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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album changed my life. When I first played through the irrepressible bounce of Don't Waste My Time, the show-stopping drive of Big Fat Mama and Paper Plane and right through to the end of the long, heavy, pounding version of the Doors' Roadhouse Blues, my listening habits were changed forever. It was the first time I had heard such energy and intensity commited to record. Even today, the sound has a fearsome edge, a live rawness that defies technology, but that can only be borne of real attitude. All these years on, the Quo themselves might have mellowed and achieved a state of comfortable familiarity, but this piece of work never will. It was forged in a raging furnace, and is still hot enough to burn.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Listening to Piledriver, it doesn't seem possible that Status Quo first started off as a pretty little Carnaby Street pop band, but any doubts as to their change of direction or longevity were well and truly put to bed with this awesome release.
Quo had had a couple of previous albums in this vein ('Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon' and 'Dog Of Two Head') but it was Piledriver that really started the heads down, no nonsense boogie that we all know and love nowadays, and was summarily the first in a long line of top class, top quality records which carried on all through the 70's and the start of the 80's.
Although 'Paper Plane' was the only single to be lifted from the album, eventually charting at No 8, there are several other songs here that they could have released as singles and they too, would have charted well - especially 'Don't Waste My Time' and 'Big Fat Mama' - both of them the epitome of the heads down rock and roll which Quo had developed. Indeed, these tunes are quite often played in their live set to this day, such is their popularity!
Quite simply, Piledriver is a classic - and was the shape of things to come from Quo. An awesome album from an awesome band!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Not sure what the last reviewer was on - must've had his piles driven recently - but this is truly the best of the best for Quo. Like the missing link between the Beatles and AC/DC it's an outstanding rock classic that deserves to be heard by all. If you already know the album then the remastered sound will blow you away and if you don't know it, prepare to be seriously impressed. Buy it now and amaze your friends!
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class
if youre looking for a class album to buy,then this is it.must buy if youre a quo fan or just starting to listen to them!
Published 1 month ago by john boy
Can it get any better?
"Piledriver" was the first album released on the Vertigo label and, for many Quo fans (along with Hello) its one of their best. Read more
Published 1 month ago by PC
the best ?
Having seen quo at the Southend Kursall, and Dagenham roundhouse, the energy in their music is best shown in piledriver. Read more
Published 1 month ago by quo,ee
Piledriver
I think that this is one of their best albums. For me the early 1970s were when Status Quo were genuine rockers.
Published 5 months ago by John D
Is Piledriver the perfect Quo album?
Although for me it's got some pretty stiff competition from Hello and On the Level, the more I listen to Piledriver the more I believe it might be the perfect Quo album and firmly... Read more
Published 12 months ago by S. Hopkins
quo's finest hour
this is my all time fave quo album, bought it when it came out in 72 and never get tired of hearing dont waste my time, big fat mamma, paper plane.
Published 17 months ago by Shaun Odell
ON THE UP...
With tranformation now complete and a new record label(vertigo) quo would rock the world throughout the 70's and this album is essential listening,i have slight reservations over... Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2010 by Mr Blackwell
A Great Hard Drivin' Rock N' Roll Album
I saw Status quo on TV a year ago for the first time at the Concert for Princess Diana and I loved their performance. Read more
Published on 19 July 2008 by Guitar Guy 5,000,000,000
It is shape good, and this.
It is Hardobgealbam of '73 year's announcement and the status Co whole body. The jacket photograph that stooped by three of the reception desks of long hair and struck a pose was... Read more
Published on 20 April 2006 by mm
Worth it for the live bonus track alone
I have always had my suspicions about the track listing for this remastered version i.e. the bonus track of "Don't Waste My Time" being "Live at the N.E.C". Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2006 by MR PJF GILLOOLY
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