Top 10 Songs: Status Quo

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  • @MetalPersonJ
    @MetalPersonJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1. Slow Train
    2. Down Down
    3. Don't Think It Matters
    4. Big Fat Mama
    5. 4500 Times (Live At the NEC)
    6. Drifting Away
    7. Rain
    8. Paper Plane
    9. Dirty Water
    10. Lonely Man

  • @gavinsmith9016
    @gavinsmith9016 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you Pete... One of the best live bands I've seen when they were a great Hard Rock band. As a kid there were three bands on the Top of The Pops that I watched and thought "wow I like to see them in concert". These bands were Thin Lizzy, Queen and Status Quo. Rick Parfitt is up there with Malcom Young for me in the pantheon of rock rhythm players.
    Top 10 songs:
    1: Caroline. One of my favourite songs across all bands/artists and from my favourite Quo album Hello!
    2: 4500 Times
    3: Paper Plane
    4: Rain
    5: Big Fat Mama
    6: Whatever You Want - Another great intro
    7: Backwater
    8: Mystery Song
    9: Down Down - The intro is genius
    10: Slow Train
    Bubbling under - Don't Waste my Time, Little Lady, Is There A Better Way, Most Of The Time, Blued Eyed Lady, Softer Ride, Roll Over Lay Down and from the latter day Gravy Train
    If you don't know Quo then start with the Live album. From Dog of Two Head through to Never To Late you can't really go wrong. Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon is worth a listen as well.

  • @mikeprofo2328
    @mikeprofo2328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1. Backwater.
    2. Drifting Away.
    3. Whatever You Want.
    4.Daughter.
    5.Lonely Man.
    6. Don't Drive My Car.
    7.Paper Plane.
    8.Down Down.
    9. Down the Dustpipe.
    10. In my Chair.
    Honourable Mentions : Spinning Wheel Blues, Junior's Wailing, Railroad, Just Take Me, Roll Over Lay Down, Is There a Better Way, Caroline, Rain, Wild Side of Life, In the Army Now.
    I didn't think much of that last one when I first heard it, but it grew on me after I saw them do it live.

  • @breakaleg10
    @breakaleg10 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is my favourite band, and I’m youngish Swede (46 years). But then again I like most music. This is my list:
    1. Backwater
    2. Mystery Song
    3. Rolling Home (Blue For You album)
    4. Big Fat Mama
    5. Whatever You Want
    6. What You’re Proposing
    7. Rain
    8. Fortyfive Hundred Times
    9. Rockin’ All Over The World
    10. Roll Over Lay Down
    I will add that I have seen them twice. First time in 1992, went almost deaf for 3 days after. They’re LOUD!!!

    • @abe3802
      @abe3802 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Carl Hult I saw them 1985 (Hovet, Stockholm) what then was described as their last tour, End of the Road tour...

    • @bigraymie
      @bigraymie 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Drop #3 and insert "Little Lady" and you'll have a serious list there Carl... (y)

    • @ep9421
      @ep9421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Carl Hult, almost going deaf is going to an ACDC concert. And i have been to both concerts. 🙉🙉🙉

    • @breakaleg10
      @breakaleg10 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      E P I can imagine that. Both bands are notorious for this

  • @alibobsmarland9572
    @alibobsmarland9572 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Quo fan from England since 1976. 1. Roll Over Lay Down 2. Rain. 3. Don't Think It Matters 4. Down Down 5. Is There a Better Way 6. Drifting Away 7. Let's Ride 8. Hold You Back 9. Mystery Song. 10. Just Take Me.

  • @davidwinthrop7077
    @davidwinthrop7077 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    ‘Rain’ one of the best hard rock songs of all time. I defy anyone not to crank up the volume when it comes on the radio!

    • @j.woodbury412
      @j.woodbury412 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Honestly, I can neither confirm nor deny that statement because they don't play Status Quo music down here in Alabama. In fact it's hard to find a station that plays music other than Hall & Oates , Madonna or country. Which is why I never listen to the radio anymore.

    • @michaelalbertson7457
      @michaelalbertson7457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As a Yank, never heard the song on the radio, but had all the early albums, and the only time I turned that song up was when the cascading rain guitar parts came on. I turned it back down when the part ended. Just not melodious enough for me. Yet songs like Roll Over Lay Down and Someone's Learning were heavier and melodious for me.

  • @denphillips3402
    @denphillips3402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Again, this one I'm putting my choices in before listening to this post. My era is Dog of Two Head through to Blue for You. I was really switched off after this point...
    10. Claudie (Hello)
    9.Railroad (Dog of Two Head)
    8. Roll Over Lay Down (Hello)
    7. Caroline (Hello)
    6. Ring of a Change (Blue for You)
    5. A Year (Piledriver)
    4. Backwater (Quo)
    3. All the Reasons (Piledriver)
    2. Slow Train (Quo)
    1. Mystery Song (Blue for You)

