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Piledriver [Deluxe Edition]

Status Quo | Format: Audio CD

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Audio CD (24 Mar 2014)
Number of Discs: 2
Format: Deluxe Edition
Label: Commercial Marketing
ASIN: B00HYOPR8U
Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 191 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #76 in Music > Rock

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Disc: 1
1. Don't Waste My Time
2. Oh Baby
3. A Year
4. Unspoken Words
5. Big Fat Mama
6. Paper Plane
7. All The Reasons
8. Roadhouse Blues
Disc: 2
1. Don't Waste My Time
2. Oh Baby
3. Unspoken Words
4. Paper Plane
5. Softer Ride
6. Paper Plane
7. Don't Waste My Time
8. Junior's Wailing
9. Someone's Learning
10. In My Chair
See all 15 tracks on this disc

Product Description

This carefully curated special release features an expanded 2-CD Deluxe Edition version of the band’s classic 1972 album. The second CD is a bonus disc of live performances and radio sessions. The “Piledriver Deluxe Edition” album booklet features extensive liner notes by rock writer Dave Ling and a host of rare artist photos provided by former tour manager and ‘fifth member’ of the band Bob Young.

The fantastic fifteen tracks worth of bonus material are taken from the band’s Peel Sessions [the DJ famously included a Quo single in the Record Box containing his favourites], recorded on 20 November 1972 and 09 January 1973 respectively, plus a BBC “In Concert” performance recorded at the Paris Theatre in London on 01 March 1973.

Product Description

(2014/Universal) 23 tracks, original album from 1972 plus bonus material incl. BBC recordings, two tracks from a John Peel session and and 'live tracks' from a 'BBC in Concert' show from 1973 at the Paris Theatre in London!
Medium 1

Don't waste my time
Oh baby
A year
Unspoken words
Big fat mama
Paper plane
All the reasons
Roadhouse blues

Medium 2

Don't waste my time (1972)
Oh baby (1972)
Unspoken words (1972)
Paper plane (1972)
Softer ride (1972)
Paper plane (1973)
Don't waste my time (1973)
Junior's wailing (1973)
Someone's learning (1973)
In my chair (1973)
Railroad (1973)
Don't waste my time (1973)
Paper plane (1973)
Roadhouse blues (1973)
Bye bye Johnny (1973)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars How the Quo should be remembered 23 Dec 2000

By Gary Williams

Format:Audio CD

I strugle to think of an another album with only 8 tracks that is worthy of a 5 star status. The Quo, have always been seen as something of a joke, which is truly unfair. Piledriver is as good an album as you will find. It contains three ballads, which if covered today, would not seem out of place in the charts. `A Year` is one of my all time fovourite songs and when followed by `Unspoken Words`, I struggle to remember 2 ballads back to back which are still as haunting today as they must have been back in 1972. I am a huge Doors fan and my favourite band Echo & The Bunnymen also covered `RoadHouse Blues`, but I grew up thinking that it was a Quo original, better than any other version I`ve ever heard. `Don`t Waste My Time` and `Paper Plane` are classics. The beauty of this album, is that it has hidden treasures. `Big Fat Mama` and `Oh Baby` are not stocking fillers. That is why this album stands out, despite having only 8 tracks, it is not a short album; with 5 of the 8 tracks over 5 minutes long. In my opinion, the Quo never managed to produce a better album. They may have produced various other great tracks, but as an album it is a classic

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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A fearsome classic 18 Sep 2001

By A Customer

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This album changed my life. When I first played through the irrepressible bounce of Don't Waste My Time, the show-stopping drive of Big Fat Mama and Paper Plane and right through to the end of the long, heavy, pounding version of the Doors' Roadhouse Blues, my listening habits were changed forever. It was the first time I had heard such energy and intensity commited to record. Even today, the sound has a fearsome edge, a live rawness that defies technology, but that can only be borne of real attitude. All these years on, the Quo themselves might have mellowed and achieved a state of comfortable familiarity, but this piece of work never will. It was forged in a raging furnace, and is still hot enough to burn.

