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Post by snakelady on Dec 28, 2017 16:29:43 GMT
If this were the thread about positive aspects I'd be at a loss what to say, but as it's about the negatives, well .. I can't stand this album ! It's awful, horrible, abysmal, .. The absolute nadir from the bands career. Spare Parts was a bad album as well, but they were still young and learning, so can be forgiven - but no excuse for recording this. And no excuse for buying it either - why on earth did yous Brits feel the need to buy this in quantities that would take the album to the #1 spot ?? When I heard the single Dear John on the radio it was all that was needed to not touch it .. It contains exactly one song I like, although it's completely un-Quo and I've no idea why - Jealousy - and one that's listenable, just - Resurrection - and that's it. So lots of votes from me ..
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Post by coldwarkid on Dec 28, 2017 17:28:34 GMT
For me nothing gets close to the terribleness of Thirsty Work and Under The Influence, terrible writing and production and neither album contained even one song worthy of a second listen, neither of those cds have been out of their case again.
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Post by craydarr on Dec 28, 2017 18:44:59 GMT
Not a great album really, production pretty poor but some of the songs are not bad. The 4 really poor ones for me are
Big Man, I Want The World To Know, Doesn't Matter & I Love Rock n Roll.
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Post by craydarr on Dec 28, 2017 18:46:57 GMT
Not a great album really, production pretty poor but some of the songs are not bad. The 4 really poor ones for me are Big Man, I Want The World To Know, Doesn't Matter & I Love Rock n Roll.
And I Should Have Known.
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Post by col on Dec 28, 2017 19:00:31 GMT
Now things are getting rally strange!!
Especially as two of the songs people are skipping the most are among my keepers!!
I really did try to love this album, played it to death, it just didn't connect in the same way.
5 songs I play: SDFM, GOAW,R, DM, ISHK 6 Songs I skip: The rest, even DJ is just bland to my ears
A good EP, like it was in 77 and 78.
I'm am just dreading the next one.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2017 21:10:57 GMT
I’d given up on Quo by this point and preferred bands like Iron Maiden.
But after a 30 year hiatus I rekindled my love for the band in 2011 and have since downloaded every album from iTunes.
This album is certainly not played much but when it is I don’t really skip any. It was the start of the slide though imo.
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Post by mortified on Dec 29, 2017 6:10:27 GMT
Not an album that gets much of an airing these days but it is most certainly far from their worst. I don't even think it was their worst up to that point! It was bought in such huge numbers because of three things; (1) it's immediate predecessors were both good; (2) it got massive promotion in the UK because of the 20th anniversary celebrations/Prince Charles gig; (3) it was Quo. I've pretty much skipped from the beginning three songs; She Don't Fool Me (the Little Dreamer of it's day), Jealousy (just plain awful) and I Love Rock And Roll (one of the worst things the band have ever recorded). The rest I rather like. Three in particular, Get Out And Walk, Resurrection and I Should Have Known remain firm favourites. Everything else in between is sort of OK. I think this was the first time where I thought the overall sound left a bit to be desired. It was all very clean and 80's drumming (via machine or otherwise) had caught up with Quo like everyone else. Not a classic by any means but not a nadir either. Not yet but it was on it's way!
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Post by snakelady on Dec 30, 2017 8:39:28 GMT
.. I don't skip any tracks... because I never listen to the album. That's why it says 'which tracks do you not like/..?' I never listen to it either ..
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Post by Hello on Jan 1, 2018 15:13:56 GMT
Going against the grain here but always liked this album for some reason, play it in the car still. Big Man was the only poor one for me, Young Pretender and Jelousy a bit average but hey ho. I love She Dont Fool Me, Get out and Walk, I want the World to Know and Resurrection one of those albums I love singing along to.
