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Post by rockonquo on Apr 14, 2018 9:46:02 GMT
Ok, so everyone hates the cover albums but there are some good covers on some of them. This is one i like from the Don't Stop album.
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Post by Whoppa Choppa on Apr 14, 2018 10:16:55 GMT
Take away the speedy horns and unnecessary choir things, it is a good cover! Rick sings it really well.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2018 21:35:22 GMT
Nothing beats this version and this force of nature singing.
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Post by kiwipom on Apr 15, 2018 9:29:38 GMT
Nothing beats this version and this force of nature singing. Jack Bruno - great drummer - for Tina and Joe Cocker
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2018 10:27:33 GMT
Nothing beats this version and this force of nature singing. Jack Bruno - great drummer - for Tina and Joe Cocker He is indeed, I worked with him when I played keyboards for Joe on a European tour and when I was working in the studio with him, a real drumming powerhouse, reminds me in style of Pete Kircher.
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Post by dennis on Apr 15, 2018 11:27:57 GMT
The original Ike & Tina arrangement was a superb reworking of an already classic CCR track.
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Post by Bluesy Blue Sea on Apr 16, 2018 19:44:58 GMT
Oh hell no... Quo's version is terrible. Those horns and that "rollin' down the rivaaa"
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Post by gav on Apr 17, 2018 12:55:57 GMT
Yeah, those backing vocals are 'orrible. A sort of overly polite sounding, faux-soul style. Sung by very good singers i'm sure, but very sessiony, studio-type singers who probably got the job on account of being a bit characterless and inoffensive, style-wise.
And that typifies the whole album and 90's Quo for me. Ultra polished, sanitized, everything overly perfect, no rawness, no soul. No nothing. Just completely vapid.
Evidence that they were totally playing to their post-85 MOR audience. And it worked!!
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Apr 17, 2018 17:59:46 GMT
Proud Mary is a top song, and here we have phweepy keyboards, appalling backing vocals, odd meaningless frills. I like pop music (I keep saying) but this sounds like an arrangement from a 1960s telly variety show. As a pop group, Quo barely escaped the 60s, and they weren't a top pop group then, they were just a band trying to get a career and now and then coming up with something good. This isn't it.
I like the guitar solo.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Apr 17, 2018 18:02:29 GMT
Yeah, those backing vocals are 'orrible. A sort of overly polite sounding, faux-soul style. Sung by very good singers i'm sure, but very sessiony, studio-type singers who probably got the job on account of being a bit characterless and inoffensive, style-wise. And that typifies the whole album and 90's Quo for me. Ultra polished, sanitized, everything overly perfect, no rawness, no soul. No nothing. Just completely vapid. Evidence that they were totally playing to their post-85 MOR audience. And it worked!! It sort of worked. Not much from that era is regarded as classic even by a post-85 MOT audience, and they went on touring the old stuff, mainly. So: only worked sort-of. I don't think this track shook anyone up.
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Post by wolfman on Apr 17, 2018 18:05:32 GMT
john fogerty sang a good version..
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Post by gav on Apr 17, 2018 18:18:04 GMT
Yeah, those backing vocals are 'orrible. A sort of overly polite sounding, faux-soul style. Sung by very good singers i'm sure, but very sessiony, studio-type singers who probably got the job on account of being a bit characterless and inoffensive, style-wise. And that typifies the whole album and 90's Quo for me. Ultra polished, sanitized, everything overly perfect, no rawness, no soul. No nothing. Just completely vapid. Evidence that they were totally playing to their post-85 MOR audience. And it worked!! It sort of worked. Not much from that era is regarded as classic even by a post-85 MOT audience, and they went on touring the old stuff, mainly. So: only worked sort-of. I don't think this track shook anyone up. True, but it consolidated their audience and they took it to Number 2. Highest chart position since 1+9+8+2, and not bettered since.
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Post by Dark on Apr 19, 2018 10:27:11 GMT
I do like the solid rhythm guitar playing at the start of the song. But would have preferred if they had recorded the song without the horns and backing vocalists, could have done a really good hard rock arrangement.
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Post by wolfman on Apr 19, 2018 17:16:46 GMT
john fogerty sang a good version.. That's cos he wrote it... and that's why is a cracking own version..
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2018 19:26:15 GMT
Yeah, those backing vocals are 'orrible. A sort of overly polite sounding, faux-soul style. Sung by very good singers i'm sure, but very sessiony, studio-type singers who probably got the job on account of being a bit characterless and inoffensive, style-wise. And that typifies the whole album and 90's Quo for me. Ultra polished, sanitized, everything overly perfect, no rawness, no soul. No nothing. Just completely vapid. Evidence that they were totally playing to their post-85 MOR audience. And it worked!! Evidence that the management were playing to their post 85 (insert same old yawn inducing, much like the set list, dig at post Lancaster Quo). The band (especially Rossi) didn’t even want to do the album, so it probably sounds empty and no rawness or soul because this is the band pretty much keeping management happy and probably just going through the motions. But again, neither of us know the full story, so in your opinion they were playing to their post 85 audience, where as in my opinion and based around the interviews and comments made from the band regarding the album, my opinion is that they didn’t put their heart into it because they didn’t want to do it from the get go. 90’s Quo was a mixed bag, we had Rock Til You Drop which is pretty good, then the over produced sounding Thirsty Work, Don’t Stop and then Under The Influence which closed out the 90’s with a better sound than the previous two albums.
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