gav
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Post by gav on Mar 12, 2021 20:22:51 GMT
Yay, it's November 2019 again! Can we somehow do a Back To The Future on the pandemic?
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Post by frozenhero on Mar 12, 2021 23:22:43 GMT
frozenhero and asthequoflies , it's great to see you two post in this thread so long after it started originally ! I have enjoyed doing these album threads but it would be even better if people indeed keep coming back to these theads after revisiting albums after a long time and that way have them become continuous threads It's simple, I listened to the album and felt I had something to say. And the most recent thread about the album I could find quickly was this one.
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Post by freewilly on Mar 13, 2021 3:12:09 GMT
I know it, I've listened to it many times yet, I like it a lot yet, I can't bring myself to listen to it these days.
Absolutely no reason why either. Very odd. Make myself listen to it tomorrow
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mortified
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Mar 13, 2021 7:47:16 GMT
Blue For You is very like many Quo albums, particularly older ones. I don't listen to any of them regularly these days but I know them like the back of my hand, so it's easy to comment without checking anything out. Perception after time, I suppose, could be the test if I fancied making the effort. But, more often than not, I just tend to comment on how I felt about it at the time. And I loved this one. I also find that songs that I was not 100% sure about when I first played them will have grown on me and I occasionally go back to them deliberately and play them in isolation. Ease Your Mind is one. And You Lost The Love, although not technically on the original album, is another. I really like both now. It will nearly always be the 'softer' songs because when I was younger, they didn't get a proper look in. People mellow with age This is a 9/10, only because four of the five that preceded it were a straight 10/10.
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Post by paradiseflats on Mar 13, 2021 8:35:55 GMT
Blue For You is very like many Quo albums, particularly older ones. I don't listen to any of them regularly these days but I know them like the back of my hand, so it's easy to comment without checking anything out. Perception after time, I suppose, could be the test if I fancied making the effort. But, more often than not, I just tend to comment on how I felt about it at the time. And I loved this one. I also find that songs that I was not 100% sure about when I first played them will have grown on me and I occasionally go back to them deliberately and play them in isolation. Ease Your Mind is one. And You Lost The Love, although not technically on the original album, is another. I really like both now. It will nearly always be the 'softer' songs because when I was younger, they didn't get a proper look in. People mellow with age This is a 9/10, only because four of the five that preceded it were a straight 10/10. I agree it’s a step down from the previous albums. Plenty of great stuff. Always played this the least of the classic Frantic Four albums. Which for me are Piledriver to Blueforyou. Over the years Ring of a change with more false endings than a wrestling match has become one of my all time favourites. Rumoured to have been played live but no boot has ever surfaced.
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mortified
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Mar 13, 2021 8:43:57 GMT
Blue For You is very like many Quo albums, particularly older ones. I don't listen to any of them regularly these days but I know them like the back of my hand, so it's easy to comment without checking anything out. Perception after time, I suppose, could be the test if I fancied making the effort. But, more often than not, I just tend to comment on how I felt about it at the time. And I loved this one. I also find that songs that I was not 100% sure about when I first played them will have grown on me and I occasionally go back to them deliberately and play them in isolation. Ease Your Mind is one. And You Lost The Love, although not technically on the original album, is another. I really like both now. It will nearly always be the 'softer' songs because when I was younger, they didn't get a proper look in. People mellow with age This is a 9/10, only because four of the five that preceded it were a straight 10/10. I agree it’s a step down from the previous albums. Plenty of great stuff. Always played this the least of the classic Frantic Four albums. Which for me are Piledriver to Blueforyou. Over the years Ring of a change with more false endings than a wrestling match has become one of my all time favourites. Rumoured to have been played live but no boot has ever surfaced.Yeah, I believe it was early in the tour. Not on either of the dates I was at but, you're right; never even heard a poor quality snippet of it live. Must have been a ba$tard to have played
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Post by roquer on Mar 13, 2021 9:44:52 GMT
I heard it again in full for the first time in years when my mother give me the Deluxe Edition for the Biblical Magi (at least, Wikipedia says that is the translation to english) this year. It is still for me, one of the best Frantic Four albums, but...Nowadays I can hear something changing, like they are warning us that they are going to change on the next album. Too much speed (pum intended) in certain songs that I really like but also, this album contains the firsts songs that I skip from Alan from time to time, Blue for You and Ease Your Mind. Never liked them. Also, I'm with frozenhero, I think Blue for You (the track) could be better if Rick sang it. One of my favourite songs from this album is Ring of a Change, and I never tried to play on the guitar or on the bass...But I tried for ages play the bass line from Mystery Song, and I never got it right...Shame on you Alan! You were suppose to be a root note player!!!!
