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Post by curiousgirl on Sept 21, 2016 20:16:36 GMT
Since Ive heard all the 3 new songs Im just saying..... Songs from rossis vault. Crap IMO But 2 are written by Andy B.
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Post by whoami on Sept 21, 2016 20:44:18 GMT
Yes but even long legged Linda is from the acid man;) Since Ive heard all the 3 new songs Im just saying..... Songs from rossis vault. Crap IMO But 2 are written by Andy B.
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Post by taximan2002 on Sept 27, 2016 23:10:36 GMT
Chorus quite catchy and reminds me of Warning Shot...
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Post by charles on Sept 28, 2016 13:03:08 GMT
Don't interrupt me while I'm watching .
One of Everything is a joke.
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Post by Railroad17 on Sept 28, 2016 13:08:03 GMT
Thanks. Do you know who is credited with writing this one? Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Second verse is by Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa..the raw aggression is a giveaway.
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Post by Railroad17 on Sept 28, 2016 13:11:14 GMT
Don't interrupt me while I'm watching . One of Everything is a joke. Who are these wankers with Francis Rossi? Where's Andy,Ritchie,John and #5
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Post by tqontq on Sept 29, 2016 1:08:05 GMT
Don't interrupt me while I'm watching . One of Everything is a joke. Who are these wankers with Francis Rossi? Where's Andy,Ritchie,John and #5 Nasty electric guitars too making that godawful sound. Those noisy songs are not suitable to children. I can't play them to my 5 year old during bed time. Where are the nursery rhymes that we come to expect from Quo? Thank god they changed direction and now that Rossi has systematically gotten rid of all the other players that liked that hard rock stuff we can look forward to a brighter future of complete soft, plod along, country pop. One of Everything is a superb track and played with gusto and feeling all the animals on the farm will enjoy. Go Rossi Quo. Quo has only ever been about you.
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Post by Railroad17 on Sept 29, 2016 7:13:51 GMT
Who are these wankers with Francis Rossi? Where's Andy,Ritchie,John and #5 Nasty electric guitars too making that godawful sound. Those noisy songs are not suitable to children. I can't play them to my 5 year old during bed time. Where are the nursery rhymes that we come to expect from Quo? Thank god they changed direction and now that Rossi has systematically gotten rid of all the other players that liked that hard rock stuff we can look forward to a brighter future of complete soft, plod along, country pop. One of Everything is a superb track and played with gusto and feeling all the animals on the farm will enjoy. Go Rossi Quo. Quo has only ever been about you. Hear hear.Nobody wants one of those hard rock beat combos.We need to move into an era of mellowness and some soft slide guitars.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2016 8:22:07 GMT
One of Everything belongs strictly to the FR solo regime. Pleasant enough sounding and I don't dislike it in its own right, but it is far too much like rinse and repeat of so many others he has written over the years and shows that Francis needs a real dedicated country artist to elevate the country plodders amongst his repertoire to a level where people in general would sit up and take notice of the product as a more genuine artefact of that music genre..
I really enjoyed the FR solo project, and the versions his band did of some previously un-played Quo songs from albums like UTI, HT and ISOTFC were highly welcome - based on what was already becoming an uninspiringly boring and one dimensional CQ greatest hits set. Also, those solo gigs came before the FF reunion was announced - and I think although some obviously still didn't like the gigs or the OSAAT album, there was better chance of them being received more objectively than if they had happened after the reunions.
I remember thinking when the reunions came along (and I knew I wasn't going to be able to attend them ) that the last few years of Quo might still hold some of the best excitement and choice for many many years. High expectations maybe - but first and foremost it seemed possible that the FF would again become at least an occasional get together series of gigs between the four of them (maybe even a new recording) letsrock
Next up there was also the thinking that CQ would be inspired by the reunions to overhaul their set, be done with cheap gimmicks and superfluous onstage entertainment, and start playing (properly) a lot more of their own catalogue - and then on top of that, more solo projects to look forward to.
That sounds a heavy load, but actually by spreading the work so widely it would have resulted in shorter and less intensive gigging and the greater options available would mean that the band(s) could have systematically wound down at a rate that suited their dwindling physical capacities.
It also would have routed the country pop music into its own suitable pigeon hole so that the fans that resent Francis solo stuff over-spilling into Quo could take it or leave it as they pleased.
