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Post by slowtrain7 on Jul 24, 2017 12:31:16 GMT
'Interesting' how QUO fans choice of fave songs differs so much. It's subjective/personal. I'm with VICTOR on TAKE ME AWAY and MOUNTAIN LADY. They're the 2 strongest songs on NTL. SBYBIL is a song chosen probably by the record company for Chart capabilities. It's not a song I hold in high regard, neither is RIVERSIDE, which I find annoying depending on my mood. Though Dolliebloo likes those 2 songs that annoy me. Catlady says "each to their own" I like "Don't Stop Me Now" other people may not. I walked into a record store back in 1981 and they had bays of chart albums from 1-50 and NTL was at No.45. SBYBIL had minimal airplay and was very short lived on radio, I heard it once as was the same in 1978 with Again, Again, heard it once and I listened to the radio all the time. So QUO were Charting without airplay. Different story with WYW it got a lot of airplay and charted well. For some strange reason, I still don't understand, is why BFY & Rain were ignored, I'm baffled. Radio programmers are as fickle as some QUO fans
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Post by 4th Chord on Jul 24, 2017 12:41:12 GMT
I love NTL and 1982. Go figure.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 14:30:37 GMT
'Interesting' how QUO fans choice of fave songs differs so much. It's subjective/personal. I'm with VICTOR on TAKE ME AWAY and MOUNTAIN LADY. They're the 2 strongest songs on NTL. SBYBIL is a song chosen probably by the record company for Chart capabilities. It's not a song I hold in high regard, neither is RIVERSIDE, which I find annoying depending on my mood. Though Dolliebloo likes those 2 songs that annoy me. Catlady says "each to their own" I like "Don't Stop Me Now" other people may not. I walked into a record store back in 1981 and they had bays of chart albums from 1-50 and NTL was at No.45. SBYBIL had minimal airplay and was very short lived on radio, I heard it once as was the same in 1978 with Again, Again, heard it once and I listened to the radio all the time. So QUO were Charting without airplay. Different story with WYW it got a lot of airplay and charted well. For some strange reason, I still don't understand, is why BFY & Rain were ignored, I'm baffled. Radio programmers are as fickle as some QUO fans i don't listen to any quo album after JS. i know NTL was FF, but it spelt the end really.the lid was effectively placed on the casket. 1982,back to back and army just nailed it well n truly shut. IMHO of course...
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Post by dennis on Jul 24, 2017 21:28:46 GMT
I love NTL and 1982. Go figure. ... beyond comprehension
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Post by Railroad17 on Jul 24, 2017 21:49:26 GMT
What about all that shit on Piledriver then...said the angry old man from Forest Hill.
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Post by Detroit on Jul 24, 2017 22:30:53 GMT
Hit it, hit it.....
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Jul 25, 2017 10:19:06 GMT
I don't understand why IYCSTH gets such a panning from so many. I liked it when it first came out and still do. I think it's a rather simple answer to that one...
Quo got a huge fan base around 72 when they made paper plane and Piledriver. That was the kind of music the band played and that kind of music just took them to the top in 76 with BFY and the Live album.
Then we all know what happened,RAOTW was recorded and a lot of people from the Piledriver era were very disappointed with the final result. They (me included) hoped it was a hit and miss and hoped for the very best again with the next album.
Sorry to say, the band and Mr Williams failed again imho,so I think that's the answer to why many fans dislike that album.
Yes, I remember it well but with a different band. Whereas with Quo, in my case, I was fine with RAOTW (while not in any way considering it the match of Piledriver) - but didn't like IYCFTH (despite really liking Accident Prone). Basically I'm not greatly into brass sections and girly backing vocals (although I will happily accept either or both if I like the effect, but that is rare). It wasn't about being an "oh no not again" experience for me, because it wasn't ... but for Piledriver era fans reeling from ROATW, I can see that it would be a horrible confirmation that the band had drifted off into something they really didn't like, it wasn't just an accident. It all comes down to personal taste. I'm surprised 1982 wasn't treated as a splendid comeback album! By comparison. (That is a sort of joke-thing, by the way.) I liked 1982, but it was my first-whole-Quo-album. I still like a lot of it, it still has that brisk dry sound which they do.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 11:04:14 GMT
The 'extras' on IYCSTH worked, in my view, in a way that on the other hand seem totally superfluous on the bland non-creative strum along that has been karaoke Aquostic Quo. I remember being fascinated back then that an out and out rock boogie band could improvise in this way and still be the same Quo and play barnstorming gigs. I also saw the backing additions as a deliberately self deprecating and wry V-sign to the lamebrain trolling critics as if to say "hey we are playing the same 3 chords all over again but look what we can add to them, aren't we clever (ha-ha)"
The WYW album went on to take this V-sign signature in a more serious way, lyrically, in terms of the contempt towards critics. Yet another album variation around the same solid theme it seemed.
