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background-color: lightsteelblue; font-size: 125%;">Thinks: School Stinks</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Thinks_-_School_Stinks_(Hotlegs_album_-_cover_art).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Thinks_-_School_Stinks_%28Hotlegs_album_-_cover_art%29.jpg/220px-Thinks_-_School_Stinks_%28Hotlegs_album_-_cover_art%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/Thinks_-_School_Stinks_%28Hotlegs_album_-_cover_art%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="316" data-file-height="316" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="/wiki/Album" title="Album">Studio album</a> by <div class="contributor" style="display:inline"><a href="/wiki/Hotlegs" title="Hotlegs">Hotlegs</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data published">March 1971</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">1970</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Studio</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Strawberry_Studios" title="Strawberry Studios">Strawberry Studios</a>, Stockport, Cheshire, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"><a href="/wiki/Rock_music" title="Rock music">Rock</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="duration"><span class="min">44</span>:<span class="s">20</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a 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0 .2em .1em"><i><a href="/wiki/You_Didn%27t_Like_It_Because_You_Didn%27t_Think_of_It" title="You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think of It">You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think of It</a></i><br />(1976) </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lightsteelblue"><a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">Singles</a> from <i> Thinks: School Stinks </i></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="text-align:left"> <ol><li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"<a href="/wiki/Neanderthal_Man_(song)" title="Neanderthal Man (song)">Neanderthal Man</a>" b/w "You Didn't Like It, Because You Didn't Think Of It"</span><br />Released: June 19, 1970</span></li> <li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"Run Baby Run" b/w "How Many Times"</span><br />Released: 1971</span></li> <li><span class="item"><span class="fn">"Desperate Dan" b/w "Run Baby Run"</span><br />Released: 1971</span></li></ol> </div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lightsteelblue">Alternative cover</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Hotlegs-alt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/22/Hotlegs-alt.jpg/220px-Hotlegs-alt.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/Hotlegs-alt.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="316" data-file-height="316" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">UK cover of <i>Song</i></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Thinks: School Stinks</b></i> (later retitled and reconfigured as <i><b>Song</b></i>) is the only studio album by English pop band <a href="/wiki/Hotlegs" title="Hotlegs">Hotlegs</a>. The album, featuring the band's hit single "<a href="/wiki/Neanderthal_Man_(song)" title="Neanderthal Man (song)">Neanderthal Man</a>", was recorded at <a href="/wiki/Strawberry_Studios" title="Strawberry Studios">Strawberry Studios</a> in <a href="/wiki/Stockport" title="Stockport">Stockport</a> near <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> and engineered by the studio's co-owners, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Stewart" title="Eric Stewart">Eric Stewart</a> and Peter Tattersall. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thinks:_School_Stinks&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kevin Godley, in a 1976 interview, said the album included the songs and ideas that he and Lol Creme had intended recording in 1969 with entrepreneur <a href="/wiki/Giorgio_Gomelsky" title="Giorgio Gomelsky">Giorgio Gomelsky</a>. Gomelsky had named the duo Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon, wanting to fashion them in the style of <a href="/wiki/Simon_and_Garfunkel" class="mw-redirect" title="Simon and Garfunkel">Simon and Garfunkel</a>. "I still say that was a bloody good album," Godley said. "Most of the tracks were from the Frabjoy period and it's an interesting LP."<sup id="cite_ref-Tremlett_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tremlett-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Fly Away" had earlier been released on a Marmalade record label sampler, <i>100 Proof</i> as "To Fly Away", credited to Godley, while the song "Today" from the later edition of the album was the first song to be recorded by all future members of 10cc as a band: the trio of Hotlegs were assisted by Graham Gouldman. The opening lines and percussive rhythm of "Run Baby Run" were later reworked to become the basis for "<a href="/wiki/Art_for_Art%27s_Sake_(song)" title="Art for Art's Sake (song)">Art for Art's Sake</a>" on the <a href="/wiki/10cc" title="10cc">10cc</a> album <i><a href="/wiki/How_Dare_You!_(album)" title="How Dare You! (album)">How Dare You!</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cover_art">Cover art</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thinks:_School_Stinks&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cover art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The cover, designed by <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Godley" title="Kevin Godley">Kevin Godley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lol_Creme" title="Lol Creme">Lol Creme</a>, depicted a scratched school desk, a concept that was repeated two years later by <a href="/wiki/Alice_Cooper_(band)" title="Alice Cooper (band)">Alice Cooper</a> for their album <i><a href="/wiki/School%27s_Out_(album)" title="School's Out (album)">School's Out</a></i>. However, the album was released in some countries with an alternative cover. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Release_and_reception">Release and reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thinks:_School_Stinks&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Release and reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The album and the accompanying US single, "Run Baby Run", were released nine months after the release of "Neanderthal Man", a gap that the band later regretted.