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Post by 37 on Oct 6, 2019 15:12:17 GMT
Dust To Gold is an excellent track, one of their best since the Frantic Four days. Just my honest opinion of course!
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matt
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Post by matt on Oct 6, 2019 19:46:16 GMT
Not an album I revisit to be honest
Too much trying to sound “heavy” to appease the fans while sacrificing the quo sound and formula.
Two way traffic, moving on, frozen hero I can all live without. My old ways, it’s all about you - bland. the winner sounds like it was written in the hope it would get picked up by the bbc for their Olympic london 2012 coverage.
I did like RNRNY when it came out.
I like anyway you like it.
But a weak album IMO
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Post by swingseat on Oct 6, 2019 21:33:23 GMT
I don't listen to much Quo in general these days, but if I did decide to re-visit something, it wouldn't be this one. A few good songs, but much of it is of the same sort of tempo and predicated on ideas that are too similar
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Post by quovadis on Oct 6, 2019 22:31:44 GMT
Hi swingseat is that backbone or qpq your talking about
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Post by swingseat on Oct 7, 2019 7:13:40 GMT
Hi swingseat is that backbone or qpq your talking about I was referring to QPQ. I'd probably listen to a compilation of favorite songs from different albums if I listened to them.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Oct 7, 2019 10:03:08 GMT
Some chat with Frame & Rick about the QPQ album during this interview in 2011.
Thanks for posting the video. The young interviewer managed to get some sense out of the pair of them! She did a good job. In a way Rick summed up the album for me when he said he couldn't get enough of the first few tracks on the album and I sense it wasn't bull, on this occasion.
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Post by Gaz on Oct 7, 2019 11:10:41 GMT
Some chat with Frame & Rick about the QPQ album during this interview in 2011.
Thanks for posting the video. The young interviewer managed to get some sense out of the pair of them! She did a good job. In a way Rick summed up the album for me when he said he couldn't get enough of the first few tracks on the album and I sense it wasn't bull, on this occasion. cmon fret, I think she did a good job because Rick was a sucker for young blonde women.😉
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2019 11:21:55 GMT
A handful of really good, classic Quo sounding tracks but also a fair amount of Quo by numbers tracks. I enjoyed the album at first listen but actually it's quite a sad album to listen to, so apparent it was recorded piecemeal and not by a band together in the studio, indeed more by a band falling apart at the seams yet again and sad also as it was clear that Rick's powers as a musician and his health were really failing him. I thought at the time that it would be their rock swansong, which is why Backbone has been such an absolute delight, a band enjoying being together and sparking off eachother and rediscovering that essential "Quoness" that's really been missing since Heavy Traffic.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Oct 7, 2019 13:20:49 GMT
A handful of really good, classic Quo sounding tracks but also a fair amount of Quo by numbers tracks. I enjoyed the album at first listen but actually it's quite a sad album to listen to, so apparent it was recorded piecemeal and not by a band together in the studio, indeed more by a band falling apart at the seams yet again and sad also as it was clear that Rick's powers as a musician and his health were really failing him. I thought at the time that it would be their rock swansong, which is why Backbone has been such an absolute delight, a band enjoying being together and sparking off eachother and rediscovering that essential "Quoness" that's really been missing since Heavy Traffic. Sums it up well for me. Backbone is greater than the sum of it's individual parts, this is less. Listened today, first listen in years. Cheap artwork, hated the single RNRAY, fairground keyboards and nursery melody. Like the single TPAOY, I felt it was aimed at older people. Resented it's inclusion in the set. It's only TWT that sounds like a band effort. The Little Lady style opening bash remains glorious, the overall song less so but still good So much is flawed. DTG, the best song, great swagger, yet not quite convinced by "force with me" lyric. Amazing verses on leave a little light on, but naff chorus and song concept. Let's rock is enjoyable for an occasional listen (prefer to think of Lonesome Road as Rick's farewell rocker) Most enjoyable for me is Frozen Hero, a brilliant song that probably doesn't feature Rick. I also really like Better than that, perhaps the song that sounds the most authentic, FR's Quo being themselves. Both of these could work on Backbone, but they'd be done better now as a proper band effort I can't really warm to the album that much, even though there's little I actively dislike Can't not mention Movin On. God that riff excited me when this came out, a great modern Quo moment. Still does, but the rest of the song is flawed. Super fast bass line.....so many modern Quo songs that went for speed instead of power (UTI, GGUAG), leaving it sounding like old Quo...but not able to properly hit the spot. Rick around this time complained "fans just want an album of rockers rollin", which was out of touch, but I think the band generally thought the same. This album was the band (well, RIck and Francis, independantly of each other) trying to give the fans what they wanted. It's far from a disaster, but not a success either.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Oct 7, 2019 13:21:39 GMT
Thanks for posting the video. The young interviewer managed to get some sense out of the pair of them! She did a good job. In a way Rick summed up the album for me when he said he couldn't get enough of the first few tracks on the album and I sense it wasn't bull, on this occasion. cmon fret, I think she did a good job because Rick was a sucker for young blonde women.😉 Well, possibly!...though their notorious track record in interviews could mean that any interviewer could be in trouble if they were in their naughty schoolboy frame of mind. She was in charge of the interview but perhaps the 'boys' were enjoying that?! ...ooh matron! To be fair, she kept a good flow to the interview and no silly questions and she wasn't fazed by them. I think Francis particularly realised that she knew more than many interviewers do at times and he didn't get distracted by anything/everything as he can sometimes do when not taking the questions or interviewer seriously.
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Oct 7, 2019 16:04:17 GMT
The artwork for the QPQ album doesn't seem to be a favourite with fans, but I'm probably in a tiny minority who thought it quite inspired and clever. On the negative it did suggest that once again Quo were a duo. In this video interview Rick recounts when Her Maj asked him about being part of a duo and where is the other one?! He said to her that they were indeed a duo...uumm?
Where do you go after you've had all the album cover pictures, with the mugshots, the cross guitars...the band being chased down the road by an elephant?!
A little bit in the Backbone cover category in a way, as first impressions were of a very simple design but it works for me.
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Oct 7, 2019 17:50:26 GMT
Can't for the life of me remember what's on the cover of QPQ...
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Oct 7, 2019 18:03:58 GMT
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Post by Victor on Oct 7, 2019 19:47:13 GMT
This is the album of the Rick and Frncis Quo that I enjoy most together with Under the Influence.Over time my thoughts about it have changed a bit though...it's a good album but also has some dire moments on it. At the time it came out I was really happy with it. I still go back to it regularly. Favorite songs are Frozen Hero, Movin'on, Dust to gold. I don't mind The Winner, Better then that, Rock and roll and you and My old ways...sadly enough --- and this is one of the reasons why the album is strange to me--- it's Rick's songs that I think are amongst the worst, I really don't think his contributions to this album were any good. I also never liked It's all about you and especially not Anyway you like it, for me one of their worst songs ever. I still enjoy a fair bit of the album though and listen to it every couple of months. But yep, Backbone is more consistent for sure. The songs I do like on QPQ I like a lot, especially Frozen Hero, that song is amazing.
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Post by Victor on Oct 8, 2019 6:04:08 GMT
To add to the above...I suppose I like the songs that are favorite because some of those songs, particularly Frozen Hero, Dust to Gold, Movin'on remind me a bit of JS and NTL. Also I am in a mionority I suppose because Two way traffic was never a favorite for me, I think it's one of the lesser songs on it. As I said an album I still enjoy, even though a lot of the normal boogie shuffle is missing from it which makes the album strange too...
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