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Post by snakelady on Jul 20, 2018 9:03:32 GMT
We know the year is merely the release date and that the album was part of a package deal: The band were allowed to record their own material, Heavy Traffic, if they recorded a covers album too. So both albums were recorded one straight after the other and the release was originally planned to happen in a similar way. It was only thanks to the success of HT that Riffs was pushed back to the next year. And, best of all, was less successful than HT had been. Guess that's the main reason why we've been spared further cover albums. Riffs itself is slightly different to the other covers albums in so far that the band covered a few of their own songs too. That could've worked out well, had they chosen relatively unknown songs, album B-sides, suchlike stuff, but no, they went for the usual suspects (plus Down The Dustpipe), which makes the album even worse IMO. It contains less songs than FITLC (especially since Don't Bring Me Down was merely on the UK version ) and the album has an overall rockier sound. There's one or two tracks I like with I Fought The Law my favourite. The good thing about the album is that we knew about how it had come into being and we still had HT (and UTI) relatively new to listen to. So I and I guess many others as well just considered it a minor blip, mainly ignored it and simply waited for the next real Quo album.
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Post by Dark on Jul 20, 2018 9:34:47 GMT
Outside of live albums and compilations, this is the only Quo album I don’t own. For me the previous covers album was a load of tosh and I was sick of hearing them in interviews talk about being forced into doing them by the record company. I much preferred the line they took in the Pye days about not caring about fashion and the record company, that they were going to play the music the liked and wanted.
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Post by mortified on Jul 20, 2018 10:12:04 GMT
The only tracks I still play are Don't Bring Me Down and On The Road Again. Both songs I like and they do a good job with them, although the ELO one is pretty faithful to the original. Francis's voice was tailor made for the Canned Heat song.
So basically I skip them all but two. The re-recordings were done just to fill out space but mainly to say that they had played some of the songs live on the tour in 2003, thus fulfilling their promotional obligations.
I have always disliked I Fought The Law and Centrefold (particularly!) so they were never going to float my boat. And Rick's Elvis impression on Wild One is a bit naff. The original Iggy version, unfortunately for Quo, is superb.
I'm actually not sure why the record company even released the album. It served no purpose and had very few redeeming features other than the fact it was probably a little better than Famous In The Last Century. Not difficult. Had anyone with half a brain been involved they'd have noticed after Heavy Traffic that albums of their own material sold perfectly well.
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Post by col on Jul 20, 2018 11:36:25 GMT
An album I rarely play, and I skip all of the Quo songs on it, totally pointless.
Wild One is nearly as bad as Hound Dog.
All Day And All Of The Night and Born To Be Wild are pointless.
The rest get a very occasional (read seldom) spin.
By far the best of the covers albums then!!
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Post by coldwarkid on Jul 20, 2018 13:20:34 GMT
Of all the covers albums I liked the rockier edged production on this most but thought for the most part the song choice was terrible, particularly covering their own big hits and adding nothing new, which was one of the few things that went in Aquostic's favour. Could have been great if they'd covered songs by Deep Purple, Whitesnake and the like or Rainbow's "pop" hits. A missed opportunity by the record company.
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Post by snakelady on Jul 21, 2018 7:12:31 GMT
One of you checked 'none' amongst other tunes. That's obvious as we've got 5 voters so far, some songs with 5 votes plus the 'none' option checked. Simply not possible ..
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Post by mortified on Jul 21, 2018 7:41:04 GMT
One of you checked 'none' amongst other tunes. That's obvious as we've got 5 voters so far, some songs with 5 votes plus the 'none' option checked. Simply not possible .. Oops, that was me. Got carried away Sorted
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Post by cammythemortonfan on Jul 21, 2018 17:31:10 GMT
The re-recordings were done because Alan had threatened legal action against them miming to recordings he was on eh Roatw and Wyw on tv shows.
This version of wyw made its debut on tv in either 2001 or 2002 on This Morning when they were interviewed by John Leslie and Coleen Nolan.
That’s why it sounds different to eg On the Road Again , which has a superb guitar sound.
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Post by noproblems on Jul 21, 2018 21:01:39 GMT
We know the year is merely the release date and that the album was part of a package deal: The band were allowed to record their own material, Heavy Traffic, if they recorded a covers album too. So both albums were recorded one straight after the other and the release was originally planned to happen in a similar way. It was only thanks to the success of HT that Riffs was pushed back to the next year. And, best of all, was less successful than HT had been. Guess that's the main reason why we've been spared further cover albums. The reason we've been spared further cover albums is that the band point blank don't want to do them. Their previous manager (not Simon Porter) for some reason thought it would be a good idea to to three cover albums. Who, where, what, why, when and how is something that can be asked of Francis when he does his interview tour.
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Post by snakelady on Jul 22, 2018 10:39:52 GMT
We know the year is merely the release date and that the album was part of a package deal: The band were allowed to record their own material, Heavy Traffic, if they recorded a covers album too. So both albums were recorded one straight after the other and the release was originally planned to happen in a similar way. It was only thanks to the success of HT that Riffs was pushed back to the next year. And, best of all, was less successful than HT had been. Guess that's the main reason why we've been spared further cover albums. The reason we've been spared further cover albums is that the band point blank don't want to do them. Their previous manager (not Simon Porter) for some reason thought it would be a good idea to to three cover albums. Who, where, what, why, when and how is something that can be asked of Francis when he does his interview tour. I've read/heard those statements but I take them with a pinch of salt. Francis outright refused to do the second covers album already and had to be talked into it. And he gave in. Rick said similar after the third too. So yep, the band have been refusing to do covers albums, but gave in when it was the only way to secure a record deal. From that I conclude that no matter how much they hate these albums, if survival depends on it, they record them. And in consequence I'd assume no further record company has come up with this condition, else .. Records have become less important in the meantime anyway and the whole market has changed drastically since the turn of the century, so there might be other reasons as well .. I'm merely speculating of course.
