matt
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Post by matt on Mar 28, 2023 7:34:49 GMT
It all started with No Contract
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gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Mar 28, 2023 21:14:44 GMT
It all started with No Contract Or Coming and Going?
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matt
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Post by matt on Mar 28, 2023 22:21:08 GMT
I think coming and going is great though. I love the outdo. And the intro. And the harmonica. But I take the point
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Post by freewilly on Mar 29, 2023 8:38:48 GMT
It all started with No Contract Or Coming and Going? I wouldn't say that was Rick "shouting" Don't Drive My Car in the chorus though... BFM he was shouting the outro for years before. It's funny though, people say Francis hates Rick's rock voice. He says so himself yet, he loves Overdose and even says Rick's vocal was great... Strange stuff
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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 Mar 30, 2023 19:29:11 GMT
Always my favourite track on the album but it didn't have much competition. The title track is the only one pushing it close for me. It's one of those that would have benefited hugely from a better arrangement. And the production seems very dull. In other words, plenty of unfulfilled potential. It does have one of my favourite Quo lyrics though; " There's a hole in the bed where I ain't seen you for days; got a pain in my head coz I'm back to my bad old ways" Typical Rick really. Oh! What A Night 11 years on "It's one of those that would have benefited hugely from a better arrangement." Backwards?[sorry, I really tried - but just I couldn't resist] ".tnemegnarra retteb a morf yleguh detifeneb evah dluow taht esoht fo eno s'tI"
Nope, still sh*te.
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allyp
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Post by allyp on Apr 1, 2023 9:05:09 GMT
Rick wrote co/wrote some lovely ballads up until about Just supposin and I think these type of songs regarding his voice was his strongpoint. I know he co wrote some of the harder stuff like the “Quo” album with Alan and surprised the two hardly collaborated on record after that as he didn’t really have a consistent songwriting partner like Francis had wit Bob or Bernie. When he started working with pip williams this is when we got the shouty rock songs being produced. I like the music energy of some of them but Rick had a lovely soulful voice and should had made more of it in latter years really. Francis has mentioned this a few times in interviews and books but it isn’t a put down in any way.
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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 Apr 1, 2023 9:35:24 GMT
The ballads or slower tracks Quo recorded up to maybe 1977 were pretty good in the main. Most had a bluesy feel. After that, a large proportion of them became a bit sugary. A bit dull even.
Its interesting that most of these slower songs up that point were not written by Francis; they were either by Rick or Alan. Once Francis took up the mantle, I was never really a fan of his style of composition. Most were written mainly with Bernie Frost.
If you think about it, things turned on their head after the mid-70's with Rick in particular trying to write more rock songs and Francis going the other way.
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