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Post by Victor on Jun 2, 2021 8:56:08 GMT
Looking forward to discussions/Opinions
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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 Jun 2, 2021 9:41:04 GMT
You can look forward all you like. Never played it all the way through Of course, we all know the singles. And I do rather like Technicolour Dreams. In a retro, 60's black and white sort of way. But I have nothing more to contribute
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matt
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Post by matt on Jun 2, 2021 15:05:19 GMT
Never listened to it
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Post by railroad007 on Jun 2, 2021 15:48:24 GMT
I shall listen to it and give an opinion.
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Post by railroad007 on Jun 2, 2021 17:40:53 GMT
Right then, here goes, without sarcasm or cheap shots.
In all honesty this is a wonderful record from the 1960's. As far as I know the band played all the tracks, not a common event back then. There are some tracks that are not up to much but nobody's perfect. It made me smile because now and again Status Quo emerged loud and clear, the harmonies, the guitar fills and Lancaster is a wonderful player. Technicolour Dreams is 60's pop but with a superb intro and riff. Spicks & Specks is another great summer type song. I love this album and Quo were great even then.
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gerh
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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 Jun 2, 2021 18:23:08 GMT
Let's play a simple word game...
Rearrange this well known phrase for my 'review' of PMMFTSQ Of Heap Shite Awful An [1st correct answer wins my German Import copy of the LP] [Not really, but...]
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Post by railroad007 on Jun 2, 2021 18:24:30 GMT
Let's play a simple word game...
Rearrange this well known phrase for my 'review' of PMMFTSQ Of Heap Shite Awful An [1st correct answer wins my German Import copy of the LP] [Not really, but...]
All great chef's start by boiling an egg.
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gerh
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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 Jun 2, 2021 18:26:48 GMT
Ah, I see what you mean. I should've put the LP back and bought an egg instead.
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gav
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Jun 2, 2021 18:28:48 GMT
I'd agree with railroad007 there, Alan's playing is absolutely great here - he's totally nailed his chosen instrument in the 4 or 5 years since the band's birth. Super inventive, fluid playing that does so much more than just support the guitars and drums. And a lovely, clear production too. This is what stands out most about this album to me, Alan's playing. He'd paid his dues already on the first album, IMO!
He'd re-invent his style when they became what they did in '69/'70, but it always suited the song. Caroline, for example, super simple bordering on amateur, but then he'd re-emerge with a super-tight, complex bass line full of feeling, such as Mystery Song, or Living On An Island.
But his song on this album, Sunny Cellophane Skies, brings a smile. I guess this and Rick's When My Mind Is Not Live is what Francis was talking about when he said that after he wrote Matchstick Men, everyone else tried to get a similar sort of song on the album. It's a funny sort of album, with those toy shop psychedelic songs, then straight ahead '60's pop like Spicks and Specks, and the very weirdly produced Sheila.
Technicolour Dreams is an all-time fave though, probably the best on the album?
Love some of the guitar sounds too. I don't know what guitar effects Francis was using for some of his little lead guitar fills on the more trippy stuff, but it's interesting and i've never heard anything like it from anyone else. Was he trying to emulate someone (and failing?) or did he just go for the first effect he found that sounded a bit 'out there' ?
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Post by railroad007 on Jun 2, 2021 18:44:17 GMT
Ah, I see what you mean. I should've put the LP back and bought an egg instead. As Gordon Ramsey said "*&$£ @"£!&*() ~?"$& Gerh"
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Post by gentlemanjoe on Jun 2, 2021 20:25:43 GMT
I can listen to 6os Quo all day, .PMM is a great listen, I bought the 2 disc stereo and mono album with interviews and added live tracks, it's good fun.
they were good at what they did, some fab bass playing on these tracks. It was of it's time and should be judged as such
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Post by markquo on Jun 3, 2021 7:21:34 GMT
I like to pretend this period of Quo doesn’t exist Cheers
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Post by dennis on Jun 3, 2021 10:56:49 GMT
Not an era that's ever really appealed to me much at all. However, I do like a few of the tracks with my favourite being When My Mind Is Not Live.
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Dark
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Post by Dark on Jun 3, 2021 11:46:11 GMT
I own a copy of the album, but I'm not sure I've ever listened to it right the way through. Having just typed that out I'm thinking I should probably just put it on eBay. But anyway, looking at the track listing, I obviously know Pictures of Matchstick Men, which I don't mind if I hear, but would never purposely put on. Ice in the Sun, which I quite like, appeals to the side of me that likes commercial pop music.
Black Veils of Melancholy, I remember as being an inferior version of Matchstick Men. While I recognise the titles, Gentlemen Joe's Sidewalk Cafe, Technicolor Dreams, & Spicks and Specks. But I can't for the life of me remember how they go. The other tracks, I don't even recognise the song titles ...
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jun 3, 2021 12:02:47 GMT
By the time I bought this for the collection I had all the songs on a million cheap Pye complilations
So I've never listened to it with the proper running order
As with spare parts, not for me at all.
Although the earliest thing I like is "almost but not quite there" by the Traffic Jam!
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