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Track List
01) Black Veils of Melancholy
02) When My Mind Is Not Live
03) Ice in the Sun
04) Elizabeth Dreams
05) Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe
06) Paradise Flat
07) Technicolour Dreams
08) Sheila
09) Spicks and Specks
10) Sunny Cellophane Skies
11) Green Tambourine
12) Pictures of Matchstick Men 
13) To Be Free (B Side)
14) Make Me Stay a Bit Longer (A Side)
15) Auntie Nellie (B Side)
16) Interview With Brian Matthew
17) Pictures of Matchstick Men
18) Things Get Better
19) Spicks and Specks
20) Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)
21) Interview With Rick Parfitt
22) Make Me Stay a Bit Longer
Cd 2
01) Black Veils of Melancholy
02) When My Mind Is Not Live
03) Ice in the Sun
04) Elizabeth Dreams
05) Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe
06) Paradise Flat
07) Technicolour Dreams
08) Sheila
09) Spicks and Specks
10) Sunny Cellophane Skies
11) Green Tambourine
12) Pictures of Matchstick Men
13) Auntie Nellie
14) Gloria
15) Interview With Francis Rossi
16) I (Who Have Nothing)
17) Neighbour, Neighbour
18) I Don't Want You
19) Almost but Not Quite There
20) Spicks and Specks
21) Gloria
22) Interview With Alan Lancaster
23) Black Veils of Melancholy
24) Bloodhound
01) Black Veils of Melancholy
02) When My Mind Is Not Live
03) Ice in the Sun
04) Elizabeth Dreams
05) Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe
06) Paradise Flat
07) Technicolour Dreams
08) Sheila
09) Spicks and Specks
10) Sunny Cellophane Skies
11) Green Tambourine
12) Pictures of Matchstick Men
13) To Be Free (B Side)
14) Make Me Stay a Bit Longer (A Side)
15) Auntie Nellie (B Side)
16) Interview With Brian Matthew
17) Pictures of Matchstick Men
18) Things Get Better
19) Spicks and Specks
20) Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)
21) Interview With Rick Parfitt
22) Make Me Stay a Bit Longer
Cd 2
01) Black Veils of Melancholy
02) When My Mind Is Not Live
03) Ice in the Sun
04) Elizabeth Dreams
05) Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Cafe
06) Paradise Flat
07) Technicolour Dreams
08) Sheila
09) Spicks and Specks
10) Sunny Cellophane Skies
11) Green Tambourine
12) Pictures of Matchstick Men
13) Auntie Nellie
14) Gloria
15) Interview With Francis Rossi
16) I (Who Have Nothing)
17) Neighbour, Neighbour
18) I Don't Want You
19) Almost but Not Quite There
20) Spicks and Specks
21) Gloria
22) Interview With Alan Lancaster
23) Black Veils of Melancholy
24) Bloodhound
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First Released
1968
Psychedelic Rock
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Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo is the debut studio album by the English rock band Status Quo, released in September 1968. It features several covers, including "Green Tambourine" by The Lemon Pipers.
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The album's lead single was originally intended to be "Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café", with the original Francis Rossi composition "Pictures of Matchstick Men" as the b-side, but these songs were eventually swapped round. It reached #7 in the UK, and remains the band's only major hit single in the US, where it reached #12. It also reached #8 in Canada. A second single, Rossi's "Black Veils of Melancholy" (with organist Roy Lynes' non-album track "To Be Free" as the b-side), flopped and has even been called "a carbon copy of "Pictures of Matchstick Men"". The third single, "Ice in the Sun", was written for the band by Marty Wilde and Ronnie Scott (not the jazz musician), with the Rossi/Parfitt composition "When My Mind Is Not Live" as the b-side. It reached #8 in the UK, and #29 in Canada.
The album itself was released on 27 September 1968, and failed to make the UK album charts. The band planned to release a fourth single from the album - "Technicolour Dreams" backed with the Wilde/Scott composition "Paradise Flat" - but this was withdrawn after a few days in favour of a non-album single release early the following year. The new single, Rossi and Parfitt's "Make Me Stay a Bit Longer", with bassist Alan Lancaster's "Auntie Nellie" as the b-side, was released on 31 January 1969. As well as getting the "thumbs up" from a majority of the record reviewers, this single was also something of a landmark for the group, as it would be their final release to credit them as "the" Status Quo.
External Album Reviews
allmusic.com/album/picturesque-matchstickable-messages-from-the-s...
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Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo is the debut studio album by the English rock band Status Quo, released in September 1968. It features several covers, including "Green Tambourine" by The Lemon Pipers.
User Album Review
The album's lead single was originally intended to be "Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café", with the original Francis Rossi composition "Pictures of Matchstick Men" as the b-side, but these songs were eventually swapped round. It reached #7 in the UK, and remains the band's only major hit single in the US, where it reached #12. It also reached #8 in Canada. A second single, Rossi's "Black Veils of Melancholy" (with organist Roy Lynes' non-album track "To Be Free" as the b-side), flopped and has even been called "a carbon copy of "Pictures of Matchstick Men"". The third single, "Ice in the Sun", was written for the band by Marty Wilde and Ronnie Scott (not the jazz musician), with the Rossi/Parfitt composition "When My Mind Is Not Live" as the b-side. It reached #8 in the UK, and #29 in Canada.
The album itself was released on 27 September 1968, and failed to make the UK album charts. The band planned to release a fourth single from the album - "Technicolour Dreams" backed with the Wilde/Scott composition "Paradise Flat" - but this was withdrawn after a few days in favour of a non-album single release early the following year. The new single, Rossi and Parfitt's "Make Me Stay a Bit Longer", with bassist Alan Lancaster's "Auntie Nellie" as the b-side, was released on 31 January 1969. As well as getting the "thumbs up" from a majority of the record reviewers, this single was also something of a landmark for the group, as it would be their final release to credit them as "the" Status Quo.
External Album Reviews
allmusic.com/album/picturesque-matchstickable-messages-from-the-s...
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