My fiancée is Polish when I first met her parents her dads first question was if I like status quo 😅 if that’s everyone’s automatic question with being English I’d be overjoyed 😁
Screaming for vengeance was my first live show if I remember correct the ticket was $15. I left that show and my ears rang for 3 days probably my most favourite show along with the Dio holy diver show!
I've got some British psychedelic/garage band compilations cds of 60s music, and there are 3 Status Quo songs on them ... "Pictures of Matchstick Men," "I Can Hear the Grass Grow," and "Spicks and Specks." I love those songs! I haven't dug any deeper than that, though I've been meaning to do so.
Hey Frank happy Friday and yes I love the CD now in fact I love both formats and since the price of vinyl is so ridiculously high I go ai bye CDs instead and I feel the CD he's making a comeback!!!! Sounds good to me 😃
It's truly a mystery why they didn't make more waves over here. I suppose it's just one of those things... Conversely, there are many bands that are HUGE in Canada, and relatively unknown elsewhere.
My favourite CD in my collection is Led Zeppelin Three a 1998 edition with a vinyl style cover with picture holes and rotating disc like the original LP.
You're right the packaging of these cd's are briljant. Please let see more of this kind. I recently bought a cd box set of Van Halem. Called the studio Albums 1978-1984. Same story. Every cd is packaged in a good karton as a shrunk down version of the vinyl album. I love it. Done so well. And everything you need to have of Van Halen ha. The sound is killer too. And yes Screaming for vengeance is a metal album. But in my opinion didn't age that good. The hits are great.
I love cd box sets like the sabbaths zeppelin’s Bowie where you get a thick book with words and photos and status Quo are big in Australia and I have seen them a few times and they were loud my ears were ringing more than metal shows for days
Here in Oz we call them Status like you do. Alan Lancaster lived for yrs here and was part of a band of 80's rock stars called "The Party Boys" who had a couple of hits and were a great live band.
I think the black cd "lp-look-alike" is very cool. I have a Black Crowes cd somewhere in my collection (maybe it was "Before the Frost..."?) that has the same LP look. I can remember sliding it out of the case and being quite shocked to see a cd that was all black and being concerned if it would even play! I believe I have a Status Quo compilation in my collection that I'm going to have to go back to and give a re-listen now! If original Christmas songs are your thing, look up "It's Christmas Time " by Status Quo. I stumbled upon a video on RUclips a couple years ago. It's become one of my favorite Christmas songs/videos. (I'd also like to mention "The Season's Upon Us" by Dropkick Murphys. Great video!!) Great video to you too Frank! Have a great holiday season!
IMO, Screaming for Vengeance and the earlier Sad Wings of Destiny are the two very different but both truly essential Judas Priest albums. Both of them highly influential, too.
Need to find a copy of Sad wings.. came across Hell Bent for Leather and Point of entry used vinyl but great shape on a single visit.. I thought I struck gold.
I have a few of those "Culture Factory" reissues on CD, they're pretty nice. I have the soundtracks to "F.M." & "Phantom of The Paradise" on that label. Not a Judas Priest fan, but I did buy the remastered CD of "Screaming For Vengeance" because I liked the track "You've Got Another Thing Comin'". Love your videos. Happy Holidays to you & yours.
Love when reissues of CD are done well. The Mercyful Fate reissues a few years back, were meant to look like small versions of the LP releases, including the CDs looking like records. 🤘
They have, back in 2019. Look for a show at the Microsoft Theater with the date of June 27th, 2019. I believe they played it back in 1982 as well, maybe once or twice. Same with "Fever".
Thanks. I will show more from time to time. I used to do 'record of the week' on Fridays, but realized I didn't like the pressure of finding something to show every week. But if it's something I've been actively listening to, I may as well show it. Cheers! \m/
Jewel cases and booklets laid out in a proper font size for easy reading! I bought the new Lindsay Buckingham album and it comes with one of these mini-LP gatefolds, and the lyrics are too small to read.
Status Quo is one of my three favourite bands ! Saw them twice last year! A fucking great great band! So nice to hear you talk about them! If you're into great packaging, as we all are, you need to get your hands on a copy of their album "If you can't stand the heat...", that one blew my mind!
Love that Judas Priest album. It was the 3rd one i ever heard, as Hell Bent and Unleashed were the first 2 i remember as a kid. Looks like it came out when i was only 6 and i bet i got it for my 7th birthday or at xmas that year. Still an amazing album. I would never get sick of it. I did have that MOFI copy when it came out. It all sounded the same to me. LOUD! Not sure why i never heard Status Quo. Considering my dad was into heavy metal when i was growing up. I do know that Down Down is the first song i heard. Because its one of those cut to years later when i heard it in a film and was like, wait a second. I know that song. So maybe it came from one of the mixtapes that i got from someone in public school. Unless it was on a K-Tel album i mightve owned back then. And yeah. If they did better cd packaging like that, then yes. Looks nice and thick. So it should hold up well. I cant stand digipacks. They always end up looking like crap years later. And usually a crushed spine and broken spindles inside.
I would like it if they gave us better packaging like that for CD's. That be awesome to have a smaller version of a vinyl record. That get more people buying CD's for sure.
Hey Frank, great video my man! That Japanese pressing of Screaming....... is so damn cool! You are very lucky to have that beautiful copy! I'm a big fan of Status Quo, have been for years. Those are some seriously sweet CDs. Very nice packaging indeed. Think of the shelf space you would free up by having those instead of thick plastic jewel cases. I totally love their 'Live' record. I have a minty clean UK Vertigo pressing and I just love it! Another great album of theirs is Piledriver! Thanks for the video and gave a great weekend! Cheers
"Screaming for Vengeance" was a rare secondhand find for me. It's almost impossible to find used metal CDs where I live and there it was at a record fair. Expensive too, which is not a surprise. Sounds heavenly.
