gav
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Apr 10, 2017 21:06:15 GMT
No offence intended, just meant as a light hearted comment on the nature of internet forums. There's probably a lot of people unaccounted for who are perhaps put off by heated debate, so who knows where they stand. Although for obvious reasons, this place has been pretty harmonious for quite a while. Thanks for your answer Btw, never had the impression your post was meant offensive, if I gave that impression in my answer I apologize Cheers, no probs! Back on topic, reluctantly went for DTIM (despite having an excellent Quo swagger and containing arguably Rossi's best solo), and Backwater/JTM (yeah, i know) simply cos the versions on the Live album are superior and more gutsy. Not much of a reason, but had to choose. Still, for the sake of argument, i've never got the attitude against Drifting Away either! It's hell of a raw, brash, balls out rock n roller, tempered by some great melodic, semi-country jangly Rossi soloing. Top 10 Quo track for me....funny how we differ so much. And Accident Prone i've always loathed for it's pretty dull melody, nothing to do with the disco. Curious how it seems to have so much love on here, i'd have thought people would have it down as a fairly weak track, but i guess it's variation on a theme is it's charm for some? Cheers.
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Post by Victor on Apr 10, 2017 21:13:51 GMT
Thanks for your answer Btw, never had the impression your post was meant offensive, if I gave that impression in my answer I apologize Cheers, no probs! Back on topic, reluctantly went for DTIM (despite having an excellent Quo swagger and containing arguably Rossi's best solo), and Backwater/JTM (yeah, i know) simply cos the versions on the Live album are superior and more gutsy. Not much of a reason, but had to choose. Still, for the sake of argument, i've never got the attitude against Drifting Away either! It's hell of a raw, brash, balls out rock n roller, tempered by some great melodic, semi-country jangly Rossi soloing. Top 10 Quo track for me....funny how we differ so much. And Accident Prone i've always loathed for it's pretty dull melody, nothing to do with the disco. Curious how it seems to have so much love on here, i'd have thought people would have it down as a fairly weak track, but i guess it's variation on a theme is it's charm for some? Cheers. Yea, it's all personal preference...what sounds a certain way to one will sound totally different to another. With Drifting away my problem has just been that , for me, Alan's voice just didn't sound good to me on that track, too constrained in places... also the song itself had a different structure for me then what I liked, as you mention, Don't think it matters has the typical quo swagger which is probably the reason I liked that song a whole lot more compared to Drifting away. And yes, that solo from Francis in DTIM is fantastic !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 9:07:00 GMT
Threads like this are about subjective opinion and whilst it might be true that large numbers congregate on an opinion which very much favours the peak 70's era as a whole, it still remains a broad enough church both within that period and indeed outside of it. As victor says, its nothing whatsoever to do with having a Graduate degree in "better understanding", its all about individual preferences.
I always think of the Quo album as a particularly experimental and progressive Quo album in the series that began with MKGS in 1970 and ended with BFY in 1976. Of those, DOTH and Quo I think are the very most progressive in terms of changes of tempo, energy and individual and collective musical enterprise.
Whilst both those albums are not my ultimate favourite of favourites within the period, they are two albums which for sure make a mockery of the myth that had already been established back then that Quo were musical simpletons
Its with that sort of thinking in mind that attempting critique of individual songs of any of these albums becomes all the more difficult to do.
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gav
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Apr 11, 2017 11:39:05 GMT
Cheers, no probs! Back on topic, reluctantly went for DTIM (despite having an excellent Quo swagger and containing arguably Rossi's best solo), and Backwater/JTM (yeah, i know) simply cos the versions on the Live album are superior and more gutsy. Not much of a reason, but had to choose. Still, for the sake of argument, i've never got the attitude against Drifting Away either! It's hell of a raw, brash, balls out rock n roller, tempered by some great melodic, semi-country jangly Rossi soloing. Top 10 Quo track for me....funny how we differ so much. And Accident Prone i've always loathed for it's pretty dull melody, nothing to do with the disco. Curious how it seems to have so much love on here, i'd have thought people would have it down as a fairly weak track, but i guess it's variation on a theme is it's charm for some? Cheers. just to clarify - I think Drifting Away is a great song, and, for example, better than most of the RAOTW album - but, to me, it is not so good as the rest of the Quo album so I voted for it. Quo is such a strong album, I am not surprised it is anathema to some of you to vote for three songs - but that is the challenge of these polls. Yep, a good challenge. Wasn't basing my observations about folks opinion of Drifting Away on this method, I've in fact noticed it's never been particularly favoured since the dawn of SQ message boards. The main reasons appear to be the over-fuzzed guitar and Alans too-tough delivery. Anyway, enough navel gazing!.....
