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Post by Quoincidence on Mar 23, 2018 21:07:18 GMT
Got the Blue LTD Edition Vinyl today, along with the White Vinyl 7" Without You Single... Still waiting on my Boxset that has been sitting in Manchester since 12:35 today and was meant to arrive by 8pm!
Oh well! should hopefully be hear tomorrow!
Love every track bar the one before Halloween... and such a lovely post @inna He will always be with us in memory, music and video form, but I shall miss seeing him live on stage
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Post by lp72 on Mar 23, 2018 21:39:23 GMT
It's a very nice album and I like it a lot too, but I am also a little surprised that it is so "light", with the ballads (beautiful, and also a part of Rick that we always will have to remember!) but only a couple of "heavier" songs on it, and all could also be from a Rossi solo album..? (!! Sorry!!) "Halloween" is not a rerecording, it's exactly the same from the past, Jeff Rich on drums and so on..? My favs are Long Distance Love, Twinkeltoes, Look myself away, Over and out, Everybody knows how to fly.
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Post by smokie on Mar 24, 2018 10:07:47 GMT
Bought the box set t-shirt thing yesterday and I'm genuinely enjoying listening to this album.
I'm surprised how upbeat the album actually is considering what Rick was going through when he recorded his vocals etc.
The stand out track for me is Fight For Every Heartbeat. I think this is outstanding, absolutely fantastic, just love it. This is definitely a Rick kind of song.
It seems that there's been talk of a solo album from Rick for years and years and I doubted that it would ever come to fruition so, I'm delighted that I've been provan wrong about that.
Think everyone involved with this project deserves a massive thanks.
For me, it's definitely been worth waiting for.
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Post by dublinquo on Mar 24, 2018 11:00:44 GMT
For those who bought the Box Set (or both vinyl LPs), how would you describe the contrast between the different mixes of the album?
Are there any audio samples online of the band mixes ?
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Post by Quoincidence on Mar 24, 2018 11:09:47 GMT
It's a very nice album and I like it a lot too, but I am also a little surprised that it is so "light", with the ballads (beautiful, and also a part of Rick that we always will have to remember!) but only a couple of "heavier" songs on it, and all could also be from a Rossi solo album..? (!! Sorry!!) "Halloween" is not a rerecording, it's exactly the same from the past, Jeff Rich on drums and so on..? My favs are Long Distance Love, Twinkeltoes, Look myself away, Over and out, Everybody knows how to fly. Halloween was included due to it being Ricks favourite track from his Unreleased solo album, and to balance out the number of tracks on either side Without You is another track from his unreleased solo album, originally titled as Living My Life (Without You) but he re-recorded it
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Post by mortified on Mar 25, 2018 7:27:30 GMT
I've only listened to the album once all the way through and I'm beginning to wonder if it almost represents the Quo album many of us have dreamed of for a very long time. Certainly some of the tracks are as good as anything Quo have come up with since the early 80's.
That's not a criticism of Quo in any way; I will always extol the virtue of their albums from 1999 onwards with one or two in the 15 years or so before that. But the small contribution made by Rick over the decades meant that many were quite one-sided or one-paced in terms of the final outcome. There are several tracks on here - in fact, most - that would have graced and indeed enhanced ANY Quo album. I can't give it any higher praise than that.
I find it interesting that the solo albums, Rhino's Revenge (I & II), One Step At A Time, Unfinished Business and now Over And Out are all excellent and compete favourably with quite a number of Quo albums. So the old argument that the band are simply the sum of all parts no longer rings true for me. Genuine talent will out.
This is an outstanding final legacy by and for Rick.
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Post by snakelady on Mar 25, 2018 8:21:16 GMT
Do we have a chart position by now ? It's just a shame Rick never saw the excitement and positive reactions his album has created. He'd have loved that ! Hope the release does mean too, that the family factions have managed to settle their dispute and have come to an (amicable) agreement.
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Post by mortified on Mar 25, 2018 8:31:12 GMT
Do we have a chart position by now ? I'm never sure of chart positions these days. Too many variables like downloads v CD's v vinyl. I'm not sure there is a chart that adds them all together. If there is, I have no idea where it is. I did notice, however, that the album was on the front page of iTunes in the new releases. That's quite a coup. Sitting there amongst releases by Two Door Cinema Club and George Ezra. The only Quo album I can remember getting that exposure was the first Aquostic album. Rick must be "trending". He'd love that
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Post by snakelady on Mar 25, 2018 8:35:14 GMT
Do we have a chart position by now ? I'm never sure of chart positions these days. Too many variables like downloads v CD's v vinyl. I'm not sure there is a chart that adds them all together. If there is, I have no idea where it is. I did notice, however, that the album was on the front page of iTunes in the new releases. That's quite a coup. Sitting there amongst releases by Two Door Cinema Club and George Ezra. The only Quo album I can remember getting that exposure was the first Aquostic album. Rick must be "trending". He'd love that Never have heard of any of the two - obviously I am old, very Yep, he would, that's why I said such a shame he didn't live to see it.
