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Post by Victor on Sept 1, 2018 6:42:53 GMT
I really enjoyed the thread about Never Too Late the past month and hope this thread will continue in the same way just sharing opinions and such. I will add my own thoughts about MKGS later on  I have a pressing of the album which includes Down the Dustpipe which is not on the original album
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Post by blagult on Sept 1, 2018 9:48:42 GMT
Love the album. Only track I’m not keen on is ‘ Need your Love ‘
I really think it’s stood the test of time more so than the Dog album as it has an Indie feel about it.
I know a lot of people are not keen on Quo and Keyboards but for me Roy Lynnes is absolutely spot on with his tone and playing on the album. Just where it needs it.
Yes love Ma Kelly’s.
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Post by Victor on Sept 1, 2018 10:06:50 GMT
Love the album. Only track I’m not keen on is ‘ Really Me’’ I really think it’s stood the test of time more so than the Dog album as it has an Indie feel about it. I know a lot of people are not keen on Quo and Keyboards but for me Roy Lynnes is absolutely spot on with his tone and playing on the album. Just where it needs it. Yes love Ma Kelly’s. I think many people who dislike the keys are not keen on the synthesized keyboard stuff that came later. And yep the organ sounds from Roy fit in perfectly on this album |
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Post by paradiseflats on Sept 1, 2018 10:14:00 GMT
The first great album by the band. It’s almost Proto Quo signposting where they would go.
Rick as a songwriter was clearly still finding his feet.
It opens with a great song. Featuring that vocal tone that Rossi lost decades ago. A statement of intent.
As an album it has some great songs and inspired covers. In some ways more raw and influenced by the blues explosion than other releases.
Daughter has a great guitar tone and riff.
Libby was a central part of the sound. Thankfully not a part to be found. Some great Hammond.
Johns favourite song Spring... chugs always along.
Not everything works. Everything seems a left over from earlier days but no dud. What other Quo still songs are so openly sexual.
Is it really me/Gotta go home is a great song for me. A sign of Forty five hundred times to come. But stands up so well live. The reunion version was amazing to me.
I love this album. No.6 on my all time list.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Sept 2, 2018 9:54:07 GMT
Looking forward to listening again. I'm very familiar with all the songs but feel unfamiliar with the album......all because there were so many Pye compilations which I had before I got the album. So I never listened that much as I already had the songs.
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Post by Victor on Sept 2, 2018 10:56:24 GMT
Looking forward to listening again. I'm very familiar with all the songs but feel unfamiliar with the album......all because there were so many Pye compilations which I had before I got the album. So I never listened that much as I already had the songs. Yea I knew the songs too already from compilations before I got the album... but despite that the album is in my top 5 of quo albums. |
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Post by viza on Sept 2, 2018 13:26:07 GMT
Looking forward to listening again. I'm very familiar with all the songs but feel unfamiliar with the album......all because there were so many Pye compilations which I had before I got the album. So I never listened that much as I already had the songs. It's the same as it is for me. Took time for me to discover this album even though I had heard all the songs many times. I always thought about DOTH as their first heavy album and of MKGS as if it was in the same genre as their first two. Some years ago I did realize that all the good songs from the Pye compilations came from this album (and DOTH). Now I think it's a killer album and better than everything past 76. In some ways I think it is their heaviest/darkest album (maybe not their hardest). There is some raw and heavy blues on this one, a rawness that is polished away later. |
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Post by kursaal75 on Sept 2, 2018 19:58:20 GMT
All I knew about Status Quo in the early 70s was the 1968 single Pictures Of Matchstick Men, which my sister bought for me for my 11th birthday.
I was introduced to the heavy sounding Quo through my sister again on the Dog album, where's as a teenager I was getting in to music. I would borrow my sisters album when she went out and got me into Quo in a big way, after seeing the band for the first time at the Harlow playhouse in 1972. By the end of the year with Paper Plane high in the charts and Piledriver about to be released, I looked at the back catalogue and found The Best Of Status Quo and Ma Kelly's. I bought both albums in the summer of 73 on cassette.
I thought the track, Spinning Wheel Blues was a great opener and is still a favourite now. I like most of the album, but I could never get into the 3rd track Everything. 6/10
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Post by 4th Chord on Sept 2, 2018 22:18:09 GMT
I like this one.
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Post by 4th Chord on Sept 2, 2018 22:19:44 GMT
How brilliantly live sounding and at risk of being a pretentious muso, how ‘organic’ sounding is this album compared to say the sterility and ‘polish’ of a Quid Pro Quo.
Love it.
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Post by paradiseflats on Sept 3, 2018 6:15:42 GMT
How brilliantly live sounding and at risk of being a pretentious muso, how ‘organic’ sounding is this album compared to say the sterility and ‘polish’ of a Quid Pro Quo. Love it. Still at the point where they were finding their feet. I agree with you about the sound of recent recordings. I guess less mixing tracks led to better sound in some ways. |
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Post by vivfromcov on Sept 3, 2018 7:48:09 GMT
I love this album now. Back in the day, I bought it (after I started first in 1976 with Hello, Quo, OTL and BFY, then collected their previous albums) but didn't really appreciate the songs. I had 'arrived' at a point where they had found their sound and were at the top of their game and I guess I didn't immediately get the raw, experimental nature of it and didn't play that vinyl more than a couple of times. It's only since I bought the CD that I've really got into the album and I love it. I love the bluesy, quirky psychedelic feel and the way the songs jump about in unexpected time signatures. My favourites are April, Daughter, Need your love and IIRM/GGH. |
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Post by Victor on Sept 3, 2018 10:38:23 GMT
I know not everyone likes it, but that's actually my favorite track from the album, together with Spinning Wheel Blues |
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Post by charles on Sept 3, 2018 13:43:59 GMT
Ma Kelly's is my favourite Quo album: Need Your Love, Is it really me?/ gotta go home, April and the very quirky Shy Fly are the ones that make this Quo's best.
It took me a while to really appreciate the album cover (and to understand the album title), but it is now well and truly my number one.
Ma Kelly's is also a very strong argument against the nostalgia malarkey: I was 3 years old when this masterpiece was produced.
I love the way this album sounds: it's live, raw and exciting; in short simply Status Quo.
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Post by funk2thebone on Sept 3, 2018 17:01:24 GMT
Ma Kelly's is my favourite album too. It's the most diverse album, but it's also harmonious. The famous Quo vibe is all over it, but it's more complicated than things to come, better than the repetitive act they turned out to be. I love all songs on Ma Kelly's, and I love all tracks from that period that didn't make the album. I play the original album a lot, and I play my own extended version a lot:  |
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I have a pressing of the album which includes Down the Dustpipe which is not on the original album