Great video Frank!!! Ahhhh those memories of my youth. I must admit that I have seen the Lp from Judas Priest but I don't own it. I waver to more of the "hard rock" side of rock than heavy metal. I'll have to check it out. Now my memories portion.... waaaaaaaay back in the day I lived at home with my parents and was starting my vinyl collection. I would try different bands from time to time..... Status Quo being one of them! I have the black album with silver lettering on it STATUS QUO. I don't recall why I didn't become a fan. But then again it was the hey day of rock back then. Keep on spinning Frank 👍
Hey Frank, I grew up with a friend who was was an absolute nut of Status Quo, even my dad loved the song"Sweet Caroline"and wanted the DJ to play it at any weddings we would go to as a kid (cringe). Unfortunately as time progressed the quo were lambasted for just sounded they same and using the same chords. Yes I would by more CD's if the packaging was better. The current carboard sleeves are pretty cheap and nasty. Great show and enjoy your weekend !!!
Love Screaming for Vengeance. Still have my original US press on Columbia. I love CD packaged that way. I have one for King Crimson Starless and Bible Black. Also there was a Zep black boxed set back in either 2009 or 2010 like that. Plus the Beatles Mono CD set. I have all those. Yeah CDs should only come like that.
Hi Frank Quo have always been big down here in Australia. My brothers band used to play a lot of their stuff back in the late 70’s and 80’s. It is strange that they weren’t bigger in the states.
Hi Frank - great video as usual. The only issue I have with CD packaging like that is sliding it in and out of a paper sleeve. The surface of a CD is much more subject to micro-scratches that can affect play than that of regular album vinyl. Most CDs don't last long when they get handled roughly. But anyway. Have a great weekend.
Screaming for Vengeance is my Dad's favourite Priest album^ He even says that in his opinion this is the first real Heavy Metal album ever^ My fav Priest album is Stained Class, or let's say all records with Les Binks on drums !
I would definitely buy more individual CDs with that packaging. I hate jewel cases. I try to stick to box sets. I like the efficiency in terms of space and the packaging, but those replica album covers w/ inner sleeves. Love ‘em.
Great video. Killer Quo selection. 1973's Hello! is a monster record and regularly voted their best. Check out the powerhouse 'Forty-Five Hundred Times'. The album following Blue For You is the double 'Quo Live'. One of the best and heaviest Live LPs of the 70s. Almost makes Deep Purple's Made In Japan sound weedy...
The packaging of those Status Quo discs should be the industry standard. Too bad there are so many labels with bean counters on staff who want to do everything as cheaply as possible. Favorite Status Quo track is "Pictures Of Matchstick Men". My brother bought the single in 1968 and we loved it. Played it to death! That razor sharp guitar intro really grabbed us.
I started high school in 1982-83 and I can easily plot my musical trajectory into hard rock / heavy metal. Traveling to games on our inter city basketball bus, a buddy of mine was the first to bring along a ghetto blaster and two cassettes: Genesis' self-titled and Def Leppard - Pyromania. The first cassette of my own was Billy Idol's Rebel Yell. Shortly thereafter Back in Black become the pre-game warm up go-to, and from there it continued to get heavier. My own first records which I still own) were Pyromania and Quiet Riot's Metal Health, but certainly couldn't buy much of my own at that age. I had a "rich" friend who was always buying the latest metal releases; enter vinyl to cassette 'dubbing' (another 80s-ism...along with the "mixtape"). With the advent of the 90 minute blank cassette, you could load Shout out the Devil on one side and wait for it! Screaming for Vengeance on the other side. For your younger viewers, this era (in Canada anyway) was advent of the music video, and at some point in the later 80s and on shows like the Pepsi Power Hour on Muchmusic, chances are that you were going to see You've Got Another Thing Comin' video in the rotation. From watching your channel, I know that your a big Priest fan. I'm not the fan of them you are, but I did spend a lot of time with Screaming as well as their follow up to it, Defenders of the Faith.
Hey Frank, Quo was pretty known in Europe, especially with the hit "In the Army Now". My qualm with CD packaging is that the artwork is so goddamn small! So many details are lost compared to a 12" vinyl sleeve! One could only wish the CD packaged in a regular vinyl sleeve (like The Beatles remixes deluxe boxes), but I guess for usual releases it destroys the purpose. But maybe there could be an in-between size like 10"?
Status Quo is definitely a UK phenomenon more than a US. When I lived in the States til 1985 I'd never heard of them. I then moved to Dubai where a lot of my work colleagues were Brits and they were shocked that I'd never heard of them.
Regarding the CD packaging, Frank- I agree that the packaging is gorgeous, but I have an issue with CD's being stored inside cardboard sleeves of any kind--- not digipaks where the CD sits inside a plastic tray, but rather when the CD comes in DIRECT CONTACT with the cardboard itself. Over time when taking the CD out and putting it back in, the CD will become scratched and scuffed (even if you use the utmost caution and care). I've even had a few cases of brand new CD's already having blemishes on them upon taking them out of the shrink and cardboard sleeves for the first time. THANKFULLY... I have stacks upon stacks of slimline jewel cases (remember those?) I saved from my CDr days... Any time I purchase a CD in cardboard (such as the two albums from the Dirty Knobs for example) the discs IMMEDIATELY go into those. If you have a few minutes go through your collection and pull some CD's that are in these cardboard "card sleeves", and "digisleeves", hold them up to a light, and I'll just bet that you will find some that are scratched and scuffed. I get why the traditional jewel case had to die; for environmental reasons and such, but record companies really should come up with a better solution. Perhaps a thin inner made of non-abrasive material to protect the CD inside? 🤔 Thanks for reading , have a great weekend my friend, and keep on spinnin'👍
Enjoyed the video my friend I never got into status quo at all but I heard a lot of good things about them. The Judas priest screaming for vengeance album I can remember that coming out and I really really remember you got another thing coming being played and played on the radio... I've never owned that album but I'm really been thinking about buying it I think you just may have pushed me over the edge on getting it. Cheers Frank
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I have always loved interesting album and CD packaging. Taught from the Alice Cooper albums I suppose. Pink Floyd's CD Pulse was fantastic packaging to name one off the top of my head. I love a good boxset as well.
