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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 7, 2017 21:33:37 GMT
It's 1+9+8+2 revisited and I might as well fit in Back to Back.Generally both acknowledged as poor....we'll see what the prism says shall we?
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Post by Quoincidence on Aug 7, 2017 21:39:31 GMT
I don't think you'll survive... Both have their good tracks, but production and overall lackluster tracks make the albums shite
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Post by Victor on Aug 7, 2017 21:56:29 GMT
For me 1982 has some great tracks...back to back though...nope, sorry, but that album is amongst the worst for me
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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 7, 2017 21:58:47 GMT
Warming up with 10 cc's greatest hits.
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Post by 4th Chord on Aug 7, 2017 22:45:43 GMT
Ol’ Rag Blues.
The last Quo song I loved.
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Post by kachunk on Aug 7, 2017 22:49:18 GMT
Christ Almighty Railroad,you're not exactly making the long night shift hours fly by are you?.
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Post by dennis on Aug 7, 2017 22:56:19 GMT
I ought to slog through all these post '81 albums again sometime. Maybe if I find enough half decent tracks to make a compilation I'll down load the individual tracks - but then again, it'll still pale in comparison to the '70-'81 material!
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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 8, 2017 4:30:54 GMT
1+9+8+2 Was how I remembered it...not good at all.But I did actually hear Rossi say "I like this one" during Jealousy.Get Out And Walk would have been okay live and Resurrection,although very RAOTW,was okay.Big Man was very odd indeed.
BtB? Blimey it's rough and I started to skip very early and then gave up with it.
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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 8, 2017 4:38:51 GMT
3 hours 'til shift is over and I'm having a bash at QPQ.I'm only really familiar with the first four tracks,usual story with CQ you get bored very quickly and the critics are finally right and they do all sound the same.I moved on years ago.Playing these albums has made me a bit wary of playing the 72/76 stuff in case the band were crap all along.
Played 4500 Times from Hello,BFM from Piledriver and Slow Train from Quo.It's still great stuff but the moment you start to compare it to the Stones,Floyd,Zeppelin,The Who etc it's limitations are obvious.Trying to dress it up as they did on RAOTW only makes things worse.
And QPQ was the same old shit,another Francis Rossi album which kindly allows Rick Parfitt a go now and then,in fact it's just finished,it went past in a blur of mediocrity and that's being kind.
90 minutes to go and let's have a listen to Bula Quo and that'll be me up to speed.I've noticed the drummer/s since Coghlan was sacked don't much.
And here's the funny thing.Despite all the ego's out front it was really all about Coghlan...he made the band what it was with 2 bits of wood and they were so busy being famous they never knew it.
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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 8, 2017 5:32:57 GMT
Why have they not ditched Caroline as a show opener and instead stunned the audience with Mystery Island?
"Where the hell did we go wrong" Francis Rossi knows the answer to that,something to do with a drum kit in 1982.
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Post by freewilly on Aug 8, 2017 7:31:42 GMT
3 hours 'til shift is over and I'm having a bash at QPQ.I'm only really familiar with the first four tracks,usual story with CQ you get bored very quickly and the critics are finally right and they do all sound the same.I moved on years ago.Playing these albums has made me a bit wary of playing the 72/76 stuff in case the band were crap all along. Played 4500 Times from Hello,BFM from Piledriver and Slow Train from Quo.It's still great stuff but the moment you start to compare it to the Stones,Floyd,Zeppelin,The Who etc it's limitations are obvious.Trying to dress it up as they did on RAOTW only makes things worse. And QPQ was the same old shit,another Francis Rossi album which kindly allows Rick Parfitt a go now and then,in fact it's just finished,it went past in a blur of mediocrity and that's being kind. 90 minutes to go and let's have a listen to Bula Quo and that'll be me up to speed.I've noticed the drummer/s since Coghlan was sacked don't much. And here's the funny thing.Despite all the ego's out front it was really all about Coghlan...he made the band what it was with 2 bits of wood and they were so busy being famous they never knew it. Big Stones fan here...
Disagree with That part....They've made possibly more tripe than Quo have and it doesn't show up Quo's limitations.
Comparing them to Pink Floyd is too out there. Floyd were always an elaborate musical outfit. Very few artists come close to what they do.
Could compare them to Zeppelin alright.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 8:52:07 GMT
Quo can't be compared to some of those other rock bands. Apples vs oranges. Blues/rock boogie is what it is - it can't be more or less limited than what it is. Quo were after all a (good in my opinion) fiskadelic pop band before they became a 'limited' rock boogie band, but many/most other hard core fans of the 70's don't like anything they did before 1970/71.
Its nothing to do with ability, vision etc. Its choice of style, and Quo made a conscious, deliberate and determined effort to change image and style from the late 60's to early 70's. They never set out to copy The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd - all who are completely different to each other anyway with each playing their own style of rock music (and which isn't definitively rock boogie at all)
As for later day Quo, its subjective taste as ever. The FF era is deemed best by a large number, including myself, but that doesn't mean that every fan of that time deems anything and everything later than this time as dross. And it doesn't inextricably mean that the music itself actually is dross as much as it isn't all great by any means either. Its simply a very different sound and progressively different image to the original, and intended to appeal to greater numbers of people. Tipping points amongst long standing fan base are enormous as to if/where that divergence becomes too great. It took me to the reunions to lose interest and patience for all the reasons often repeated on here
QPQ I think is too one paced and samey in some respects. It lacks change of pace and sufficient changes of mood and style, though it has a concentration of very good songs
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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 8, 2017 16:23:03 GMT
3 hours 'til shift is over and I'm having a bash at QPQ.I'm only really familiar with the first four tracks,usual story with CQ you get bored very quickly and the critics are finally right and they do all sound the same.I moved on years ago.Playing these albums has made me a bit wary of playing the 72/76 stuff in case the band were crap all along. Played 4500 Times from Hello,BFM from Piledriver and Slow Train from Quo.It's still great stuff but the moment you start to compare it to the Stones,Floyd,Zeppelin,The Who etc it's limitations are obvious.Trying to dress it up as they did on RAOTW only makes things worse. Man, 1982/b2b have freaked you out! Early 70's Quo is far better than Stones and Zep. Quo never broke the states to give them the excuse to act like megastars. Don't let the megastardom images influence the seeming quality of the music. I can see why they didn't break the States..they love the 'big' bloated stuff in that neck of the woods.
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Post by paradiseflats on Aug 8, 2017 17:19:48 GMT
Man, 1982/b2b have freaked you out! Early 70's Quo is far better than Stones and Zep. Quo never broke the states to give them the excuse to act like megastars. Don't let the megastardom images influence the seeming quality of the music. I can see why they didn't break the States..they love the 'big' bloated stuff in that neck of the woods. Breaking America was up to recently not so much to do with talent but record company and consequently radio support. The US label simply didn't push Quo hard enough. Certainly Francis in addition maybe others weren't willing to do the spade work, playing over there for long periods in smaller venues or as support compared to the larger headlining venues they could play in the UK and some parts of Europe. It wasn't down to the music, otherwise they and Slade would have been huge. An interesting US interview with Francis from the 1990s I think. www.hardradio.com/metalmama/statusquo.html
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Post by wolfman on Aug 8, 2017 18:33:51 GMT
don't forget the rock till ya drop album..
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