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Post by MrWaistcoat on May 31, 2021 17:03:20 GMT
We've all known them, I used to find it baffling!
Sometimes people would give Francis voice as the reason. I agree it's not a powerful or soulful voice, although it still baffled me given the power of the music
"they all sound the same" would be the other reason, another one that I didn't get at all but you hear all the time. You know it's Quo, but then you know it's Floyd, you know it's Metallica etc
Played some softer ride on my guitar earlier. Had a stab at the solo from memory, and realised I was playing the mean girl solo!😆 Just slipped back to SR again and it was seemless enough. Maybe there's a clue in there...
Any other reasons you've been given for not liking Quo... By people who otherwise like good music?
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Post by paradiseflats on May 31, 2021 17:41:18 GMT
Never met any fan of classic rock who didn’t like Quo.
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Post by azza200 on May 31, 2021 18:32:02 GMT
They only play three chords is one reason. Some don't see the appeal of Quo
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Post by curiousgirl on May 31, 2021 18:38:19 GMT
I suppose you could flip this the other way around why do some fans of classic quo don't like all rock music? There plenty of rock bands discussed on here that I don't listen to. Black Sabbath being one, Deep Purple another.
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Post by azza200 on May 31, 2021 18:49:07 GMT
good point that is good example years ago i listened too a lot of Metallica, Iron Maiden but now i can only listen too a some songs of theirs every once in a while now. I like them still too occasionally listen too. I have lots of their live shows on DVD but could i watch a whole show nowadays i don't think i could guess its a sign of me getting old or my phase of liking heavier rock has worn out yet i can listen too Quo whenever.
Deep Purple & Black Sabbath i hardly listen too their songs but DP i have never got into i know Smoke,Black Night, Child In Time songs but i dont go out my way too listen too them
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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 31, 2021 18:52:03 GMT
Different strokes for different folks - be a boring existence if we all liked the same things!
But yeah, I used to always get the ol' "all their songs sound the same..." [and at times they do - but so f*#in' what?!] and "dan-da-dan-da-dan-da-dan" stuff - ok, if it upsets you that much go listen to something else.
I never got [still don't] AC/DC (all their songs sound the same!!) or Ozzy-Sabbath [boring at best - with some exceptions] but it doesn't bother me that some folks are crazy about them.
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Post by iamcomplaining88 on May 31, 2021 20:03:46 GMT
I've lost count of the amount of Rock/Metal fans I've met over the years who hate Quo, most of them being a similar age to me who just didn't get them at all.
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Post by azza200 on May 31, 2021 22:07:08 GMT
Led Zeppelin another good example of a band where loads of people cream their pants over them and think Stairway is the best the song EVER & guitar solo ahead of better songs (Americans mainly). I have the Live Zeppelin compilation DVD which i think is really good especially the 2nd disc and the Earl's Court & Knebworth material. Knebworth is them at their best those songs imo definite version of Kashmir. But Plants wooooo's & orgasm singing wailing gets on my nerves fast and is off putting for me very quickly.
