matt
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Post by matt on Sept 19, 2019 22:49:09 GMT
Face the music reminds me of a slightly up tempo Who Asked You.
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Post by blagult on Sept 21, 2019 9:28:58 GMT
Lived with it long enough now to form my opinion. Honestly for me it Quo’s best album post 86. I love it. Haven’t found it boring. It’s a different Quo album but still Its unmistakenly them. And Francis at 70 pulling it off wow. I don’t skip anything but ‘ I see your in some trouble ‘ may be a future one. Too Thirsty work imo. I don’t have an issue with the running order. To me it builds nicely. Each track complimented by the previous one. Which wins over QPQ. LL is just sublime Quo. Richie’s track is a great song. Well sung. For some reason it reminds me off the early Dr Who soundtrack lol. Standout for me ‘ FOTW’ Pure Quo. And that 20 second change of key with Francis solo is goosebumps for me ! One thing on that track where I miss Rick is he would have put that little double strum in at time if you know what I mean. That didledee. But Richie does a great job on this album. All contribution are good in fact including that Hammond when Andy simulates with Francis guitar hook. I really don’t think we could have expected anything more than this tbh. Sterling effort and I will definitely continue playing it.
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equo
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Favourite Quo Album: Quo
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Post by equo on Sept 21, 2019 11:02:43 GMT
Ehm, if Get Out of My Head is not a rock song then I don't know what is! I've just watched parts of the Wacken and LNOTE DVDs again. Francis playing solos where there originally weren't any. He might have lost the passion in certain periods, but at the moment it's definitely back. You can also sense this when you read the part of his book where he talks about the new album. He was clearly excited about it and couldn't wait to share it with the people (or why else would they have played two new songs before the album was even announced?). I think fans like me are annoyed/frustrated with fans like you because it's rarely about opinions, "I don't like this", but about painting with overly broad brushes. Which is a bit amusing given the line in Backbone "different strokes for different folks, that's my point of view". Before anybody accuses me of trying to destroying freedom of speech: I think it's totally OK to not like the album (or anything Quo in general, let's not forget that), but... the less effort you put into a post, the less people are going to like it, especially if it's a throwaway negative remark like some have written, and even more so if it contains an implicit or explicit belittling of people who are of a different opinion (and yes, this works the other way round too). Constructive criticism is nothing to sneeze at, I think, even if the band won't be able to read it, because it stays on the plane of decent conversation. And this is not specifically aimed at anyone (although I used a quote as a starting point) but a general comment on discussion politics as I see it. That's all Hi Frozenhero, let me put some effort in this post. Get out of my head is a rock song, yes, but play Little Lady after it... (really try it!) can't you "feel" the difference here? Get out of my head is far too "nice" to be a "real" rock song. It is written as a rock song, it has the rock ingredients but it misses the "feeling" like Little Lady. And yes, that is my opinion. When Little Lady was recorded there was a band in the studio that didn't try to make a Quo album, in the few years before it, they just invented what we now refer to as the Quo sound. That is a huge difference. Trying to make a Quo album, or doing what you invented yourself. I cannot help to compare any new material from Quo to the material from the early seventies. It is wrong to do that I know. But I can't help myself here. I lost my heart to the Quo of those years and I would cry like a baby when Backbone had that same feeling in the songs. So when I played Backbone for the first time it did very little for me because it is far away from early Quo. I also don't like the backing vocals for the most part, but that's another discussion. I think it's impossible for Quo today to please early Quo fans because the sound of those days will never return. That is not their fault, that is just the way it is. Even when Rick was still in the band they only touched the surface of early Quo a few times. Now without his voice it's even harder. The interaction between Rossi/Parfitt/Lancaster/Coghlan in the early years will never happen again in the studio but the result of that interaction is what I call "rock". (I think many FF fans do too). It made John Eden cry when he was remixing "Rockers Rollin" when he heared the seperate tracks and mixing them together again. And when I saw John Eden cry over that, and I'm not shamed to say this, it made me cry over it too. I cannot tell you how hard this interaction between those guys hit my heart. I think it's the reason why many FF fans are so passioned about what they call the "real Quo". I played Backbone a lot the last two weeks and I most say it has grown on me. Face the music I enjoy the most. There are good melody's to enjoy throughout the album. Waiting for a woman is stuck in my head, just like Backin' off and Better take care. However, it doesn't hit me like early Quo did. In my earlier post I said "this has nothing to do with Status Quo". Maybe a little bold statement. I should have said "this has nothing to do with early Status Quo", because Backbone is, off course, todays Status Quo. And make no mistake, I do think of myself as a "Status Quo fan", including today's Quo. Not as passioned as in the early years, but I still have a week spot for Rossi and Bown, Leon is a good live drummer, Malone is the best replacement for Rick possible and Rhino, I am told, is a very nice guy! On we go with the Status Quo!
