The beauty of this song is that it wasn't composed and arranged using a formula. It was created using innovation, intuition, experimentation and pure talent. It is a haunting musical masterpiece.
Well that's a rap, lol. Wow, you articulated so perfectly the artistry that made this song possible. Thank you for saying what the rest of us wish we had.
Well put, considering how the original version they made basically bombed and they almost shelved it. This was a stunning display of studio and engineering genius at its absolute finest.
@@Cali62825 yeah good feelings falling in (and out) of relationships. The music always seem to be sung to you. I was often surprised about the timing on hearing music and the lyrics during emotional relationships
1978 I was 16 busted my cherry to this tune with my high school sweetheart. Still makes the hair on my arm stand up to this day.. Big boys still cry...
I was in the studio when this was mastered on to an acetate at IBC studios in London The guy who was cutting the master actually gave me the first test pressing on this masterpiece- I had the very first copy ever and to hear it in the studio was an experience I will never forget - what an honour
I first heard this song back in the 1970s, the night after my first kiss in an amusement park's "haunted house." I was 13. The boy called me every single night after that for next few months over the summer. It was love. Every time I hear this song, i think about the lyrics saying, "And just because I call you up, don't get me wrong. Don't think you've got it made....I'm not in love." But we were, for a short time at least.🧡
The Cathy Moment - interesting - she looks exactly as I imagined her to be - what a beautiful young woman (still lovely now). 4 years later 1979 I met a girl who was similar in looks, after 6 weeks I asked her to marry me - I never thought I would feel like that - I guess - I was in Love! This month we will have been married 41 years.
@@zappababe8577 Thank you - it takes a lot of work, give and take, tears and laughter - the best thing ir we have two fine sons who are talented, grounded, kind and funny.
@@timhansell3421 How wonderful, I'm so happy to hear it and you sound like you appreciate how blessed you are! I have an adorable, caring and creative daughter who makes me proud every day. I also have a fantastic boyfriend who treats me exceptionally well. It's good to count your blessings in life! Love, light and peace to you and yours X
I met my late husband when we were 16. Got married at 17. Had our only child at 18. At 20 - 22 we were on again-off again. And a few times after, too, but this song came out when we were separated and it makes me so sad every time I hear it. We wasted so much on so little. He passed in 2007. Almost married 35 years…
You don’t think this song being in a bunch of super mainstream movies and introducing it to entirely new audiences got it’s recognition? I’m 26 and I’ve never heard this song until I watched Guardians of the Galaxy (was a box office hit in 2014) it was also in Bridget Jones and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo. This song isn’t over rated or under rated, it’s reasonably rated. It’s ethereal and hauntingly beautiful. They just don’t make it like they used to do they?
I was 28 when this came out and loved it to bits. And my mother, who was 63 at the time, used to listen to it on late night radio and when it finished always commented "He siays he's not in love but he can't fool me, he's head over heels"
That's something you don't see every day...people talking about the making of the song, then everybody shuts up and the song is played in its entirety with no other (not even visual!) distractions. Excellent!
Agreed. The black screen can be a great hook. Most of the great music of the '60s and '70s were played in the dark just because we dared not have any distractions. Now. If I could just find an acapella version...
@@bobert4him I quite often listen music in the dark because it enhances the fullness of it. But this video was the first time the visuals were put on black and i felt accomponied because i knew the producer of the video felt exactly the same... EXCELLENT !!!!
Yep...fascinating video - and then topped off with the song in its entirety ...in the blackscreen darkness in which it should be played and appreciated....great stuff
I'm 55 years old and have been listening to this song since the year it came out. I used to know a little bit about 1970s and 1980s synthesizers. Before I saw this video on 4/16/2019 I thought the "ah" "ah" parts and most of the choir sounds were done using an early to mid 1970s synthesizer like an early Oberheim or even an Arp 2600. I especially like the fact that the different notes come out in different channels. The first note (the higher note) comes out on one channel with the second note (the lower note) coming out on the other channel. I LOVE that. I'm going to save this video into one of my favorites files and come back to it every few weeks to listen to the whole 10 minute video.
Released in 75, I would have heard this song first in 75 or 76, Panama, Union Club, Panama City... Still remember to this day... All the older kids were playing it on the JukeBox...
70s pop was the best, creative, original, diverse. 60s laid the foundation and basic rock tracks were considered amazing because they were new, the 80s were amazing, but not overall as experimental, much of it was similar, more synthesizer based.
This song has always grabbed me. 😍 it, glad I heard how they made this masterpiece. Got it on my I-pod, I been listening for decades when I ride my bicycle on the back roads here in western N.C.thanks guys for the memories🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼
I know what you mean. This two songs, especially DW are very moody and magical and take you away to another dimension. I find it hard to listen to Dream Weaver sometimes because it sounds bittersweet to me, and it makes me kinda sad
I got over a serious illness the previous year and 1975 was the year that I needed to build my strength back. This song was so integral in helping me get back on my feet so I could live a productive life. Music can have such an impact on us humans. We should never take it for granted.
Man, this song will make you melancholy in a heartbeat and well worth it. And if you never listened their amazing "Sheet Music" album, well just go and immerse yourself in that.
"We used to turn the lights off in the control room and lie down on the floor and play it to ourselves". That's the power of music making. Hey they were not even jaded. I know artist who never want to hear a song again once it's been recorded because they are sick of it.
Kevin Godley said it best when he said, "It just kept on getting better." To this day, every time I listen to "I'm Not in Love" it keeps on getting better. It is an absolutely timeless and brilliant song.
Summer of 75 with my parents driving on the Mass Turnpike it's raining and we are heading to Rhode Island to my grandparents and this is on the airwaves.Its amazing how vivid my memory was of the moment I heard this.
Born in 70, heard this on the radio growing up, and then it disappeared for a while. Years later, I heard it again, and it stopped me in my tracks. It is an incredibly innovative and beautiful song that has the power to transport us back in time and allow us to relive meaningful moments. Very moving and timeless.
This song inspired me to become a radio dj. 44 years later, I’m still one. There are certain songs you can play 5,000 times and they never ever get old. This is one of them.
What a great comment and you’re so right! We have a special musical bond and beautiful memories that unites us all wherever we were and wherever we are now. 🥰
I have every album saw them live 3 times ❤️ still listen to them when I can, takes me right back. You lovely people are right beautiful memories. I’m now 60 but not when lm listening to 10cc ❤️
This song never gets old, it brings out the teenager in me every time I hear it, If I had a Time Machine I would go back, never to return. This song is a masterpiece. They don't write music like this anymore.
@@tonynew3047 Due to the fact l can't find a Time Machine we are going to have to settle for UA-cam to take us back in time. To dream is the power of music.
On November 12th, 1975, my wife and I went on our first date to see 10cc in concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium when this song was released. To this day we celebrate this date every year as we do our wedding anniversary. Sweet memories. We're still making them.
@@frederhardt9668 I'm very jealous, one band I would have loved to see live and it's highly unlikely they're going to reform in the future so you caught a great bit of history there.
@@ActionMediaProductions maybe it was closer to the arrangement Graham Goulding uses for his solo concerts, except with a full band not just acoustic guitars. I think it's highly unlikely Godley and Creme would have went along with that though, it was everything they hated about the song. But SERIOUSLY risky attempting pre-recorded backing vocal tapes in the mid 70s on the scale of I'm Not In Love, especially, as Fred says, in a 5000 seat auditorium. Townsend had a nightmare with backing tapes on the Quadrophenia tour, it sounded like a disaster. I remember even with the band I was in in the early 90s we had problems every single gig with backing tapes. Sound engineers just refused to turn them up loud enough for a band to stay in sync with. The excuse was 'i need to protect the house soundsystem from whatever might be on your tapes because i haven't heard them' (that's what a soundcheck is for mate). A whole band, including a live drummer, trying to follow a drum machine on a backing tape that could barely be heard, o man it was torture for us and torture for the audience.
This song always makes me drift away back into the past...it goes hand in hand with “nights in white satin”’which is equally a magical masterpiece for me.
