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Post by rockinoldgit on Sept 8, 2018 18:46:16 GMT
Most of the south of the frozen tundra won't remember the single either ๐ the song was pretty forgettable. (Not the production though! ๐) I only bought it because I thought therewas a Quo link. ๐
I agree the Classic Album series should include a Quo classic. But they always seem to get overlooked in these type of programs. Surely there is room for Dog or Hello? I too love the breakdown of all the layers of each track they discuss. I'm just a Quo anorak!
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Post by snakelady on Sept 9, 2018 6:41:44 GMT
Most of the south of the frozen tundra won't remember the single either ๐ the song was pretty forgettable. (Not the production though! ๐) I only bought it because I thought therewas a Quo link. ๐ I agree the Classic Album series should include a Quo classic. But they always seem to get overlooked in these type of programs. Surely there is room for Dog or Hello? I too love the breakdown of all the layers of each track they discuss. I'm just a Quo anorak! Maybe the problem with Quo is, that they don't have the one outstanding album, but simply a row of very good ones. These TV formates work with popularity, most people know the name Dark Side Of The Moon, even if they don't possess the album. So going by that criterion, the most popular Quo album, the one everybody bought back then not just the fans, would have to be RAOTW. All albums from the first half of the 70s are unknown to the general public. Or ITAN even. It sold like hot cakes, but fans would hardly call it a classic or outstanding. So to be fair, choosing the one classic album fans and non-fans can agree upon is difficult with Quo ..
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Post by mortified on Sept 9, 2018 7:29:36 GMT
Most of the south of the frozen tundra won't remember the single either ๐ the song was pretty forgettable. (Not the production though! ๐) I only bought it because I thought therewas a Quo link. ๐ I agree the Classic Album series should include a Quo classic. But they always seem to get overlooked in these type of programs. Surely there is room for Dog or Hello? I too love the breakdown of all the layers of each track they discuss. I'm just a Quo anorak! Maybe the problem with Quo is, that they don't have the one outstanding album, but simply a row of very good ones. These TV formates work with popularity, most people know the name Dark Side Of The Moon, even if they don't possess the album. So going by that criterion, the most popular Quo album, the one everybody bought back then not just the fans, would have to be RAOTW. All albums from the first half of the 70s are unknown to the general public. Or ITAN even. It sold like hot cakes, but fans would hardly call it a classic or outstanding. So to be fair, choosing the one classic album fans and non-fans can agree upon is difficult with Quo .. If any Quo albums fit the sort of media darling criteria to get them included I think it would have to be either Piledriver or Rockin' All Over The World. The first one made them and the latter contains their most 'famous' song. But you're right; no Quo album has had the critical or financial impact in the way that, say, The Joshua Tree did. Although I would always challenge the suggestion that Paranoid was Sabbath's most influential or highest selling album. It simply had THEIR most famous song on it.
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Post by dai on Sept 9, 2018 13:08:45 GMT
On the classic album topic I was in WH Smith's yesterday flicking through a Classic Rock special "Top 100 Rock Albums" of course I didn't see any Quo. Sad really, they've influenced so many over the decades. The list included many of the obvious choices but also a few I looked at very quizically??
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Post by viking55 on Sept 9, 2018 18:24:00 GMT
Unfortunately in terms of sales any QUO album hasnโt sold in the numbers to be lauded as a general classic. Maybe 20 weeks in the album chart. Compare this to Rumours etc.. itโs just a no contest sadly. Even back in the day Quo were never the Music mediaโs darlings. They had their supporters but sadly in a minority. Donโt want to sound critical of my favourite band as to me they were untouchable in my youth. But as an ageing individual you get a more unclouded ballanced view if it lol.
I think it would be really funny if Piledriver was dissected on a track to track basis as they all bled into each other lol. But you wouldnโt have that album any other way. Yes a classic !!
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Post by col on Sept 9, 2018 20:38:11 GMT
They didn't sell in America, that's why they never released a classic album.
For some reason popularity seems to be the dictat. Take Fleetwood Mac for example, Rumours isn't a patch on the Peter Green era, but it sold more and was full of tabloid excess.
Still, you go your own way, none of the Classic albums was even the featured artists best IMHO.
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Post by viking55 on Sept 9, 2018 22:15:19 GMT
Got to agree with you about FM. Those 2 line ups bring just as much heated debate as Quoโs past line ups. I sit on the Greenieโs side of the Mac. Quite simply a Guitar genius! Get a Hold of Shrine 69!live or his final album with Mac โ Then play on โ Stunning . Sorry off topic lol.
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Post by snakelady on Sept 10, 2018 6:28:42 GMT
Yep, would be nice if people would occasionally start new topics when they shift the discussion to something different, but equally interesting. Would make it much easier to later find it again - or for people who don't post that often to know about it in the first place.. So to leave Fleetwood Mac behind - I'm simply too young to have been into them during the PG era, but I quite like Rumours (not much of what came afterwards though) - and to return to the question 'do Quo have a classical album or not ?' ( ). That remark col has made about the US is sadly too relevant today for them to stand a chance with any album. It was different once when it was the UK that mattered. If you merely look at Europe (and maybe Australia) it would have to be RAOTW - as has been said above, popularity trumps quality, so forget about Piledriver or OTL. For that one year after the release of RAOTW Quo were the biggest band on the continent even ahead of Queen. I remember the band got all kinds of awards from TV music formates and from youth magazines, their video was voted most popular .. That was general popularity not merely restricted to the fan base. And now with JE's remix it's really worth listening to for the critics even with today's advanced possibilities. Sadly by now it's too late and the album has been forgotten. Maybe if they had pushed the '40 years of' angle with a big re-release campaign for it, but sadly fate interfered ..
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