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Post by 4th Chord on Mar 25, 2021 11:49:13 GMT
I'd reappraise that. Unless you've got a really rare issue. How much you want for it? Interesting list though. The first 4 in there are generally considered to be Quo classics. But then that's whole point of the thread really. Nice Whoops 😁 That's embarrassing. I've fixed it so no-one needs to know *cough* I'll blame the fact I just woke up. In the same spirit, I'll go for Quo's "Cum On Feel the Noize".
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Post by railroad007 on Mar 25, 2021 12:09:13 GMT
Obvious I know but Burning fucking Bridges. Bilge Bilge? This is nearly right, it was released as Burning Blidges in Japan.
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Post by 4th Chord on Mar 25, 2021 12:49:05 GMT
Obvious I know but Burning fucking Bridges. Bilge Didn't the official SQMB members vote for that to be included in the live set, and it then appeared in every single gig for the next twenty odd years?
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Post by freewilly on Mar 25, 2021 13:39:11 GMT
Agree with Herhie with the Hello version of 4500 times but, I think I know where that comes from...
It's good but, my first introduction to the track was live, where its so much better! So when you go and listen to the studio version, you're left feeling underwhelmed
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Post by 4th Chord on Mar 25, 2021 13:49:59 GMT
Agree with Herhie with the Hello version of 4500 times but, I think I know where that comes from... It's good but, my first introduction to the track was live, where its so much better! So when you go and listen to the studio version, you're left feeling underwhelmed NO! You are BOTH wrong on all counts. That airy gentle opening, Rick's fragile vocal, Boom, Spud's drums and those guitars and clash of cymbals, then in comes Frame on the chorus, massive riffs, GUITAR SOLO! The tempo changes! Rough, ready, unpolished, sheer musical nirvana unless you're listening to it via a potato.
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Post by roquer on Mar 25, 2021 13:53:24 GMT
Roadhouse Blues comes to mind. Never ever liked it. Too Close to the Ground: Looks like a favorite in the forum, but I heard it in full just 2-3 times in my entire life. Blue for You and Ease Your Mind: Comes to mind because of the thread of the Blue For You, never liked them.
I was writing a joke about Marguerita Time but nah...I think I love that song too.
There must be some more songs, but can't remember them at the moment.
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Mar 25, 2021 14:22:29 GMT
Agree with Herhie with the Hello version of 4500 times but, I think I know where that comes from... It's good but, my first introduction to the track was live, where its so much better! So when you go and listen to the studio version, you're left feeling underwhelmed NO! You are BOTH wrong on all counts. That airy gentle opening, Rick's fragile vocal, Boom, Spud's drums and those guitars and clash of cymbals, then in comes Frame on the chorus, massive riffs, GUITAR SOLO! The tempo changes! Rough, ready, unpolished, sheer musical nirvana unless you're listening to it via a potato. For me, the greatest piece of music my ears will ever hear. The soundtrack to my hairy, spotty youth. A genius of a track; a genius of a recording. Around 7 minutes or so of total and utter bliss
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Post by quovadis123 on Mar 25, 2021 14:34:11 GMT
4500 times for me especially studio version is just brilliant luv it one of my top songs🎸🦆
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Post by hershie on Mar 25, 2021 15:08:29 GMT
Agree with Herhie with the Hello version of 4500 times but, I think I know where that comes from... It's good but, my first introduction to the track was live, where its so much better! So when you go and listen to the studio version, you're left feeling underwhelmed NO! You are BOTH wrong on all counts. That airy gentle opening, Rick's fragile vocal, Boom, Spud's drums and those guitars and clash of cymbals, then in comes Frame on the chorus, massive riffs, GUITAR SOLO! The tempo changes! Rough, ready, unpolished, sheer musical nirvana unless you're listening to it via a potato. That's sort of why I'm not the biggest fan. It feels rough and unpolished, in as much as it feels like a slightly unfinished run-through. It feels kinda uptight and like they're holding back. You can tell by listening to subsequent live versions that the song was, in effect, unfinished by the point of recording it. The difference in how it sounds even a few years later on Live! is obvious; there's so much more soul and grit to it, and it's played with a confidence and freedom that's not present on the album. I think the problem is what you were exposed to first. If you'd heard the Hello version as new then you weren't to know that it could have become so much more than that. Coming from having heard Live versions over the subsequent years, you're going back to something that feels lacking or incomplete. I feel similar towards the studio versions of Bye Bye Johnny and Roadhouse Blues - they're lacking what makes them special to me. I absolutely love the RTYD re-recording fwiw.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Mar 25, 2021 15:21:29 GMT
Mountain Lady Dirty water Pictures of MM
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Post by unspokenwords on Mar 25, 2021 16:28:32 GMT
Rocking All Over The World!
