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Post by Tony Wilkinson on Mar 18, 2021 11:21:59 GMT
Don’t know if I’m the only one but after Russian Roulette all the later 70’s albums were just so slow and boring. I doubt you're alone judging from what many have posted and expressed here - myself included! Prioritising the ballads and barely bothering to rock killed their momentum and turned them into something extremely bland. Painful to hear what happened when one knows they were capable of far better. Being a pragmatist I just accept that it was what it was, would you have wanted the alternative for example Status Quo type monotonous 3 chord rock.. ?
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Post by baz on Mar 18, 2021 11:42:33 GMT
I doubt you're alone judging from what many have posted and expressed here - myself included! Prioritising the ballads and barely bothering to rock killed their momentum and turned them into something extremely bland. Painful to hear what happened when one knows they were capable of far better. Being a pragmatist I just accept that it was what it was, would you have wanted the alternative for example Status Quo type monotonous 3 chord rock.. ? Fair point but still find what we ended up with rather difficult to stomach as between 1963 and 1974 there's a staggering ton of music I love but after that, I can only really enjoy at best, a handful of tracks.
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Post by Mevrouw Bee on Mar 18, 2021 13:41:23 GMT
Agree with you baz, Hollies74 was a brilliant album, funny over the years the Hollies have never seemed to grab that moment , don’t know why, maybe playing it safe was easy, give the people what they want., also the band did believe the Ballard was the way to go, real pity as they did some great rock and roll, thought Daddy Don’t Mind was a great up beat number. In my opinion things like Son of a rattan gambler was just an album track, nothing to write home about. Don’t know if I’m the only one but after Russian Roulette all the later 70’s albums were just so slow and boring. Moments of greatness. But I rarely listen to those albums all the way through. The Dude will probably disagree with me though. I'd argue Clarkey saved the best for his solo albums.
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Post by sandy on Mar 18, 2021 20:09:11 GMT
Agree with you baz, Hollies74 was a brilliant album, funny over the years the Hollies have never seemed to grab that moment , don’t know why, maybe playing it safe was easy, give the people what they want., also the band did believe the Ballard was the way to go, real pity as they did some great rock and roll, thought Daddy Don’t Mind was a great up beat number. In my opinion things like Son of a rattan gambler was just an album track, nothing to write home about. Don’t know if I’m the only one but after Russian Roulette all the later 70’s albums were just so slow and boring. Moments of greatness. But I rarely listen to those albums all the way through. The Dude will probably disagree with me though. I'd argue Clarkey saved the best for his solo albums. Yep, after he rejoined the band, that was kind of the bread and butter,with touring too, but always felt his artistic yearnings were only 5ruly satisfied in solo work ,where he didn't have to vote on everything to be agreed on....
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