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Post by Victor on Oct 1, 2018 7:14:27 GMT
A bit of an odd album this one. It's not nearly their best album, yet, I have a special connection with this one (And with RAOTW as well) for reasons. This one and RAOTW were the ones that really got me into Quo. I was at that point only familiar with Quo marginally. When I was 11 years old in 75 I had won 3 albums through a quiz in a pop magazine, some horrible shyte by 2 artists that I don't even remember the names of and On the Level. I did play On the Level but only a few times, maybe I was just a bit too young to get into it completely at the time I dont know...'Then in 78 I one night saw the clip of Accident Prone and one of Hold you back and was sitting at the point of my chair. I thought "What is that " Between 75 and 77 my music choices had become a lot more rock involved and I was already familiar with a couple of others like Black Sabbath which I loved.
I then got a casette with If you can't stand the heat and Rockin'all over the world and remember playing them over and over and absolutely loving it ! Especially Accident Prone, Hold you back, Rocker's Rollin' , Let me fly and Like a good girl. Also liked I'm giving up my worrying a lot (and still do). A few weeks after I got the casette I went back to the On the Level album I still had and was blown away even much much more and started to collect the whole back catalogue up to that point.
Looking back at If you can't stand the heat now after all these years of course I realize that there are much better albums from them. However, it still is a very special album to me cos it was one of the two that got me into Quo for sure and it will always have that special something for me.
As far as the songs go... the ones I still like are Accident Prone, Like a good girl, Let me fly, Someone showed me home, Oh what a night, I'm giving up my worrying. I am not keen on Long legged Linda and Again and again and really dislike Gonna teach you to love me and Stones. I love the guitar sound on the album ! Am not keen on the brass and the background female vocals though.
It's of course not as good an album as everything from Ma Kelly's to Blue for You...but while it shows a softer side of Quo, I still prefer it much over just about everything (with a few exceptions) that came after 1982
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Post by Quoincidence on Oct 1, 2018 7:30:14 GMT
40 years old this month... Not sure whether this was coincidental or planned I quite like the album and can listen to it all the way through. The only tracks I'm not overly keen on are Stones and Gonna Teach You To Love Me, which didn't work well live either. Favourite track off of the album - Accident Prone! Something about that song... All the band have expressed their love for it also, especially John and Rick. Would love to hear the full intro, if it still exists.
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Post by kursaal75 on Oct 1, 2018 8:24:27 GMT
The heat album, so it's 40 this year!!! I remember buying this album at Tower Records Piccadilly Circus in London, as I was in London celebrating at mates 21st birthday. I didn't intend to buy the album the day it came out, as it ment I had to carry it around with me all day, but the big adverts, NEW QUO ALBUM, OUT NOW and album covers displayed on the windows of Tower records lead me into the shop. I was hoping it was going to be a better album from the previous years disappointing Rockin'album and I did like the single Again And Again. But after a few plays, I wasn't impressed and I probably thought that this was the end of Quo and I didn't like the over use of keyboards and backing female singers on a few of the tracks. On the plus side I did like a couple of tracks, Oh What A Night, which I thought sounded better live, when I first heard it the following year in Paris and Accident Prone, a good choice for a single, but unfortunately only made 36 in the UK charts, their worst chart position with vertigo, since the previous single Again And Again which made 13. 4/10
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Post by markquo on Oct 1, 2018 12:20:28 GMT
Some ok tracks,LAGG ruined by the keys.AP always liked that one shame they’ve never put it in the live set would have made a welcome change.OWAN is brilliant one of my faves and LMF works well although a bit Quo by numbers. The rest of it I’m not fussed about glad they got back on form with the WYW album Cheers
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Post by dennis on Oct 1, 2018 16:22:47 GMT
Equal worst album [70-81] along with Never Too Late. I wonder if it'd be a bit better if it was remixed.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2018 17:54:48 GMT
Hi All, I suppose at the end of the day being a Quo fan is frustrating to many but to me I like the album and can listen without prejudice as we all take what we want from different albums. Some are not as good as others it just seems to me that like any artist you cannot expect A+material 100% of the time.
