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Post by dennis on Apr 17, 2016 11:40:54 GMT
Not sad that we've got the old material, but sad that they failed to reach those heights again. Arguably even sadder that you view Is It Really Me / Gotta Go Home as the last [& first?] of that ilk. You got me wrong i love everything up till r.a.o.t.w and some albums after spec w.y.w ect,but the release of the beatclub gotta go home and the original old ff is what the quo was about original hard hitting rock, after b.f.y album thay changed to reach a bigger fan base,still liked the odd album, and the concerts were great but something crept into the band that made them less rock, bad management and drugs ect but at the end of the day it was the band that made the final decisions on what thay wrote released, and most was sorry to say c**p i.y.c.s.t.h. for example no decent single off that album,we all yearn for the good days of quo weve had them,up to you what era you like be it ff or cq we all have our favourites,im old school from the 60s to 70s my era ! Likewise, I'm very much into the material released '70-Live!, the 60's output doesn't do much for me & the '77-'81 material is listenable but frustrating as it's a band not being all they could be, imo. After John's departure everything released just doesn't sound like the same band to me, although they held it together live whilst Pete was there but after Live Aid it didn't even sound much like the same band live, to me. Thankfully we've had the reunions, let's hope there's one more to come!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2016 15:14:56 GMT
Stick the likes of QUO on and the head starts bobbing the foot starts tapping and the brains saying 'this if foooking awesome even after 40 years' , then stick absolutely any album on after BFY and you just want to turn it off ! so much shight was rammed into the later albums , fook knows why .
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Post by americanquo on Apr 22, 2016 5:17:21 GMT
Decent proper QUO track , id go for coming and going or Over the edge though .Now't after them that had the great QUO beat we loved and longed for . Coming and Going is f'n great, a really classic sound.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2016 6:25:12 GMT
Piledriver is the last Piledriver. They've never recorded another bluesy album like it afterwards. Despite the 'all Quo songs sound the same' label, we know there have never been two albums that have been that similar, whether you like them or not (Maybe apart from 1982 and BTB with that thin artificial pop sound). So the question doesn't make sense to me. When I'm in the mood for Piledriver type songs, it has to be the Piledriver album. Same goes for all other albums, only I can't imagine a mood that would make me listen to say 1982.
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Post by Gaz on Apr 22, 2016 6:58:37 GMT
Piledriver is the last Piledriver. They've never recorded another bluesy album like it afterwards. Despite the 'all Quo songs sound the same' label, we know there have never been two albums that have been that similar, whether you like them or not (Maybe apart from 1982 and BTB with that thin artificial pop sound). So the question doesn't make sense to me. When I'm in the mood for Piledriver type songs, it has to be the Piledriver album. Same goes for all other albums, only I can't imagine a mood that would make me listen to say 1982. I believe gatesheadbangers op is referring to what,in your opinion, is the last out n out Quo rocker the band made.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2016 7:33:15 GMT
Piledriver is the last Piledriver. They've never recorded another bluesy album like it afterwards. Despite the 'all Quo songs sound the same' label, we know there have never been two albums that have been that similar, whether you like them or not (Maybe apart from 1982 and BTB with that thin artificial pop sound). So the question doesn't make sense to me. When I'm in the mood for Piledriver type songs, it has to be the Piledriver album. Same goes for all other albums, only I can't imagine a mood that would make me listen to say 1982. I believe gatesheadbangers op is referring to what,in your opinion, is the last out n out Quo rocker the band made. Yes, I know, Gaz It's just for me Piledriver isn't actually a rock album - despite it containing a few great rock songs no doubt - but rather an album dominated by reflective bluesy songs, is what I wanted to say. I actually find it interesting gates chose Piledriver and not say Quo. Quo have always had great songs on their albums. The last ones for me are the brilliant Frozen Hero and Dust To Gold from QPQ.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2016 8:52:50 GMT
The question asked "what was the last piledriven song?" That doesn't necessarily literally mean what is the last song, (or even collective of songs on an album) since Piledriver that you think can be equated directly as the same as the Piledriver album itself.
I think it should be remembered that Piledriver was specifically chosen as the title of that album to emphatically embrace the definitive hard edged direction the band had increasingly taken since the transition from fiskadelic to boogie rock. New label (Vertigo) and was perfect cementing of band image. The days when marketing of the band did exactly what it said on the tin.
However, such an image still left room for the diversity we see on the album - and is after all the type of diversity most heavy rock bands of the time were also eschewing. So just because the album was titled Piledriver doesn't literally mean that every song on the album is/or should be automatically 100mph 'in your face'.
However, the ones that are on that album like DWMT, Oh Baby, Paper Plane and Big Fat Mama are as archetypally 'piledriven' as you can get. Roadhouse Blues was also given that extra relentless 'piledriven' technique. It became more than just the blues based song it started as - the way it was increasingly ad-libbed from when they first started playing it about 1970 can be measured by just how the song ended up by the time of the Glasgow Quo Live album in 76.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Apr 22, 2016 10:48:29 GMT
The main difference between the Doors' Roadhouse and Quo's Roadhouse was that Alan sang the latter ... and they had a keyboard player going, of course. The Doors also used to use Roadhouse as a vehicle for chat, though they didn't nest other tunes into it the way Quo did.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Apr 22, 2016 10:51:29 GMT
Piledriver is the last Piledriver. They've never recorded another bluesy album like it afterwards. Despite the 'all Quo songs sound the same' label, we know there have never been two albums that have been that similar, whether you like them or not (Maybe apart from 1982 and BTB with that thin artificial pop sound). So the question doesn't make sense to me. When I'm in the mood for Piledriver type songs, it has to be the Piledriver album. Same goes for all other albums, only I can't imagine a mood that would make me listen to say 1982. Try "just discovered Quo live, don't know the other albums (apart from BFY) and going "Ooh, new Quo songs!" while the adrenaline is still running"! Worked for me
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2016 17:15:47 GMT
Roadhouse Blues was thoroughly 'Quo'd up'. It turned from an acid rock/blues number under the Doors, into a relentless rock boogie extravaganza under the FF.
I think a considerable difference evolved between the two versions - certainly ultimately once Quo had ad-libbed it fully over a few years. The process happened fast once Roy Lynes left the band and the keyboard influence which had made it mirror the Doors version closest to start with, was gone.
It became steadily grittier once Rick and Francis had ground out their guitar routines into it to replace the keys, whilst Bob Young still integrated with his harp appearances.
Alan was certainly perfect choice as vocalist for this one
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2016 8:09:43 GMT
Piledriver is the last Piledriver. They've never recorded another bluesy album like it afterwards. Despite the 'all Quo songs sound the same' label, we know there have never been two albums that have been that similar, whether you like them or not (Maybe apart from 1982 and BTB with that thin artificial pop sound). So the question doesn't make sense to me. When I'm in the mood for Piledriver type songs, it has to be the Piledriver album. Same goes for all other albums, only I can't imagine a mood that would make me listen to say 1982. Try "just discovered Quo live, don't know the other albums (apart from BFY) and going "Ooh, new Quo songs!" while the adrenaline is still running"! Worked for me I guess my imagination isn't good enough to be able to do that. I'd much rather go 'OMG what a difference !'
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