New Release: Quoin‘in -The Best of the Noughties

Disagree. The original is pretty good imo. 

Not in comparison to what came before but, on it's own, it's fine

I'm with freewilly here. The first Quo version is a classic, even if it pales in the context of 70s Quo. But if you go through the trouble of making new versions of tracks, you may as well get them up to a standard, and I didn't expect the "new" RAOTW to sound like that. Even if it's just a partial re-recording of the Riffs version.

A few quibbles aside, I listened to all the tracks today and there’s a few I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed.

It’s a shame those compiling the collection forgot about Obstruction Day and Driving to Glory ….these would have been great to include. That’s a real missed opportunity .

From the Fourth Chord sessions I’d have had I Ain’t Wasting My Time instead of Elextric Arena.
Likewise from Bula Quo, I think GoGoGo would have merited inclusion instead of perhaps the title track.

The other quibble I have is about the Noughties . It’s very confused as clearly Don’t Stop and UTI were from the Nineties ( and the inlay booklet references this).

The other thing is , like it or loathe it, perhaps The Oriental should have been on there given it’s importance in the live set over the years .

The whole concept is a bit of a mish mash.

But , like I say , I did enjoy revisiting some of these tracks.

Even Tilting At the Mill where some of Francis’ guitar work is excellent .

And I’m loving the new version of Paper Plane.

All of the above. One of the reasons I was pushing for a FITLC reissue was that it would've chronologically been the place for Obstruction Day, Driving to Glory, Fighting with the Pack, Analyse Time and the re-recordings of DWMT and WYW. And I Ain't Wasting My Time wasn't on the initial European version of ISOTFC, so that would've been a real bonus.

Plus the decision to pretty much ignore all of Rick's contributions. It's just all very weird and I wish they had asked Luke to help...

Every single nightclub I've been in... Ireland, UK and a club or two in America...

Billie Jean and RAOTW

It's a classic! Whether we as Quo fans, knowing what we know, like to admit it or not.

We just hate the fact its become so associated with our band, knowing that there is so much better in their catalogue...

And yes, I say our band because it felt like "our band"
That's why we relate to them so much

Or related to..

The remix of Backbone is interesting, since it has some faint echo (giving the whole sound more presence) and the keyboards are deemphasized in favour of more guitars. And the snare sounds better.

Ta for that, this edition totally passed me by, I was aware of ITAN 2010 though.

The thing is...

When Mike Paxman was asked why those tracks weren't on the 2011 reissue, he said "because they weren't part of the UTI sessions" (except DWMT 1997).

So when I thought Universal had the rights to reissue FITLC, it made sense for me to push the inclusion of those tracks on there instead to have them as part of the series, since it doesn't seem like UTI is ever going to get a more substantial reissue - leaving aside the fact that POMM 1999 was added to the most recent version, but there was precedent for that.

Now that it turned out FITLC has been bought by the band too, it's all academic, as I can't see them agreeing to any of the ideas I put forward ages ago.