Old Music Friday: 7/18/25

"Cry," Godley & Creme (No. 90, peaked at No. 16)
"Cry" arrived in the middle of the period when it really became difficult to tell whether certain songs were hits mostly because they had really cool music videos. This is not to say there's anything wrong with "Cry" — it's one of the most commercial cuts in the Godley & Creme catalog — but without the mesmerizing (and somewhat groundbreaking for its time) clip that came attached, it seems fairly likely that it would have been just another non-charting single for the duo, at least in the States.

Of course, one always got the sense that neither Godley nor Creme were all that concerned with scoring hits; as a duo, they proved just as acerbically funny and willfully esoteric as they'd been when they were part of 10cc, if not more so. And by the time "Cry" was released, they were already well into the next phase of their career, directing videos for numerous artists whose sales far exceeded their own. After one more record, they split in very British fashion, which is to say they never really fought publicly, but apparently haven't spoken in close to 40 years.