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 !

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.

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!!!

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

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.

‘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!

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.

Rocking all over the world was the beginning of the end

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m7qKpJOXtq2RgH0.html Don’t Waste My Time (‘Piledriver’ album 1972) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ed2Be6eLvr6XkaM.html Caroline (‘Hello’ album 1973) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJ-JeLWlrMu8ZnU.html Oh Baby (‘Piledriver’ album 1972) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j72JaLaE1petlKs.html Pictures Of Matchstick Men (‘Picturesque Matchstickable - Messages From The Status Quo’ album 1968) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/id1mY5dly6qsp5s.html A Year (‘Piledriver’ album 1972) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/haegatF3mM3UqX0.html Down Down (‘On The Level’ album 1975) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbqdps15nrqWlGw.html Roll Over Lay Down (‘Hello’ album 1973) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y959m5Bq05fYemg.html Paper Plane (‘Piledriver’ album 1972) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oeCpeqaE1r-aZWQ.html Backwater (‘Quo’ album 1974) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hqp3ZJSBqb6lp2g.html Mean Girl (‘Dog Of Two Head’ album 1971) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/icekoa9kybeXkok.html Big Fat Mama (‘Piledriver’ album 1972) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5qZormBqLPRdYE.html All Day And All Of The Night (‘Riffs’ album 2003) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZibdbGIx5O2aIE.html Don’t Think It Matters (‘Quo’ album 1974) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fJOcqqhys9-tY30.html Dust To Gold (‘Quid Pro Quo’ album 2011) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbOemLx93s3Dm2Q.html Bad News (‘In Search Of The Fourth Chord’ album 2007) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pZiglLpklc_eiIk.html Reason For Living (‘Hello’ album 1973) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lcyPptmJ1sy6lqs.html In My Chair (single release 1970) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p5aSf7NlzrHLink.html Break The Rules (‘Quo’ album 1974) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9pinqWknJ6WaJ8.html Blue Eyed Lady (‘Hello’ album 1973) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r6mWqJOVsp3GYnk.html Hold You Back (‘Rockin’ All Over The World’ album 1982) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7emfNint53dm6c.html Something Going On In My Head (‘Dog Of Two Head’ album 1971) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hM56dLxpkp2WZKM.html And It’s Better Now (‘Hello’ album 1973) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLd3bLp_xpm6nqM.html Can’t Give You More (‘Rockin’ All Over The World’ album 1982) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etF2eJZk2LfQhp8.html Roll Over Beethoven (‘Famous In The Last Century’ album 2000) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9eBiaVlr7Cwhmw.html Just Take Me (‘Quo’ album 1974) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i8iFeKyBsbC5naM.html Enough Is Enough (‘Never Too Late’ album 1981) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nJigptWfmpfed2w.html Alright (‘In Search Of The Fourth Chord’ album 2007) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJ16g6uoz8ioZHU.html All We Really Wanna Do (‘Rock ‘Till You Drop’ album 1991) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7Byo7Zozqi2gZ8.html Rockin’ All Over The World (‘Rockin’ All Over The World’ album 1977) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oc5zdteS1Japdok.html Better Take Care (‘Backbone’ album 2019 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fdFnp8iSxtnMh2Q.html In The Army Now (‘In The Army Now’ album 1986) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fpx3h6p02NHcnoU.html Forty Five Hundred Times (‘Hello’ album 1973) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d5ppqqt0rc66XY0.html Falling Off The World (‘Backbone’ album 2019 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8V4os6BsJeYgZc.html Blues And Rhythm (‘Heavy Traffic’ album 2002) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLdmaL2HyJiymIk.html Lonely Man (‘Quo’ album 1974) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gpqCdamGu5-tcac.html Hard Time (‘Rockin’ All Over The World’ album 1982) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mM1zmalkqbO0iaM.html Rock ’N’ Me (‘Famous In The Last Century’ album 2000) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iK6Uos2ZtbO3ZYE.html Come Rock With Me (‘Whatever You Want’ album 1979) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNqFkt18tprKYoE.html Solid Gold (‘Heavy Traffic’ album 2002) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y957hdKVtbzZo58.html Heart On Hold (‘Perfect Remedy’ album 1989) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eN2RfaWlx6idYZ8.html Red Sky (‘In The Army Now’ album 1986) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iKl4rMh-z9GxeH0.html Down The Dustpipe (single release 1970 and ‘Riffs’ album 2003) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8VdrJqBrbuogqM.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtWdbNRn18unh2g.html

