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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Jan 2, 2018 12:25:49 GMT
Never Too Late Never Too Late (Rossi/Frost) Something 'Bout You Baby I like (Supa) Take Me Away (Parfitt/Bown) Falling In Falling Out (Parfitt/Bown/Young) Carol (Berry) Long Ago (Rossi/Frost) Mountain Lady (Lancaster) Don't Stop Me Now (Lancaster/Bown) Enough Is Enough (Rossi/Parfitt/Frost) Riverside (Rossi/Frost)
1+9+8+2 She Don't Fool Me (Parfitt/Bown) Young Pretender (Rossi/Frost) Get Out And Walk (Parfitt/Bown) Jealousy (Rossi/Frost) I Love Rock And Roll (Lancaster) Resurrection (Bown/Parfitt) Dear John (Gustafson/Macauley) Doesn't Matter (Frost/Rossi) I Want The World to Know (Lancaster/Lamb) I Should Have Known (Rossi/Frost) Big Man (Lancaster/Green)
Reviews: Never Too Late is best remembered today as drummer John Coghlan's final album with the band he'd served since the early '60s. The bulk of the set, however, was actually cut during the same sessions that produced the previous year's Just Supposin', although it's a struggle to say which of the two came out with the better songs. Neither is what one would describe as a classic Quo disc, but nor are they as disposable as some of the band's later releases. Indeed, any record that includes the bright bonhomie of "Something 'Bout You Baby I Like," the new album's biggest hit, is sure to have a few things to recommend it. And so it does. Indeed, "Take Me Away" digs deep into the band's past resources to recapture the sound of the full boogie flight, while both "Don't Stop Me Now," and the circuitous mantra of "Riverside" are both standouts. Excellent, too, is a cover of "Oh Carol," all the more so since it matches blow for blow the band's last dip into the Chuck Berry songbook, On the Level's "Bye Bye Johnny." Indeed, if Never Too Late has any major problem, it lies in the decision to shove the keyboards so high into the mix. Status Quo were, and are, one of Britain's finest guitar bands. Any attempt to prove otherwise is doomed to failure. AllMusic Review by Dave Thompson
1+9+8+2 It can be (and often is) argued that Status Quo entered the 1980s as little more than a parody of the l'il ol' boogie band from Butlins that once so-dominated the U.K. charts. "Rocking All Over the World," almost five-years-earlier, was the peak of their endeavors; everything since then was little more than a parody (at best), or a warmed-up revival (at most). 1+9+8+2 didn't alter that dour scenario. Dominated by a relatively sincere recounting of "I Love Rock and Roll," and the "Dear John" single that became the band's umpteenth hit (and umpteenth soundalike), it rattles along inoffensively enough, but you cannot compare it with any of the band's greatest triumphs -- just one more album from the band that's been going forever, and if it's already a part of your Quo collection, betcha don't play it too often! AllMusic Review by Dave Thompson
The latest instalment in our head to heads. Votes and comments all welcome.
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Jan 2, 2018 12:28:27 GMT
I've voted for Never Too Late. If I analyse it and break it down, it can be seen as a strange/different album. I have tried not to do that, I just like it. It certainly beats 1982, which is an even stranger album!
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Post by snakelady on Jan 4, 2018 7:57:55 GMT
I've voted 'neither', although, truth be told I like 1982 even less - but I don't like NTL enough to vote for it, so there.
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Post by mortified on Jan 5, 2018 9:00:35 GMT
Never Too Late - and probably by quite a bit.
The reviews touch on the fact that keyboards had become high in the mix in places. I certainly remember noticing that at the time with Never Too Late although I didn't find them as intrusive as I would do further down the line. Songs like Mountain Lady and Don't Stop Me Now were ruined for me by that approach. But the rest of the album is terrific.
1+9+8+2 was just a bit dull really. It lacked any real energy which may have been down to the production. Or perhaps the lack of enthusiasm so obvious on Back To Back had begun with this one. Who can tell?
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Post by gogs on Jan 5, 2018 16:54:44 GMT
Can't add anything to the comments made by mortified . Never Too Late by a margin.
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Post by Hello on Jan 5, 2018 19:10:41 GMT
I like them both, Never Too Late is rockier and 1982 has always been a favourite, just good catchy tunes when I'm driving. 1982 by a whisker maybe , might be Never Too Late tomorrow . Mountain Lady now there's a great track as is Falling in Falling Out.
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Post by gentlemanjoe on Jan 7, 2018 11:42:59 GMT
Really like NTL, one of my favourite Quo albums, Mountain Lady is a real gem.
I still rather like 1982, although it's not in the same league as the 70s' stuff. Unlike many I quite like ILRR, or took a long time to grow in me. Dear John was the obvious choice for a single.
Pretty obvious the end was near.
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Post by craydarr on Jan 7, 2018 12:17:53 GMT
Love NTL, especially the re-master as its brought the vocals out more. Strange thing with 1982 is, during the song Jealousy the vinyl copy I had would always jump at a certain place. Now if I listen to the cd I can still hear the jump in my head. How strange is that.
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Post by gentlemanjoe on Jan 7, 2018 12:31:55 GMT
Love NTL, especially the re-master as its brought the vocals out more. Strange thing with 1982 is, during the song Jealousy the vinyl copy I had would always jump at a certain place. Now if I listen to the cd I can still hear the jump in my head. How strange is that. Same thing with Lies in JS for me, I was in Italy when the album came out and bought the vinyl album, with all the blurb on the back in Italian, which is a bit of a novelty, anyhow I wasn't best pleased on getting home to find the tiny scratch, but couldn't very well go back to Naples to change itππ. Bought the record again about 10 years ago, the original cover is signed and framed in my wall nowπ
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Jan 8, 2018 12:07:01 GMT
What am I supposed to do here now? I don't "hate" the albums, they just don't do anything for me. I never listen to them. Whatever feels right Inna. If nothing feels right, then don't vote at all.
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Jan 8, 2018 12:11:44 GMT
Love NTL, especially the re-master as its brought the vocals out more. Strange thing with 1982 is, during the song Jealousy the vinyl copy I had would always jump at a certain place. Now if I listen to the cd I can still hear the jump in my head. How strange is that. Just one of those things you get used to....just like the track order. When you hear a song on a greatest hits, or when they change the order (like the RAOTW remix) you're still expecting the song you're used to, to come on next! It's just what our brains are used to or have been trained to expect.
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