History Music / TenCc

* SelfDeprecation: ''The Worst Band In The world''
-->It's one thing to know it, it's another to admit//
-->We're the worst band in the world and we don't give a....

* SelfDeprecation: ''The worst Band In The world''
-->It's one thig to know it, it's another to admit//
We're the worst basnd in the world and we don't give a....

* WelcomeToTheCaribbeanMon: “Dreadlock Holiday” tells of a hairy Jamaican getaway, loosely based on RealLife experiences of Eric Stewart and Music/TheMoodyBlues’ Justin Hayward.

* NotChristianRock: "Ready to Go Home".

10cc are a British art rock/pop rock/NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly band from the Manchester area. The original lineup consisted of former Mindbender Eric Stewart, successful songwriter for hire Graham Gouldman, and session musicians Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. While all were multi-instrumentalists, the standard arrangement was Stewart and Creme on a guitar/keyboard match, Gouldman on bass, and Godley on drums.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly:
** Because they were really the first band to deconstruct the pop song, each bandmember could put a bit of everything they knew into the songwriting, arrangement, recording and production process. To take two extremes: Gouldman and Godley. Gouldman, being a writer of the more typical pop song of the time, would use a very standard pop form but with emphasis on making that form the best it could be. Godley, being a total nonconformist at any time, would put what he wanted into what was probably a very unconventional form which was likely interpreted by the whole band.
** This extended to those who weren't on writing duties for a specific song. I.e: Godley's suggestion that "I'm Not In Love" be changed from a standard bossanova into what it became; a song which used dense vocal harmonies and minimal instrumentation. For example, Gouldman could play a jazz bassline over which Stewart would bring in a soul piano, Creme might give it some funk and Godley a rhumba beat. But their parts would be further deconstructed into what was usable in realistic terms and needed for that particular song. The results of this process can't really be explained beyond that and need to be heard.

* CreepyOldFashionedDivingSuit: The Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} artwork for ''Deceptive Bends'' has both the band members and an unknown guest star character wearing old diving suits. It's a VisualPun based on "the bends of a diver".

* CreepyOldFashionedDivingSuit: The Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} artwork for ''Deceptive Bends'' album has both the band members and an unknown guest star character wearing old diving suits.

* ContinuityNod: "Anonymous Alcoholic" reuses a line from a b-side "Get It While You Can" ("Everybody's having fun, so why be the one left out in the cold?").

* LyricalDissonance: The band does this quite a bit. "Somewhere in Hollywood" sounds like a wide eyed appreciation of Tinseltown. The more you listen the more it comes to seem like several HorribleHollywood scenarios seen through a druggy haze. "Rubber Bullets" is a danceable little number about a [{{prison riot}}. "Dreadlock Holiday" is a pleasant reggae song about a tourist in UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}} desperately trying to talk his way out of a mugging.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Because they were really the first band to deconstruct the pop song, each bandmember could put a bit of everything they knew into the songwriting, arrangement, recording and production process. To take two extremes: Gouldman and Godley. Gouldman, being a writer of the more typical pop song of the time, would use a very standard pop form but with emphasis on making that form the best it could be. Godley, being a total nonconformist at any time, would put what he wanted into what was probably a very unconventional form which was likely interpreted by the whole band.

* [[AscendedExtra Ascended Extras]] The band's principal members were active in the sixties writing hit records for other people to become famous with, such as "Evil-hearted You", "For Your Love" and "Heart Full of Soul" for Music/TheYardbirds, and "Pamela, Pamela" for the Mindbenders. They also worked as session musicians for other artists. Then they wondered if they could do it for themselves...

* LyricalDissonance: The band does this quite a bit. "Somewhere in Hollywood" sounds like a wide eyed appreciation of Tinseltown. The more you listen the more it comes to seem like several HorribleHollywood scenarios seen through a druggy haze. "Rubber Bullets" is a danceable little number about a prison riot. "Dreadlock Holiday" is a pleasant reggae song about a tourist in UsefulNotes/{{Jamaica}} desperately trying to talk his way out of a mugging.

* VillainSong: “I Wanne Rule the World” is filled to the brim with villainous boasts and threats.

* VocalTagTeam: All four members of the classic lineup shared lead vocals, sometimes in the same song. Notably, each member sang lead on one of their #1 British hits: Creme on "Rubber Bullets" (with Godley singing the bridge), Stewart on "I'm Not in Love", and Gouldman on "Dreadlock Holiday".

[[caption-width-right:350:''It's one thing to know it, but another to admit; we're the worst band in the world, but [[ParentheticalSwearing we don't give a]]...''[[labelnote:*]]From left to right; Lol Creme, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Graham Gouldman.[[/labelnote]]]]

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Though the quartet would work together again on a few occasions, Godley and Creme's decision to to leave the band in 1976 caused much acrimony for everyone involved, and all four agree in hindsight that they should've just put the band on hiatus until they were all ready to work together again. The Godley/Creme and Stewart/Gouldman partnerships continued on into TheEighties and TheNineties, but they both ended on bad terms as well.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Though the quartet would work together again on a few occasions, Godley and Creme's decision to to leave the band in 1976 caused much acrimony for everyone involved, and all four agree in hindsight that they should've just put the band on hiatus until they were all ready to work together again. The Godley/Creme and Stewart/Gouldman partnerships both went on into TheEighties and TheNineties, but they ended on bad terms as well.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Though the quartet would work together again on a few occasions, Godley and Creme's decision to to leave the band in 1976 caused much acrimony for everyone involved, and all four agree in hindsight that they should've just put the band on hiatus until they were ready to work together again. The Godley/Creme and Stewart/Gouldman partnerships both went on well into TheEighties and TheNineties, but they ended on bad terms as well.

* VocalTagTeam: All four members of the classic lineup shared lead vocals, sometimes in the same song. Notably, each member sang lead on one of their #1 British hits: Creme and Godley on "Rubber Bullets", Stewart on "I'm Not in Love", and Gouldman on "Dreadlock Holiday".

* GayParee: Parodied to the hilt in "Une Nuit a Paris", complete with overdone accents.

[[caption-width-right:350:''It's one thing to know it, but another to admit; we're the worst band in the world, but we don't give a...''[[labelnote:*]]From left to right; Lol Creme, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Graham Gouldman.[[/labelnote]]]]