Status Quo - Singles Collection: MusicNear.com

Music CD 1

Pictures of Matchstick Men
Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe
Black Veils of Melancholy
To Be Free
Ice in the Sun
When My Mind Is Not Alive
Technicolour Dreams
Paradise Flat
Make Me Stay A Little Bit Longer
Auntie Nellie
Are You Growing Tired of My Love
So Ends Another Life
Price of Love
Little Miss Nothing
Down the Dustpipe
Face Without a Soul
In My Chair
Gerdundula (early version)
Tune to the Music
Good Thinking (Batman)
Mean Girl
Everything
Gerdundula
Lakky Lady
Railroad Part 1
Railroad Part 2
I (Who Have Nothing)
Neighbour Neighbour
Hurdy Gurdy Man
Laticia
(We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet
I Want It
Almost But Not Quite There
Wait A Minute
Walking With My Angel
When He Passed By
Spics And Specs
Neighbour Neightbour
Pictures Of Matchstick Men
Price Of Love
Josie
Tune To The Music
Time To Fly
Nanana
Laughing Machine
So It Is Really Me
Gerdundula
Tune To The Music
There's Something Going On In My Head

Music CD 2

I (Who Have Nothing)
Neighbour Neighbour
Hurdy Gurdy Man
Laticia
(We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet
I Want It
Almost But Not Quite There
Wait A Minute
Walking With My Angel
When He Passed By
Spics And Specs
Neighbour Neighbour (alt. version)
Pictures of Matchstick Men (alt. version)
The Price of Love (alt. version)
Josie (alt. version)
Tune To The Music (instr. version)
Time To Fly (alt. version)
Nanama (alt. version)
Laughing Machine (studio out-take)
So Is It Really Me (alt. version)
Gerdundula (alt. version)
Tune To The Music (backing track version)
There's Something Going On In My Head (alt. version)

Free Music Notes for Singles Collection

Free Music Review: Sixties psychedelia
Hit: 4 Stars

It contains a number of gems like the divine Pictures Of Matchstick Men with its swirling guitars, Ice In The Sun, Black Veils Of Melancholy, Down The Dustpipe and In My Chair, all tuneful numbers with impressive arrangements.

Other songs like Price Of Love and When My Mind Is Not Live are less memorable though still listenable, including
Paradise Flats with its spoken section and their interpretation of Are You Growing Tired Of My Love.

Disc 2 contains a nice enough version of Spicks And Specks plus various rarities, covers and alternative versions of the hits on the first disc. It's a pity that some of their other covers of sixties hits have been omitted, such as Sheila and Green Tambourine, as these were interesting at least.

This music is very different from the direction they took for the next three decades, but as sixties psychedelic pop-rock it stands up well. I give it four stars for the aforementioned classics.