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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Sept 26, 2017 20:19:07 GMT
does an album need to be balanced? I don't think so, no. But Francis does, and felt that Quo wasn't. I think there's less "balance" or variety on hello than the other albums but it may well be my favourite Anyone can do balanced. Good is more difficult.
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Post by curiousgirl on Sept 26, 2017 22:00:24 GMT
I don't think so, no. But Francis does, and felt that Quo wasn't. I think there's less "balance" or variety on hello than the other albums but it may well be my favourite Anyone can do balanced. Good is more difficult. "Good is more difficult" Perfect answer.
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Post by vivfromcov on Sept 26, 2017 23:50:05 GMT
Why would he want it to be balanced though? I thought the whole point of those early records was that they were different and quirky, with odd time changes and unexpected light and shade. They were creative artists, discovering their own sound, not some middle of the road well balanced pop group. Surely balance is boring...? But maybe he didn't mean it? I think he might have been out of his tree when he said those things because OTL was no more 'balanced' anyway IMO However we must remember not to believe everything he says as he has admitted to talking a load of shit.....
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gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Sept 27, 2017 12:08:39 GMT
Too much Lancaster and his hard-rock on Quo is what he meant.
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Post by vivfromcov on Sept 27, 2017 15:08:29 GMT
Too much Lancaster and his hard-rock on Quo is what he meant. Probably right with that... (What he meant not what I think! )
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Post by MrWaistcoat on Sept 27, 2017 15:27:41 GMT
I don't see how anyone could be neutral about Hello. It's just SO Quo. I could say to the general rock fan to check out any of the other classic Quo albums...and I'm sure there would be stuff there they'd like. Not so Hello. If you don't like the opening 30 seconds, you won't like the album
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Post by Gaz on Nov 2, 2017 22:22:43 GMT
I listened to Hello nice n loud while driving to work this morning and yes it's great. I never really appreciated Caroline on it as I found it a bit too slow and 'clumpy'(?) and preferred the live versions... I don't know what's changed but it sounded brilliant today...when those drums and base kicked in I got the goosebumps...even my nipples were rock hard ffs!!
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Post by Gaz on Nov 2, 2017 22:32:01 GMT
I listened to Hello nice n loud while driving to work this morning and yes it's great. I never really appreciated Caroline on it as I found it a bit too slow and 'clumpy'(?) and preferred the live versions... I don't know what's changed but it sounded brilliant today...when those drums and base kicked in I got the goosebumps...even my nipples were rock hard ffs!! The studio version has always been the best. The live versions don't come close - they're all too fast. The guitar mix is perfect as well. Rossi's guitar sounds glorious.
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Post by Detroit on Nov 2, 2017 22:48:06 GMT
Rossi's guitar sounds glorious. It does. That's when it was a Telecaster. Every track on 'Hello' is great. Everybody remembers where they were when they heard 'Forty Five Hundred Times' for the first time.Balcony, at my only Quo gig. Every song at that gig was the first time I heard it.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Nov 2, 2017 22:54:40 GMT
Too right. I could even look up the seat numbers probably given time. And somewhere under centuries of dust is probably the very emotional poem I wrote a couple of days afterwards (probably best to stay there, too). And at that point I hadn't even heard Hello.
Telecasters, indeed. And a Mustang bass IIRR.
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Post by Railroad17 on Nov 2, 2017 23:18:09 GMT
I've just listened to it in full - properly, on a good system at high volume For some reason I thought it was a bit lightweight (Caroline on Planet Rock can certainly sound relatively light....), but I was wrong. The dirty, thumping Quo sound is in there. Just turn it up... Basically, the album is a joy from start to finish. Very powerful, yet effortlessly melodic. Back in the 80's, my metal-head mates would tease the simplicity, and pick out Alan as being a crap musician. Looking back, this influenced me a bit and made me more accepting of Rhino. What I noticed in listening afresh to Hello! is just how inventive and enjoyable many of his bass lines are. AIBN is a good example. He put a stamp on those songs...and not many bass players can do that. I always used to skip Claudie, but I really enjoyed it. A country pop song (not my thing) but wow, what a performance. The solo and instrumental bits are a joy - a brilliant band, touching gold with whatever it did. As for ROLD, has any album anywhere ever started better? To keep things fresh at gigs, I avoided listening both to hits and classic albums for many years. My avoidance started in the late 80's. With so much exposure to live versions, I'd forgotten how good ROLD is. Now Rick has gone, the one positive for me is that as I no longer follow the band as it is, I have just gone back to listening to my favorite music again. And god Hello! is brilliant. And yes, listening properly does make you realise just how poor everything was in comparison after John left. I think a lot of the hardcore enjoyed the new stuff for what it was, and basically forgot how awesome the old stuff still is. The new stuff would usually get played by me quite a lot for weeks....but there's very little I'd go back to now. When 86 came, I can just imagine Rick and Francis looking at this album and thinking "we sing all of this, we wrote most of it....we can do it all, we don't need the others.". And yes, to the casual fan it would sound like a Rick and (mostly) Francis dominated album. But it's the band chemistry and performance that lifts the songs to special. And special they are....all of them The word crisp sums up the guitar solos in ROLD.
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Post by Railroad17 on Nov 2, 2017 23:23:25 GMT
Bought this and was blown fcuking sideways.I worked at a dance center and when the building was empty I could play the whole thing on a big bad four speaker sound system. During the build up at the end of the quiet bit in ROLD a clock rattled off the studio wall as it built in to a crescendo.And it was the studio used for the video Call On Me by Eric Prydz which was filmed in SE8 3DZ and not Los Angeles.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Nov 12, 2017 12:21:40 GMT
Bought this and was blown fcuking sideways.I worked at a dance center and when the building was empty I could play the whole thing on a big bad four speaker sound system. During the build up at the end of the quiet bit in ROLD a clock rattled off the studio wall as it built in to a crescendo.And it was the studio used for the video Call On Me by Eric Prydz which was filmed in SE8 3DZ and not Los Angeles. I hate that video. The song was meant to be a tribute to a jazz singer who died. If he wanted to do a sub-stripper video, he could have used something more appropriate. But the songwriter took the money for the sample rights, apparently ... he was always meant to be rather "upright" (in the old fashined sense) too. Fame and money trump all!
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Post by Railroad17 on Nov 12, 2017 16:46:43 GMT
Bought this and was blown fcuking sideways.I worked at a dance center and when the building was empty I could play the whole thing on a big bad four speaker sound system. During the build up at the end of the quiet bit in ROLD a clock rattled off the studio wall as it built in to a crescendo.And it was the studio used for the video Call On Me by Eric Prydz which was filmed in SE8 3DZ and not Los Angeles. I hate that video. The song was meant to be a tribute to a jazz singer who died. If he wanted to do a sub-stripper video, he could have used something more appropriate. But the songwriter took the money for the sample rights, apparently ... he was always meant to be rather "upright" (in the old fashined sense) too. Fame and money trump all! Valerie Harper is the singer the song is about.
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Post by Tʰᵉ Wᵃˡˡ Oᶠ Dᵉᵃᵗʰ on Nov 13, 2017 6:42:06 GMT
I hate that video. The song was meant to be a tribute to a jazz singer who died. If he wanted to do a sub-stripper video, he could have used something more appropriate. But the songwriter took the money for the sample rights, apparently ... he was always meant to be rather "upright" (in the old fashined sense) too. Fame and money trump all! Valerie Harper is the singer the song is about. Valerie Carter
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