10CC: Deceptive Bends

 

Record Info:

 

Manufactured: Mercury
Catalogue Number: 6310 502
Released: 04/1977

Recorded at Strawberry Studio (South).
Produced and written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman
Engineered, mixed, and final reduction by Eric Stewart Assisted by Tony Spath
LP Mastering by Melvyn Abrahams
All titles published St. Annes Music Ltd.
Thanks to all at Threshold Studios.
A special thanks to Fred Coombe, John Timms and Charlie Pile.
Sleeve design by Hipgnosis.
Sleeve graphics by Colin Elgie.
Photo retouching by Richard Manning.
Photography of the group and diver by Hipgnosis.
Liner bag graphics : George Hardie.
Thanks to Siebe Gorman and Co. Ltd and Bill for their help with the diving suits.

 

Side 1

Good Morning Judge (2:53)

(Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman)

Eric Stewart: Lead vocal, Lead guitar, Piano, Moog, Backing vocals, Slide guitar

Graham Gouldman

: Bass guitar, Lead guitar, Electric guitar, Tambourine, Backing vocals, 6 strings bass

Paul Burgess

: Drums, Tambourine, Wah piano, Cabasa

 

The Things We Do For Love (3:29)

(Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman)

Eric Stewart

: Lead vocal, Lead guitar, Backing vocals, Piano, Organ

Graham Gouldman

: Bass guitar, Electric guitar, Hand Claps, Backing vocals, Acoustic guitar, tambourine

Paul Burgess

: Drums, Tambourine, hand claps, Gong

 

Marriage Bureau Rendezvous (4:04)

(Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman)

Graham Gouldman

: Lead vocal, Bass guitar, Electric guitar, Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals

Eric Stewart

: Electric piano, Phase guitar, Slide guitar, Organ, Lead guitar, Backing vocals

Paul Burgess

: Drums, Piano stool, Conga, Triangle

 

People In Love (3:48)

(Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman)

Eric Stewart

: Lead vocal, Slide guitar, Piano, Lead guitar

Graham Gouldman

: Bass guitar, Acoustic guitars, Electric guitar, Harmony vocals

Paul Burgess

: Drums, Tambourine, Bell Tree, Roto Toms

Del Newman: Arranged and conducted the strings

 

Modern Man Blues (5:35)

(Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman)

Graham Gouldman

: Lead vocal, Bass guitar, Electric guitars, Dobro, Organ, Backing vocal

Eric Stewart

: Lead vocal, Lead guitar, Piano, Slide guitar, Backing vocals

Paul Burgess

: Drums

Tony Spath

: Oboe

 

Side 2

Honeymoon With B Troop (2:46)
(Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman)

Graham Gouldman:
Lead Vocal, Bass guitar, Electric guitars, Triangle, Backing vocals
Eric Stewart:
Lead guitar, Electric pianos, Piano, Organ, Backing vocals
Paul Burges:
Drums, Wood block, Cabasa, Vibes
 
I Bought A Flat Guitar Tutor (1:48)
(Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman)
Eric Stewart:
Lead vocal, Lead guitar, Whistle
Graham Gouldman:
Bass guitar, Fuzz bass, Electric guitar, Guiro, Backing vocal
Paul Burgess:
Drums
Tony Spash:
Piano
 
You've Got A Cold (3:36)
(Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman)
Eric Stewart: L
ead vocal, Lead guitar, Piano, Backing vocals, Marracus
Graham Gouldman:
Bass guitar, Fuzz bass, Electric guitar, Guiro, Backing vocal
Paul Burgess:
Drums, A Go-Go bells
Jean Roussel:
Electric piano, Organ
 
Feel The Benefit (11:31)
(Eric Stewart/Graham Gouldman)
Eric Stewart:
Lead vocal, Lead guitar, Piano, Electric piano, Moog, Backing vocals, Electric guitars, Maracas
Graham Gouldman:
Lead Vocal, Lead guitar, Bass guitar, Acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, Autoharp, Backing vocals, Electric guitar
Paul Burgess:
Drums, Tambourine, Congas, Claves, Cabasa
Del Newman -
Arranged and conducted the strings and brass
Part 1. Reminisce and Speculate
Part 2. "A" Latin Break
Part 3. Feel The Benefit

 

Record Sleeve Front

Record Sleeve Back

Record Label Side 1

Record Label Side 2

Inside

1.1 - Good Morning Judge

 

Well good morning Judge, how are you today

I'm in trouble, please put me away

A pretty thing took a shine to me

I couldn't stop her so I let it be

I couldn't stop her so I let it be

I couldn't stop her so I let it be

I couldn't stop her so I let it be

He didn't do it, he wasn't there

He didn't want it, he wouldn't dare

 

Well good morning Judge, yes I'm back again

I'm in trouble, so it's back to the pen

I found a car but I couldn't pay

I fell in love and I drove it away

I fell in love and I drove it away

I fell in love and I drove it away

I fell in love and I drove it away

He didn't do it, he wasn't there

He didn't want it, he wouldn't dare

I didn't do it, I wasn't there

I didn't want it, I wouldn't dare

 

Alcatraz is like a home sweet home

I'm so wanted and I'm never alone

San Quentin is the place to be

I'm so happy I don't wanna be free

So happy I don't wanna be free

So happy I don't wanna be free

So happy I don't wanna be free

 

1.2 - The Things We Do For Love

 

Too many broken hearts have fallen in the river

Too many lonely souls have drifted out to sea,

You lay your bets and then you pay the price

The things we do for love, the things we do for love.

