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Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From the Quo [Original recording reissued]

Status QuoAudio CD
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Status Quo; the English rock band who mastered three chords and stopped at that. There was no need to expand their repertoire, the fans love what they do and have never asked for more than their trademark boogie line. Though they are often lampooned, their material has been adopted by notable peers including Ozzy Osbourne and legendary DJ John Peel.

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Product Details

  • Audio CD (July 25, 2000)
  • Original Release Date: 1968
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording reissued
  • Label: Castle - Old Numbers
  • ASIN: B00004U02S
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #675,381 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

 
1. Black Veils of Melancholy
2. When My Mind Is Not Live
3. Ice in the Sun
4. Elizabeth Dreams
5. Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café
6. Paradise Flat
7. Technicolour Dreams
8. Spicks and Specks
9. Sheila
10. Sunny Cellophane Skies
11. Green Tambourine
12. Pictures of Matchstick Men
13. To Be Free [Non-Album B-Side][*]
14. Pictures of Matchstick Men [Stereo Alternate Mix][*]
15. Paradise Flat [Stereo Alternate Mix][*]

 

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Nearly a smashing debut from the Quo!, December 23, 2000
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SHAI NOBELMAN (Ramat Gan Israel) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From the Quo (Audio CD)
Forgive me all you, "Boogie- Quo" fans. For me, the band's first album is their opus! This album, released in 1968, was the follow-up to their first single (they released 3 under the name of "specters"), "Pictures of Matchstick man", which was one of the greatest song of the British psychedlic era. Driven by a monstarus guitar-riff, a vox organ, haunting harmonies and a distinctive phasing this was excellent and became an international hit! The rest of this album is, more or less, the same. The best tracks are: 'Elizabth dream', 'When my mind is not alive' (both sang beutifully by Parfit) and the wonderful "Technicolour dreams" which is Quo's best song ever. Buy it!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great album of the sixties!, October 17, 2001
This review is from: Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From the Quo (Audio CD)
Pictures of Matchstick Men ist eine Überraschung für mich und vielleicht auch andere Hörer, die die Gruppe ganz anders kennen

Ich habe die CD schon mehrere Male während der Arbeit gespielt, so gut sind die kurzen Songs.

Und so ungewohnt, das sollen Status Quo sein? Ich kannte die Gruppe von ihrer härteren Gangart ab 1973, deren Konzerte super waren, die LPs aber (in Konkurrenz zu anderen Heavy-Gruppen) nicht so mein Geschmack waren.

Bei diesen Songs scheint man wie mit einer Zeitmaschine in die Zeit um 1968 zurückversetzt. Man hört die Lieder das erste Mal dennoch scheinen sie irgendwie vertraut, ungewöhnlich viele Tracks sind wahre Ohrwürmer, auch die Fremdkompositionen sind originell eingespielt.

Man merkt die Spielfreude der damaligen Teenager und ich wundere mich, daß diese Phase damals für die Gruppe nicht erfolgreicher war. Die bekannte Ausnahme war "Pictures of Matchstick Men", 1967 ein Hit, hier sind aber durchaus noch etliche bessere Songs versammelt, die von der Substanz Hitchancen hatten: Technicolour Dreams, Ice in the Sun, Elizabeth Dreams, Auntie Nellie, Velvet Curtains, Green Tambourine, und und und ...Wirklich geballt viele starke Songs auf eine Haufen.

Die Lieder kommen ungestüm und charmant daher, handeln vom Teenager-Leben, Erster Liebe, Sorgen, haben etwas heiteres in sich, ohne schnulzig zu wirken. Und für eine Schüler-Band waren auch die Texte recht reif (reifer jedenfalls wie manche späteren Texte, z.b. "Down Down"). Man glaubt sich an die positiven Seiten des Jahrzehnts erinnert (Filme wie "die Kaktusblüte", "Venus " von Shocking Blue, leichte Psychedelia mit "Pictures of, ..."; nicht aber die neurotischen Assoziationen der Ära wie "White Album", "Vanilla Fudge" oder "Rosemaries Baby". Obwohl zeitgleich, schien die Welt um Status Quo noch in Ordnung gewesen (was heißt eigentlich das Gummi-Wort "psychedelisch") zu sein. Diese Sammlung eignet sich (meiner Phantasie nach als Hintergrund-Musik) einer Liebesgeschichte mit Abschluß-Tanzball in der Schule um 1968. Diese CD war eine freudige Überraschung. Empfehlenswert.

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5.0 out of 5 stars psych rock debut, January 16, 2011
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This review is from: Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From the Quo (Audio CD)
quo at this time had been around a few years under different names , then they put out this classic psych rocker and were a hit band. They continued the greatness right up til' today. This one had two hits on it, 'pictures of matchstick man' and 'ice in the sun' , although the band did this type of music well , it can be a pop psych to straight psych mix they only did one more disc like it. "spare parts" in 69 before moving on to boogie rock in 1970.
this is great music for fans of psych rock and sixties music too. The two disc version is the better one to get but casual fans will want this one. And remember that in 1970 they turned into a hard rockin boogie band that made some of the greatest rock of the period.
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