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Post by snakelady on Nov 15, 2017 17:46:46 GMT
To start with the positives .. I thought the cover looked great ! And I think Accident Prone deserved all the praise it got here. Why it didn't do any better in the UK will always remain a mystery to me. Yes, there were a few more good songs on the album, but most of it had me shocked. None of them were able to come up with half decent material. Best songs are an old Andy solo track and one not written by the band. Especially the lack of quality in Francis' tunes is very obvious. Guess he was too preoccupied with the breaking up of his marriage and in consequence couldn't focus on writing songs for the new album.
It'll be difficult to vote for me as I used to never listen to the album. And I seriously doubt there'll be a single 'none' vote.
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Post by mortified on Nov 16, 2017 7:01:13 GMT
This is the one where I discovered that Quo were truly fallible. Playing the first side remains my biggest ever disappointment as a Quo fan. Not because it's the worst; there was much worse to come (and better!). But because I hadn't played a side from a Quo album up to that point that I didn't think was very good to downright brilliant. It was simply insipid and an over-produced bore-fest to a 21-year old who'd worshiped them for half a dozen years. I'm Giving Up My Worrying and Someone Show Me Home I skipped then and I skip now, although the latter is much improved on Francis's first solo album. The flip side was better but Stones is bin fodder. And I have to admit that I wasn't keen on Accident Prone at the time either. I was no disco fan! But it has grown on me - a lot. There are several reasons why that last one wasn't a hit single (their first not to make the top 20 in the UK since Tune To The Music). Punk and new wave were in full flow - a dominant force - so Again And Again was less of a hit than expected. And other than Mystery Song two years before, it was the first time they'd released a second single from an album. It followed quickly after the first one and bombed by their standards (no.36). So I've gone for those I've specifically mentioned. I've included Accident Prone because I disliked it at the time. That's 4 in all. I don't think they did Andy any justice with their version of Long Legged Linda either. It isn't bad but his solo version is better. I was also aware that Rick got a writing credit for it on the original album but by the time it came out on CD in 1990 (on the "back 2 back" series) Andy had a sole credit. And still does. As I said in another thread somewhere, it was the first time I'd seen the dreaded words "Rossi/Frost". I hate blame culture, don't you?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2017 15:52:43 GMT
I don't skip any of them, it took me a while to get used to this album as I recall
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Post by Isaac Ryan on Nov 16, 2017 16:31:10 GMT
I have to say none, but a couple would come close.
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Nov 16, 2017 18:13:23 GMT
I've also voted none. It's a weird one because this is one of my least favourite Quo albums of all, but when I do listen to it there aren't any songs that I hate. There aren't any great songs on it either, it's just a fairly average album throughout IMO. I like Again and Again and I really like Accident Prone (even though it is quite different, or certainly was at the time), but after that I just find it a very below par album. There are other Quo albums that I absolutely love, but I will skip the odd song here and there....this one is the opposite.
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Post by bridsparegular on Nov 17, 2017 1:14:55 GMT
Nothing specifically to do with "Heat", (or any other album for that matter), but on topic(ish), before cd's, can you imagine the youth of today lifting the raise arm of the needle/stylus to "skip" tracks they didn't like? or even flipping an LP over after 4 or 5 tracks, for "side2" for that matter? Different world innit? Oh well😞...
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Post by mortified on Nov 17, 2017 6:28:54 GMT
As always, I was just basing my vote on what I did at the time when it first came out. I've grown to like songs I didn't back in 1978. Needle lifting was quite the fashion back then
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Post by craydarr on Nov 17, 2017 18:32:53 GMT
Stones, one of the worst Quo songs ever.
Worryin & Teach you to love me.
I have to admit its not an album I listen to very often.
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Post by viking55 on Nov 17, 2017 19:58:00 GMT
Voted for 3 here but they are the worst of not very much better imo. I mean ‘ Gonna teach you to love me ‘ If that wasn’t a sign things were drying up I don’t know what was. Thank god for the next album but we haven’t got that far yet...lol.
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Post by gogs on Nov 18, 2017 19:02:39 GMT
Side 1 is dire, imo but I quite like side 2 except Stones. It's only virtue is the guitar hooks but the rest.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2017 19:24:03 GMT
Voted for everything except Accident Prone and I don’t think that’s anything special but I don’t mind it.
