City Boy -- Classic or Dud?

So is City Boy just a Queen/10cc/Split Enz rip off or something else all together?

definitely 10cc fans. i don't know about the Queen part. they are hard to put in a box. art rock mixed with pop and whatever else they could think of. not always successful at it, but i enjoy the records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2buwyhFQWU

supertramp-esque at times.

Video looks like the cover of Crisis? What Crisis?

first album is quirkier/looser than the later stuff. the most 10cc-ish too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_JIh2G5xqs&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6xTbbN5iVk&feature=related

I like that last song. Vocals like 10cc meets Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I think I read Mutt Lange produced them at some point.

"5-7-0-5" does have things that sound like Queen.

There's a Christian version of 5705 called "Turn On To Jesus" that used to be downloadable from their website.

Listening to their debut for the first time ever today, not sure how I never checked them out back in the day when I was into 10CC etc. This is great! Arty, clever, not quite prog rock. Wishing for a time machine to go back to 1977 for one of those theater shows with, like, Robin Trower, Be Bop Deluxe and City Boy.