  • @terrywillson3041
    @terrywillson3041 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hi Pete
    Since Coughlan and Lancaster left in 1981 and 1985 it really became the Rossi and Parfit show and they lost a lot of what made them great, How can anybody compare anything from the earlier albums to the pile of crap that is "Marguerita Time". I think by this time the Bogotoa Marching Powder had become the driving force. A brief reunion a decade ago shoed what was missing.
    However, I saw Quo about 8 times between 1974 and 1979 and it was always a great gig, especially the gigs at the Southend Kursaal, another venue with a sprung dance floor which always needed repairing afterwards. So here's my Top Ten and nothing post 1980 is really worth a mention.
    1 - Big Fat Mama (Pile driver)
    2 - Railroad (Dog Of Two Head)
    3 - Roll Over Lay Down (Hello)
    4 - Paper Plane (Pile Driver)
    5 - Backwater/Just Take Me (Quo) - to me they have always been one song.
    6 - Whatever You Want
    7 - 4500 times (Hello)
    8 - Juniors Wailing (Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon)
    9 - Claudie (Hello)
    10 - Down Down (On The Level)
    That lot on a mix tape for a car journey would put a smile on my face.
    Tel

  • @daveben3573
    @daveben3573 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As a Brit really appreciated this run through. 'Mystery song' my favourite but a hard working, rocking feel good band that I have always loved and grew up with.

  • @mickymoose6391
    @mickymoose6391 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1 4500 Times
    2 Slow Train
    3 Roll Over Lay Down
    4 Mystery Song ( Album Version )
    5 Caroline
    6 Rain
    7 Big Fat Mama
    8 Paper Plane
    9 Softer Ride
    10 Down Down
    Things may change tomorrow !!!
    Maybe for Quo reviews , you split them into era's ?
    Great channel , just discovered this week .. Quo , SAHB , UFO all covered , its ok by me !...keep it up Pete !

  • @garyhughes7518
    @garyhughes7518 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rocking all over the world was the beginning of the end

  • @markburleyemmerson1373
    @markburleyemmerson1373 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Down Down was supposed to be the big break through in the States for Quo. UK no’1 & top 10 all over Europe & Asia. Lack of radio play cost them dearly in the US.

  • @mrmitch5054
    @mrmitch5054 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Been a fan for 43 years come rain or shine. Quotilidie

  • @zachary1966
    @zachary1966 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1) Forty-Five Hundred Times
    2) Softer Ride
    3) Big Fat Mama
    4) Slow Train
    5) Blue-eyed Lady
    6) Little Lady
    7) Down Down
    8) Someone's Learning
    9) (April), Spring, Summer and Wednesdays
    10) Breaking Away
    What a great band! Their 70's catalog is incredible... Saw them live in Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki 1996.

  • @BrianRobson188
    @BrianRobson188 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    1. Rockin' All Over the World
    2. Whatever You Want
    3. Dirty Water
    4. Hold You Back
    5. Forty-Five Hundred Times
    6. Caroline
    7. Down Down
    8. What You're Proposing
    9. Living on an Island
    10. Dear John

  • @jerryattwooll4864
    @jerryattwooll4864 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Most of mine come from the 70s era, but there are a couple from naughties albums that I also like a lot.
    1 45 Hundred Times
    2 Rain
    3 Don't Think It Matters
    4 Railroad
    5 Mystery Song
    6 Whatever You Want
    7 Caroline
    8 Bad News
    9 Down Down
    10 Solid Gold.