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gav
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Post by gav on Mar 13, 2021 10:09:28 GMT
Probably just co-incidence that "Ring Of A Change" was the first to employ those high-pitched backing vocals?
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Post by paradiseflats on Mar 13, 2021 10:18:34 GMT
Probably just co-incidence that "Ring Of A Change" was the first to employ those high-pitched backing vocals? Wasn’t that ‘I’m a clown’ 🤡
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Post by Victor on Mar 13, 2021 15:58:18 GMT
For me still amongst my top favorite albums. But a few things have changed a bit along the way for me about it...I still love Is there a Better way, Ring of a change, Rollin'home, and especially that's a fact and Mystery Song. The problem with Rain for me has become that i've heard it too often and it got boring to me and that happens with any song that I hear too often. Blue for you and ease your mind I could never really get into and still can't. Mad about the boy is ok. But the songs I do love make it a top favorite for me and one of the great things that came out of the FF period
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Post by matt on Mar 13, 2021 16:50:52 GMT
Always think of Quo as Alan’s album but never really considered he sings lead on 4 tracks here as well
I rate BFY highly. Possibly their most complete album. I love the solo on Blue For You
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Post by paradiseflats on Mar 13, 2021 18:36:52 GMT
For me still amongst my top favorite albums. But a few things have changed a bit along the way for me about it...I still love Is there a Better way, Ring of a change, Rollin'home, and especially that's a fact and Mystery Song. The problem with Rain for me has become that i've heard it too often and it got boring to me and that happens with any song that I hear too often. Blue for you and ease your mind I could never really get into and still can't. Mad about the boy is ok. But the songs I do love make it a top favorite for me and one of the great things that came out of the FF period Rain for me, is a funny one. I used to think it was a good solid song. However a bit simplistic. During the reunions it was so powerful and heavy. I started to love as one of the highlights of the set. The last time I saw Status Quo, Edwards, murdered it. Sadly will never here it in all its glory again.
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gav
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Post by gav on Mar 13, 2021 19:31:51 GMT
A lot of folk seem to say they can live without the Rain...
I think because it had been robbed of it's classic Quo swagger/groove over the years, many went off it, but it's precisely the reason when i let it (the original) back into my life again, the difference was night and day, and i wonder how i ever got on without....Lorraine.
Moral of the story: don't waste your life not listening to the original Rain!
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Post by gav on Mar 13, 2021 19:32:41 GMT
Probably just co-incidence that "Ring Of A Change" was the first to employ those high-pitched backing vocals? Wasn’t that ‘I’m a clown’ 🤡 True!
E.L.O. must've copied them.
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Post by viza on Mar 13, 2021 19:34:42 GMT
Always think of Quo as Alan’s album but never really considered he sings lead on 4 tracks here as well I rate BFY highly. Possibly their most complete album. I love the solo on Blue For You I can only count to three: ITABW, BFY and EYM. Or are you even counting Rolling Home? I have earlier done a graph over the songwriting credits and it's clear that this album was his peak in that perspective as well. *(a song with two songwriters gives 50 % credits each,three songwriters gives 33 % and so on)
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