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equo
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Favourite Quo Album: Quo
Favourite other bands.: Pink Floyd
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Post by equo on Sept 21, 2019 11:04:43 GMT
Face the music reminds me of a slightly up tempo Who Asked You. Hi Matt, that's funny, I don't hear it at all, but I like both songs a lot!
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Post by vivfromcov on Sept 21, 2019 12:24:07 GMT
I listened to it once in the car yesterday and enjoyed it. Would have listened again but having a bit of trouble with my new audio system.... I am going to play it a few more times and hope to report back with more of an opinion on the tracks. I liked the bluesy feel to the opener and then really liked CMSS. After hearing it a couple of times live, it sounded great on the record but I think Rhino should have sung it ! So far Liberty Lane hasn’t got to me yet and I find the vocals a bit turgid (is that the right word? Edit: no I think I mean that the melody doesn’t really go anywhere, has a monotonous tone and is boring to me.... just IMO though). Not familiar enough with the other tracks well enough yet but on first listen loved Richie’s. I want to give the album a few more listens and an open minded chance to see if there are any growers.....
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Post by markquo on Sept 22, 2019 9:36:23 GMT
Finally got round to listening to the album borrowed it off a friend. Well I found myself skipping through most of it,although I don’t mind CMSL and LL is pretty catchy . The one with Richie singing is a pretty good effort,almost reminds me of I Should Have Known from 1982. Really not keen on the overall production of the album,not enough of the Rhythm guitar in the mix and it all sounds a bit watered down. Fair play to the band for bringing out new material still after all these years. If you like it great but it’s not one I’ll be rushing back to,I’d even take Back to Back over this. Glad for those who are enjoying it though. Cheers
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Post by americanquo on Sept 22, 2019 22:22:58 GMT
I've now listened to the whole thing six or seven times. I'm going to raise my grade to a 4.5. I can safely say the production is terrible, the bass playing is utterly lifeless, the drumming better than I had feared. Malone tries hard to capture Rick's sound, and there are a couple of moments on the album of surprise (in a good way). But overall it's just men. I will say it's the best album Post-Quo has ever put out, being the first.
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Post by swingseat on Sept 26, 2019 15:00:58 GMT
I don't really follow Quo anymore, and have barely listened to anything at all (old or newer) at least this side of Rick passing away, if not sometime before then. However, the arrival of Backbone has provided an opportunity once again to at least revisit things as it provides a little closure on the past and the sad passing of Rick. At this time, I have only listened to the album as a whole twice and don't have a full picture in my head of each song. But I really like about half of the album while the rest are mostly just 'ok' and didn't grab me that much. What is most positive however about Backbone is the impression that comes across that it is a collective harmonious effort and not put together from more individual takes and with the obvious stresses and strains that existed. That helps some of the closure and the present day band deserve the generally positive reviews they have received. It can't have been easy taking that step further forward in the 'post Rick' era and the risks attached to taking that step. I respect comparisons some have made with past albums from the previous group line-ups, but while the album clearly has the Quo trademark running through it, I view 2019 version of the band with an even more detached perspective to the original band then I did with the one post Live Aid in the mid 80's. Anyway, in summary to date - Waiting for a Woman. Liberty Lane and Better Take Care are the top three immediate favorites, with a couple of others a little further behind them. As stated at the beginning, the rest are still subject to further consideration. I don't expect to be playing the album that often, much like any other material these days - but I am happy that they are still active and clearly also a happy unit together and enjoying themselves P.S As a few others have stated, Better Take Care does have a definite Sweet Home Alabama resemblance in the chorus in my opinion. Though that is not a bad thing at all for sure - like the other favorites, it gets very stuck inside your head!
