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Post by snakelady on Aug 31, 2016 8:06:54 GMT
The next album that needs discussing is the first of three covers albums. There isn't much I can say about it and even less positive. At the time I had gone completely of the band - due to the quality of its predecessor, but mainly due to what was going on in my life. When I later heard about it and saw the songs it contained I refrained from buying it. There are some songs on it I had always loved and I didn't want to spoil them for me, didn't want my estimation of Quo spoilt either, by listening to their (inferior) versions. Other songs I had always dislikes and never felt the need to possess them and why would I change my mind for a Quo version ? So I didn't. And to this day I haven't bought the album and in consequence haven't much more to say about it. I've listened to some of the songs/seen some of the videos and do like a few of those, but that's it. The Sorrow version with Brian May is pure misery though. Thank god I'm not a completist ..
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 8:42:11 GMT
An album that reached no.2 and were a huge commercial success got totally f*cked by the bands own fans?
I don't get it,imho the album is e and I'll leave it to that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 10:56:41 GMT
I could only select 3 songs, (Get Back, Proud Mary & Get Out Of Denver) the rest I reckon are dire, sorry
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 21:02:04 GMT
Voted for a few but in honesty I could have voted for all.
Great songs played by great musicians. I really don't know what's not to like about it.
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Post by penguin on Aug 31, 2016 21:08:06 GMT
I don't like this album at all. All the b-sides of the singles were better. (Tilting At The Mill, Mortified, Temporary Friend and I'll Never Get Over You).
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Post by quodlibet aka granny on Aug 31, 2016 21:08:07 GMT
I find it quite a jolly album to do housework to as I don't mind missing the bits when the vacuum is switched on. :haha:
I sort of like Fun Fun Fun and All Around my Hat. I quite like Quo's version of Don't Stop and Sorrow.
I always associate When you Walk in the Room with the video of the women walking down a corridor, which I hate, so that's a non-starter. thumbs-down-clipart12
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2016 21:49:19 GMT
This was a period where I put myself into a self induced QuoComa. Feck, have I just hit on something there
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Post by snakelady on Sept 1, 2016 7:23:20 GMT
I find it quite a jolly album to do housework to as I don't mind missing the bits when the vacuum is switched on. :haha: I sort of like Fun Fun Fun and All Around my Hat. I quite like Quo's version of Don't Stop and Sorrow. I always associate When you Walk in the Room with the video of the women walking down a corridor, which I hate, so that's a non-starter. thumbs-down-clipart12 Guess that video has been made especially for Francis: He has stated more than once that he loves long legs . Must be his dream come true - so I don't mind the video :lolflg: .
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 8:58:41 GMT
I really don't know what's not to like about it. A poor selection of covers IMHO, below is what I would call a decent Quo cover
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 21:07:48 GMT
I really don't know what's not to like about it. A poor selection of covers IMHO, below is what I would call a decent Quo cover Agreed that it's a decent cover although I'd also say the Stones cover Chuck numbers better than Quo. Probably another interesting quiz, what is Quo's best cover song?
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Post by snakelady on Sept 2, 2016 6:27:16 GMT
A poor selection of covers IMHO, below is what I would call a decent Quo cover Agreed that it's a decent cover although I'd also say the Stones cover Chuck numbers better than Quo. Probably another interesting quiz, what is Quo's best cover song? Not all covers, but the three covers albums at least: link (previous rounds can be found in the polls section)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2016 9:16:41 GMT
Agreed that it's a decent cover although I'd also say the Stones cover Chuck numbers better than Quo. Probably another interesting quiz, what is Quo's best cover song? Not all covers, but the three covers albums at least: link (previous rounds can be found in the polls section) Out of the 5 which made it to the final I'm pleased to see the best song won
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Post by kursaal75 on Sept 6, 2016 9:18:38 GMT
Poor album, poor cover. I picked 'All Around My Hat', only because I remember back in the 70s, when Steeleye Spam had this out as a single, I thought, I'd like to hear Quo do that!!! I also picked 'Get out of Denver' but its not a patch on the Eddie & The Hot Rods cover.
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Post by mortified on Sept 6, 2016 9:39:31 GMT
Not the band's finest artistic hour but certainly one of their most lucrative! It went double platinum or something daft like that. Which actually speaks volumes about the music buying public and possibly about Quo fans as well.
We, as a rule, hated it; Mrs Josephine Public obviously took a different view. No rights or wrongs. Just the way popular music is generally - and always has been really.
Quo were actually out of step in doing this album; covers albums came out in numbers much earlier in the decade. But, as usual, they bucked the trend and, as usual, quite successfully.
The album, for me, has few redeeming features and very little to recommend it (including the dreadful sleeve) but I've plumped for two that I still tend to play;
I Can Hear The Grass Grow; Get Out Of Denver;
The Move song I always liked and it's a reasonable rendition. The Bob Seger song I could never track down the original of and I'm not sure if he properly recorded it (someone will put me right on that) so I can't compare it. But I like it as a song and it drives along nicely.
That's about it really. I have to add that the murder of Get Back was pretty unforgiveable and the whole groove of the song was chucked to one side and lost.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2016 21:41:43 GMT
Poor album, poor cover. I picked 'All Around My Hat', only because I remember back in the 70s, when Steeleye Spam had this out as a single, I thought, I'd like to hear Quo do that!!! I also picked 'Get out of Denver' but its not a patch on the Eddie & The Hot Rods cover. SpamMy first ever single that was, the SS version. 3 tracks stand out a mile for me: Fun, Hat & Raining. Fun's a class collaboration.
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Post by snakelady on Sept 13, 2016 8:28:22 GMT
Come on guys and gals - 11 people voting isn't exactly a lot ! I know, it's a covers album, but maybe you secretely did like at least one of the songs .. If nobody adds to the thread I'll soon move it to the past cups section.
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Post by kursaal75 on Sept 13, 2016 8:42:07 GMT
I see All Around My Hat is the favourite track at the moment. I would of been locked up, if I said, when the original was released in 1975, (the year that Status Quo had a UK #1 single, album & Top10 live EP in the chart's), that the Steeleye Spam track would be voted best track from a covers album in the future.
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Post by col on Sept 14, 2016 12:12:19 GMT
I see All Around My Hat is the favourite track at the moment. I would of been locked up, if I said, when the original was released in 1975, (the year that Status Quo had a UK #1 single, album & Top10 live EP in the chart's), that the Steeleye Spam track would be voted best track from a covers album in the future. Lovin' the "Spam" thing you've got going on there!! Steeleye Spam, that's a very apt name and far better than their real name!!
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