machineryelf wrote:
My CD copy of On The Level finishes with the live EP so my view is slightly skewed, BFY has Rain and Mystery Song which probably accounts fot its high standing amongst Quo fans but a lot of the rest is what cd skip buttons are for, I recently purchased Piledriver through to BFY after having owned only the Live LP for too many years and found something good to listen on everyone bar BFY. I know the generally accepted rule of thumb for Quo is pre live LP great post Live LP tread carefully or not at all but had BFY been released after the live LP I don't think that opinion would need revision. It also buggers up my long held opinion that punk ruined Quo as unable to carry on as they were or go the HM harder faster bigger route that many rock bands went down they opted to go pop instead, seems that they were well on the way already
I think it was just coincidental that they were already going a bit downhill when punk came along TBH. That was my experience anyway.
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