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Post by mortified on Jun 3, 2017 6:13:59 GMT
Strangely, never rated it all that much. I say strangely because most Quo fans seem to love it. And there's no doubting that it's a very significant Quo album. Maybe three fabulous tracks and the rest a young band slowly learning their trade. That trade became a qualified art form with the follow up Dog Of Two Head which is still to this day little short of marvellous. But certainly the signs were there with Ma Kelly. They also recorded both Down The Dustpipe and In My Chair around that time. Stick these on and we're getting closer to a classic.  |
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Post by mortified on Jun 3, 2017 7:35:33 GMT
It's an album I only found out about when I really became aware of Quo in 1973. After Caroline, I worked my way back through the Hello album's predecessors, so to say, and found out about all those magic older songs. That sort of mirrors my own experience. It's a long time ago but I think I picked up the Dog... album in the summer of '73 after playing Piledriver till it was see through  I remember getting Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon for Christmas that year because I'd not long discovered it's existence. No information highways in them days. You just trawled through stuff in the record shops and something would jump out at you. I was slightly disappointed with it - only slightly - and found it just a little too raw even then. When I do dig it out, I always seem to play the same tracks; April Spring Summer & Wednesdays, Shy Fly and Lakky Lady. All brilliant. I never took to Francis's solos on this album though. He hadn't found his way yet. |
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Post by snakelady on Jun 3, 2017 7:44:32 GMT
Both these albums I merely bought very late (MKGS + DOTH). Ma Kelly's probably because I already had all my favourites from it already on the Golden Hour record, which I thought was a great album btw. So it was only after switching to CDs and discovering that a GH CD version obviously didn't exist, that I eventually bought MKGS.
The only song I really, really love from Dog is Nanana - not enough to buy an album for or listen to it. Thank god I don't have to now with the wonderful Roundhouse recording (I never listen to the A1 studio version either - wrong track order, Rollin' Home is missing and it lacks the great atmosphere).
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Jun 7, 2017 12:42:19 GMT
Neither did I, although I loved Spinning Wheel Blues, Daughter, Shy Fly, ASSW and Is It really Me/Gotta Go Home right from the start - and I still do. It's an album I only found out about when I really became aware of Quo in 1973. After Caroline, I worked my way back through the Hello album's predecessors, so to say, and found out about all those magic older songs. So in retrospect, I'd say Ma Kelly's is indeed the "connecting link" between early "psychedelic" Quo and what was to become the heavier, bluesier rocking Quo I so loved in the 70s. Strangely enough, I don't rate Dog of two Head all that much, although I once was very fond of Mean Girl, Umleitung, Nanana and Gerdunundula. I think Piledriver then outshone all its predecessors, only to be exceeded by the Hello album. That's pure Quo to me. So Ma Kelly's has definitely grown on me over the years, and I do enjoy listening to the album every once in a while.  I feel the same Inna. I probably hadn't given Ma Kelly's much of a chance; and then about 5 years ago it was being discussed on one of the boards so I bought the remastered version with the bonus tracks on and I love it now. I just listen to it electronically now so I'm not even sure which tracks were on the original album and which are bonus tracks. But in those days songs were released as singles and not always put on the albums (look at the Beatles back catalogue and rereleased albums)! If it was released these days, those songs would all be part of the album anyway. I think when I first got into Quo 30 years ago I started with the more poppy songs and albums, so I wasn't really into the heavier, bluesy side as much, but I love it now. I much prefer Ma Kelly's to Dog of 2 Head; I also love Mean Girl and Na Na Na, and also Railroad, but I have never really enjoyed that album that much.
Ma Kellys (& bonus tracks) every day for me!
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I remember getting Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon for Christmas that year because I'd not long discovered it's existence. No information highways in them days. You just trawled through stuff in the record shops and something would jump out at you. 
sorry I mean 64 
