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Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo es el álbum debut de la banda británica de rock Status Quo, publicado en 1968 a través de Pye Records. Según el sitio Allmusic su sonido es más bien un rock psicodélico con claras imitaciones a las bandas Bee Gees y The Beatles. Además buena parte de sus canciones no fueron escritas por ellos mismos como por ejemplo «Ice in the Sun», que fue escrita por los compositores ingleses Ronnie Scott y Marty Wilde. De igual manera incluye algunos temas de otros artistas como los ya mencionados Bee Gees, Tommy Roe y The Lemon Pipers.
Para promocionarlo meses antes se publicaron cuatro canciones como sencillos; en enero se lanzó «Pictures of Matchstick Men» convirtiéndose en su primer sencillo en debutar en la lista UK Singles Chart en el séptimo puesto, «Black Vells of Melancholy» puesto a la venta en marzo, «Ice in the Sun» lanzado en agosto y que alcanzó la octava posición en la lista británica y «Technicolour Dreams» en noviembre, este último publicado en muy pocos países.
Por otro lado, en el 2003 se remasterizó con tres pistas adicionales, mientras que en el 2009 se publicó en una edición deluxe que contaba con dos discos, el primero de ellos incluía los mismo temas pero en versión mono y el segundo en versión estéreo y además con canciones grabadas en las sesiones de la BBC.

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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.


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