3x CD

The Early Works

Compilation by Status Quo

Released December 1990

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
I (Who Have Nothing)
The Spectres
3:03
2
Neighbour, Neighbour
The Spectres
2:45
3
Hurdy Gurdy Man
The Spectres
3:17
4
Laticia
The Spectres
3:03
5
(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
The Spectres
2:20
6
I Want It
The Spectres
3:03
7
Almost but Not Quite There
Traffic Jam
2:48
8
Wait Just a Minute
Traffic Jam
2:15
9
Pictures of Matchstick Men
3:09
3.5 ★
10
Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café
3:01
11
Black Veils of Melancholy
3:15
12
To Be Free
2:37
13
Ice in the Sun
2:10
14
When My Mind Is Not Live
2:47
15
Elizabeth Dreams
3:27
16
Paradise Flat
3:12
17
Technicolour Dreams
2:49
18
Spicks and Specks
2:42
19
Sheila
1:54
20
Sunny Cellophane Skies
2:43
21
Green Tambourine
2:15
22
Make Me Stay a Bit Longer
2:55
23
Auntie Nellie
3:19
24
Are You Growing Tired of My Love
3:35
25
So Ends Another Life
3:13
26
The Price of Love
3:40
CD 2
1
Face Without a Soul
3:09
2
You're Just What I Was Looking for Today
3:49
3
Antique Angelique
3:21
4
Poor Old Man
3:36
5
Mr. Mind Detector
4:01
6
The Clown
3:24
7
Velvet Curtains
2:56
8
Little Miss Nothing
2:58
9
When I Awake
3:49
10
Nothing at All
3:52
11
Josie
3:38
12
Down the Dustpipe
2:05
13
Time to Fly
4:19
14
Do You Live in Fire
2:16
15
April, Spring, Summer and Wednesdays
4:13
16
Daughter
3:03
17
Everything
2:37
18
Lazy Poker Blues
3:20
19
Is It Really Me / Gotta Go Home
9:26
CD 3
1
Junior's Wailing
3:35
2
Shy Fly
3:48
3
Lakky Lady
3:15
4
Need Your Love
4:47
5
Spinning Wheel Blues
3:20
6
In My Chair
3:17
7
Gerdundula
3:22
8
Tune to the Music
3:09
9
Good Thinking
3:41
10
Umleitung
7:11
11
Nanana
0:51
12
Someting Going on in My Head
4:45
13
Mean Girl
3:53
14
Nanana
1:14
15
Railroad
5:32
16
Someone's Learning
7:10
17
Gerdundula
3:51
18
Nanana
2:24

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Release credits

Alan Florence
engineer, sound [24]
Alan Lancaster
bass guitar [9], electric bass guitar [1.9, 1.11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.24-25, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7, 2.10, 2.15, 3.5, 3.13, 3.16], vocal [1.9, 1.11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.24-25, 3.5, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7, 2.10, 2.15]
Alan Tew
arranger [1.24-25, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7, 2.10]
Francis Rossi
electric guitar [3.5, 3.13, 3.16, 1.9, 1.11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.24-25, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7, 2.10, 2.15], guitar [9], lead vocals [13, 16], vocal [3.5, 1.9, 1.11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.24-25, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7, 2.10, 2.15]
John Coghlan
drums (drum set) [1.9, 1.11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.24-25, 3.5, 3.13, 3.16, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7, 2.10, 2.15]
John Schroeder
producer
Lew Warburton
arranger [2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7, 2.10, 1.24-25]
Qd Design Ltd.
design
Rick Parfitt
background vocals [13, 16], electric guitar [2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7, 2.10, 2.15, 3.5, 3.13, 3.16, 1.9, 1.11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.24-25], guitar [9], vocal [2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7, 2.10, 2.15, 3.5, 1.9, 1.11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.24-25]
Roy Lynes
electronic organ [2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7, 2.10, 1.9, 1.11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.24-25], organ [9], vocal [1.9, 1.11, 1.14, 1.17-18, 1.24-25, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-7, 2.10]
Status Quo
arranger [13, 16]

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(Combined release view)
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The Early Works
3x CD
December 1990