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Post by gav on Jan 25, 2024 9:49:47 GMT
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Post by gav on Jan 25, 2024 9:46:57 GMT
Can someone do one for 'Saving All Over The Store'? Please? Cheers!!!!
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Post by gav on Jan 24, 2024 18:27:34 GMT
Can someone do one for 'Saving All Over The Store'? Please?
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Post by gav on Jan 23, 2024 15:15:19 GMT
I expect John Fogerty will be happy with the pension top up too. I wonder who re-wrote the lyrics?
"Oh here we are at M&S and here we go Remarksable value means that prices are low Here we go-oo, saving all over the store
Get your dinner sorted with our dine-in deal Or look for locked prices where the value's unreal Here we go-oo, saving all over the store
And they've dropped them and locked them, they've dropped them and locked them The prices are low but the quality's whoa Here we go-oo, saving all over the store
Eggs and bread and milk and cheese, the prices are low All down the aisles, great value on show Here we go-oo, saving all over the store
Pasta, spuds, and carrots, just to name a few Remarksable value is here waiting for you Here we go-oo, saving all over the store
And they've dropped them and locked them, they've dropped them and locked them The prices are low but the quality's whoa Here we go-oo, saving all over the store
And they've dropped them and locked them, they've dropped them and locked them The prices are low but the quality's whoa Here we go-oo, saving all over the store
And they've dropped them and locked them, they've dropped them and locked them The prices are low but the quality's whoa Here we go-oo, saving all over the store
And they've dropped them and locked them, they've dropped them and locked them The prices are low but the quality's whoa Here we go-oo, it's the best food in the world"
Can't believe i just typed that out.
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Post by gav on Jan 23, 2024 12:50:46 GMT
I've heard a 'why Matt left' tale too. Nothing to do with the setlist per se although if it's true then one of the songs in it may certainly have offered a hint... Let's have a look at the setlist from his last tour with Quo for any clues. Silly replies only:
Caroline Paper Plane Hold You Back Rain Rock 'n' Roll 'n' You Beginning of The End Proposin' Medley: What You're Proposin', Down The Dustpipe, Wild Side of life, Railroad, Again and Again, Big Fat Mama The Oriental Creepin' Up On You In The Army Now Drum Solo Roll Over Lay Down Down Down Whatever You Want Rockin' All Over The World Rock 'n' Roll Music / Bye Bye Johnny
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Post by gav on Jan 22, 2024 21:51:37 GMT
Do you think Alan was trying to write a hit here? It's very sing-songy with a big chorus.
With the Quo guitars, there's not really a lot for them to do and it comes across a bit turgid - the guitars don't do their usual Quo 12-bar shuffle thing here, so presumably it's just Rick and Francis both on rhythm playing basic chords?
I remember Alan saying this one was severely over-worked. Which is a shame because with the right production it could have been different and much better. There's the basis of a good tune right there, but the treatment of the instruments doesn't work.
Maybe just not for Quo. A lot of Alan's stuff in the latter years ended up sounding a bit left-field Quo-wise. Sounds like he had very firm ideas of what he wanted and these were conceived and perhaps finalised in his mind before he even brought them over to the band from Australia.
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Post by gav on Jan 22, 2024 21:45:26 GMT
Reminds me of a poor man’s version of the Way it Goes video.Back in 1999 Quo could probably draw a crowd in a shopping centre who still knew who they were there and were quite happy to join in. This M&S advert is clearly to keep the dosh coming with naffness taken to a level that is impossible to defend. Yeah! We could have seen this coming...25 years ago. And over a decade since the Coles adverts. You could say this is the perfect combo of them both.
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Post by gav on Jan 22, 2024 12:30:06 GMT
You know that expression 'scraping the bottom of the barrel'? This is what lurks on the underside of that rotten, fetid, stinking barrel. Mind-numbingly awful. Francis has certainly had another go at that guitar with his scraper.
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Post by gav on Jan 22, 2024 12:28:52 GMT
Time to "checkout"
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Post by gav on Jan 22, 2024 11:41:21 GMT
"ReMARKSable value"
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Post by gav on Jan 20, 2024 21:26:11 GMT
People moan about Again and Again being self-parody, but fast-forward 30 years and Gravy Train makes it look like a work of genius.
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Post by gav on Jan 18, 2024 16:36:36 GMT
If they'd fully gone into The Beatles' I Want To Tell You and sung a verse or two after the riff, it would've worked really well!
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Post by gav on Jan 11, 2024 11:27:43 GMT
like most of the album including this one Pervert Remedy.
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Post by gav on Jan 5, 2024 20:32:02 GMT
Didn't Rhino have his hair in a ponytail a few other times during that long hair period or is that the only time? First time seeing Rick with a ponytail though I think Quoincidence has a few videos on his YouTube channel from a TV broadcast from Hilversum Studio in 1992 where Rhino has one.
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Post by gav on Jan 5, 2024 20:28:20 GMT
I recently picked this one up off eBay after about 20 years of searching - had one as an 8 year old in 1984, but it eventually wore out. Was so happy to find it again...
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