Worst Quo album ever?
Give me one of the covers albums any day.
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Post by col on Nov 19, 2017 17:20:28 GMT
The second album in a row that would have made a great EP.
I skip all bar four, the much maligned Gonna Teach You To Love Me, Oh! What A Night, Accident Prone and Let Me Fly
Again and Again is repetition squared, getting towards nursery rhyme territory, SSHM,IGUMW and Stones are just pish.
LAGG is Quo by numbers and I didn't like LLL whan Andy did it as a solo song, I still don't like it and just don't get writing the credits!
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Nov 23, 2017 14:19:16 GMT
I stumbled across a website (which I had seen in the past) called Allmusic.com link Amongst other things they review most album releases and have a lot of Quo ones on there. I'm not sure if they are 'official critics' or just random people; one guy (Dave Thompson) seems to have done quite a lot of the Quo reviews, but Robert Aniento has done this one and RAOTW.
So I thought I'd post a few of them in the relevant threads, see what we think.
"After the turn toward a more accessible sound that Rockin' All Over the World supposed, the British band returned to its hard rock approach on its next work. If You Can't Stand the Heat isn't so hard and heavy as Quo or Blue for You, but it incorporates subjects -- the electric guitars filling everywhere again, the groovy boogie spirit -- that recover the rocking essence they seem to have lost only one year before. One of the best examples is the infectious "Again and Again," the first single from the record, but also the sweaty "Gonna Teach You to Love Me" and the danceable "Long Legged Linda," borrowed from keyboardist Andy Bown's previous solo album. Status Quo keeps on worrying here about a clean production that enriches the different textures within the songs. The job is endorsed to Pip Williams for the second time, after the successful results in Rockin' All Over the World. Parallel to the groovy approach, the band also tries to experiment with its sound, without giving its roots up. Surprises are specially relevant in "Accident Prone" -- filled with disco synths, and one of the most singular and effective songs in the record -- or in the gospel choirs found in "Oh! What a Night!" Accurate and precise performances in the rest of the album, in which also stand out the catchy "Stones" and "Let Me Fly" and the gorgeous ballad "Someone Show Me Home," made the 12th record by Status Quo one of their most unfairly underrated efforts from their discography from the second half of the '70s".
Robert Aniento
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Post by mortified on Nov 23, 2017 14:26:22 GMT
I stumbled across a website (which I had seen in the past) called Allmusic.com link Amongst other things they review most album releases and have a lot of Quo ones on there. I'm not sure if they are 'official critics' or just random people; one guy (Dave Thompson) seems to have done quite a lot of the Quo reviews, but Robert Aniento has done this one and RAOTW.
So I thought I'd post a few of them in the relevant threads, see what we think.
"After the turn toward a more accessible sound that Rockin' All Over the World supposed, the British band returned to its hard rock approach on its next work. If You Can't Stand the Heat isn't so hard and heavy as Quo or Blue for You, but it incorporates subjects -- the electric guitars filling everywhere again, the groovy boogie spirit -- that recover the rocking essence they seem to have lost only one year before. One of the best examples is the infectious "Again and Again," the first single from the record, but also the sweaty "Gonna Teach You to Love Me" and the danceable "Long Legged Linda," borrowed from keyboardist Andy Bown's previous solo album. Status Quo keeps on worrying here about a clean production that enriches the different textures within the songs. The job is endorsed to Pip Williams for the second time, after the successful results in Rockin' All Over the World. Parallel to the groovy approach, the band also tries to experiment with its sound, without giving its roots up. Surprises are specially relevant in "Accident Prone" -- filled with disco synths, and one of the most singular and effective songs in the record -- or in the gospel choirs found in "Oh! What a Night!" Accurate and precise performances in the rest of the album, in which also stand out the catchy "Stones" and "Let Me Fly" and the gorgeous ballad "Someone Show Me Home," made the 12th record by Status Quo one of their most unfairly underrated efforts from their discography from the second half of the '70s".
Robert Aniento
Did he actually listen to it? Disco synths? Sweaty? Cold sweat more like :oo: And backing singers do not a gospel choir make. That 'groovy boogie spirit' was no more than a fleeting haunting. But each to their own.
