gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,963
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 Aug 22, 2022 10:24:24 GMT
But only just. B2B broke my camel's back though. Woo! You own a camel?? I’m seriously impressed🤘 🤪
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Aug 22, 2022 10:39:42 GMT
But only just. B2B broke my camel's back though. Woo! You own a camel?? I’m seriously impressed🤘 🤪 Is it legal to ride your camel back to back?
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col
Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 634
Favourite Quo Album: Dog Of Two Head, Piledriver, Hello, Quo, Live
Favourite other bands.: Ramones, Warrior Soul, Soundgarden, King Buffalo, Small Faces, Motorhead, UFO, Screaming Trees, Kyuss, Clutch
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Post by col on Aug 22, 2022 10:43:54 GMT
Their poorest for me and definitely a huge disappointment. Or certainly at the time. A couple of albums since and a few covers albums have probably shoved it a little further down the bollox list. But it was Back To Back that completely lowered my expectations, so further disappointments were minimised. Cushioned, shall we say Of the 11 albums listed by comparison, I prefer 9 of them. By quite a bit. The End Of The Road tour meant it was hastily forgotten. Because not a single song from it was in the set. Despite it spawning (and I use that word in the satanic sense) 4 hit singles. This and TW are the worst for me. TW has couple of songs I occasionally play, On BTB I sometimes go to play Can't Be Done but on the way to my collection, my hand drifts to NTL, I think CBD sounds like a NTL outtake anyway. If I want to hear Win Or Lose, I'll play Save The Wail by Lew Lewis Reformer (Great Album). BTB is truly an album with no redeeming features, except maybe the gaps between the tracks.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2022 12:25:16 GMT
The last great Quo track. Great track! My favourite on the album. Andy on absolutely top form and a great bassline from whoever recorded it.
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Post by Victor on Aug 22, 2022 12:56:35 GMT
For me it's one of their weakest efforts. I crtainly prefer RTYD, ISOTFC, HT (Which is definitely not one of my favorites), TPAOY, and especially QPQ, UTI and BB by miles over BTB. Only songs I like on BTB are TCTTG, NC and GDDT (except for that horrible synth !). Also agree strongly with Mrs. Flitersnoop that 1982 still had it. BTB was a big time dissapointment for me after 1982. Also, BTB was certainly not a bad album to me because of Pete, he was a very fine drummer and my favorite after JC, but it's other things that make BTB a major disappointment to me
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 5,861
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 Aug 22, 2022 13:25:16 GMT
Bands make so-so albums. It happens. And Quo were by no means alone in the mid-80's in doing that.
I was a fan of several bands that all of a sudden brought out albums that were well off the mark and not up to their usual standard. All these bands I loved but these albums put me off them for quite a while:
Budgie - Deliver Us From Evil Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith AC/DC - Fly On The Wall UFO - Misdemeanour Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning Status Quo - Back To Back
All of them released during that 1983 to 1985 period. It doesn't prove anything of course. Just that it didn't seem a great time to be a heavy rock fan. It didn't improve much after that either. Not for a good while.
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Post by 4th Chord on Aug 22, 2022 13:52:54 GMT
Bands make so-so albums. It happens. And Quo were by no means alone in the mid-80's in doing that. I was a fan of several bands that all of a sudden brought out albums that were well off the mark and not up to their usual standard. All these bands I loved but these albums put me off them for quite a while: Budgie - Deliver Us From Evil
Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
AC/DC - Fly On The Wall
UFO - Misdemeanour
Thin Lizzy - Thunder And LightningStatus Quo - Back To BackAll of them released during that 1983 to 1985 period. It doesn't prove anything of course. Just that it didn't seem a great time to be a heavy rock fan. It didn't improve much after that either. Not for a good while. I think perhaps it wasn't a great time to be a 'classic era' heavy rock fan. All those albums suffered because of hair metal - 1985 was the time of Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Gun's and Roses, W.A.S.P, Helloween, DLR, plus you had bands like Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax taking off. Some bands like Aerosmith rode the wave of Hair Metal, others, like those you mentioned, didn't. Especially Quo. Bet you looked good in spandex though?
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Post by freewilly on Aug 22, 2022 14:06:43 GMT
Bands make so-so albums. It happens. And Quo were by no means alone in the mid-80's in doing that. I was a fan of several bands that all of a sudden brought out albums that were well off the mark and not up to their usual standard. All these bands I loved but these albums put me off them for quite a while: Budgie - Deliver Us From Evil
Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
AC/DC - Fly On The Wall
UFO - Misdemeanour
Thin Lizzy - Thunder And LightningStatus Quo - Back To BackAll of them released during that 1983 to 1985 period. It doesn't prove anything of course. Just that it didn't seem a great time to be a heavy rock fan. It didn't improve much after that either. Not for a good while. I think perhaps it wasn't a great time to be a 'classic era' heavy rock fan. All those albums suffered because of hair metal - 1985 was the time of Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Gun's and Roses, W.A.S.P, Helloween, DLR, plus you had bands like Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax taking off. Some bands like Aerosmith rode the wave of Hair Metal, others, like those you mentioned, didn't. Especially Quo. Bet you looked good in spandex though? Would have been handy if Francis had hair for the metal
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Post by 4th Chord on Aug 22, 2022 14:10:35 GMT
I think perhaps it wasn't a great time to be a 'classic era' heavy rock fan. All those albums suffered because of hair metal - 1985 was the time of Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Gun's and Roses, W.A.S.P, Helloween, DLR, plus you had bands like Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax taking off. Some bands like Aerosmith rode the wave of Hair Metal, others, like those you mentioned, didn't. Especially Quo. Bet you looked good in spandex though? Would have been handy if Francis had hair for the metal Let's remember the band at 'peak hair'.
