Post by twentytwenty on Mar 4, 2020 9:11:52 GMT
Of course it is, it's all subjective. I think it completely killed the album by removing shakers and stuff. It's my opinion.
But to be wanting a new mix of one of the 70s best produced albums is a joke to me. Some of these songs could have been produced in the 2000s, that's how good of a job Williams did with this session.
Remix it maybe with extended intros a increase guitars higher in the mix etc. I think people would want the horns and backing singers filtered out but don’t think that would do any justice. This was supposed to be an experimental album and would defeat the point. I don’t think would be any good taking the keyboards out either. What I have liked about Quo over the years is some of the diversity. Sometimes I think they didn’t experiment enough at times and many fans want everything to sound like circa 1973. RAOTW remix was a welcome addition as bumped everything up in mix but the production itself wasn’t fiddled around with too much.
The whole point of a remix would be to give it a different slant.
When they played "Oh What a Night" live, they didn't have backing vocalists with them. When they played "Let's Rock" live there were no horns (actually I missed them, but that's another story/album). If the instruments are well-recorded (and that's definitely the case here), the mix could be "thinned out" to the basis of guitar/bass/drums and occasional keyboards without it sounding bad, as long as everything is kept in the same sonic space. Heck, even a simple re-run of the original mix without the Aphex Aural Exciter would be worth listening to, I think!
Longer intros (Accident Prone) and outros would definitely be another selling point.
Thanks. I have one on Backbone still waiting for the right moment, one for a release that may happen later this year and some other non-Quo related stuff...
I will add though that IYCSTH has been one of my favorite albums for a long long time, the drive, bounciness (you know what I mean) in Accident Prone, catchiness in Stones, one of my favorite songs from the album got slayed some pages ago (I'm giving up my worrying). Long Legged Linda is great as well. Just a damn catchy album with as someone mentioned, great playing by Francis on the solos.
On a different note, is it you that have that Status Quo YouTube page with all the live footage?