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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 17:58:04 GMT
Then in '79 this came out:
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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 17:53:09 GMT
This one was a a popular budget cash in too:
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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 17:51:23 GMT
It's a good question. I can speak for my dad at the time, who didn't buy copies of Ma Kelly and Dog on release, not sure why, could have been money, he was pretty poor, still is , but he did get Piledriver, then he got The Best Of Status Quo, this one below, which contained tracks from Ma Kelly and Dog, whether he got that before Hello or together with I'm not sure, but for our family the rest is history! Aye, that's the one & this was the follow up:
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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 17:14:22 GMT
As I recall, Pye did extensive recompiling of the Quo back catalogue - The Best... & The Rest... being especially popular. So many of us came to the original albums a tad later on
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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 16:42:07 GMT
I think I remember talking on the old board that after Down Down and On The Level had both reached #1, or maybe this was just on the back of the album being #1, that all of Piledriver, Hello and Quo re-entered the top 40-50 for a brief period in early 1975, so I don't know what sales would have been, but I'd imagine you needed to shift a lot. To answer myself, just had a scan on the official chart website and yes all three albums, Piledriver, Hello and Quo all re-entered the chart. This was same time as Down Down had reached #1, but just before On The Level reached #1, so it looks like week 12-18/1/1975 the Quo album re-enters at #29, Piledriver at #38 and Hello at #46. If that's correct of course. Wonder what sales would have been. After this, and the singles Caroline and Paper Plane, you can see why Rossi would feel like the main driver of the bands success at that time.
Anyway back to Dog Of Two Head, Good Thinking would have been a perfect addition to the album, instead of the extra Nanana's. If so, which would be a valid enough view at the time, it's a tad ironic as one could argue that Rossi had peaked at this point.
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Post by dennis on Mar 29, 2024 14:32:50 GMT
It would have been interesting if they'd released it as a single featuring a different vocalist to the album version. Maybe they could have backed it with Alan's version of Ol' Rag Blues!
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Post by dennis on Mar 26, 2024 16:03:23 GMT
NaNaNa was just padding because the album was really a track short, imo
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Post by dennis on Mar 26, 2024 15:48:23 GMT
I think they'll be up to 550 by now
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Post by dennis on Mar 26, 2024 15:37:17 GMT
Isn't that rather old news?
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Post by dennis on Mar 25, 2024 15:28:16 GMT
The The did an interesting take on Hank Williams years ago with their album Hanky Panky, worth a listen, imo.
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Post by dennis on Mar 25, 2024 11:31:07 GMT
Land of fire and ice. The Quo message board, as opposed to a volcanic island between here and Greenland I stand by the agenda thing but maybe Fine Fine Fine isn't the best example to bring to the table 👍 I appreciate that later country ditties are more Hank Williams than Steve Earle. If only they were as good as either!
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Post by dennis on Mar 22, 2024 21:36:12 GMT
I thought that the John Eden remix was very interesting, but ultimately highlighted that if it ain't on tape you can't remix it in. Consequently, he couldn't put the missing oooomph back into the songs. So, I suspect the same would be true of other albums. However, if they were to try it at all, then my picks would be If You Can't Stand The Heat & Never Too Late. Although I don't think you could get a truly satisfactory result for any of the three albums unless you got the musicians back into the studio, & that clearly cannot happen now.
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Post by dennis on Mar 22, 2024 13:26:09 GMT
I've often wondered what the purpose of radio is now if you can make your own playlist on a device the size of a cigarette packet. It's so that you don't have to improvise your own inane chitchat to talk over key parts of the song
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Post by dennis on Mar 19, 2024 18:38:33 GMT
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Post by dennis on Mar 19, 2024 17:00:06 GMT
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