12 Gold Bars – Status Quo – 1980
Genre: Boogie Rock/Pub Rock/Rock
Ah, hell: just about everyone here will sneer (our new word of the day, it seems) at the Quo, but tell me honestly, hand on heart, that you haven't once in your life boogied on down (drunkenness is no excuse, by the way) to “Caroline”, “Again and Again” or “Rockin' All Over the World”? Nobody expects these guys to change the world or write some amazing composition, but they've been popular pretty much across most of the spectrum for decades. Sure, they only use three chords but they use them to great effect. They're a basic, down-in-the-dirt, no-frills honest band who know who they are and what they do. They're comfortable with their image and they even poke fun at it, the title of their twenty-eighth album being
In Search of the Fourth Chord!
All I can say is, when I hear this album it transports me back to my youth, and I rock out and love every track. So boo to you if you slag off Quo or anyone listening to them. They're fun, man, and that's what it's all about.
