Let's hear it for The Quo!
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I have some very happy memories of playing pool with a girlfriend listening to the Quo, back in the 80s. Quo were one of her favourite bands (ELO another)
Pictures of Matchstick Men is really good.
Paper Plane is ok.
Down Down is good and the numerous variations on the theme musically are ok too in short bursts, but obviously samey and unadventurous. You're in the Army Now is crap.
I don't own any Status Quo now, never have and if I did I wouldn't listen to it. Inoffensive though.
Groucho said:
it's just the best one, surely? perhaps Peel rated it because he thought it was the best one too.
Groucho said:
that's not what i mean. i was responding to your suggest that bluestreak only liked it best cos Peel did. isn't it possible that they arrived at this independently, and perhaps because Peel's tastes and bluestreak's might share common elements?
anyway, it was my favourite Quo song back when i had their patch on my denim jacket so
nope, even back in 1983-84 i thought they were dire. not like Gillan C 
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Dubversion said:that's not what i mean. i was responding to your suggest that bluestreak only liked it best cos Peel did. isn't it possible that they arrived at this independently, and perhaps because Peel's tastes and bluestreak's might share common elements?
anyway, it was my favourite Quo song back when i had their patch on my denim jacket so
Yes, it is possible or likely. Down Down is a superior example of a Quo track after all! I wasn't meaning to comment on Bluestreak but I have noticed that "Quo are sh*t!" "Peel thought Down Down was really good" "Oh, yeah, that one is" is not an entirely uncommon exchange.
I've never had a Quo patch on my denim jacket, but my once girlfriend did so I used to put my arm around her just so to cover that one and the ELO one while leaving Motorhead still visible....
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Trust me. In pre-punk days at Cardiff, the Quo were a welcome opportunity for some cidre-fuelled dandruff-shaking.Dubversion said:nope, even back in 1983-84 i thought they were dire. not like Gillan C
Not even the slightest patch on the mighty Lizzy of course, but at least there weren't any 10 minute guitar solos going on or any weighty concepts being thrown around.
Wasn't there a single released called "It's the same old fucking song" or similar that started off with the opening bars of (insert song title here, the musics all the same) and then repeated the line until fadeout?
I remember seeing them on talk shows going on about how big the holes in their septum were and how Rick or the other mullet headed clown had seen the tunnel of light after his tenth heart attack. I'm sure the Quo were the model for the start of Spinal Tap.
Every time I hear them drone on their Rock'n'Roll excesses I can't help but think that was a million quid wasted on coke, maybe they spent ten years snorting flour for all the effect it had on their creativity.
Still got to love 'em haven't you. Er, no.
I remember seeing them on talk shows going on about how big the holes in their septum were and how Rick or the other mullet headed clown had seen the tunnel of light after his tenth heart attack. I'm sure the Quo were the model for the start of Spinal Tap.
Every time I hear them drone on their Rock'n'Roll excesses I can't help but think that was a million quid wasted on coke, maybe they spent ten years snorting flour for all the effect it had on their creativity.
Still got to love 'em haven't you. Er, no.
FridgeMagnet
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I never understood why the Quo released "Roll With It". That must have been one of their worst.
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Idris2002
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Donna Ferentes said:
One of my Russian colleagues saw them live in Moscow. Most of the audience were neo-Nazi skins.
Half way through the gig, the pfennig dropped and the skins suddenly realised, 'hey they're laughing *at* us not with us'. . .
At least you never have that problem with the Quo.
I saw them live in Cork, ooh, nearly 20 years ago. Rather forgettable, I'm afraid.
Louloubelle
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I saw quo as a kid, can't remember where
I have traumatic memories of 'greebos' reeking of piss, tobacco and cider doing that weird excuse for a dance where they put their hands on their hips and head bang the air between each other resembling the mating ritual of monstrous birds.
The antithesis of everything I love about music, quo are uninspired, monotonous, safe, pedestrian, just wrong.
IMO
I have traumatic memories of 'greebos' reeking of piss, tobacco and cider doing that weird excuse for a dance where they put their hands on their hips and head bang the air between each other resembling the mating ritual of monstrous birds.
The antithesis of everything I love about music, quo are uninspired, monotonous, safe, pedestrian, just wrong.
IMO
Dubversion said:nope, even back in 1983-84 i thought they were dire. not like Gillan
Hey we have a secret shared past Dub
Except I was somewhat older
Tort said:Your secret is safe with me.
<rogue loose cannon cannot offer similar guarentee ....
>Without free beer ...
Louloubelle said:
Anything to say at this particular time ...... anyone???
Dubversion said:
Groucho said:
You're both talking shit and so were bluestreak and Peel .
'Down the Dustpipe' was FAR better
When you were about 15 ...
hammerntongues
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William of Walworth said:You're both talking shit and so were bluestreak and Peel .
'Down the Dustpipe' was FAR better
When you were about 15 ...
I`m with you all the way on that , DTDP was an excellent bluesy album IMO,If you listen to it without knowing it was Quo you probably wouldnt even guess who it was ( maybe thats the reason of course).
Other than DTDP the Quo LP`s were just padding for a few adequate singles.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I love the Quo
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