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Post by gav on Mar 31, 2024 17:32:36 GMT
Does anyone know what the significance of the girl getting punched is??
This album will be "like a punch in the face" ?
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Post by gav on Mar 31, 2024 17:31:09 GMT
Glen and Rita's version came out not long before Quo took it on...
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Post by gav on Mar 29, 2024 14:21:39 GMT
Listen to what Edwards plays on live versions of 'Mystery Song'. Pretty unadventurous root note stuff. Then listen to what Alan plays on the glorious original. I know which I think is better. Aye but listen to the Milton Keynes Medley from '84 - none of them can recreate what they did on the original - Parfitt's using a different effect, Rossi doesn't want to do the solo so it gets bunged into a medley, Alan has simplified his bass part, and Pete hasn't the dexterity or groove of Coghlan's part. Maybe Alan dumbed down his part in order to match Pete, and maybe it was this version Rhino and Jeff learnt and adapted their parts from. Who knows!
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Post by gav on Mar 19, 2024 8:41:44 GMT
I want to start off a debate, where some songs remind you of other songs. I'm going to kick off with Young Pretender has hints of Marguerita Time, so for some bizarre reason Young Pretender when I play it reminds me of Marguerita Time. I know it should be the other way round in terms of release, but it doesn't work that way. Address Book reminds me of Marguerita Time!
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Post by gav on Mar 16, 2024 0:24:02 GMT
I Love Rock and Roll was an A-side in Australia: (although i notice it says Holland, but i can't find any evidence it was released there as a single)
Thats interesting, great song too. What was the side of that? According to Discogs, Calling The Shots!
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Post by gav on Mar 15, 2024 11:46:59 GMT
I Love Rock and Roll was an A-side in Australia: (although i notice it says Holland, but i can't find any evidence it was released there as a single)
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Post by gav on Mar 8, 2024 20:25:23 GMT
It was in Ireland (b/w Calling The Shots) and a few other countries, Germany by the look of one of your links.
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Post by gav on Mar 6, 2024 11:48:19 GMT
Hasn't there been whisperings (or even from the horse's mouth?) that this wasn't a full Quo recording? Pretty sure Rossi & Parfitt have said that they at least added in the crash cymbal hits? The drums sound a bit looped or something to me, but would they have had the tech to do that, or even be bothered?
Certainly strong rumours that it wasn't Alan on bass, Glover rather, though it does sound like Alan, so a good imitation at least.
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Post by gav on Feb 20, 2024 20:48:18 GMT
It's funny isn't it. Hearing this track again now, after all that's happened since, I can picture Rossi's pop preferences creeping in. Quo were so damn tight and heavy during this period that his influences were battling against the band's hard groove and rawness as a unit. Take out his fantastic solo, Ricks' driving guitars and the weight and heaviness of Alan and John's rhythm section - replace that with an eighties production and bring in Bowns keyboards and suddenly you have a Perfect Remedy number. I guess you could say that about a number of tracks but it seems to stand out here for some reason. Perhaps it's the name of the song that draw me to that. Oh yeah, I like the track Not my fave by any means but Blue for You is an album that can do no wrong. I love it to death. Exactly.
Real drive and purpose to his playing, and it kind of got a bit limper from then on.
Having said that, Face The Music from the last album Backbone has some real fire... he's still got it when he wants to go for it.
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Post by gav on Feb 19, 2024 19:18:38 GMT
Heart On Hold was my fave from the off as a 14 year old, something a bit different from them, but still had crunchy enough guitars.
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Post by gav on Feb 19, 2024 19:17:00 GMT
Jeff's drums always had that awful 80's gated effect on them bar his very last album UTI, hence why i'll go with the 77 version.
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Post by gav on Feb 17, 2024 18:10:13 GMT
This would be one of Rossi's 'songs' that he felt best represented himself as a songwriter and i guess he wanted the world to hear it. As no-one bought PR no-one heard it the first time around and he duly put it out again on an album he knew would do much better due to the massive promo campaign it had around the 4-gigs-in-a-day live event. At a guess!
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Post by gav on Feb 16, 2024 12:22:57 GMT
The vocals seem to be going through a modifier or something?? The same thing they used on the vocals of And It's Better Now around the same time?
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Post by gav on Feb 16, 2024 12:21:23 GMT
Some of the stuff on the second Aquostic album sounded distinctly like leftovers - or like kind of basic, unfinished versions.
I think the whole spin on this project was a bit over-egged, the whole 'underneath all the guitars there's these nice songs'...
Songs yes, but a lot of them are very basic songs and it feels like their magic was taken away by stripping them back - sort of like oh, so that's what they look like with no clothes on - not so great. Not enough interesting musicality to prop them up when it's just guitars strumming a very basic structure and a few unessential embellishments.
I'd have preferred to hear other artists' interpretations of them as 'songs', that would have been more of a test of their 'song-ness' to me Even then, i'd not have been massively interested though.
Think at the end of the day they were written a very particular way and nowt else is really good enough IMO.
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Post by gav on Feb 12, 2024 13:29:23 GMT
It was drafted onto the tracklisting for Back To Back at one point was it not?
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