Album Review - Status Quo - Thirsty Work
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- After the well received Rock 'Til You Drop in 1991 when Quo returned to guitars after the synth & keyboard heavy albums of the late 80s. Quo took some time away from the studio to release a live album, Live Alive Quo in 1992, a book, Just For the Record in 1993 before returning with a new studio album in 1994, Thirsty Work. But was it any good, had the continued in the vein of Rock 'Til You Drop, or were the guitars back out and the keyboards in again?
Music in this video,
Intro - Just When I Wasn't Lookin' - • Just When I Wasn't Loo...
Outro - Unlike Any Woman - • Unlike Any Woman
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Never improved after Never too late, which funnily enough was the last album from the original 4.
Indeed. They did have their moments post Never to Late, but never a full albums worth of moments. Unfortunately with Thirsty Work there were no moments to speak of at all ...
Another 5 years time-or less-and Quo will be doing Pontins residencies with The Barron Knights and The Krankies.
Are you trying to say that Thirsty Work isn't in the top echelon of Quo albums?
That would probably be the jist of it.
Ah Status Quo....Here in the UK I was about 11/12 years old back in 1973 and listening to and loving Status Quo...Piledriver,Hello,Blue For You etc etc,great Rock stuff but time moved on..then we got Living on an Island/Margarita Time and it all went pear shaped.Since about 1987 they've been a Comedy/Novelty act to rival The Darkness and they should have called it a day years ago.
Yes it was a great run of albums from Piledriver to Blue For You. Unfortunately they weren't putting out that standard of album when I was in my teenage years and first going to see them live.
I actually quite like this album. Obviously it's miles away from Hello, but it's a very different Quo by 94. Sherri don't fail me now is my favourite track.
Yes quite a different album compared to the stuff they put out in the 70s. Sherri is a really nice pop song.
Don't get Quo fans , as soon as they change the same riff they go moody . This was a great album with at last some change to their sound
Sorry, don't agree with that at all. They had changed their sound many times previous to this album. Ain't Complaining is a total late 80s AOR album full of lush keyboards, as far away from the traditional Quo as you can get. But I still listen to it regularly is it contains good songs, even though in a different style. Thirsty Work on the other hand, in my opinion, isn't poor because they have changed their sound or riff, but the fact that the songs aren't any good.
I love Quo so these words are not because I hate them, but this is my lowest point with band. It’s not that I want Quo to keep remaking Hello! or Quo album or not grow or explore different vibes to hard, heavy rock. It’s not even the actual songs I don’t like, it’s sound of Thirsty Work the parpy keyboards in particular. I know Quo have never courted being cool, but it’s like they sat down and decided to make the naffest, uncool sounding album they could. It sounds like I’m saying I don’t like the album because it’s ‘uncool’; maybe subconsciously I am but I just don’t enjoy listening to most of the music on Thirsty Work, despite there being songs in which I l like the melody. It’s such a shame too because in 1994 guitar based music was the in thing with Grunge and Britpop, but they make an album that makes Black Lace sound like prime Black Sabbath in comparison. I imagine you could hear a pin drop in the venue when they played Restless live.
Yeah it was my definite low point with the band as it came when my fandom for them was at its height, and I was totally excited for a new album. Expecting lots of guitars and hard rock music, and well, shall we say, I didn't get what I expected or hoped for. Mind even if I was after some keyboard led rock, as you say the production lets it down. It isn't as if it is nice lush sounding melodic keys, it is horrible jarring parping keys. A big disappointment for me at the time.