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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection (3CD-boxset)
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4. Status Quo - You're Just What I Was Looking for Today
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6. Status Quo - Poor Old Man
7. Status Quo - Mr. Mind Detector
8. Status Quo - The Clown
9. Status Quo - Velvet Curtains
10. Status Quo - Little Miss Nothing
11. Status Quo - When I Awake
12. Status Quo - Nothing at All
13. Status Quo - Josie (Out-Take Version)
14. Status Quo - Do You Live In Fire
15. Status Quo - The Price of Love
16. Status Quo - Down the Dustpipe
17. Status Quo - Spinning Wheel Blues
18. Status Quo - Daughter
19. Status Quo - Everything
20. Status Quo - Shy Fly
21. Status Quo - (April) Spring, Summer & Wednesdays
22. Status Quo - Gerdundula
CD3
1. Status Quo - Junior's Wailing
2. Status Quo - Lakky Lady
3. Status Quo - Need Your Love
4. Status Quo - Lazy Poker Blues
5. Status Quo - Is It Really Me _ Gotta Go Home
6. Status Quo - In My Chair
7. Status Quo - Tune to the Music
8. Status Quo - Good Thinking
9. Status Quo - Umleitung
10. Status Quo - Something's Going On In My Head
11. Status Quo - Mean Girl
12. Status Quo - Gerdundula (Alternate Version)
13. Status Quo - Railroad
14. Status Quo - Someone's Learning
15. Status Quo - Nanana
This three-CD, 63-track set is the last word on Status Quo's early years, gathering not only every track the band did for Pye in the late '60s and early '70s, but also adding seven songs by the Spectres and two by Traffic Jam (the group's pre-Status Quo incarnations). As Status Quo were a psychedelic pop band in the late '60s before shifting to hard boogie rock at the turn of the decade, it might be a disappointment to much of their fan base, as prior to 1970 they sounded like an almost entirely different act. Conversely, though, to British Invasion and psychedelic fans who have little use for the band's long run as hard rock journeymen, this might be the most useful Status Quo collection of all. For it's psychedelic pop -- of a resolutely trendy brand that's actually more "pop" than "psychedelic" -- that dominates the first two discs, including of course their big hit "Pictures of Matchstick Men," as well as their follow-up U.K. Top Ten single, "Ice in the Sun." It's not until the half-dozen or so 1970 recordings that close disc two that the band starts embracing harder sounds, almost fully changing to a blues-rock-boogie direction for disc three.
As for the lighter approach that makes up the bulk of this set, the material suffers from a problem common to many bands that had just one great song. Much of the late-'60s stuff here is derivative, with varying streaks of innocuous Bee Gees, Move, Kinks, Beatles, Badfinger, and bubblegum influences. The 1968 songs in particular lean too heavily on the shimmering wobbly guitar effects introduced by "Pictures of Matchstick Men." Most importantly, though, the songs aren't special, wafting by in an inoffensive period fashion, occasionally making a deeper impression on tracks like "Sunny Cellophane Skies" (which, again like many of their 1968 tunes, has helium-high harmony vocals and weedy organ), "When I Awake" (whose intro has some awesome fluttering wah-wah guitar), and "Josie" (which sounds a little like a kiddie Kinks-meets-Easybeats). The more aggressive early-'70s material isn't any more memorable or original, to be honest, though it does include a couple fair-sized British hits in "Down the Dustpipe" and "In My Chair." Devoted collectors might be most interested in the pre-Status Quo cuts by the Spectres and Traffic Jam, but these are even less imbued with distinctive personality than the rest of the material, sounding like the product of an also-ran club band from the waning days of the British Invasion. The Spectres' tracks are too heavy on unimaginative covers as well, though their peculiarly chintzy organ parts at least give it some sonic imprint; the two Traffic Jam songs are most notable for "Almost but Not Quite There," a coy teen sexual innuendo reminiscent of some of the Troggs' filler from the period.
Finally, though Sanctuary is to be commended for gathering all the strands of the early Status Quo together in such a comprehensive fashion, it garners no gold stars for the packaging. Such a thorough set deserves more liner notes than the mere five paragraphs dispensed here, and even more troublingly, there's no information about when and where the tracks were originally released. Nothing's supplied at all but songwriting credits and years of original release, in fact, with nothing said about on what singles and albums these songs (a handful of which didn't surface until the 1980s and 1990s) were first issued
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/01- Pictures Of Matchstick Men.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/02- Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/03- Black Veils Of Melancholy.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/04- To Be Free.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/05- Ice In The Sun.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/06- When My Mind Is Not Live.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/07- Elizabeth Dreams.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/08- Paradise Flat.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/09- Technicolor Dreams.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/10- Spicks And Specks.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/11- Sheila.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/12- Sunny Cellophane Skies.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/13- Green Tambourine.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/14- Make Me Stay A Bit Longer.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/15- Auntie Nellie.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/16- I (Who Have Nothing) - The Spectres.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/17- Neighbour, Neighbour - The Spectres.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/18- Hurdy Gurdy Man - The Spectres.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/19- Laticia - The Spectres.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/20- (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet - The Spectres.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/21- I Want It - The Spectres.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/22- Spicks And Specks - The Spectres.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/23- Almost But Not Quite There - Traffic Jam.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/24- Wait A Minute - Traffic Jam.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/25- Walkin' With My Angel - The Spectres.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/26- When He Passed By - The Spectres.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/Fronta.jpg
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 1/status quo - pye 2.jpg
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/01- Are You Growing Tired Of My Love.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/02- So Ends Another Life.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/03- Face Without A Soul.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/04- You're Just What I Was Looking For Today.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/05- Antique Angelique.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/06- Poor Old Man.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/07- Mr. Mind Detector.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/08- The Clown.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/09- Velvet Curtains.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/10- Little Miss Nothing.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/11- When I Awake.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/12- Nothing At All.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/13- Josie.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/14- Do You Live In Fire.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/15- The Price Of LOve.flac
22.2 MB
Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/16- Down The Dustpipe.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/17- Spinning Wheel Blues.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/18- Daughter.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/19- Everything.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/20- Shy Fly.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/21- (April) Spring, Summer And Wednesdays.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/22- Gerdandula.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/Fronta.jpg
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection - disc 2.log
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 2/Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection - disc 2.m3u
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/01- Junior's Wailing.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/02- Lakky Lady.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/03- Need Your Love.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/04- Lazy Poker Blues.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/05- Is It Really Me .flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/06- In My Chair.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/07- Tune To The Music.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/08- Good Thinking.flac
22.6 MB
Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/09- Umleitung.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/10- Something Going On In My Head.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/11- Mean Girl.flac
27.2 MB
Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/12- Gerdundula.flac
25.3 MB
Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/13- Railroad.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/14- Someone's Learning.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/15- Nanana.flac
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/Fronta.jpg
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Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection CD 3/Status Quo - The Complete Pye Collection - disc 3.log
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