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2021 Record Store Day release on purple vinyl. Limited 2000 numbered copies

You’ve heard the best, now here’s the rest. Just a year after the average Status Quo fan figured he’d already been fed as much as he needed from the group’s first four years of life, along came this set to heap even more proto-boogie and poppy psych on to the turntable — and, really, if you’d already bought all the other comps out there, it was round about now that you started wishing you’d just put out for the original albums instead. After all, you’d bought them twice over already. In terms of the actual music, of course, there’s nothing wrong with The Rest Of Status Quo. As a psychedelic band, Status Quo were at least as good as a lot of the other bands whom history now worships so blindly — indeed, if they’d never returned after the opening burst of “Pictures Of Matchstick Men” and “Ice In The Sun,” they’d be up there with the Idle Race and the Smoke in most enthusiasts’ estimation. But they did return, and they got so huge that every note they’d ever uttered in the past was deemed ripe for endless recycling. And you can tell from this set’s title that even the label was getting bored with the process.

Track list:
1. Something’s Going On In My Head
2. (April), Spring, Summer And Wednesdays
3. Lazy Poker Blues
4. Is It Really Me/ Gotta Go Home
5. Need Your Love
6. Nothing At All
7. Someones’s Learning
8. Nanana