  • @arthurprice603
    @arthurprice603 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nice to hear a mention, at last, for Status Quo - who some of us have followed since the late 1960s.
    Their long career is filled with impressive ‘highlights’-
    33 studio albums, 5 live albums and 11+ compilations. More British album chart entries than any other band, with the exception of the Rolling Stones. 100+ single releases totalling more than seven and a half years (415 weeks) on the British singles charts.
    Sales in excess of 118 million units world wide.
    6000 live shows delivered to a total audience of 25 million+ people.
    Both Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt awarded OBE in 2009 (in The Queen’s New Year Honours List) for ‘Services To Music And Charities.’
    1991- awards for ‘Outstanding Contribution To The Rock Industry’ by both the BRITS and World Music Awards.
    Detractors speak of monotonous, simplistic and repetitive music churned out year by year but none can dispute their wide appeal and dedicated following. Keeping it simple and honest appears to have been the key to success for Status Quo.
    Those interested in finding out more about ‘Quo’s’ music should probably start back in the 1970s with the trio of successive albums - ‘Piledriver’ (1972), ‘Hello!’ (1973) and ‘Quo’ (1974) plus the ‘Live!’ album (1977).
    Posted an extended playlist many months ago on this channel - perhaps of interest to some? :D
    Whatever You Want (‘Whatever You Want’ album 1979)
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    Don’t Waste My Time (‘Piledriver’ album 1972)
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    Caroline (‘Hello’ album 1973) th-cam.com/video/69YERtGeX6A/w-d-xo.html
    Oh Baby (‘Piledriver’ album 1972) th-cam.com/video/YWY5SSq1Idw/w-d-xo.html
    Pictures Of Matchstick Men (‘Picturesque Matchstickable - Messages From The Status Quo’ album 1968) th-cam.com/video/Sw6044fDHwg/w-d-xo.html
    A Year (‘Piledriver’ album 1972) th-cam.com/video/OAp7nF3gpyI/w-d-xo.html
    Down Down (‘On The Level’ album 1975) th-cam.com/video/WTmsjH9T2d8/w-d-xo.html
    Roll Over Lay Down (‘Hello’ album 1973) th-cam.com/video/-xMh-9n1tJ4/w-d-xo.html
    Paper Plane (‘Piledriver’ album 1972) th-cam.com/video/kzyGCSqY650/w-d-xo.html
    Backwater (‘Quo’ album 1974) th-cam.com/video/PDG11PDXAw4/w-d-xo.html
    Mean Girl (‘Dog Of Two Head’ album 1971) th-cam.com/video/SatnL3dQ3bU/w-d-xo.html
    Big Fat Mama (‘Piledriver’ album 1972) th-cam.com/video/M4ioVPCMmEM/w-d-xo.html
    All Day And All Of The Night (‘Riffs’ album 2003)
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    Don’t Think It Matters (‘Quo’ album 1974) th-cam.com/video/F-lwEANyI3I/w-d-xo.html
    Dust To Gold (‘Quid Pro Quo’ album 2011)
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    Bad News (‘In Search Of The Fourth Chord’ album 2007)
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    Reason For Living (‘Hello’ album 1973) th-cam.com/video/_f_svXqfVfw/w-d-xo.html
    In My Chair (single release 1970) th-cam.com/video/q0bLP4iKgZE/w-d-xo.html
    Break The Rules (‘Quo’ album 1974) th-cam.com/video/Mt2kBs7828k/w-d-xo.html
    Blue Eyed Lady (‘Hello’ album 1973) th-cam.com/video/yCfu0dM7b2E/w-d-xo.html
    Hold You Back (‘Rockin’ All Over The World’ album 1982)
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    Something Going On In My Head (‘Dog Of Two Head’ album 1971)
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    And It’s Better Now (‘Hello’ album 1973) th-cam.com/video/6QG9WNa3Vno/w-d-xo.html
    Can’t Give You More (‘Rockin’ All Over The World’ album 1982)
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    Roll Over Beethoven (‘Famous In The Last Century’ album 2000)
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    Just Take Me (‘Quo’ album 1974) th-cam.com/video/UbUEIPLJUmo/w-d-xo.html
    Enough Is Enough (‘Never Too Late’ album 1981)
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    Alright (‘In Search Of The Fourth Chord’ album 2007)
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    All We Really Wanna Do (‘Rock ‘Till You Drop’ album 1991)
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    Rockin’ All Over The World (‘Rockin’ All Over The World’ album 1977)
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    Better Take Care (‘Backbone’ album 2019
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    In The Army Now (‘In The Army Now’ album 1986)
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    Forty Five Hundred Times (‘Hello’ album 1973)
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    Falling Off The World (‘Backbone’ album 2019
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    Blues And Rhythm (‘Heavy Traffic’ album 2002)
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    Lonely Man (‘Quo’ album 1974) th-cam.com/video/L4RBFUV9IAs/w-d-xo.html
    Hard Time (‘Rockin’ All Over The World’ album 1982)
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    Rock ’N’ Me (‘Famous In The Last Century’ album 2000)
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    Come Rock With Me (‘Whatever You Want’ album 1979)
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    Solid Gold (‘Heavy Traffic’ album 2002) th-cam.com/video/-xKRodPVusk/w-d-xo.html
    Heart On Hold (‘Perfect Remedy’ album 1989)
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    Red Sky (‘In The Army Now’ album 1986)
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    Down The Dustpipe (single release 1970 and ‘Riffs’ album 2003)
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  • @jimekberg
    @jimekberg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1.Ring of a Change
    2.Backwater
    3.Daughter
    4.Roll Over lay Down
    5.Is There a Better Way
    6.Don´t Think it Matters
    7.Thats a Fact
    8.Down Down
    9.Mystery Song
    10.Paper Plane

  • @stevebees3992
    @stevebees3992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I love AC/DC, but I've never understood why they are lauded for basically making the same album over and over again, yet Quo are lambasted. Great songs, tight playing, with a lot of clever chord inversions/tunings.

    • @DSpeir-pi6tm
      @DSpeir-pi6tm 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's Ludacris . AC/DC had their signature sound, but it was fare from being the same thing over and over again .

    • @DSpeir-pi6tm
      @DSpeir-pi6tm 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @SabuPtolemy I agree with you on that . The group as a whole with Bon Scott was awesome .

    • @billfreeman5201
      @billfreeman5201 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      No. They had a style but did not make the same album over and over.

    • @billfreeman5201
      @billfreeman5201 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @SabuPtolemy We shall have to disagree, I always felt that there were small progressions that allowed the tone to remain the same but with enough variation to be just that bit different.

    • @stevebees3992
      @stevebees3992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My point being, that criticisms leveled at Quo are never leveled at AC/DC, and there's a lot of similarity in their musical DNA.

  • @magnuspersson1433
    @magnuspersson1433 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Status Quo was huge in Sweden when I grew up in the 70s and early 80s. I can´t say which songs are the best, but I can say my favorite album: Quo

  • @ramonace4770
    @ramonace4770 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Special mention for "Whatever You Want" their greatest hit, I still love it !
    1. Gerdundula
    2. Down Down
    3. Someone's Learning
    4. Rain
    5. Umleitung
    6. Roll Over Lay Down
    7. Rolling Home
    8. Need Your Love
    9. Again and Again
    10.Paper Plane
    Status Quo was my first live show back in 1981 and they tore the roof off! Earthquake over Lausanne, Switzerland!

  • @philjm3103
    @philjm3103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Can't believe you've done a show on Quo! My first band, back in the 70s.....my first gig (Southampton Gaumont 1978) and some of my fave ever songs - 45 Hundred Times, Softer Ride, Slow Train etc. Love 'em! But I would agree that their best albums are all to be found in the 70s.

    • @philjm3103
      @philjm3103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chrisnott6146 Chris, when you get to my age it's hard enough to identify the right decade, let alone the year!