 

Communication is the problem to the answer

You've got her number and your hand is on the phone

The weather's turned and all the lines are down

The things we do for love, the things we do for love.

 

Like walking in the rain and the snow

When there's nowhere to go

And you're feelin' like a part of you is dying

And you're looking for the answer in her eyes.

You think you're gonna break up

Then she says she wants to make up.

 

Ooh you made me love you

Ooh you've got a way

Ooh you had me crawling up the wall.

 

Like walking in the rain and the snow

When there's nowhere to go

And you're feelin' like a part of you is dying

And you're looking for the answer in her eyes.

You think you're gonna break up

Then she says she wants to make up.

 

Ooh you made me love you

Ooh you've got a way

Ooh you had me crawling up the wall.

 

A compromise would surely help the situation

Agree to disagree but disagree to part

When after all it's just a compromise of

The things we do for love, the things we do for love....

 

1.3 - Marriage Bureau Rendezvous

 

Well I've been lookin' after number one for too long

And it seemed that love was passing me by

So I thought I better do something about it

And that's why I'm sittin' here lookin' cross the table at you

That's why I'm sittin' here lookin' cross the table at you

 

Well a lonely man needs a Marriage Bureau

Where they sit you right down and you fill in a form

Would you like a blonde or a black or a blue rinse

Do you like `em small, love `em slim long and tall

Do you like `em small, love `em slim long and tall

 

Oh no, too many questions

 

I'm looking for a girl like Momma used to be

She's cooking up a dream, she's baking ecstasy

Won't it be fine when

I find her

 

Would I like to take her to a movie or the theatre

Would I pick her up at home or would I like to meet her

Somewhere we could take a good look at each other

Smile and say hello or walk away

Smile and say hello or walk away

 

So I'm squeaky clean in and out of the bath

I never shaved so close before

I'm gonna put on a tie, I'm gonna shine up my shoes

I'm gonna slick back my hair, I've got nothin' to lose

Oh, oh, I'll be stinkin' so good

Like I'm drowning in a sea of cologne

 

Hey... do you know you remind me of someone

But I'm here making eyes at you

And I think we're gonna say goodbye to the bureau

Close the files, turn the page, start anew

Close the files, turn the page, start anew

 

1.4 - People In Love

 

People in love do funny things

Walk under buses and burn their wings

People like us do nothing right

Talk to the ceiling into the night

 

Look at the smile in her eyes

I knew I was right in my bones

I feel the turnin' of wheels as it grows

Look at my face in her eyes

Am I right, am I wrong

She's given me butterflies all along

 

Ooh sitting alone in the dark

Ooh feeling you close to me

We're in a dream

But the hands on the clock seem to know

Tell me it's time to go

 

People in love play silly games

Running in circles and everywhere

People like us can make believe

Love is forever and I'll never be

 

Ooh sitting alone in the dark

Ooh feeling you close to me

We're in a dream

But the hands on the clock seem to know

Tell us it's time to go

 

1.5 - Modern Man Blues

 

I'm tired Lord and I'm drawn

And I'm chilled right to the bone

I crawled home from my work

And this note said she was gone

Said your dinner's in the cat

And your love is out the door

I'm goin' back to my momma

And I don't want you no more, no more

Oh no, she said she don't want me no more

She's gone back to her momma

Said she's never never comin' back no more

 

Now a man can take so much

And only heaven knows his limit

But a naggin' bitchin' woman

Digs a hole and puts him in it

A sophisticated man

Needs a little something on the side

So what you don't get at home

You've gotta get outside, hey

 

She's gone

I'm spending all of my money

She's gone, gone, gone

And I can swing with my honey

She's gone

I'm so glad that woman's gone

 

Now time goes marching on

And it won't wait for you

You've gotta take it when it's offered

And get it when it's due

Now a man can move much faster

Without a millstone around his neck

So if you get the chance to lose it

You've gotta drop it and run like heck, hey

 

She's gone

I'm spending all of my money

She's gone

And I can swing with my honey

She's gone, gone

I'm so glad my woman's gone

She's gone

I'm spending all of my money

She's gone, gone, gone

And I can swing with my honey

She's gone

I'm so glad my woman's gone

.....................

