Singles Collection [Import, Original recording remastered]

Status Quo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 26, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B00004Y3D0
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #602,991 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Pictures of Matchstick Men

2. Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe

3. Black Veils of Melancholy

4. To Be Free

5. Ice in the Sun

6. When My Mind Is Not Alive

7. Technicolour Dreams

8. Paradise Flat

9. Make Me Stay A Little Bit Longer

10. Auntie Nellie

See all 49 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. I (Who Have Nothing)

2. Neighbour Neighbour

3. Hurdy Gurdy Man

4. Laticia

5. (We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet

6. I Want It

7. Almost But Not Quite There

8. Wait A Minute

9. Walking With My Angel

10. When He Passed By

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

49 track compilation for the UK rock legends including tracks recorded by previous incarnations, The Spectres and Traffic Jam. This package covers their early years including all their Pye singles (A & B sides) as well as previously unreleased versions of tracks recorded for the first four Status Quo albums. Remastered from the original tapes. 2000 release.Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Status Quo - 'Singles Collection 1966-73' (Castle Music), September 21, 2004

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singles Collection (Audio CD)

To be honest,I was just a tad let down after getting a copy of this 2-CD release.Probably my OWN fault because I had expected to much.Price was good,though.Don't get me wrong,it's still a decent retrospect of the band.Disc one has the band's singles from 1966 to 1973.I notice that tracks like "Pictures Of Matchstick Men","Ice In The Sun","Technicolour Dreams" and "Paradise Flats" appear to be written around one riff.Which is a good thing for a '60's psychedelic band.Trouble is about halfway through disc one,the songs grow kind of stale.Disc two,however has many unreleased tunes from the two pre-Quo bands the members were in,The Spectres and Traffic Jam.Actually,disc two MAY be better than disc one.Out of a total of 49 songs,I'd say about 30 of them are between decent to really good.Would make a nice gift for some who is a Status Quo fan.

4.0 out of 5 stars Sixties psychedelia, January 12, 2004

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singles Collection (Audio CD)

This 2-disc set showcases the early psychedelic Status Quo before they reinvented themselves as a boogie rock band with the single Paper Plane in about 1973.

It contains a number of gems like the divine Pictures Of Matchstick Men with its swirling guitars, Ice In The Sun, Black Veils Of Melancholy, Down The Dustpipe and In My Chair, all tuneful numbers with impressive arrangements.

Other songs like Price Of Love and When My Mind Is Not Live are less memorable though still listenable, including
Paradise Flats with its spoken section and their interpretation of Are You Growing Tired Of My Love.

Disc 2 contains a nice enough version of Spicks And Specks plus various rarities, covers and alternative versions of the hits on the first disc. It's a pity that some of their other covers of sixties hits have been omitted, such as Sheila and Green Tambourine, as these were interesting at least.

This music is very different from the direction they took for the next three decades, but as sixties psychedelic pop-rock it stands up well. I give it four stars for the aforementioned classics.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Era For Quo, January 23, 2007

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Y2bjs Reviews (Melbourne Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Singles Collection (Audio CD)

This is an interesting collection of songs when the band was new.
They hit it big with some early hits, and there is a few hard to get songs here.
Great Cd this.
Some of these songs are very good although some may sound outdated.
I like this era of the band though,they produced alot of good songs.