From the stacks
Status Quo
The Vinyl Collection 1972-1980
Status Quo — The Vinyl Collection 1972-1980, 2015. Verified release details and tracklist.
- Label
- Universal
- Catalog
- 00602547237804
- Year
- 2015
- Format
- Vinyl, Box Set
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Listening notes
Released by Universal in 2015 under catalog number 00602547237804, The Vinyl Collection 1972-1980 is a box set gathering Status Quo's studio and live output across what the title frames as an eight-year span. The format is vinyl throughout, and the set spans an unusually large number of sides, running from side A through side V across multiple discs.
The albums represented as discrete units within the set are Piledriver, Hello!, Quo, On The Level, Blue For You, Quo Live!, Rockin' All Over The World, If You Can't Stand The Heat, Whatever You Want, and Just Supposin'. Each appears to be included in sequence, with its original track sequence preserved where durations can be verified against the tracklist. The inclusion of Quo Live! extends the set beyond studio recordings, with that album's sides running from K through N and including a seventeen-minute and ten-second version of "Forty-Five Hundred Times" at position L2, as well as a fourteen-minute and twenty-three-second live reading of "Roadhouse Blues" at N3.
The genres listed for the set are hard rock, psychedelic rock, and rock. The total number of individually listed tracks across all sides is substantial, with side timings ranging from compact album cuts under three minutes to extended pieces approaching ten minutes in studio form. The set's scope, running from the Piledriver period through Just Supposin', covers a period during which the band released material on both sides of what many observers mark as a shift in the band's commercial profile, though the facts here do not permit specific claims about that trajectory.
This is an unreviewed draft. Personnel, pressing details, and reception require independent verification before publication.
Tracklist
On the record
- 1Piledriver
- A1Don't Waste My Time
- A2O Baby
- A3A Year
- A4Unspoken Words
- B1Big Fat Mama
- B2Paper Plane
- B3All The Reasons
- B4Roadhouse Blues
- 10Hello!
- C1Roll Over Lay Down
- C2Claudie
- C3A Reason For Living
- C4Blue Eyed Lady
- D1Caroline
- D2Softer Ride
- D3And It's Better Now
- D4Forty-Five Hundred Times
- 19Quo
- E1Blackwater
- E2Just Take Me
- E3Break The Rules
- E4Drifting Away
- F1Don't Think It Matters
- F2Fine Fine Fine
- F3Lonely Man
- F4Slow Train
- 28On The Level
- G1Little Lady
- G2Most Of The Time
- G3I Saw The Light
- G4Over and Done
- G5Nightride
- H1Down Down
- H2Broken Man
- H3What To Do
- H4Where I Am
- H5Bye Bye Johnny
- 39Blue For You
- I1Is There A Better Way
- I2Mad About The Boy
- I3Ring Of A Change
- I4Blue For You
- I5Rain
- J1Rolling Home
- J2That's A Fact
- J3Ease Your Mind
- J4Mystery Song
- 49Quo Live!
- K1Junior's Waiting
- K2Backwater / Just Take Me
- K3Is There A Better Way
- K4In My Chair
- L1Little Lady / Most Of The Time
- L2Forty-Five Hundred Times
- M1Roll Over Lay Down
- M2Big Fat Mama
- M3Caroline
- M4Bye Bye Johnny
- N1Rain
- N2Don't Waste My Time
- N3Roadhouse Blues
- 63Rockin' All Over The World
- O1Hard Time
- O2Can't Give You More
- O3Let's Ride
- O4Baby Boy
- O5You Don't Owe Me
- O6Rockers Rollin'
- P1Rockin' All Over The World
- P2Who I Am?
- P3Too Far Gone
- P4For You
- P5Dirty Water
- P6Hold You Back
- 76If You Can't Stand The Heat
- Q1Again And Again
- Q2I'm Giving Up My Worryin'
- Q3Gonna Teach You To Love Me
- Q4Someone Show Me Home
- Q5Long Legged Linda
- R1Oh! What A Night
- R2Accident Prone
- R3Stones
- R4Let Me Fly
- R5Like A Good Girl
- 87Whatever You want
- S1Whatever You Want
- S2Shady lady
- S3Who Asked You
- S4Your Smiling Face
- S5Living On An Island
- T1Come Back With Me
- T2Rockin' On
- T3Runaway
- T4High Flyer
- T5Breaking Away
- 98Just Supposin'
- U1What You're Proposing
- U2Run The Mummy
- U3Don't Drive My Car
- U4Lies
- U5Over The Edge
- V1The Wild Ones
- V2Name Of The Game
- V3Coming And Going
- V4Rock N' Roll