Being in England, it seems weird to me seeing Status Quo introduced as an almost unheard-of band. They opened the biggest gig the world had ever seen (Live Aid) and at one point (2005) have been in the top 25 most-charted artists of all time on the UK chart by number of weeks. For bands with most hit albums, they are 3rd only to the Rolling Stones and Shadows (equally on 43 each), above the Beatles in 4th. The other 11 acts in the top 15 are all solo artists.
Fair comment - I was surprised to learn how big they are. Unfortunately, they are not well known here in Canada. But I suppose that's the way things go.
The chaos approves of your heavy rotation of JP's "Screamin'". I believe, specifically, Priest was just beginning their "Prime" and if I was listed a "Metal" then, it is still listed "Metal" now. More accurately put "NWOBHM" (New Wave of British Heavy Metal). I think that is why the whole Heavy Metal "family tree" has sooo many sub genres of Metal. JP is legend to me because their progression was more or less heavier and heavier (I mean jeez "Fire Power" is one of their heaviest and their most current!) Thank-you fro a swell show! \m/
After hearing my brothers cassette of Hell Bent for Leather, I checked out Screaming for Vengeance and later back to British Steel.. gets my blood flowing every-time I play the record.. I purchased the Priest RSD release Hero Hero a few years ago and gave it a good listen the other night. Really liked the raw early sound. Wondering if you own it or listened to it. Would love to know what you thought of it. As always, will welcome and respect your opinions. After seeing that other comment… 😜 Need to check out Status Quo….
Hey Frank - huge STATUS QUO fan here (one of the few from Canada!). Quo's sound evolution over the last 50-odd years: started out psych pop >> hard boogie >> pop boogie >> rock'n'roll. Personally, my fave record is Blue For You .. for the same reasons that you noted (most consistently heavy record), but the Quo record ain't too far behind. I would suggest that you check out Never Too Late next for some prime 80s Quo. Then onto the 90s and beyond. Rock on!
Packaging can make a difference. That said I do not think everything should be well packaged like that. I am a huge Clash fan and I have pretty much everything I come across. They did a box set of singles where there is special packaging like this and each CD looks like the 45. I know this because years later I found and purchased the 45s. The UK singles look the same as the ones in the box set, the mass produced ones from the US tend to look more generic. I have a mix of both. While I have multiple box sets of the Clash and other bands, I am glad they did this just for the singles and not for everything. Makes it cool and stands out. I think it is cool that a fan took the time to send you a well thought and curated collection. Happy Holidays to you and your family amigo! ☺👍🎄
Big fan of Status Quo and like you, I have always pronounced it with a short a. Will try to get in the habit of saying it correctly. My favorite album by them happens to be the first I got which is Piledriver, that and their psychedelic album Pictures of Matchstickable Men or whatever the title is lol. Is There A Better Way is probably my favorite song by them. Love the packaging and it would definitely entice me to buy CDs more.
@@Channel33RPM Yes they do. You might not like the first album with Pictures of Matchstick Men ( very 60s ) but the next several albums are in the vein of Quo. I really like 1982 from 1982 , of course :D but it's very polished and more commercial sounding so it also might not be your thing but you'll probably enjoy quite a bit of their catalog.
Interesting band Status Quo, another undervalued Blues Rock/Hard Rock/Psych Rock band like Humble Pie, The Small Faces, Blodwyn Pig, Frijid Pink, Weed, Mother Superior, Fanny, Faces, Hot Tuna, Thin Lizzy, Andromeda, Dust, Morgen, Sir Lord Baltimore, Flied Egg, Toad, Black Cat Bones, Blackwater Park, Leaf Hound, Cressida, Indian Summer, Toe Fat, Tonton Macoute, Juicy Lucy, Montrose, Samson, Bang, Budgie, etc. I discovered them through a magazine that I have where there is a special about the Monsters Of Rock festivals, Glastonbury, etc, and about little valued bands from the 70's.
Love the video, as cds go i am a regular buyer of cds, I do buy albums here and there but mainly cds. And yes wish the record companys would put more thought in the packaging of cds, alot of cd releases are cheaply made. Not much enfo and I HATE the digipak cds.
I'm not a fan of mini-LP packaging. We'll have to start putting them into clear sleeves to protect them from shelf or ring wear, just like LPs, and that's just a hassle. I actually have come to appreciate the original CD jewel case design. Yeah, they can crack or break, but they do a great job of protecting the contents, and if the case becomes damaged then you can easily replace it. Also, if all you know are today's ultra-flimsy jewel cases, the original design looked about the same but weighed almost twice as much. They didn't fracture with every little bump and knock.
Call it nostalgia, but I wish all CDs went back to using the plastic jewel cases and double/triple CDs went back to the “fatboy” wide jewel cases. These skimpy “digipak” cardboard album replicas are so cheap and flimsy, I find them getting bent corners and ringwear and scuff marks. The clear plastic parts of all my old disc cases may be scratched and cracked, but the booklets and CDs are immaculate. They did their job protecting their contents. And you can easily read the titles on the spines. Also, “Screaming for Vengeance” brings back memories. It was the first CD I ever bought when I purchased my “newfangled digital CD player” around 1985 or 1986. Those early CBS discs made in Japan sounded amazing. I still have it in my CD rack and pull it out and play it often. 👍🏼
Not a fan of that sort of mini-LP CD packaging. Mostly because it doesn’t protect the surfaces on the disc well. I wasn’t fond of Digipaks until I found some quality sealable sleeves to keep them in, now they’re my favorite. I still prefer older CDs to later reissues as they tend to suffer less from overly compressed loud mastering. If you can find the late ‘80s / early ‘90s Ryko CD reissues of Bowie and Zappa, those are to my ears some of the best sounding CD reissues ever.