  • @peteallen935
    @peteallen935 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Were very big here in Australia back in the day, actually was my first gig in '74 at Festival Hall. Fave album easily is Quo.

    • @fictionuk
      @fictionuk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      surprising as its not cited as say 'Hello' or 'Piledriver'. as with yourself, I think its up there in their top 3

  • @renemere4362
    @renemere4362 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The first time I saw the Quo, it was in 1981, in France during the "Never Too Late" Tour. I was 20 years old and the sound volume was DEAFENING! and what a heat! After few seconds at the beginning of "Caroline" , the make up of a young lady flawn on her face, she seemed like Alice Cooper!

  • @kevintynan796
    @kevintynan796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Coventry theatre 1973 the balcony was moving up and down as 2000 Quo fans stomped along to the 3 chords. I remember they charged all over the stage and the roadies were kept busy untangling the guitar cords. It was a great show!

  • @LuchaLibertaria
    @LuchaLibertaria 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1- Whatever You Want
    2- Green Tambourine
    3- Drifting Away
    4- Man Overboard
    5- Down Down
    6- End Of The Line
    7- Pictures Of Matchstick Man
    8- Ol' Rag Blues
    9- Ain't Complaining
    10- Don't Mind If I Do

  • @nicholasbenedictrobinson7841
    @nicholasbenedictrobinson7841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "Oh baby" should be on any top 10 Quo list

  • @yorksfleeters1
    @yorksfleeters1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1. Mountain lady
    2. Accident Prone
    3. Unspoken Words
    4. A Year
    5. Gerdundula
    6. Too Close To the Ground
    7. Hold You Back
    8. Railroad
    9. Fourty-Five Hundred Times (live at the NEC)
    10. Wild Side of Life.

    • @davidwinthrop7077
      @davidwinthrop7077 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great list. Accident Prone especially a fantastic song!

  • @1963catman
    @1963catman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you ! Been fan of them since 77, and I haven't found many others over here.

  • @diannecarpenter7718
    @diannecarpenter7718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for your Top Ten: Status Quo. I just started listening to this band and bought a few of their CDs.🎤🎸🎵🥁

  • @russdavies9686
    @russdavies9686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    They released an album in, 1970 I believe, called Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon, that not only is their high point, IMHO, but an album that would easily make my personal Top 50 Albums of All Time.
    Spinning Wheel
    Daughter
    Everything
    Shy Fly
    (April)Spring, Summer and Wednesdays
    Juniors Wailing
    Lakky Lady
    Need Your Love
    Lazy Poker Blues
    Is It Really Me/Gotta Go Home

    • @paulkazakoff9231
      @paulkazakoff9231 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Your right one of the best Quo albums and very underrated.Not really a bad song on it. Brilliant !

    • @stashyjon
      @stashyjon 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Still my fave Quo album.

    • @williamgeorgefraser
      @williamgeorgefraser 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brilliant album perhaps only bettered by "Quo".

    • @mattyboywalker9094
      @mattyboywalker9094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ma Kelly's is a killer album

    • @davestevenson2181
      @davestevenson2181 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A great album. I just bought the Record Store Day Fried Egg splattered vinyl. In the early 70s a DJ used to play rock music midweek in the Apples & Pears pub in Rotherhithe south east London. It was mainly a blokes night out and he always finished the night with Phoenix by Wishbone Ash and the Quo's Is It Really Me/Gotta Go Home from this album.

  • @ep9421
    @ep9421 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Is there anybody out there that wants to Rock n Roll,
    Is there anybody who wants to Boogie
    We have the number 1 Rock n Roll band in the land
    Will you welcome,
    The Magnificent Status Quooo

  • @juliewendy8103
    @juliewendy8103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Its nice that a lot of Pete's picks had Alan Lancaster singing

    • @mikeprofo2328
      @mikeprofo2328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My favourite Quo album is the Quo album, arguably their heaviest & the one with the biggest Lancaster input. A change of pace for them is the track on it "Lonely Man" which is one of my faves. And you can't beat the opening duo of Backwater & Just Take Me. I like all the tracks , even the poppy Fine Fine Fine. They had a great run of classic albums back then : Dog of Two Heads, Piledriver, Hello, Quo, On the Level.

  • @bryanbyrde8338
    @bryanbyrde8338 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It’s great to hear so much appreciation for the mighty Quo - they really are a legendary band over here in the UK. You are definitely right to focus mainly on their 70s output, though, because that was easily their best era.
    Not counting any of the songs mentioned by Simon and yourself, my ten favourites in order of release are:
    Lakky Lady - Ma Kelly’s Greasy Spoon
    Something’s Going On In My Head - Dog Of Two Head
    A Year - Piledriver
    Softer Ride - Hello! (another terrific live track)
    Lonely Man - Quo (this is my favourite album of theirs)
    Mystery Song - Blue For You
    Rockers Rollin’ - Rockin’ All Over The World
    Living On An Island - Whatever You Want
    Over The Edge - Just Supposin’
    Two Way Traffic - Quid Quo Pro

  • @garyspillett7506
    @garyspillett7506 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hi Pete saw Quo in 72(England’s AC/DC......Formulaic rock)My favourite album is Piledriver.Top Ten;big fat mama,rain,don’t waste my time,dirty water,caroline,roll over lay down,mystery song,2500 times,pictures of matchstick men,paper plane.love to you and thank you for sea of tranquility from Gary In Sydney Australia.

