Label: Mercury Records (Japan), UICY-40081
Style: Progressive Pop, Pop Rock, Art Pop
Country: Stockport, England
Time: 51:53
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 342 Mb
Charts: UK #3, AUS #8, CAN #78, NED #4, NZ #4, NOR #4, SWE #4, US #31. UK, AUS & CAN: Gold.
The band started recording sessions for the fifth album in late summer of 1976 with the song "People in Love", at that time referred to as "Voodoo Boogie". But with the tensions in the band rising the track was considered "awful" when assembled, and Kevin Godley and Lol Creme decided to temporarily split with Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman to start work on what would later become their debut project Consequences. As their work progressed Godley and Creme decided to leave the group.
As Stewart and Gouldman were left as a duo they opted to try recording "Good Morning Judge", which debuted live at the Knebworth Festival on 21 August 1976 with the original line-up, and later "The Things We Do For Love". Satisfied with the results they continued to run the band with the assistance of drummer Paul Burgess, who had already worked with 10cc, acting as second drummer to Kevin Godley on tour.
Stewart recalled: "I had a big challenge ahead of me to prove to the record world that we were not just 5cc, as some of the British media had graciously called us. The music was simpler than some of the previous 10cc albums, it was far more direct, streamlined and positive. The whole album was recorded very (in our terms) quickly. I was on a mission, and flying higher and faster than I had ever been before, and I knew by then that we had a very strong album. The new songs played a big part in the equation of course, I was out to prove also that we could write a hit album without Kevin and Lol ... we did!"
The album was the first by 10cc to be recorded in the newly built Strawberry Studios South, though the original recording attempts with Godley and Creme were made in the original Strawberry Studios now referred as North.
The cover design was provided by Hipgnosis. The title of the album was taken from a sign warning of dangerous curves in the southbound A24 between Leatherhead and Dorking in Surrey. Gouldman said in 1977: "Every day I used to travel down from London and see the sign, 'Deceptive Bends.' It struck me to be quite a subtle word the Department of Transport was using, and Eric agreed it was a nice title." The sign is no longer there.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deceptive_Bends)
01. Good Morning Judge (02:56)
02. The Things We Do For Love (03:34)
03. Marriage Bureau Rendezvous (04:07)
04. People In Love (03:49)
05. Modern Man Blues (05:40)
06. Honeymoon With B Troop (02:49)
07. I Bought A Flat Guitar Tutor (01:47)
08. You've Got A Cold (03:41)
09. Feel The Benefit (11:33)
10. Hot To Trot (bonus track) (04:29)
11. Don't Squeeze Me Like Toothpaste (bonus track) (03:37)
12. I'm So Laid Back, I'm Laid Out (bonus track) (03:46)
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