I just haven't been interested in buying CDs since I started getting back into vinyl a couple of years ago. I have bought a few but that were just for convenience (to be able to take with me somewhere) and so I wouldn't have to rip them from the vinyl myself. Plus they were cheap enough haha. The price on CDs has skyrocketed like crazy. I'm glad I bought a lot of the latest remastered versions of what I like on CD a few years back when you could get them for $3 to about $10 tops. Cool packaging would definitely help but it wouldn't make me want to buy a CD anymore than if it was just regularly packaged. If I was still buying CDs a lot, yes it probably would make a difference to me. But I like to get the music I like in the format that I'm most drawn to and while I still have no problem with CDs I just don't hardly ever buy them anymore. Merry Christmas to you and your family Frank! Brian in Fort Worth 🎄🎶
Hmmmm.... I've been debating on whether I should bring it back, but figured people were tired of it, and would want me to get right into the content. Let me give this some thought....
🤠 The CD packaging is very pretty. Hope yours sound better than mine! Sorry to say, the Moon Martin album Escape from Domination, which was reissued on that label, sounds like over-compressed, mid-rangey garbage.
That's the collector in me. I love getting nice pressings of my fav albums from various countries. They all sound a bit different as well. Modern color variations I don't really care about though.
It's always weird, when Americans talk of Status Quo like it's some old lesser known rock'n'roll band. Here in Finland they literally are (were?) textbook examples of classic rock and staple in radio channels that play older music as well as in any hockey game I mean literally, back in elementary school in early 00's there was 2-3 page section about rock music in music class textbook: There we're two pictures in there, one of Status Quo and other of Deep Purple.
I prefer British Steel but nothing but a thang. As for Status Quo with a long A, you might as well start saying Tin Lizzy as well because that's how it's pronounced
I love Status Quo.Have most of their albums on cd.Good hard rock never made it in the states exept for the great single Pictures of Matchstick Men.But radio in the U.S. is terrible.
I think Status Quo were the first band to play at Live Aid. Yes, great packaging. Yes, I would buy more CD's if the packaging was better. I have a little dislike for digipaks. I guess they are trying to be more environmentally friendly so I still buy them.
I guess I will be the outlier here, but I love jewel cases, they best protect the prize that matters, the CD. I absolutely hate digi-pack and think it's one of man's worst inventions. When I want a CD I have to search the internet on how it is packaged, if it's any kind of paper/cardboard packaged and exposed, it does not exist to me, my alternative is checking Japan imports because sometimes they treat it with some respect and package it in a jewel case. I first turned against digi-craps with Van Halen's Live: Right Here, Right Now CD, it sat on the shelf and just disintegrated, luckily I bought one from ebay that came from BMG the music club (it was in jewel case), I was saved! Cheers!
Screaming for Vengeance is the definition of heavy metal. Time doesn't change what genre a music is, especially if it defines the genre.
Good comment. You're right.
Status Quo are a great Rockband, they kick some ass!! Greatings from germany! Ciao Gunnar
Can't believe you didnt new about Status Quo, great band!!
Great to recognise The Quo in Canada!
Only 50 years too late!!🎸
My fiancée is Polish when I first met her parents her dads first question was if I like status quo 😅 if that’s everyone’s automatic question with being English I’d be overjoyed 😁
Screaming for vengeance was my first live show if I remember correct the ticket was $15. I left that show and my ears rang for 3 days probably my most favourite show along with the Dio holy diver show!
I've got some British psychedelic/garage band compilations cds of 60s music, and there are 3 Status Quo songs on them ... "Pictures of Matchstick Men," "I Can Hear the Grass Grow," and "Spicks and Specks." I love those songs! I haven't dug any deeper than that, though I've been meaning to do so.
Start with their album "Piledriver" (72) My favorite track "Oh Baby"
Ozzy covered Pictures Of Matchstick Men. Timeless song.
"Screaming for Vengeance" is one of my favorite Priest albums. Rob's scream on the title track always gives me goose bumps.
Any CD packaging apart from the dreadful Jewel Box is a good packaging!
Hey Frank happy Friday and yes I love the CD now in fact I love both formats and since the price of vinyl is so ridiculously high I go ai bye CDs instead and I feel the CD he's making a comeback!!!! Sounds good to me 😃
HI Frank Thanks for the intro to Status Quo i certainly was aware of them but do not know their music.will surely check them out now!
Great video Frank! Keep up the good work!
Screaming For Vengeance is a timeless classic. Mandatory listening for any metalhead!
Hi Frank. Love the Quo. I agree all cds should be made this way. Happy holidays to you and yours. Hope Santa brings you more music goodies.
No question Judas Priest is a classic rock act! Also amazing in concert! Status quo. Sounds like a very interesting listen! Great vid.
I love the earbooks that come with CDs. I opt for those at every opportunity.
how can you not love status quo...awesome songs ,my fav is down down but i like heaps more...
It's truly a mystery why they didn't make more waves over here. I suppose it's just one of those things... Conversely, there are many bands that are HUGE in Canada, and relatively unknown elsewhere.
My favourite CD in my collection is Led Zeppelin Three a 1998 edition with a vinyl style cover with picture holes and rotating disc like the original LP.
You're right the packaging of these cd's are briljant. Please let see more of this kind. I recently bought a cd box set of Van Halem. Called the studio Albums 1978-1984. Same story. Every cd is packaged in a good karton as a shrunk down version of the vinyl album. I love it. Done so well. And everything you need to have of Van Halen ha. The sound is killer too. And yes Screaming for vengeance is a metal album. But in my opinion didn't age that good. The hits are great.
