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As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
Overall, good fun and refreshing!
Nor all the reissued & remastered versions that have come out since.
My Quo collection is quite "extensive"!
Edit: @TTony You beat me to it. I've just seen your comment above regarding Junior's Wailing. It really is a corking track. Listened to it 3 or 4 times now. They really were different on those early albums. I'd only heard Piledriver and Hello all the way through before today. I've missed out on some good stuff of theirs. Cheers for the heads up.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
There's nothing at all to dislike, but it probably won't inspire me to check out more of their stuff. Sorry, I feel bad saying that!
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
for years when I heard that song on the radio I thought it was
‘I can’t live without Lorraine’
the vocals on Quo records are interesting. They aren’t rock in the sense of gruff or Gillanesque screaming nor really sweet pop vocals, maybe folky.But I think that helps make them distinctive and less like a British band trying to sound American which is perhaps the obvious trap playing all those shuffles.
The playing on songs like Ring of a Change makes you feel exhausted just thinking about it, it’s the sound of sweat.
I know that Lancaster objected to the later pop songs but some of this, like Ease Your Mind, is quite twee so I don’t think the leap was as big as he seemed to think. Is the live stuff from this era raunchier?
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At the end of all that it made me want to revisit Vardis from my adolescence. Fond memories of seeing them live and their shtick was essentially Quo on steroids. Although in retrospect they did appear to have only two songs that worked.
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I think I thought Blue for You would be a more rock Quo which it isn't. The singles still hold up although overall maybe it's more an album of it's time than a timeless classic. Interesting choice though, thanks @TTony
Thanks btw and lovely to read everyone's thoughts.
I've always thought of BFY as their big 'cocaine revelation' album, hence the change in sound.
For me, Quo was the 'heaviest' album, probably due to Alan Lancaster co writing most of the tracks.
It would have been interesting to see how they would have progressed if they'd stuck to this formula, but I think Rossi and Parfitt's increasing use of coke around this time massively influenced the change of pace on BFY.
Parfitts use of P90 Gibsons (after the psychedelic, Gibson Hollowbody era, up to Piledriver and some of Hello!) gave them a different flavour, Piledriver especially is a great sounding, well produced album and I love the playing on that one.
They relied more on external producers after BFY, but Rocking All Over The World and If You Can't Stand The Heat were decent albums.
I still think they'd have been better with a sparser, heavier production, but sadly that's not the route they decided upon.
Such a shame Alan Lancaster was marginalised, his vocals and songwriting suited the heavier stuff perfectly.
RIP Rick.