roadhouse
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Post by roadhouse on Jul 15, 2024 14:19:00 GMT
What do we think of Gonna teach you to love me?
Personally I think its great, but different to everything else on the album. A bit like it was written and recorded for a previous album like RAOTW or possibly even BFY.
Any thoughts?
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Post by dennis on Jul 15, 2024 15:15:29 GMT
It was in the set in early '79, but dropped by the time I first saw them in May
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Post by dennis on Jul 15, 2024 15:23:59 GMT
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Post by Victor on Jul 15, 2024 16:26:45 GMT
For me it's one of the weakest songs on the album.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Jul 15, 2024 17:11:22 GMT
It's a "stick around for the solo" song. I also like the ending
Time has not been kind to the drum effects
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roadhouse
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Post by roadhouse on Jul 15, 2024 17:45:15 GMT
For me it's one of the weakest songs on the album. Personally I thought its the most rockier type tune on the album. In fact a bit out of place. |
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Post by roquer on Jul 15, 2024 20:59:06 GMT
As all we know, a song very macho.
Nah, not for me, like most of the album.
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Post by Quoincidence on Jul 15, 2024 21:20:06 GMT
Dreadful, and what a waste of a spot in the setlist at the time.
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matt
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Post by matt on Jul 15, 2024 21:53:37 GMT
A crap song with an amazing solo break
Awful lyrics, Alan can’t reach the notes in the middle 8x ricks guitar is out of time in the first “I’m gonna teach you to love me….”
Knock frame all you like for writing baby boy, but this is two years after Is there a better way
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theprogfather
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Post by theprogfather on Jul 15, 2024 22:27:01 GMT
Definitely a favourite of mine from that album.
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Post by viza on Jul 15, 2024 23:56:13 GMT
The solo is great and I kinda like the bridge/middle 8 but the rest of the song sounds just like a long intro that never really takes off.
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Post by tqontq on Jul 16, 2024 2:23:05 GMT
On the live version in France it becomes a totally different song at the solo break at the 2.55 mark and again at the outro. If we just had those two parts to listen to it would be a great track!
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Post by mortified on Jul 16, 2024 7:09:14 GMT
Always rather liked it. Of course, it could have been recorded or certainly produced better, maybe more akin to the live version but it's quite far from the weakest track for me.
It wasn't a great album all round; bordering on experimental by Quo standards. But by this time, the writing had begun to fragment within the band so it was all very inconsistent. In retrospect, you can literally now see the pulling in different directions. The tugs of war that were just round the corner.
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Post by per on Jul 16, 2024 15:22:27 GMT
I like it a lot, among the better songs on the IYCSTH album (though it’s a rather weak album and was a big dissapointment when it was released the only real skippers for me has always been I’m giving up my worryin’ and Accident prone)
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Post by roadhouse on Jul 16, 2024 17:36:29 GMT
Always rather liked it. Of course, it could have been recorded or certainly produced better, maybe more akin to the live version but it's quite far from the weakest track for me. It wasn't a great album all round; bordering on experimental by Quo standards. But by this time, the writing had begun to fragment within the band so it was all very inconsistent. In retrospect, you can literally now see the pulling in different directions. The tugs of war that were just round the corner. I felt the pulling in different directions started in the album before it. For me personally the RAOTW album was too much of a change, or highlighted a shift that wasn't needed at the time. Its as if they tried to fix something that wasn't broken. And IYCSTH was the Perfect Remedy of the time, its only because the band were still so popular in the 70's that it was top ten. I think had IYCSTH came out in a later era, it would certainly have been the first major flop. Thank God WYW saved the day 🙏 |
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