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Post by roadhouse on Mar 27, 2024 16:16:27 GMT
What do we think of Give myself to love?
I think it sounds like a Wham track.
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Post by quovadis on Mar 27, 2024 16:58:38 GMT
From roll over lay down to this☹️ this is pop music at its lowest ebb it's shite to say the least what on earth was frame thinking beggars belief🦆
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Post by roadhouse on Mar 27, 2024 17:59:45 GMT
I remember Francis opening one of the first Lottery shows with this track, with millions watching, I remember thinking God this actually could be a big hit, but it didn't even reach the top 40.
Not Quo material so I guess we can't criticise too heavily, but I agree it is a million miles away from 70's Quo.
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Post by allyp on Mar 27, 2024 19:43:11 GMT
Not great but the album has a few decent songs on it. Francis has disowned it a bit now saying it didn’t turn out the way he thought it would.
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Post by roadhouse on Mar 27, 2024 21:11:48 GMT
Not great but the album has a few decent songs on it. Francis has disowned it a bit now saying it didn’t turn out the way he thought it would. I actually thought at the time in 96 the album sounded very of its time. Quite a few singles potentially, Happy Town, Oh Darling I thought was great. It's not Quo or trying to be, it's Francis spreading his wings, which is forgivable isnt it? 😇 |
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Post by 4th Chord on Mar 27, 2024 21:37:07 GMT
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Post by rockonquo on Mar 27, 2024 21:50:58 GMT
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Post by matt on Mar 28, 2024 0:09:14 GMT
Francis wearing an ill fitting canary yellow suit singing a Jimmy mail knock off while the rest of the country was rocking out to What’s the Story by Oasis. Yeah bout par for the course that.
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Post by matt on Mar 28, 2024 0:14:08 GMT
I mean what genre is this? Who is it aimed at?
Meanwhile
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Post by tqontq on Mar 28, 2024 2:27:54 GMT
That image of the canary suit is embedded in my memory. Thought I had shaken it but Matt has reawakened the nightmare. Shocking beyond Margie Time shocking - well, kinda!
Branching out is one thing but holy dooly, what possessed the man to record such dirge? I'm still amazed to this day that Frame even thinks he is half good at this shit. Most of us would give something a try, realise it was a mistake and move on, never to return. Not Frame.
His solo version of Someone Show Me Home is also terrible. I quite liked the song off Heat but its destroyed by Frame's effort.
Sorry, former Rock God. You lost the plot with the musical direction you took. It should have been obvious.
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Post by camerst on Mar 28, 2024 10:35:10 GMT
Gawd ,that lottery video really is the stuff of nightmares.
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Post by ant on Mar 28, 2024 10:47:40 GMT
I never quite 'got' the album. Francis claims it was basically fully produced (i.e. Francis didn't have much say) by Tony McInnerny with very little input from Francis. Why would a major star who's band was selling out Wembley Arena 3 times a tour allow such little control? Surely the record company wouldn't have insisted that scenario for someone who was even then regularly getting top 10/20 hits? Weird!
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Post by kachunk on Mar 28, 2024 11:05:32 GMT
As Matt has already pointed out, Quo / Francis could not have been further away from the zeitgeist in 95/96 if they tried.
If Quo have released a Heavy Traffic styled album around 95/96, then I believe that album would have got some credible reviews and sales figures.
Give Myself To Love is some of the most insipid lightweight MOR I’ve had the misfortune to hear.
I agree with TQONTQ that Someone Show Me Home is a nice track on the Heat album, but I cannot figure out what was trying to be achieved with the solo version.
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Mar 28, 2024 11:18:01 GMT
First time I have heard it and it will also be the last. Nothing else to say
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Post by Dark on Mar 28, 2024 12:01:41 GMT
I never quite understood this album from the point of view of Francis. He has said in interviews many times how he enjoys writing tunes and melodies and creating songs. Think it is taken as read that he'd have much preferred to have had a solo career post End of the Road '84. So here then comes a record company offering him money to record a solo album, and he doesn't seem to get stuck into it. Just sings songs written by someone else and all he contributes are three old songs that he had recorded in some way before with Quo.
I'd have thought he'd have seen it as a great opportunity to release an album of material he wanted to do that wasn't restricted by the Quo name.
On the other hand, maybe his confidence had taken a such a knock with the way Thirsty Work was received that he didn't feel up to writing the album. As with the way the song writing credits fell, who sang all the songs, and who produced the album, Thirsty Work could nearly be described as a Rossi solo album. I'd also be tempted to say that Thirsty Work is closer to King of the Doghouse in style than most other Quo albums.
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