I absolutely loved this song when it first hit the airwaves. Thank you for explaining how you created the chorus of voices. That's what sold it for me. I'm 62 now and still love it!
I always assumed the multi tracked vocals were a Mellotron. Tape loops of instruments just playing one sustained note. So basically 10cc were their own Mellotron. Magical, genius stuff.
I think 10cc could have used a Mellotron but decided to use their own voices due to it sounding more realistic. On another documentary they went into more detail about it and you can hear the looping points when the background vocals were isolated. Eric said it sounded like people in a large Cathedral.
I was thinking the same thing just before I read your reply. Excellent analysis Keef. The kick drum is like a funky heartbeat and the song breathes more by not having a snare drum back beat on 2 & 4.
As far as I know, and I think this I heard from Casey Kasem back in the 1980's on the American Top 40 I guess it was. The last song to be done using a reel-to-reel for the sound effects was "Fly Like An Eagle" Steve Miller Band. ua-cam.com/video/WuXwSyahgW4/v-deo.html
This is why I tell people the 70s was the best decade for music... The song is so well written... And this story of how they came about producing it, fabulous, genius
Greetings from Liverpool England.The 70’s was a tribute the 60’s but improved on that great decade in my humble opinion. 1972 - 76 was the time as a young lad I was listening to the like of 10cc on FM radio in Stereo too. Oh it was so cool listening on my big Grundig radio😎. Digital radio sucks..😤
Perhaps the most atmospheric song ever recorded. The song always makes me a little sad, perhaps because we’ve all been to this place. Trying to keep your pride, not admitting your feelings but being eaten up inside. It just carries you off.
Robert Hickerty so true. I was 22, had just come back to Cali from living by myself in northern Japan for a couple of years with some hard times, and for me, that bittersweet California summer of 1975 was and will always be infused with this song.
Had my first kiss with a young lady to this song at a party. Forty years of marriage later, I'm 60 now and this song still takes me back to that incredible moment ...
The best and certainly most original song of the 70s. A masterpiece. I remember a hot summer's day in early July 1975, driving from Bristol to Oxford with my sister and her husband, through fields of wheat, colza, with the widow down to cool off, and this playing on the car radio. Unforgettable
It's crazy. The concept feels very much like the Mellotron that the Moody Blues used. Tape loops of of different instruments with a keyboard to play them. Amazing.
@@sosumir4896 I always thought Mellotron, too, and pictured the keyboard player just laying his whole arm across it at the end. But the attack on the notes was always off; throwing sliders makes a lot more sense. My only crit of this song was, the reed organ sound on the bottom is too brash at times, especially that half step below tonic sound. It's a little out of character with everything else. Love the Rhodes and Steinway work.
*44* years later, I finally get to put a face on that woman whispering ''Be quiet. Big boys don't cry''. Just as beautiful, if not more, as I thought she would look. Then and now, I mean.
Weird--- I could have sworn I heard a rumor that it was Stevie Nicks doing that part. I found that so hard to believe because it didn't sound anything like Stevie.
Almost 50 years later, you'd think with digital and computers music would've become even more of a medium for artist to rise even higher. Sadly it been the contrary. Thank God these gentlemen lived in the 70s where their ingenuity paved the way for such a unique and unequaled masterpiece. Close your eyes. It's literally drugs for your ears. Get swept away, and enjoy the melancholy of love.
Unfortunately the digital way of making music today has also damaged the creative process. Where it doesn't require a lot of brain power, intuition, and innovation to create something special. Before they were a band, 10cc were professional studio musicians, so they knew their way around a recording studio and how to get the most out of recording equipment that they could. They were an amazing group of musicians.
@@a2ndopynyn I think if you were born post-kurt , you might have never understood the nostalgia of music.. buying your first Led Zep vinyl, getting a yellow Walkman for Christmas and popping in your favorite cassette and waking around town. Listening to Pink Floyd in your bed with headphones on, installing a Craig stereo in your first car. Entering your first mosh pit and getting instantly addicted. Young people these days maybe never had those those visceral experiences that became a HUGE part of our past. :)
I was 15 when this came out. I'm 60 now....this song is even more powerful than before. This is because the memories it invokes of a time when artistry and talent was applauded not derided
Same here ! I’m 61 ( commenting here in Aug 2021) & clearly remember when this came out in 1975 when I was 15 ! Amazing how this song is still haunting and gorgeous !
I've got 2 years on you and I remember exactly where I was when I first heard it: in a friends house stoned in Pasadena CA. He had a house where you could turn the audio up. And that's what we did. Never heard of 10cc until that time.
I was 16 in the summer of '75. I remember learning this tune. My friends and I used to jam with an acoustic guitar, an out of tune square back piano and a drum beat made from tapping stacks of phone books. Our lead was a girl, we usually played the hits like Elton John and Paul Simon. I'm sure we sucked but we had fun and thought we were great. I wish we had cameras like today, they'd be some great memories.
After dinner my older siblings (teens) would play music on the record player. When I heard “IM NOT IN LOVE” for the first time, I loved it ever since. Today I turn 53 and my teenage kids know all the words and play this timeless classic all the time. Hope to be around to sing with my Grandchildren. Enjoy ❤️
The pain staking effort that went into making this song is amazing…no computers just layers of sound and engineering genius. The end result is pure magic.
Finally I've found this song. I never knew who sang it or its title. I heard it as a teenager sometimes in 90s on a radio, I thought it was a new song, I didn't understand English back then, but it captured my soul. I felt like this singer understands me better than myself. I remembered the sound of it but never heard it afterwards. What a surprise, it's from 70's. And lyrics ironically describe my experience when I heard it first... Thank you for this gift of art 10cc!
It understood me better than I knew myself. It left me with the same feeling and still does. Perhaps most of us didn’t make our move & the pain never stops. Thanks for your comment. ♥️🇺🇸🌿
I was a little kid when this song came out. Everyone was going crazy over this song. So at the record store I bought it on a 45 single record. The 2nd record I ever bought. Just because everyone else was snatching it up. Got it home and played it and could not for the life of me understand why it was considered a romantic song. If your not in love, then why in God's green earth would you sing about it? Just go on about your business and find a chick you will fall in love with! A few years later my relationship with my girlfriend went astray. Then I heard this song and it was like- "Oh...yeah!"
I'm with you on the first part of your comment but not the end. I still don't "get it". If you love someone be with them, if not don't play around with their feelings it's,disrespectful
I laid on the floor and listened with my eyes closed when the screen went black. Fucking lovely. The first song that made me cry. i'll be 60 next year.
I thought that was such a great touch to the video, after hearing about how the song was made we were treated to the song in it's entirety *and without any visuals* just a black screen that didn't force our attention and imagination into someone else's visual accompaniment, we are allowed to let the music shape the appropriate images in our imaginations. A brave choice to make in such a visual medium, but I applaud it.
Isn't that crazy, how we still love these songs. They bring you back and you're there again, and then, "Yeah ... I'm almost 60. How can that be. Can't tell by my clothes, or how I sound, or think. I'm the same as I was when I listened to that great song that touched me then, as it still does now."
"I'm not in love" was the song I heard through the door of my eldest brother playing it in his room. I was 13 or 14 years old. It was this time I fell in love with music. Now, 40 years later, I am a musician myself, heard a million songs over the time, but I always remember that first time I heard this unbelievable mystic sounding, wonderful tune, which will be timeless... forever.
Couldn’t agree more Larry. I was in junior high when this came out. Wow, a lot of amazing memories. In particular, one brown eyed, blond haired amazingly beautiful young girl. Forever young!!!
Every song and every album was a new experience, and that's something that younger generations tell me they missed out on. Hearing a new Led Zeppelin album or hearing a new 10CC song for the first time. The innovation and creativity as musicians and technology evolved together.
