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Post by Railroad17 on Feb 19, 2016 14:57:36 GMT
Never heard it. Never will. You'd really like it.
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Post by whoaskedyou on Feb 19, 2016 15:21:59 GMT
By the time this one had come out I had long since given up hope of another bluesy boogie heavish Quo album..those days had well and truly gone along with AL and JC..this is a pop rock effort. Having said all that I still like a lot of the tracks apart from the title song..at least they were trying not to be old Quo and failing...perhaps that is why I quite like it.
Much prefer this album to ITAN and later efforts like ISOTFC which is liked by quite a few on here.
If you got into Quo around this time I can understand you having a soft spot for this album as mentioned by Johnnymain.
If you got into Quo at the start of the seventies you will probably have too much baggage and fondness for the old Quo sound to like this album.
Don't think it quite deserves the low marks given out and I still give the CD a blast in he car as and when mood takes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 18:03:50 GMT
By the time this one had come out I had long since given up hope of another bluesy boogie heavish Quo album..those days had well and truly gone along with AL and JC..this is a pop rock effort. Having said all that I still like a lot of the tracks apart from the title song..at least they were trying not to be old Quo and failing...perhaps that is why I quite like it. Much prefer this album to ITAN and later efforts like ISOTFC which is liked by quite a few on here. If you got into Quo around this time I can understand you having a soft spot for this album as mentioned by Johnnymain. If you got into Quo at the start of the seventies you will probably have too much baggage and fondness for the old Quo sound to like this album. Don't think it quite deserves the low marks given out and I still give the CD a blast in he car as and when mood takes. My own FF based introduction to Quo doesn't affect my perceptions of the post 85 period in terms of catalogue product. I view each band on their own merits, even though I have an obvious overall preference for the golden age I was 'born into' like many of us do.
Its only the live show and the ways that CQ are marketed in general as a karaoke band where I have comparison problems in this respect.
There are indeed some songs on the AC album I like, but I gave my reasoning above why I find, overall, AC a plastic and synthetically bland sounding 80's album. Compared to the 60's and 70's I have a quite jaundiced view of that era musically in general, and lost interest in many artists quite widely around this time. So its not just about Quo by any means
I do differ about ISOTFC I think this is an excellent modern day CQ album and is a far cry from the artificial 80's. Its a good example of one of several albums which has gone to waste - despite the flurry that occurred with the HT album. Many of the new default casual audience who go on their annual greatest hits fest will probably have never heard many songs on this album
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Post by whoaskedyou on Feb 19, 2016 18:26:13 GMT
I generally prefer 70 's music..but looking back I think the period from late seventies to early/ mid eighties saw the biggest ever range of music to get into...New Romantics like Human League, Spandau, ABC..then groups like Culture Club, Imagination, Bucks Fizz.. Abba still going..Slade with a couple of hits..Iron Maiden..Def Leppard coming through..Fun Boy Three, Adam and the Ants, Police, Elton John and Geneis still ticking over....The Jam and The Who..the end of Punk..Blondie..these just off the top of my head..Quo still going strong in terms of live performances 82 and 84.... Can see why Quo felt the need to change with AL and JC gone..I dont think it was just FR wanting to change he wanted to fit in with the music of the time..should have just stuck to boogie but there you go..strangely I like a lot of the groups mentioned now but at the time I was mainly a rocker so you would not have heard me singing along to Don't You Want Me Baby..anyway like what you like.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 18:40:29 GMT
It was specifically the late 80's that was I indifferent to. Outside of my Quo and other rock based tastes I had liked fiskadelic and motown in the late 60's, folk, disco, some glam rock and punk (e.g The Stranglers) in the 70's and then as you say into the 80's there was good stuff around that was a lot of fun.
There was things like Huey Lewis. Mike And The Mechanics and Bruce Hornsby that I liked afterwards - however, I'm left with overriding memories of Stock Aitken and Waterman and things like Yazz and the * insert swearword* Plastic Population in the late 80's
Even bands that I had always liked such as ZZ Top followed the late 80's trend. For example that 'Viva Las Vegas' club mix thing they did
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Post by Whoppa Choppa on Feb 19, 2016 20:35:09 GMT
Left/right in the Quo-fun style....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 21:27:14 GMT
Left/right in the Quo-fun style.... Download didn't work
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Post by Detroit on Feb 19, 2016 21:59:16 GMT
Left/right in the Quo-fun style.... Download didn't work
Aren't you lucky.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 22:04:34 GMT
Download didn't work
Aren't you lucky. I'm rather ambivalent to be true
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Post by Victor on Feb 20, 2016 0:40:55 GMT
Although I haven't played it for a few years, I feel more amenable about Ain't Complaining than I do about its predecessor and successor. I really don't think I could stomach ITAN or PR, but I'd quite happily stick AC on. In fact I bought it recently 2nd hand vinyl because I'd only bought it on CD at the time. Have yet to actually play the vinyl, mind. There's some good songs on there. You see, I also like Thirsty Work for the same reasons. There's some really interesting, melodic songs on both albums. So I'd probably give this a 6 out of 10. Its highly subjective as to whether one likes it or not (and many don't) but I think that TW succeeds better as a highly pop orientated album than the late 80's albums do, because it actually does what it says on the tin and sounds exactly as it should (for a pop orientated album). One can argue obviously that the new line-up Quo shouldn't have been making pop orientated albums in the first place, but TW in my opinion sounds like post 85 Quo making a pop album, rather than post 85 Quo trying to make a pop album.
TW suffers in many eyes because it returns to pop material following the much grittier interlude that RTYD provided. But, for what it is, it remains refreshingly free of some of the synthetic and superficial gloss of an album like AC - which tries too hard to sound of its time and ends up sounding contrived. I'm not surprised AC is not liked by many fans against the sharply contrasting backdrop of what Quo used to be in a former time, but I think the contrivance of the album magnifies this impression
Because I've always viewed CQ as a very separate entity to the mighty FF, I have no problem at all with CQ making pop records - and enjoy many of them.....as long as they don't sound contrived. I think that CQ got better at this as time went on - especially as 'sonic' (the hedgehog) balance was found once more from UTI onwards with a welcome return of the grittier sound and rockier material that had been left behind with RTYD
Yes exactly. I could and can stomach TW a lot better then I can AC and PR !
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Post by rockonquo on Feb 20, 2016 5:11:38 GMT
I think it's a good album, if you take away Another Shipwreck, Cream Of The Crop & I Know Your Leaving replaced with The Reason For Goodbye,Lean Machine & Halloween would be better. Album cover is a stinker thou, 7/10.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 9:11:50 GMT
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Post by dennis on Feb 20, 2016 10:23:05 GMT
I suppose one could argue that it's A Status Quo, but certainly not what most would call THE Status Quo.
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Post by paul70 on Feb 21, 2016 11:31:59 GMT
You sound very serious man, mister. Think this sounds excellent (86'), with boys on the album cover , rocks like hell..Quo:)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2016 14:14:37 GMT
Not 'my' album, sorry. The songs don't do anything for me.
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