Eric Stewart - Girls (2005)

10cc guitarist Eric Stewart was still recovering from a near fatal car smash when he started work on this movie soundtrack and, while it might be unfair to say that the timing could hardly have been worse, still Girls scarcely stands among his greatest accomplishments, either as a musician or a songwriter. That said, the soundtrack (like the movie) is absolutely a child of its time, with songs like "Discollapse," "Disco Bumpin'," and "Aural Exciter" especially redolent of that sneeringly supercilious attitude toward contemporary tastes that many "serious" musicians liked to adopt when confronted with the need to write something that matched them. Occasionally a flash of the real Stewart blazes forth, usually in the shape of a pleasing guitar line, or an inflection of the vocal. But if you thrilled to Stewart's day job, even as 10cc itself wobbled toward its sad end, you'll be as disappointed by Girls as you were excited by his earlier output.