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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 2:14:27 GMT
I don't know the track listing and it's 2 in the morning, so feck off. I canny be arsed looking it up.
Marguarita Time is pish. What the hell is Stay The Night?? Ol' Rag Blues is site, A Mess Of Blues and Can't Be Done are good, fuck the rest I can't remember.
4/10.
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Post by paul70 on Jan 24, 2016 7:52:36 GMT
Even if they were in 'the end of the road' blah, there are OK songs on the album. TCTTG is fine bluesy number, and the rest: well done Quo poprock-tunes with good production. Imo. Only poor is GDTTN. And... i like MT:-)
7,5..
And if the song is good and fun:
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Favourite Quo Album: Piledriver
Favourite other bands.: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Post by accidentprone on Jan 24, 2016 9:02:55 GMT
It's not great but I prefer it to IYCSTH and 1+9+8+2 and better than a lot of what followed. Ol Rag Blues, A Mess of Blues, No Contract, Too Close to the Ground are Ok and I really like Your Kind of Love. The rest of it is very poor.
5/10.
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Post by paradiseflats on Jan 24, 2016 9:26:08 GMT
An album of my youth. Used to play it all the time. Probably because I had so few albums. Especially Quo albums.
Hardly ever play it now.
Some songs still think are really good but nothing to match the glory years.
I have always loved Ol rag blues. Really like Your kind of love but the rest are Quo by numbers which is largely what they have done since. Sadly they are the wrong Qup numbers.
So it's a 4/10 for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 9:55:19 GMT
At least better than 1982 (which isn't saying much, I know). I've always loved GDT, even if it sounds very 80s (well, it were the 80s ..).
4/10
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jan 24, 2016 9:58:53 GMT
As with Paradiseflats, an album from my youth which was certainly good enough to have me and my mates listening to it all the time. Even then, we far preferred the older Quo albums but we enjoyed this too. Even though I bought the remaster, I don't remember listening to it. I don't think I've heard this properly since about 1986! When I signed up for the original sqmb, I was quite shocked at the hostility to the album, although I can get that now
This is commercial, air guitar, pop oriented Quo. By any objective measure, or if we were to compare to older albums, it deserves to be slagged. But I can't bring myself to do that. For the happy memories and many plays.....I'll give it a 7
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Post by kursaal75 on Jan 24, 2016 10:21:08 GMT
Ol' Rag Blues, is the only track I liked on this. I do like Going Down Town Tonight, but only the single remix with the Rossi guitar solo.
It's a 4/10 for me as well.
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Post by Tʰᵉ Wᵃˡˡ Oᶠ Dᵉᵃᵗʰ on Jan 24, 2016 10:21:57 GMT
A Mess Of Blues 5/10 Ol' Rag Blues 5/10 Can't Be Done 4/10 Too Close Too The Ground 6/10 No Contract 2/10 Win or Lose 4/10 Margy Time 0/10 Your Kind Of Love 6/10 Stay the Night 2/10 Going Down Town Tonight 0/10 After the disappointment of 1+9+8+2 we were ready for a right rocker weren't we. Weren't we? Obviously the band had different ideas. Again, a very watered down pop album like the previous effort. But there are a few highlights on the album (too few). Always liked Too Close To The Ground and Your Kind Of Love. Rossi's voice on TCTTG is fabulous. Four singles off a 10 track album? Blimey. Mess of Blues & Ol' Rag Blues weren't too bad, but Margy Time and Going Down Town Tonight? Please! Maybe they should have dumped one and replaced The Wanderer with it's B'side (Can't Be Done). And what on earth is "No Contract"? I've never got that pap, trying to be something that it isn't. And why is Parfitt singing "Give me Brian Blessed's" in it?  I did a remix of Ol' Rag Blues many, many years ago that mixed the official release with Alan's vocal demo. It was a little rough but sounded ok. Personally I and quite a few people at the time preferred it. Wonder where it is now?  Averaging and rounding the scores gives 3.5/10 |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 10:31:27 GMT
I'd lost interest in Quo by this time and although I did buy the Ol' rag blues single I didn't buy this album until about 5 years ago when I got back into the band.
I played it a couple of days ago actually....skipped a few tracks but I do like Ol' rag blues, no contract and your kind of love....the rest are pretty shite.
No more than a 4 from me.
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Post by per on Jan 24, 2016 11:03:07 GMT
Too Close.... is really good and Ol Rag... is quite ok. The Rest? A waste of time IMHO.
2/10
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Post by Victor on Jan 24, 2016 12:21:43 GMT
1/10
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Post by the_madness on Jan 24, 2016 12:43:13 GMT
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Post by dennis on Jan 24, 2016 13:18:55 GMT
The better of the two albums released by this line-up, which ain't saying much! Obviously, Quo were never going to sound quite like Quo again, in the studio, without John. Although this line-up acquitted itself well live, imo. I quite liked Ol' Rag Blues, Too Close To The Ground, Your kind Of Love & No Contract. I didn't even mind Marguerita Time but thought it should have been released as a solo effort by Rossi or Rossi/Frost - if he really wanted a solo career on the side, he missed a trick with both this and In The Army Now. 2.5/10
Also meant to say Going Down Town Tonight is an abomination!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 16:29:39 GMT
No, thank you. It does nothing for me.
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Post by kachunk on Jan 24, 2016 16:38:10 GMT
Francis managed to piss both Alan and Rick off by making sure that it was his vocals that made the cut for ORB and TCTTG.
It's incredible to think that this album was the longest Quo ever spent in the studio and most of that was Francis overdubbing numerous parts in order to make it sound better than it really was.He needn't have bothered.
GDTT sounds like Francis walked into the studio one day and found that somebody had left a synth and a drum machine in there.That person should have left the instruction manuals as well,because it sounds so amateurish it's embarrassing.
3/10 and that is being generous for this album.
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