (Godley, Creme) 1972
  8. Godley & Creme "Snack Attack (Remix)" 1987 (Original Version 1981)
  9. Godley & Creme "Cry" (Godley, Creme) 1985
  10. 10cc "The Things We Do for Love" (Stewart, Gouldman) 1976
  11. Godley & Creme "Wedding Bells" (Godley, Creme) 1981
  12. 10cc "I'm Mandy Fly Me" (Stewart, Gouldman, Godley) 1976
  13. 10cc "Good Morning Judge" (Stewart, Gouldman) 1977
  14. 10cc "Rubber Bullets" (Godley, Creme, Gouldman) 1973
  15. Godley & Creme "Save a Mountain for Me" (Godley, Creme) 1982
  16. 10cc "I'm Not in Love" (Stewart, Gouldman) 1975

The video

A compilation of videos was assembled and released in 1988.

  1. 10cc "Dreadlock Holiday"
  2. 10cc "The Wall Street Shuffle" (Live)
  3. Godley & Creme "An Englishman in New York"
  4. Godley & Creme "Wedding Bells"
  5. 10cc "The Things We Do for Love"
  6. 10cc "Good Morning Judge"
  7. Godley & Creme "Golden Boy"
  8. 10cc "I'm Mandy Fly Me"
  9. 10cc "Feel the Love"
  10. 10cc "I'm Not in Love" (Live)
  11. Godley & Creme – History Mix – featuring "Cry" (Various clips of the promos directed by and featuring them and 10cc)

The video has since been repackaged as the companion to the Greatest Hits ... And More compilation from 2006, available as a DVD.

Certifications

Certifications for Changing Faces - The Very Best Of 10Cc And Godley And Creme
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[4] Platinum 300,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ AllMusic review by Dave Thompson
  2. ^ "10 C.C." officialcharts.com. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  3. ^ "BPI Certification". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  4. ^ "British album certifications – 10Cc & Godley & Creme – Changing Faces - The Very Best Of 10Cc And Godley And Creme". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 5 December 2024.