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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!!"😁🎸🎶🎵

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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 !

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The first time I saw Quo, the support band was Judas Priest.😍

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

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.

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.

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

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

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’

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

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

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!

Hi Pete cheers for doing quo bout time🤗 1. 4500 times 2. roll over lay down 3 down down 4.mystery song 5.drifting away 🦆🦆🦆🎸🎸🎸tnx again Pete luv ur show & output rockin🎸

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

Great selections SoT. You're a Pro-Quo head! Thought you may go Gerdundula, or Rain/Mystery Song. You're spot-on the first Live album is the killer and 70's Quo was never bettered.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

Mystery Song ! Love it

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.

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

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.

Brilliant Video Pete and Simon you both did well and Pete I applaud you for throwing in some Deep Cuts there :) I've posted my songs on the Facebook page :)

A Quo fan from Nepal.

nice Pete....always wondered why u didnt say anything about Quo....but now you did ...haha nice....feelgood music.....absolutely.....oh .... and i totally agree with your opinion....best Quo is before the rockin all over the world album......on the level for me is the best Quo ever.......best song probably Over and Done.......and then the Quo live album came out...with forty five hundred times..which is almost like one big guitarsolo......loved it.....24/7 on turntable......good memories.....tennis racket in hand...bangin my head...

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

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

4500 Times off Quo Live. Nothing else touches it.

The 77 live Version : Forty Five Hundred Times

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

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

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...

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

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.

Status Quo is unique in their duality rhythm guitar playing The solos of Rossi are very structured and they are like a song in a song That in combination with the great harmonie singing makes this band unique and catchy Normally loud guitars are combined with rough singing Not with Quo Great band Best albums; On the level Quo Hello Blue for you Quid pro Quo

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

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

Saw them live a couple of years ago. REO Speedwagon supporting them - Great gig.

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

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

Here we are Here we are n Here we goes

Pete, you should watch some Quo-shows on KZfaq to see how big they were and how wild the audience is!! The ultimate live-band!! By the way my fav song is "Hold you back "

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

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

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

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

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

Your kicking them out real good. Yesterday Marillion & Dire Straits, today Status Quooooooo!. Caroline Over the Edge Bye Bye Johnny Dirty Water Slow Train Big Fat Mama Mystery Song Again & Again 4500 Times Paper Plane Hon mentions. Red Sky, Little Lady, AB Blues, Whatever You Want, Roll Over Lay Down, Backwater, Just Take Me, Railroad and lastly a real deep cut and really hard to get hold of but this does exist. Its from a 10' only vinyl release called Fresh Quota; a bluesy instrumental called Good Thinking Batman

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.

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?).

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

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

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.

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

Pete, this is a band that I have never paid much attention to because much of what I've heard over the years is that "boogie band" material that doesn't do much for me. But, like you, my two favorites are "Is There a Better Way" and "Pictures of Matchstick Men". For some reason, "Down the Dustpipe" kinda grabs me and another favorite is their cover of The Everly Brothers' "The Price of Love".. They do a really nice job with that one.

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.

Quo’s guitar solos are what lifts them above most boogie bands ,there early stuff is pretty heavy too. Down down is one of the heaviest number 1 uk singles ever too ,my favourite ever Quo song is the brilliant Mystery song that riff ❤️

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.

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)

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