Out of all the things I've learned over my 50 plus years, I've learned that music like this ,along with all the other beautiful songs of the 70's, sadly will never be made like this again. As a society we live in a word that has gotten to hi-tech so to speak, we aren't even willing to wait for anything, and want to work less harder for the same results. Bands like ELO, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd , Boston, The time and effort these musicians put into the studio just to make a album completely blows my mind. People were different back then, God knows everything was... when your holding 70's vinyl in your hand, it truly is the holy grail of music.
I bought this when it first came out, and all these decades later I still haven't heard anything better. The magical insanity of falling in love, the inexplicable obsession we have for another person, conveyed beautifully in this wonderful song.
“Haunting” was the best word I used to describe this song. I was 16 when this song came out. It is truly timeless. The vocal layering was awesome for the time period when it was released. The ‘70’s were such a great decade for music!!
Listening to this song stirs such strong emotions. I am that 16 year old listening to the radio in the darkness of my bedroom and for a brief moment I am at peace. And now I realize that I am still that 16 year old who wonders what has happened. What has brought me kicking and screaming through over four and a half decades of life where everything is moving too fast, the lights are too bright, the sun doesn't gently warm, but burns. And no one sleeps, and no one listens and the life ahead of me is gone and never to be retrieved. Perhaps I'm figuring life out, maybe a little bit ( I doubt it ), but the body is breaking down. I am sad that I lived my life motivated primarily by fear.
Michael Martin Murphey’s “Wildfire” was released February 1975; 10cc released “I’m Not in Love” in May 1975; Queen released “Bohemian Rhapsody” on October 31, 1975. What a memorable year of Music.
@@cgolden3621 Absolutely. I was born in 59 and spent all of my teen years in the 70's. I agree with you, the 70's had some of the best songs ever. From rock to pop to soul....no other decade comes close. I always say rock was invented in the 50s, progressed in the 60s and perfected in the 70s.
It just seems like yesterday, flying at great speed on board my father's boat over Lake Ontario en route to Toronto Island with my sister Linda and I sitting on the front bow, legs dangling over, sun beaming on a calm day and hair blowing to the music of 10CC "I'm not in Love". What I remember most is my Dad yelling out to us if we wanted to hear the music louder and of course, we did! He turned up the volume and 10CC "I'm not in Love" was blaring across Lake Ontario. I remember feeling young, feeling free and wondering, at the precocious age of 16, whom I would love and who would love me. So many years later, so many heartbreaks, challenges, triumphs and crossroads, a song remains forever etched in my memory bank with nostalgia and perhaps, some sadness, but most importantly, a memory so beautiful that I have never forgotten the song .. thank you 10CC!
So beautifully stated. As I read, I began to imagine I was a gull gliding somewhere above your speeding boat, surfing the thermals over the lake of that golden summer day, and hearing 10CC as a wind-whipped echo from your dad's boat speakers...great day to be alive, whether human or avian
As a 80's kid, this song always has (and still does) bring me to a place of memories of my love navigating years. We have all been there at one point or another, wanting to keep our pride, but getting emotionally destroyed at the same time. I wonder if the lady that whispered the part "Big boys don't cry" realizes how many guys it made cry. My father was a Vietnam Marine, so it was beat into me as a kid not to cry, and in some ways has effected me my entire life thus far.
Ken Lee .. Best Comment!! Remember hearing it for the first time and the “Be quiet, big boys don’t cry” got to me too. Glad I found this video. Those Lyrics!!! 🌺💚. Big Hugs big boy. 🎶 🎼 This takes me back to my teens. 😎😊
@@xxcelr8rs Yes Brian! Thats what I always heard too! Even when I watched this video I heard "big boys don't cry"..then I heard "requesting quiet" sort of alternating . Kinda weird. Either way one of my all time favorites.
Born in '63 I clearly remember this song when it was released, even as a young boy. Listening to it on my very tiny portable AM radio, powered by a 9 volt battery. It was so very different from your average pop-song at the time. For me this was like magic. The long lasting aahhhss and oohhhss, the keyboard sound with reverb, the entire melody itself, the lyrics... totally unheard of. It is and will remain in my personal top-10 pop-songs of all time. Thanks for that !
Also a 63 baby and my memories are very similar. In my room trying to stay awake with math homework and this comes on. I suppose every generation feels they are being brought up with the best music, it's just that we were. ;)
I would never ever get tired of this song since I heard it in 1975 I was 10… This song it’s sound like coming out your chest when you listen…God it’s so beautiful…
I'm 68 and remember singing this to my daughter who was a babe in arms, There I was in a in the kitchen of a 2 up 2 down in a slum clearance area. Now my daughter tells my grandsons the story. I miss those days.
During the summer of 1975, I was a 16 year old young man with all the joy, wonder, confusion, angst, and emotion that goes along with being a teen. About a month earlier, the girl whom I thought from my young perspective was the ‘Love of My Life’ broke up with me. The first time I heard this song on my Stereo FM Receiver was late at night, looking out my bedroom window at a massive thunderstorm rolling across the Nebraska plains… (You almost had to have lived in Nebraska to fully appreciate the fury and majesty of a high plains thunderstorm to appreciate this.) It all seemed to come together. They were singing about me during the flashes of light, dark, color and wind across the broad sky. I was going to be fine…
In all my 70 + years of listening to music, there were just a few songs that made me just stop whatever it was I was doing when I first heard it and then nearly every time I've heard it since. I'll never forget the night I first heard,10 cc's , " I'm Not In Love " on my stereo FM radio. I had turned my lights off just getting ready to turn in for the night....This song came on and I felt I was was literally cast in a spell.
I was 18 and I was in love. This song and "The things we do for love" were absolutely the best love songs of that time. "Walking in the rain and the snow when there's nowhere to go , and you're feeling like a part of you is dying" I really felt it.♥️ 10 CC and Dr Hook the best. "Sylvia's mother"
@G. Spradley Catrina Sorry but you just stole verbatim someone else's comment from almost a year ago! Try being original and honest and in the meantime get yourself what the scarecrow asked the Wizard of Oz!
I still remember, I was 16 (just got my license) and I was driving down Queen street by myself in the late afternoon listening to Rock 101 when I first heard this song and it just blew my mind. So funny how you can remember a moment like that from over 40 yrs ago but you can't remember what you had for dinner last Wednesday. What would those glorious summer days of the 70's have been without 10cc?
I will never never get tired of this song. The lyrics are simple yet heart wrenchingly beautiful. Love hearing the background of the production. Epic song.
I'm 63... This song... I worked in a department store, 4 stories tall in downtown Greensburg, about a half a block long...big old place...even back then...the in store sound system used cassettes for taped music... think about...the hole store...ya...f'en incredible... echoes, came from all over the places on different floors...it was great till we get busted...a manager came in unexpected one night... this song still gives me chills... unreal how much music can still effect you...even now...lol... Live, Long an Prosper...
One of the best examples of using the recording process as an artistic tool, a means of creating a work of art rather than merely capturing it on a medium.
A classic for all time. I think they are still amazed at how remarkable this song is to this day. They are proud and humbled that they were so creative. For all the songs 10CC did, I humbly thank them and may God bless them one and all.
A true Masterpiece! Stunning, chilling. haunting, heart touching. Intense, complex and deep on so many levels. And at a time with such limited technology. That was all talent Have not heard a song like it in 50 years. Not ever.
Nobody realizes how much blood, sweat & tears 10cc put into developing such an amazing song. I mean, it required talent, creativity & thinking clear outside the box to create this superb masterpiece: tape looping three singers (along with implementing the recording desk as an instrument to make their voices so angelic & otherworldly), that phased Rhodes, the acoustic guitar adding another dazzling color & dimension & some other intangible touches...what 10cc did with I’m Not In Love was so next level, unprecedented & way ahead of the curve. To this day, INIL is a touchstone of not only 10cc’s unparalleled genius but also a classic example of futuristic song production at its finest.
I've loved this song since it came out, and I'm 70 now. It really expressed my feelings at the time. Every time I hear it, it takes me back. Just love it.
