Status Quo - Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo (1968)

Слушаю стянутую ночью свежую запись Status Quo - Quid Pro Quo + лайв 2010 и хочу сказать что "не смотря на" даже и сегодня они звучат лучше многих. Просто такая музыка не вставляет меня. Даже и первый их культовый альбом, во всех отношениях замечательный артефакт психоделической эпохи, никогда не цеплял меня по настоящему. Пластинка заканчивается и я тут же забываю все песни. Ну понятное дело что "грин тамбурин"-то я помню, но в целом в их музыке чего-то такого не хватает, лично для меня. Но если вы еще не слышали Picturesque Matchstickable Messages, то вам определенно необходимо восполнить данный пробел.

Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo is the 1968 debut album by the British psychedelic rock group, Status Quo. The album features a large number of covers, including "Green Tambourine" by The Lemon Pipers.
The album's lead single was originally intended to be "Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café", with the original Francis Rossi composition "Pictures of Matchstick Men" as the b-side, but these songs were eventually swapped round. It reached #7 in the UK, and remains the band's only major hit single in the United States where it reached #12. It also reached #8 in Canada. A second single, Rossi's "Black Veils of Melancholy" (with organist Roy Lynes' non-album track "To Be Free" as the b-side), flopped and has even been called "a carbon copy of "Pictures of Matchstick Men"". The third single, "Ice in the Sun", was written for the band by Marty Wilde and Ronnie Scott (not the jazz musician), with the Rossi/Parfitt composition "When My Mind Is Not Live" as the b-side. It reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart, and #29 in Canada.
The album itself was released on 27 September 1968, and reached #12 in the UK album charts. The band planned to release a fourth single from the album - "Technicolour Dreams" backed with the Wilde/Scott composition "Paradise Flat" - but this was withdrawn after a few days in favour of a non-album single release early the following year. The new single, Rossi and Parfitt's "Make Me Stay a Bit Longer", with bassist Alan Lancaster's "Auntie Nellie" as the b-side, was released in 31st January 1969. As well as getting the "thumbs up" from a majority of the record reviewers, this single was also something of a landmark for the group, as it would be their final release to credit them as "the" Status Quo.

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tracklist:

Disc1:
1. Black Veils of Melancholy [Mono Version]
2. When My Mind Is Not Live [Mono Version]
3. Ice in the Sun [Mono Version]
4. Elizabeth Dreams [Mono Version]
5. Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café [Mono Version]
6. Paradise Flat [Mono Version]
7. Technicolour Dreams [Mono Version]
8. Sheila [Mono Version]
9. Spicks and Specks [Mono Version]
10. Sunny Cellophone Skies [Mono Version]
11. Green Tambourine [Mono Version]
12. Pictures of Matchstick Men [Mono Version]
13. To Be Free [B-Side]
14. Make Me Stay a Bit Longer [A-Side]
15. Auntie Nellie [B-Side]
16. Interview With Brian Matthew [BBC Sessions]
17. Pictures of Matchstick Men [BBC Sessions]
18. Things Get Better [BBC Sessions]
19. Spicks and Specks [BBC Sessions]
20. Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) [BBC Sessions]
21. Interview [BBC Sessions]
22. Make Me Stay a Bit Longer [BBC Sessions]

Disc2:
1. Black Veils of Melancholy [Stereo Remix]
2. When My Mind Is Not Live [Stereo Remix]
3. Ice in the Sun [Stereo Remix]
4. Elizabeth Dreams [Stereo Remix]
5. Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café [Stereo Remix]
6. Paradise Flat [Stereo Remix]
7. Technicolour Dreams [Stereo Remix]
8. Sheila [Stereo Remix]
9. Spicks and Specks [Stereo Remix]
10. Sunny Cellophone Skies [Stereo Remix]
11. Green Tambourine [Stereo Remix]
12. Pictures of Matchstick Men [Stereo Remix]
13. Auntie Nellie [Stereo]
14. Gloria [BBC Sessions]
15. Interview With Francis Rossi [BBC Sessions]
16. I (Who Have Nothing) [BBC Sessions]
17. Neighbour, Neighbour [BBC Sessions]
18. I Don't Want You [BBC Sessions]
19. Almost But Not Quite There [BBC Sessions]
20. Spicks and Specks [BBC Sessions]
21. Gloria [BBC Sessions]
22. Interview With Alan Lancaster [BBC Session]
23. Black Veils of Melancholy [BBC Session]
24. Bloodhound [BBC Session]

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