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Post by paradiseflats on May 2, 2021 9:57:10 GMT
David Bowie once said cover albums buy you time.
Was that it’s purpose or was it just a case of going to the well one to many times? (Thankfully we never got Aquostic 3).
Looking at the track listing I don’t recall a lot of the songs.
Like virtually every Quo cover since Roadhouse Blues. They add nothing to the original.
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Post by Gaz on May 2, 2021 11:50:54 GMT
I’m so glad Australia missed all those rubbish years from Quo. They re-emerged from the dirge with Heavy Traffic
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
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Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on May 2, 2021 17:24:40 GMT
David Bowie once said cover albums buy you time. Was that it’s purpose or was it just a case of going to the well one to many times? (Thankfully we never got Aquostic 3). Looking at the track listing I don’t recall a lot of the songs. Like virtually every Quo cover since Roadhouse Blues. They add nothing to the original. Hmm - not sure I'd go along with that totally - imho, 'Wild Side of Life' is better than any other version I've heard [admittedly, they've largely been of the C+W variety - so that's not a great start!! ]
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roquer
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Post by roquer on May 2, 2021 17:47:30 GMT
And in Spain all of this "massacre" came a year later, with a lot of publicity (and If I recall correctly, it could be the first time to see them for me on this tour...But a six year old in a club for over 18...Nah, I can't see that happening, and the tickets were big money to got the risk for my parents). It was the only time I've seen them in a spanish TV show...I was in a bar with my parents, it was a show that was broadcasted in the morning (like at the 12 p.m), the guys from the bar were friends of my parents (even my parents celebrated their wedding there), but for no reason, and I asked the whole time to the bartender more volume...And he never turned the volume up, but for the next artist, whatever the f*** was, the volume was up.
For the album, I remember watching an ad on the TV and asked my parents to be my birthday present, my father went with me to buy it...But, I have a rule, if my birthday is a particular day, I'll open it on that day, not before...My father doesn't have the same opinion, and the CD was opened the same day he bought it. It was played to death by me and my father for like a year...Then we get bored, and I could play it after that like 5-6 times. I'm so sick of seeing the DVD in everywhere.
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Post by paradiseflats on May 2, 2021 18:08:43 GMT
David Bowie once said cover albums buy you time. Was that it’s purpose or was it just a case of going to the well one to many times? (Thankfully we never got Aquostic 3). Looking at the track listing I don’t recall a lot of the songs. Like virtually every Quo cover since Roadhouse Blues. They add nothing to the original. Hmm - not sure I'd go along with that totally - imho, 'Wild Side of Life' is better than any other version I've heard [admittedly, they've largely been of the C+W variety - so that's not a great start!! ] That’s why I said ‘virtually’.
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,950
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on May 2, 2021 18:37:09 GMT
um... ok, so what other ones 'work' then?
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Post by paradiseflats on May 2, 2021 18:57:27 GMT
um... ok, so what other ones 'work' then? My point want whether they work or not but rather, whether Quo changed them much etc. Not my cup of tea but ITAN, is an improvement and different from the original. Other than that, I don’t think they do.
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Post by Victor on May 2, 2021 19:54:15 GMT
Carol added something new in my eyes too to the original from Chuck Berry, the solo in there is a totally different chord sequence and really adds something
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Post by freewilly on May 2, 2021 19:58:43 GMT
David Bowie once said cover albums buy you time. Was that it’s purpose or was it just a case of going to the well one to many times? (Thankfully we never got Aquostic 3). Looking at the track listing I don’t recall a lot of the songs. Like virtually every Quo cover since Roadhouse Blues. They add nothing to the original. Carol and Army tbf Even RAOTW
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Post by daverj40 on May 3, 2021 5:32:24 GMT
Never heard it and from what I can gather, hopefully I never will.