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Mar 25, 2018 9:03:59 GMT
Do we have a chart position by now ? It's just a shame Rick never saw the excitement and positive reactions his album has created. He'd have loved that ! Hope the release does mean too, that the family factions have managed to settle their dispute and have come to an (amicable) agreement. I don't think they have with the band though. RPJ posted why have they not promoted it on FB/twitter. Lots of comments on the articles on the official page slagging the band again for no promotion. It is there though but they have not updated the page. The Quo website has the all the album details and there is a similar post on the FB page but it was done in February.
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Post by mortified on Mar 25, 2018 9:05:20 GMT
I'm never sure of chart positions these days. Too many variables like downloads v CD's v vinyl. I'm not sure there is a chart that adds them all together. If there is, I have no idea where it is. I did notice, however, that the album was on the front page of iTunes in the new releases. That's quite a coup. Sitting there amongst releases by Two Door Cinema Club and George Ezra. The only Quo album I can remember getting that exposure was the first Aquostic album. Rick must be "trending". He'd love that Never have heard of any of the two - obviously I am old, very Yep, he would, that's why I said such a shame he didn't live to see it. Two Door Cinema Club are actually OK. In small(ish) doses. I've got about 4 tracks from their previous album. But George Ezra is, as they say, not for me. Very popular nonetheless.
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Post by mortified on Mar 25, 2018 9:10:51 GMT
Do we have a chart position by now ? It's just a shame Rick never saw the excitement and positive reactions his album has created. He'd have loved that ! Hope the release does mean too, that the family factions have managed to settle their dispute and have come to an (amicable) agreement. I don't think they have with the band though. RPJ posted why have they not promoted it on FB/twitter. Lots of comments on the articles on the official page slagging the band again for no promotion. It is there though but they have not updated the page. The Quo website has the all the album details and there is a similar post on the FB page but it was done in February. The album wouldn't be on the front page of iTunes if someone somewhere wasn't doing something behind the scenes. The promotion of the album has actually been pretty good in my opinion. Radio 2 have taken it up, it's relatively prominent on iTunes and it's on the official website and has been for quite a long time. "Facebook" I don't subscribe to so I don't know what's happening there although I do appreciate how important a medium that is these days. Put it this way, it's had more exposure than Mick Jagger's recent solo effort. Can't say fairer than that. People should keep some sort of perspective about this.
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Mar 25, 2018 9:23:50 GMT
I don't think they have with the band though. RPJ posted why have they not promoted it on FB/twitter. Lots of comments on the articles on the official page slagging the band again for no promotion. It is there though but they have not updated the page. The Quo website has the all the album details and there is a similar post on the FB page but it was done in February. The album wouldn't be on the front page of iTunes if someone somewhere wasn't doing something behind the scenes. The promotion of the album has actually been pretty good in my opinion. Radio 2 have taken it up, it's relatively prominent on iTunes and it's on the official website and has been for quite a long time. "Facebook" I don't subscribe to so I don't know what's happening there although I do appreciate how important a medium that is these days. Put it this way, it's had more exposure than Mick Jagger's recent solo effort. Can't say fairer than that. People should keep some sort of perspective about this. Quite but lets not let facts get in the way of a good "Rossi is a ****" argument.
