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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Mar 21, 2023 20:23:17 GMT
It's a very listenable album to me. Not a stack of blockbusters, but two classic singles and a bunch of good solid often slightly off the wall rockers. I also like the way a lot of them are story songs about the rock life or quirky lyrics.
" Leave out the back way
Not the way that I came in
because it seems like the logical way, at the time. "
I love that.
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Post by frozenhero on Mar 21, 2023 23:35:54 GMT
IMO, the high water mark of everything the band did after Live with Alan still in the band. Not sure they ever surpassed it, but RTYD and ISOTFC probably came close. The latter is, as somebody mentioned on one of the forums many years ago, sonically not too far away from WYW despite the different line-up.
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Post by charles on Mar 22, 2023 6:16:43 GMT
To me it's on a par with their classic period; as a very young fan, I was 12 at the time, I didn't even know there was a classic period for Quo. (IYCSTH was a downer apart from the excellent artwork.)
Looking back for me they never reached that level again, only NTL and Supposin' came close.
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Post by col on Mar 22, 2023 12:29:14 GMT
The latter is, as somebody mentioned on one of the forums many years ago, sonically not too far away from WYW despite the different line-up. Totally agree, ISOTFC sounds like it is cut from the same cloth as WYW. |
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Post by mortified on Mar 22, 2023 13:20:17 GMT
The latter is, as somebody mentioned on one of the forums many years ago, sonically not too far away from WYW despite the different line-up. Totally agree, ISOTFC sounds like it is cut from the same cloth as WYW. You're both mad  |
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Post by rocker1977 on Mar 22, 2023 16:56:08 GMT
LOVE this album. Not a track that I skip. I’ll probably get shot down for this but it’s my favorite FF album. That outro on Living on as island always was and always will be sublime.
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Post by rossiswaistcoat on Mar 23, 2023 9:30:55 GMT
LOVE this album. Not a track that I skip. I’ll probably get shot down for this but it’s my favorite FF album. That outro on Living on as island always was and always will be sublime. You won't get shot down, I'm clearly in a small minority. Btw I don't dislike any of it, I just don't think there's any classics there bar the singles Lots of truth to the "depends when you heard it" view. |
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Post by allyp on Mar 27, 2023 20:41:53 GMT
This is probably in my top 5 great production and everything pretty high in the mix. I don’t know why the American version of the album was tinkered with as it doesn’t really add anything to the uk one. Maybe apart from a few extended fade outs but chopping some of the intros was ill advised. I think maybe Bad company didn’t see the day of light as pip williams and friend wrote the track and could have been a royalty issue? It probably would have made a good closing track if Breaking away had not come into the equation. For some reason Alan got a credit on the 2001 archive boxset which was an error.
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Post by americanquo on Apr 3, 2023 3:33:03 GMT
Love the album, particulary Come Rock With me.
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Post by 4th Chord on Apr 3, 2023 7:27:35 GMT
I always felt that Whatever You Want would be great for a TV advert, but no-one ever picked up on it.
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Post by col on Apr 3, 2023 8:16:14 GMT
I always felt that Whatever You Want would be great for a TV advert, but no-one ever picked up on it. Oh, if only.......  Possibly part of the over-familiarisation of that song. |
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Post by sqcollector on Apr 3, 2023 11:59:15 GMT
I always felt that Whatever You Want would be great for a TV advert, but no-one ever picked up on it. The song was used for a TV advert in Spain, some long years ago. |
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Apr 3, 2023 20:35:11 GMT
Love this album. Up there with the classics for me. Less frantic, more than half of the songs have a slower tempo. Plenty of riffs. High Flyers and Runaway are my least favourites, but I don't skip them. Never tire of this album.
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Post by frozenhero on Apr 11, 2023 22:10:36 GMT
Totally agree, ISOTFC sounds like it is cut from the same cloth as WYW. You're both mad I revisited ISOTFC recently and it really does its own thing. But it's still closer to WYW than all the other albums that Pip was involved in between those two albums. This is probably in my top 5 great production and everything pretty high in the mix. I don’t know why the American version of the album was tinkered with as it doesn’t really add anything to the uk one. Maybe apart from a few extended fade outs but chopping some of the intros was ill advised. I think maybe Bad company didn’t see the day of light as pip williams and friend wrote the track and could have been a royalty issue? It probably would have made a good closing track if Breaking away had not come into the equation. For some reason Alan got a credit on the 2001 archive boxset which was an error. Bad Company is a good song - I might've replaced High Flyer with it. But yeah, they probably wanted to get evenly distributed royalties, and Pip getting a cut of the album royalties already happened twice before. Got to say that for all the flack Pip got and still gets, the songs he co-wrote were almost all high quality. |
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Post by Victor on Apr 12, 2023 7:50:24 GMT
Whatever you want - Loved it first, but became boring thanks to overplaying through the years
Shady Lady- Absolutely love it
Who asked you - One of the best quotracks ever
Your smiling Face - Like it a lot
Living on an Island - Never been a favorite
Come Rock with me / Rockin' on - Love it !
Runaway - Never been a fan
High Flyer - Like it
Breaking Away - Absolutly love it and one of my all time favorites
Hard Ride - Love it
Bad Company - Love it
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