I love cd box sets like the sabbaths zeppelin’s Bowie where you get a thick book with words and photos and status Quo are big in Australia and I have seen them a few times and they were loud my ears were ringing more than metal shows for days
Here in Oz we call them Status like you do. Alan Lancaster lived for yrs here and was part of a band of 80's rock stars called "The Party Boys" who had a couple of hits and were a great live band.
Giid info... thanks!
Killer video Frank!! Wow that CD packaging is awesome!! I hope you and your family have a happy holiday season 👍🤘🤘
Happy holidays to you and yours as well!
I think the black cd "lp-look-alike" is very cool. I have a Black Crowes cd somewhere in my collection (maybe it was "Before the Frost..."?) that has the same LP look. I can remember sliding it out of the case and being quite shocked to see a cd that was all black and being concerned if it would even play!
I believe I have a Status Quo compilation in my collection that I'm going to have to go back to and give a re-listen now!
If original Christmas songs are your thing, look up "It's Christmas Time " by Status Quo. I stumbled upon a video on RUclips a couple years ago. It's become one of my favorite Christmas songs/videos. (I'd also like to mention "The Season's Upon Us" by Dropkick Murphys. Great video!!)
Great video to you too Frank! Have a great holiday season!
IMO, Screaming for Vengeance and the earlier Sad Wings of Destiny are the two very different but both truly essential Judas Priest albums. Both of them highly influential, too.
Both are so good... And Defenders... I always teeter between Screaming and Defenders, as to which one is my fav.
Need to find a copy of Sad wings.. came across Hell Bent for Leather and Point of entry used vinyl but great shape on a single visit.. I thought I struck gold.
@@Channel33RPM Defenders is my go to album.
You’re VERY welcome, for the Mayday Music CD, Frank!! It’s totally my pleasure, bud!!🇨🇦❤️😎🤘
Thanks again Rob. Happy holidays!
I have a few of those "Culture Factory" reissues on CD, they're pretty nice. I have the soundtracks to "F.M." & "Phantom of The Paradise" on that label. Not a Judas Priest fan, but I did
buy the remastered CD of "Screaming For Vengeance" because I liked the track "You've Got Another Thing Comin'". Love your videos. Happy Holidays to you & yours.
Love when reissues of CD are done well. The Mercyful Fate reissues a few years back, were meant to look like small versions of the LP releases, including the CDs looking like records. 🤘
I have a couple of those cd replicas and I love them. I’d love to have a collection of those.
TAKE THESE CHAINS is one of my all time favorite JUDAS PRIEST songs. I don't think they have ever played this song live. Keep on Spinning!
They have, back in 2019. Look for a show at the Microsoft Theater with the date of June 27th, 2019. I believe they played it back in 1982 as well, maybe once or twice. Same with "Fever".
@@davidcantu8720 thanks!!!
Another awesome video Frank! Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays!
Hey Frank, loved seeing your Screaming for Vengeance collection, i'd love to see more of your stuff in the future.have a great weekend!
Thanks. I will show more from time to time. I used to do 'record of the week' on Fridays, but realized I didn't like the pressure of finding something to show every week. But if it's something I've been actively listening to, I may as well show it. Cheers! \m/
Jewel cases and booklets laid out in a proper font size for easy reading! I bought the new Lindsay Buckingham album and it comes with one of these mini-LP gatefolds, and the lyrics are too small to read.
I have always loved Pictures of Matchstick Men!
I particularly love Camper Van Beethoven's cover of it.
@@mikeroeder Thanks for pointing that version out. I'd never heard it and it's pretty good.
Status Quo is one of my three favourite bands ! Saw them twice last year! A fucking great great band! So nice to hear you talk about them!
If you're into great packaging, as we all are, you need to get your hands on a copy of their album "If you can't stand the heat...", that one blew my mind!
I already collect, but yes. High quality releases and packaging would be cool
Screaming for Vengeance is a metal album. Never heard it described any other way.
Love that Judas Priest album. It was the 3rd one i ever heard, as Hell Bent and Unleashed were the first 2 i remember as a kid. Looks like it came out when i was only 6 and i bet i got it for my 7th birthday or at xmas that year. Still an amazing album. I would never get sick of it. I did have that MOFI copy when it came out. It all sounded the same to me. LOUD!
Not sure why i never heard Status Quo. Considering my dad was into heavy metal when i was growing up. I do know that Down Down is the first song i heard. Because its one of those cut to years later when i heard it in a film and was like, wait a second. I know that song. So maybe it came from one of the mixtapes that i got from someone in public school. Unless it was on a K-Tel album i mightve owned back then.
And yeah. If they did better cd packaging like that, then yes. Looks nice and thick. So it should hold up well. I cant stand digipacks. They always end up looking like crap years later. And usually a crushed spine and broken spindles inside.
I would like it if they gave us better packaging like that for CD's. That be awesome to have a smaller version of a vinyl record. That get more people buying CD's for sure.
Hey Frank, great video my man! That Japanese pressing of Screaming....... is so damn cool! You are very lucky to have that beautiful copy! I'm a big fan of Status Quo, have been for years. Those are some seriously sweet CDs. Very nice packaging indeed. Think of the shelf space you would free up by having those instead of thick plastic jewel cases. I totally love their 'Live' record. I have a minty clean UK Vertigo pressing and I just love it! Another great album of theirs is Piledriver! Thanks for the video and gave a great weekend!
Cheers
"Screaming for Vengeance" was a rare secondhand find for me. It's almost impossible to find used metal CDs where I live and there it was at a record fair. Expensive too, which is not a surprise. Sounds heavenly.
Great video Frank!!!
Ahhhh those memories of my youth. I must admit that I have seen the Lp from Judas Priest but I don't own it. I waver to more of the "hard rock" side of rock than heavy metal. I'll have to check it out.
Now my memories portion.... waaaaaaaay back in the day I lived at home with my parents and was starting my vinyl collection. I would try different bands from time to time..... Status Quo being one of them! I have the black album with silver lettering on it STATUS QUO. I don't recall why I didn't become a fan. But then again it was the hey day of rock back then.
