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Status Quo Album: “Hello”
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Release Date:1973-09-01
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Type:Album
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Genre:Classic Rock
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Label:Vertigo
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:0042284817226
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Review - :
Following the success of {^Piledriver}, {$Status Quo} opted not to change a thing, unfurling the mind-numbing {\boogie} attack of {^Hello!} The strategy worked, resulting in the group's first number one album, and in {&"Caroline,"} its first Top Five single. Mostly, the album succeeds in spite of itself. {&"Roll Over Lay Down,"} not immediately impressive, builds into a tizzy over the course of five minutes. It is one-upped by {&"Caroline,"} the definitive {$Status Quo} {\rock} song, not a particularly hard or fast four-on-the-floor stomp saved by a massive, deceptively simple guitar hook. {&"Forty-Five Hundred Times,"} less catchy but harder rocking, is brutally long, but is rescued by its placement as the album's closer. In between, the group, writing in some instances with coordinator {$Robert Young}, offer up slight variations of their standard formula. Several of those, like the rickety, {$Beatlesque} {&"Claudie"} and the bluesy {&"Softer Ride"} transcend their three-chords-and-a-riff construction enough to render them decent, memorable {\pop} songs. Down to the proto-{$Spinal Tap} black-on-black cover, this was the vanguard of British denim {\rock} in 1975, and given the narrow conceptual and technical limits within which the {$Status Quo} had to work, it has held up well, though it is certainly not for the faint of heart or a limited attention span. Clearly the product of a band at their commercial and creative peak, {^Hello!} wears its strengths and weaknesses well: not particularly flashy or intelligent, but without exception confident, comfortable, and fun. [This version of the album includes bonus material.] ~ Steve May, All Music Guide
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