I appreciate that the bands hey day where in the earlier FF albums, just like any band they hit a road block with writing along with a changing music scene/drugs/booze/relationships within the band etc.etc.etc. This all affected they're albums eventual sound, this along with certain producers possibly wanting they're say on what the sound of the band should be like at whatever the music scene was happening at the time.
So IMHO being a fan of any band you take the rough with the smooth......
Geoff.
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Post by vivfromcov on Oct 1, 2018 18:40:06 GMT
An appalling album. "I'm Giving up my Worrying" is the second worst song they've ever done. "Stones" is the third. After the horseshit that was RAOTFW, (which contains the worst song they ever did), this was the album that finished Quo for me for quite some time. Utter mince. Only "Again & Again" saves it from being 100% shite. Incorrect! The appallingly bad 'Quo by numbers' Again & Again is shite too. Only in my opinon obviously! I get it that other people like different songs. Even LLL
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Post by cactuspete on Oct 1, 2018 18:48:43 GMT
If ever a band shot themselves in the foot.
Again Again was simply awfull playing into the hands of their detractors.
Other tracks I rate.
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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 Oct 1, 2018 19:28:01 GMT
The very first SQ album I bought and that was just after I'd discovered and bought 'Made In Japan' - gawd, talk about a backwards step for me! I was getting an awful time in school about being a Quo fan and that album made it f***in' worse! I liked some of it at the time, I always liked the kinda laid-back Let Me Fly, and [for me] the album has gotten better with age, but still it was a million miles from 'Hello' and 'Quo' [isn't everything tho' ?] I made the mistake at the time of loaning it to a pal of mine who was a MAJOR Thin Lizzy fan - he took it and went away to listen, came back to me a few days later with it and, pointing at the match in the bottom-right corner, said 'if I was you I'd get one of these and set fire to this'. At the time I couldn't argue! IYCSTH was a precursor to the complete shite of the post-81 years - if only we'd known then what FR was up to!
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Post by piledriver62 on Oct 1, 2018 19:46:34 GMT
Seriously bad album, not one decent track and I wont mention the backing singers.
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Post by 4th Chord on Oct 1, 2018 19:49:33 GMT
An appalling album. "I'm Giving up my Worrying" is the second worst song they've ever done. "Stones" is the third. After the horseshit that was RAOTFW, (which contains the worst song they ever did), this was the album that finished Quo for me for quite some time. Utter mince. Only "Again & Again" saves it from being 100% shite. Incorrect! The appallingly bad 'Quo by numbers' Again & Again is shite too. Only in my opinon obviously! I get it that other people like different songs. Even LLL It’s time. The finest track Quo ever laid down.
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Post by vivfromcov on Oct 1, 2018 21:46:52 GMT
Incorrect! The appallingly bad 'Quo by numbers' Again & Again is shite too. Only in my opinon obviously! I get it that other people like different songs. Even LLL A&A is a great song. Great to play live and it has a quality solo. The rhythm underneath the solo is almost perfect Quo. And I have to concede the intro is good. Maybe if it had had different lyrics, I might have liked it better.
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Post by curiousgirl on Oct 1, 2018 22:04:22 GMT
I don't have a strong reaction to this one. But I can remember all the tracks without having to refresh my memory, so that means I played it a lot when I first got it. For some reason back then I liked I'm Giving Up My Worrying - because it was odd. The tune went all over the place and I liked its strangeness. I didn't dislike any of the tracks specifically. Its hard to skip when you're listening on cassette. Now, I'm less keen. Not terrible but a bit meh. I won't getting a digital version.
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Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
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Post by gerh on Oct 1, 2018 22:17:30 GMT
And I have to concede the intro is good. Maybe if it had had different lyrics, I might have liked it better. Yep. The lyrics are horseshit. Aye, but no worse [or better, for that matter!] than 'I Love Rock and Roll'
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Oct 1, 2018 22:19:53 GMT
Incorrect! The appallingly bad 'Quo by numbers' Again & Again is shite too. Only in my opinon obviously! I get it that other people like different songs. Even LLL It’s time. The finest track Quo ever laid down. If I find myself singing along to L L L at anytime (doesn't happen that often) I usually end up morphing into singing Andy B's other Opus called 'Supersonic' which was the theme tune to the TV pop show of that name in 1975/77. I think Chris Spedding helped Andy out with a bit of guitar on the track.
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