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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2016 20:58:57 GMT
.....or the above in the car on a long trip
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Post by kursaal75 on Jan 10, 2016 21:22:22 GMT
Any Quo album in the 70s
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Post by riekuzz on Jan 11, 2016 16:06:33 GMT
Thank you all! Seems like i gonna get a busy weekend, Haha! Also bought tickets for me and my brother to Quo in the Netherlands
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Post by dennis on Jan 11, 2016 22:54:38 GMT
Thank you all! Seems like i gonna get a busy weekend, Haha! Also bought tickets for me and my brother to Quo in the Netherlands You might also want to look out for John Coghlan's Quo : Saturday 20/08/16 Festival 't Zeeltje Terrein 't Zeeltje Deest, Nijmegen NETHERLANDS Sunday 21/08/16 Vostertfeesten Festival Bree BELGIUM
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Post by quoboy76 on Jan 12, 2016 23:44:17 GMT
Probably the best order is to listen to them in the correct order, but listen to them all and make your own mind up about them, not everyone likes every album and you may like stuff that others don't instead of being told what not to like or to not bother with......judge for yourself
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Post by lemmystoenail on Jan 14, 2016 10:28:58 GMT
All you have to do is crack open a couple of beers, put on some decent headphones lay back on the sofa then have the Quo Live 1977 album recorded at the legendary Glasgow Apollo in October 1976 pounding through those `cans`. Job done, I would say! yup, listen to this album good and loud and you'll understand the difference between proper quo and the dark side letsrock
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 10:41:38 GMT
.....or the above in the car on a long trip Ive found you end up speeding though , and not knowing it , even went through a red light a while back with Backwater thumping full volume , { well 3-4 feet } . Awesome album .
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Post by tramper on Jan 17, 2016 18:55:54 GMT
Yep, agree Quo live 77. And you've got to get the frantic four live, Hammersmith 2013. Class !
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Post by riekuzz on Jan 18, 2016 16:30:28 GMT
Came across a vinyl seller on a second hand market. bought Just Supposin' and two singles called Mystery Song and Accident all 3 for 5 euros.
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Post by dennis on Jan 20, 2016 11:20:59 GMT
Came across a vinyl seller on a second hand market. bought Just Supposin' and two singles called Mystery Song and Accident all 3 for 5 euros. Mystery Song is one of my all-time favourites, but if you're only familiar with the single it comes as a bit of a shock when you hear the album version!
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Post by Railroad17 on Feb 8, 2016 19:04:26 GMT
Given that we are are all veteran Quo fans, I'd say enter the world of Quo with something brilliant yet accessible - ie Whatever You Want album. Then Just Supposin' and Hello! After those three, anything pre 1982. Good luck and welcome. Edit - Piledriver album is of its time. It is very raw. Others recommend it. If you listen to that first and dont get it, try my suggestions above. The ultimate Quo album is Quo - but it takes time. IMHO You asked a question - how bad are their baddest albums? Let me put it this way - Quo's good albums (up to 1981) are so good that 30-odd years later it is still painful to talk about their later albums, for me. Just stick to NTL plus all before, for the next 24 months. You want a quick hit? Listen to Who Asked You Mystery Song Roll Over Lay Down very raw....you mean very raw man.
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Post by Railroad17 on Feb 8, 2016 19:06:26 GMT
Full Order for you: Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo Spare Parts ----- Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon Dog Of Two Head Piledriver Hello! Quo On The Level Blue For You Rockin All Over the World If You Can't Stand The Heat Whatever You Want Just Supposin' Never Too Late 1+9+8+2 Back To Back ----- In The Army Now Ain't Complaining Perfect Remedy Rock Till You Drop Thirsty Work Don't Stop Under The Influence Famous In The Last Century Heavy Traffic Riffs The Party Ain't Over Yet In Search Of The Fourth Chord Quid Pro Quo Bula Quo! Aquostic: Stripped Bare There's also the excellent Live! double album released in 1977. That one is a must.1+9+8+2 Back To Back ----- In The Army Now Ain't Complaining Perfect Remedy Rock Till You Drop Thirsty Work Don't Stop Under The Influence Famous In The Last Century Heavy Traffic Riffs The Party Ain't Over Yet In Search Of The Fourth Chord Quid Pro Quo Bula Quo! Aquostic: Stripped Bare Otherwise known as the shit list.
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Post by Victor on Feb 8, 2016 19:20:31 GMT
Ma kellies Greasy Spoon Dog of two head Piledriver Hello Quo On the level Blue for you Whatever you want Just Supposin Never too Late
plus Quo Live 77
Personal choice of course...
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Feb 8, 2016 21:48:34 GMT
The Roll Over Lay Down EP with that track, Junior's Wailing and the live electric version of Gerdundula.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2016 14:02:24 GMT
I can't add anymore about the wonderful golden FF era that has already been said
A top 10 is impossible for me though. I cannot cut out the lead up to the boogie era, because all the things that happened before it made the boogie era all the more special still, to me. I would get goose-bumps seeing a proper documentary with footage from those oldest days leading right through to the early 70's in itself.
So I also appreciate the fiskadelic period of Quo, and would definitely include those albums.
I happen to like a lot of that genre period of music anyway in the late 60's - but in terms of Quo it gives you the whole story of how they got to know one another from the schooldays, met up and started grafting a trade playing any gig they could find, whilst fitting in with the whole 60's genre thing going on around them - till they found they had to start being true to themselves.
So then, to the metamosphosis from 69 to 70 where each screen grab sees their hair grow out, the style and the clothes changing to what I think is the totally cool look they had in 70/71 leading to the all out assault from Piledriver onwards. For this reason I find it hard to listen to any of the albums from Matchstick to Piledriver in isolation of the others. I have to play each in sequence to fully appreciate them all as integral parts of the sum of the whole magic of the transition.
The period 68 to 72 has always seemed such a long time to me looking back from growing up as young as I was as a child then, but having found and got into Quo in the mid 70's - I found even back then that the transformation in them made it seem so much longer than the 3/4 yrs it actually was from Carnaby Street to boogieing in the mud! I was quite captivated by all this when I first became a fan. I still am (quite obviously) It was a lot of delights, and a heck of a story to take in, in one fell swoop
Putting aside (just for a moment ) the present day live act debacle and the unfortunate image making of CQ, I like a fair amount of the CQ back catalogue - largely because I have always judged them (studio wise) as a very separate band in their own right, and hence appreciate them on their own merits. I'd definitely include albums like RTYD, UTI, HT and especially ISOTFC album to this degree. I'd also include one or two great songs on QPQ such as Dust To Gold and Frozen Hero. These types of songs have an 'attitude' about them that gives you hints of their past.
But some of the other lighter albums are fine as well for a complete change because, as stated, I have always detached myself from any former FF association in this regard at least. *Disclaimer below attached*
(No apologies for the almost daily repetition here - because it finds relevance in many topics) CQ have taken that separate identity association of mine of the two incarnations too much the wrong way in recent years however. They have chosen to over associate, over dilute and over commercialise and cheapen the FF association to an saturation point that even parodies themselves, rather than concentrating much more on the credibility of their own catalogue in its own right.
This has unfortunately diminished them imo as a band in the twilight of their career and lost them more respect (than perhaps they might have deserved otherwise) amongst some fans who only will hold associations with the pre 84 era (or earlier!).
The FF reunions have only served to magnify this impression and mean that the choices that CQ have increasingly made since those gigs, have seemed ever more unacceptable to many long standing fans as a result
Based on an appreciation of the whole history of the band evolution, I regret to say that now includes me too.
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