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Karen West-The Things We Do For Love-modified version of the 10cc song The Things We Do For Love' is much better, putting to good use more of the lessons learnt over the previous years. Many fans were expecting Eric and Graham to simply rehash 'I'm Not In Love' for their first album as a duo their biggest hit to date but this is the closest we come: similarly lush though not as electronically treated 'aahing' vocals, a gorgeous melody and lyrics that look at love and romance from a slightly off-kilter viewpoint. The narrator of this song clearly views the love he feels for a girl as some form of illness: why else would he keep running back to her and their unstable relationship even when he knows it's all going to fall apart again sometime in the future and hang around 'in the rain and snow' just to see her when she doesn't seem to care anything like as much back. Even the lyrics in the verses seem to be conspiring against the narrator and telling him this relationship isn't going to work: when he tries to call her the phone lines are down. Eventually the narrator comes to two realizations: that love is a gamble every bit as risky as the nearest casino only betting with hearts rather than money means even more is riding on the result and that, for a relationship to work, compromises have to be made on both sides and you'll never truly get what you want- which may well make this the least romantic song ever even \'I\'m Not In Love\' is \'secretly\' a love song. Impressively multi-layered, this is a sad song at heart that knows there'll never be a happy ending, but it's all dressed up so cleverly bouncy tempo, catchy chorus, singalong duh-de-duh-dee riff that it still sounds like a happy song and works equally well as both. For me the masterstroke comes at the end of the middle eight when the song suddenly sadly shuffles off down a minor key \'You got me crawling up the wall\' and seems to despondently give up on the relationship ever working, only to surge forward back in a major key and full of the joys of spring, the notes spiraling up to the sky. A clever song, written from the heart and the head pretty much equally, 'The Things We Do For Love' was a deserved big hit although curiously it actually made #6, one place lower than \'Judge\' and almost single-handedly saves the album. If Godley and Creme weren't jealous of their colleague's ability to write songs that were both deeper and more commercial than their own then they should have been.

First Love:

First Love is a 1977 American romantic drama film starring William Katt and Susan Dey and directed by Joan Darling. The movie is based upon the story Sentimental Education by Harold Brodkey. The original music score was composed by John Barry. - Do What You Want OK Go