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive 'heads down' rock album! 20 Feb 2006

By Bazzer

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Listening to Piledriver, it doesn't seem possible that Status Quo first started off as a pretty little Carnaby Street pop band, but any doubts as to their change of direction or longevity were well and truly put to bed with this awesome release.
Quo had had a couple of previous albums in this vein ('Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon' and 'Dog Of Two Head') but it was Piledriver that really started the heads down, no nonsense boogie that we all know and love nowadays, and was summarily the first in a long line of top class, top quality records which carried on all through the 70's and the start of the 80's.
Although 'Paper Plane' was the only single to be lifted from the album, eventually charting at No 8, there are several other songs here that they could have released as singles and they too, would have charted well - especially 'Don't Waste My Time' and 'Big Fat Mama' - both of them the epitome of the heads down rock and roll which Quo had developed. Indeed, these tunes are quite often played in their live set to this day, such is their popularity!
Quite simply, Piledriver is a classic - and was the shape of things to come from Quo. An awesome album from an awesome band!

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Their best album 24 Dec 2013

By r.sayer

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Just listened on u tube and brings back memories of my youth of standing in front of the mirror with an old squash racket trying to copy Francis Rossi . This in my opinion was their best album true grit of what I loved about status quo. Every track is a classic. Big fat mamma was brilliant. In my mind they changed after this album probably not for the better as they slowly but surely made music for the masses. Brilliant album. Buy it listen to it and close your eyes and go back to earlier great youthful days!!!!!

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth it for the live bonus track alone 9 Mar 2006

By MR PJF GILLOOLY

Format:Audio CD

I have always had my suspicions about the track listing for this remastered version i.e. the bonus track of "Don't Waste My Time" being "Live at the N.E.C". Before writing this review I did try and correct the track listing but it's not one of the options available!(Amazon, please take note).
The NEC recording came from 1982 which would have looked slightly out of place with the original album having been recorded a decade earlier and has also been available for many years on the live album of the same name. Other Quo remasters from this period have had added rare tracks or hard to find "B" sides so it didn't make sense.
Bearing in mind the price (an absolute giveaway) I thought I would get a brand new copy anyway as my vinyl copy is knackered (showing my age there).
Having received my copy today, I am pleased to annouce to those of you who might have thought that it wasn't worth getting for just one extra track that the live version of Don't Waste My Time is in fact from the 1973 Reading Festival (I've had a taped copy for years)and an absolute barnstorming version it is.
It's a ballsy brash version, typical of the Quo from that period. I,ve just listened to it on my headphones and the atmosphere is terrific.It also includes Francis Rossi bellowing at the crowd, urging all sections to clap their hands - it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end!.
As for the rest of the album, I think the other reviewers have made their point, it an absolute corker. Get it and get headbangin!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Piledriver CD

Reeling in the years (actually a differnet band ) but excellent delivery, good sound very pleased just as remembered. guitar

Published 3 days ago by Dragonslore

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent

one of the best quo albums ever and the extra CD with the live tracks - a must listen too

Published 6 days ago by stephen hall

1.0 out of 5 stars keep rocking quo you the best

didnt think it was best album glad i got it
never mind it brought memories back from the good ole days

Published 24 days ago by tim staight

5.0 out of 5 stars Piledriving music!

This came out shortly before the first time l saw the Quo. Well l hammered it to my local record store and proudly got a copy. I was, and still am, blown away by this album. Read more

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5.0 out of 5 stars cd

being a quo fan for many years this is quo at there very best would recommend to any true quo fan

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5.0 out of 5 stars If you don't have this....you 'aint a Quo fan!

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I used to have this album years ago and then it disappeared from my collection, I just never replaced it. Well, I should have done! Read more

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