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mortified
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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 May 3, 2021 7:10:46 GMT
David Bowie once said cover albums buy you time.Was that it’s purpose or was it just a case of going to the well one to many times? (Thankfully we never got Aquostic 3). Looking at the track listing I don’t recall a lot of the songs. Like virtually every Quo cover since Roadhouse Blues. They add nothing to the original. In Quo's case, I get the impression it bought them a contract for a proper album of self-penned material. Riffs certainly did. Quo seemed to be fumbling about at the time. After the platinum success of Don't Stop somehow (after the 1997 compilation) they ended up with Eagle Records for Under The Influence. I suspect the Famous.... album was a bit of a bargaining chip by the music company. Artistic blackmail almost. Although that's largely guesswork on my part. Reading between quite well spaced lines No one is immune to underhand company tactics. Ask Taylor Swift
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gav
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on May 3, 2021 10:43:09 GMT
If i had to choose between this and Riffs as Quo's worst album, it would be this. Not based on the quality of the playing or anything like that, it's just the least significant album out of their catalogue - just pretty pointless, other than to illustrate that their roots are in early rock and roll. I suppose it does that, but it's a bit heavy on that era. At least with Riffs it was a bit more varied and drew from different eras and styles of music.
That said, it does have quite a nice earthy sound, and a lovely Hammond (?) sound on "Memphis, Tennessee", which is probably the musical highlight of the whole album for me. Most of it sounds just phoned in, lacklustre stuff which makes them sound old and tired. Which i suppose they were at the time. Good for them that they turned it around and we got another 20+ years out of them!
For a band that have done so many covers over the years, their covers albums are terrible for the most part!
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Post by MrWaistcoat on May 3, 2021 11:13:57 GMT
Far prefer Quo's S'YBIL to any other version, also mess of blues, wanderer, i fought the law, way down, bring it on home (great achievement as dozens have had a go at doing it), carol and BBJ (by a mile), wsol, sweet home chicago, when I'm dead and gone, and yes, raotw
I'd agree that raotw, S'YBIL and wanderer are ruined by live over exposure, but there's nothing wrong with Quo's recordings. Reckon S'YBIL is great on NTL and hard to see how it could possibly be bettered
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Post by unspokenwords on May 3, 2021 11:32:14 GMT
At a certain stage in my life when Quo were up on a pedestal the idea of them covering other songs was not great, just for the occasional classic (Bye Bye Johny/Roadhouse Blues for example), preferred their own songs, but I also thought if they did covers (or even acoustic) that they would rip it up and produce something of class.
How wrong and delusional was I.
They produced very poor mediocrity in their electric covers (and I actually bought them and attended the Brixton Academy and Shepberd's Bush events and sat thinking WTF). One reviewer of one of their covers album said they were "Dreadful. They sound like a really crap wedding band".
With acoustic albums they reached such a low point of awfulness that I fail to see any merit at all in what they did (and thankfully by that stage had stopped buying any releases).
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Post by railroad007 on May 3, 2021 16:30:00 GMT
Weakest of the three covers albums with a sleeve that made me wince even more than Don't Stop - and that's saying something Very few redeeming qualities. Even the cover of Roll Over Beethoven matched ELO's rather than Chuck Berry's. I did see them play that live though; as an encore in Gelsenkirchen. And it was pretty good. Didn't hear it again after that. Live or on CD . Sweet Home Chicago is the best track on it for me but it's still not as good as it should have been. Woodedz did an excellent rendition of it for a while with Freddie's guitar lifting it to new heights by comparison. Way Down was passable and I admit to revisiting these two now and again. Once Bitten Twice Shy they should've left alone. A song that you'd think was tailor made for the band lacked any conviction or power compared to the original. The rest was just fodder, including the title track. I'm even having to check the track listing to remind myself what was on it. I rarely have to do that. A mention in passing for the live recording of Forty-Five Hundred Times which pitched up on whichever single it was. It gave me goose-bumps. The crowd were brilliant and it was blistering for the short time it was played. Apart from the original, I think it's my favourite version. Sacrilege to the 22-minute worshippers, I know, but you like what you like, eh? However, I do admit to learning something. I had no idea Roy Orbison wrote Claudette. Education is a wonderful thing Quo's worst ever release? Quite possibly. 2/10 for the two songs I do play. Once Bitten Twice Shy? The original was great but I though it would get a real blast..it didn't.
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