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Post by snakelady on May 7, 2019 6:46:38 GMT
What all Quo fans like .. Generally speaking we all have different songs we like. What's one fan's favourite is the worst track on an album for another. And that's great. Diversity is, what makes life and mbs interesting. There are some tunes though that nearly all of us like and listen to. This is the list of songs that received two votes max. (albums listed chronologically). Songs that didn't get a single vote are in bold: Technicolour Dreams - Spinning Wheel Blues April, Spring, Summer and Wednesdays Railroad Gerdundula Mean Girl Don't Waste My Time Oh Baby Big Fat Mama Paper PlaneRoll Over Lay Down Claudie Blue Eyed Lady Caroline Softer Ride Backwater Break The Rules Slow Train Little Lady Most Of The TimeI Saw The LightOver And DoneDown DownWhat To Do Mad About The Boy Ring Of A Change Rain That's A Fact Mystery SongHard Time Rockers Rollin' Who Am I? Dirty Water Hold You Back Oh! What A Night Shady Lady Who Asked You Your Smiling Face Runaway - Never Too Late Take Me Away Carol Resurrection - Rollin' Home Red Sky Ain't Complaining Everytime I Think Of You Cross That Bridge Cream Of The Crop The Loving Game Who Gets The Love Perfect Remedy Like A Zombie All We Really Wanna Do (Polly) One Man Band Rock 'Til You Drop Warning Shot Forty Five Hundred TimesSoft In The Head - Shine On Keep ‘em Coming - Blues And Rhythm All Stand Up (Never Say Never) Heavy TrafficSolid GoldDiggin' Burt Bacharach - The Party Ain't Over Yet - Two Way Traffic Dust To GoldMovin' On Leave A Little Light On Run and Hide Running Inside My Head All That Money Never Leave A Friend Behind Junior's Wailing (live) Backwater (live) In My Chair (live) Blue Eyed Lady (live) Most Of The Time (live) (April) Spring, Summer And Wednesdays (live) Railroad (live) 4500 Times (live) Big Fat Mama (live) Roadhouse Blues (live) Don't Waste My Time (live) Pictures Of Matchstick Men (acoustic) Reason For Living (acoustic) Claudie (acoustic) Break The Rules (acoustic) That’s A Fact (acoustic) The last three albums are tunes we've already voted on as standard album versions, so, to mark the difference I've added (live) and (acoustic) respectively. Again, some very interesting results here. Others are rather predictable .. Only very few songs made the elusive group of songs without a single vote. Interestingly the 1991 version of 4500x belongs to this group whereas the original from the 70s didn't even make the general list. What it shows as well is, that on some albums there's a more general agreement what the good and not so good tunes are. On other albums with a similar number of total votes opinions are far more divided and in consequence far less tunes have made the list (e.g. JS compared to NTL). Had I chosen three votes maximum instead of two, results for some albums would've looked a lot different. E.g. most of A1 would've been included. Personally I've got to say it has been frustrating at times. E.g. I've voted for or rather against just two tunes from UTI as I love the album. But those are the only two that made the list ..  And a few I absolutely adore didn't make it either - who are the three guys that don't like Frozen Hero or Nanana (acoustic) e.g. ??  |
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Post by mortified on May 7, 2019 7:52:12 GMT
You're right. What it demonstrates is that no two Quo fans like exactly the same stuff. The only real surprise to me is the preference of the 1991 re-recording of Forty Five Hundred Times over the original. At least I think that's what you mean. I can't get my head round that one!  It's a small sample of course but probably enough to provide a half decent representation of views. I wonder if vinyl back in the day had an impact. Where you couldn't be bothered to get up and move the stylus. You skipped nothing because it was too much effort |
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Post by snakelady on May 7, 2019 14:49:51 GMT
You're right. What it demonstrates is that no two Quo fans like exactly the same stuff. The only real surprise to me is the preference of the 1991 re-recording of Forty Five Hundred Times over the original. At least I think that's what you mean. I can't get my head round that one! It's a small sample of course but probably enough to provide a half decent representation of views. I wonder if vinyl back in the day had an impact. Where you couldn't be bothered to get up and move the stylus. You skipped nothing because it was too much effort That will indeed have made a difference ! We'll never know if listening habits from way back when still have consequences with song preferences and in consequence the outcome of polls though .. I remember it was a question of relations for me. If it were just one or two songs I didn't like and preferably at the start or end I'd still listen to the side, but would walk over in time to lift the stylus or start it where it suited me. If it were the majority from an album I didn't like I simply didn't listen to the record. Quo was one of those where the bad outweighed the good for me. So sadly I never listened to Fine Fine Fine and Slow Train as much as I would've liked. Years later, when I had a stereo system I simply transferred my favourites to cassette and forgot about the rest. And then my second stereo with the 'intelligent' Pioneer cassette player allowed me to skip songs on cassettes as well. As you may have guessed - I never was a vinyl fan ..  (apart from their sleeves, obviously) |
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Post by per on May 8, 2019 6:06:11 GMT
Wow! Really interesting results!
