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Post by kachunk on Feb 18, 2017 17:17:54 GMT
Slow Train is THE definitive Status Quo track: Groove,melody,clever arrangement,dynamics and when the band kick in after Spuds solo,solid power. What a band they were and what a tragedy they became.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2017 17:44:54 GMT
Its allways been the dogs bollocks apart from OTL, fff still gets skipped mind .
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Post by 4th Chord on Feb 18, 2017 17:51:30 GMT
Its allways been the dogs bollocks apart from OTL, fff still gets skipped mind . Always liked the solo in that one, with Al's bass chugging along.
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Post by tommy on Feb 18, 2017 19:23:06 GMT
It took me a while with this album as well... but now I understand...
The opening two tracks are up there with the best of Quo...
And Slow Train... it's got everything.
Brilliant album by a band at the top of their game.
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Post by smq on Feb 18, 2017 19:37:20 GMT
I'd agree it's their best. So much variety (light and shade?). Vocals, writers, styles all varied. Listening to it now very loud on my new Sonos speakers!
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Feb 19, 2017 21:03:14 GMT
I've been an OTL guy for decades, but recently have been edging towards this one as a solid favourite. I don't listen to "Where I Am" whereas i like every track on this album, so i guess that confirms it. Still just prefer the sound on OTL though. And LL as the ultimate Quo, powerful opener. Same with me. I've also far bigger on Dog than I used to be. Imagine Hello! with Quo sound!!!
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Post by dontquoteme on Feb 19, 2017 22:51:32 GMT
Quo is my favourite by a mile, I absolutely love it and It's in a league of its own IMO.
Spud's solo on ST was the first I'd heard on a studio album and it inspired me to start playing the drums. I must have played the grooves off the LP when I was revising for my mock O levels.
Its the only album where I don't skip a track which tells me everything, it really has got the lot....the brutally heavy and raw Backwater, JTM, DTIM, DA...intermixed with the moving ballad LM, country ditty FFF...and the best and most inventive boogie tracks they ever made in ST and BTR.
There aren't enough superlatives to do it justice, it's flawless FF Quo at their best.
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Post by QuocaQuola1 on Feb 19, 2017 23:24:13 GMT
Its allways been the dogs bollocks apart from OTL, fff still gets skipped mind . Whaaaat? Fine Fine Fine's a great wee dirty. It helps spit the album up nicely too.
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Post by dontquoteme on Feb 20, 2017 0:07:39 GMT
Its allways been the dogs bollocks apart from OTL, fff still gets skipped mind . Whaaaat? Fine Fine Fine's a great wee dirty. It helps spit the album up nicely too. and its a lot better than the title track on BFY which I always skip
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Post by steveh on Feb 20, 2017 7:50:22 GMT
Yep, damn fine album, every track is good and well produced. When i first started reading the topic i was unsure whether it was a "better" album than the likes of piledriver and hello, but if i had to pick one of those 3 albums it would be the quo album, just because of the sheer heaviness of it, quo can't be "too heavy" for me, its what it used to be all about. My absolute favourite bit of that album is the guitar solo on dont think it matters, not just Rossi's playing of the actual solo which is brilliant, but that rhythm from Rick and Alan during it, always gives me goosebumps!! That bit is great to "sway" to whilst playing air guitar (silly old fart) :-)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 13:27:59 GMT
I don't put it ahead of the other peak hey-day albums, but its still up with them and a great album to be sure
I think this album was the peak of the experimental studio jamming, tempo changes and change of lick that characterises the earlier 70's albums. In general they were less prominent in the remaining FF period, although the 'magic circle' phenomena was still evident in the OTL and BFY albums
Its the fact that Quo were such masters of these tempo changes and 'energy builds', that it makes such a mockery of the simplistic one trick pony jibes. The collective bringing down of the power and then exploding it again in such synergy from the four of them simply couldn't be replicated by any band in the 70's while the FF were at their peak
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Post by paradiseflats on Feb 20, 2017 13:32:34 GMT
5 of the 9 songs they wrote together on this album, which is probably why it's Quo's most "rock" album, but Alan & Rick never wrote together again - perhaps that's why, too much "rock" for some people ...... Aye..anyone who prefers another album over this one, needs their bumps felt. Must get them felt as I have always preferred On the Level. That doesn't mean I don't love the album apart from. Fine, fine fine which could have been saved for Perfect Remedy.
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Post by paradiseflats on Feb 20, 2017 13:37:19 GMT
I don't put it ahead of the other peak hey-day albums, but its still up with them and a great album to be sure
I think this album was the peak of the experimental studio jamming, tempo changes and change of lick that characterises the earlier 70's albums. In general they were less prominent in the remaining FF period, although the 'magic circle' phenomena was still evident in the OTL and BFY albums
Its the fact that Quo were such masters of these tempo changes and 'energy builds', that it makes such a mockery of the simplistic one trick pony jibes. The collective bringing down of the power and then exploding it again in such synergy from the four of them simply couldn't be replicated by any band in the 70's while the FF were at their peak
I remember reading an article with Francis where talked about Slow Train and its writing. He wanted a song that went through tempo changes. Rick kept adding and changing parts to which is why Francis says is why they wrote little together aferwards as he found it too hard work writing with Rick.
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Post by 37 on Feb 20, 2017 16:44:30 GMT
It is for me to be correctly classified as a Quo classic. There really are some fantastic hard hitting rock songs on there. As someone correctly states on this thread, if Lonely Man was written and performed by Led Zep, then it would have been a masterpiece. Great album cover as well!!
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Post by dennis on Feb 20, 2017 19:55:18 GMT
5 of the 9 songs they wrote together on this album, which is probably why it's Quo's most "rock" album, but Alan & Rick never wrote together again - perhaps that's why, too much "rock" for some people ...... There are only 8 songs on the "Quo" album..... Yes, and 5 of those songs are 5 of the 9 that Alan & Rick wrote together. I've always found it a little odd that after a couple of their compositions came out in '72 & a couple more in '73, they then dominated Quo & subsequently ...... never wrote together again.
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