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Post by Victor on Sept 26, 2019 15:13:49 GMT
I don't really follow Quo anymore, and have barely listened to anything at all (old or newer) at least this side of Rick passing away, if not sometime before then. However, the arrival of Backbone has provided an opportunity once again to at least revisit things as it provides a little closure on the past and the sad passing of Rick. At this time, I have only listened to the album as a whole twice and don't have a full picture in my head of each song. But I really like about half of the album while the rest are mostly just 'ok' and didn't grab me that much. What is most positive however about Backbone is the impression that comes across that it is a collective harmonious effort and not put together from more individual takes and with the obvious stresses and strains that existed. That helps some of the closure and the present day band deserve the generally positive reviews they have received. It can't have been easy taking that step further forward in the 'post Rick' era and the risks attached to taking that step. I respect comparisons some have made with past albums from the previous group line-ups, but while the album clearly has the Quo trademark running through it, I view 2019 version of the band with an even more detached perspective to the original band then I did with the one post Live Aid in the mid 80's. Anyway, in summary to date - Waiting for a Woman. Liberty Lane and Better Take Care are the top three immediate favorites, with a couple of others a little further behind them. As stated at the beginning, the rest are still subject to further consideration. I don't expect to be playing the album that often, much like any other material these days - but I am happy that they are still active and clearly also a happy unit together and enjoying themselves P.S As a few others have stated, Better Take Care does have a definite Sweet Home Alabama resemblance in the chorus in my opinion. Though that is not a bad thing at all for sure - like the other favorites, it gets very stuck inside your head! Welcome to the board Glad you can enjoy certain parts of the album despite the detachment
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Post by swingseat on Sept 26, 2019 17:38:11 GMT
I don't really follow Quo anymore, and have barely listened to anything at all (old or newer) at least this side of Rick passing away, if not sometime before then. However, the arrival of Backbone has provided an opportunity once again to at least revisit things as it provides a little closure on the past and the sad passing of Rick. At this time, I have only listened to the album as a whole twice and don't have a full picture in my head of each song. But I really like about half of the album while the rest are mostly just 'ok' and didn't grab me that much. What is most positive however about Backbone is the impression that comes across that it is a collective harmonious effort and not put together from more individual takes and with the obvious stresses and strains that existed. That helps some of the closure and the present day band deserve the generally positive reviews they have received. It can't have been easy taking that step further forward in the 'post Rick' era and the risks attached to taking that step. I respect comparisons some have made with past albums from the previous group line-ups, but while the album clearly has the Quo trademark running through it, I view 2019 version of the band with an even more detached perspective to the original band then I did with the one post Live Aid in the mid 80's. Anyway, in summary to date - Waiting for a Woman. Liberty Lane and Better Take Care are the top three immediate favorites, with a couple of others a little further behind them. As stated at the beginning, the rest are still subject to further consideration. I don't expect to be playing the album that often, much like any other material these days - but I am happy that they are still active and clearly also a happy unit together and enjoying themselves P.S As a few others have stated, Better Take Care does have a definite Sweet Home Alabama resemblance in the chorus in my opinion. Though that is not a bad thing at all for sure - like the other favorites, it gets very stuck inside your head! Welcome to the board Glad you can enjoy certain parts of the album despite the detachmentThanks - I guess times move on a bit along with musical preferences. Though Quo will always have a place of course after so many years. A lot of history there
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Post by frozenhero on Sept 30, 2019 18:02:00 GMT
Ehm, if Get Out of My Head is not a rock song then I don't know what is! I've just watched parts of the Wacken and LNOTE DVDs again. Francis playing solos where there originally weren't any. He might have lost the passion in certain periods, but at the moment it's definitely back. You can also sense this when you read the part of his book where he talks about the new album. He was clearly excited about it and couldn't wait to share it with the people (or why else would they have played two new songs before the album was even announced?). I think fans like me are annoyed/frustrated with fans like you because it's rarely about opinions, "I don't like this", but about painting with overly broad brushes. Which is a bit amusing given the line in Backbone "different strokes for different folks, that's my point of view". Before anybody accuses me of trying to destroying freedom of speech: I think it's totally OK to not like the album (or anything Quo in general, let's not forget that), but... the less