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Post by roadhouse on Jun 18, 2024 19:00:07 GMT
Just curious why the band seemed to be playing Lets Work Together quite a bit on TV.
I remember them playing it on Top Of The Pops at the time, but it wasn't released as a single weirdly.
Plus I recently found another clip of them playing it on another show.
So why promote something heavily and not release it as a single?
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Post by Quoincidence on Jun 18, 2024 20:29:22 GMT
I wouldn't say it was promoted heavily. It was only ever used twice for playback performances: Going Live, the day of the Guinness World Record '4 gigs in 1 day' attempt (September 21st, 1991), and Top Of The Pops (October 3rd, 1991).
Other than that, it was performed in full twice live, and that was it.
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Post by roadhouse on Jun 18, 2024 21:46:55 GMT
I wouldn't say it was promoted heavily. It was only ever used twice for playback performances: Going Live, the day of the Guinness World Record '4 gigs in 1 day' attempt (September 21st, 1991), and Top Of The Pops (October 3rd, 1991). Other than that, it was performed in full twice live, and that was it. But I remember when I seen them play it on Top of the pops and thinking why didn't they release this as a single?
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Post by iamcomplaining88 on Jun 18, 2024 23:26:39 GMT
I wouldn't say it was promoted heavily. It was only ever used twice for playback performances: Going Live, the day of the Guinness World Record '4 gigs in 1 day' attempt (September 21st, 1991), and Top Of The Pops (October 3rd, 1991). Other than that, it was performed in full twice live, and that was it. But I remember when I seen them play it on Top of the pops and thinking why didn't they release this as a single? As Quoincidence says, it was only used on TV twice, the Going Live performance was to promote the album and the 4 gigs in one day event, the Top Of The Pops appearance was part of the album chart rundown.
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Post by viza on Jun 22, 2024 8:07:50 GMT
Rhino is playing a P-bass with a pic in the first video. Immediately looks more Quo to me.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jun 22, 2024 10:48:02 GMT
@roundhouse I agree and I thought it was strange at the time. TV appearances have always been a big deal so why not promote the singles? TOTP was still a big show. Doing this on TOTP made it look like the band were out of ideas
I wondered if this was the record company having no faith in new material?
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Post by mortified on Jun 22, 2024 13:01:03 GMT
But I remember when I seen them play it on Top of the pops and thinking why didn't they release this as a single? As Quoincidence says, it was only used on TV twice, the Going Live performance was to promote the album and the 4 gigs in one day event, the Top Of The Pops appearance was part of the album chart rundown.That's right. TOTP dabbled briefly with album releases. Just in the 90's I think. Although, from memory, I have a funny feeling the album hadn't come out yet because I remember thinking I hadn't heard them play Let's Work Together before apart from the snippet in the Anniversary Waltz single. Someone somewhere maybe toyed with the idea of it being a single because they also played it live in Glasgow during the 4 gigs in a day thing. The choice to play Let's Work Together on TOTP was presumably meant to promote the forthcoming album. All guesswork though ๐
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Post by iamcomplaining88 on Jun 22, 2024 14:16:36 GMT
As Quoincidence says, it was only used on TV twice, the Going Live performance was to promote the album and the 4 gigs in one day event, the Top Of The Pops appearance was part of the album chart rundown.That's right. TOTP dabbled briefly with album releases. Just in the 90's I think. Although, from memory, I have a funny feeling the album hadn't come out yet because I remember thinking I hadn't heard them play Let's Work Together before apart from the snippet in the Anniversary Waltz single. Someone somewhere maybe toyed with the idea of it being a single because they also played it live in Glasgow during the 4 gigs in a day thing. The choice to play Let's Work Together on TOTP was presumably meant to promote the forthcoming album. All guesswork though ๐ As I already explained, Let's Work Together was part of the album chart rundown, which you can see in the graphic as the song starts, why would they play the single when they were booked to perform an album track? Mortified you agreed with me in your first line, then in your second last line you said it was presumably meant to promote the album. Lol Old age is creeping in mate. Lol
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Post by Quoincidence on Jun 22, 2024 16:31:12 GMT
As Quoincidence says, it was only used on TV twice, the Going Live performance was to promote the album and the 4 gigs in one day event, the Top Of The Pops appearance was part of the album chart rundown.That's right. TOTP dabbled briefly with album releases. Just in the 90's I think. Although, from memory, I have a funny feeling the album hadn't come out yet because I remember thinking I hadn't heard them play Let's Work Together before apart from the snippet in the Anniversary Waltz single. Someone somewhere maybe toyed with the idea of it being a single because they also played it live in Glasgow during the 4 gigs in a day thing.ย The choice to play Let's Work Together on TOTP was presumably meant to promote the forthcoming album. All guesswork though ๐ The RTYD album was released on the Monday (23.9.1991) following the world record attempt.