It defined the band (perhaps ended up as an albatross around their neck) but I did not like it on release and still do not. (although John Fogerty's original is ok).
I can see why they did it and recognise their production/arrangement of it and new and excellent piano intro etc., but it killed of the Quo I had come to like and appreciate and sent them off in a twee, lightweight. commercial direction (which could be good but not the way Quo did it) from which they failed to recover/return from.
Never listen to it If I can help it.
If we are talking about songs made after 1976 I would need pages to list the ones others seem to love and I don't just get.
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Post by freewilly on Mar 25, 2021 16:39:53 GMT
Agree with Herhie with the Hello version of 4500 times but, I think I know where that comes from... It's good but, my first introduction to the track was live, where its so much better! So when you go and listen to the studio version, you're left feeling underwhelmed NO! You are BOTH wrong on all counts. That airy gentle opening, Rick's fragile vocal, Boom, Spud's drums and those guitars and clash of cymbals, then in comes Frame on the chorus, massive riffs, GUITAR SOLO! The tempo changes! Rough, ready, unpolished, sheer musical nirvana unless you're listening to it via a potato. Not disagreeing... Just saying that my first introduction to it was as a kid was on the Live album, on the More From The EOTR video and the RTDY album. So when I first heard it on Hello, it was weird not hearing the usual power and energy that I was used to and that could/can lead to people not grasping it ROLD is another example. First exposures to that were on the Rockin Through The Years, NEC 82 and 89 and EOTR videos so when I heard it on 12 Gold Bars, I didn't know what was going on
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Post by 37 on Mar 25, 2021 18:23:11 GMT
Apart from the post 1979 stuff which is mainly not up to spec in my honest opinion, save for a couple of tracks. My two songs that I do not like from the early 1980s that many on here and live audiences liked are Dont Drive My Car and Over The Edge. Had to go to the bar when those two were played!
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Post by charles on Mar 25, 2021 21:50:10 GMT
Let's Rock. Cringey track through and through That's being kind. Besides that steaming pile, my suggestions would be: - Don't Waste My Time. Controversial one but, especially listening to live gigs, this is one I tend to skip a fair bit. Not a bad track but incredibly highly revered for what is rather "Quo by numbers". - Forty-Five Hundred Times. The Hello version is so stilted and flat to me that I've never particularly enjoyed it. Vocals are weak as hell too. Basically every other version is fantastic though. - Coming and Going. It's too long for a track that doesn't really go anywhere. By the end I'm just waiting for it to finish. - Take Me Away. I've just never got into this one. - This Is Me. Dreary and uninspired, with awful twee lyrics that sound like they're written by a 14 year old. - Gravy Train. Legit gives me a headache. And we have a winner! I've never heard "This Is Me", but by the look of this list it must be a killer track. (But I share your sentiments on "Let's Rock", so there is some common ground after all.)
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Mar 25, 2021 21:50:14 GMT
Rocking All Over The World! It defined the band (perhaps ended up as an albatross around their neck) but I did not like it on release and still do not. (although John Fogerty's original is ok). I can see why they did it and recognise their production/arrangement of it and new and excellent piano intro etc., but it killed of the Quo I had come to like and appreciate and sent them off in a twee, lightweight. commercial direction (which could be good but not the way Quo did it) from which they failed to recover/return from. Never listen to it If I can help it. If we are talking about songs made after 1976 I would need pages to list the ones others seem to love and I don't just get. Everyone seems to love it? Unlike just about any other single, I can't remember anyone ever posting anything positive about this song! Im sure you won't have been alone in being worried about it when it came out . We know that the album spawned hundreds of letters of complaint to the band I wonder what we'd all think of it if it had never been a single? The last time I enjoyed it - really enjoyed it - was listening to John Edens beefier remix. I think the recording does have some of Rick's "magic dust" on there, but basically we've all had way way way too much of a good thing Would be great to hear from otherfans who remember buying the single
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