quoconut
Rocker Rollin'
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Favourite Quo Album: Quo
Favourite other bands.: Slade, AC/DC, Oasis, The Doors, The Cult
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Post by quoconut on Dec 15, 2022 5:04:49 GMT
“Piledriver is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Status Quo, released 15 December 1972.
It was the first to be produced by the group themselves, and their first on the Vertigo label.
For Piledriver, the band brought their touring gear into IBC Studios and recorded live at stage levels, giving them a much stronger sound. The front cover shows a live shot of the band in their classic "heads down, no-nonsense boogie" mode." (source: Wikipedia)
This was the first Quo LP I ever listened to. It made me an instant Quo(co)nut.
The album made me realize that this was my kind of music. Fifty years on and it still is.
What an outstanding album by 'the number one rock 'n roll band in the land'!
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 5,884
Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Dec 15, 2022 6:17:43 GMT
I received an e-mail about 50th anniversary merch the other week. Well, a t-shirt. Which actually isn't bad. It has the tour dates on the back and the iconic image on the front. Not sure I'd wear it so I haven't indulged but I've stuck it in my letter to Santa  As for the album, not much more needs to be said. The record that effectively made them stars and got huge numbers of us into the band. Vertigo knew what they were doing. That album cover is truly iconic and tapped into something many of us wanted to be as teenagers. It was the precise opposite of what was being touted and chucked at us by the music media. Gentle Giant, ELP and Genesis were not for me. Not a skip track on it. Raw, powerful and a punk attitude 4 years ahead of time. Genius  |
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DieHard
Rocker Rollin'
Come over to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs
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Post by DieHard on Dec 15, 2022 7:56:27 GMT
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Post by kursaal75 on Dec 15, 2022 9:30:25 GMT
After 50 years, I'm still waiting for confirmation that the pictures taken from the album were taken at my first Quo gig at the Harlow Playhouse in February 1972.
I've just been checking the UK chart positions of Quo's 1st visit to the album charts....
The album entered in January '73 at 23,16,12,14, Peak position at 5, 14, 8, 20, 13, 16, 15, 16, 18, 20, 16. The album dropped out of the chart for 2 weeks. re-entered at 23, dropped out of the chart for 2 weeks, re-entered at 25, 39, 33, 43, 49, 44. Dropped out of the charts for 3 months, re-entered at 38, 50, 30, 42, 47, 29, 33, 35. Dropped out of the charts for for 2 weeks, re-entered at 42, Dropped out of the chart for 7 weeks, re-entered at 41, Dropped out of the chart for 4 weeks, re-entered at 41, dropped out the charts for 5 weeks, re-entered at 50, Dropped out the charts for 11 months, re-entered at 38, Dropped out of the charts for 2 weeks, re-entered at 44, 44, dropped out of the charts for 2 weeks, re-entered for the final time in the 70s at 48 on the back of the bands current Number 1 album 'On The Level' in Feb/March '75.
Piledriver also entered the chart at 90 for 1 week in April 2014.
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Post by asthequoflies on Dec 16, 2022 19:43:34 GMT
It really is something special. Love the production, that feel of a band playing together in a studio, the solos on the slower stuff in particular are wondrous.
The critical glitterati (rightly) laud the likes of The Ramones, MC5, the Stooges etc for thrilling primal rock, but Quo in the first half of the 70s created a glorious noise every bit the equal of those.
No matter how often I hear it, this abum possesses such a power (the incendiary, driving rockers), a depth (A Year) and soul in that boogie (All the Reasons, Unspoken Words). Timeless & compelling.
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Post by dennis on Dec 16, 2022 20:36:01 GMT
& to think they left Softer Ride off it!
tbh, I think it would have made an even stronger album
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