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mortified
4500 Timer
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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 Jun 1, 2021 5:48:28 GMT
I can only really hark back to teenage and school days for any sort of answer. And it was simple snobbery. Wandering around school with Close To The Edge or Foxtrot or Pictures At An Exhibition under your arm seemed to give many a sense of superiority. Quo tended to be bracketed as simplistic. Maybe they were by comparison. But, to me, they were ultimately more listenable. One schoolmate who was into his Gong and his Soft Machine went to the same first Quo gig I did in 1973. When asked what he thought of it, he just said - and I quote - " lots of boot stomping; reminded me of Slade, maaaaan". He then went back to sleep under his imaginary toadstool. And that was the general attitude. Like Slade was a bad thing Since then, I've generally not paid much attention. The music media, in the main, didn't like them. Then they sort of did, then they didn't again. And when you talk about 'classic' Quo, just remember (whether you like it or not and I know you won't ) In The Army Now and Burning Bridges have to be considered just as 'classic'. Them's the rules folks
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jun 1, 2021 10:10:44 GMT
Remember a DP fan telling me that Quo "just weren't progressive". He thought Quo were just a heavier chuck berry, a throwback. The simplicity of the refrain of Caroline an embarrassment to him because a beginner could play it
Caroline of course is no less easy to play than Satisfaction or Whole Lotta Rosie
I also think a lot of rock and metal fans found heavy music through Quo. They later felt they had outgrown them
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Post by paradiseflats on Jun 1, 2021 10:24:14 GMT
Remember a DP fan telling me that Quo "just weren't progressive". He thought Quo were just a heavier chuck berry, a throwback. The simplicity of the refrain of Caroline an embarrassment to him because a beginner could play it Caroline of course is no less easy to play than Satisfaction or Whole Lotta Rosie I also think a lot of rock and metal fans found heavy music through Quo. They later felt they had outgrown them I think it like so many things depends on your age and when you came into the party. I started listening to rock and metal in about 1979. So as a result, many of the bands discussed so far were not as much a consideration. I really didn't know any one in my early years of secondary years who listened to prog. That was music for old beardy, cardigan wearers. Even in my early music years, I never really considered Quo a hard rock band or a contemporary of Zeppelin, Sabbath, Rush or Whitesnake. Probably because they were much more poppy than other bands I liked. They were as mortified says more akin to the pop rock of Sweet and Slade. Live clearly they were a major rock act. They have however as long as I have gone attracted a much more mainstream pop rock audience than other rock bands. People go to see Quo who would never be seen at an AC/DC, Whitesnake or Ozzy gig. Then there is those who have drifted away. As a recording act they stopped being a proper rock band to me in '76. Nothing classic rock to me about Status Quo since, '81. mortified you are right of course about the songs you mention, being classics of that version of Status Quo. I would define myself as a metal fan. Not shitty poppy metal but kvlt metal. So I don't like those 'classic Quo' songs either. Quo and other pop rock bands, Foreigner, Slade, Sweet, Spiders from Mars et al have always been a gateway drug for rock and metal. In the same way as poppy metal like Maiden are a gateway drug for real metal. You can't see my tongue in my cheek as I type some these comments.
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mortified
4500 Timer
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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 Jun 1, 2021 10:52:29 GMT
paradiseflats makes a valid point. It can all depend when you came to the party. I suppose that will apply to almost any act of any longevity. I wonder how many people who loved Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode subscribed to Barrel of a Gun about 15 years later? Or those who loved Cars and Are Friends Electric? went on to buy Crazier 20 years on? Quo have never subscribed to the view that they were in any way shape or form a metal act. Or maybe even a rock band. I know Francis might be that extreme in his views. But they have always attracted a rock audience. OK, now it's more of an ageing audience with a rock element scattered throughout amongst the party-goers and compilation buyers. But that can bring us back to the snobbery argument. Except where it was once prog or 'serious' music v Quo, now it's 'serious' rock music v some sort of light entertainment populism. You can't just like what you like in popular culture. You have to have a reason for liking or disliking it
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Post by granny on Jun 1, 2021 11:28:21 GMT
Classic rock? pfft!
What is classic rock?
It is the sheer variety that keeps me listening to Quo. From the snippets of Nanana in Dog of 2 head and onwards. I can remember my far off school days when we were asked to compare and contrast various poets/ authors/ composers.
Well compare and contrast these:-
A year, All the reasons with Paper Plane.........................................Piledriver
Claudie with Roll over Lay Down...............................Hello
Fine Fine Fine with Break the Rules...................................Quo
Broken Man with Down Down........................................On the Level
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Post by paradiseflats on Jun 1, 2021 11:51:57 GMT
I thought I’d put in google, bands similar to Status Quo. It surprised me that the 3or4 sites that came up, do pretty much have a consensus. They pitched them where I would on the melodic pop bluesy rock bands. www.bandnext.com/bands-like/status-quo
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Post by cammythemortonfan on Jun 1, 2021 12:06:22 GMT
I think as Mortified said there is a bit of snobbery there .
Yet, look at the “non Quo” crowd at Download and they went down an absolute storm.
Sometimes people just need to see them and allow themselves to enjoy them without worrying about what’s credible etc
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