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Post by cammythemortonfan on Oct 29, 2017 14:21:14 GMT
Bit of a controversial one here but would Claudie and All the Reasons have been as well loved had they appeared on Thirsty Work?
Or does the classic status of the albums they appear on influence how well received they are ?
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Post by viking55 on Oct 29, 2017 16:28:42 GMT
Very good point !
The complaints of Francis writing a country song...and Ricks 12 Bar go to standard. Crap harmonies on both tracks...lol.
But they fit on to Hello perfectly imo. And it’s no coincidence that Hello always seems to top the polls among Quo fans.
The thing is by the time we get to Thirsty Work, the way of recording and the medium used has changed completely.
I don’t think Digital recording has suited the Quo sound ! Digital makes things sound polished and clinical. Not good for Quo who are essentially a live band !
I can guess what some people will be thinking regarding personnel changes. But remember.... Rick was still on the band on Thirsty Work !!
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Post by edechrist on Oct 29, 2017 16:44:25 GMT
Claudie would be ehh... less good no matter on what album it appeared and no matter the line-up... imo
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 19:12:49 GMT
I happen to like both songs very much,both are very good songs indeed, for me it would be a case of how they were performed/recorded, more than the line up
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 19:13:51 GMT
I don’t think Digital recording has suited the Quo sound ! Digital makes things sound polished and clinical. Not good for Quo who are essentially a live band ! This  |
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Post by snakelady on Oct 30, 2017 7:49:20 GMT
There's something about the TW sound which I can't stand and I've no idea why they had to change the sound at the time. RTYD just a few years earlier has the best sound Quo ever achieved IMO. So both songs would be wasted and rendered unlistenable on that particular album.
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Post by mortified on Oct 30, 2017 8:51:41 GMT
It's a hard one to answer but I doubt they would have been given the same reverence. I think that's down to the overall sound, as already suggested, rather than the material.
Some of the songs on Thirsty Work given the same largely minimal arrangements would probably be very good indeed. It's not the material on that album I question but the way in which it was arranged, produced and recorded.
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Oct 30, 2017 17:02:51 GMT
There's something about the TW sound which I can't stand and I've no idea why they had to change the sound at the time. RTYD just a few years earlier has the best sound Quo ever achieved IMO. So both songs would be wasted and rendered unlistenable on that particular album. They possibly decided to change the sound again for TW because RTYD and the singles that were released didn't particularly sell very well (I know the album went to number 10 in the UK chart but I don't know how well it sold in total or how it fared around the world).
I think after Ain't Complaining, they just didn't know what to do, and felt a bit lost (my perceptions and opinion only). Perfect Remedy sold even worse, so they went for a harder sound and more rocky album with RTYD, then that didn't do fantastic so they went all soft production and poppy with TW and that didn't sell great, so they did the covers album (which sold brilliantly), then they resorted to a more rocky album again with UTI (before releasing more covers albums because DS had been successful). And it was only with UTI and later (original studio) albums that they seemed to settle on a style and a sound somewhere between the early classic albums and the 80s pop orientated albums.
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Oct 30, 2017 17:07:04 GMT
Bit of a controversial one here but would Claudie and All the Reasons have been as well loved had they appeared on Thirsty Work? Or does the classic status of the albums they appear on influence how well received they are ? I agree with what people have already said in that part of it would depend how they were recorded and what they sounded like; and I doubt either of them would have sounded the same on TW.
But as with all things Quo, I believe that there will always be 'some' FF fans who can't be objective about anything the post 1984 line-up did (before Rick died) and wouldn't have liked these songs even if they had sounded exactly the same. But there will always be some Quo fans (old and newer) who would like the songs because they liked the songs, regardless of the line-up. Would they have been given the same classic status??? Probably not.
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