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Post by mortified on May 8, 2019 6:20:59 GMT
The advent of the CD unquestionably changed listening habits. And downloads and mp3 have changed things even more. With the CD you could skip tracks easily; with mp3, you don't even need to buy whole albums. A complete game changer making the album itself almost redundant.
People will no longer skip tracks; they just won't buy them in the first place.
I have no real opinion on that one way or the other. It is what it is and artists/music companies will have adapted.
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Post by snakelady on May 8, 2019 7:10:10 GMT
The advent of the CD unquestionably changed listening habits. And downloads and mp3 have changed things even more. With the CD you could skip tracks easily; with mp3, you don't even need to buy whole albums. A complete game changer making the album itself almost redundant. People will no longer skip tracks; they just won't buy them in the first place. I have no real opinion on that one way or the other. It is what it is and artists/music companies will have adapted. You've just made me wonder what the consequences of that for album charts might be ? When customers don't buy the whole album, but minus 1-2 tracks say. Does it still count ?  From listening habits it doesn't change much any more since the arrival of hard drives with the capacity to store the music. For me at least, as I buy the CD and transfer the songs I like to the computer - and listen to them in random mode. I'll keep buying the CDs though. Gives me the time to listen to all songs and decide which ones I want and which ones not and it's always nice to have a booklet or generally speaking a physical product. Can't see me ever changing that, but it might be an age thing ? Writing this made me realise though, that the ability of just buying single songs does indeed have consequences especially for artists of which the majority of customers does it. Songs we call growers will rarely stand a chance any longer. They'll be listened to once or twice and then will be forgotten as not worthy another listen. Would've been fatal for Francis' new duo album in my case, as it took me a while to get it .. |
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Post by mortified on May 8, 2019 10:23:14 GMT
The advent of the CD unquestionably changed listening habits. And downloads and mp3 have changed things even more. With the CD you could skip tracks easily; with mp3, you don't even need to buy whole albums. A complete game changer making the album itself almost redundant. People will no longer skip tracks; they just won't buy them in the first place. I have no real opinion on that one way or the other. It is what it is and artists/music companies will have adapted. You've just made me wonder what the consequences of that for album charts might be ? When customers don't buy the whole album, but minus 1-2 tracks say. Does it still count ? From listening habits it doesn't change much any more since the arrival of hard drives with the capacity to store the music. For me at least, as I buy the CD and transfer the songs I like to the computer - and listen to them in random mode. I'll keep buying the CDs though. Gives me the time to listen to all songs and decide which ones I want and which ones not and it's always nice to have a booklet or generally speaking a physical product. Can't see me ever changing that, but it might be an age thing ? Writing this made me realise though, that the ability of just buying single songs does indeed have consequences especially for artists of which the majority of customers does it. Songs we call growers will rarely stand a chance any longer. They'll be listened to once or twice and then will be forgotten as not worthy another listen. Would've been fatal for Francis' new duo album in my case, as it took me a while to get it .. Very true. But I suppose that only applies to individual tastes. Many people will like a song on first listen. But, yeah, it has to have an impact. I flick through albums online now; listening to that 30 second snippet you get. And I make a snap judgement on that. Imagine doing that with an album by Pink Floyd or Yes in the 70's where the tracks could take up a whole side! Prog rock would never have made it. Every cloud, eh?  I don't think the album charts matter any more. They are a rough indication of popularity I suppose but nothing more. How many tracks you have to sell to get into the chart I have no idea. |
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Post by viking55 on May 8, 2019 22:24:05 GMT
I’m surprised ‘ Shy Fly ‘ & Lakky Lady didn’t make the list from Ma Kelly’s. But like has been said. No 2 Quo fans are alike lol.
