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| Notes: | US review of the "Hello!" album |
| Year: | 1973 |
| Country: | US |
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Hello
Status Quo
A&M SP-3615
This album is so wretchedly dismal that no sane listener should be able to bear more than a few notes at a time. Ever since it followed up "Pictures of Matchstick Men" with "Ice Melts in the Sun" by merely interchanging a few notes in the songs' mutual riff, Status Quo has made a career of purveying the eternal boogie lick. With Hello Status Quo maintains the status quo - near-undiscernible variations of hashed-over boogie shrouded by Wishbone Ash-cum-Slade meatgrinder presentations. After hearing such monotonous noise one can only hope that Hello proves to be Status Quo's