Keep on spinning Frank 👍
Hi, Frank! I have 2 favorite albums Status Quo for me - Ain't Complaining & In the Army Now!,:-)
Hey Frank, I grew up with a friend who was was an absolute nut of Status Quo, even my dad loved the song"Sweet Caroline"and wanted the DJ to play it at any weddings we would go to as a kid (cringe). Unfortunately as time progressed the quo were lambasted for just sounded they same and using the same chords. Yes I would by more CD's if the packaging was better. The current carboard sleeves are pretty cheap and nasty. Great show and enjoy your weekend !!!
Love Screaming for Vengeance. Still have my original US press on Columbia.
I love CD packaged that way. I have one for King Crimson Starless and Bible Black. Also there was a Zep black boxed set back in either 2009 or 2010 like that. Plus the Beatles Mono CD set. I have all those. Yeah CDs should only come like that.
Fell in love with JP in the late 70,'s!! Nice packaging. Frank, Happy Holidays from IOWA!
Thanks - and to you as well.
Hi Frank Quo have always been big down here in Australia. My brothers band used to play a lot of their stuff back in the late 70’s and 80’s. It is strange that they weren’t bigger in the states.
Hi Frank - great video as usual.
The only issue I have with CD packaging like that is sliding it in and out of a paper sleeve. The surface of a CD is much more subject to micro-scratches that can affect play than that of regular album vinyl. Most CDs don't last long when they get handled roughly.
But anyway.
Have a great weekend.
rounded japanese inner sleeves for compact discs solve this problem^
An oversight for sure - I will be using CD inner sleeves for those CDs.
alright..Frank on Fridays🔥 special THNX! for this one man, it's been like a parched desert content wise here lately.or at least from my side
Screaming for Vengeance is my Dad's favourite Priest album^ He even says that in his opinion this is the first real Heavy Metal album ever^
My fav Priest album is Stained Class, or let's say all records with Les Binks on drums !
Those Les Binks albums are killer.
I would definitely buy more individual CDs with that packaging. I hate jewel cases. I try to stick to box sets. I like the efficiency in terms of space and the packaging, but those replica album covers w/ inner sleeves. Love ‘em.
Great video. Killer Quo selection. 1973's Hello! is a monster record and regularly voted their best. Check out the powerhouse 'Forty-Five Hundred Times'. The album following Blue For You is the double 'Quo Live'. One of the best and heaviest Live LPs of the 70s. Almost makes Deep Purple's Made In Japan sound weedy...
gonna crank quo in my workshop today after seeing this lol...
@@705johnnyboy👍 Nice one, John.
Cool - thanks for the recommendations.
The packaging of those Status Quo discs should be the industry standard. Too bad there are so many labels with bean counters on staff who want to do everything as cheaply as possible.
Favorite Status Quo track is "Pictures Of Matchstick Men". My brother bought the single in 1968 and we loved it. Played it to death! That razor sharp guitar intro really grabbed us.
The packaging is amazing! And I think you're right... that will never become the standard, because of cost. Too bad...
Type O Negative covered that song with Ozzy Osbourne on vocals.
I started high school in 1982-83 and I can easily plot my musical trajectory into hard rock / heavy metal. Traveling to games on our inter city basketball bus, a buddy of mine was the first to bring along a ghetto blaster and two cassettes: Genesis' self-titled and Def Leppard - Pyromania. The first cassette of my own was Billy Idol's Rebel Yell. Shortly thereafter Back in Black become the pre-game warm up go-to, and from there it continued to get heavier. My own first records which I still own) were Pyromania and Quiet Riot's Metal Health, but certainly couldn't buy much of my own at that age. I had a "rich" friend who was always buying the latest metal releases; enter vinyl to cassette 'dubbing' (another 80s-ism...along with the "mixtape"). With the advent of the 90 minute blank cassette, you could load Shout out the Devil on one side and wait for it! Screaming for Vengeance on the other side. For your younger viewers, this era (in Canada anyway) was advent of the music video, and at some point in the later 80s and on shows like the Pepsi Power Hour on Muchmusic, chances are that you were going to see You've Got Another Thing Comin' video in the rotation. From watching your channel, I know that your a big Priest fan. I'm not the fan of them you are, but I did spend a lot of time with Screaming as well as their follow up to it, Defenders of the Faith.
Hey Frank, Quo was pretty known in Europe, especially with the hit "In the Army Now". My qualm with CD packaging is that the artwork is so goddamn small! So many details are lost compared to a 12" vinyl sleeve! One could only wish the CD packaged in a regular vinyl sleeve (like The Beatles remixes deluxe boxes), but I guess for usual releases it destroys the purpose. But maybe there could be an in-between size like 10"?
The inner sleeve is a real problem - the type is WAY too small. But overall, great packaging IMO.
Hello Frank. I prefer the standard jewel case. I think it protects the CD better and it's more practical. Cheers!
screaming is one of my favorites and i have several april wine albums but have not hear status quo
Status Quo is definitely a UK phenomenon more than a US. When I lived in the States til 1985 I'd never heard of them. I then moved to Dubai where a lot of my work colleagues were Brits and they were shocked that I'd never heard of them.
Not just the UK. They are huge anywhere in Europe.
The Band that opened Live Aid in 1985 .... Status Quo 🎸
Regarding the CD packaging, Frank-
I agree that the packaging is gorgeous, but I have an issue with CD's being stored inside cardboard sleeves of any kind--- not digipaks where the CD sits inside a plastic tray, but rather when the CD comes in DIRECT CONTACT with the cardboard itself. Over time when taking the CD out and putting it back in, the CD will become scratched and scuffed (even if you use the utmost caution and care). I've even had a few cases of brand new CD's already having blemishes on them upon taking them out of the shrink and cardboard sleeves for the first time. THANKFULLY... I have stacks upon stacks of slimline jewel cases (remember those?) I saved from my CDr days... Any time I purchase a CD in cardboard (such as the two albums from the Dirty Knobs for example) the discs IMMEDIATELY go into those.