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Post by snakelady on May 9, 2019 7:07:54 GMT
I’m surprised ‘ Shy Fly ‘ & Lakky Lady didn’t make the list from Ma Kelly’s. But like has been said. No 2 Quo fans are alike lol. Yep, there are a lot of tunes I thought were definite fan favourites that didn't make the list and a few less than obvious in there - Who Am I ?, Your Smiling Face, Keep ‘em Coming to name just three .. The list should still prove helpful when putting together a set list. Obviously there won't be any complaints if they include Paper Plane Most Of The Time I Saw The Light Over And Done Down Down Mystery Song Forty Five Hundred Times Heavy Traffic Solid Gold  Sheer quality that ! (plus a few more out of the 1 or two votes category) Ritchie could sing Mystery song and 4500x as a fitting tribute to Rick. |
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Post by mortified on May 9, 2019 7:38:27 GMT
I wonder how difficult Over And Done would be to recreate live. It does sound very tricky. Have any tribute bands ever attempted it do we know? Academic for Quo really coz it's an Alan song. But I really do love the guitar interplay in it. A thing to behold.  |
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Post by snakelady on May 15, 2019 7:02:41 GMT
I wonder how difficult Over And Done would be to recreate live. It does sound very tricky. Have any tribute bands ever attempted it do we know? Academic for Quo really coz it's an Alan song. But I really do love the guitar interplay in it. A thing to behold. They have played tunes at least co-written by Alan in recent years and not just during the reunion tours, so maybe that wouldn't be a complete hindrance either ? I love the song and would love to hear it live. They've got the time to rehearse now with far less gigs and nobody is limiting with his lack of practising any more either. It's probably much rather a question of how much change will Francis want or at least tolerate ? And does he consider it worth a try ? Only a short while they thought acoustic would be the future and it didn't work out. Hope Francis doesn't think talk shows and country are the future now. It won't work out either, but it would waste a lot of precious time finding out next year .. I don't mind him doing another album with Hannah - he's got the right to do what he wants - but it needs to be put into perspective, meaning it has to remain a hobby IMVHO. |
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Post by mortified on May 15, 2019 8:13:43 GMT
I wonder how difficult Over And Done would be to recreate live. It does sound very tricky. Have any tribute bands ever attempted it do we know? Academic for Quo really coz it's an Alan song. But I really do love the guitar interplay in it. A thing to behold. Amen to that! The thing about Over And Done is that it's not a co-written song; it's purely credited to Alan despite Francis taking the vocals. |
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Post by snakelady on May 16, 2019 8:10:48 GMT
Only a short while they thought acoustic would be the future and it didn't work out. Hope Francis doesn't think talk shows and country are the future now. It won't work out either, but it would waste a lot of precious time finding out next year .. Amen to that! The thing about Over And Done is that it's not a co-written song; it's purely credited to Alan despite Francis taking the vocals. I'm aware of that same as A Year (which I love as well). Actually your remark made me check the list to find out who our favourite singers are till the split. I put it in a new thread, so it won't get overlooked.  |
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