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Post by slowtrain7 on Apr 10, 2017 9:08:04 GMT
I'm currently listening to the Parfitt/Lancaster dominated album "QUO" I rate it as one of their most balanced albums. The track listing takes the listener on a journey.
On the vinyl album, track one side two is a great opener.
Recently I read a graph of votes for best and worst songs on this album and " Don't Think It Matters" didn't rate highly, in fact the opposite.
I love the song, it's powerful and passionate and played in true QUO bludgeoning style.
Lancaster, the heart and soul of Status Quo, delivers the vocals in a gutsy, yet, fragile manner. These are lyrics he holds very dearly and personally.
During the Ma Kelly style lead break you can hear Alan away from the mic yell out " C'mon " Later in the song, you can hear Alan vocalising to the rhythm of the tune with a beautiful " na na, nananana " I'm a massive Lancaster/Parfitt supporter and this song really does matter.
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Post by vivfromcov on Apr 10, 2017 16:38:14 GMT
I think everybody on this board will agree with you that this album is immense! And as for DTIM, I love it and it is in my top 5 from the album. But I also love the bottom 3... Just goes to show how incredible this album is!
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Post by Railroad17 on Apr 10, 2017 17:06:19 GMT
It's funny how a audible hush is heard when this album is mentioned.And if I'm not mistaken it changed a board members life. /
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Post by Railroad17 on Apr 10, 2017 17:16:49 GMT
If they ever had the bottle they could release a collection of this stuff
Lonely Man Unspoken Words A Year Blue For You All The Reasons Ease Your Mind Too Close To The Ground Gerdundula And It's Better Now Where I Am
Some of their best music in this lot.I actually think that this band and management,despite utterances to the contrary,don't actually know what the fans like.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 17:38:16 GMT
Hi All, A good album that was true QUO with all the band playing as one ... letsrock
Geoff.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 18:08:59 GMT
Its a great album but my biggest favourite of those golden years is OTL
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Apr 10, 2017 19:41:49 GMT
If they ever had the bottle they could release a collection of this stuff Lonely Man Unspoken Words A Year Blue For You All The Reasons Ease Your Mind Too Close To The Ground Gerdundula And It's Better Now Where I Am Some of their best music in this lot.I actually think that this band and management,despite utterances to the contrary,don't actually know what the fans like. You could play that collection to a non Quo fan and I bet they wouldn't have a clue - all sound the same my r's .Top stuff
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Post by Detroit on Apr 10, 2017 23:10:30 GMT
I shared this on the original board and I'll share it again.
I was blaring out Backwater in a parking lot when this old toothless-wonder came to my window and said, "I heard that before, it's from an album with heads growing from roots".
Made my day that did. Especially when Quo is basically unheard of around these parts.
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Post by slowtrain7 on Apr 11, 2017 4:13:49 GMT
Yes Catlady, OTL is a fantastic complete album. Broken Man, Over n Done, Nightride, I Saw The Light is a fave of mine, the extended version of Down, Down is incredible, I can't find the right adjectives for it. "Well I saw my little lady walking down the street and she said she'd found somebody new" that might've been when he became a "Broken Man" upstairs in his bedroom swallowing wine and fairly soon it was " Over n Done"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 9:32:43 GMT
Yes Catlady, OTL is a fantastic complete album. Broken Man, Over n Done, Nightride, I Saw The Light is a fave of mine, the extended version of Down, Down is incredible, I can't find the right adjectives for it. "Well I saw my little lady walking down the street and she said she'd found somebody new" that might've been when he became a "Broken Man" upstairs in his bedroom swallowing wine and fairly soon it was " Over n Done" There is something about the sound on OTL which I prefer over its predecessor. It sounds a bit cleaner somehow but without losing any of the natural energy. Its a perfect example of Quo combining power and melody.
This album will be especially hard to pick apart with its turn upcoming in the poll analysis, but as for the very best of the best then for me its MOTT, ISTL and O&D.
Despite being relegated to happy clappy encore status over the years and ridiculously over played, I can still enjoy BBJ on the album. Its a reminder of the tour de force it used to be (see the Madrid footage from 1975 just for example) before it became a karaoke relic so many years later.
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Post by Gaz on Apr 11, 2017 10:09:49 GMT
Yes Catlady, OTL is a fantastic complete album. Broken Man, Over n Done, Nightride, I Saw The Light is a fave of mine, the extended version of Down, Down is incredible, I can't find the right adjectives for it. "Well I saw my little lady walking down the street and she said she'd found somebody new" that might've been when he became a "Broken Man" upstairs in his bedroom swallowing wine and fairly soon it was " Over n Done" There is something about the sound on OTL which I prefer over its predecessor. It sounds a bit cleaner somehow but without losing any of the natural energy. Its a perfect example of Quo combining power and melody.
This album will be especially hard to pick apart with its turn upcoming in the poll analysis, but as for the very best of the best then for me its MOTT, ISTL and O&D.
Despite being relegated to happy clappy encore status over the years and ridiculously over played, I can still enjoy BBJ on the album. Its a reminder of the tour de force it used to be (see the Madrid footage from 1975 just for example) before it became a karaoke relic so many years later.
Yes BBJ on On The Level is blistering. Absolutely love it very loud in the car. The band, these days should just drop it out of the set list as there's obviously no passion in its delivery imo.
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Post by rockonquo on Apr 12, 2017 4:10:10 GMT
Excellent album, they should've played more songs off this album at the reunion tours.
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Post by quofan1977 on Jun 11, 2018 11:49:14 GMT
Their finest album..
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Post by dontthinkitmatters on Jun 11, 2018 21:00:36 GMT
Its in my top 6 Quo studio albums. Its place in the rankings depends on the rotation and whichever one I am listening to at any given time. Class album
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Post by fretbuzzzzz on Jun 12, 2018 12:51:29 GMT
Think it was Francis who used the balanced or unbalanced view of Quo albums from that time. 'Hello' balanced, 'Quo' unbalanced, 'On The Level' balanced, 'Blue For You' unbalanced etc
He and Bob Y were trying to put a more 'country-ish' (solo?!) album together. Alan and Rick thought he was therefore somewhat distracted and so they went off and wrote much of the 'Quo' album together.
It isn't one of Rossi's favourite albums as he felt he was being manipulated too much by the others...though if 'Slow Train' was the result of him being manipulated then perhaps he should have been manipulated a little more often?!
I can remember recording the track 'Don't Think It Matters' back in the mid 70s from the radio to one of those little tape recorders with the C60 etc type tapes. Unusual to hear a Quo album track on radio. Wish I could remember which station and presenter. Thought the track was a belter and with an epic guitar solo which helped to raise it above a standard riff-based track.
At the reunion rehearsals they attempted a run through of the song. Started well and they seemed to initially remember the chords etc then it all collapsed...a real shame.
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