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Post by frozenhero on Apr 11, 2017 20:27:41 GMT
Now I love the Quo album - (I don't know what they meant by "unbalanced" - always felt it flows well and so much so it was their nearest thing to a concept album until WYW came along, IMO.) - but I wonder if this one will be easier for you all than Hello! as it has a wide variety of styles on it. Anyway - we gotta vote... I think it's unbalanced because it's a bit dry... maybe takes itself a bit too seriously except FFF. It just doesn't quite make the same connection with me as Piledriver, Hello or BFY (!). Too much Alan vocals as well for me, I like him providing variety but this is a bit much, particularly considering the tone he often takes on here (as opposed to something like Ease Your Mind or Too Far Gone, not personal favourites but examples of a style he doesn't employ here). My choices - Drifiting Away (which just doesn't appeal to me except for the twin guitar bit), Fine Fine Fine (too Schlager-y for me) and Lonely Man. Yeah, I know. Sacrilege. Maybe it's just down to the production but the song starts to get on my nerves despite some interesting psychedelic elements in the mix. Never understood why Break the Rules seems to be rather unpopular on here - I've always loved it and can't not love it!
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Post by frozenhero on Apr 11, 2017 20:34:19 GMT
Cheers, no probs! Back on topic, reluctantly went for DTIM (despite having an excellent Quo swagger and containing arguably Rossi's best solo), and Backwater/JTM (yeah, i know) simply cos the versions on the Live album are superior and more gutsy. Not much of a reason, but had to choose. Still, for the sake of argument, i've never got the attitude against Drifting Away either! It's hell of a raw, brash, balls out rock n roller, tempered by some great melodic, semi-country jangly Rossi soloing. Top 10 Quo track for me....funny how we differ so much. And Accident Prone i've always loathed for it's pretty dull melody, nothing to do with the disco. Curious how it seems to have so much love on here, i'd have thought people would have it down as a fairly weak track, but i guess it's variation on a theme is it's charm for some? Cheers. Yea, it's all personal preference...what sounds a certain way to one will sound totally different to another. With Drifting away my problem has just been that , for me, Alan's voice just didn't sound good to me on that track, too constrained in places... also the song itself had a different structure for me then what I liked, as you mention, Don't think it matters has the typical quo swagger which is probably the reason I liked that song a whole lot more compared to Drifting away. And yes, that solo from Francis in DTIM is fantastic ! I've realized that if there is any basis to the whole "all Quo songs sound the same" bullshit that there are some similarities between Hello! and Quo despite being almost polar opposites in their overall impression. Backwater/Just Take Me both have parts similar to parts of 4500x (the calm part in Backwater, the breakdown in JTM) and Don't Think It Matters could segue seamlessly into Roll Over Lay Down at one point...
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Post by Detroit on Apr 11, 2017 20:39:10 GMT
It shouldn't be 3 songs with the older albums. They had alot less songs. Not only that, they had much better songs, no fillers. Quite easy to pick 3 fillers from CQ albums with so many songs to choose from.
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Post by dennis on Apr 11, 2017 21:50:12 GMT
It shouldn't be 3 songs with the older albums. They had alot less songs. Not only that, they had much better songs, no fillers. Quite easy to pick 3 fillers from CQ albums with so many songs to choose from. I know - the folks who do these polls are utter bastards! Still, it's a good excuse to play the albums again & try to achieve the impossible.
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Post by slowtrain7 on Apr 17, 2017 2:11:13 GMT
Well that really stirred the pot, put the cat amongst the pigeons, got a few people fired up. " Yes, but on the other hand, there will be those who think these things but don't write them down in forums!" I've been following QUO since 1968, so I don't know much about them. I like to use reverse psychology and play the Devil's Advocate, then I get the reaction I desire. Especially CATLADY's posts, sounds like a smart cookie. I like cookies and mind games I'm sure everybody understands QUO in their own way, it's all subjective. What did George Orwell say?
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