Clearly I had/still have a very different perspective on this to many That period in the late seventies/early 80's it seemed that Quo were bullet-proof, irrespective of what was happening behind the scenes. Such a great time all the way to the End of the Road that made even the post John albums seem acceptable enough - even though clearly they were part of quite a decline and a long way away from the recording hey-day.
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Post by Victor on Jul 25, 2017 11:16:52 GMT
The 'extras' on IYCSTH worked, in my view, in a way that on the other hand seem totally superfluous on the bland non-creative strum along that has been karaoke Aquostic Quo. I remember being fascinated back then that an out and out rock boogie band could improvise in this way and still be the same Quo and play barnstorming gigs. I also saw the backing additions as a deliberately self deprecating and wry V-sign to the lamebrain trolling critics as if to say "hey we are playing the same 3 chords all over again but look what we can add to them, aren't we clever (ha-ha)"
The WYW album went on to take this V-sign signature in a more serious way, lyrically, in terms of the contempt towards critics. Yet another album variation around the same solid theme it seemed.
Clearly I had/still have a very different perspective on this to many That period in the late seventies/early 80's it seemed that Quo were bullet-proof, irrespective of what was happening behind the scenes. Such a great time all the way to the End of the Road that made even the post John albums seem acceptable enough - even though clearly they were part of quite a decline and a long way away from the recording hey-day.
IYCSTH and RAOTW were still very acceptable albums, different yes, but in a totally different (and better) way then the albums after 1982 imo. I also have a weakness for those two albums since that is when I got to know them really...I personally still consider WYW, JS and NTL their most grown up period. It was from back to back on where things really started to go wrong for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 11:36:11 GMT
The 'extras' on IYCSTH worked, in my view, in a way that on the other hand seem totally superfluous on the bland non-creative strum along that has been karaoke Aquostic Quo. I remember being fascinated back then that an out and out rock boogie band could improvise in this way and still be the same Quo and play barnstorming gigs. I also saw the backing additions as a deliberately self deprecating and wry V-sign to the lamebrain trolling critics as if to say "hey we are playing the same 3 chords all over again but look what we can add to them, aren't we clever (ha-ha)"
The WYW album went on to take this V-sign signature in a more serious way, lyrically, in terms of the contempt towards critics. Yet another album variation around the same solid theme it seemed.
Clearly I had/still have a very different perspective on this to many That period in the late seventies/early 80's it seemed that Quo were bullet-proof, irrespective of what was happening behind the scenes. Such a great time all the way to the End of the Road that made even the post John albums seem acceptable enough - even though clearly they were part of quite a decline and a long way away from the recording hey-day.
IYCSTH and RAOTW were still very acceptable albums, different yes, but in a totally different (and better) way then the albums after 1982 imo. I also have a weakness for those two albums since that is when I got to know them really...I personally still consider WYW, JS and NTL their most grown up period. It was from back to back on where things really started to go wrong for me. The IYCSTH album was also the album released pretty soon after I had first seen them live and I was totally buzzing over the impact they had made on me. This, on top of all the earlier albums I had already collected from the late 60's - and since I discovered them and became an immediate fan in 75/76
So it was impossible to see any negatives in them it has to be said, only great things. So obviously this massively influences my opinions.
This is very much the same principle as your experience, simply that maybe I discovered them a couple of years earlier. I'm sure many of us are the same on here in this respect. Its hard not to like the closest albums released around the time you get into the band.
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Post by americanquo on Jul 25, 2017 18:18:10 GMT
Stones and I've given up my worrying are two of my favorites. I know each by heart. You guys are weird.
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Post by vivfromcov on Jul 30, 2017 14:14:20 GMT
Ok, I had a listen and decided on Falling in Falling Out, Stones and I've given up my worrying. I thought I would include Baby Boy but perversely, I quite like the tune. It has a catchy folksy sound to it and if I block out the cringy words, I quite like it. Still think Need your Love should not be within a million miles of this poll. It's fantastic.... what were you thinking....? Still, it's all down to taste. As AQ said, weird....!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2017 15:33:46 GMT
vivfromcov
Baby Boy does have a good tune - it makes a good instrumental
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Post by charles on Jul 31, 2017 10:15:35 GMT
I'm with Viv on this one: Falling, Stones and Worryin' (alphabetically).
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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 4, 2017 23:09:05 GMT
There's a lot worse than Stones...fcukin Who Am I for one "Yes I am your lover and your brother" and then there's Dirty Water,as soon I heard this I thought "Fuck it,we'll ooh oohing for years now" and what about Don't Drive My Car...another load of rubbish not worthy of Spinal Tap!
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