Damn right I was 8 when this came out and even though I loved the electronic music of the late 70's and 80's and some punk New Wave stuff I always loved this and I loved '''Under Your Thumb'' as well
i just realized, that without a synthesizer, they made one of the first "pad" sounds ever used in pop music, all using real voices and a mixing board! absolutely astounding and ACE!!!
Filthy McNasty No-one seems to mention the heartbeat bass frequency made by the Moog that flows throughout. Equally important in making this track organic, timeless and human. 😂
I play this song when I'm at home alone. Turn every light off and close my eyes. It's angelic. But I also play this at the bar on a Sunday afternoon. The couples begin to slow dance and then ask "who played this?" I just raise my glass.
If future generations ever need to be played one example of perfect songwriting, here you have it. Absolutely awesome 45 years ago, and still awesome today.
It just astonishes me how great this song still sounds after all these years. To think of the technology at their disposal just fabulous. The backing track is just an Orgasm for the ears.
The beauty of this song is that it wasn't composed and arranged using a formula. It was created using innovation, intuition, experimentation and pure talent. It is a haunting musical masterpiece.
Well that's a rap, lol. Wow, you articulated so perfectly the artistry that made this song possible. Thank you for saying what the rest of us wish we had.
Well put, considering how the original version they made basically bombed and they almost shelved it. This was a stunning display of studio and engineering genius at its absolute finest.
All three of these replies I totally agree with - 16 track technology!!
you can never replicate this kind of stuff digitally!!
Yes it is. This is one amazing timeless song.
To all the teenages who grew up in the 1970's how many times did this song hit a nerve?.... and still does?
Yep I was 16 and broke up with a girlfriend when that song came out.
Charlie Dekadens teenage love never gets old. Those were fun and good times. Fighting the feelings that would overtake us. Thanks.
@@Cali62825 yeah good feelings falling in (and out) of relationships. The music always seem to be sung to you. I was often surprised about the timing on hearing music and the lyrics during emotional relationships
Insane how this song feels likes it could've been made yesterday yet it's over forty years old. 😍👌🏼
1978 I was 16 busted my cherry to this tune with my high school sweetheart.
Still makes the hair on my arm stand up to this day..
Big boys still cry...
I was 17 when this song came out. At 64, it is still a favorite. an exceptional song that never gets old.
Me too!! Turn 65 in December.
Same. Turned 65 this past June.
66 and it still moves me.
same here
I agree - this will always be one of my favorite songs!!
As a sound engineer for many years. This was a technical masterpiece for it's time.
Beatles influenced, of course. Inspired by angels above.
I was in the studio when this was mastered on to an acetate at IBC studios in London
The guy who was cutting the master actually gave me the first test pressing on this masterpiece- I had the very first copy ever and to hear it in the studio was an experience I will never forget - what an honour
I'm jealous, That's right i said it!!
Do you still have it?
It's priceless. Never sell it.
hang on to that! It has to be worth quite a bit by now. If you ever decide to sell it, contact me LOL
There's nothing like cranking up a great song in a studio. So pure.
How absolutely wonderful & incredible!*!! 🎼🎶🥰❤️💖
I first heard this song back in the 1970s, the night after my first kiss in an amusement park's "haunted house." I was 13. The boy called me every single night after that for next few months over the summer. It was love. Every time I hear this song, i think about the lyrics saying, "And just because I call you up, don't get me wrong. Don't think you've got it made....I'm not in love." But we were, for a short time at least.🧡
😢 I always wanted a kiss like that
OMG I was that boy!!! 😉
@@StreetTruckinTitan you better not be lying
What an incredibly sweet, nostagic memory of young love. I had mine too...
@@ytcarolCould be lovel for any age
The Cathy Moment - interesting - she looks exactly as I imagined her to be - what a beautiful young woman (still lovely now). 4 years later 1979 I met a girl who was similar in looks, after 6 weeks I asked her to marry me - I never thought I would feel like that - I guess - I was in Love! This month we will have been married 41 years.
Touching
Congratulations! I love to hear about happy couples! May your love continue to sustain you both and bring you joy and contentment.
@@zappababe8577 Thank you - it takes a lot of work, give and take, tears and laughter - the best thing ir we have two fine sons who are talented, grounded, kind and funny.
@@timhansell3421 How wonderful, I'm so happy to hear it and you sound like you appreciate how blessed you are! I have an adorable, caring and creative daughter who makes me proud every day. I also have a fantastic boyfriend who treats me exceptionally well. It's good to count your blessings in life! Love, light and peace to you and yours X
I met my late husband when we were 16. Got married at 17. Had our only child at 18. At 20 - 22 we were on again-off again. And a few times after, too, but this song came out when we were separated and it makes me so sad every time I hear it. We wasted so much on so little.
He passed in 2007. Almost married 35 years…
Certainly, one of the most brilliant songs ever written. Timeless.
Totally agree and so so different too! Stunning track
10cc were one of the most innovative bands of the 70s. Never seem to get the recognition they deserve, a truly great band.
You don’t think this song being in a bunch of super mainstream movies and introducing it to entirely new audiences got it’s recognition? I’m 26 and I’ve never heard this song until I watched Guardians of the Galaxy (was a box office hit in 2014) it was also in Bridget Jones and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo. This song isn’t over rated or under rated, it’s reasonably rated. It’s ethereal and hauntingly beautiful. They just don’t make it like they used to do they?
I’m 60 now, and still every time I hear this song it makes the hairs on my arms stand up.
Me too!
Same here, except I'm 54.
Me too! 61 and still soppy!
I'm 61 and it always move me to tears.
61/class of 78. the ultimate floating song, listening light as air. enjoy as much today as late nights back in high school...
I was 28 when this came out and loved it to bits. And my mother, who was 63 at the time, used to listen to it on late night radio and when it finished always commented "He siays he's not in love but he can't fool me, he's head over heels"
Exactly
Ha ha, beautiful Ian!!
Thanks for sharing that. I enjoyed reading it.
Oh she’s dead
Your mom was a very hip chick.
All "Making Of" videos should end with the song and a blank screen like this. Genius.
That's something you don't see every day...people talking about the making of the song, then everybody shuts up and the song is played in its entirety with no other (not even visual!) distractions. Excellent!
Yeah, I noticed that too.
Agreed. The black screen can be a great hook. Most of the great music of the '60s and '70s were played in the dark just because we dared not have any distractions.
Now. If I could just find an acapella version...
@@bobert4him
I quite often listen music in the dark because it enhances the fullness of it. But this video was the first time the visuals were put on black and i felt accomponied because i knew the producer of the video felt exactly the same... EXCELLENT !!!!
Yep...fascinating video - and then topped off with the song in its entirety ...in the blackscreen darkness in which it should be played and appreciated....great stuff
I'm 55 years old and have been listening to this song since the year it came out. I used to know a little bit about 1970s and 1980s synthesizers. Before I saw this video on 4/16/2019 I thought the "ah" "ah" parts and most of the choir sounds were done using an early to mid 1970s synthesizer like an early Oberheim or even an Arp 2600. I especially like the fact that the different notes come out in different channels. The first note (the higher note) comes out on one channel with the second note (the lower note) coming out on the other channel. I LOVE that.
I'm going to save this video into one of my favorites files and come back to it every few weeks to listen to the whole 10 minute video.
To those of us who lived through the 70's, this was one of the most quintessential and beloved songs of that era.
KEM451 Best times definitely miss them.
Truth
Released in 75, I would have heard this song first in 75 or 76, Panama, Union Club, Panama City... Still remember to this day... All the older kids were playing it on the JukeBox...
I steamed up alot of car windows to that song trust me--as in many
70s pop was the best, creative, original, diverse. 60s laid the foundation and basic rock tracks were considered amazing because they were new, the 80s were amazing, but not overall as experimental, much of it was similar, more synthesizer based.
To be a teenager in the 70s was to be a part of the greatest generation this World has ever known. So don't forget it!
Indeed!
Correct!
@KaikuKaiku you’d be full of yourself too if you had gotten to experience it. I feel a little bad for teenagers these days.