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Post by snakelady on Mar 26, 2018 7:04:14 GMT
I don't think they have with the band though. RPJ posted why have they not promoted it on FB/twitter. Lots of comments on the articles on the official page slagging the band again for no promotion. It is there though but they have not updated the page. The Quo website has the all the album details and there is a similar post on the FB page but it was done in February. The album wouldn't be on the front page of iTunes if someone somewhere wasn't doing something behind the scenes. The promotion of the album has actually been pretty good in my opinion. Radio 2 have taken it up, it's relatively prominent on iTunes and it's on the official website and has been for quite a long time. "Facebook" I don't subscribe to so I don't know what's happening there although I do appreciate how important a medium that is these days. Put it this way, it's had more exposure than Mick Jagger's recent solo effort. Can't say fairer than that. People should keep some sort of perspective about this. This ! I think in Quo terms the album has received a lot of promotion - it has been treated better than most band releases actually. The only thing it didn't get and for obvious reasons was a high profile live show of some kind. Releases from Rhino, Andy and Francis have had less official attention, to put it into perspective. And I can't see what anybody and especially Francis, who has nothing to do with either album or promotion, is to blame for ? It's Ok though. It's Rick's last and, as a solo album, most personal musical statement, so for that alone it's special and deserves all the attention it gets. It shouldn't be compared to Quo either, but simply taken for what it is. And, for the sake of his family, I hope it's commercially successful too.
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Post by smokie on Mar 26, 2018 9:40:35 GMT
I think that's a valid point that mortified makes re is this the Quo album that we'd all been waiting/hoping for, I think this album is that good.
I wasn't sure what to expect with this album and this isn't meant to sound mean but I honestly didn't expect anything as good as this.
I'm not the greatest fan of the Parfitt/Morris writing partnership but I am a fan of the Parfitt/Webb one. It's a pity that it's a one off.
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Post by mortified on Mar 26, 2018 14:40:58 GMT
The album wouldn't be on the front page of iTunes if someone somewhere wasn't doing something behind the scenes. The promotion of the album has actually been pretty good in my opinion. Radio 2 have taken it up, it's relatively prominent on iTunes and it's on the official website and has been for quite a long time. "Facebook" I don't subscribe to so I don't know what's happening there although I do appreciate how important a medium that is these days. Put it this way, it's had more exposure than Mick Jagger's recent solo effort. Can't say fairer than that. People should keep some sort of perspective about this. This ! I think in Quo terms the album has received a lot of promotion - it has been treated better than most band releases actually. The only thing it didn't get and for obvious reasons was a high profile live show of some kind. Releases from Rhino, Andy and Francis have had less official attention, to put it into perspective. And I can't see what anybody and especially Francis, who has nothing to do with either album or promotion, is to blame for ? It's Ok though. It's Rick's last and, as a solo album, most personal musical statement, so for that alone it's special and deserves all the attention it gets. It shouldn't be compared to Quo either, but simply taken for what it is. And, for the sake of his family, I hope it's commercially successful too. That's actually quite hard not to do. Or I find it hard anyway. This sounds like a Quo album. And a very good one! As soon as you hear anything remotely resembling a shuffle or a great riff and Rick's voice kicks in, I'm there! It's actually much more like a Quo album than Recorded Delivery was all those years ago. I thought One Step At A Time was also very like a Quo album. It just came from Francis's perspective rather than Rick's, which is obviously what this one does. If you combined the best of both on to one album, what do you have? Precisely Andy and Rhino also produced fine albums but they were both quite detached from Quo I thought.
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Post by cammythemortonfan on Mar 26, 2018 17:14:04 GMT
Status Quo’s Facebook has posted that the album is number 3 in the midweek chart.
Here’s hoping it can maintain it’s top ten place when the chart is announced on Friday
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2018 18:57:14 GMT
Status Quo’s Facebook has posted that the album is number 3 in the midweek chart. Here’s hoping it can maintain it’s top ten place when the chart is announced on Friday Yes let’s hope it stays top ten. Fingers crossed.
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Post by snakelady on Mar 27, 2018 5:50:31 GMT
Status Quo’s Facebook has posted that the album is number 3 in the midweek chart. Here’s hoping it can maintain it’s top ten place when the chart is announced on Friday That's great, even if it goes down a few places till Friday !
