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Post by blagult on Jan 18, 2021 11:42:00 GMT
Love it. Great sound ,powerful and great solo. Great vocal. Great ! Later songs like keep em coming tried to replicate this but I don't regard A&A at all as Quo by numbers. Wish Quo had tried opening with this in the 90's,would have gone down a storm. Francis liked the song in the end I would have thought "the hardcore" of the time would have thought this was an upgrade on the RAOTW single?? I can only speak for myself but when rocking came out and the video on TOTP i thought it was great to be honest. At the time. Remember that. Loved the vid. And when it went piling up the charts, to 3 I think for a good while, I was pretty proud of them. It wasn’t so much the single it was the album when it came out was the shock. To me anyway. A&A isn’t a bad song but for me I expected a better follow up at the time. Even as a hardcore fan who lived through it. Other people may have different views.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jan 18, 2021 12:49:24 GMT
Love it. Great sound ,powerful and great solo. Great vocal. Great ! Later songs like keep em coming tried to replicate this but I don't regard A&A at all as Quo by numbers. Wish Quo had tried opening with this in the 90's,would have gone down a storm. Francis liked the song in the end I would have thought "the hardcore" of the time would have thought this was an upgrade on the RAOTW single?? I can only speak for myself but when rocking came out and the video on TOTP i thought it was great to be honest. At the time. Remember that. Loved the vid. And when it went piling up the charts, to 3 I think for a good while, I was pretty proud of them. It wasn’t so much the single it was the album when it came out was the shock. To me anyway. A&A isn’t a bad song but for me I expected a better follow up at the time. Even as a hardcore fan who lived through it. Other people may have different views. I think the popularity and overuse of raotw has made the fans negative towards it ,something that's been an issue probably a good 25 years or so ! From what videos and boots there are from the 70's and 80's, it looks like it always went down very well. I was tempted to say "but the fans were so rabidly loyal then they would have cheered anything " but the silent treatment given to the band when they played rock n roll disproves that
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Post by frozenhero on Jan 19, 2021 21:47:25 GMT
This is one of the songs I latched onto the most when I first got into Quo. It's not Quo by numbers to me; how many other Quo songs have a clavinet and that odd half-time rhythm? (This is something that - if I remember correctly - none of the drummers after John got right.) Rick has the right amount of power in his voice and Francis lets off a great solo with some Chuck-Berry-isms.
To me this is just a blast of energy... more refined and 'produced' than some previous songs but powerful nonetheless. More so than RAOTW.
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Jan 20, 2021 18:45:06 GMT
Never been keen , doesn't make it anywhere near my top ten singles. Dont like it live and hate the acoustic version. It's a miss from me.
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Post by dennis on Jan 20, 2021 19:51:26 GMT
Never been keen , doesn't make it anywhere near my top ten singles. Dont like it live and hate the acoustic version. It's a miss from me. fence-sitter!
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mortified
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
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Post by mortified on Jan 21, 2021 7:04:51 GMT
Love it. Great sound ,powerful and great solo. Great vocal. Great ! Later songs like keep em coming tried to replicate this but I don't regard A&A at all as Quo by numbers. Wish Quo had tried opening with this in the 90's,would have gone down a storm. Francis liked the song in the end I would have thought "the hardcore" of the time would have thought this was an upgrade on the RAOTW single?? It wasn't much of an upgrade on Rockin'. Or it didn't feel it at the time. I still liked it. After a fashion. But this was when the cracks first started to show. The single had peaked at no.13. No previous 'first' single from an album since 1972 had failed to make the top 10. And when Accident Prone didn't make the top 30, it was a shock to my system! The album was - and remains - my single biggest disappointment as a Quo fan. There were poorer albums to come of course but this was the first time I hadn't loved every single track on a Quo album. In fact, I only loved about 3 songs on it. The rest were either just OK or not my thing. My world had changed overnight. They were now fallible. Brass? Backing vocals? Yer havin' a laugh Not sure if it was this review but it was single of the week in one of the music rags. Reviews of albums tended to be considerably less forgiving.
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Post by cactuspete on Jan 23, 2021 20:41:10 GMT
Absolute mind numbing crap.
Why didnt they belive in themselves and stop paying managers to make money for themselves.
Fuck me they were naive.
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