Status Quo: RFD

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Is it me, or have they been mentioned 90 times in the past 3 hours?

Well, maybe not. Name another band that went from psych-pop "stardom" to boogie rock bombast, though. (Besides Cream, of course, which managed to do both @ once.)

― David Raposa, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Everything I know about Status Quo I learned from Mojo, by the way.

― David Raposa, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oxford BooZoR the Crown has not one but TWO Status Quo best-ofs on their juker, with duplicate tracks. It also has two different best-of- the-70s comps, one of which is then duplicated. I *think* therefore it is possible to get five versions of "Rockin All Over The World" in a row, all from different CDs.

― Tom, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Who, after a fashion.

― Peter Miller, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

RFD: Request for destruction?

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Spinal Tap satirizes the Brit bluesboy to flowerchild to cockrocker development that the Quo epitomizes so closely that they must have been one of the inspirations for the film (even the band name is kind of close).

I find them pretty charming, but I have a feeling they mean something entirely different here than they do in Britain. You would never in a million years find a jukebox with multiple versions of a Status Quo song on it. "Pictures of Matchstick Men" is about the only song anyone knows by them and even that would only show up on a particularly eccentric oldies hour. Their BoogieRock era kind of passed us by. I tracked them down because of a line on "Bandwagonesque".

― fritz, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well you had ZZ Top so probably didn't have any real need for ver Quo. You definitely got the better deal.

― Terry Shannon, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, we had The Guess Who? and Bachman Turner Overdrive. They had ZZ Top. But they still win.

― fritz, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They have a bewildering number of fans. Or at least they did when i was growing up. Half (or so it seemed) of my class at school liked them and had the denims and patches to prove it. The Mighty Quo Army was a potent force in society, so much so that BBC1 showed a live quo gig one Friday night attended by Prince Charles. I seem to remember they had a commentator who gave these reverential breathy voice- overs, such as 'The massed ranks of the quo army. Unrivalled. Respected. Blah Blah.' And Status Quo were shite.

― Daniel, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, the Quo have masses of fans. I saw them last summer, I swear they played "the Wanderer" 15 times.

― jel, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The massed ranks of the quo army. Unrivalled. Respected. See, I love hearing about stuff like that! The ILM Allied forces talk like it's all Telescopes and Morrissey and Haircut One Hundred 24/7 over there, but the truth comes out now courtesy of the massed ranks of the Quo army!

― fritz, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Psych-pop > rawk = Small Faces > Humble Pie, Deep Purple, Argent?

Also, if Vanilla Fudge had continued into the 70s they would've been monolithic.

― dave q, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Psych-pop to boogie to 80s INXS-style cryptic dance rock or something: Golden Earring

― Arthur, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Though Fritz should remember that they haven't had a proper hit here for at least a decade and have become effectively a nostalgia act. As such they have worse songs than the Searchers or the Fortunes, though I suppose "Down Down" is better than most of their "set".

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

At their peak, I think the Quo were pretty good value for money. What's that one with a really good introduction?

― Peter Miller, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you must mean "Whatever You Want" - a fab intro which has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the song.

The Quo may be stockbroker-belt Tories at heart but I can't really hate 'em. Plus I saw 'em at the Glasgow Apollo in February '77 - as did Bobby Gillespie and Alan McGee I'll have you know. And you know what? They were brilliant.

― Terry Shannon, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard a truly disgusting story yesterday about one of Ver Quo having a lavatorial mishap while recording. Tight denim, brown stain, entire studio aired for two hours- need I go on? Nose-up was implicated...

― Snotty Moore, Saturday, 9 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

What's that one with a really good introduction?
-- Peter Miller, esmaspäev, 4. Veebruar 2002 20:00 (6 years ago)

Another one with a fab intro is "Backwater", the opener on 1974's Quo.

― t**t, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

Me on the level.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 10:01 (thirteen years ago)

Fopp recently had the deluxe Status Quo "pictures" set, 4CDs and a heavy art book, for £5

Worth it, certainly, for CD1 alone

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 10:15 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

And here they are again.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:13 (thirteen years ago)

Yep. They mean about as much as the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, well slightly more tbf, since the SAHB was never heard at all, but only seen in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock.

― i just believe in memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:44 (thirteen years ago)

What people don't realise is that a lot of the best songs were written by Alan Lancaster, who was not quite the Brian Wilson of Quo, but maybe could be considered as their Jim Lea. Albeit without the violin.

― O00O0O00O (Matt #2), Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:50 (thirteen years ago)

There was an unbelievable drop-off in quality between Blue For You and Rockin' All Over The World, probably due to sustained cocaine abuse.

― O00O0O00O (Matt #2), Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:51 (thirteen years ago)

Completely messed up the quoting above in zing, sorry.

― i just believe in memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:52 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

(via Charlie Brooker's twitter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1lYomhaVOc

― These goons are from Galactor and who gives a s*** (snoball), Sunday, 3 March 2013 14:23 (twelve years ago)

(I'm vacillating between this being either real, a joke, some viral thing, or who knows what)

― These goons are from Galactor and who gives a s*** (snoball), Sunday, 3 March 2013 14:25 (twelve years ago)

(or 'Status Quo's Tax Right-Off')

― These goons are from Galactor and who gives a s*** (snoball), Sunday, 3 March 2013 14:32 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

getting political https://twitter.com/Assangefreed0m/status/797844279850913792

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 14 November 2016 17:37 (nine years ago)

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