So many choices... which would have furthermore given management more get out of jail cards, and avoided the cul de sac carnage we are seeing this summer and autumn. It would also have showcased the wide range of talent that is (or rather was!) available across the whole spectrum.
They would also have pleased the full and diverse church that is the Quo fan base over various eras spanning nearly 50 yrs - and avoided alienating alienating any of them by allowing them to select what they wanted.. and what they didn't want. Or better still, allowing some of them to savour all the choices.
However, instead they have extraordinarily surpassed themselves in terms of capacity to stuff all this up and look umpteen gift horses in the mouth by putting all their eggs in one karaoke gimmick basket. And single handedly carved up a fan base that had just rejoiced at the (apparent) healing and coming together of the original members after 30 yrs in a bitter wilderness
A train wreck created all because of an obsession in persistently re-constituting and cheapening what was once a classic legacy as a route 1 to making fast retirement cash.
What a waste, and, frankly, what ineptitude. Very sad.
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Post by unspokenwords on Sept 29, 2016 12:27:29 GMT
What a load of mediocre cack. I am someone who likes FF Quo (and 1960's Quo) only but also love lots of other music in the areas of blues, folk and classic, with one of my all time favourites being Leonard Cohen who I have liked longer than Quo (and I first got in to Quo in 1974). I also love and appreciate a lot of country music such as the classics Johnny Cash, John Prine, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Kris Kristofferson, Laura Marling and a host of new younger artists some of then barely known (in recent weeks I have been almost obsessed by Anais Mitchell . Many of them are showcased on the NPR Tiny Desk Concerts. www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/ www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1B627337ED6F55F0 In spite of my wide interest Rossi's attempts at country music horrify me they are so bad. He simply does not have the song writing talent in this area of music that he so much wants to be part of. He does not even come close to the most minor of artists in the country world (although he might have a part in the awful Irish country scene which is a completely different genre!)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2016 17:20:33 GMT
What a load of mediocre cack. I am someone who likes FF Quo (and 1960's Quo) only but also love lots of other music in the areas of blues, folk and classic, with one of my all time favourites being Leonard Cohen who I have liked longer than Quo (and I first got in to Quo in 1974). I also love and appreciate a lot of country music such as the classics Johnny Cash, John Prine, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Kris Kristofferson, Laura Marling and a host of new younger artists some of then barely known (in recent weeks I have been almost obsessed by Anais Mitchell . Many of them are showcased on the NPR Tiny Desk Concerts. www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/ www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1B627337ED6F55F0 In spite of my wide interest Rossi's attempts at country music horrify me they are so bad. He simply does not have the song writing talent in this area of music that he so much wants to be part of. He does not even come close to the most minor of artists in the country world (although he might have a part in the awful Irish country scene which is a completely different genre!) That Anais Mitchell video is really good. She puts a good feel into her song Might well have to listen to a few more things from that girl
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Post by unspokenwords on Sept 30, 2016 11:20:48 GMT
Catlady have enjoyed your in-depth analysis on this and other topics.
I think Francis has got a lot wrong.
He refers to not wanting 'nostalgia' and yet the live set and his reputation relies almost entirely on the nostalgia of the FF set. He thinks that FF is 'macho' but is totally wrong on this. FF had a lot of light and shade which is what attracted me to them and I am far from 'macho'. Quo were never a death metal thrash band and I would imagine it would be equally possible for some one to be an FF fan and also like for instance Abba. They had that appeal.
I respect Rossi's right to make the music he desires but think he should do it as Francis Rossi and not in the process dismiss anyone who likes FF period music and be rude to the fans of this music who after all put him in the lifestyle he has become accustomed to.
I sort of wish he would put his money where his mouth his, stop playing nostalgia and put his own money behind recording and touring his mediocre music without any FF music to support it. I think he would be back selling ice cream very quickly and for myself this would be poetic justice for a person who is a charlatan.
Francis in my opinion needed the FF to create fantastic music and should realise this. He was riding on the shoulders of others. At the moment he has a lot of nodding lap dog yes men around him, who will not tell him straight that his music is mediocre and crap. He may be a brilliant musician, as are Andy, Rhino etc., but there is more to music than technical proficiency and I am afraid that Francis and CQ do not have the 'spark', originality and creativity and the technical proficiency just produces blandness.
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