One of the finest archive products of the pre-CD age, You Didn't Like It was released in the U.K. in 1975, at the height of 10cc's success, as a reminder that there was more, so much more, to the members' past incarnation as Hotlegs than the hit Neanderthal Man. Rounding up every track that the ultimately ill-starred combo cut -- that is, the entire Thinks: School Stinks album, plus four additional performances -- You Didn't Like It not only took the edge off an increasingly desperate collectors market (copies of that original album were impossible to come by), it also reminded listeners just how much of Hotlegs' legacy had been bequeathed to the members' next project. Fly Away, itself re-recorded from a Godley-Creme contribution to a 1969 Marmalade label sampler, offers the prototype for any number of subsequent ballads -- innocent vocal, innocent song, but a deceptive beast of a lyric. How Many Times (the doomed U.S. follow-up to the hit Neanderthal Man), Take Me Back, and All God's Children each had a close relation lurking within the 10cc catalog, while You Didn't Like It itself had already been pressed back into surface, as the first 10cc album's closing Fresh Air for My Mama. You Didn't Like It is one of four songs appended to the original Thinks album. Of the remainder, Lady Sadie was released as a single in 1971 and went absolutely nowhere, while Today and The Loser saw service on the "second" Hotlegs album, Songs. Despite such generosity, however, You Didn't Like It fared no better than either of its predecessors, and, bitterly, one remembers why. 10cc at the time were universally regarded among the most creative bands on the planet. Hotlegs, on the other hand, were good for one thing and one thing only. "I'm a Neanderthal man -- CRASH; you're a Neanderthal girl -- CRASH...." And collectors notwithstanding, that was never going to change. ~ Dave Thompson, Rovi

1		Neanderthal Man
2		How Many Times
3		Desperate Dan
4		Take Me Back
5		Today
6		The Loser
7		Um Wah Um Woh
8		Lady Sadie
9		Suite Fa
10		Fly Away
11		Run Baby Run
12		All God's Children
13		You Didn't Like It Because You Didn't Think of It