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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 10, 2017 21:30:55 GMT
Called in on double time so it's RAOTW and IYCSTH and I'm already enjoying Can't GIve You More.A meeting between myself and RAOTW has long been overdue and the prism is gleaming with anticipation.
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Post by curiousgirl on Aug 10, 2017 22:12:46 GMT
Is it the original RAOTW or the remix?
I love the alternative track order of the remix as well as the sound.
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Post by charles on Aug 11, 2017 5:22:26 GMT
Glad your nights are getting better.
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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 11, 2017 5:51:17 GMT
Is it the original RAOTW or the remix? I love the alternative track order of the remix as well as the sound. Original.
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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 11, 2017 6:03:24 GMT
Listened to them both and it wasn't great.These two albums gave me a new experience when I bought them,they were the first Quo albums that had songs that I didn't like.RAOTW was still Status Quo with only a few I didn't fancy,Baby Boy,Who Am I and For You,in the case of IYCSTH it was a case of what do I like and it's Accident Prone and not much else.Someone Show Me Home is a pervy weird one and Long Legged Linda("Barely sweet sixteen" you pervert Bown)is as horrible as I remember it but the ultimate is Giving Up My Worrying..hated it back then and it's got worse..what a total crap song from a total crap album filled with backing singers and other noises.
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Post by durango95 on Aug 11, 2017 11:04:12 GMT
Listened to them both and it wasn't great.These two albums gave me a new experience when I bought them,they were the first Quo albums that had songs that I didn't like.RAOTW was still Status Quo with only a few I didn't fancy,Baby Boy,Who Am I and For You,in the case of IYCSTH it was a case of what do I like and it's Accident Prone and not much else.Someone Show Me Home is a pervy weird one and Long Legged Linda("Barely sweet sixteen" you pervert Bown)is as horrible as I remember it but the ultimate is Giving Up My Worrying..hated it back then and it's got worse..what a total crap song from a total crap album filled with backing singers and other noises. Personally growing up with the Piledriver album and following the greatest rockn roll band in the world up to the Glasgow live album (best live album ever by anyone)....to face the times with the RAOTW and IYCSTH albums nearly killed me.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Aug 11, 2017 22:23:31 GMT
I didn't go through that experience, and on the whole I like RAOTW, but I have a real sense of empathy for that view ... one moment the best thing in the world, the next ... WTF ... pain in the heart of similar organs.
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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 11, 2017 23:37:52 GMT
I didn't go through that experience, and on the whole I like RAOTW, but I have a real sense of empathy for that view ... one moment the best thing in the world, the next ... WTF ... pain in the heart of similar organs. Part of the problem was Bown and his organs.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 9:58:43 GMT
I was only aware there had been such a problem amongst fans of my time with the RAOTW and IYCSTH albums when I joined the mb decades later. Both albums, and the amazing gigs surrounding them were just a period of un-abounded joy for me. Its not they are my most favourite albums, though I do like them, its just that they represented a time where only positivity existed and in my eyes (and so it seemed with all other fans) they could do no wrong.
Maybe fans simply put aside their views of the albums at the gigs to have a great time, maybe I was just happily oblivious (probably), or maybe there has been a lot of revisionism over the years about the albums based on hindsight in terms of what happened to the FF and how history unfolded thereafter? Who knows, maybe all of those are true...
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Post by dennis on Aug 12, 2017 10:01:13 GMT
They were suddenly all trying to write hit singles for the pop charts. the sound had no oomph & I've never felt Andy's style of keyboard playing is a good fit for the Quo sound as was & it became a very key part of what the Quo sound deteriorated into.
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Post by Gaz on Aug 12, 2017 10:13:00 GMT
Is it the original RAOTW or the remix? I love the alternative track order of the remix as well as the sound. Original. Original is pathetic, there's a lot more oomph from Alan and John in the remix.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 10:24:01 GMT
I know all the reasons that have been given time over again on the mb, I continue to find it curious, and quite amusing in a way, how it all passed me by. I loved Quo as they were back then, perhaps I didn't have a fixed idea how they should sound and didn't feel they lost face by producing different sounding albums. But much of this thinking though is my own hindsight in terms of what I read on here - I can honestly say I didn't give it a single thought at the time.
At the time, all fans I came across, which based on the fact there was obviously no internet were just at gigs in those days, only had amazing things to say. Not a word about how poor they thought the 'new' albums were. Plus the songs picked from both RAOTW and IYCSTH albums went down perfectly well Live.
Ignorance is definitely bliss. Awareness would only have negatively taken away from the joy of being a 70's Quo fan
Hindsight definitely does play a part in terms of emergence of the keyboards from Andy for example which went on to become an increasingly regular feature. No-one would have known at the actual time of releases of either these albums how the sound was going to keep evolving over the coming years - its only possible to know through revisionism processes such as happen on mb's
Again though, I've never had a big problem with them - plenty of songs had already featured them anyway and in my opinion add something extra that is good. Whilst it can be argued they became too common place, and that some songs could have done without them, I'd put criticisms of this very low down on my own 'shouldn't have' list.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 10:34:23 GMT
It took me till the 1982 and BTB albums to start not enjoying the album experience so much and start questioning the growing differences between the albums and the live gig experience - but again much of this view is based on hindsight rather than any real discontent at all at the time. Quo remained top of the pile and an amazing time right to the End of the Road as far as I was concerned.
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Post by kiwipom on Aug 12, 2017 10:35:30 GMT
RAOTW is an OK album - "different", "disappointing" in many ways, but "OK".....IYCSTH is another story!
The irony for many is that even the best of the albums from 1982 onwards struggle to match the songwriting and quality of the RAOTW album
For me the best analogy is like the comparison of the old GCE O-levels versus the CSE grades - the rationale being that CSE grade 1 could only ever equal a grade C at O level...
Quo albums from DOTH to BFY + Live + WYW are all like O levels at As and Bs RAOTW is a solid C. IYCSTH is a shaky C-/borderline fail at best. JS and NTL might be C+ or B- All Quo studio albums from 1982 to the present day are definitely "CSEs" of varying grades 1 to 5.
In that context RAOTW positively shines compared to much of the garbage that was recorded from 1982 onwards!
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Post by durango95 on Aug 12, 2017 11:22:16 GMT
The story for me back then and how it happened before mb,internet and hindsight...
I was 14 years old when the Live album came out,Quo at their peak.
There was no internet and no live gigs (living in the middel of nowhere) just discussions about music,artists and new albums in school and when we had spare time.
We (the Quo fans) were the toughest,meanest and coolest lads in school,everyone respected us and others (not Quo fans) did know how Quo had sounded so far, and the non fans respected Quos music anyway in a strange way. So everything was running smoothly,we know that 'our' band was THE best around and when Jackie Lynton introduced the Live album,no one really argued anymore that Status Quo really was something else.
So when I got the RAOTW album for Christmas in -77,it all went tits up. I didn't had to 'discuss' what I was hearing with any of my mates,we all understood though that this really was something not good. Suddenly we Quo fans were not that cool anymore in school,others took over,it was disco,punk and other shite and we just trying to survive another year til the next Quo album and we thought that everything was going back to 'normal' again.
We all know what happened....IYCSTH were even worse,I was fifteen years old and Quo were the laughing stock with their Again,again,again,again,again,again....well you get the picture.We the Quo fans had to hang up the denims and look the other way when music were discussed.
So if there is anyone out there still in doubt what those two Quo albums did to my youth I hope you understand now.....
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