Deceptive Bends

10cc | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 19, 2003)
• ASIN: B000009FUV
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #588,859 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Good Morning Judge

2. The Things We Do for Love

3. Marriage Bureau Rendezvous

4. People in Love

5. Modern Man Blues

6. Honeymoon With B Troop

7. I Bought a Flat Guitar Tutor

8. You've Got a Cold

9. Feel the Benefit, Pt. 1-3

10. Hot to Trot [*]

11. Don't Squeeze Me Like Toothpaste [*]

12. I'm So Laid Back I'm Laid Out [*]

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered 1997 reissue of their top 40 1977 albumwith three bonus tracks: 'Hot To Trot', 'Don't Squeeze Me Like Toothpaste' & 'I'm So Laid Back, I'm Laid Out'. 12 tracks total, also featuring the top five smash 'The Things We Do For Love', the top 40 hit 'People In Love' and the classic 'Good Morning Judge'. A Mercury Records release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Pleasure Of Pop Invention, November 14, 2006

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allismile0 "allismile0" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deceptive Bends (Mlps) (Audio CD)

Deceptive Bends was the beginning of the end for 10cc. The band had split into two bands: 10cc and Godley & Creme. "How Dare You" was the magnum opus, and in my view the best album that 10cc came out with, not to mention one of the best albums of a decade that was full of amazing albums.

But now the year was 1977 and Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart regrouped and came back with a beautiful pop album that showed a subtle change in the 10cc sound. The interesting thing is that for all the wonderfully quirky pop art that filled the first four albums that included Godley & Creme, the music was still alive with fresh ideas and inventive productions, just a bit less cerebral. Sure, this was no "Consequences", Godley & Creme's first album that was full of high art but lacking in accessibility; but Deceptive Bends has so many infectious melodies and grooves that it intensified what made this band so attractive in the first place... The pleasure of invention.

Every song on this album has become (more or less) a highlight for me, including the bonus tracks. But the first side of the album is definitely the stronger half. It is rare to have a perfect album- in my mind there are very few of those. But I've got to give Deceptive Bends five stars nonetheless, because take away few missteps and you have a pop masterpiece.


Bloody Tourists continued the success of inventive pop music that Deceptive Bends had brought- it was the weaker of the two but still was mostly great.

I think the music declined somewhat after that for 10cc. That's not to say Look Hear, Ten Out Of 10, or Windows In The Jungle aren't strong albums- they just don't have the allure that the albums up to Bloody Tourist have; Ten Out Of 10 probably being the strongest of the three.

One note: I though it was interesting how close the guitar solo on "The Things We Do For Love" sounds like the guitar solo from "Killer Queen" by Queen.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific follow up to HOW DARE YOU!, August 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Deceptive Bends (Audio CD)

This import version is far superior to the domestic version of DECEPTIVE BENDS. The sound sprakles and you can appreciate the engineering and production of Eric Stewart. The songwriting here is sharper than on later efforts like BLOODY TOURIST!

Of all the post Creme/Godley 10cc albums, this is the one that most captures the spirit of early 10cc, while building on the songwriting craft and humor of previous albums. Stewart and Gouldman wrote all the songs and perform all the instruments(Paul Burgess plays drums--Burgess was the band's touring drummer freeing up Kevin Godley to sing).

The last great 10cc album(there would be some fine additions after this, but nothing of the caliber of their finest work), this album, along with SHEET MUSIC, THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK and HOW DARE YOU! represents the best of this underrated 70's-80's band.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you buy only one 10cc album... buy this one!, October 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Deceptive Bends (Audio CD)

Okay, if you're a fan of the zany aspect of 10cc, maybe this album isn't for you. Sure, the humor is present, but not as much as in other works.

On the other hand, if you appreciate 10cc for being a group of talented musicians capable of producing mesmerizing songs... you'll love this.

In addition to their biggest hit, "The Things We Do For Love," this album boasts the wistful ballad, "People in Love," the classic "Good Morning Judge," and "Feel the Benefit," a true masterpiece of songwriting with lyrics that will bring tears to your eyes. (Okay, not the reggae bit in the middle... but the end bit.)

I rank this album as being one of my absolute favorites (and that's out of a personal collection in excess of 1000).