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Post by Victor on Jul 12, 2019 11:48:28 GMT
Backbone is now available on Spotify.
I don't rarely go out and slate my once favourite band, but this song is absolutely horrifying.
No structure,no melody,no f*cking anything,just a monotonous and boring drivel going nowhere.
I don't think I've heard anything worse since Mony Mony...
Who wrote it? Is it a Rhino effort? Rossi/Edwards
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Post by Isaac Ryan on Jul 12, 2019 13:46:51 GMT
Wow it’s absolutely amazing. So heavy and with a killer chorus. I can just hear it on Blue for you. Amazing. Can’t wait to buy it. Hope there’s an extended remix on the 12”. What time to be alive. Not on Thirsty Work then like you said about Liberty Lane?
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Post by paradiseflats on Jul 12, 2019 13:53:49 GMT
Wow it’s absolutely amazing. So heavy and with a killer chorus. I can just hear it on Blue for you. Amazing. Can’t wait to buy it. Hope there’s an extended remix on the 12”. What time to be alive. Not on Thirsty Work then like you said about Liberty Lane? Actually you are right...would fit right on there.
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Post by lemmystoenail on Jul 12, 2019 14:03:30 GMT
I can never get enough juxtapositions. I can never get enough juxtapositions. Much prefer an oxymoron meself So do I , he’s a good keyboard player 😉
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Post by Victor on Jul 12, 2019 17:57:13 GMT
I actually made another attempt to listen through it. And all I can say is that I just don't like it. It sounds monotonous and boring to me. Not what I hoped for.
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,950
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Jul 12, 2019 18:26:02 GMT
I actually made another attempt to listen through it. And all I can say is that I just don't like it. It sounds monotonous and boring to me. Not what I hoped for. I agree with all of this Victor - except the last sentence!
I've given up hoping for anything from FR's Quo, and [somewhat sadly] this 'effort' has vindicated that view. God but it's just awful pointless pap.
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Post by Isaac Ryan on Jul 12, 2019 18:43:40 GMT
It's my least favourite from the 3 tracks I have heard to date. Management must think it's the most commercial for radio. I would have stuck to Liberty Lane.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jul 12, 2019 18:47:10 GMT
It's grown on me, I like it Downloaded it today, I like that the riff never stops Does any other Quo song do that?
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Post by blagult on Jul 12, 2019 19:22:36 GMT
Honestly have not listened to any of them. I just want to here them all in the context of an album to make a judgement. Looking for an individual Quo song in the singles chart is well in the past.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Jul 12, 2019 19:36:21 GMT
Going with the obvious connection with the forthcoming album of the same name.
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Post by Victor on Jul 12, 2019 20:35:50 GMT
I actually made another attempt to listen through it. And all I can say is that I just don't like it. It sounds monotonous and boring to me. Not what I hoped for. I agree with all of this Victor - except the last sentence!
I've given up hoping for anything from FR's Quo, and [somewhat sadly] this 'effort' has vindicated that view. God but it's just awful pointless pap. I can honestly uderstand it from your viewpoint too. The thing for me is that I actually enjoyed some very good exceptions from the later work. For me in both Backbone and Liberty Lane there is clearly a Rhino influence too and I have enjoyed the combination of Rossi/Edwards very little...What I want to wait for is the three Rossi-Young compositions and two Rossi-Bown compositions on the album... God knows what Cave and Malone wrote with their efforts... if these five songs turn out to be good I will consider them as some exceptions to the mostly not good later work... why do I have that hope still... not sure, I guess because the band was once too important in my life and I have to see at least what they are doing and most likely not enjoy it... If it turns out to be a Francis solo album, then I might enjoy some songs for what they are cos I can listen to and look at that from another viewpoint....but this sure as heck is not my Status Quo and hasn't been for quite some time...
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Post by curiousgirl on Jul 12, 2019 20:48:08 GMT
So I've now had my first listen and I'm in fits of giggles - - I think its remembering how Victor and other members particularly disliked the whoo huus. Not something I'd expected to hear from Quo. I hear a catchy pop song that will probably go down well on Radio 2 and other pop stations. Actually its a bit like The Winner too. I think it sounds the most commercial of the 3 tracks. And also as Fretbuzzzz says its the title track. Do I like it? Not particularly. But I don't hate it either as a pop song. As a Quo song, no. Just no.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Jul 13, 2019 8:14:25 GMT
I cannot get enough of this song. It is great fun and unusual for Quo with the riff being the backbone of the song. Very clever lyrics and juxtapositions from Rhino. That's an interesting thought about the riff being the backbone of the song. Then there is a point that it's on repeat. Brings another dimension. Didn't expect that cleaver finesse from Quo. Yus to be sure but speaking as a paelen pallyont paleontt dinosaur fan from the age of 5, backbones are more interesting if they have legs and other things attached to them (and teeth).
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,950
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Jul 13, 2019 11:10:40 GMT
I agree with all of this Victor - except the last sentence!
I've given up hoping for anything from FR's Quo, and [somewhat sadly] this 'effort' has vindicated that view. God but it's just awful pointless pap. I can honestly understand it from your viewpoint too. The thing for me is that I actually enjoyed some very good exceptions from the later work. ....but this sure as heck is not my Status Quo and hasn't been for quite some time... Fair comments there V! I don't hate post-81 Quo, I think QPQ and esp. Dust to Gold, is brilliant, and some of the other Non-JC Quo is decent enough too, but I really struggle with the post-81 Studio-Quo as a 'Pop' band. Just 2 really different bands.
I used to think that Quo became something else after AL 'left', but having seen and heard the FF reunions I'm now firmly of the view that JC's absence fundamentally changes the Quo sound from Hard Rock to Pop. I'm firmly in the former camp
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Post by Victor on Jul 13, 2019 17:10:44 GMT
I can honestly understand it from your viewpoint too. The thing for me is that I actually enjoyed some very good exceptions from the later work. ....but this sure as heck is not my Status Quo and hasn't been for quite some time... Fair comments there V! I don't hate post-81 Quo, I think QPQ and esp. Dust to Gold, is brilliant, and some of the other Non-JC Quo is decent enough too, but I really struggle with the post-81 Studio-Quo as a 'Pop' band. Just 2 really different bands.
I used to think that Quo became something else after AL 'left', but having seen and heard the FF reunions I'm now firmly of the view that JC's absence fundamentally changes the Quo sound from Hard Rock to Pop. I'm firmly in the former camp
Yea, feel the same way about just everything that you are saying there, with a few side notes... For me Under the Influence and QPQ were THE two albums that brought me some of those real good songs, like ust to Gold which you mentioned, for me another big time favorite is Frozen Hero. Yep most of the pop band output from the 80's from them is indeed something I can't like much with the best will of the world either. Even then there were some exceptiosn here and there (For example The reason for Goodbye, Deadonthe water/Mysteries from the Ball, You'll come round etc) but by far most output from that time made me cringe back then and still does now. Oh you bet that JC leaving changed something big time about the sound. I honestly think though that Pete Kircher COULD have become a good replaceent and could have grown into it had they not changed more and more into a pop band at that time, where 1982 still gave me some home it all got lost with BTB
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