Cut Me Some Slack/ right up Rick’s street ?

I love the song and think it's the kind of thing that's now more necessary since Rick isn't around anymore to give us songs in that vein. Only complaint is that Francis' vocal sounds a bit too laid back for me, it might kick more with more upfront vocals...

Yeah i can totally imagine this one slowed down to around the tempo of the original ROLD on the Hello! album, with a bit more of a dirty groove and more of a more prominent rhythm guitar just thrashing out the chords, as opposed to what we get on Backbone which in the instrumental parts just sounds like the riff doubled up. I think Rick would have been in his element on this one. It's simple and to the point, a good approximation of classic Quo IMO, and as Victor said, partly achieves that by pushing the vocal back in the mix. I'm sometimes amazed by how Francis' voice still holds up after all these years.

Reminds me of that to. That's not a good thing.

Sounds like a lazy attempt to record a song in the style of a band long lost to us.

The notes are there , just lack the feel and touch and production of a great band. The production is overly polished and Francis stopped singing with any feeling years ago. Listen to his earlier recordings and he could put real malice into his recordings. 
His vocal sounds processed and devoid of emotion. He may as well be reading a shopping list. 

Me too!  Agree with you.  I loved Backbone and listened intently for weeks. So I'm never going to complain about it.
I think it's cmss and WFAW I will go back to, particularly WFAW. I ended up putting the CD away after 5 mins, doubt it will be played again until album of the months comes around.

Reality cheque is a fun song, a smile and reminder of what a bad boy our Rick was.  I can't see any similarity to cmss

I very much like Cut Me Some Slack and it is probably in the Rick vein, as it were. It's similar to a Parfitt/Edwards composition of old. Nothing wrong with that. Quite the reverse. 

But there is something slightly forced about it. I don't think it's the composition of the song or even the arrangement of it. It's a good riff and the lyrics reflect what the song is about. Not sure what the very slight problem is. 

The thing with Rick was, he played like a demon sometimes but it always sounded natural and effortless. The opening riff in this one sounds like it's someone reading the music and playing from the page. The track improves after that and these little "ooh ooh's" throughout make it a great listen. 

I'm being over-analytical, obviously. But that's why we're all here, no?