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Post by gentlemanjoe on Jan 1, 2018 20:07:41 GMT
Didn't like it at the time, but I really like 'I love Rock n' Roll" now👍
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Post by gogs on Jan 3, 2018 18:26:57 GMT
5 plays and 6 skips on this one for me. Like Hello , I'll go against the grain on Dear John. Liked it then and still like it now. I was quite chuffed when it made it into the Chair Medley on the WYW hits set though it didn't stay beyond that tour.
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Post by frozenhero on Jan 3, 2018 20:13:03 GMT
What's the Chair Medley?
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Post by snakelady on Jan 4, 2018 8:01:46 GMT
What's the Chair Medley? Yep, that's what I've been wondering too - but probably no surprise I don't have a clue as I didn't see them live for years back then.
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Post by mortified on Jan 4, 2018 9:17:02 GMT
Not sure what the "chair medley" is but Dear John stayed in a medley for quite a long time. The Proposin' medley I think.
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Post by lazypokerblues on Jan 4, 2018 13:12:34 GMT
According to setlist fm, Dear John was included in the Mystery Medley:
Mystery Song / Railroad / Most of the Time / Wild Side of Life / Rollin' Home / Dear John / Again and Again / Slow Train
The 'Chair Medley' probably refers to the following medley which followed straight after In My Chair:
Rock 'n' Roll / Marguerita Time / Living on an Island / Break the Rules / Mean Girl
This was when they moved the medley from the middle of Roadhouse Blues, and played that more straight, closer to the original version.
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Post by snakelady on Jan 5, 2018 7:37:19 GMT
According to setlist fm, Dear John was included in the Mystery Medley:
Mystery Song / Railroad / Most of the Time / Wild Side of Life / Rollin' Home / Dear John / Again and Again / Slow Train
The 'Chair Medley' probably refers to the following medley which followed straight after In My Chair:
Rock 'n' Roll / Marguerita Time / Living on an Island / Break the Rules / Mean Girl
This was when they moved the medley from the middle of Roadhouse Blues, and played that more straight, closer to the original version. Interesting info - Have never heard that medley, but then I'm not keen on medleys anyway. The only medley I kind of like is the MM, but that's because I love every song from it - apart from DJ and not that keen on AAA. It's like a teaser. You think yes, more of this - and then they move on to the next song. Better than not hearing them at all, I guess, but I so long for the instrumental parts and solos .. In My Chair hasn't been in the set for a long time. It's one of the songs worth reintroducing in 2019 IMO.
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Post by mortified on Jan 5, 2018 9:06:55 GMT
Did In My Chair not appear briefly in a medley along with Rocker's Rollin' a few years back? I'd say 2005 at a guess because I think I witnessed it once in Koblenz. And I think they only dabbled with it in Germany. snakelady might be able to confirm but if her memory is anything like mine, she'll have a concentrated and confused frown on her face as she reads this I suppose that could be the 'chair medley'. Just a thought.
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Post by lazypokerblues on Jan 5, 2018 10:16:56 GMT
Yes - I do remember reading reports of early gigs on the 'Party Ain't Over Yet' tour, possibly when they were up the side of a mountain somewhere in Austria(?). Didn't Pepsi P do one of her tour reports about it? I'm pretty sure this is when they included Rockers Rollin in a medley. But of course they dropped it by the UK tour. It seemed they tried things out early in the tours, and then decided they didn't like it, because it didn't flow, and then by the time they got to the UK, we got the same old same old. I remember thinking at the time, it would be worth travelling to catch a gig early in the tour so that I could see some different 'rare cut' tracks that would eventually be dropped. Dirty Water was another one.