  • @TheCornishCockney
    @TheCornishCockney 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rain is the one i look forward to live (seen them several times in the 70's) and they never disappointed.
    When you see or listen to Quo,you know exactly what you're going to get and as Pete said,you have to be in the mood,but stick Quo on at a party and everyone gets up.
    Favourite album? Piledriver.
    great danceable boogie rock.

  • @golddalek1961
    @golddalek1961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1. Blue Eyed Lady
    2. Over and Done
    3. Ring of a Change
    4. Slow Train
    5. Shy Fly
    6. Can't Give You More
    7. Accident Prone
    8. Forty Five Hundred Times
    9. Oh Baby
    10. Mystery Song
    Big shout to Little Lady, Dirty Water and all the hits.
    First heard them in 1974. First saw them in 1982 and loads after.
    Brilliant. Oh it's pronounced "Stai' us Quoooooooooo!!"😁🎸🎶🎵

  • @lindseyhartshorn3021
    @lindseyhartshorn3021 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Huge Quo fan here.. I really like One Way Road.. A later Quo song.. Its brilliant..

  • @mowgli1977z
    @mowgli1977z 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1, 4500 Times
    2, In the Army
    3, Backwater
    4, Roll Over Lay Down
    5, Just Take Me
    6, Softer Ride
    7, Drifting Away
    8, Gerdundula
    9, Railroad
    10, Roadhouse Blues

  • @ianmacdonald7987
    @ianmacdonald7987 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For me, there’s so much to love about Quo up to, and including, 1980’s Just Supposin’ album, and very little after that, other than their live performances. I was lucky enough to catch the Frantic Four reunion a few years ago and, whilst a bit rough around the edges, it was stellar stuff, especially the relentlessness of Parfitt’s rhythm playing - he’s a huge loss, and greatly missed.
    I agree with most of the pre-1980 choices, and would add these into the mix (in chronological order, rather than order of preference):
    Don’t Waste My Time - Piledriver
    Forty Five Hundred Times - Hello
    Backwater - Quo
    Little Lady - On the Level
    Mystery Song - Blue for You
    Rain - Blue for You
    Hold You Back - Rockin All Over the World
    Again and Again - If You Can’t Stand the Heat
    High Flyer - Whatever you Want
    The Wild Ones - Just Supposin’

  • @williamgeorgefraser
    @williamgeorgefraser 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pete, the way you pronounced the name is the correct Latin pronunciation, so bravo. "Stah-tus Quo".
    For me, Quo can be summed up in a handful of albums which contain incredible songs.
    #1 Lonely Man. Starts off as an accoustic and finishes as a full blown rocker. What is there not to love about this song? Their most unappreciated song of all.
    #2 Drifting Away
    #3 (April) Spring, Summer and Wednesdays
    #4 Roll Over, Lay Down
    #5 Bye, bye Johnny
    #6 Green Tambourine. Not an original but great version.
    #7 Pictures of Matchstick Men. The original. There is no Quo without this one.
    #8 Gerdundula. Or Gerd und Ula, two German friends. Always wondered what this meant.
    #9 Backwater/Just Take Me. You cannot dissociate the two songs.
    #10 Forty-Five Hundred Times. I could have picked "Caroline" but this is longer.

  • @Sierra747
    @Sierra747 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m a massive quo fan and I liked your list Pete best. I far prefer the obscure album tracks over the hits.

  • @TheVanmanderpootz
    @TheVanmanderpootz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1.Mystery Song
    2.Paper Plane
    3.Caroline
    4.Roll Over Lay Down
    5.Little Lady
    6.Drifting Away
    7.Pictures Of Matchstick Men
    8.Rain
    9.Down The Dustpipe
    10.Mean Girl

  • @sudabeh545
    @sudabeh545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The 77 live Version : Forty Five Hundred Times

    • @bertblok4391
      @bertblok4391 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Listen to this: th-cam.com/video/2DxHEG3y3i8/w-d-xo.html

    • @richardmathews6236
      @richardmathews6236 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolutely, the stand out track of their career. Live it was stunning.

  • @christopher9152
    @christopher9152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great choice. They should have been better known in the U.S. I always liked their 60s era stuff like "Matchstick Men."

  • @kevhopkins2584
    @kevhopkins2584 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was raised on the quo and still love them. My top 10 would have to be
    1. Hold you back
    2. Paper Plane
    3. Down Down
    4. Is There a better way
    5. Whatever you want
    6. Burning Bridges
    7. Again and Again
    8. Living on an island
    9. Caroline
    10. Dear John

  • @stashyjon
    @stashyjon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1 - Someones Learning (Dog of Two Head)
    2 - A Year (Piledriver)
    3- April Spring Summer Wednesdays (Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon)
    4 - The Wild Ones (Just Supposin)
    5 - Mountain Lady (Never Too Late)
    6 - Backwater (Quo)
    7 - Railroad (Dog Of Two Head)
    8 - Big Fat Mama (Piledriver)
    9 - Shy Fly (Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon)
    10 - Forty Five Hundred Times (Hello)

  • @downtherabbithole1353
    @downtherabbithole1353 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Down Down
    Little Lady
    Oh Baby
    Backwater
    Rain
    Is there a better way
    Drifting away
    Roll over lay down
    Blue eyed lady
    What you're proposing
    /RIP Rick Parfitt.