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Post by Rob on Jul 22, 2018 12:16:01 GMT
The reason we've been spared further cover albums is that the band point blank don't want to do them. Their previous manager (not Simon Porter) for some reason thought it would be a good idea to to three cover albums. Who, where, what, why, when and how is something that can be asked of Francis when he does his interview tour. I've read/heard those statements but I take them with a pinch of salt. Francis outright refused to do the second covers album already and had to be talked into it. And he gave in. Rick said similar after the third too. So yep, the band have been refusing to do covers albums, but gave in when it was the only way to secure a record deal. From that I conclude that no matter how much they hate these albums, if survival depends on it, they record them. And in consequence I'd assume no further record company has come up with this condition, else .. Records have become less important in the meantime anyway and the whole market has changed drastically since the turn of the century, so there might be other reasons as well .. I'm merely speculating of course. As you do, expansively
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Post by johns on Jul 24, 2018 14:15:23 GMT
In the main all the reworkings of Quo's old hits and Don't Bring Me Down are on my not liking too much list.
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Post by snakelady on Jul 30, 2018 6:18:46 GMT
This is very telling so far: Obviously we're fed up with the hits and Centerfold just doesn't fit in, made worse why the fact that it's sung by Rhino. They probably thought it was funny to record it as he had been in the original band. I wasn't.
Keep on voting nonetheless !
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Post by mortified on Jul 30, 2018 6:36:05 GMT
This is very telling so far: Obviously we're fed up with the hits and Centerfold just doesn't fit in, made worse why the fact that it's sung by Rhino. They probably thought it was funny to record it as he had been in the original band. I wasn't. Keep on voting nonetheless ! What, Rhino was in the J Geils Band? You sure about that?
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Post by snakelady on Jul 30, 2018 6:38:53 GMT
This is very telling so far: Obviously we're fed up with the hits and Centerfold just doesn't fit in, made worse why the fact that it's sung by Rhino. They probably thought it was funny to record it as he had been in the original band. I wasn't. Keep on voting nonetheless ! What, Rhino was in the J Geils Band? You sure about that? Yes - He had a knack for being in on hit wonders when they had their one hit .. Edit: Although I'm not sure he was with them when they recorded Centerfold.
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Post by snakelady on Jul 30, 2018 6:50:55 GMT
What, Rhino was in the J Geils Band? You sure about that? Yes - He had a knack for being in on hit wonders when they had their one hit .. Edit: Although I'm not sure he was with them when they recorded Centerfold. I've just searched for pics with Rhino and couldn't find any. As they were an American band my guess is he merely was with them for a short time in the early 80s when they were touring and had success in Europe.
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Post by kursaal75 on Jul 30, 2018 7:27:58 GMT
Ive got The Geils Bands album, why? I haven't a clue Back to the topic, as Winter hit the seaside yesterday, I played this album, now I know why it was covered in cobwebs. The only tracks I actually played were, On The Road Again, Tobacco Road, Don't Bring Me Down and Down The Dustpipe.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2018 19:36:37 GMT
I downloaded this album in 2011 along with all the albums I’d missed since NTL....this one I’ve played about twice in 7 years. Tells you everything you need to know.
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Post by snakelady on Aug 6, 2018 8:58:18 GMT
kursaal75, colin69 .. come on don't be so lazy and actually vote - there's plenty to check on this album .
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Post by kursaal75 on Aug 6, 2018 9:11:04 GMT
I have voted, the one's I've mentioned in my last post are the only tracks I play, so I ticked all the other tracks I skip.
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Post by frozenhero on Aug 8, 2018 12:34:28 GMT
The only tracks I still play are Don't Bring Me Down and On The Road Again. Both songs I like and they do a good job with them, although the ELO one is pretty faithful to the original. Francis's voice was tailor made for the Canned Heat song. Canned Heat's version is a cover too. I have always disliked I Fought The Law and Centrefold (particularly!) so they were never going to float my boat. And Rick's Elvis impression on Wild One is a bit naff. The original Iggy version, unfortunately for Quo, is superb. Iggy Pop's version is a cover too!
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Post by mortified on Aug 8, 2018 12:51:36 GMT
The only tracks I still play are Don't Bring Me Down and On The Road Again. Both songs I like and they do a good job with them, although the ELO one is pretty faithful to the original. Francis's voice was tailor made for the Canned Heat song. Canned Heat's version is a cover too. I have always disliked I Fought The Law and Centrefold (particularly!) so they were never going to float my boat. And Rick's Elvis impression on Wild One is a bit naff. The original Iggy version, unfortunately for Quo, is superb. Iggy Pop's version is a cover too! I knew about Canned Heat but not Iggy Pop
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Post by frozenhero on Aug 8, 2018 13:17:53 GMT
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Post by mortified on Aug 8, 2018 13:26:41 GMT
I should have known (see what I did there?) I bought the 12" single back whenever it was and obviously just stuck it on without reading anything. It was called Real Wild Child as well.
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Post by craydarr on Aug 11, 2018 7:47:05 GMT
The first 5 covers on this album are really good in my opinion, in fact it has completely changed my opinion of 1 song as “Born to be Wild” has pretty much always been played as a horrible cliched “ metal” type song. But played here as a shuffle it gives it a different feel and I like it.
The Quo songs are as you would hear them played live , then and now so it isn’t anything new.
Covers like “Pump it Up” and “ Centrefold” aren’t that good in my opinion, as I love the originals and the covers don’t have the right feel .
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