paul70
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Post by paul70 on Jan 2, 2016 8:20:30 GMT
7/10 ... don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic album, but there are other albums of them for me which are even better. Same here. Dont waste..Big fat mama...maybe Roadhouse , sounds of those tracks matched real fine, really breakin the walls :-) , but Paperplane -yes great- but its so damn lazy version. Where is bassdrum?. Dog album is for me better choice, and Hello! album was then just simply the TOP1
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Post by Tʰᵉ Wᵃˡˡ Oᶠ Dᵉᵃᵗʰ on Jan 4, 2016 12:47:03 GMT
DWMT | 10/10 | O Baby | 10/10 | A Year | 9/10 | Unspoken Words | 10/10 | Big Fat Mama | 10/10 | Paper Plane | 10/10 | All The Reasons | 8/10 | Roadhouse Blues | 9/10 |
As QuocaQuola1 stated at the beginning of the thread "BAM!", right from the opening track. How do you open an album? Like that! Don't Waste My Time does exactly as it says on the tin. Fantastic. Then we lead on to what is probably their heaviest track, O Baby, how good does that sound? I love the gentle intro then that god-damn simple but very effective heavy riff - amazing. We lead on to A Year, a brilliant ballad and unusually, sung by Francis and the final half is just staggering building up to that crescendo. I remember watching JCQ play it a few years back and there were grown men crying. An awesome experience. We close side one off with an absolutely epic bluesy number. Everyone just nailed it here, Rick's vocals, Francis' solo, Alan'sbass lines and John's percussion - perfect, Unspoken words is my favourite on the album. It's worthy of an 11/10! Side two kicks off almost as good as side one did. Big Fat Mama, we get two bloody great songs rolled into one. What a rocker, Ricks voice is as good as is gets here! Next, in my opinion is one of Quo's best singles. I'm always at odds if this or Hello's "Roll Over Lay Down" is better. I still don't know. To top it the "promo" for it is epic. Next, is for me, the weakest track on the album. I say weak, but an most other albums it'd still be a great track. Then we finish off with a Doors cover. When I first heard this many years ago I really couldn't get into it. Then, after hearing and enjoying earlier albums (MK and DOTH) it really clicked. Love what they did to the original. And the cover? Doesn't get much better does it? Well, it gets as good (Quo) but it's still a 10/10 for the cover. Totting up the totals above gives an average of 9.5/10 rock **NOTE**
I was going to ask when did "O Baby" become "Oh Baby"? But I've just noticed that on the actual vinyl it's "Oh Baby" whereas on the gate-fold sleeve (back and centre) it's "O Baby". O/Oh well.
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Post by kursaal75 on Jan 4, 2016 15:17:00 GMT
DWMT | 10/10 | O Baby | 10/10 | A Year | 9/10 | Unspoken Words | 10/10 | Big Fat Mama | 10/10 | Paper Plane | 10/10 | All The Reasons | 8/10 | Roadhouse Blues | 9/10 |
As QuocaQuola1 stated at the beginning of the thread "BAM!", right from the opening track. How do you open an album? Like that! Don't Waste My Time does exactly as it says on the tin. Fantastic. Then we lead on to what is probably their heaviest track, O Baby, how good does that sound? I love the gentle intro then that god-damn simple but very effective heavy riff - amazing. We lead on to A Year, a brilliant ballad and unusually, sung by Francis and the final half is just staggering building up to that crescendo. I remember watching JCQ play it a few years back and there were grown men crying. An awesome experience. We close side one off with an absolutely epic bluesy number. Everyone just nailed it here, Rick's vocals, Francis' solo, Alan'sbass lines and John's percussion - perfect, Unspoken words is my favourite on the album. It's worthy of an 11/10! Side two kicks off almost as good as side one did. Big Fat Mama, we get two bloody great songs rolled into one. What a rocker, Ricks voice is as good as is gets here! Next, in my opinion is one of Quo's best singles. I'm always at odds if this or Hello's "Roll Over Lay Down" is better. I still don't know. To top it the "promo" for it is epic. Next, is for me, the weakest track on the album. I say weak, but an most other albums it'd still be a great track. Then we finish off with a Doors cover. When I first heard this many years ago I really couldn't get into it. Then, after hearing and enjoying earlier albums (MK and DOTH) it really clicked. Love what they did to the original. And the cover? Doesn't get much better does it? Well, it gets as good (Quo) but it's still a 10/10 for the cover. Totting up the totals above gives an average of 9.5/10 rock **NOTE**
I was going to ask when did "O Baby" become "Oh Baby"? But I've just noticed that on the actual vinyl it's "Oh Baby" whereas on the gate-fold sleeve (back and centre) it's "O Baby". O/Oh well. Well spotted, I've never noticed that, but I've only had the album 43 years!
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Post by Tʰᵉ Wᵃˡˡ Oᶠ Dᵉᵃᵗʰ on Jan 4, 2016 15:44:29 GMT
Well spotted, I've never noticed that, but I've only had the album 43 years! Funny enough I didn't actually first notice it from the LP. I was playing it through Spotify and I noticed it listed as Oh Baby and I was thinking to myself "I'm sure this is meant to be listed O Baby". Sure enough, looking at the gate-fold, there it was. Even in the lyrics. But looking at the centre of the vinyl, well that was different. 43 years? I haven't had it that long though. Only 30-odd.
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Post by kursaal75 on Jan 4, 2016 16:17:52 GMT
Since 1973, (Piledriver) until the Perfect Remedy release in 1989, I've bought every album on the day of release. Over the last 25 years, I've been getting them up to a couple months later.
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whoami
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Post by whoami on Jan 5, 2016 19:07:03 GMT
9.5/10. Never liked roadhouse studio
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Post by Detroit on Jan 5, 2016 19:30:21 GMT
Well spotted, I've never noticed that, but I've only had the album 43 years! Funny enough I didn't actually first notice it from the LP. I was playing it through Spotify and I noticed it listed as Oh Baby and I was thinking to myself "I'm sure this is meant to be listed O Baby". Sure enough, looking at the gate-fold, there it was. Even in the lyrics. But looking at the centre of the vinyl, well that was different. My North American release of Apollo has Junior's Wailing as Junior's Wai ting. I suppose it could mean the same thing, depending on what part of your anatomy you refer to as junior.
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