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Friday, 3 April 2026

Status Quo - Greatest Hits And More (2CD) (1999)

Status Quo is, undoubtedly one of the most important rock bands of seventies and eighties. And they are still making music. 
This album contains most of their best songs. Album quality is pretty high.
Status Quo - Greatest Hits And More is a 1999 compilation (often found as a 2-CD set) gathering hits from the PYE-period, along with later hits and live recordings. 
It serves as a comprehensive overview of the band's boogie-rock style, featuring classics like "Caroline" and "Whatever You Want" alongside various covers. 
The compilation is often praised for covering the "classic" Quo era while adding valuable live recordings that showcase their energy.
Fans often find these types of collections valuable for bringing together disparate eras of the band's long career.
Similar collections (like XS All Areas) are often lauded for their "rockin'" charm, though sometimes criticized for an over-reliance on covers, with "The Wanderer" and "The Anniversary Waltz" sometimes singled out by critics as weaker additions compared to their original anthems.
It is regarded as a good, comprehensive sampler for those looking for a broad, rather than strictly chronological, overview of Status Quo's sound.


Disc 1
1.  Whatever You Want - 4:01
2.  Rockin' All Over The World - 3:36
3.  Down Down - 5:23
4.  The Wanderer - 3:20
5.  Living On An Island - 4:44
6.  What You're Proposing - 4:15
7.  Pictures Of Matchstick Men - 3:11
8.  Down The Dustpipe - 2:02
9.  Don't Drive My Care - 4:30
10.  Bye Bye Johnny - 4:43
11.  Rock 'n Roll - 5:23
12.  Rolling Home - 3:03
13.  Burning Bridges - 4:19
14.  Backwater - 4:21
15.  Gerdundula - 3:20
16.  Slow Train - 7:51
17.  Forty Five Hundred Times - 9:52

Disc 2
1.  Paper Plane - 2:57
2.  Rain - 4:32
3.  Fun Fun Fun - 4:01
4.  Big Fat Mama - 5:53
5.  The Power Of Rock - 6:01
6.  Ice In The Sun - 2:11
7.  Lies - 3:54
8.  Softer Ride - 4:00
9.  Something About You Baby I Like - 2:48
10.  Black Veils Of Melancholy - 3:09
11.  I Didn't Mean It - 3:22
12.  Wild Side Of Life  - 3:13
13.  Mean Girl - 3:52
14.  Again And Again - 3:40
15.  Get Out Of Denver - 4:06
16.  Caroline (Live) - 5:27
17.  In The Army Now (Live) - 4:15
18.  Roll Over And Lay Down (Live) - 5:31
19.  Hold You Back (Live) - 4:36


Companies, etc.

Credits

Compiled by Universal Music TV. & Catalogue, Hilversum
Special thanks to Fred van Poppel

This compilation (p) 1999 Universal Music Bv. 


Notes
Released:  1999
Series:  Greatest Hits And More
Format:  2 x CD, Compilation
Genre:  Rock
Style:  Rock & Roll, Classic Rock
Runtime CD1:  1:17:49
Runtime CD2:  1:17:31
Label:  Universal 

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Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Status Quo - Back To Back (1983)

Back to Back is the sixteenth studio album by English rock band Status Quo and released in November 1983.
 For the first time in the group's history, it featured four singles, "Ol' Rag Blues" (highest position No. 9), "A Mess of Blues", originally a hit for Elvis Presley (No. 15), "Marguerita Time" (No. 3), and "Going Down Town Tonight" (which reached No. 20 in a different, re-recorded version to the album version.)
The album entered the UK chart at its highest position of No. 9.

It was the last recorded before the group temporarily disbanded in 1985 and therefore the last to feature original bass guitarist Alan Lancaster and drummer Pete Kircher.
Lancaster co-wrote the first single, "Ol' Rag Blues", with Keith Lamb, lead singer of British bands The Kase, Sleepy Talk and Mr. Toad, and founder and lead singer of Australia's successful glam rock band Hush.
Lancaster was angered when the production company declined to release the version featuring his lead vocal (which has since been made available as a bonus track on the 2006 remastered reissue), in preference to that featuring the voice of Francis Rossi.
He also made no secret of his dislike of "Marguerita Time", which he thought was too pop-orientated for the group.


Track listing
  1. "A Mess of Blues" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 3:23
  2. "Ol' Rag Blues" (Alan Lancaster, Keith Lamb) – 2:51
  3. "Can't Be Done" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) – 3:07
  4. "Too Close to the Ground" (Rick Parfitt, Andrew Bown) – 3:43
  5. "No Contract" (Parfitt, Bown) – 3:40
  6. "Win or Lose" (Rossi, Frost) – 2:35
  7. "Marguerita Time" (Rossi, Frost) – 3:27
  8. "Your Kind of Love" (Lancaster, Ferguson Skinner) – 3:24
  9. "Stay the Night" (Rossi, Frost, Andrew Miller) – 3:02
  10. "Going Down Town Tonight" (Guy Johnson) – 3:33

Status Quo

Additional personnel
  • Bernie Frost – backing vocals
  • Tim Summerhayes – engineering
  • Steve Churchyard – engineering

Notes
Released: 25 November 1983 
Recorded: 1983 Studio AIR Studios, Montserrat 
Genre: Hard rock, pop rock 
Length: 32:55 

Label - Vertigo Records