Status Quo / Japanese reissues

Universal Music Japan are about to reissue four classic Status Quo albums as double-disc deluxe ‘paper sleeve’ (aka vinyl replica) SHM-CDs…

The albums concerned are 1972’s Piledriver, the following year’s Hello!, Quo from 1974 and finally Rockin’ All Over The World which was released in 1977.

Piledriver is based on the March 2014 deluxe with a bonus CD of BBC sessions, but the paper sleeve packaging replicates the original UK gatefold and the OBI on the first Japanese pressing.

Hello! contains the content present on the recent December 2015 deluxe across two SHM-CDs (fully compatible with standard CD players) but of course being a vinyl replica this includes the original poster and again an OBI strip accurately recreating the Japanese original.

Quo is another album only reissued just last month, but this Japanese SHM-CD includes the folded card with the lyrics as well as replica inner sleeves/OBI. Audio content is the same as the recent deluxe with disc two including B-side Lonely Night and 11 tracks Live at Paris L’Olympia, 11th January 1975.

Rockin’ All Over The World includes the same John Eden remix on the bonus disc along with four demos and the vinyl replica mini-LP CD details are consistent with the other three SHM-CDs.

All four of these are limited editions use the recent Andy Pearce remasters and are officially released in Japan on 20 January 2016.

Images courtesy of Universal Music Japan.

• • CD Japan Pre-order: Piledriver 2 x SHM-CD
  

• • CD Japan Pre-order: Hello! 2 x SHM-CD
  

• • CD Japan Pre-order: Quo 2 x SHM-CD

• • CDJapan Pre-order: Rockin’ All Over The World 2 x SHM-CD

Piledriver (UICY-77627)

Disc 1

• 1. Don’t Waste My Time
• 2. Oh Baby
• 3. AYear
• 4. Unspoken Words
• 5. Big Fat Mama
• 6. Paper Plane
• 7. All the Reasons
• 8. Roadhouse Blues

Disc 2

BBC Sessions – Sounds of the Seventies
1. Don’t Waste My Time
2. Oh Baby
3. Unspoken Words
4. Paper Plane
5. Softer Ride
BBC Sessions – John Peel Session
6. Paper Plane
7. Don’t Waste My Time

BBC ‘In Concert’ 1973 – Paris Theatre
8. Junior’s Wailing
9. Someone’s Learning
10. In My Chair
11. Railroad
12. Don’t Waste My Time
13. Paper Plane
14. Roadhouse Blues
15. Bye Bye Johnny

Hello! (UICY-77629)

Disc: 1

• 1. Roll Over Lay Down
• 2. Claudie
• 3. A Reason For Living
• 4. Blue Eyed Lady
• 5. Caroline
• 6. Softer Ride
• 7. And It’s Better Now
• 8. Forty – Five Hundred Times

Disc: 2

• 1. Joanne – Single
• 2. Caroline – Original demo (fast) 1971 [Previously Unreleased]
• 3. Caroline – Original demo (slow) 1971 [Previously Unreleased]
• 4. Don’t Waste My Time – Reading Festival
• 5. Caroline – Mono
• 6. Caroline – Stereo Edit
• 7. Is It Really Me / Gotta Go Home – Dublin National Stadium [Previously Unreleased]

Quo (UICY-77631)

Disc 1

• 1 Backwater 4:19
• 2 Just Take Me 3:35
• 3 Break The Rules 3:37
• 4 Drifting Away 5:02
• 5 Don’t Think It Matters 4:50
• 6 Fine Fine Fine2:28
• 7  Lonely Man 5:05
• 8  Slow Train 7:52

Disc 2

• 1 Lonely Night 3:30
• 2 Junior’s Wailing (Live At Paris L’Olympia / 11th January 1975) 5:41
• 3  Backwater (Live At Paris L’Olympia / 11th January 1975) 4:25
• 4 Just Take Me (Live At Paris L’Olympia / 11th January 1975) 4:33
• 5  Claudie (Live At Paris L’Olympia / 11th January 1975) 4:53
• 6 Railroad (Live At Paris L’Olympia / 11th January 1975) 5:44
• 7 Roll Over Lay Down (Live At Paris L’Olympia / 11th January 1975) 5:36
• 8  Big Fat Mama (Live At Paris L’Olympia / 11th January 1975) 5:45
• 9  Don’t Waste My Time (Live At Paris L’Olympia / 11th January 1975) 4:05
• 10  Roadhouse Blues (Live At Paris L’Olympia / 11th January 1975) 16:53
• 11 Caroline (Live At Paris L’Olympia / 11th January 1975) 8:00
• 12  Bye Bye Johnny (Live At Paris L’Olympia / 11th January 1975)

Rockin’ All Over The World (UICY-77633)

Disc 1

• 1 Hard Time 4:45
• 2 Can’t Give You More 4:14
• 3 Let’s Ride 3:02
• 4 Baby Boy 3:10
• 5 You Don’t Own Me 3:02
• 6 Rockers Rollin’ 4:16
• 7 Rockin’ All Over The World 3:34
• 8 Who Am I? 4:29
• 9 Too Far Gone 3:08
• 10 For You 3:00
• 11 Dirty Water 3:49
• 12 Hold You Back 4:30

Disc 2

• 1 Hold You Back (John Eden Remix) 5:09
• 2 Baby Boy (John Eden Remix) 3:16
• 3  Rockers Rollin’ (John Eden Remix) 4:41
• 4 Who Am I? (John Eden Remix) 5:10
• 5 Rockin’ All Over The World (John Eden Remix) 3:50
• 6 Dirty Water (John Eden Remix) 4:15
• 7  Can’t Give You More (John Eden Remix) 5:26
• 8  Let’s Ride (John Eden Remix) 3:04
• 9  For You (John Eden Remix) 3:07
• 10 Too Far Gone (John Eden Remix) 3:09
• 11  You Don’t Own Me (John Eden Remix) 3:28
• 12  Hard Time (John Eden Remix) 4:35
• 13 Dirty Water (1st Demo 1976) 4:13
• 14  Baby Boy (1st Demo 1976) 2:47
• 15  Hard Time (1st Demo 1976) 4:44
• 16  Hold You Back (Studio Demo 1977)

• • CD Japan Pre-order: Piledriver 2 x SHM-CD
  

• • CD Japan Pre-order: Hello! 2 x SHM-CD
  

• • CD Japan Pre-order: Quo 2 x SHM-CD

• • CDJapan Pre-order: Rockin’ All Over The World 2 x SHM-CD