Blue For You - STATUS QUO***

Is There A Better Way/Mad About The Boy/Ring Of A Change/Blue For You/Rain/Rolling Home/That's A Fact/ Ease Your Mind/Mystery Song

Blue For You continued the roll the British boogie band Status Quo enjoyed in the mid 1970s. However there was some discontent amongst fans that they were beginning to incorporate too much poppy material. Features the UK hit singles Rain and Mystery Song. (UK:1)

“Whilst this album has some fantastic hard-rockin' tracks that show Quo at their best, you can't help but notice some weaker party tracks creeping in, that would become more of a feature on future albums as they drifted away from their best years.”

“On the one hand this still has the power and energy of their earlier work, but a number of tracks point to the direction the band would take in the late 1970s. Mad About The Boy is perhaps the best example of this. A melodic boogie number, at the song’s core is a simple, catchy pop song, which doesn’t quite sound as effortlessly cool as their earlier work, but instead somehow sounds a bit more safe and radio friendly. Yet the track works simply because of the band’s performance.”

“Blue For You makes me blue because it's where the Quo went off the boil somewhat. It has a few classics scattered over it like gold dust but also a lot of filler. The storming Rain, one of their greatest recordings, sounds pretty tingly despite the limp songwriting roundabouts.”

“There was a lack of imagination and variation in their music. It's deceptively simple and infectious but that can be said about the worst kind of manufactured pop. But at least when it comes to their early albums, Quo were responsible for some of the best good time rock and roll boogie songs ever recorded.”

“This was the last album produced by Status Quo that rocked, after this they became a pop band. However let’s remember them at their best.” “It was criminal for this band to be overlooked in the United States. This album was the end of a run of some of the best rock out boogie England ever produced. America would never come close to promoting a decent rock band such as this.”