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Post by roadhouse on Jun 22, 2024 17:19:21 GMT
Working from memory if it serves me correctly the Top of the pops performance of Lets work together was a week or two after the Rock til you drop album had already been released, not before.
I remember watching it and thinking this is strange as I thought Fakin the blues was meant to be out by now. Plus I would have already played the album quite a bit so I already was no stranger to Lets Work Together, but just a bit surprised at the kaios that seemed to be going on within Quo and how they were being managed. One minute fans are told Fakin the blues is the new single, the next minute Quo are on Top of the pops and another show promoting it would seem at the time Lets Work Together.
It was difficult being a fan at the time, especially after the two flopped singles, Quo's biggest flops since the 60's,we didn't need the confusion of what is meant to be released and what actually was released.
I mean let's be honest, it's a miracle the single Rock til you drop was a top 40 hit at all. It had zero promotion, I don't remember it on tv or the radio at all. So much time, money and effort was wasted promoting songs that never became singles, yet zero promotion on the songs that were singles. These were frustrating times, I do remember thinking that.
To be honest things never truely improved from a fans perspective until Quo started having a few hits again like Jam side down, The party ain't over yet, You'll come round, which we're an improvement, but sadly still not the dizzy heights we had with the big hits in the 70's and 80's, everything we're hits, Quo couldn't put a foot wrong.
Sadly the comeback in 86 seemed to quickly lose momentum in my opinion. Some fans question if it should have happened at all, or so soon after the End of the road tour. Perhaps a long break was needed, like a few years or something, and come back fresh in 1990,instead of having to sell out by then recording singles like Anniversary Waltz. By then Quo had become a pale shadow of the mega band they once were.
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Post by Quoincidence on Jun 22, 2024 17:20:53 GMT
I'd also forgotten about this playback performance of Let's Work Together, which boosts it up to 3 TV performances.
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Post by roadhouse on Jun 22, 2024 17:42:56 GMT
I'd also forgotten about this playback performance of Let's Work Together, which boosts it up to 3 TV performances. Thats what I mean, it was frustrating, and confusing to be a fan during those years. Far too much confusion around what was going to be singles, and far too much time and money wasted on playing songs on the TV that never got released as singles. In the old days at least one single was released and had become a hit and gone again before the album be released. It seems odd using a song like Lets Work Together to celebrate the success of the album being top ten, but not to capatilise on it and release it as a single, it makes no sense to me. Yet release singles like Rock til you drop and do nothing with it. Very strange times indeed.
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Post by theprogfather on Jun 22, 2024 18:10:34 GMT
I'd also forgotten about this playback performance of Let's Work Together, which boosts it up to 3 TV performances. Thats what I mean, it was frustrating, and confusing to be a fan during those years. Far too much confusion around what was going to be singles, and far too much time and money wasted on playing songs on the TV that never got released as singles. In the old days at least one single was released and had become a hit and gone again before the album be released. It seems odd using a song like Lets Work Together to celebrate the success of the album being top ten, but not to capatilise on it and release it as a single, it makes no sense to me. Yet release singles like Rock til you drop and do nothing with it. Very strange times indeed. I wasn't confused or frustrated, I loved it at the time.
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Post by roadhouse on Jun 22, 2024 22:04:47 GMT
Thats what I mean, it was frustrating, and confusing to be a fan during those years. Far too much confusion around what was going to be singles, and far too much time and money wasted on playing songs on the TV that never got released as singles. In the old days at least one single was released and had become a hit and gone again before the album be released. It seems odd using a song like Lets Work Together to celebrate the success of the album being top ten, but not to capatilise on it and release it as a single, it makes no sense to me. Yet release singles like Rock til you drop and do nothing with it. Very strange times indeed. I wasn't confused or frustrated, I loved it at the time. You loved not knowing how to follow the band you loved?
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Post by theprogfather on Jun 22, 2024 22:29:57 GMT
I wasn't confused or frustrated, I loved it at the time. You loved not knowing how to follow the band you loved? I knew how to follow the band I love, by listening with my ears and attending great gigs. Rock 'Til You Drop is a great album and the tour was fantastic, what's not to love about that? If you were confused with Quo at that time then that's on you, for me it went tits up when they made that awful song with Man Utd.
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