I'm fuckin jealous as a millenial
That is so TRUE
This song is magical. All the instruments and voices are perfectly arranged to get the dreamy, magical effect they were seeking. It's a master piece.
"I'm Not In Love" is still awesome 44 years later!
GTA 7 y'all
It's been 44 years? Feels like yesterday.
Love this song! Brings back memories of growing up.😊
Indeed. Quite frankly we are not set up to record like this anymore and its a shame.....curves are so much more delightful than 1s and 0s....
This song has always grabbed me. 😍 it, glad I heard how they made this masterpiece. Got it on my I-pod, I been listening for decades when I ride my bicycle on the back roads here in western N.C.thanks guys for the memories🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼
As a kid in the 1970s, this song and Dream Weaver were magical. They would just transport me to another place.
Azael VI Don’t forget about Baker Street and Moonlight Feels Right! I know what you mean, these songs touched a nerve and I never tire of them.
Brother you and me both
I know what you mean. This two songs, especially DW are very moody and magical and take you away to another dimension.
I find it hard to listen to Dream Weaver sometimes because it sounds bittersweet to me, and it makes me kinda sad
yep
YES!!! I'm a child of the 70s and these songs were so intergalactic, I was mesmerized. Time Keeps On Slipping as well
I got over a serious illness the previous year and 1975 was the year that I needed to build my strength back. This song was so integral in helping me get back on my feet so I could live a productive life. Music can have such an impact on us humans. We should never take it for granted.
Pure genius, never gets old and I never tire of hearing it.
It’s hands-down the greatest love song of all time.
This amazing song wasn't merely "made", it was handcrafted.
How the Fvck do you handcraft a song you idiot.
Masterpiece!!
There is a haunting sadness about this song. Those voices in the background that I thought was a synth gives it that feeling. A brilliant work of art!
I thought the voices came from a Mellotron!
Steve Council. I agree with you.
Man, this song will make you melancholy in a heartbeat and well worth it. And if you never listened their amazing "Sheet Music" album, well just go and immerse yourself in that.
@@jimhowland8965 being a Bass player..all these years I thought Mellotron for sure..Dang
@@jimhowland8965 I thought that too. They were playing a Mellotron. Turns out it was something even better.
As a teen when this song came out, I had no idea how complicated it was to produce. Still 40 years later it’s still beautiful
"We used to turn the lights off in the control room and lie down on the floor and play it to ourselves". That's the power of music making. Hey they were not even jaded. I know artist who never want to hear a song again once it's been recorded because they are sick of it.
Kevin Godley said it best when he said, "It just kept on getting better." To this day, every time I listen to "I'm Not in Love" it keeps on getting better. It is an absolutely timeless and brilliant song.
William Hunter agree 100%. We have great taste in music
Add me to this list.
ass
Teenage ...,yet you are...xx
and to cool to let anyone no back then,now everyone is married, too late ..lol.its a beautiful song ..
Thanks to Eric Stewart he wrote this song for his wife.
Now kids, that's what we call a masterpiece!
So so true... ground breaking music history for sure.
One of the best tracks technically of all time. Love it, 10 yrs of age i was when it came out, listen to it on radio 1.
@@foresterboy2011 1
Computers KILLED this kind of innovation.
You're not wrong.
Summer of 75 with my parents driving on the Mass Turnpike it's raining and we are heading to Rhode Island to my grandparents and this is on the airwaves.Its amazing how vivid my memory was of the moment I heard this.
I'm from Mass so hearing this is VERY COOL
Amazing how it takes you right back
Born in 70, heard this on the radio growing up, and then it disappeared for a while.
Years later, I heard it again, and it stopped me in my tracks. It is an incredibly innovative and beautiful song that has the power to transport us back in time and allow us to relive meaningful moments.
Very moving and timeless.
This song inspired me to become a radio dj. 44 years later, I’m still one. There are certain songs you can play 5,000 times and they never ever get old. This is one of them.
I love it!
I will NEVER get tired of it,I love it more each time I hear it♥️♥️
Yea this song sounds better every single time you hear it
@@Terrysoddy agree!
Yep! I keep it on one of my iPods so I can hear it periodically.
I don't know all the commenters here but I'm so glad we grew up together. We share something so special.
What a great comment and you’re so right! We have a special musical bond and beautiful memories that unites us all wherever we were and wherever we are now. 🥰
Your so right .
Iam 65 I wonder about the other listeners age
Sooo Happy I'm a 60 generation gal.
I have every album saw them live 3 times ❤️ still listen to them when I can, takes me right back. You lovely people are right beautiful memories. I’m now 60 but not when lm listening to 10cc ❤️
@@dennislucas8745 Me too ... 65, who'da thunk it?! Still 25 in my head :D
This song never gets old, it brings out the teenager in me every time I hear it, If I had a Time Machine I would go back, never to return. This song is a masterpiece. They don't write music like this anymore.
Every time
Nobody writes stuff like these lyrics and melody any more. That’s a fact.
Funny you say that - I always thought if I could go back to 1978 I would also stay there ( forever ).
@@tonynew3047 Due to the fact l can't find a Time Machine we are going to have to settle for UA-cam to take us back in time. To dream is the power of music.
My go back year is 1986. But this song is simply magnificent
I was 13 in 1975 and just thick enough to think 'Huh, sounds like he's in love to me...' I adored every note of this masterpiece. Still do.
I was 12. And what you said. 🥰
I was 13 as well - 1962 babies unite!
June 20th 1962
My older brothers had this album
This song is so haunting so atmospheric.
I will never forget how I felt when I first heard it.
On November 12th, 1975, my wife and I went on our first date to see 10cc in concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium when this song was released. To this day we celebrate this date every year as we do our wedding anniversary. Sweet memories. We're still making them.
Glad to hear you're still making them :) can I ask what did it sound like live?
@@speakertreatz It was in 5,000 seat auditorium where the acoustics were perfect, we were in the third row. Sounded incredible.
@@speakertreatz I was going to ask the same question. I’m sure they used the pre-recorded backing vocals.
@@frederhardt9668 I'm very jealous, one band I would have loved to see live and it's highly unlikely they're going to reform in the future so you caught a great bit of history there.
@@ActionMediaProductions maybe it was closer to the arrangement Graham Goulding uses for his solo concerts, except with a full band not just acoustic guitars. I think it's highly unlikely Godley and Creme would have went along with that though, it was everything they hated about the song. But SERIOUSLY risky attempting pre-recorded backing vocal tapes in the mid 70s on the scale of I'm Not In Love, especially, as Fred says, in a 5000 seat auditorium. Townsend had a nightmare with backing tapes on the Quadrophenia tour, it sounded like a disaster. I remember even with the band I was in in the early 90s we had problems every single gig with backing tapes. Sound engineers just refused to turn them up loud enough for a band to stay in sync with. The excuse was 'i need to protect the house soundsystem from whatever might be on your tapes because i haven't heard them' (that's what a soundcheck is for mate). A whole band, including a live drummer, trying to follow a drum machine on a backing tape that could barely be heard, o man it was torture for us and torture for the audience.
This song always makes me drift away back into the past...it goes hand in hand with “nights in white satin”’which is equally a magical masterpiece for me.
I agree but Moody Blues my all time favorite.
TOTALLY AGREE!
nights in white Satan is not as good as this masterpiece
funny ! I just thought the same ! Have a nice day ;-)
white satin
I absolutely loved this song when it first hit the airwaves. Thank you for explaining how you created the chorus of voices. That's what sold it for me. I'm 62 now and still love it!
I always assumed the multi tracked vocals were a Mellotron. Tape loops of instruments just playing one sustained note. So basically 10cc were their own Mellotron. Magical, genius stuff.
I think 10cc could have used a Mellotron but decided to use their own voices due to it sounding more realistic. On another documentary they went into more detail about it and you can hear the looping points when the background vocals were isolated. Eric said it sounded like people in a large Cathedral.
I was thinking the same thing just before I read your reply. Excellent analysis Keef. The kick drum is like a funky heartbeat and the song breathes more by not having a snare drum back beat on 2 & 4.
