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Post by gav on Mar 2, 2020 0:17:18 GMT
I'm going to stick my neck out and admit to liking ILR&R. It's something different, has a nice little groove, and some tasty chords in the outro refrain. That said, Alan's other two fill me with a mild horror.
She Don't Fool Me is the standout for me. Anyone that can pull off the same trick again and again over the same chords but with a different and catchy melody gets my vote. Love the opening line, "Just received a message from my mother..."...most of the lyrics in fact. Dear John a close second, then ILR&R.
Quite a crisp, basic production i thought, just a whole swathe of middle of the road songs/arrangements by Quo's standards.
Pete's attack on the snare just a little on the soft/laid back side for Quo here, or they should have had him a touch louder?
Jealousy, sorry, but a horrible Rossi/Frost attempt at pop. I don't know what they were trying to achieve, or what their influences were, but i find a lot of their songwriting just plain weird, Jealousy being the epitome. Incoherent and very stilted to my ears, with strange choices of words that really grate, especially if repeated over and over.
Always remember as a 9 or 10 year old hearing the word "crap" in a Quo song for the first time. Definitely Andy's lyrics in Get Out And Walk, and She Don't Fool Me...typically zany.
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Post by gav on Feb 20, 2020 22:11:01 GMT
"This & That" contains demos of Let's Start Again (an outtake i think?), Baby Goodbye, Solid Gold, and All Stand Up (which segues into a godawful NFL remix), amongst others that have been released on the deluxe editions.
I think the likes of I Cried, Heavy Traffic, and You'll Come Round are available (still?) to listen to on Bob Young's website, though not 100% sure on YCR. I'm sure someone on here has ripped the audio of these from the site?
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Post by gav on Feb 14, 2020 0:12:33 GMT
By the sound of it, he wasn't so much let go, more completely forgotten about. Forgotten about? Rossi used both Pete and Andy for his solo album with Bernie Frost... then again, Andy has said he only found out about the band getting back together via Iain Jones catching him on the road driving past one another. I suppose Pete wasn't too arsed at the time. He was the oldest in the band and would have probably been with Quo until he decided to retire It's that narrow time period in between the Rossi-Frost stuff and the ITAN recordings i meant that he wasn't called upon, hence forgotten about. Maybe i'm not aware of the timeline there and Rossi-Frost were still promoting stuff as the ITAN sesions began?
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Post by gav on Feb 13, 2020 20:58:41 GMT
By the sound of it, he wasn't so much let go, more completely forgotten about.
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Post by gav on Feb 12, 2020 19:24:42 GMT
He is/was a sign painter in recent years i think?
Quite ironic then that he's so hard to find...
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Post by gav on Feb 12, 2020 17:24:30 GMT
If You Can't Stand The Heat....Now Hear This.
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Post by gav on Feb 9, 2020 14:39:24 GMT
Firmly in the no-need-for-a-remix camp here. I wouldn't say that the album has an awful lot of brass and female backing vocals on it at all. Decided to test that theory, and came up with this:
Again & Again: brass only on a 20 second section of the intro I'm Giving Up My Worryin: no brass or backing vocals Gonna Teach You To Love Me: no brass or backing vocals Long Legged Linda - the main culprit: brass on the intro, choruses, instrumental breaks, and bridge to the last chorus. backing vocals on all choruses and the outro Oh What A Night: backing vocals on the choruses Accident Prone: no brass or backing vocals Stones: backing vocals on the choruses Let Me Fly: brass on the second and third choruses and outro Like A Good Girl: brass on choruses and outro
There's actually hell of a lot of keyboard all over the album, filling out a lot of the sound, something which i don't think has been mentioned in this thread. But i find the brass and female vocals very minimal mostly, and not worthy of taking the album apart for. 3 songs have none of either, and a fourth with just a small passage.
Nothing really intrusive to my ears, except maybe the high pitched vocals and the end of Long Legged Linda and Oh What A Night.
I think the production is great, not a Quo production as such, but it's beefy and full and i think that's a lot to do with the sound of the guitars and drums, rather than the addition of brass. The keyboards, as mentioned, fill out a lot too and this was quite a bit before Andy's keys became the horrible fairground synthy pretend-brass sounds etc. Pretty sure he's still using a Hammond organ at this point.
Yeah, i just think it doesn't justify a remix. There are no technical sound problems here, and it's not really worth spending the time and money just to take a few things out....of Long Legged Linda, for the most part.
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Post by gav on Feb 5, 2020 17:32:00 GMT
I was always under the impression that the sound was more down to the fact it was mastered for radio, ie. small transistor radio speakers, radio being a much much bigger marketing tool in the States with an enormous reach.
I think this has been implied on more than one occasion by Pip et al.
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Post by gav on Feb 1, 2020 12:51:19 GMT
Musically it's quite interesting and a bit different, but the lyrics ruin all of that. They obviously enjoy playing it, and dynamically it's probably fun and challenging for them to play.
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Post by gav on Jan 28, 2020 21:52:44 GMT
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Post by gav on Jan 28, 2020 21:49:50 GMT
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Post by gav on Jan 28, 2020 21:40:07 GMT
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Post by gav on Jan 23, 2020 21:20:05 GMT
Under The Influence - Blessed Are The Meek, Little Me And You Heavy Traffic - Green, Jam Side Down The Party Ain't Over Yet - Velvet Train, Belavista Man In Search Of The Fourth Chord - Beginning Of The End, You're The One For Me Quid Pro Quo - Any Way You Like It, Leave A Little Light On Bula Quo - All That Money, Never Leave A Friend Behind Backbone - Running Out Of Time, Liberty Lane
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Post by gav on Jan 23, 2020 0:06:27 GMT
"Just thought i'd chop you a little line..." ? Thinking it might say drop you a line. Some of his handwriting can be quite hard to make out. I'm sure, but you can never quite tell with Rick's humour sometimes!
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Post by gav on Jan 23, 2020 0:02:54 GMT
"Just thought i'd chop you a little line..." ?
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