    • @ivansandvik1567
      @ivansandvik1567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      good list, add most of the time and living on a island , bye bye Johnny and its super

  • @paulwheeldon3075
    @paulwheeldon3075 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kudos to Pete for doing a show on Status Quo, even though they meant nothing to most people in America.

  • @zonnyzunny
    @zonnyzunny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best Quo album ON THE LEVEL. Best Quo track 4500 times.

  • @terryjohnson5275
    @terryjohnson5275 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ahh the Quo, a background soundtrack to growing up - was never that into them at the time, though I bought and loved Quo live when it first came out but was disappointed that wild side of life wasnt on it. Have since bought their catalogue after getting their 1980 compilation 12 gold bars and as Pete says they are just the right thing if you're in the right mood. I'd agree with Simon though in grimacing at the mere mention of their covers album 'Dont Stop' . I've also become quite fond of their later aquostic albums - again nice when you're in the mood for it. For songs - just about everything from Quo Live either live or studio versions and anything on12 gold bars plus slow train from Quo - basically
    Rockin' All Over The World
    Down, Down
    Caroline
    Paper Plane
    Break The Rules
    Again & Again
    Mystery Song
    Roll Over, Lay Down
    Rain
    Wild Side Of Life
    Slow Train
    Backwater
    Just Take Me
    Is There A Better Way
    In My Chair
    Little Lady
    Most Of The Time
    Forty-Five Hundred Times
    Big Fat Mama
    Don't Waste My Time

  • @gavindenton6821
    @gavindenton6821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Quo headlined my first Reading Festival in 78. Fav song - Mystery song from Blue for You

    • @davehoward22
      @davehoward22 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not a huge fan by i saw them at reading in 87,huge crowd

    • @WhizzRichardThompson
      @WhizzRichardThompson 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The 1978 Reading festival was my first one too (and I still have the programme).

  • @LickinLonnie
    @LickinLonnie 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the Quo from their "Boogie" years (1972-81/82 ish) and when they were on A & M records here in the States. "Quo" was my first album by them and is still my "go to" record, but there are several albums from that era that I love. I also dig their Psychadelic era too, The first Live album is wonderful also, and it was on capitol here in the U. S. I never saw them live but I agree that they were an awesome live baqnd and the songs would come alive even more in the live setting. Enjoyed the video and still enjoy Petes views on Music.

  • @michaelalbertson7457
    @michaelalbertson7457 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pictures Of Matchstick Men (1968) was my favorite song from the 1960s, and didn't hear of Status Quo again until 5 years later with Paper Plane. 2 years later, they became my favorite band. POMM, while psychedelic, was heavy. They played songs loud on AM radio back then. Don't forget the fuzz on transistor radios!

  • @jamesbennett1634
    @jamesbennett1634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One unique thing about Quo, their "periods" we're longer than most bands careers!

  • @stephenbrown4211
    @stephenbrown4211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I saw Jon Fogerty play at Wembley and he played all the great CCR hits then came back for the encore. He introduced the next song as his biggest and most famous song in the UK, despite Bad Moon Rising being N01. Then went into Rocking All Over The World.
    One reason Quo never cracked the US was because they did a US tour supporting Fleetwood Mac; Only it wasn't the real Fleetwood Mac.

  • @reclaimerReclaimer
    @reclaimerReclaimer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They recorded a ton of covers, here I decided to go with band originals only.
    Down Down
    Roll Over Lay Down
    Whatever You Want
    Caroline
    Again and Again
    Paper Plane
    The Wild Ones
    Don’t Drive My Car
    What You’re Proposing
    Living on an Island

  • @DieNetaDie
    @DieNetaDie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A Quo fan from Nepal.

  • @abe3802
    @abe3802 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Paper Plane, Backwater, Caroline, Whatever you want, Drifting away, Down Down, Rain, Forty-five Hundred times, Little Lady, Is there a better way

  • @shaunogle530
    @shaunogle530 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ok here goes and apart from 1 not in any order.
    1 Softer Ride - this song distills all the signature themes from Quo in about four minutes. - From Hello
    2 Oh Baby - Piledriver
    3 Backwater - Quo -great opening track.
    4 `A year - quieter but chugs along! - Piledriver
    5 45 hundred times -Hello
    6 Slow Train - Quo
    7 Caroline - Hello
    8 Down Down - On the level
    9 Gerundaula
    10 Down the dust pipe

  • @goyimusermanual1791
    @goyimusermanual1791 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Been meaning to investigate the earlier albums for years. Had never heard Someone's Learning before what a great song.

  • @mrmitch5054
    @mrmitch5054 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Pete you look the happiest I’ve seen you . Must be the quo effect

  • @richardmathews6236
    @richardmathews6236 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4500 Times off Quo Live. Nothing else touches it.

  • @TheTVisions
    @TheTVisions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Pete, how about a Top 10 Songs from The Kinks, Slade and Venom.

  • @evileyes4070
    @evileyes4070 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Here we are Here we are n Here we goes

  • @umml1390
    @umml1390 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1 Caroline. 2 Time to fly. 3 Slow train. 4 What to do. 5 Ring of a change. 6 Just take me 7 Lonley night. 8 over and done 9 Never to Late 10. Softer ride.

  • @tomsuzyinfluencerinfj2712
    @tomsuzyinfluencerinfj2712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Saw them live mid 70s, they were LOUD, that's what I remember.

  • @kelownarocks
    @kelownarocks 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've come to appreciate Status Quo as I've got older. As a teenager in England in the late 80's and early 90's listening to metal and grunge they were considered out of date and old fashioned.