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Nov 23, 2017 14:51:11 GMT
I stumbled across a website (which I had seen in the past) called Allmusic.com link Amongst other things they review most album releases and have a lot of Quo ones on there. I'm not sure if they are 'official critics' or just random people; one guy (Dave Thompson) seems to have done quite a lot of the Quo reviews, but Robert Aniento has done this one and RAOTW.
So I thought I'd post a few of them in the relevant threads, see what we think.
"After the turn toward a more accessible sound that Rockin' All Over the World supposed, the British band returned to its hard rock approach on its next work. If You Can't Stand the Heat isn't so hard and heavy as Quo or Blue for You, but it incorporates subjects -- the electric guitars filling everywhere again, the groovy boogie spirit -- that recover the rocking essence they seem to have lost only one year before. One of the best examples is the infectious "Again and Again," the first single from the record, but also the sweaty "Gonna Teach You to Love Me" and the danceable "Long Legged Linda," borrowed from keyboardist Andy Bown's previous solo album. Status Quo keeps on worrying here about a clean production that enriches the different textures within the songs. The job is endorsed to Pip Williams for the second time, after the successful results in Rockin' All Over the World. Parallel to the groovy approach, the band also tries to experiment with its sound, without giving its roots up. Surprises are specially relevant in "Accident Prone" -- filled with disco synths, and one of the most singular and effective songs in the record -- or in the gospel choirs found in "Oh! What a Night!" Accurate and precise performances in the rest of the album, in which also stand out the catchy "Stones" and "Let Me Fly" and the gorgeous ballad "Someone Show Me Home," made the 12th record by Status Quo one of their most unfairly underrated efforts from their discography from the second half of the '70s".
Robert Aniento
Did he actually listen to it? Disco synths? Sweaty? Cold sweat more like And backing singers do not a gospel choir make. That 'groovy boogie spirit' was no more than a fleeting haunting. But each to their own. Some of the album reviews are funny / weird, but always worth a read! This guy liked IYCSTH much more than RAOTW! Not many on here agreed with that.
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Post by snakelady on Nov 25, 2017 9:44:49 GMT
You just gotta love his adjectives - groovy, infectious, catchy or gorgeous :oo: ! Impressive is all I can say ..
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Post by Rick Roper on Nov 27, 2017 21:02:21 GMT
You just gotta love his adjectives - groovy, infectious, catchy or gorgeous ! Impressive is all I can say .. Or under the influence... Actually, it's nice to see a reviewer who gave a Quo record a positive slant - Even though us fans slated it!!! Full marks for trying! I do like some of the songs, but the whole was horribly over-produced, and far too experimental and clean for a no-sh*t Hard Rock band. The old saying about it being impossible to achieve a lustrous finish on a jobbie is quite correct... Rick Roper.
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Post by craydarr on Nov 28, 2017 18:41:32 GMT
Voted for everything except Accident Prone and I don’t think that’s anything special but I don’t mind it. Worst Quo album ever? Give me one of the covers albums any day. I love Accident Prone, its a corker..
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Post by snakelady on Nov 30, 2017 9:14:34 GMT
Looks like I've been wrong assuming there'd be no 'none' votes .. Btw. It says 'Which songs do you not like/skip ?' so you should vote for all songs you don't like, including those you were too lazy/.. to skip and simply endured. I know to not risk scratch marks on the record I'd sometimes simply turn the volume down and up again once the tunes I didn't like were over.
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Post by mortified on Nov 30, 2017 9:20:57 GMT
Looks like I've been wrong assuming there'd be no 'none' votes .. Btw. It says 'Which songs do you not like/skip ?' so you should vote for all songs you don't like, including those you were too lazy/.. to skip and simply endured. I know to not risk scratch marks on the record I'd sometimes simply turn the volume down and up again once the tunes I didn't like were over. Bone idle at an early age
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Post by snakelady on Nov 30, 2017 9:31:05 GMT
Looks like I've been wrong assuming there'd be no 'none' votes .. Btw. It says 'Which songs do you not like/skip ?' so you should vote for all songs you don't like, including those you were too lazy/.. to skip and simply endured. I know to not risk scratch marks on the record I'd sometimes simply turn the volume down and up again once the tunes I didn't like were over. Bone idle at an early age Nope, economic considerations : I didn't have the money so I'd not have been able to replace a ruined record. (It was one of the few I actually had on vinyl as opposed to cassette right from the start.)
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