2.1 - Honeymoon With B Troop

 

My baby, she's crazy, she's lazy

So she's always bummin' around

Girls in France don't stand a chance

`Cos I've always got my baby around

So, don't touch her

 

Oh, it's so fine, and you know what's mine is mine

At night we, sleep tight we

Stay close together `cos the temperature's down

But baby, says maybe

Each time I try to get my fingers around

Please don't touch her

 

Sittin' with a tent pole, what a bloody jamboree

Listen to our motto, be prepared for ecstasy

Here comes the bride

 

My baby goes topless

And brings her beauty to a bottomless day

She's bathing, al fresco

And all her mystery is there on display

So, don't get too close

 

Oh she's so fine, and you know what's mine is mine

Ooh it's a drag when you're hitched to a dream

And the boys in the gang think she's part of the scenery

You're never alone and the tension is painful to see

 

One night I, crept in and,

Got on my knees and tried to make her my wife

One reef knot, two grannies

And we were bound to stay together for life

Now we'd like to.......

 

2.2 - I Bought A Flat Guitar Tutor

 

I bought a flat

Diminished responsibility

You're de ninth person to see

To be suspended in a seventh

Major catastrophe

It's a minor point but gee

Augmented by the sharpness of your

See what I'm going through

Ay to be with you

In a flat by the sea

 

2.3 - You've Got A Cold

 

Your nose is runnin'

And your eyes are red

Your head is achin'

You'd be better in bed

From the bottom of your fever

To the throbbing in your toes

You've got a cold

You've got a cold

 

You're searching madly

To find a cure

But the mercury's rising

To a hundred and four

You've got a beauty, a bad ass

The mother of them all

You've got a cold

You've got a cold

 

Ain't no use in fightin' it

Get into bed and try to sweat it out

 

Hot toddies won't help you

Warm blankets won't sweat it out

Inhalants just choke you

Hot flushes will tell you

Anyway you've got it

Ain't no doubt about it

Nothin' new about

You can scream and shout it

 

Hot toddies won't help you

Warm blankets won't sweat it out

Inhalants just choke you

Hot flushes will tell you

Anyway you've got it

Ain't no doubt about it

Nothin' new about

You can't fight it

 

Foreign bodies in your Kleenex

You've got no taste at all

While your system is dyin'

The bugs are havin' a ball

You've got a beauty, a bad ass

The mother of them all

You've got a cold

You've got a cold .......................

 

2.4 - Feel The Benefit

 

PART 1 - REMINISCE AND SPECULATION

You went out on the street without your shoes on

You didn't listen what your momma said

She said you won't feel the benefit, won't feel the benefit

And if we all went out without our shoes on

Tell me where would we be, where would we be

 

If all the people in the world lost their reason

What would we see, where would we be

If all the entertainers in the world lost their music

What would they play, what could they say

To pacify the crowd, to justify themselves

Won't feel the benefit

 

You're like a cloud behind the sun

Like the face behind the clown

You're moving like the wrinkles in a frown

And you can never look back

A leaf that's borne upon the wind

A cardboard suitcase in your hand

The wanderer soon returns

And finds the colour of the grass is just the same

On the other side of the tracks, oh no

  

PART 2 - "A" LATIN BREAK

Ooh when you smile it's like a holiday

Ooh pack your bags and we can get away

We'll float on a Queen down to Rio

There's no need to shave

We'll be stinking like rum in a punch

 

You can walk on the water

You can dabble in the mumbo jumbo

You can smoke a little ganja

Float like a cloud over Rio, Rio

You can ride with the Gauchos

Swinging your bolas in a red bandana

You can run with the devil

Takin' your chances with Senorita

You can drink a lot of coffee in Brazil

But the bill is gonna make you ill

  

PART 3 - "FEEL THE BENEFIT"

So, you can go out on the street and take your chances

But if you do, you better do it right

Or you won't feel the benefit, won't feel the benefit

Spin the wheel and take your chances

And your number might come up

Though the odds may be in favour of the house

 

If all the people in the world would say together

We're all black and white; we're all day and night

If all the people in the world could sing together

How would it sound, what would we feel

We'd all feel the benefit2.1 - Honeymoon With B Troop
 
My baby, she's crazy, she's lazy
So she's always bummin' around
Girls in France don't stand a chance
`Cos I've always got my baby around
So, don't touch her
 
Oh, it's so fine, and you know what's mine is mine
At night we, sleep tight we
Stay close together `cos the temperature's down
But baby, says maybe
Each time I try to get my fingers around
Please don't touch her
 
Sittin' with a tent pole, what a bloody jamboree
Listen to our motto, be prepared for ecstasy
Here comes the bride
 
My baby goes topless
And brings her beauty to a bottomless day
She's bathing, al fresco
And all her mystery is there on display
So, don't get too close
 
Oh she's so fine, and you know what's mine is mine
Ooh it's a drag when you're hitched to a dream
And the boys in the gang think she's part of the scenery
You're never alone and the tension is painful to see
 
One night I, crept in and,
Got on my knees and tried to make her my wife
One reef knot, two grannies
And we were bound to stay together for life
Now we'd like to.......