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The change was going on. In 1971, while Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath were competing to be considered the genuine pioneers of the hard rock genre, Status Quo was involved in an inner struggle to find themselves and their own sound. Nobody would have said then that a few years later, Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan would be fighting in the peak of European charts with the groups before mentioned. Dog of Two Head was going to be their first step, a very powerful one, in being considered a serious and significant rock band and not another easy-come, easy-go psychedelic group. This was their first record where the basic wall of sound formed by mighty guitar-bass-drums won the game to the more flavoured sound of their beginnings. The band forsook psychedelic experimentation and delved into more blues-oriented rock rhythms. The record contained the revision of the Arabesque Gerdundula, one of their most intriguing tunes and a favourite in the concerts of years to come. They began to show that year their love for boogie rock in the long and powerful Umleitung and in Someone's Learning, which proved to be one of the rare occasions the band touched on political issues (Irish terrorist quarrels, in this case). The album also contains the intimate ballad Na Na Na, a two-minute resume of the composition techniques and humble philosophy of Status Quo (Writing words that I feel I should change/It's all right if they sound just like other songs/Making sounds that can go on and on/It's all right if you stay right on to the end). Finally, Dog of Two Head includes one of the most brilliant compositions of the band, the stunning Railroad. May be the record is not as representative of Status Quo's sound as Hello! or On the Level, but it keeps being one of the band's more unusual and inspired achievements
Product details
Release Date:
2008-03-03
Publication Date:
2008-03-03
Publisher:
Bmg/Sanctuary (Warner)