Same here
As far as I know, and I think this I heard from Casey Kasem back in the 1980's on the American Top 40 I guess it was. The last song to be done using a reel-to-reel for the sound effects was "Fly Like An Eagle" Steve Miller Band. ua-cam.com/video/WuXwSyahgW4/v-deo.html
i think making your own tapes was very involved...probably more work than playing the desk as they did.
This is why I tell people the 70s was the best decade for music... The song is so well written... And this story of how they came about producing it, fabulous, genius
the song was absolutely brilliant but I still say the 60's was the best era
Greetings from Liverpool England.The 70’s was a tribute the 60’s but improved on that great decade in my humble opinion. 1972 - 76 was the time as a young lad I was listening to the like of 10cc on FM radio in Stereo too. Oh it was so cool listening on my big Grundig radio😎. Digital radio sucks..😤
I love the early 90’s music but you may be right about the 70’s as the best
Even the disco. Yes, admit it.
I completely agree yesss❤️❤️❤️
Perhaps the most atmospheric song ever recorded. The song always makes me a little sad, perhaps because we’ve all been to this place. Trying to keep your pride, not admitting your feelings but being eaten up inside. It just carries you off.
Robert Hickerty so true. I was 22, had just come back to Cali from living by myself in northern Japan for a couple of years with some hard times, and for me, that bittersweet California summer of 1975 was and will always be infused with this song.
Amen Brother
I remember my soon to be ex saying to me knowingly great song huh Kib?
I knew that night it was over
Well said
Had my first kiss with a young lady to this song at a party. Forty years of marriage later, I'm 60 now and this song still takes me back to that incredible moment ...
The best and certainly most original song of the 70s. A masterpiece.
I remember a hot summer's day in early July 1975, driving from Bristol to Oxford with my sister and her husband, through fields of wheat, colza, with the widow down to cool off, and this playing on the car radio. Unforgettable
Great.song.always.liked.it..
All these years I thought the background was all synthesizers. Amazing.
I know right me too
It's crazy. The concept feels very much like the Mellotron that the Moody Blues used. Tape loops of of different instruments with a keyboard to play them. Amazing.
Sosumi R Yeah I thought Melotron! I think the kick is a suitcase with a mic in it!
Same here. That was some crazy 70's ingenuity.
@@sosumir4896 I always thought Mellotron, too, and pictured the keyboard player just laying his whole arm across it at the end. But the attack on the notes was always off; throwing sliders makes a lot more sense.
My only crit of this song was, the reed organ sound on the bottom is too brash at times, especially that half step below tonic sound. It's a little out of character with everything else. Love the Rhodes and Steinway work.
*44* years later, I finally get to put a face on that woman whispering ''Be quiet. Big boys don't cry''.
Just as beautiful, if not more, as I thought she would look. Then and now, I mean.
I always loved her voice too.
She lied. I'm a big boy, and I tear up whenever I hear this song.
I know right
Does she get royalties
Weird--- I could have sworn I heard a rumor that it was Stevie Nicks doing that part. I found that so hard to believe because it didn't sound anything like Stevie.
Almost 50 years later, you'd think with digital and computers music would've become even more of a medium for artist to rise even higher. Sadly it been the contrary.
Thank God these gentlemen lived in the 70s where their ingenuity paved the way for such a unique and unequaled masterpiece.
Close your eyes. It's literally drugs for your ears. Get swept away, and enjoy the melancholy of love.
‘drugs for your ears’😉
Unfortunately the digital way of making music today has also damaged the creative process. Where it doesn't require a lot of brain power, intuition, and innovation to create something special. Before they were a band, 10cc were professional studio musicians, so they knew their way around a recording studio and how to get the most out of recording equipment that they could. They were an amazing group of musicians.
Try Air, pocket symphony.
Drugs for your heart!
Every era/decade has beautiful, astounding music. But yes, this special.
This is not just “art for art sake” it an astounding masterpiece!
Certainly not what you'd hear on a 'dreadlock holiday' or force out of someone with a 'rubber bullet'
We are just sitting here with a black screen listening to an awesome song
Reina - the way it was meant to be. I can't really describe how mad it makes me that so few people actively _listen_ to music any more.
Yes and we're probably the only YT'ers who are quite happy to do that with a song!
@@a2ndopynyn I think if you were born post-kurt , you might have never understood the nostalgia of music.. buying your first Led Zep vinyl, getting a yellow Walkman for Christmas and popping in your favorite cassette and waking around town. Listening to Pink Floyd in your bed with headphones on, installing a Craig stereo in your first car. Entering your first mosh pit and getting instantly addicted. Young people these days maybe never had those those visceral experiences that became a HUGE part of our past. :)
Yes, and reminiscing through the comments 🌹
Any visuals would only distract from the song
I was 15 when this came out. I'm 60 now....this song is even more powerful than before. This is because the memories it invokes of a time when artistry and talent was applauded not derided
Me too. Same age as well
Same here ! I’m 61
( commenting here in Aug 2021) & clearly remember when this came out in 1975 when I was 15 ! Amazing how this song is still haunting and gorgeous !
I've got 2 years on you and I remember exactly where I was when I first heard it: in a friends house stoned in Pasadena CA. He had a house where you could turn the audio up. And that's what we did. Never heard of 10cc until that time.
I was 16 in the summer of '75. I remember learning this tune. My friends and I used to jam with an acoustic guitar, an out of tune square back piano and a drum beat made from tapping stacks of phone books. Our lead was a girl, we usually played the hits like Elton John and Paul Simon. I'm sure we sucked but we had fun and thought we were great. I wish we had cameras like today, they'd be some great memories.
Add me tot he club....I was 15, too.
After dinner my older siblings (teens) would play music on the record player. When I heard “IM NOT IN LOVE” for the first time, I loved it ever since. Today I turn 53 and my teenage kids know all the words and play this timeless classic all the time. Hope to be around to sing with my Grandchildren. Enjoy ❤️
Happy birthday! My birthday is tomorrow. 💕
Lots of young people in their twenties listen to this song❤❤❤❤❤
The pain staking effort that went into making this song is amazing…no computers just layers of sound and engineering genius. The end result is pure magic.
I'm Not in Love was never a simple song. It's one of the greatest pieces of art of our era.
"Tsunami of voices". Perfect.
Finally I've found this song. I never knew who sang it or its title. I heard it as a teenager sometimes in 90s on a radio, I thought it was a new song, I didn't understand English back then, but it captured my soul. I felt like this singer understands me better than myself. I remembered the sound of it but never heard it afterwards. What a surprise, it's from 70's. And lyrics ironically describe my experience when I heard it first... Thank you for this gift of art 10cc!
It understood me better than I knew myself. It left me with the same feeling and still does. Perhaps most of us didn’t make our move & the pain never stops. Thanks for your comment. ♥️🇺🇸🌿
I was a little kid when this song came out. Everyone was going crazy over this song. So at the record store I bought it on a 45 single record. The 2nd record I ever bought. Just because everyone else was snatching it up. Got it home and played it and could not for the life of me understand why it was considered a romantic song. If your not in love, then why in God's green earth would you sing about it? Just go on about your business and find a chick you will fall in love with!
A few years later my relationship with my girlfriend went astray.
Then I heard this song and it was like- "Oh...yeah!"
This comment brought a smile to my face 😊!
Good Vibes, Amazing story of Love
Unrequited love is a bitch
Aww the bells went off, I get what you're saying.
I'm with you on the first part of your comment but not the end. I still don't "get it". If you love someone be with them, if not don't play around with their feelings it's,disrespectful
I laid on the floor and listened with my eyes closed when the screen went black. Fucking lovely. The first song that made me cry. i'll be 60 next year.
I could sill cry.
I thought that was such a great touch to the video, after hearing about how the song was made we were treated to the song in it's entirety *and without any visuals* just a black screen that didn't force our attention and imagination into someone else's visual accompaniment, we are allowed to let the music shape the appropriate images in our imaginations. A brave choice to make in such a visual medium, but I applaud it.
