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Scary
Apr 9, 2024 20:13:09 GMT
Post by dennis on Apr 9, 2024 20:13:09 GMT
40 years since EOTR, 50 years since Quo
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Post by dennis on Apr 9, 2024 14:19:00 GMT
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Post by dennis on Apr 7, 2024 11:23:01 GMT
Will this be the first of many rocked up ballads? "Everything" next?
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Post by dennis on Mar 30, 2024 15:52:17 GMT
Looking back at the Vertigo top ten hits before John was ousted, one could argue that this should be the real 12 Gold bars:
PAPER PLANE No. 8 1972 CAROLINE No. 5 1973 BREAK THE RULES No. 8 1974 DOWN DOWN No. 1 1975 ROLL OVER LAY DOWN (LIVE) No. 9 1975 RAIN No. 7 1976 WILD SIDE OF LIFE No. 9 1976 ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD No. 3 1977 WHATEVER YOU WANT No. 4 1979 WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING No. 2 1980 SOMETHING 'BOUT YOU BABY I LIKE No. 9 1981 ROCK 'N' ROLL No. 8 1981
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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 17:58:04 GMT
Then in '79 this came out:
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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 17:53:09 GMT
This one was a a popular budget cash in too:
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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 17:51:23 GMT
It's a good question. I can speak for my dad at the time, who didn't buy copies of Ma Kelly and Dog on release, not sure why, could have been money, he was pretty poor, still is , but he did get Piledriver, then he got The Best Of Status Quo, this one below, which contained tracks from Ma Kelly and Dog, whether he got that before Hello or together with I'm not sure, but for our family the rest is history! Aye, that's the one & this was the follow up:
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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 17:14:22 GMT
As I recall, Pye did extensive recompiling of the Quo back catalogue - The Best... & The Rest... being especially popular. So many of us came to the original albums a tad later on
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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 16:42:07 GMT
I think I remember talking on the old board that after Down Down and On The Level had both reached #1, or maybe this was just on the back of the album being #1, that all of Piledriver, Hello and Quo re-entered the top 40-50 for a brief period in early 1975, so I don't know what sales would have been, but I'd imagine you needed to shift a lot. To answer myself, just had a scan on the official chart website and yes all three albums, Piledriver, Hello and Quo all re-entered the chart. This was same time as Down Down had reached #1, but just before On The Level reached #1, so it looks like week 12-18/1/1975 the Quo album re-enters at #29, Piledriver at #38 and Hello at #46. If that's correct of course. Wonder what sales would have been. After this, and the singles Caroline and Paper Plane, you can see why Rossi would feel like the main driver of the bands success at that time.
Anyway back to Dog Of Two Head, Good Thinking would have been a perfect addition to the album, instead of the extra Nanana's. If so, which would be a valid enough view at the time, it's a tad ironic as one could argue that Rossi had peaked at this point.
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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 14:32:50 GMT
It would have been interesting if they'd released it as a single featuring a different vocalist to the album version. Maybe they could have backed it with Alan's version of Ol' Rag Blues!
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Post by dennis on Mar 26, 2024 16:03:23 GMT
NaNaNa was just padding because the album was really a track short, imo
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Post by dennis on Mar 26, 2024 15:48:23 GMT
I think they'll be up to 550 by now
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Post by dennis on Mar 26, 2024 15:37:17 GMT
Isn't that rather old news?
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Post by dennis on Mar 25, 2024 15:28:16 GMT
The The did an interesting take on Hank Williams years ago with their album Hanky Panky, worth a listen, imo.
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Post by dennis on Mar 25, 2024 11:31:07 GMT
Land of fire and ice. The Quo message board, as opposed to a volcanic island between here and Greenland I stand by the agenda thing but maybe Fine Fine Fine isn't the best example to bring to the table 👍 I appreciate that later country ditties are more Hank Williams than Steve Earle. If only they were as good as either!
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