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With 'Perfect Remedy', Status Quo found themselves with a flop album on their hands for the first time since 'Dog Of Two Head' failed to chart 18 years previously. Unfortunately, whereas the 1971 album was a top class effort, nothing of the sort can be said about 'Perfect Remedy'.To be fair, the album isn't that bad - certainly not as bad as the chart position suggests ('Perfect Remedy' only got to No 49 in the charts) and, in my view, the album is still better than their previous effort, 'Ain't Complaining'.Indeed, songs like 'Little Dreamer', 'Not At All', 'Man Overboard' and the title trackmore… are all good tunes, along with 'The Power Of Rock' - quite possible the best ballad Quo have ever done.Unfortunately, when you've got four country-rock songs on the record, then you know you're not going to hear Quo at their best. Indeed, 'Address Book', 'Going Down For The First Time' and '1000 Years' are, quite frankly, sub par, along with 'Tommy's In Love' (My personal choice for worst Quo song ever!)But what ultimately sinks 'Perfect Remedy' is the production. Pip Williams slick, poppy sound just doesn't fit Quo at all, and was certainly not what fans wanted to hear. Indeed, anybody who heard 'Little Dreamer' and 'Perfect Remedy' being played live on tour would say that these songs sounded much better than they did on the record.Listening to the bonus track, again I find myself puzzling over Quo's song selection for the album. 'Gone Thru The Slips', 'Rotten To The Bone' and 'Doing It All For You', whilst not classics, are far better in my view than the country-rock tunes that were on the record, and had these been included, I feel that the album would have been a lot better for it.Francis Rossi recently said that he didn't know why 'Perfect Remedy' did so poorly. Personally, I feel its simply because Quo broke the number one rule: they didn't give the fans what they wanted.Nevertheless, now having heard the bonus songs, for me 'Perfect Remedy' - along with the previous 'Ain't Complaining' - is a frustrating 'could've been' album. In other words: could've been so much better!

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Status Quo - Perfect Remedy (2006) Retail CD

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