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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jun 24, 2024 18:00:41 GMT
Sorry folks, it's Famous in the last century!
I will listen sometime this week before posting. I've had an urge to listen to Way Down, so may as well hear the lot....
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Post by charles on Jun 25, 2024 5:06:54 GMT
70 views and nobody voting. Says it all really.
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Post by mortified on Jun 25, 2024 6:04:44 GMT
The poll is locked. I think MrWaistcoat has to vote first for it to become active. I think. |
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Post by theprogfather on Jun 25, 2024 10:55:56 GMT
Maybe a couple for me.
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Post by rocker1977 on Jun 25, 2024 17:28:29 GMT
Old time rock n roll, Roll over beethoven, Good golly miss molly and Once bitten twice shy. Really like these versions
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jun 25, 2024 18:11:11 GMT
The poll is locked. I think MrWaistcoat has to vote first for it to become active. I think. I've edited the OP so the poll should work now |
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jun 25, 2024 18:42:53 GMT
Had a listen
And guess what? It was fun , a bit like a long medley as the band race through short songs.
17 songs.
Famous in the Last Century"
"Old Time Rock and Roll" 2:57
"Way Down" 2:51
"Rave On!" 2:51
"Roll Over Beethoven" 3:07
"When I'm Dead and Gone" 3:11
"Memphis, Tennessee" 2:31
"Sweet Home Chicago" 2:44
"Crawling from the Wreckage" 2:42
"Good Golly Miss Molly" 2:05
"Claudette" 2:01
"Rock'n Me" 2:46
"Hound Dog" 2:19
"Runaround Sue" 2:29
"Once Bitten Twice Shy" 3:40
"Mony Mony" 2:58
"Famous in the Last Century"
First the negative bits. The fans didn't want it, the cover was awful and the idea was terrible. David Walkers worst idea? Here was the band implying that they weren't famous anymore.
Runaround Sue is horrendous. We get the title track twice but it isn't very good. Old time rockn roll is very poor compared to the original. Hound Dog is bad but they mimed it on telly. Rock n me is dull. Mony Mony doesn't work ( same as with fun fun fun, it was great at gig volume at the launch event)
That's 10 songs left, and all of them enjoyable and most of them less than three minutes.
Way Down is great fun, sweet home Chicago is top notch. Others knock it but once bitten twice shy fully hits the spot for me
Good golly miss molly is a blast, what an inspired arrangement they went with. The clip of it here as been viewed 5.6 million times (!)
When I'm dead and gone is a great little number.
Overall? It's really not that bad, I've heard much worse covers albums by other bands. This was every inch the wrong album at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. But now after all this time we can take the music for what it is, a mostly enjoyable fun album, with some, ahem.. dodgy moments
6/10
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Post by theprogfather on Jun 25, 2024 22:16:37 GMT
Had a listen And guess what? It was fun , a bit like a long medley as the band race through short songs. 17 songs. Famous in the Last Century" "Old Time Rock and Roll" 2:57 "Way Down" 2:51 "Rave On!" 2:51 "Roll Over Beethoven" 3:07 "When I'm Dead and Gone" 3:11 "Memphis, Tennessee" 2:31 "Sweet Home Chicago" 2:44 "Crawling from the Wreckage" 2:42 "Good Golly Miss Molly" 2:05 "Claudette" 2:01 "Rock'n Me" 2:46 "Hound Dog" 2:19 "Runaround Sue" 2:29 "Once Bitten Twice Shy" 3:40 "Mony Mony" 2:58 "Famous in the Last Century" First the negative bits. The fans didn't want it, the cover was awful and the idea was terrible. David Walkers worst idea? Here was the band implying that they weren't famous anymore. They said at the time that all the songs were made famous in the last century, not that they weren't a famous band anymore. |
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Post by roadhouse on Jun 26, 2024 2:00:36 GMT
The only track from that album I like is When I'm dead and gone.
I just thought Quo didn't execute the rest very well at all. It all sounds rushed, not that I like cover songs at all, but this was as horrendous as it gets.
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Post by mortified on Jun 26, 2024 4:29:41 GMT
I've never seen that Good Golly, Miss Molly clip before. Where's that from? I enjoyed it!  Anyway, to the job in hand. Like MrWaistcoat , I may have to listen to the album again. I really didn't like it at the time apart from maybe "a few" tracks, which is what I've voted for. I'd plump for probably Sweet Home Chicago, Way Down, When I'm Dead And Gone and maybe Memphis Tennessee. And now Good Golly, Miss Molly  The rest I cannot be doing with and I have always been particularly disappointed with Once Bitten Twice Shy. A song that, in my view, should never even have been attempted because the original is SO good. But I confess; maybe not as poor an album as my first impression (because I genuinely don't think I've ever played it all the way through). |
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jun 26, 2024 7:36:49 GMT
theprogfather yes, but that's not how the project was taken and digs were made in the music press. I think we can all agree that "the project" landed badly with the fanbase at that time mortified the clip is from the video of the launch event. I was so underwhelmed with the album I haver never watched the video, despite being in the crowd My review is way more positive than it would have been if I'd commented from memory
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Post by mortified on Jun 26, 2024 10:08:00 GMT
I did watch the video when it came out. Actually, I think it must have been a DVD by then. I'd have to go check. But it's obviously not stayed in my memory for any length of time But, yeah, I must have seen it before. Incidentally, Woodedz used to do a cracking version of Sweet Home Chicago. I'd forgotten about that until now. |
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Post by rockonquo on Jun 26, 2024 10:11:48 GMT
Like a few, really like When I'm Dead And Gone.
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Post by Dark on Jun 26, 2024 11:16:28 GMT
The best track for me on the album is the original track, obviously no need for the reprise, but is an okay tune and pretty much says to me that they would have been better off writing their own songs.
I do remember seeing them perform Hound Dog on TV and thinking it was just awful and that they had definitely sunk as low as they possibly could get. Though they had a good go in subsequent years in trying to prove that opinion wrong.
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Post by roquer on Jun 26, 2024 12:21:15 GMT
Mmmm. I remember playing it a lot when I was younger, because of the same thing that I said other times, I was terrified to playing vinyls and got them scratched, so I was limited to CDs and Cassette tapes.
But nowadays, the album isn't played a lot. Maybe the last time I played it was when I bought the cassette version. But this week in my mind popped the melody of Runaround Sue. The only ones that I like to play from time to time are the title track (the two of them) and Mony Mony. That's it.
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