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Post by thewildone on Oct 30, 2022 0:35:01 GMT
Does my head in, just 10 years after Hello. What happened?! (Rossi is the answer)
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matt
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Post by matt on Oct 30, 2022 8:29:14 GMT
Lots of reason
No contract < reason for living / 4500 times Your kind of love < blue eyed lady Marguerita time < Caroline Pete kircher < john coghlan
People can moan about Rossi’s ruining quo, but he is also what made them great. Just look at the writing credits on Hello
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Post by markquo on Oct 30, 2022 9:18:33 GMT
Lots of reason No contract < reason for living / 4500 times Your kind of love < blue eyed lady Marguerita time < Caroline Pete kircher < john coghlan People can moan about Rossi’s ruining quo, but he is also what made them great. Just look at the writing credits on Hello Nothing wrong with Petes drumming he was a more than adequate replacement for JC. He suffered in the studio due to poor material and recording. Live he was excellent Cheers
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Post by matt on Oct 30, 2022 9:27:48 GMT
Lots of reason No contract < reason for living / 4500 times Your kind of love < blue eyed lady Marguerita time < Caroline Pete kircher < john coghlan People can moan about Rossi’s ruining quo, but he is also what made them great. Just look at the writing credits on Hello Nothing wrong with Petes drumming he was a more than adequate replacement for JC. He suffered in the studio due to poor material and recording. Live he was excellent Cheers All true. Pete was metronomic and powerful. But nothing in 1982 or back to back (or live for that matter) matches say Mystery song. Or Just take me.
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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 Oct 30, 2022 10:12:24 GMT
Not my least favourite album, but almost. Certainly my biggest disappointment as a Quo fan when it came out. After this, my expectations were lowered considerably so disappointment became less of an issue. Just as well really However, regardless of the in-fighting and the drugs and the perceived poor quality of the album by us lot, it spawned 4 hit singles, two of them top 10. Job done, some would say. I didn't like any of the singles. I thought every one of them was limp and uninspired, as were the choices of B-sides. Not one new song except Stay The Night and it ended up on the album anyway. But they sold. Marguerita Time by the Christmas bucketload. It spoke volumes for me that Too Close To The Ground was the best track on the album - and should have been a single. When the ballad is the best Quo track, an area of writing that their track record suggests they're not particularly good at, it indicated the writing was on the wall. Pun intended Everyone was to blame and no one was to blame. We now know it was falling apart. We didn't then. Everything is easy in retrospect.
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gerh
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Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
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Post by gerh on Oct 30, 2022 10:49:16 GMT
Yeah, my gut reaction to hearing ‘Back to Back’ is “it was crap”. But really, it’s not - just some of the songs are… and some of them are fine… and TCTTG is the standout. To me, FAR worse was to come so I’ve made my peace with B2B (but GDTT is STILL the pinnacle of pop rubbish!)
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Post by quovadis on Oct 30, 2022 11:25:23 GMT
To me tcttg is the best song on a poor album rossi vocals superb gr8 ballad
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Post by dennis on Oct 30, 2022 11:37:28 GMT
I thought it was a slight improvement on it's predecessor, but they haven't released anything worthy of the Quo name since John Left, & nothing great since 1976, imo. They were still a great live band until Alan was booted out, Pete was a worthy substitute for John on tour.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Oct 30, 2022 11:49:41 GMT
It's a bit of a shock to be reminded (thanks Mortified) that B2B had four hit singles ... I don't know what that says about the charts in the early 80s, which spawned a helluva lot of good music, most of it which was not a particular fave rave of mine but was still good. It must mean AOT that the public was still very attached to the Quo sound or what of it remained by that time. There's nothing wrong with gdtt that removing the fweep fweep keyboards wouldn't have fixed, as pop music. Ol Rag Blues is a really weak song about nothing. I don't know why it ever got released but I admit some folk love it, so there must be a reason. Mess of the Blues was only ever brought to life by Elvis's pomp and circumstance. I like Marguerita Time, it's not a song I would have bought, but I enjoyed it when it came up on the radio. The world's most irritating song, but somehow inescapable, like an earworm. The album is a mix up which doesn't even hang together as a good pop album. My favourite remains Win or Lose, mainly for the chorus.
I have never been 100% sure where the Quo sound went or what defined it. Certainly they never went wrong by giving the guitars more work to do. It was still there to an extent on 1982, and mainly gone by Back to Back.
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Post by railroad007 on Oct 30, 2022 19:15:16 GMT
Played it a while back and it's way better than anything since, the sounds still chunky and full and everything is in the right place. Not anywhere near them at their best but that would be impossible for any band. Status Quo stuck 42 songs on 5 albums with only 2 cover versions and all the original songs are never less than 8/10. What a collection when I personally consider Fine Fine Fine to be the weakest song.
So lets have this one as a reminder.
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Oct 30, 2022 21:55:48 GMT
Played it a while back and it's way better than anything since, the sounds still chunky and full and everything is in the right place. Not anywhere near them at their best but that would be impossible for any band. Status Quo stuck 42 songs on 5 albums with only 2 cover versions and all the original songs are never less than 8/10. What a collection when I personally consider Fine Fine Fine to be the weakest song. So lets have this one as a reminder. I think that's called an artistic peak
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Post by donttastemywine on Nov 4, 2022 19:35:04 GMT
I don't think I've played this since 1983, so I gave it a spin the other night. It's not quite as bad as I remembered, and it does sound like an album as opposed to a collection of songs if that makes sense, but it's still painful.
I'm now trying to muster up the courage to listen to Army and Ain't Complaining. It may take some time.
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Post by freewilly on Nov 4, 2022 19:39:17 GMT
Francis went down his route and grew an ego that, within the confines of Quo, was ridiculous. (Going solo and doing battle with George Michael, Duran Duran and Michael fucking Jackson ffs, with the tripe he was writing at the time... And I want Margot Robbie for Christmas)
Alan, according to himself, didn't know what to write anymore or in what direction. Big mistake on his part.
Rick had just gone through a traumatic experience and the Rock n Roll lifestyle messed his mind up even more.
10 years before, they were all vibing off the same page and relying on each other.
That's what happened
It's nowhere near as bad as 1982 imo
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steveb
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Post by steveb on Nov 4, 2022 21:17:22 GMT
always liked the album
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Post by iamcomplaining88 on Nov 5, 2022 20:02:12 GMT
I loved it when it came out and I love it now.
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