If you have a few minutes go through your collection and pull some CD's that are in these cardboard "card sleeves", and "digisleeves", hold them up to a light, and I'll just bet that you will find some that are scratched and scuffed.
I get why the traditional jewel case had to die; for environmental reasons and such, but record companies really should come up with a better solution. Perhaps a thin inner made of non-abrasive material to protect the CD inside? 🤔 Thanks for reading , have a great weekend my friend, and keep on spinnin'👍
Enjoyed the video my friend I never got into status quo at all but I heard a lot of good things about them. The Judas priest screaming for vengeance album I can remember that coming out and I really really remember you got another thing coming being played and played on the radio... I've never owned that album but I'm really been thinking about buying it I think you just may have pushed me over the edge on getting it. Cheers Frank
Do it Rod!!! There is not one bad track on there.
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my metallica black box set has a diggie pack that reminds me of a record with a inner sleeve for the cd
I have always loved interesting album and CD packaging. Taught from the Alice Cooper albums I suppose. Pink Floyd's CD Pulse was fantastic packaging to name one off the top of my head. I love a good boxset as well.
Being in England, it seems weird to me seeing Status Quo introduced as an almost unheard-of band. They opened the biggest gig the world had ever seen (Live Aid) and at one point (2005) have been in the top 25 most-charted artists of all time on the UK chart by number of weeks. For bands with most hit albums, they are 3rd only to the Rolling Stones and Shadows (equally on 43 each), above the Beatles in 4th. The other 11 acts in the top 15 are all solo artists.
Fair comment - I was surprised to learn how big they are. Unfortunately, they are not well known here in Canada. But I suppose that's the way things go.
Not just the UK, they are huge everywhere in Europe.
seen Status Quo and met them too
Status Quo are great band especially 1970 to 1981 still some great albums afterward but that eleven years definitely best for me.
I’m not much of a metalhead, but absolutely love Screaming For Vengeance. Not a mediocre moment on that whole album.
The chaos approves of your heavy rotation of JP's "Screamin'". I believe, specifically, Priest was just beginning their "Prime" and if I was listed a "Metal" then, it is still listed "Metal" now. More accurately put "NWOBHM" (New Wave of British Heavy Metal). I think that is why the whole Heavy Metal "family tree" has sooo many sub genres of Metal. JP is legend to me because their progression was more or less heavier and heavier (I mean jeez "Fire Power" is one of their heaviest and their most current!) Thank-you fro a swell show! \m/
Yeah, it's so funny... I hear young people arguing that what we called metal in the 80s, is no longer metal, haha. Long live Priest!
I still prefer jewel cases so it's easier to read the spine when I'm looking for a CD on my shelf.
After hearing my brothers cassette of Hell Bent for Leather, I checked out Screaming for Vengeance and later back to British Steel.. gets my blood flowing every-time I play the record..
I purchased the Priest RSD release Hero Hero a few years ago and gave it a good listen the other night. Really liked the raw early sound. Wondering if you own it or listened to it. Would love to know what you thought of it.
As always, will welcome and respect your opinions. After seeing that other comment… 😜
Need to check out Status Quo….
Frank only if the music is worth buying in the first place !!!!!!!!!
Hey Frank - huge STATUS QUO fan here (one of the few from Canada!). Quo's sound evolution over the last 50-odd years: started out psych pop >> hard boogie >> pop boogie >> rock'n'roll. Personally, my fave record is Blue For You .. for the same reasons that you noted (most consistently heavy record), but the Quo record ain't too far behind. I would suggest that you check out Never Too Late next for some prime 80s Quo. Then onto the 90s and beyond. Rock on!
Cool... I will check out Never Too Late. Thanks for the recommendation.
Packaging can make a difference. That said I do not think everything should be well packaged like that. I am a huge Clash fan and I have pretty much everything I come across. They did a box set of singles where there is special packaging like this and each CD looks like the 45. I know this because years later I found and purchased the 45s. The UK singles look the same as the ones in the box set, the mass produced ones from the US tend to look more generic. I have a mix of both.
While I have multiple box sets of the Clash and other bands, I am glad they did this just for the singles and not for everything. Makes it cool and stands out.
I think it is cool that a fan took the time to send you a well thought and curated collection. Happy Holidays to you and your family amigo! ☺👍🎄
Big fan of Status Quo and like you, I have always pronounced it with a short a. Will try to get in the habit of saying it correctly.
My favorite album by them happens to be the first I got which is Piledriver, that and their psychedelic album Pictures of Matchstickable Men or whatever the title is lol. Is There A Better Way is probably my favorite song by them.
Love the packaging and it would definitely entice me to buy CDs more.
From what I'm learning, SQ has a very deep catalog. I'm surprised I haven't paid much attention to them before.
@@Channel33RPM Yes they do. You might not like the first album with Pictures of Matchstick Men ( very 60s ) but the next several albums are in the vein of Quo. I really like 1982 from 1982 , of course :D but it's very polished and more commercial sounding so it also might not be your thing but you'll probably enjoy quite a bit of their catalog.
Interesting band Status Quo, another undervalued Blues Rock/Hard Rock/Psych Rock band like Humble Pie, The Small Faces, Blodwyn Pig, Frijid Pink, Weed, Mother Superior, Fanny, Faces, Hot Tuna, Thin Lizzy, Andromeda, Dust, Morgen, Sir Lord Baltimore, Flied Egg, Toad, Black Cat Bones, Blackwater Park, Leaf Hound, Cressida, Indian Summer, Toe Fat, Tonton Macoute, Juicy Lucy, Montrose, Samson, Bang, Budgie, etc. I discovered them through a magazine that I have where there is a special about the Monsters Of Rock festivals, Glastonbury, etc, and about little valued bands from the 70's.