Isn't that crazy, how we still love these songs. They bring you back and you're there again, and then, "Yeah ... I'm almost 60. How can that be. Can't tell by my clothes, or how I sound, or think. I'm the same as I was when I listened to that great song that touched me then, as it still does now."
Try listening to it in the studio where it was made!! 😉🇬🇧
We know we are getting too old when songs like this don't make us cry, just a little.
I still get chills when I hear this song. Absolutely brilliant songwriting, instrumentation, production. Well done gentlemen!
judaht71 t me too.
Lyrics horrible
Does not live up to the music ......
Me 2
Its mysterious
judaht71 t yup me too awesome 👏
"I'm not in love" was the song I heard through the door of my eldest brother playing it in his room. I was 13 or 14 years old. It was this time I fell in love with music. Now, 40 years later, I am a musician myself, heard a million songs over the time, but I always remember that first time I heard this unbelievable mystic sounding, wonderful tune, which will be timeless... forever.
I loved this the first time I heard it in 1975 & still do. such a haunting, beautiful song. 🖤
It stopped me dead in my tracks.
I miss being a teenager in the 70's. Music like this takes me back and will never be matched!
It was the best of times , wasn't it? 😉
Couldn’t agree more Larry. I was in junior high when this came out. Wow, a lot of amazing memories. In particular, one brown eyed, blond haired amazingly beautiful young girl.
Forever young!!!
Wish I was a teenager in the 70s instead of now 😥
@@chanelletriplett I was 10, it really was the greatest period for music IMO
Every song and every album was a new experience, and that's something that younger generations tell me they missed out on. Hearing a new Led Zeppelin album or hearing a new 10CC song for the first time. The innovation and creativity as musicians and technology evolved together.
I've been a musician for 40 years and I honestly believe that I'm Not In Love is the greatest pop song ever recorded. ... PURE GENIUS.
you're not wrong!
Definitely one of the best. Really, really sets the whole mood of a lost love.
The entire "Bloody Tourists" album is a masterpiece.
Yes, it's a very pretty pop song. The best one though? Damn, there are too many great ones.
I would put it right up there with The Jackson Five - I Want You Back
Out of all the things I've learned over my 50 plus years, I've learned that music like this ,along with all the other beautiful songs of the 70's, sadly will never be made like this again. As a society we live in a word that has gotten to hi-tech so to speak, we aren't even willing to wait for anything, and want to work less harder for the same results. Bands like ELO, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd , Boston, The time and effort these musicians put into the studio just to make a album completely blows my mind. People were different back then, God knows everything was... when your holding 70's vinyl in your hand, it truly is the holy grail of music.
I bought this when it first came out, and all these decades later I still haven't heard anything better. The magical insanity of falling in love, the inexplicable obsession we have for another person, conveyed beautifully in this wonderful song.
To finally put a face to the whispers... she's as beautiful as I'd always imagined she'd be.
yep! absolutely! funny how one can deduce that!
Ken Heath True! ...and True, she's very lovely! :-)
And as soon s she said it during the interview VT it sounded exactly like the record.
@@mark4700 Definitely proves it's her! :-)
What an awesome compliment!!! Dead on!!!
Stunning. Calming. Touching. Haunting. Eternal. “I’m Not In Love” was/is a masterpiece.
“Haunting” was the best word I used to describe this song. I was 16 when this song came out. It is truly timeless. The vocal layering was awesome for the time period when it was released. The ‘70’s were such a great decade for music!!
I feel like I am in a time machine when I listen to this song. It takes me back to a time I miss so much!!!
Listening to this song stirs such strong emotions. I am that 16 year old listening to the radio in the darkness of my bedroom and for a brief moment I am at peace. And now I realize that I am still that 16 year old who wonders what has happened. What has brought me kicking and screaming through over four and a half decades of life where everything is moving too fast, the lights are too bright, the sun doesn't gently warm, but burns. And no one sleeps, and no one listens and the life ahead of me is gone and never to be retrieved. Perhaps I'm figuring life out, maybe a little bit ( I doubt it ), but the body is breaking down. I am sad that I lived my life motivated primarily by fear.
You should be writer.
Be glad you didn't date that woman!
Michael Martin Murphey’s “Wildfire” was released February 1975;
10cc released “I’m Not in Love” in May 1975;
Queen released “Bohemian Rhapsody” on October 31, 1975.
What a memorable year of Music.
70s = the best decade of music!
I always loved "Wildfire" but eventually came to realize that it's kinda cheesey, lol.
@@bobthebear1246 So is "Bohemian Rhapsody".
@@cgolden3621 Absolutely. I was born in 59 and spent all of my teen years in the 70's. I agree with you, the 70's had some of the best songs ever. From rock to pop to soul....no other decade comes close. I always say rock was invented in the 50s, progressed in the 60s and perfected in the 70s.
w9gb ... and musical imagery.
It just seems like yesterday, flying at great speed on board my father's boat over Lake Ontario en route to Toronto Island with my sister Linda and I sitting on the front bow, legs dangling over, sun beaming on a calm day and hair blowing to the music of 10CC "I'm not in Love". What I remember most is my Dad yelling out to us if we wanted to hear the music louder and of course, we did! He turned up the volume and 10CC "I'm not in Love" was blaring across Lake Ontario. I remember feeling young, feeling free and wondering, at the precocious age of 16, whom I would love and who would love me. So many years later, so many heartbreaks, challenges, triumphs and crossroads, a song remains forever etched in my memory bank with nostalgia and perhaps, some sadness, but most importantly, a memory so beautiful that I have never forgotten the song .. thank you 10CC!
So beautifully stated. As I read, I began to imagine I was a gull gliding somewhere above your speeding boat, surfing the thermals over the lake of that golden summer day, and hearing 10CC as a wind-whipped echo from your dad's boat speakers...great day to be alive, whether human or avian
Daisie Love your story
Gerg Rogers Love your story too
Fascinating how certain songs take you right back. Whenever this song plays, it takes me right back to my childhood.
As a 80's kid, this song always has (and still does) bring me to a place of memories of my love navigating years. We have all been there at one point or another, wanting to keep our pride, but getting emotionally destroyed at the same time. I wonder if the lady that whispered the part "Big boys don't cry" realizes how many guys it made cry. My father was a Vietnam Marine, so it was beat into me as a kid not to cry, and in some ways has effected me my entire life thus far.
WAX's "Ready Or Not", DIRECTLY quotes it 11 years later - Graham, just COULDN'T resist creating a link back.....
"Be quiet, big boys don't cry" has made me cry since 1976 and always brings memories of teenage love. Brilliant!
Ken Lee .. Best Comment!! Remember hearing it for the first time and the “Be quiet, big boys don’t cry” got to me too. Glad I found this video.
Those Lyrics!!! 🌺💚. Big Hugs big boy. 🎶 🎼
This takes me back to my teens. 😎😊
I always heard "requesting quiet, requesting quiet"
@@xxcelr8rs Yes Brian! Thats what I always heard too! Even when I watched this video I heard "big boys don't cry"..then I heard "requesting quiet" sort of alternating . Kinda weird. Either way one of my all time favorites.
@@xxcelr8rs For me it was, "be poised and quiet"
That's along the lines of "Big boys don't cry", I guess. If one's poised and quiet, they're not going to be crying.
Born in '63 I clearly remember this song when it was released, even as a young boy. Listening to it on my very tiny portable AM radio, powered by a 9 volt battery. It was so very different from your average pop-song at the time. For me this was like magic. The long lasting aahhhss and oohhhss, the keyboard sound with reverb, the entire melody itself, the lyrics... totally unheard of. It is and will remain in my personal top-10 pop-songs of all time. Thanks for that !
Nicely stated and ditto.
