quodec
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Twelve bar blues is now alright.
Posts: 1,248
Favourite Quo Album: Blue For You
Favourite other bands.: early AC/DC, Angel City, Blackfoot, Rose Tattoo, Slade
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Post by quodec on Dec 20, 2021 13:14:57 GMT
Ok, not even in my top 200 Quo songs but I've heard it on the radio recently so lets put it out there, for the week that's in it!! From 2008 if I'm not mistaken.
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 5,890
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 Dec 20, 2021 14:08:11 GMT
Oh, if we must It brings out the Scrooge in me. Like Christmas jumper day or Big Issue sellers from Armenia with Santa hats shouting 'ho ho ho' before taking to their prayer mats
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Dark
Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 340
Favourite Quo Album: Quo
Favourite other bands.: Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Huey Lewis,
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Post by Dark on Dec 20, 2021 14:39:27 GMT
I didn't think much of it upon release, but I've actually grown to quite like it. Will listen to it a good few times in the coming days along with the other Xmas tunes that I like.
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Post by granny on Dec 20, 2021 15:25:11 GMT
OK at the end of a second-half-of-December Quo concert to make it a Christmas special but not a track I want to listen to otherwise.
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 5,890
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 Dec 20, 2021 15:34:18 GMT
You can see the Quo/Shaky encore shaping up already for December 2022. I'll deal with that when the time comes
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gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,161
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Dec 20, 2021 15:52:23 GMT
I don't really like it much, but i think it's a genuinely good xmas song, well written, rousing chorus, and i'd lump it in with Slade et al as being "up there".
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Post by granny on Dec 20, 2021 16:34:38 GMT
You can see the Quo/Shaky encore shaping up already for December 2022. I'll deal with that when the time comes Don't forget the fake-snow cannons on stage.
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roquer
Rocker Rollin'
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Post by roquer on Dec 20, 2021 16:40:05 GMT
Well, at least is a christmas song to put on christmas' eve, better than Queen's song for me it is.
Since 2008 I heard the song almost all the of december and until 6th of January, it's the only days that I could play it, then just put it to bed until the next season.
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Post by Victor on Dec 20, 2021 18:39:24 GMT
Not for me
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,985
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 Dec 20, 2021 18:52:23 GMT
Jeez, had they no shame at all?? 🙄
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allyp
Rocker Rollin'
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Post by allyp on Dec 20, 2021 19:01:50 GMT
The danger with doing Christmas records that with some artists if a song in this vein is a massive success it dwarfs everything else you do for some reason and labelled a novelty party act. Slade and shakin stevens seem to suffer this fate for some reason despite having numerous hits and number ones before after. Quo’s attempt musically was quite reasonable but got swallowed up by the demise of the cd physical format and the transition period to download. Some of the elements to the song a bit familiar wizzard crossed with mike batt’s wombles christmas song but that could be purely accidental. If it had been the 80s maybe it would have done better but could have diminished the band’s credibility a bit more than some criticise them for in that era??
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Post by backwater67 on Dec 20, 2021 19:14:33 GMT
It’s a grower. Quite catchy & not bad for a novelty song. Probably not getting the airplay it deserves, should be top 20. Rick always said he wanted this to be Quo’s equivalent of Slades Merry Christmas everybody
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steveb
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Post by steveb on Dec 20, 2021 19:16:02 GMT
good song
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Post by juansupposin on Dec 20, 2021 19:16:40 GMT
Grown on me over the years and I quite like it actually. I know I am in monority here!
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Post by juansupposin on Dec 20, 2021 19:23:50 GMT
MINORITY I meant
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