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Post by blagult on Sept 3, 2018 17:19:00 GMT
Excellent post and some valid points. Yes I agree it’s a very diverse album and that’s mainly why it has dated very well. Before they followed the formula route.
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gav
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Sept 3, 2018 18:11:07 GMT
Would take Everything, Need Your Love, and Lazy Poker Blues off it, and replace them with Down The Dustpipe and In My Chair. That'd be my perfect MKGS.
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dth1
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Post by dth1 on Sept 3, 2018 18:35:09 GMT
Like many fans I bought this album working backwards from "Blue For You" and was familiar with most of the tracks from the various Pye records compilations by the time I bought a copy.
I thought it was a good album then and like many others think it has stood the test of time well. A few interesting points 1) the German version included "Down The Dustpipe" 2) The set list at that time included: Junior's Wailing / Down The Dustpipe / Need Your Love / Spinning Wheel Blues / In My Chair / Is It Really Me? Gotta Gome Home 3) The Brazilian version of the the album has the songs in a different order (Shy Fly / (April) Spring Summer And Wednesdays / Spinning Wheel Blues / Need Your Love / Junior's Wailing - Lakky Lady / Daughter / Lazy Poker Blues / Everything / Is It Really Me? Gotta Go Home) which gives it a different feel.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Sept 3, 2018 19:58:33 GMT
My compilation of the best bits of Dog and Spoon is my favourite, rather than either of the real albums, but I must agree with dth1 - it is defining that the best tracks have stood the test of time like classics.
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gerh
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Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Sept 4, 2018 12:14:08 GMT
I heard PMM & Spare Parts before this and at the time I couldn’t understand how they made the leap from those two awful things (only my opinion folks, call off the hounds!!) to DOTH, MKGS is the link and leaves the 1st two LPs trailing in its wake. Apart from ‘Everything’ I still love it, for me Quo starts here and ends with NTL (with a short re-animation with the ‘13 & ‘14 reunions). 😉
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Sept 4, 2018 15:05:32 GMT
Really enjoyed listening. I'd forgotten about the live at BBC extras on the later releases.
Have always thought of this as a band in transition finding it's sound. Shy Fly is a great song but doesn't really fit with the album. I still think Everything is awful, truly awful.
Perhaps because of what came later, I love just how non-commercial this is in places.
Still sounds fresh, although I'd have liked a bit more oomph / heaviness in places. It needs the keys and they are done really well. I still think it's not as good as "Classic Quo", but it's still "Cool Quo".
As with NTL, there's plenty of criticisms you can make. But it's still great. And 48 years after it's release, it's held up brilliantly.
For an album that doesn't get the credit it deserves, look no further. It's a measure of what an amazing band Quo are that some albums are clearly not as good as others, yet remain truly great and 100% built to last.
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gav
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Post by gav on Sept 4, 2018 17:35:00 GMT
I heard PMM & Spare Parts before this and at the time I couldn’t understand how they made the leap from those two awful things (only my opinion folks, call off the hounds!!) to DOTH, MKGS is the link and leaves the 1st two LPs trailing in its wake. Apart from ‘Everything’ I still love it, for me Quo starts here and ends with NTL (with a short re-animation with the ‘13 & ‘14 reunions). 😉 Quite a musical leap for sure, pretty experimental too before they quickly settled into their classic style thereafter. And....48 years old....wow!
