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Post by freewilly on Dec 27, 2021 15:01:00 GMT
A Year, it would be viewed sooooo differently!!
Music snobbery at it's worst!
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Post by allyp on Dec 27, 2021 19:09:26 GMT
Always thought this song was quite similar to what Led zeppelin were doing on their quieter songs “Babe i’m going to miss you” done in a sad key d minor a bit.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Dec 29, 2021 0:39:19 GMT
It sounds like a Beatles song, the way it is arranged.
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Post by quomaster on Jan 2, 2022 0:01:36 GMT
If you listen to the Beatles acapella version of "Because" you hear how their voices drove things up a notch. The song itself isn't any better than A Year but......they were the Beatles.
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Post by railroad007 on Jan 2, 2022 0:10:56 GMT
No one associated with The Beatles ever wrote a song like Tommy.
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Post by mortified on Jan 2, 2022 7:58:40 GMT
No one associated with The Beatles ever wrote a song like Tommy. No, but no one ever associated with Quo ever wrote a song like Octopus's Garden  As for A Year, it's a slow song that Quo never ever surpassed. The lyrics, melody, harmonies and playing are simply perfect. It is almost Beatles-esque. There's a melancholy about it that Quo never managed to repeat - or even tried to that I can think of. It's a ballad that is sugar and syrup free. Quo should never have needed to cover material like Restless when they can compose stuff like this themselves. It is far superior to the Jennifer Warnes song. Not sure there's any musical snobbery at work, if I'm honest. It's simply a case of no one knowing the song is there and Quo being associated with only one style of music. Some of that is self-inflicted. And, of course, music companies are guilty of perpetuating the myth. |
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Post by railroad007 on Jan 2, 2022 9:38:56 GMT
No one associated with The Beatles ever wrote a song like Tommy. No, but no one ever associated with Quo ever wrote a song like Octopus's Garden As for A Year, it's a slow song that Quo never ever surpassed. The lyrics, melody, harmonies and playing are simply perfect. It is almost Beatles-esque. There's a melancholy about it that Quo never managed to repeat - or even tried to that I can think of. It's a ballad that is sugar and syrup free. Quo should never have needed to cover material like Restless when they can compose stuff like this themselves. It is far superior to the Jennifer Warnes song. Not sure there's any musical snobbery at work, if I'm honest. It's simply a case of no one knowing the song is there and Quo being associated with only one style of music. Some of that is self-inflicted. And, of course, music companies are guilty of perpetuating the myth. Totally agree. Quo have been shafted critically because they would not play the game. They also seem to be the only ones who didn't and I have a theory why. It seems a big deal with critics to find a band, to promote themselves as somebody in the know, a lot of DJ's are like this, I reckon The Undertones would have been successful without John Peel's help. When Quo first came through in the mid 60's the critics just reviewed the record asked what's your favourite colour, do you like puppies ete etc. When they re-emerged in the early 70's a new sort of critic arrived that a battle hardened band like Status Quo couldn't care less about, critics don't buy anything. I've been listening to Piledriver, Hello, Quo, On The Level and Blue For You for a really long time an even now I pick up something I'd never noticed, for instance, how important Coghlan's drums are in All The Reasons. If Status Quo came from an art school, had someone decent enough to be band heroin addict, wrote songs about something in the news, did some charity to rescue an ailing or almost dead career the critics would have raved. |
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Post by mortified on Jan 2, 2022 10:25:13 GMT
No, but no one ever associated with Quo ever wrote a song like Octopus's Garden As for A Year, it's a slow song that Quo never ever surpassed. The lyrics, melody, harmonies and playing are simply perfect. It is almost Beatles-esque. There's a melancholy about it that Quo never managed to repeat - or even tried to that I can think of. It's a ballad that is sugar and syrup free. Quo should never have needed to cover material like Restless when they can compose stuff like this themselves. It is far superior to the Jennifer Warnes song. Not sure there's any musical snobbery at work, if I'm honest. It's simply a case of no one knowing the song is there and Quo being associated with only one style of music. Some of that is self-inflicted. And, of course, music companies are guilty of perpetuating the myth. Totally agree. Quo have been shafted critically because they would not play the game. They also seem to be the only ones who didn't and I have a theory why. It seems a big deal with critics to find a band, to promote themselves as somebody in the know, a lot of DJ's are like this, I reckon The Undertones would have been successful without John Peel's help. When Quo first came through in the mid 60's the critics just reviewed the record asked what's your favourite colour, do you like puppies ete etc. When they re-emerged in the early 70's a new sort of critic arrived that a battle hardened band like Status Quo couldn't care less about, critics don't buy anything. I've been listening to Piledriver, Hello, Quo, On The Level and Blue For You for a really long time an even now I pick up something I'd never noticed, for instance, how important Coghlan's drums are in All The Reasons. If Status Quo came from an art school, had someone decent enough to be band heroin addict, wrote songs about something in the news, did some charity to rescue an ailing or almost dead career the critics would have raved. Completely agree with all of that. And I reckon most successful bands/artists would still have made it without a perceived "leg-up" from a DJ or a music journalist. In fact, the opposite was more often the case in the 70's. Bands that were often raved about, written about and played endlessly on 'serious' radio programmes fell by the wayside very quickly; if they ever achieved any success at all. One that springs immediately to mind are Lone Star. Pushed heavily by Alan Freeman in particular and given "In Concert" slots on Radio 1, they never really hit the heights. Although Paul Chapman went on to play lead - successfully - with UFO. Don't get me wrong, I really liked them. But they made two albums then disappeared. They couldn't have got more promotion but still they didn't make it. |
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Post by matt on Jan 2, 2022 12:04:37 GMT
Pretty sure when the Piledriver album came out they were held in much higher esteem than subsequently.
And let’s be fair a lot of that is due to their post 82 /77 output.
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