Also a 63 baby and my memories are very similar. In my room trying to stay awake with math homework and this comes on. I suppose every generation feels they are being brought up with the best music, it's just that we were. ;)
My all time favorite ballad ...hauntingly beautiful
Amen😊
Born in 64 ...I remember those am radios...the antennas always broke off...but the units had a great leather sleeve
I would never ever get tired of this song since I heard it in 1975 I was 10… This song it’s sound like coming out your chest when you listen…God it’s so beautiful…
I'm 68 and remember singing this to my daughter who was a babe in arms, There I was in a in the kitchen of a 2 up 2 down in a slum clearance area. Now my daughter tells my grandsons the story. I miss those days.
During the summer of 1975, I was a 16 year old young man with all the joy, wonder, confusion, angst, and emotion that goes along with being a teen. About a month earlier, the girl whom I thought from my young perspective was the ‘Love of My Life’ broke up with me. The first time I heard this song on my Stereo FM Receiver was late at night, looking out my bedroom window at a massive thunderstorm rolling across the Nebraska plains… (You almost had to have lived in Nebraska to fully appreciate the fury and majesty of a high plains thunderstorm to appreciate this.) It all seemed to come together. They were singing about me during the flashes of light, dark, color and wind across the broad sky. I was going to be fine…
Something similar happened to me, at the same age as 19
purpsage Yes, unrequited love. I know those Nebraska storms that swallow you up.
Thanks for sharing the memory - I can see it.
Rather dramatic aren't we?? wow, how do you get anything done when you envelop yourself into such bullshit lol
PUSSY! Was that dramatic enough for you an unfeeling troll.
In all my 70 + years of listening to music, there were just a few songs that made me just stop whatever it was I was doing when I first heard it and then nearly every time I've heard it since. I'll never forget the night I first heard,10 cc's , " I'm Not In Love " on my stereo FM radio. I had turned my lights off just getting ready to turn in for the night....This song came on and I felt I was was literally cast in a spell.
You know it, Joe. 🧡
I'll be 70 next month and I know exactly where you're coming from, because I had (and still have) the same reaction to this song as you!
Some songs do that. Thank you for that story.
Joe Zellers, Absolutely dead on.
Correct, absolutely correct !
I was 18 and I was in love. This song and "The things we do for love" were absolutely the best love songs of that time. "Walking in the rain and the snow when there's nowhere to go , and you're feeling like a part of you is dying" I really felt it.♥️
10 CC and Dr Hook the best. "Sylvia's mother"
"And the operator says 30 cents more for the next three minutes "always got me.
65 and still love this song today.
"I'm Not In Love" is still awesome 44 years later!
Imagine that, no auto tune, no pro-tools software, just analog bliss. THAT is music.
The current-day technology plus brilliance equals this.
@G. Spradley Catrina Sorry but you just stole verbatim someone else's comment from almost a year ago!
Try being original and honest and in the meantime get yourself what the scarecrow asked the Wizard of Oz!
@@herrp8765 no, nowhere near as good as this.
@@nick74ish Agreed. Part of the sound of this song is born of the technological limitations of the equipment.
This was an amazing time to be a teenager.
AMEN TO THAT!
Geowyn Leda Absolutely my friends. My daughter is so jealous.
I was 14 going 15 when this song came out so many memories.
Agree 100%. The strut of the kind is just brilliant
Yes it was.
I still remember, I was 16 (just got my license) and I was driving down Queen street by myself in the late afternoon listening to Rock 101 when I first heard this song and it just blew my mind.
So funny how you can remember a moment like that from over 40 yrs ago but you can't remember what you had for dinner last Wednesday.
What would those glorious summer days of the 70's have been without 10cc?
I will never never get tired of this song. The lyrics are simple yet heart wrenchingly beautiful. Love hearing the background of the production. Epic song.
This has always been my favorite song throughout the years. I listen to it everyday and I’m 65 years old. The greatest song ever recorded.
IMO it sure beats "Jive Talkin" in the Summer of '75.
Certainly one of them😁😁😁
My neighbor listens to this all the time
Whether he likes it or not
I'm 63...
This song...
I worked in a department store, 4 stories tall in downtown Greensburg, about a half a block long...big old place...even back then...the in store sound system used cassettes for taped music... think about...the hole store...ya...f'en incredible... echoes, came from all over the places on different floors...it was great till we get busted...a manager came in unexpected one night...
this song still gives me chills... unreal how much music can still effect you...even now...lol...
Live, Long an Prosper...
Every day since 1975? I almost cannot imagine that.
Imagine that, no auto tune, no pro-tools software, just analog bliss. THAT is music.
One of the best examples of using the recording process as an artistic tool, a means of creating a work of art rather than merely capturing it on a medium.
A classic for all time. I think they are still amazed at how remarkable this song is to this day. They are proud and humbled that they were so creative. For all the songs 10CC did, I humbly thank them and may God bless them one and all.
A true Masterpiece! Stunning, chilling. haunting, heart touching. Intense, complex and deep on so many levels.
And at a time with such limited technology. That was all talent
Have not heard a song like it in 50 years. Not ever.
Well said
Nobody realizes how much blood, sweat & tears 10cc put into developing such an amazing song. I mean, it required talent, creativity & thinking clear outside the box to create this superb masterpiece: tape looping three singers (along with implementing the recording desk as an instrument to make their voices so angelic & otherworldly), that phased Rhodes, the acoustic guitar adding another dazzling color & dimension & some other intangible touches...what 10cc did with I’m Not In Love was so next level, unprecedented & way ahead of the curve.
To this day, INIL is a touchstone of not only 10cc’s unparalleled genius but also a classic example of futuristic song production at its finest.
I've loved this song since it came out, and I'm 70 now. It really expressed my feelings at the time. Every time I hear it, it takes me back. Just love it.
This song still gets to me. I stop what I'm doing and go back to 1975. Truly will never be another like it again.
I do the same and always have since 1975.... 206 SEATTLE
It doesn't matter what genre you're into...this song is a masterpiece!
Certainly one of the greatest songs ever recorded and produced.
And it seems to cross a lot of genres, Lisa.
Damn right I was 8 when this came out and even though I loved the electronic music of the late 70's and 80's and some punk New Wave stuff I always loved this and I loved '''Under Your Thumb'' as well
Literally just said this before reading your comment.
well said Tommy, indeed.
This song beautifully haunts you forever for the rest of your life after the first time you hear it.....
Absolutely perfect - That black screen during the song was genius, it allows your brain time to put it all together.
These guys were always so inventive. Such a great band.
i just realized, that without a synthesizer, they made one of the first "pad" sounds ever used in pop music, all using real voices and a mixing board! absolutely astounding and ACE!!!
AND without a sampler
Yeah, I've always thought it's a new wave song from the 80s.
No-one seems to mention the heart beat kick drum that flows throughout. Equally important in making this track organic, timeless and human.
Lachlan Higgs - It's not a kick drum. It's a Moog.
none the less is a heart beat of LOVE...
Filthy McNasty Thats like saying it’s not guitar, it’s a Gibson
There's a difference between a kick drum and a synthesizer. Two totally different instruments.
Filthy McNasty No-one seems to mention the heartbeat bass frequency made by the Moog that flows throughout. Equally important in making this track organic, timeless and human. 😂
I play this song when I'm at home alone. Turn every light off and close my eyes. It's angelic.
But I also play this at the bar on a Sunday afternoon. The couples begin to slow dance and then ask "who played this?" I just raise my glass.
If future generations ever need to be played one example of perfect songwriting, here you have it. Absolutely awesome 45 years ago, and still awesome today.
When the secretary was being interviewed about her part in the song and she whispered "big boys don't cry", it gave me chills for some reason.
And I always thought she said "be poised and quiet" LOL
For some reason? I was wholly frightened of this song when I was a child.
@@dorlywick that works too
I was certain she said, “requesting quiet.” I still hear it that way..
She was a looker back then.
It just astonishes me how great this song still sounds after all these years. To think of the technology at their disposal just fabulous. The backing track is just an Orgasm for the ears.
This is the most enchanting song ever...and I'm 73.
♥️🔥💯
The minute I hear those opening voice tracks it's Summer 1975 all over again.. 9 yrs old and not a care in the world ... thanks guys !