  • @Veaseify
    @Veaseify 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Slowtrain off 'Status Quo' is their Bohemian Rhapsody...kind of :) Starts off like a faster Roadhouse Blues, segues into a hammering proper Quo boogie riff that sounds like a different song, goes into an Irish Jig, morphs into a drum solo and goes back to Roadhouse Blues - staggeringly good.

    • @peteallen935
      @peteallen935 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      tho don't like their Roadhouse Blues attempt on the live album

    • @bigraymie
      @bigraymie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Impeccable taste there Mr Veasey Sir... I salute you. B-)

    • @michaelalbertson7457
      @michaelalbertson7457 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Could never get through that song. Shoulda been Fast Train. Too lightweight imo, no matter how heavy people say it is. Don't Think It Matters, one of my top 10 SQ songs is the best song on Quo, my least favorite golden years album, which ended at the album Status Quo, which was the album name in the States, black cover with silver letters, Status Quo, no pictures on the front outside cover, which is what you lot call Blue For (the rest of) You. Is There A Better Way? and Ring Of A Change, great songs. The Live album is great, Most Of The Time is my favorite SQ song, for the blues rock guitar.
      Then reasonance of early heavy boogie Status Quo, especially Rick's guitar, made the rhythm sound sweet, no matter how heavy. I read he was using a Gibson then. It seems then, when he turned to a Telecaster, it was more of a harsh sound. As popular as Whatever You Want, and Hold You Back are, they sound out of tune to me.
      For psychedelic, in addition to POMM, The Price of Love was a great psychedelic blues song.

    • @michaelalbertson7457
      @michaelalbertson7457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@peteallen935 I never liked Roadhouse Blues, but one time I was listening to a live version by SQ, and on it is a very short guitar part that sounded like heavy metal, melodic, but metal. Only time I heard a "true" heavy metal sound, imo, on any of their songs.

  • @themightydecibel-heavymeta7130
    @themightydecibel-heavymeta7130 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    1. Slow Train
    2. Mountain Lady
    3. Rolling Home
    4. Riverside
    5. Someone Show Me Home
    6. Break The Rules
    7. Dear John
    8. Is There A Better Way
    9. Long Legged Linda
    10. One Man Band

  • @hq-074
    @hq-074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Status quo quite popular in Australia my two favourite albums are blue for you rocking all over the world favourite song rollover laydown

  • @rocky-o
    @rocky-o 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    hello....quo....dueling guitars...opened live aid...rockin' all over the world....peace...rocky

  • @mikewest1542
    @mikewest1542 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pete, I will listen/watch this when I get home , looking forward to it , there must now be album reviews of every Quo album Pete, that could take at least an hour !

  • @goyimusermanual1791
    @goyimusermanual1791 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Again and Again, single of the week in NME at the height of new wave!

  • @taximan200
    @taximan200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great to hear from an American aspect and love the varied choices of songs chosen.
    They toured USA extensively early/mid 70’s and always went down well live but they couldn’t get the radio play they needed to really break through. AKA they wouldn’t buy Ferrari’s etc for record executives to push for their songs to be played...

    • @michaelalbertson7457
      @michaelalbertson7457 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They also didn't like being 2nd or 3rd billed at some concerts, plus they didn't like the dressing rooms in America compared to Britain, Europe, where they felt they were treated better.

  • @judithclinton7730
    @judithclinton7730 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have always liked this band I discovered them in germany I have them on reel to reel

  • @navinverma2826
    @navinverma2826 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great choices there from Pete - always the best with the frantic four!

  • @juzek1958
    @juzek1958 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pictures of Matchstick Men was the only song I'd ever heard. The opening guitar lick is one of the first things I taught my self on guitar when I was twelve ('67-'68?).

  • @dandesjardins3159
    @dandesjardins3159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great Band. Too Many Favorites To List. They Really Rock Out Fogerty's Rockin' All Over The World. Live At The N.E.C. Is A Killer Live Album!

  • @MrWorfy99
    @MrWorfy99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The best live band I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen hundreds. I’d go with Pete’s picks over the Brit guys.
    Some I’d have picked would have been Lonely Man ( an absolute masterpiece), 4500 Times, Over The Edge, Power Of Rock.
    The 70s albums were obviously the band at their peak but the latest one, Backbone is well worth a listen and Just Supposin’ from 1981 has some absolute belters on it.

  • @theforcemetal
    @theforcemetal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's really weird how the USA never catch on QUO. Here in South America they are huge, anyways great band here are some tracks of the classic era:
    1. Slow train (here you got some epic changes and a precursor to Thin Lizzy's "Black Rose" in the melodic department!)
    2. Mistery Song (another kick ass epic)
    3. Backwater (hard rockin goodness)
    4. Forty Five Hundred Times (absolute classic)
    5. Down Down (Quo at its core)

  • @glennmarks2975
    @glennmarks2975 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm in agreement with Pete for a guy who does not know a lot about the Quo he has picked a great selection shows he knows good music

  • @LordMelbury1953
    @LordMelbury1953 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Caroline.#1 for me. Played that many years in Working men’s clubs British Legions, etc. People loved it, the dance floor was full. Great days.

  • @billfreeman5201
    @billfreeman5201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Before Quo went a little pop, I could never understand why they did not break in the USA.
    Quo live is as quintessential to your initial live album purchases as UFO Strangers in the Night or Lizzy Live and Dangerous is.

