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Post by rockonquo on Sept 17, 2021 3:49:19 GMT
Great, would like to be headbanging at a Quo gig at the moment.
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mortified
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Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
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Post by mortified on Sept 17, 2021 5:19:22 GMT
Too early. I'd get a nose bleed It's a good one this. Not one that gets mentioned all that often. Not sure why. Drives along nicely and is tighter than my "End of the Road" t-shirt. It also has that trademark change of tempo and key about a minute in which happens with many of the best Quo songs. And usually longer ones. Long Ago is short enough to have been a single. But they'd only have knocked it down to 2 minutes and stuck Rockin' and Whatever You Want on the B-side Excellent. 9/10
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steveb
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Post by steveb on Sept 17, 2021 6:35:36 GMT
great song.side 1 of this album is top notch
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Post by Victor on Sept 17, 2021 8:36:27 GMT
Really good track and one of my favorites of the NTL album
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tqontq
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Post by tqontq on Sept 17, 2021 9:18:11 GMT
This track always flew under the radar and even though a Rossi/Frost number it was a great opener to side 2 of NTL. Great guitar sound, great melody, rousing chorus, fab key changes. Ok the backing vocals were suspect but a great tune all up. Maybe I am biased as I love NTL to bits.
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Post by dennis on Sept 17, 2021 10:26:35 GMT
so so song on one of their weaker albums
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Sept 17, 2021 11:40:02 GMT
Really good, it's best bits are brilliant
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Sept 17, 2021 22:46:07 GMT
Not really for me this one. Sounds like corporate Quo rather than the rougher readier organic Quo of previous years. It's in my very rarely played box. Better than my never played box I suppose ...
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Post by frozenhero on Sept 18, 2021 16:52:28 GMT
I thought it was Rossi/Frost trying to write a song in the vein of "Rain".
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Post by unspokenwords on Sept 18, 2021 23:00:50 GMT
Not one I would listen to really at all. On release I played the album for a while but it then was put away and never really played it again (as all in this era were) as I thought it not really that good overall or worth listening to (unlike the magical pre 1977 releases!).
It is like two songs joined together and feels disjointed to my ears. The middle bit/chorus is pleasant enough and rolls along nicely but the other parts seem unnatural and a different song.
...and of course they have the awful male high vocals trying to emulate a female voice, which Quo regularly did in those days, and this is truly woeful.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2021 23:12:02 GMT
...and of course they have the awful male high vocals trying to emulate a female voice, which Quo regularly did in those days, and this is truly woeful. Totally agree. Rossi/Frost seemed obsessed with sounding like the Bee Gees with their squeaky backing vocals but with their weak, saccharine sweet song writing they only succeeded in sounding like the Twee Gees.
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Post by Isaac Ryan on Sept 19, 2021 14:42:39 GMT
I like this one
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