…Agree to disagree but disagree to part, but after all it’s just a compromise of the Things We Do For Love’.
This is one of the few modern pop songs to feature a gong. It’s smashed three or four times during the course of the song and I realised when I heard it on Radio 2 this morning, half asleep, that its’ such an incredibly enervating song. Notwithstanding the avant-garde influence of Godley and Creme, who left 10cc because they thought this song was too commercial, I think it’s the band’s best track, despite having a tedious playout. The wonderful harmonies are self-evident but the drumming is engagingly stop-start throughout…and the organ is incredible.