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Post by paradiseflats on Nov 26, 2021 14:18:00 GMT
A lot of garbage on here but I don’t mind them trying stuff out especially on a soundtrack album.
For me…. Run n hide. Has an almost Neil Young vocal and vibe.
Would have been good live.
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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 Nov 26, 2021 14:36:28 GMT
A seriously underrated album in my view, mainly because it was tainted by THAT film. I'm not mad on Looking Out For Caroline (bit of a plodder with dodgy slide work) and Mystery Island which simply isn't funny enough to justify listening to the South Sea vibe. Maybe it was fun to do. But it's a painful listen. The rest, for me, is top notch new Millennium Quo. I love Fiji Time because it's ska done fairly properly. As opposed to those faux-reggae breaks Quo tried now and again in the 80's. Falling In Falling Out springs immediately to mind. If you don't feel it, don't do it. This is an album I like. And it's short. Only 9 new songs. 7 of them I still play regularly. Got a huge poster from the movie if anyone wants to make me an offer? Actually, they gave us about half a dozen  |
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Post by paradiseflats on Nov 26, 2021 14:47:23 GMT
A seriously underrated album in my view, mainly because it was tainted by THAT film. I'm not mad on Looking Out For Caroline (bit of a plodder with dodgy slide work) and Mystery Island which simply isn't funny enough to justify listening to the South Sea vibe. Maybe it was fun to do. But it's a painful listen. The rest, for me, is top notch new Millennium Quo. I love Fiji Time because it's ska done fairly properly. As opposed to those faux-reggae breaks Quo tried now and again in the 80's. Falling In Falling Out springs immediately to mind. If you don't feel it, don't do it. This is an album I like. And it's short. Only 9 new songs. 7 of them I still play regularly. Got a huge poster from the movie if anyone wants to make me an offer? Actually, they gave us about half a dozen I have listened to Fallin in…. hundreds of times. Reggae never came to mind. On the way home I will give it another listen. See if I hear what you hear. |
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Post by granny on Nov 26, 2021 14:55:47 GMT
I like Rick's Mystery Island. It is a kind of follow-on from Living on an Island with the South Sea vibe pointing up the contrast between the two places. His voice was purer too, maybe because it was his own production.
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Post by paradiseflats on Nov 26, 2021 15:56:06 GMT
After revisiting Falling in I get what you mean.
It sort of works on the song.
Thankfully brief.
A bigger issue on the song is that terrible keyboard song.
Reggae isn’t my thing don’t mind British ska.
Madness, the Specials and the US, Mighty bosstones.
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gav
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Nov 26, 2021 16:11:13 GMT
A fan of Mystery Island too, i don't think it's meant to be completely funny. I think it's possibly a side of himself that Rick had long wanted to portray - the crooner, sitting on a wicker chair, on that island he keeps mentioning, maybe strumming a ukelele gently, away from the fast, rock and roll lifestyle he loves/doesn't love. There might be something in what Francis says about him that it wasn't really "him", there was a much gentler side, but he was seduced.
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Post by asthequoflies on Nov 27, 2021 17:05:55 GMT
Favourite: Go Go Go, superb rocker with power and dynamics. Guitar solo is a damn fine one to boot.
Fiji Time I love; Quo doing ska may not sound good on paper, nor in practise for a lot of fans, but from initial listens I've rated this one highly. Melodically and rhythmically memorable, a highlight.
Run and Hide is a gem.
Rick's Mystery Island for many years I'd skip on occasions when playing the album. Recently, not sure why, I've grown to enjoy it. Not a sublime ditty like Living on an Island, but it does have a charm to it. An almost singular charm as not many at all rate it.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Nov 29, 2021 8:59:19 GMT
Really like running inside my head, 60's meets the 70's. All that money is a decent Rick offering, sounds like a solo song
Either don't like the rest or have tired of it
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