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dontquoteme
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Post by dontquoteme on Sept 4, 2018 22:31:39 GMT
The first great album from Quo (IMO) Probably in the minority here but I prefer it to Dog
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Post by Quoincidence on Sept 6, 2018 20:31:02 GMT
Great album! although Everything should NOT be on the album. It sticks out like a sore thumb... More than likely a left over from the Spare Parts album
Favourite track on the album for me is "Is It Really Me / Gotta Go Home"
Shame they ruined Spinning Wheel Blues in recent years by adding it to the Mystery Medley
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Post by Victor on Sept 7, 2018 7:52:43 GMT
The first great album from Quo (IMO) Probably in the minority here but I prefer it to Dog Both Ma Kelly's and Dog belong to my top 5 of favorite albums. I used to prefer Dog slightly but over the years that has switched and I slightly prefer Ma kelly's nowadays
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gerh
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Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Sept 7, 2018 8:41:49 GMT
Great album! although Everything should NOT be on the album. It sticks out like a sore thumb... More than likely a left over from the Spare Parts album Favourite track on the album for me is "Is It Really Me / Gotta Go Home" Shame they ruined Spinning Wheel Blues in recent years by adding it to the Mystery Medley Aye, just like how they ruined the band by adding Edwards and 'play everything faster' Rich. [Yeah, I always thought Everything should have been on SP too - cringeworthy is too kind a word!]
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Post by whoaskedyou on Sept 7, 2018 9:42:28 GMT
For some strange reason I don't have this album on CD. Just on vinyl. I got really heavily into Quo around 1979 so I never had the experience of buying the albums from 70 to 78 in order. One of my great memories is going around various record shops in Croydon looking for special offers and buying an album probably every two to three weeks to give me my Quo fix and have something to look forward to.
I remember feeling this album to be very roar and rough around the edges at the time of purchase lol. I dug it out a year or two ago and there was something magical about it coming through the speakers as I has not heard it for a while. I think that is why I have resisted getting it on CD so I don't play it much. Silly but probably true.
I really do think there is a lot to be said in the argument that when and where you bought an album,how often you play it and where you were in life at the time has a massive impact on how you feel about the song. Obviously you have to like it in the first instance but it does I believe have a bearing.
Probably time to dig it out again and revisit the joy.
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Post by whoaskedyou on Sept 7, 2018 9:43:24 GMT
sorry raw not roar lol
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Sept 7, 2018 13:00:46 GMT
Roar will do!
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Sept 7, 2018 13:10:20 GMT
Late last night, I had been reading some old Brit Blues music mags (Blueprint) I had stored away from the mid 90s. Used to subscribe to them but sadly after a good run they folded.
Before they closed up the shop they did manage to get an interview with Bob Young. The editor met with Bob over a couple of glasses of vino at the Rock Garden Cafe in Covent Garden.
They talked about how Quo had to have a re-think after the pop phase as nobody wanted to book them. Bob had been playing in folk and blues clubs since the age of 15.
He said "I like to think that, as I say, when I got involved in '68/'69, there was a certain influence of mine went into it as well. I'm not saying that I was 'the' influence but I'm pleased that I was there at that time." .."because they went on to do things, you know, playing in clubs, in front of audiences and as you know yourself, with the blues you can go out and play to an audience of two."
He continued..."but it was good schooling, you know, once they'd shed the flared trousers and the management telling them exactly what they should do and the record company telling them what to do. The 'Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon' album was recorded by all of us with the attitude of 'F...the record company, f...what anybody says, let's put the dirtiest old sleeve on the front cover that we can put, which is that old woman with all the old fag ends and tea. It was a bit of a ...let's rebel against everybody that's telling us what to do! And I still think that the album was one of the turning points for the band."
Others have commented on the sound of the album which of course has a lot to do with the more basic set ups in studios back in those days. Peter Green's own version of 'Lazy Poker Blues' has a similar sound to Quo's cover version. As technology moved on then Quo, like many other acts, were tempted by all the new sweets in the shop in studios as they developed.
Used to play 'Shy Fly' especially, in the car cassette player back in late 70s and this track seemed to defy that rule as didn't seem out of place with the sound/style of some of the late punk and the New Wave bands. A certain urgency about it where something like 'Spinning Wheel Blues' would sound of it's time and out of place by the late 70s, chart wise.
I was quite impressed on hearing Ma Kelly's with them turning their hands to acoustic stuff such as 'Lakky Lady'. Possibly Rick had an obsession with Big and fat as something of a similar theme later on with Big Fat Mama?!
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