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Post by snakelady on Mar 27, 2018 6:08:51 GMT
This ! I think in Quo terms the album has received a lot of promotion - it has been treated better than most band releases actually. The only thing it didn't get and for obvious reasons was a high profile live show of some kind. Releases from Rhino, Andy and Francis have had less official attention, to put it into perspective. And I can't see what anybody and especially Francis, who has nothing to do with either album or promotion, is to blame for ? It's Ok though. It's Rick's last and, as a solo album, most personal musical statement, so for that alone it's special and deserves all the attention it gets. It shouldn't be compared to Quo either, but simply taken for what it is. And, for the sake of his family, I hope it's commercially successful too. That's actually quite hard not to do. Or I find it hard anyway. This sounds like a Quo album. And a very good one! As soon as you hear anything remotely resembling a shuffle or a great riff and Rick's voice kicks in, I'm there! It's actually much more like a Quo album than Recorded Delivery was all those years ago. I thought One Step At A Time was also very like a Quo album. It just came from Francis's perspective rather than Rick's, which is obviously what this one does. If you combined the best of both on to one album, what do you have? Precisely Andy and Rhino also produced fine albums but they were both quite detached from Quo I thought. That's interesting. Doesn't sound like a Quo album to me - and yes, as opposed to Francis' OSAAT. I think the main reason is the fact that Francis is the main singer so there's an automatic association with the band when we hear him sing. Rick's a singer too, but there have been whole albums without or with just one or two songs sung by him. So it's easier for him (and even more so Andy and Rhino) to come across as independent artists. Yes, the style of the songs of the latter too is rather un-Quo too, but maybe that's to do with the lack of Quo sound, which is created by the guitars. If you don't have the players you don't get the sound - it's easy with Quo. Which will make that new Quo record with Ritchie next year very interesting - recreating older songs on stage is one thing, but what will new material sound like ? Rick's stuck somewhere in the middle. Some of his material could well be (and already is) Quo, like Halloween. There's other songs though, some of which I like, others I can't stand (Without You ..) that I'd never see as Quo songs. Despite Rick's guitar and very good lead players, they don't sound like Quo - they lack Francis - and after all, that's what a solo album is about. Else they could've simply recorded it with the band.
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Post by frozenhero on Mar 27, 2018 17:47:05 GMT
I've listened to both versions once. So far, I'm really liking it. Class songwriting, some very good performances, Halloween sounds a bit out of place at the end though (I wish they had re-recorded the drums and taken off the keyboards). To me it does resemble Quo a lot in places - "Lonesome Road" is as good as anything Quo have ever done, imo! - and soundwise the "polished" version is VERY close to the tracks that Rick produced on Bula Quo, so even if he wasn't able to finish it, it seems that this is more or less the sound he was going for.
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Post by frozenhero on Mar 27, 2018 17:50:54 GMT
I'm never sure of chart positions these days. Too many variables like downloads v CD's v vinyl. I'm not sure there is a chart that adds them all together. If there is, I have no idea where it is. I did notice, however, that the album was on the front page of iTunes in the new releases. That's quite a coup. Sitting there amongst releases by Two Door Cinema Club and George Ezra. The only Quo album I can remember getting that exposure was the first Aquostic album. Rick must be "trending". He'd love that Never have heard of any of the two - obviously I am old, very Yep, he would, that's why I said such a shame he didn't live to see it. How is it possible not to have heard of George Ezra? He was all over the radio stations when his debut was out!
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Post by frozenhero on Mar 27, 2018 17:51:48 GMT
For those who bought the Box Set (or both vinyl LPs), how would you describe the contrast between the different mixes of the album? Are there any audio samples online of the band mixes ? The Band's Mix sounds a bit "less perfect" if you like - more authentic, but also somewhat unfinished because of the sort of "rehearsal room" vibe. The "official" mix is a very modern and clean production. I don't have a clear preference yet.
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Post by snakelady on Mar 28, 2018 5:40:19 GMT
Never have heard of any of the two - obviously I am old, very Yep, he would, that's why I said such a shame he didn't live to see it. How is it possible not to have heard of George Ezra? He was all over the radio stations when his debut was out! I've stopped listening to the radio in general (apart from the very occasional Rockland or SWR1 in the car) decades ago. Very occasional means about once/month In the car I don't even listen to CDs these days - most of the time I simply prefer silence. The only time I might listen to music is in the evenings from the computer hard drive. So yep, no idea who that Ezra guy is (and I doubt I'm missing much).
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Post by mortified on Mar 28, 2018 6:03:50 GMT
I've not got the 'band mix' yet because of Amazon's delays. Talking of which (rant warning ).... My sister got exactly the same e-mail about delays yesterday that I did on Friday. So we both got it ON the expected day of delivery. So my theory is that, if you pre-order they give you a delivery date - usually the day of release for music - but don't tell you of any possible delays at the time in case you go looking elsewhere for your product. Which, of course, you would! If Amazon had said from the off that the date of delivery was the end of April, you'd have a browse to see if you could get it quicker somewhere else. Quite sneaky, although I have to reluctantly say I can see the business logic from their point of view. But all it means is that I will not pre-order ever again. Certainly not from Amazon. I'll wait till the day of release. Having said all that, surely a pre-order is the whole point of establishing likely sales so they shouldn't be sold out. Or am I missing something? Probably. I'm no entrepreneur
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