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Post by kursaal75 on Jan 3, 2022 10:14:25 GMT
What use to annoy me when 'Down Down' was played on the radio, was some annoying djs, having the need to talk right through the intro, yes I'm talking to you Tony Blackburn
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Post by kursaal75 on Jan 3, 2022 10:23:17 GMT
'DOWN DOWN' UK TOP 50 SINGLES CHART HISTORY 1974/5: Dec 07....34 Dec 14....20 Dec 21....15 Dec 28....15 (no chart this week due to Christmas, same chart position as previous week) Jan 04....10 Jan 11....03 Jan 18....01 Jan 25....05 Feb 01....06 Feb 08....26 Feb 15....44
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Post by mortified on Jan 3, 2022 10:39:35 GMT
What use to annoy me when 'Down Down' was played on the radio, was some annoying djs, having the need to talk right through the intro, yes I'm talking to you Tony Blackburn I think he started a trend. DJ's began to think that song intros were made specifically to talk through. And outros didn't get played at all. That went on for a very long time. It might still. I stopped listening to DJ's, posses and breakfast shows a long time ago.
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Post by Gaz on Jan 3, 2022 12:04:35 GMT
DD is rarely played on radio over here but it’s still a thing of beauty when it is. I reckon it sounds so much better on radio than through a player. It just has that IT factor through the radio. In Oz,at the time, ABBA had there first big No 1 hit single I Do, I Do, I Do, Do, I Do … Quo were the first band to knock them off the pedestal with Down Down 👍👍
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Post by per on Jan 3, 2022 13:50:22 GMT
The one that started it all for me! I already had the live-ep, but hearing Down Down (the album version) on radio early 1976 was a total revelation to me - I became a fan right away! I liked the song so much that for years I always started with side 2 when listening to OTL.
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Post by Victor on Jan 3, 2022 17:12:51 GMT
The one that started it all for me! I already had the live-ep, but hearing Down Down (the album version) on radio early 1976 was a total revelation to me - I became a fan right away! I liked the song so much that for years I always started with side 2 when listening to OTL.Yes ! I did the exact same thing for several years !
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Jan 4, 2022 19:26:29 GMT
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Post by viza on Jan 4, 2022 19:26:29 GMT
A one off and goes without saying a classic. Only surprise is that they never really tried to rewrite it. Maybe it was the other way around. I find it very similar to Mean Girl.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jan 4, 2022 21:16:55 GMT
A one off and goes without saying a classic. Only surprise is that they never really tried to rewrite it. Maybe it was the other way around. I find it very similar to Mean Girl. Never thought of that before, can see what you mean 👍
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Post by unspokenwords on Jan 4, 2022 21:26:48 GMT
The power, drive and dynamics of the song and of course that wonderful intro (and outro), and the harmony and interaction between the four players, make this a real show case of Quo, but also sadly a Quo that would only produce one more great studio album in Blue For You.
The underlying song in my opinion is however not really that good really.
How the woeful demo of it Rossi recorded whilst in California became the final production perhaps demonstrates Alan's assertion that the excellence of a lot of their material was in the performance and what the four of them added and the magic between them.
Where did the intro come from is a mystery given the amateur nature of the demo and would make you wonder if Rossi was skilled enough to create it.
I often wonder were there other guitarists helping out with ideas/alternative tunings etc., even if just in a casual way. Rory Gallagher was for example under the same Quarry productions management and appears to be have been in the studio during the OTL recordings.
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Post by tqontq on Jan 4, 2022 22:54:43 GMT
Its an incredible and infectious rock song no matter how you look at it. It summed up everything that was cool about Quo back in the day and even with just Rossi left, he is still defined by it. The album version still remains the quintessential Quo number and still sounds amazing today. However, it has suffered from extreme over exposure and the cringeworthy Coles ad campaigns made a mockery of it. Whatever you want falls into the same category, fabulous intro and overall cracking rock tune but bastardised to bits from the post 86 Quo and all the cheesy stunts surrounding it.
So yeah, I can only ever listen to the original album versions to fully appreciate them again.
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Post by viza on Jan 4, 2022 23:11:41 GMT
Where did the intro come from is a mystery given the amateur nature of the demo and would make you wonder if Rossi was skilled enough to create it. I often wonder were there other guitarists helping out with ideas/alternative tunings etc., even if just in a casual way. Rory Gallagher was for example under the same Quarry productions management and appears to be have been in the studio during the OTL recordings. This is my theory: Alan came up with the song Over and Done which has a similar guitar riff in open G tuning (I know, not exactly the same but the tonality is similar). Rossi liked that and thought "Maybe we can do something similar in that other song I wrote with Bob".
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Post by dennis on Jan 5, 2022 7:33:57 GMT
the irony of this getting to no. 1 is that the song somewhat exemplifies how much Rossi had peaked by this point ['74] &, apart from a brief flurry around the turn of the decade, was never again near to achieving the quality of output he'd managed in the early '70s - it was largely downhill for him after this, imo.
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Post by Victor on Jan 5, 2022 8:14:07 GMT
The power, drive and dynamics of the song and of course that wonderful intro (and outro), and the harmony and interaction between the four players, make this a real show case of Quo, but also sadly a Quo that would only produce one more great studio album in Blue For You. The underlying song in my opinion is however not really that good really. How the woeful demo of it Rossi recorded whilst in California became the final production perhaps demonstrates Alan's assertion that the excellence of a lot of their material was in the performance and what the four of them added and the magic between them. Where did the intro come from is a mystery given the amateur nature of the demo and would make you wonder if Rossi was skilled enough to create it. I often wonder were there other guitarists helping out with ideas/alternative tunings etc., even if just in a casual way. Rory Gallagher was for example under the same Quarry productions management and appears to be have been in the studio during the OTL recordings. This was without a doubt the biggest strength of the band, what all four of them added and blended together
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Post by col on Jan 7, 2022 22:31:16 GMT
Probably the best UK number 1 single, ever!!
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Jan 8, 2022 16:03:48 GMT
Your pardon! I did go and check it out. Whatever DD is like, it really isn't anything like a heart rending romantic country ballad ...
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