effort you put into a post, the less people are going to like it, especially if it's a throwaway negative remark like some have written, and even more so if it contains an implicit or explicit belittling of people who are of a different opinion (and yes, this works the other way round too). Constructive criticism is nothing to sneeze at, I think, even if the band won't be able to read it, because it stays on the plane of decent conversation. And this is not specifically aimed at anyone (although I used a quote as a starting point) but a general comment on discussion politics as I see it. That's all Hi Frozenhero, let me put some effort in this post. Get out of my head is a rock song, yes, but play Little Lady after it... (really try it!) can't you "feel" the difference here? Get out of my head is far too "nice" to be a "real" rock song. It is written as a rock song, it has the rock ingredients but it misses the "feeling" like Little Lady. And yes, that is my opinion. When Little Lady was recorded there was a band in the studio that didn't try to make a Quo album, in the few years before it, they just invented what we now refer to as the Quo sound. That is a huge difference. Trying to make a Quo album, or doing what you invented yourself. I cannot help to compare any new material from Quo to the material from the early seventies. It is wrong to do that I know. But I can't help myself here. I lost my heart to the Quo of those years and I would cry like a baby when Backbone had that same feeling in the songs. So when I played Backbone for the first time it did very little for me because it is far away from early Quo. I'm not going to ruin Backbone by comparing it against heyday FF material. I always say judge something on its own merits, and I've listened to the songs mostly in order because I respect what they were going for. There's no way they could recreate something that sounds as frantic as Little Lady these days. It's simply age. Even if the FF had stayed together through all those years, or made an album during the reunion tours, it wouldn't sound like that. If anything, I'd rather compare Get Out of My Head to something like End of the Line (which seems like a similar mood to me). So you like them once a week, eh!
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Post by Gaz on Oct 3, 2019 21:37:03 GMT
Well, my deluxe edition of Backbone arrived the other day. I listened to it in the car with volume down as Mrs G was with me...if I turn something up she’ll say turn it down, are you deaf?😀 Yesterday I finally had the car and highway to myself and cranked up the volume of my Bose, with sub woofer, stereo way up and listened to it as it should be listened... rear view mirror vibrating with every beat, and must say I was very impressed (minus a couple of duds) with Quo’s effort. I reckon the sound is brilliant and Rhinos bass really rocks on some tracks. Only listened a couple of times but so far up big thumbs up from me. So glad I got Get Out Of My Head on the deluxe CD.
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Oct 3, 2019 23:11:53 GMT
Well, my deluxe edition of Backbone arrived the other day. I listened to it in the car with volume down as Mrs G was with me...if I turn something up she’ll say turn it down, are you deaf?😀 Yesterday I finally had the car and highway to myself and cranked up the volume of my Bose, with sub woofer, stereo way up and listened to it as it should be listened... rear view mirror vibrating with every beat, and must say I was very impressed (minus a couple of duds) with Quo’s effort. I reckon the sound is brilliant and Rhinos bass really rocks on some tracks. Only listened a couple of times but so far up big thumbs up from me. So glad I got Get Out Of My Head on the deluxe CD. If its the same as the UK version, Get out of my Head is track 10 on the proper album, and it's Face the Music which is a bonus track. I love them both, think I actually prefer FTM, it's so catchy, although not as heavy as GOOMH.
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Post by Gaz on Oct 4, 2019 0:56:27 GMT
Well, my deluxe edition of Backbone arrived the other day. I listened to it in the car with volume down as Mrs G was with me...if I turn something up she’ll say turn it down, are you deaf?😀 Yesterday I finally had the car and highway to myself and cranked up the volume of my Bose, with sub woofer, stereo way up and listened to it as it should be listened... rear view mirror vibrating with every beat, and must say I was very impressed (minus a couple of duds) with Quo’s effort. I reckon the sound is brilliant and Rhinos bass really rocks on some tracks. Only listened a couple of times but so far up big thumbs up from me. So glad I got Get Out Of My Head on the deluxe CD. If its the same as the UK version, Get out of my Head is track 10 on the proper album, and it's Face the Music which is a bonus track. I love them both, think I actually prefer FTM, it's so catchy, although not as heavy as GOOMH. Sorry mate, yes you’re right...FTM is the bonus. I had just woken up when I posted that. btw I’m surprised it wasn’t on the actual album.
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Oct 4, 2019 1:00:10 GMT
If its the same as the UK version, Get out of my Head is track 10 on the proper album, and it's Face the Music which is a bonus track. I love them both, think I actually prefer FTM, it's so catchy, although not as heavy as GOOMH. Sorry mate, yes you’re right...FTM is the bonus. I had just woken up when I posted that. btw I’m surprised it wasn’t on the actual album. Me too....it's getting good reviews on both message boards.
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