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| Notes: | Review of the "In The Army Now" album |
| Year: | 1986 |
| Country: | UK |
| Publication: | Record Mirror |
| Author: | Andy Strickland |
STATUS QUO 'In The Army Now' (Phonogram VERH 36)
Quo's back, as it says on the rear of this LP, and it's certainly a new beast since Lancaster's departure.
The tragedy of In The Army Now', and it is one for me, is that Quo have enlisted technology to help make a pop rather than a rock 'n' roll LP. It rarely, if ever, comes off. Where not so long ago fat Telecasters pulsed wonderfully, now we get synthesisers - and they just don't possess the same heart-beat quality.
It comes to something when the best track on a Quo LP is a slow country song, 'Invitation', and though I can see what Messrs Rossi and Parfitt are up to in the commerciality stakes, the whole thing grates to we old Quo lovers. (2 stars)
Andy Strickland