Quo are ma Kelly's greasy spoon, dog of two heads, pile-driver, hello, quo and quo live. After that it starts to move off in various directions.
Status Quo... You say toma(y)to...i say toma(w)to...😄
Love the video, as cds go i am a regular buyer of cds, I do buy albums here and there but mainly cds. And yes wish the record companys would put more thought in the packaging of cds, alot of cd releases are cheaply made. Not much enfo and I HATE the digipak cds.
I'm not a fan of mini-LP packaging. We'll have to start putting them into clear sleeves to protect them from shelf or ring wear, just like LPs, and that's just a hassle. I actually have come to appreciate the original CD jewel case design. Yeah, they can crack or break, but they do a great job of protecting the contents, and if the case becomes damaged then you can easily replace it. Also, if all you know are today's ultra-flimsy jewel cases, the original design looked about the same but weighed almost twice as much. They didn't fracture with every little bump and knock.
Call it nostalgia, but I wish all CDs went back to using the plastic jewel cases and double/triple CDs went back to the “fatboy” wide jewel cases. These skimpy “digipak” cardboard album replicas are so cheap and flimsy, I find them getting bent corners and ringwear and scuff marks. The clear plastic parts of all my old disc cases may be scratched and cracked, but the booklets and CDs are immaculate. They did their job protecting their contents. And you can easily read the titles on the spines.
Also, “Screaming for Vengeance” brings back memories. It was the first CD I ever bought when I purchased my “newfangled digital CD player” around 1985 or 1986. Those early CBS discs made in Japan sounded amazing. I still have it in my CD rack and pull it out and play it often. 👍🏼
Awesome video bro
Appreciate it
Not a fan of that sort of mini-LP CD packaging. Mostly because it doesn’t protect the surfaces on the disc well. I wasn’t fond of Digipaks until I found some quality sealable sleeves to keep them in, now they’re my favorite.
I still prefer older CDs to later reissues as they tend to suffer less from overly compressed loud mastering. If you can find the late ‘80s / early ‘90s Ryko CD reissues of Bowie and Zappa, those are to my ears some of the best sounding CD reissues ever.
The cure is bigger and still going
Loads of cds are in Digipaks, way better than the plastic cases
I just haven't been interested in buying CDs since I started getting back into vinyl a couple of years ago. I have bought a few but that were just for convenience (to be able to take with me somewhere) and so I wouldn't have to rip them from the vinyl myself. Plus they were cheap enough haha. The price on CDs has skyrocketed like crazy. I'm glad I bought a lot of the latest remastered versions of what I like on CD a few years back when you could get them for $3 to about $10 tops.
Cool packaging would definitely help but it wouldn't make me want to buy a CD anymore than if it was just regularly packaged. If I was still buying CDs a lot, yes it probably would make a difference to me. But I like to get the music I like in the format that I'm most drawn to and while I still have no problem with CDs I just don't hardly ever buy them anymore.
Merry Christmas to you and your family Frank!
Brian in Fort Worth 🎄🎶
I've noticed the price of CDs going up as well.
Screaming for vengeance rules
One of the best...
I miss the old theme song
Permanently burned into my brain for life.guaranteed
Same
Hmmmm.... I've been debating on whether I should bring it back, but figured people were tired of it, and would want me to get right into the content. Let me give this some thought....
🤠 The CD packaging is very pretty. Hope yours sound better than mine! Sorry to say, the Moon Martin album Escape from Domination, which was reissued on that label, sounds like over-compressed, mid-rangey garbage.
What is the benefit of having multiple copies of the same record?
That's the collector in me. I love getting nice pressings of my fav albums from various countries. They all sound a bit different as well. Modern color variations I don't really care about though.
Hi, it's a collector's stuff. I do the same, I have multiple pressing of some artists like French us uk pressing of black sabbath albums.
Status Quo Book has lot's of pictures , how every Book should be
Got some good reads from you I'll be showing next week.
Status Quo "Piledriver" Lp 1972 👍
It's always weird, when Americans talk of Status Quo like it's some old lesser known rock'n'roll band. Here in Finland they literally are (were?) textbook examples of classic rock and staple in radio channels that play older music as well as in any hockey game
I mean literally, back in elementary school in early 00's there was 2-3 page section about rock music in music class textbook: There we're two pictures in there, one of Status Quo and other of Deep Purple.
They are not well know here in Canada either. Not sure why? I don't think they ever really toured here.
Yo dude, do U have a working cassette deck.....or minidisc player?
A few cassette decks but no minidisc
I still buy enough CDs as it is. Maybe 30 a year or so
I prefer British Steel but nothing but a thang. As for Status Quo with a long A, you might as well start saying Tin Lizzy as well because that's how it's pronounced
I love Status Quo.Have most of their albums on cd.Good hard rock never made it in the states exept for the great single Pictures of Matchstick Men.But radio in the U.S. is terrible.
I would dig CD 💿 if they package them better
I think Status Quo were the first band to play at Live Aid. Yes, great packaging. Yes, I would buy more CD's if the packaging was better. I have a little dislike for digipaks. I guess they are trying to be more environmentally friendly so I still buy them.
Yes, Live Aid - that was the first time I ever heard them (I was 12 years old).
I guess I will be the outlier here, but I love jewel cases, they best protect the prize that matters, the CD. I absolutely hate digi-pack and think it's one of man's worst inventions. When I want a CD I have to search the internet on how it is packaged, if it's any kind of paper/cardboard packaged and exposed, it does not exist to me, my alternative is checking Japan imports because sometimes they treat it with some respect and package it in a jewel case. I first turned against digi-craps with Van Halen's Live: Right Here, Right Now CD, it sat on the shelf and just disintegrated, luckily I bought one from ebay that came from BMG the music club (it was in jewel case), I was saved! Cheers!
JP not my taste musically but that first LP cover is kinda cool!
Quo are now nothing more than a Francis Rossi and friends touring band.