Status Quo – Quo
Tracklist
| A1 | Backwater | 4:21 | |
| A2 | Just Take Me | 3:39 | |
| A3 | Break The Rules | 3:40 | |
| A4 | Drifting Away | 5:05 | |
| B1 | Don't Think It Matters | 4:55 | |
| B2 | Fine Fine Fine | 2:30 | |
| B3 | Lonely Man | 5:00 | |
| B4 | Slow Train | 7:55 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Phonogram Ltd.
- Marketed By – Phonogram
- Produced For – G.M. Ltd.
- Printed By – Robert Stace
- Published By – Shawbury Music
- Published By – Valley Music
- Recorded At – I.B.C. Studios
- Lacquer Cut At – Phonodisc Ltd.
- Pressed By – Phonodisc Ltd.
Credits
- Arranged By – Status Quo
- Artwork – Logo (11)
- Crew [Equipment] – P. R. Lodge*
- Engineer – Damon Lyon-Shaw
- Engineer [Assistant] – Richard Manwaring
- Instruments [All], Vocals [All] – Status Quo
- Lacquer Cut By – Mels* (tracks: B1 to B4)
- Mixed By – Damon Lyon-Shaw
- Performer – Richard Parfitt*
- Producer – Status Quo
- Sleeve, Concept By – Christine Patient
- Sleeve, Design – Status Quo
- Typography – Jack Wood (3)
Notes
Comes with a 4-page fold-out insert. On one side is a poster spread over two pages. On the other side lyrics and credits spread over two pages.
Some copies include an additional, large, one sided, fold-out poster. Please check photo gallery for details.
Green spaceship Vertigo labels.
Made in England.
Publishers:
Tracks A1 to B1, B3: Shawbury Music / Valley Music
Tracks B2, B4: Valley Music
Recorded Spring 1974 at IBC Studios, London, England.
℗ 1974 Phonogram Ltd.
Runouts are stamped except for 9102001 MELY. and 9102001 MELS! which are etched.
In Variant 1 Side B, the last digit 13 is mirrored.
Some copies include an additional, large, one sided, fold-out poster. Please check photo gallery for details.
Green spaceship Vertigo labels.
Made in England.
Publishers:
Tracks A1 to B1, B3: Shawbury Music / Valley Music
Tracks B2, B4: Valley Music
Recorded Spring 1974 at IBC Studios, London, England.
℗ 1974 Phonogram Ltd.
Runouts are stamped except for 9102001 MELY. and 9102001 MELS! which are etched.
In Variant 1 Side B, the last digit 13 is mirrored.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Price Code: Super De Luxe
- Matrix / Runout (Label side A): 9102 001.1
- Matrix / Runout (Label side B): 9102 001.2
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 side A): 9102001 MELY. 1Y//1▽ 420 0 13 8
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 side B): 9102001 MELS! 2Y//2 420 0 1 5 13
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 side A): 9102001 MELY 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 1Y//1▽420 0 11 2
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 side B): 9102001 MELS! 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 2Y//2▽420 0 17 1
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 side A): 9102001 MELY. 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 1Y//1▽420 0 11 1
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 side B): 9102001 MELS! 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 2Y//2 420 0 15 20
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 4 side A): 9102001 MELY. 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 1Y//1▽420 0 11 3
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 4 side B): 9102001 MELS! 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 2Y//2 420 0 16 10
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 5 side A): 9102001 MELY. 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 1Y//1▽420 0 11 29
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 5 side B): 9102001 MELS! 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 2Y//2 420 0 15 24
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 6 side A): 9102001 MELY. 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 1Y//1▽420 0 11 27
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 6 side B): 9102001 MELS! 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 2Y//2 420 0 15 2
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 7 side A): 9102001 MELY. 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 1Y//1▽420 0 1 222
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 7 side B): 9102001 MELS! 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 2Y//2 420 0 15 26
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 8 side A): 9102001 MELY. 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 1Y//1▽420 0 12
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 8 side B): 9102001 MELS! 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 2Y//2 420 0 141
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 9 side A): 9102001 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 1Y//1▽420 0 1 3 3 2 MELY.
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 9 side B): 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 2Y//2 420 0 15 15 91020 MELS!
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 11 side A): 9102001 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 1Y//1▽420 0 1 2 1 4 MELY.
- Matrix / Runout (Variant 11 side B): 9102001 MELS! 6̶3̶6̶0̶1̶0̶6̶ 2Y//2 420 0 1 7 7
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Quo (LP, Album) | Vertigo | LP 5833 | Yugoslavia | 1974 | ||
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Quo (LP, Album, Stereo) | Vertigo | 9102 001 | 1974 | |||
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Quo (LP, Album) | Vertigo | 9102 001 | Australia | 1974 | ||
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Quo (LP, Album, Terre Haute Pressing) | A&M Records | SP-3649 | US | 1974 | ||
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Quo (LP, Promo, Album) | A&M Records | SP-3649 | US | 1974 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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I’ve heard this album many times on CD. I recently bought a vinyl copy, with the insert (and a vertigo swirl inner sleeve?) to complete my 70s Quo vinyl collection, at a local record store for the princely sum of £3.00!! What a bargain! This is an absolute standout classic heavy rock album and a great pressing. I would recommend this as a starting point for anyone who wants to get into Quo! -
Does anyone know a matrix that ends with this : 1Y//1▽420 0 13 34
The number(ONE) 13 34 is set very deep in vinyl. -
Edited 3 years agoIf you wonder what the fuss was ever about when people talk about the Quo, well this is the middle album of a triumvirate beginning with Hello the previous year and On The Level coming in 1975. But this one is the heaviest, the loudest and the one with Alan Lancaster together with Rick Parfitt taking most of the vocal and song writing duties. Boy you can tell who was the rocker in Quo, it wasn't Rossi!! His usual vocal nasal style is present on the perfunctory single Break the Rules, which does stand out like a sore !?!!?! at a wedding here, sorry , but true.
I bought this album way back in 1976 and even on my puny Phillips stereo system of 5 watts per channel it rocked like ?!?😍😁.
Over the many years since and many house moves I lost the album.
However thanks to a YouTube video by Ashfromlondon recently looking at deep cut albums he reminded me to go and buy a first pressing again.
So I did? It's just arrived today in NM condition with even that hideous photo lyric sheet inner all present and correct. Well now being older and wiser I own a Rega P7 etc etc and my God this album , after a thorough wet clean, sounds utterly amazing.
Even I'm playing bloody air guitar at 59 ?!?
This is a serious contender for one of the most under rated hard rock albums of 1975. I mean what else is it up against ? Physical Graffiti, Sabotage, Who by Numbers, Straight Shooter, what else ? I'm sure there's lots more hard rock albums but really Quo kicks serious amounts of air from my speakers - B and W 703s, so they can shift some air, right ?
A five star album in my opinion.
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