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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 25, 2021 22:18:14 GMT
Little Blue Eyed Lady. I was famous for about 3 minutes for saying it was a perfectly good track but didn't get why it was so many people's favourite ... then I got asked why I "hated it" ... don't get that either! I think all my Quo fixation receptors around that time were mopped up by Roll Over. Not heard ‘Little Blue Eyed Lady’ Mrs F, so can’t comment, I do however love ‘Blue Eyed Lady’. 😁
Maybe I was thinking of the short version?
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 25, 2021 22:22:09 GMT
... 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
That describes to a note my experience of the first two Led Zep albums.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 25, 2021 22:35:40 GMT
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
As half way through it was the exact and precise moment at which I became a Quo fan in 1982, all things Quo are in some ways not quite so towering as that moment. It is not possible for them to be so. So all roughly equivalent moments are equally as noble and timeless as each other. (This is my way of trying to explain to history why going backwards from the 1982 version to the Hello version was not a disappointment.) (I do love the RTYD retread.)
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Post by hershie on Mar 25, 2021 23:42:52 GMT
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.) Besides "Let's Rock" I'm not remotely suggesting that I dislike the tracks, don't worry! Gravy Train and This Is Me I could do without but I do still rather like the other tracks - just not to the same degree as some others do, or to the point where I'd consider them in my favourite tracks. That's the point of the thread isn't it?
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col
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Favourite Quo Album: Dog Of Two Head, Piledriver, Hello, Quo, Live
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Post by col on Mar 27, 2021 12:44:07 GMT
Trying to stick to the point of songs that seem to be liked but go straight pass me......
Roadhouse Blues - I'll take The Doors, thank you
Claudie - Lets down a great album, why play it live?
Fine Fine Fine - Just totally out of place
What To Do - Happy Bouncy Quo? em, no thanks
Broken Man - Just... goes nowhere
Mad About The Boy - See What To Do
Ease Your Mind - See Broken Man
Rockin' All Over The World - Hated from the first listen, still hate it now.
Dirty Water - See above
Again & Again - Repetition squared and squared again, lazy
Whatever You Want - Genius intro tagged on to a nursery rhyme
Don' Drive My Car - Nursery rhyme tagged on to a great guitar solo
Let's Rock - See Again & Again
Most of my other dislikes don't seem to be fan favourites, although I do like Mountain Lady and Dust To Gold
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Post by unspokenwords on Mar 27, 2021 17:33:57 GMT
Trying to stick to the point of songs that seem to be liked but go straight pass me...... Roadhouse Blues - I'll take The Doors, thank you Claudie - Lets down a great album, why play it live? Fine Fine Fine - Just totally out of place What To Do - Happy Bouncy Quo? em, no thanks Broken Man - Just... goes nowhere Mad About The Boy - See What To Do Ease Your Mind - See Broken Man Rockin' All Over The World - Hated from the first listen, still hate it now. Dirty Water - See above Again & Again -Repetition squared and squared again, lazy Whatever You Want - Genius intro tagged on to a nursery rhyme Don' Drive My Car - Nursery rhyme tagged on to a great guitar solo Let's Rock - See Again & Again Most of my other dislikes don't seem to be fan favourites, although I do like Mountain Lady and Dust To Gold Agree on your list from RAOTW on but love the ones above this! Jus shows how there are different perceptions. In fact I love and appreciate virtually all their 1960's psychedelic and material up to 1976 and only the occasional track thereafter. Gav in a reply stated about Accident Prone: "Just don't hear much of a "song" there, just dreariness. What's the appeal? Something a bit different? I'd like it for that reason if there was some meat on its bones, but there ain't, for me! It's the musical equivalent of a straight line - no peaks and troughs." and for myself this sums up quite a lot of the post 'Blue For You' output. From RAOTW on was disappointment after disappointment and your summaries above, in my mind, reflect my feelings on the singles after this when Quo tried to backtrack but it all simply left me feeling cold and thinking what has happened, where has the band that used create interesting material gone? 'Again and Again' as you say "Repetition squared and squared again, lazy", Whatever You Want - "Genius intro tagged on to a nursery rhyme". It is another example of what Gav termed "the musical equivalent of a straight line", monotonous and unrelenting boredom but the intro is sheer class. And yet I, and I presume thousands of other fans, bought this stuff out of loyalty, whilst being indifferent, and obviously sent out the wrong message to the band that the fans liked the product as it was selling and entering the charts! They then continued to produce the dross! Live they remained a different band because they played mainly FF period material and this also kept a lot of people on board. In reality however the band should have disappeared in the mid 1970's based on its recording output thereafter. A loyal fanbase built up supported dross after dross after dross...
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Post by Gaz on Mar 28, 2021 8:48:00 GMT
Don’t Waste My Time Claudie, And It’s Better Now Don’t Think It Matters I Saw The Light, Nightride Ease Your Mind Let’s Ride, Who Am I And then from If You Can’t Stand The Heat onwards it’s hit or miss.
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Post by frozenhero on Mar 29, 2021 14:48:59 GMT
I echo the comments for DWMT. Overplayed, imo, and really not their greatest song.
As for 4500x I can see all sides of the issue. I really love the Live! recording but at some point I realized Rick was singing off-key and now it's bothering me 🤔
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Post by paradiseflats on Mar 29, 2021 15:48:06 GMT
I echo the comments for DWMT. Overplayed, imo, and really not their greatest song. As for 4500x I can see all sides of the issue. I really love the Live! recording but at some point I realized Rick was singing off-key and now it's bothering me 🤔 There is no right or wrong. But DWMT is one of their finest songs to me. Largely due to the solos. Sadly the version Francis plays now is a shadow of the earlier versions live.
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sincity
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello
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Post by sincity on Mar 29, 2021 18:12:44 GMT
Some headscratching bizarre choices on here mind
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