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Post by mortified on Jan 5, 2018 11:03:03 GMT
Yes - I do remember reading reports of early gigs on the 'Party Ain't Over Yet' tour, possibly when they were up the side of a mountain somewhere in Austria(?). Didn't Pepsi P do one of her tour reports about it? I'm pretty sure this is when they included Rockers Rollin in a medley. But of course they dropped it by the UK tour. It seemed they tried things out early in the tours, and then decided they didn't like it, because it didn't flow, and then by the time they got to the UK, we got the same old same old. I remember thinking at the time, it would be worth travelling to catch a gig early in the tour so that I could see some different 'rare cut' tracks that would eventually be dropped. Dirty Water was another one. The one I witnessed certainly didn't 'flow' very well but it was something that bit different so I was happy enough. But, yeah, it had all gone back to the same old by the time I saw my next gig. And that winter tour ended up being cancelled because of Rick's throat issues. Maybe that was a factor early on with songs like Rockers Rollin' and he was struggling a bit. Just surmising.
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Post by Rick Roper on Jan 5, 2018 12:20:20 GMT
I like Get Out And Walk a lot. I like Resurrection a lot. I like I should have known a lot. I like Dear John a lot. The rest, and the slick production, was horrible, the band resting on its laurels and putting no effort into the album at all. For a 20th. Anniversary album, it was p*ss poor...
Rick Roper.
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Post by Rick Roper on Jan 5, 2018 12:21:49 GMT
Could have been a follow-up album title, that! Rick Roper.
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Post by snakelady on Jan 6, 2018 7:45:38 GMT
Did In My Chair not appear briefly in a medley along with Rocker's Rollin' a few years back? I'd say 2005 at a guess because I think I witnessed it once in Koblenz. And I think they only dabbled with it in Germany. snakelady might be able to confirm but if her memory is anything like mine, she'll have a concentrated and confused frown on her face as she reads this I suppose that could be the 'chair medley'. Just a thought. You know me so well, Billy .. Generally speaking I don't have a clue what has been played at which gig. When I'm there I'm busy enjoying myself and not trying to memorize the order of the songs or similar. When something new/out of the ordinary is played that's great and I tend to remember it, but not parts of medleys or whether Rain was the third or 6th song in the set. I seem to remember I last heard Dirty Water in Mainz 2006 - but In My Chair ? .. Bernadette at the solo gig !
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Post by mortified on Jan 6, 2018 8:17:53 GMT
Yeah, they did Dirty Water in Paris in 2006 (I've got a bootleg of it as well) but it had gone by the time they'd got to the UK. A consistent occurrence over the years, snakelady. I tend not to remember too much about specifics at gigs either. Especially in recent years when they've all sort of merged into one. But I usually recall, like you, things that I'm not expecting. They now stick out like a sore thumb of course I think I last heard In My Chair live in 2009. It was in the Pictures.... set. The best set they'd played in years and haven't matched it since. Anyway, to bring things back on track a little, the only song from the album they played live on the 1+9+8+2 tour was Dear John and only at a few gigs. They actually played it the first night in Glasgow but not the second. I read at the time that Francis struggled with it vocally. In fact, we talk about the static set now but back then they played only three songs from the three albums released between 1981 and 1983; Something 'Bout You Baby I Like, Rock And Roll and Dear John. They'd all gone by the end of the '82 tour. 8 singles released in 3 years; three played and only briefly. Good job there were no message boards back then
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Jan 8, 2018 12:15:46 GMT
I used to dislike this album when I first got it, but then I slowly realised that I could actually listen to the first 8 tracks, and quite like them. So although I find it 'different Quo', and it is still one of my least favourite albums. I quite like the first 8 tracks. I still struggle with the last 3 though, especially I Want the World to Know and Big Man!
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Jan 8, 2018 12:26:27 GMT
According to setlist fm, Dear John was included in the Mystery Medley:
Mystery Song / Railroad / Most of the Time / Wild Side of Life / Rollin' Home / Dear John / Again and Again / Slow Train
The 'Chair Medley' probably refers to the following medley which followed straight after In My Chair:
Rock 'n' Roll / Marguerita Time / Living on an Island / Break the Rules / Mean Girl
This was when they moved the medley from the middle of Roadhouse Blues, and played that more straight, closer to the original version. I remember Dear John being played briefly, but not ever in the Mystery Song Medley (unless that was even briefer)!
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