STATUS QUO Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From LP PRT 1968 UK reissue
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STATUS QUOFRANCIS ROSSI, RICKY PARFITT, ALAN LANCASTER, ROY LYNES, JOHN COGHLAN
Status Quo are one of Britain's longest-lived bands, staying together for over 40 years.
During much of that time, the band was only successful in the U.K.,
where it racked up a string of Top Ten singles across the decades.
In America, the Quo were ignored after they abandoned psychedelia for heavy boogie rock in the early '70s.
Before that, the band managed to reach number 12 in the U.S. with the psychedelic classic
"Pictures of Matchstick Men" (a Top Ten hit in the U.K.)
"PICTURESQUE MATCHSTICKABLE MESSAGES FROM THE STATUS QUO"
<reissue, originally published in 1968>
LP PRT RECORDS PYL 6020
MADE IN ENGLAND 1987 REPRESSING
DEBUT ALBUM
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 5 011664 602016
LABEL: PRT - WHITE LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine & back) PYL 6020
Catalog on labels: PYL 6020 (PYL 6020-A / PYL 6020-B)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): PYL-6020-A
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): PYL-6020-B
On labels: rim text reads "All rights.......prohibited"
?1968 &
?1987 PRT Records Ltd.
Made in England
Produced by John Schroeder
Engineer: Alan Florence
Manufactured, Marketed and Distributed
in the UK by PRT Records Ltd.
on side two only: STEREO
On Back Sleeve: Notes by Ronnie Scott
?1968 PRT Records Ltd © 1968 PRT Records Ltd Marketed and Distributed by PRT Records
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side A: BLACK VEILS OF MELANCHOLY - WHEN MY MIND IS NOT LIVE
ICE IN THE SUN - ELIZABETH DREAMS
GENTLEMAN JOE'S SIDEWALK CAFE - PARADISE FLAT
Side B: TECHNICOLOR DREAMS - SPICKS AND SPECKS - SHEILA
SUNNY CELLOPHANE SKIES - GREEN TAMBOURINE
PICTURES OF MATCHSTICK MEN
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RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Status Quo's debut album featured none of the band's better-known boogie rock of the mid-'70s.
Picturesque... is a psychedelic effort that tries to imitate the sound bands
like the Bee Gees or the Beatles were doing at the moment.
With this record, Status Quo surprisingly had its first (and last) hit in America, the single "Pictures of Matchstick Men,"
which peaked at number 12 (it reached number seven on the British charts).
Other highlights from the album are the second single, "Ice in the Sun," and the Bee Gees cover "Spicks and Specks."
Even if this is not the most representative album from Status Quo,
it is a good psychedelic pop exercise that sometimes includes very imaginative guitar phrases
("Ice in the Sun"), and some brilliantly unusual sounds (the epic "Paradise Flat")...(AllMusic)
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