  • @anfrankogezamartincic1161
    @anfrankogezamartincic1161 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When i was 12,the first 2 cassettes i bought were POLICE "Regatta de blanc" and STATUS QUO "Whatever you want", both bands were on the peak. I still like them, but the later stuff was more commercialized

  • @foobman
    @foobman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Their best songs by far hail from their early psychedelic early years, more specifically from the Dog of 2 Head album. All this was before their boogie era started.

  • @thekeysman1
    @thekeysman1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If they ever toured Canada i would have gone, i was a huge fan, had alot of their albums. Discovered their 1st hit later on Pictures of Matchstick Men, great chord progression, love some of your choices Pete, Is There a Better Way, Bye Bye Johnny, Rain, Big Fat Mama, Spinning Wheel Blues(very different blues shuffle, Back water, Just take me/driftin away They did a wicked Roadhouse Blues Medley in the 80s that featured Mexican Hat Dance and Irish Washerwoman, funny to hear in a rock song, but it works. Huge in Europe unknown in Canada and the USA , sad to hear about Richard Parfitt passing away a number of years ago now.

    • @markburleyemmerson1373
      @markburleyemmerson1373 ปีที่แล้ว

      Their last visit to Canada/US was in 2003 Heavy Traffic world tour. On the same tour Quo visited Mexico & Brazil which was more successful.

  • @GeertDeLange-k5x
    @GeertDeLange-k5x 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    On most albums you find ballades, unfortunately hardly heard on TH-cam. Most of them are beautiful:
    Lonely man (Quo)
    Unspoken words (Piledriver)
    All the reasons (Piledriver)
    Everything (Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon)
    Nanana (Dog of two head)
    Good thinking (Dog of two head)
    You lost the love (Blue for you)
    Where I am (On the level)
    Living on a island (Whatever you want)

  • @robfulton1307
    @robfulton1307 ปีที่แล้ว

    1. Forty-Five Hundred Times
    2. Don't Waste My Time
    3. Roll Over Lay Down
    4. Mountain Lady
    5. Someone's Learning
    6. Is It Really Me/Gotta Go Home
    7. Dirty Water
    8. Shady Lady
    9. Slow Train
    10. Big Fat Mama

  • @jamesbennett1634
    @jamesbennett1634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm like Simon in that I love classic quo, and also like Heavy Traffic and Backbone quite a bit. Don't hesitate to check them out if you're a quo fan.

  • @genekersten7165
    @genekersten7165 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here are mine.
    1 Drifting Away
    2 4500 Times
    3 Bye Bye Johnny
    4 Backwater
    5 Lonley Man
    6 Down Down
    7 Fine Fine Fine
    8 Claudie
    9 A Reason For Living
    10 Caroline/Mystery Train

  • @richie8538
    @richie8538 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Roll Over Lay Down, and 45 Hundred Times.

  • @grooveyerbouti
    @grooveyerbouti 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for tbis Pete. Quo very rarely treated with anything other than disdain was chuffed to see this.
    I agree with the three eras of Quo, i actually think some of sixyies material stands up well last album i bought was perfect remedy.

  • @enjois5464
    @enjois5464 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    quo jumped on the uk blues boom of the late 60s , after they tired of the psychedelic era,
    1,railroad
    2,rain,
    3,tune to the music
    4,in my chair
    5,paper plane
    6,45 hundred times
    7,april spring summer and wednesday
    8,roll over lay down
    9,dont waste my time
    10,juniors wailing
    mostly early quo for me

  • @kyle.sterritt
    @kyle.sterritt 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    1. Rain, great hammer organ and riffs
    2. Is It Really me/ Gotta Go Home - Ma Kelly's greasy Spoon
    3. Lonely Night - Quo
    4. Need Your Love - Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon
    5. Coming and Going - Just Supposin
    6. Whatever You Want - title track
    7. Is there a better way - Blue for You
    8. Rockin all over the World - title track
    9. A year - Piledriver
    10. Nightride - On the Level

  • @richardmathews6236
    @richardmathews6236 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best live act I ever saw with their original line up: Rossi,Parfitt, Lancaster and Coughlan. Remember a guy who was heavily into Led Zep, Black Sabbath etc who got a free ticket to a gig in 1979 on the train back being totally blown away by the volume and energy of the gig and couldn’t believe how good they were

  • @7915thomas
    @7915thomas 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    1. Over the edge
    2. Hold you back
    3. Who asked you
    4. Most of the time
    5. Blue eyed lady
    6. Little lady
    7. Is there a better way
    8. Roll over lay down
    9. Shady lady
    10. Runaway

  • @colinrgage
    @colinrgage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nothing after '76 would be on my list I know that much,Pete picked the better tunes IMO

  • @blindpink
    @blindpink 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No particular order.....
    Break the rules
    Slow train
    Don't waste my time
    Nightride
    Down the dustpipe
    Spinning wheel blues
    Paper Plane
    Is there a better way ?
    Down Down
    Mean girl.
    Just to say.....again...Everyone turned to shit in the Eighties.

  • @kennbrown4638
    @kennbrown4638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Pictures of Matchstick Men
    Lonely Man from "Quo"

    • @MrWorfy99
      @MrWorfy99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lonely Man is their most underrated song. Beautifully arranged and sung perfectly.

    • @renemere4362
      @renemere4362 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If this song was written and played by the Beatles, worldwide would say: it's one of the best song of their carrier!