|
Post by roadhouse on Mar 30, 2024 13:51:27 GMT
|
|
|
Post by 4th Chord on Mar 30, 2024 14:05:04 GMT
Dodgy album cover aside....
|
|
|
Post by roadhouse on Mar 30, 2024 14:13:09 GMT
Dodgy album cover aside.... True, I never really understood the meaning by some guy with a suite and white glove which looks like he's hitting the shocked looking woman. I guess it was meant as tongue and cheek at the time, but not anymore.
|
|
gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,967
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
|
Post by gerh on Mar 30, 2024 14:49:27 GMT
It was never an acceptable sleeve imho - just another example of Quo/Management stupidity. (edit)
|
|
|
Post by MrWaistcoat on Mar 30, 2024 15:03:18 GMT
I'm almost certain Quo will have had zero input into that cover. It is awful, spinal tap in a bad way. I don't think I ever played mine, already had the songs several times over from countless compilations
|
|
roquer
Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 683
|
Post by roquer on Mar 30, 2024 15:40:21 GMT
I'm almost certain Quo will have had zero input into that cover. It is awful, spinal tap in a bad way. I don't think I ever played mine, already had the songs several times over from countless compilations About the cover I don't know, but I think the same guy with the glove appeared months later in... But the songs were supervised by Rick and Francis I believe, and is quite good, as it contains the full Dog album plus some songs from Ma Kelly's. I have a spanish edition of the album.
|
|
|
Post by roadhouse on Mar 30, 2024 22:22:13 GMT
I'm almost certain Quo will have had zero input into that cover. It is awful, spinal tap in a bad way. I don't think I ever played mine, already had the songs several times over from countless compilations About the cover I don't know, but I think the same guy with the glove appeared months later in... But the songs were supervised by Rick and Francis I believe, and is quite good, as it contains the full Dog album plus some songs from Ma Kelly's. I have a spanish edition of the album. What does the Spanish version look like?
|
|
roquer
Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 683
|
Post by roquer on Mar 30, 2024 22:48:04 GMT
About the cover I don't know, but I think the same guy with the glove appeared months later in... But the songs were supervised by Rick and Francis I believe, and is quite good, as it contains the full Dog album plus some songs from Ma Kelly's. I have a spanish edition of the album. What does the Spanish version look like? It's the same as UK. Nothing changed. To promote the album, it was release In My Chair as a single with the same picture sleeve as the album, but just as promo (and the original single wasn't released here until 1980 (I don't have it, but I think it's the same as the UK version from 1970, maybe Gerdundula it's from the album, but I'm not sure)
|
|
mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 5,861
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
|
Post by mortified on Mar 31, 2024 6:33:13 GMT
Came in red vinyl as I recall. Haven't even looked at it in decades. I don't think I've actually played it either. The Heat tour also effectively promoted this album and a flexi-disc with In My Chair on it was on every seat in the theatre as you went in. Somehow it stood the rigours of the evening and I still have it It's a good compilation but no better than any PYE mash (see what I did there? ) that came before it. I think this was the first time PYE and the band (or maybe Vertigo) began to co-operate on releases. Very odd sleeve by today's standards but nothing unusual in 1979.
|
|
|
Post by railroad007 on Mar 31, 2024 9:22:48 GMT
Smell The Glove
|
|
|
Post by railroad007 on Mar 31, 2024 9:25:57 GMT
It was never an acceptable sleeve imho - just another example of Quo/Management stupidity. (edit) Pye making a pound note on the back of Status Quo.
|
|
allyp
Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 577
|
Post by allyp on Mar 31, 2024 11:07:05 GMT
Never owned this one due to the amount of pye compilations which preceded and followed it. Seems a bit of a rarity regarding the red vinyl so probably gets the collectors market excited a bit. The sleeve artwork is awful not sure what it was supposed to be looks like something Roxy music would have thought of on a bad day.
|
|
stringybob
Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 332
Favourite Quo Album: Quo
Favourite other bands.: Many and varied
|
Post by stringybob on Mar 31, 2024 15:45:01 GMT
Appalling sleeve, even by 1970s standards.
There's a credit on the rear for Quo's management and the album was promoted with flexidiscs during the 1979 tour so I reckon someone in the Quo camp must have okayed it.
Musically it's superb, of course. And yes, I've got the red vinyl!
|
|
gav
Veteran Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,156
Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
|
Post by gav on Mar 31, 2024 17:32:36 GMT
Does anyone know what the significance of the girl getting punched is??
This album will be "like a punch in the face" ?
|
|
|
Post by roadhouse on Mar 31, 2024 22:44:00 GMT
Does anyone know what the significance of the girl getting punched is?? This album will be "like a punch in the face" ? I seem to remember reading the woman was called Debbie, and was completely acting the part. But it begs the question why was such money and attention spent on a relatively cheap compilation. It looks more suited towards artwork for a single like Lies or Don't drive my car.
|
|