<sup id="cite_ref-Tremlett_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tremlett-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The album and follow-up single failed to chart and, in December 1971, the band decided to issue a repackaged version of the album under the title <i>Song</i>, with alternate tracklisting, and replacing "Neanderthal Man" and "Desperate Dan" with "Today" and "The Loser", the former being a re-recording of a song by Kevin Godley and Lol Creme from 1969, under the band name of Frabjoy and the Runcible Spoon<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the latter being the B-side of "Lady Sadie" non-album single. "Lady Sadie" itself was released ahead of the repackage in September 1971. </p><p>A compilation of all the Hotlegs tracks based on <i>Thinks: School Stinks</i>, titled <i><a href="/wiki/You_Didn%27t_Like_It_Because_You_Didn%27t_Think_of_It" title="You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think of It">You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think of It</a></i>, was released in 1976. </p><p>Stewart, interviewed in 1976, said: <i>Thinks: School Stinks</i> had presented a problem because it was so different from "Neanderthal Man": "It was totally alien to what people were expecting from us. It was a good record, a little ahead of its time. It was similar to the things we are doing now. It was very melodic with chord structures that hadn't been used before – and some of the sounds that we used on that album hadn't been heard at the time."<sup id="cite_ref-Tremlett_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tremlett-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Thinks: School Stinks</i> was reissued on CD in 1994 by <a href="/wiki/One_Way_Records" title="One Way Records">One Way Records</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Track_listing">Track listing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thinks:_School_Stinks&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Track listing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>"<a href="/wiki/Neanderthal_Man_(song)" title="Neanderthal Man (song)">Neanderthal Man</a>" <small>(<a href="/wiki/Kevin_Godley" title="Kevin Godley">Kevin Godley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lol_Creme" title="Lol Creme">Lol Creme</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Stewart" title="Eric Stewart">Eric Stewart</a>)</small> – 4:19</li> <li>"How Many Times" <small>(Godley, Creme, Stewart)</small> – 3:57</li> <li>"Desperate Dan" <small>(Godley, Creme, Stewart)</small> – 2:12</li> <li>"Take Me Back" <small>(Godley, Creme)</small> – 5:01</li> <li>"Um Wah, Um Woh" <small>(Godley, Creme, Stewart)</small> – 5:30</li> <li>"Suite F.A." <small>(Godley, Creme)</small> – 12:53 <ul><li>1st Movement – On My Way</li> <li>2nd Movement – Indecision</li> <li>3rd Movement – The Return</li></ul></li> <li>"Fly Away" <small>(Godley, Creme)</small> – 2:43</li> <li>"Run Baby Run" <small>(Godley, Creme, Stewart)</small> – 2:50</li> <li>"All God's Children" <small>(Godley, Creme, Stewart)</small> – 3:55</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Song_Track_listing"><i>Song</i> Track listing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thinks:_School_Stinks&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Song Track listing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>"Today" <small>(<a href="/wiki/Kevin_Godley" title="Kevin Godley">Kevin Godley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lol_Creme" title="Lol Creme">Lol Creme</a>)</small> – 4:04</li> <li>"Um Wah, Um Woh" <small>(Godley, Creme, Stewart)</small> – 5:30</li> <li>"Run Baby Run" <small>(Godley, Creme, Stewart)</small> – 2:50</li> <li>"How Many Times" <small>(Godley, Creme, Stewart)</small> – 3:57</li> <li>"The Loser" <small>(Godley, Creme, Stewart)</small> – 3:39</li> <li>"Take Me Back" <small>(Godley, Creme)</small> – 5:01</li> <li>"Fly Away" <small>(Godley, Creme)</small> – 2:43</li> <li>"All God's Children" <small>(Godley, Creme, Stewart)</small> – 3:55</li> <li>"Suite F.A." <small>(Godley, Creme)</small> – 12:53 <ul><li>1st Movement – On My Way</li> <li>2nd Movement – Indecision</li> <li>3rd Movement – The Return</li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personnel">Personnel</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thinks:_School_Stinks&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personnel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Hotlegs</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lol_Creme" title="Lol Creme">Lol Creme</a> – guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, arranger</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Stewart" title="Eric Stewart">Eric Stewart</a> – guitar, bass, vocals, arranger, engineer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Godley" title="Kevin Godley">Kevin Godley</a> – drums, vocals, arranger</li></ul> <dl><dt>Additional personnel</dt></dl> <ul><li>Peter Tattersall – left-handed boogey piano ("Desperate Dan"), engineer</li> <li>Mike Timoney – organ ("Take Me Back", "Today")</li> <li>Rod Morton – on-beat tambourine ("Desperate Dan")</li> <li>Baz Barker – violin ("How Many Times")</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Gouldman" title="Graham Gouldman">Graham Gouldman</a> – bass ("Today")</li> <li>Tony Harrison – string arrangement ("Today")</li> <li>Ian Brookes – trumpet</li> <li>Mike Bell – saxophone</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheadle_Hulme_High_School" title="Cheadle Hulme High School">Cheadle Hulme High School</a> Choir (Arranged and Conducted by Brian Day) – vocals ("Suite F.A.")</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thinks:_School_Stinks&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Tremlett-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Tremlett_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tremlett_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a 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Music</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Original_Soundtrack" title="The Original Soundtrack">The Original Soundtrack</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/How_Dare_You!_(album)" title="How Dare You! 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