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 5,861
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 Aug 22, 2022 15:25:40 GMT
Bands make so-so albums. It happens. And Quo were by no means alone in the mid-80's in doing that. I was a fan of several bands that all of a sudden brought out albums that were well off the mark and not up to their usual standard. All these bands I loved but these albums put me off them for quite a while: Budgie - Deliver Us From Evil
Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
AC/DC - Fly On The Wall
UFO - Misdemeanour
Thin Lizzy - Thunder And LightningStatus Quo - Back To BackAll of them released during that 1983 to 1985 period. It doesn't prove anything of course. Just that it didn't seem a great time to be a heavy rock fan. It didn't improve much after that either. Not for a good while. I think perhaps it wasn't a great time to be a 'classic era' heavy rock fan. All those albums suffered because of hair metal - 1985 was the time of Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Gun's and Roses, W.A.S.P, Helloween, DLR, plus you had bands like Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax taking off. Some bands like Aerosmith rode the wave of Hair Metal, others, like those you mentioned, didn't. Especially Quo. Bet you looked good in spandex though? Flatterer Good points though. I didn't like any of those acts you mention and thrash did nothing for me either. Maybe I'd just moved on.
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allyp
Rocker Rollin'
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Post by allyp on Aug 22, 2022 16:27:05 GMT
I prefer it to 1982 and maybe a couple of the late 80s albums but not as good as the albums since Heavy traffic. Commercially it’s probably one of the most successful albums for hits taken from it. Yes it is a little disjointed musically and everyone trying to write a hit which in hindsight maybe wasn’t a great idea..Not keen on Rick’s shouty vocal on No contract trying to be something they weren’t a bit here.
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Post by railroad007 on Aug 22, 2022 17:46:14 GMT
I'm impressed with all the initials of the subsequent albums Railroad. I only know HT, ISOTFC, QPQ and B. So I gave it a spin and sadly, I don't agree. I felt what I felt back then but only more strongly now. The band were going through the motions and pulling in different directions. Agree that Old Rag Blues is a good track. When Can't Be Done started I was reminded of the Two Ronnie's Quo piss-take. But it got better but still a bit Quo by numbers for me. My favourite is Too Close to the Ground. And I'm convinced that if this track had been recorded by a well known ballad singer in the pop charts, it would still be a hit today. And Francis does a lovely job singing it too. Then I thought, so why is Francis singing it when it's written by Rick plus Andy B of course? I stopped wondering when No Contract kicked with Rick giving us his 'rock' voice. And the penny dropped for me; why Francis keeps saying Rick had a good voice for ballads. I'm sure he would have sung this really well too. As he does with Living on an Island. I kind of skipped through the rest of the album. And I could hear Alan doing his rock stuff. The lighter tracks leave me cringing a little. And I only lasted a few of the opening bars of GDTTN. Of the later 4 albums that I properly listened to, my favourite, surprisingly is ISOTFC. No skippers for me, even with some odd tracks like Saddling Up. I think that's cos Francis is writing again with Bob Young and prefer their lighter songs than the Rossi/Frost combo. A masterpiece? No. But I played it far more than HT which I only listened up to track 6 (Solid Gold). And I rarely gave the other 2 a spin - QPQ and B. In fact, I put that on now instead. Your judgement is impaired by CRABS.
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Post by curiousgirl on Aug 22, 2022 18:19:23 GMT
railroad007 Which ablum was that then? I can't work it out.
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Post by railroad007 on Aug 22, 2022 19:32:53 GMT
railroad007 Which ablum was that then? I can't work it out. It's the so far unreleased 1980 album Classic Rock And Boogie Shuffles. What's an "ablum"? Is it the same as a DC or a drownload?
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Post by curiousgirl on Aug 22, 2022 20:33:50 GMT
railroad007 Which ablum was that then? I can't work it out. It's the so far unreleased 1980 album Classic Rock And Boogie Shuffles. What's an "ablum"? Is it the same as a DC or a drownload? Sounds great. Lets get Quoincidence onto mgt to get that released.* It's what Francis said once in an old interview. "An ablum, I can't say, album." Sadly, that stuck with me. *it's joke folks. There is no such ablum.
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