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Post by Quoincidence on Apr 6, 2018 17:40:52 GMT
That's the thing I find most funny and frustrating about the break up... Rossi wants Alan out of the band so he can work freely and do his own material. Rossi without Alan has no clue what to do, what material to write and has to rely on Rick, the new guys, the producer, John David and people who work at the RC for material for the first two albums. I have an uneasy feeling that Francis wanted Alan out of the band so he wouldn't have to go and live in the USA. Same result musically, though. Mainly musical differences and everyone in management disliking Alan for blabbing about the band being ripped off. The relationship between Alan and management ended very aggressively
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Post by bridsparegular on Apr 6, 2018 21:44:28 GMT
I can't believe a thread on the meaningless dirge that is FTB has the merit to stretch to 4 pages!😶?
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Post by Victor on Apr 6, 2018 23:24:33 GMT
I can't believe a thread on the meaningless dirge that is FTB has the merit to stretch to 4 pages!😶? You know, on one hand I can understand why you would see it that way (although I don't mind the song myself). But as long as the thread stays nice and without stupid personal insults, then why not ? Quite often long stretching threads can lead to quite interesting viewpoints and such and can take all sorts of umexpected but interesting directions Just another way of looking at it
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Post by azza200 on Apr 7, 2018 0:10:41 GMT
I can see why some people dislike this song i don't like it myself but surely Aint Complaining and Dreaming are far worse then FTB. As those songs are horrific crap novelty karaoke bad songs under the Quo name.
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Post by Quoincidence on Apr 7, 2018 7:33:36 GMT
I have to say Rock Til You Drop is a great album and overlooked sometimes... Could've done without Tommy though, unnecessarily re-recorded.
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Post by 4th Chord on Apr 7, 2018 9:00:56 GMT
I have to say Rock Til You Drop is a great album and overlooked sometimes... Could've done without Tommy though, unnecessarily re-recorded. There’s a good reason it’s overlooked young man!
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Post by Quoincidence on Apr 7, 2018 9:19:54 GMT
I have to say Rock Til You Drop is a great album and overlooked sometimes... Could've done without Tommy though, unnecessarily re-recorded. There’s a good reason it’s overlooked young man! It's a better album than the ones that came before and after it
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Post by americanquo on Apr 14, 2018 0:14:24 GMT
There are many SQ songs that make we wince , this isn’t one of them. Don’t think any ever made me angry, although Sail Away probably should have done! Quite liked it at the time. Always liked the line “I’m moving on if it’s the same to you, too late for me, too late for you” and used to wonder who it was as aimed at. Or Tommy... As far as fakin' the blues goes, never minded the song either, not one of their top tracks, but there are much worse tracks then that This one's okay. It's probably in the top 4 or 5 off an otherwise dreary album.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 5:36:13 GMT
Always liked it, the CD was given away by the Fan Club? Still got the copy of it here (Quo CD31) Fakin' the Blues (Edit)/Fakin' the Blues (Album Version)/Heavy Daze/Better Times (I'd forgotten about it to be honest, but found it inside my 'Quo+Live!' CD Box Set Yeah. I’ve no problem with the song. It’s certainly better turned up loud without having to watch the dire video on page one of this thread. Quo have had some naff videos and studio performances over the years but that’s another subject. Heavy Daze and Better Times are two belters. Why they were hidden away on this proposed single release is beyond me.
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Favourite Quo Album: Back to Back
Favourite other bands.: Iron Maiden, The Cure, David Bowie, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Kiss, Judas Priest, The Smiths, Bauhaus
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Post by Bluesy Blue Sea on Apr 16, 2018 19:51:32 GMT
It ain't that bad... a song that really makes me angry is "One for the Money"
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Post by Quoincidence on May 12, 2018 20:19:39 GMT
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Post by piledriver62 on May 12, 2018 20:59:35 GMT
Just flicked through the comments real quick and I mean real quick, its amazing how many positive comments there are , no wonder this reincarnation of the band survived it didn't matter what CRAP they came out with , and they say love is blind .
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Post by tqontq on May 13, 2018 0:46:45 GMT
This didn’t happen. In my universe the band split up in 1981. Angry, well no. Rick and Francis forming a band with a group of session musicians. Now that made me angry. Never got over it. This one. Although I would say the band continues in mighty fine form live up to EOTR and therefore were still Quo in my book, although lacked the chemistry and definitive Quo sound that came with John in the band. But yes, having them carry on and drag the Quo name through the dirt and get away with it for 30 years still makes me angry. They didn't deserve to be successful as their product was greatly inferior to what came before. Personally, I'd much rather nothing happened after Live Aid and that was it. The music itself doesn't make me angry as i never listened to it as Quo. I just laughed and cast it aside.
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Post by freewilly on May 13, 2018 3:38:50 GMT
Going to have to step in here...
Post Alan and John, were they a shit band? No! Absolutely not. We compare them to the stuff that came between 1970 and 1981...In some cases only up to 1976. The vast majority of music made between 86 and 2013 is not "shite" It's just not real Quo and what we know as Quo and what we expect by the standards that were set.
If the band had changed their name, it wouldn't even be a discussion. There are a lot of good songs between 86 and 13
It just needed Alan and John to make them better is all...
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Post by paradiseflats on May 13, 2018 16:18:30 GMT
Going to have to step in here... Post Alan and John, were they a shit band? No! Absolutely not. We compare them to the stuff that came between 1970 and 1981...In some cases only up to 1976. The vast majority of music made between 86 and 2013 is not "shite" It's just not real Quo and what we know as Quo and what we expect by the standards that were set. If the band had changed their name, it wouldn't even be a discussion. There are a lot of good songs between 86 and 13 It just needed Alan and John to make them better is all... For periods they recorded some pretty shit music. Does that make them a shit band ? Guess that’s personal opinion. For me they haven’t recorded a great albums since Alan was forced out. Choose your own descriptive word but for me there is at best a lot of rubbish. I would struggle to put together a good album since Alan left. If the band had changed their name they wouldn’t exist. Would have been dropped years ago. Without the classic material they wouldn’t pull in the punters. And now it’s a moot point. As I can’t imagine ever listening to them apart from the albums 70-81. Maybe just maybe I will listen to the early works. Not a single album released since Alan I would rate as good.
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