matt
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Post by matt on Aug 29, 2022 14:17:37 GMT
Jesus what a shit show.
Side one has to be up there with some of the weakest stuff they’ve recorded tbh absolutely no redeeming features.
Side two starts off well with Oh What a night and Prone, but again it goes quickly down with stones. I can maybe take let me fly but that’s about it.
Horrible album and by far the weakest of all the Coghlan albums
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allyp
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Post by allyp on Aug 29, 2022 19:17:17 GMT
I can see what the band were trying to do a the time. They still had an eye on the American market and bringing in the horns,keyboards and backing singers may have been done for partly that reason. Also maybe trying to tap into the Disco market at the time having that type of sound too. Pip Williams gets a lot of stick for some of the early work he did but was asked to clean up the sound a bit. Making another Blue for you type probably would have
Not been too dissimilar to what the punk bands were doing and they didn’t want to be seen as too similar to those markets??
The album has some good songs Again again and Accident prone are some of their best songs but probably a bit left field from what they were known for. An experimental album and they went back to basics a bit for next album. It sounds a little dated
Now but by no means a terrible album.
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Post by No Contract on Aug 29, 2022 19:30:08 GMT
I like this album, but it certainly has the feel of the time. Stones is awful, but I like the rest and would take this over RAOTW and most of their post '85 stuff any day.
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Post by quovadis on Aug 29, 2022 20:26:52 GMT
Give me heat any day over backbone
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Aug 29, 2022 20:41:54 GMT
There's some great solos and guitar tones on there. Gonna teach you is a good track because the solo makes it all worthwhile. Same like a good girl
Interesting that Graham bonnet covered giving up my worrying. I always quite liked it.
Also interesting that francis later rerecorded (and improved) someone show me home. I don't like the keyboards on the heat version but there's a good song in there
After oh what a night (love it) there's not much I like. I should love let me fly but I'm not mad on it.
Agree it's the weakest 70's album but there's plenty there I like or love. It's all very listenable
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Aug 29, 2022 21:03:34 GMT
I always reckon if you take the best 3 or 4 from this album and add them to the best 5 or 6 from RAOTW , you have a classic.
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steveb
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Post by steveb on Aug 30, 2022 8:24:31 GMT
dont have a problem with, and why is stones always picked on.nothing wrong with the track
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Post by juansupposin on Aug 30, 2022 12:32:13 GMT
I always reckon if you take the best 3 or 4 from this album and add them to the best 5 or 6 from RAOTW , you have a classic. Not sure a Classic for me but a very decent album, Lets play then , I would go for something like this ( I chose 5 songs from Heat and I had to include Rockin all over the world  ) A SIDE Again And Again (Parfitt/Lynton/Bown) Can't Give You More (Rossi/Young) Accident Prone (Williams/Hutchins) For You (Parfitt) Let Me Fly (Rossi/Frost) Hold You Back (Rossi/Young/Parfitt) B SIDE Rockin' All Over The World (Fogerty) Oh' What A Night (Parfitt/Bown) Hard Time (Rossi/Parfitt) Dirty Water (Rossi/Young) Rockers Rollin' (Parfitt/Lynton) Like A Good Girl (Rossi/Young) |
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Aug 30, 2022 14:57:09 GMT
A disappointment at the time, although some tracks I've always liked.
Oh, What A Night, Accident Prone and Like A Good Girl I still play regularly. I certainly can't say that about any tracks from, say, Thirsty Work or Perfect Remedy.
So, I think we need some perspective. The weakest of the Spud albums? Possibly. But it was evident even then what they were trying to achieve. Or someone was. Record company?
A quick word of praise for the album cover by the way. A lost art is album covers. They were all part of the experience. I do miss that.
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Post by 4th Chord on Aug 30, 2022 18:11:24 GMT
Plus it has the greatest Quo track ever recorded of course!
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Aug 30, 2022 18:27:36 GMT
I can see what the band were trying to do a the time. They still had an eye on the American market and bringing in the horns,keyboards and backing singers may have been done for partly that reason. Also maybe trying to tap into the Disco market at the time having that type of sound too. Pip Williams gets a lot of stick for some of the early work he did but was asked to clean up the sound a bit. Making another Blue for you type probably would have Not been too dissimilar to what the punk bands were doing and they didn’t want to be seen as too similar to those markets?? The album has some good songs Again again and Accident prone are some of their best songs but probably a bit left field from what they were known for. An experimental album and they went back to basics a bit for next album. It sounds a little dated Now but by no means a terrible album. The American market thing should be taken with a pinch of salt as a bit of a fabricated after-thought (excuse) to try to counter the subsequent negativity surrounding the Rockin' original mix etc in particular and then the Heat album. I don't have an exact explanation as to quite why they went off to try to mature their sound or try to be more sophisticated. Evolution I suppose and trying to be taken more seriously in the UK and Europe with their main fan base where they were highly successful but also highly criticised as musical dummies in the media in what is often seen as their glory years. Bands can live in a bubble, especially with the substances abounding and not be aware, regardless of record sales, as to how much they are truly loved for their simplicity and rawness and take on board the critical reviews etc and think they need to change. Though as musicians they had probably started to run out of ideas after a rich seam of success. Bringing in Pip was possibly seen as a new chapter to bring something new to the table, though not specifically to please the Americans. It was a bit of a buzz for me to hear 'Like A Good Girl' and 'OH What A Night' played on stage at Wembley in May '79. That I do remember. |
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Aug 31, 2022 7:39:31 GMT
You might be right about the whole crack America thing, fretbuzzzzz . Maybe it became a handy excuse. Whatever the reason for the inclusion of brass and backing singers, it flew in the face of what was going on in music at that time. Other than disco, of course. I do like what they tried with that. But they weren't completely alone in trying to change. ELO also expanded their sound but they were hugely successful and did break the American market. But, for me, they sounded all the worse for it. So maybe we should be grateful nothing came of it. It's interesting that all three Pip produced albums in the late 70's were all different. It's almost like it was a learning process for him as much as the band. But, like you say, that bubble is a completely different world to the one the rest of us live in. |
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Post by markquo on Aug 31, 2022 8:17:46 GMT
For me definitely the weakest of the classic line ups output ,although LMF,A&A,OWAN and AP are still great songs .
Never understood why they didn’t play AP live . I think JC did play it a few years ago .
Cheers
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Aug 31, 2022 11:25:24 GMT
I loved Accident Prone unconditionally from the start. Once I caught up with the album, I was disappointed. It sounded messed about with to me. It must have been disappointing to them (partic Francis, or maybe he just grumbles about it more) that they cold apply their undoubted talents to general pop music and not get very far. So it was in the 60s. Now again here. (And regularly after B2B.)
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stringybob
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Post by stringybob on Aug 31, 2022 12:15:35 GMT
The runt of the FF litter, their weakest album by a country mile.
The contemporary production tropes don't help, the album sounded very dated very quickly, but the real problem is that by and large the songs just aren't good enough.
After their astonishing run of albums up to 1977 it was inevitable that the well of quality material would run dry at some point. Thankfully it proved to be a temporary blip and the next album was a fine return to form.
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