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Released
  
17 October 1980

Just Supposin' (1980)
  
Never Too Late (1981)

Release date
  
17 October 1980

Genre
  
Rock music

Length
  
40:25

Artist
  
Status Quo

Label
  
Universal Music LLC

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Recorded
  
1980 at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin

Producer
  
John Eden and Status Quo

Similar
  
Status Quo albums, Rock music albums

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Just Supposin' is the thirteenth album by Status Quo. Co-produced by the group and John Eden, it was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin. Released on 17 October 1980, it entered the UK albums chart at number 4.

Contents

Three tracks were issued as singles the same year, "What You're Proposing", and a double A-side, "Lies"/"Don't Drive My Car". At the end of 1981 an edited version of another track, the uncharacteristic ballad "Rock 'n' Roll", appeared as a single after the release of Quo's subsequent album Never Too Late. It was a prolific recording session, which included enough material for Never Too Late, released only five months later.

"Over the Edge" was co-written by bass player Alan Lancaster and Keith Lamb, lead singer of British bands The Case, Sleepy Talk and Mr. Toad, and founder and lead singer of Australia's successful glam rock band Hush.

The cover art work features the launch phase of a UGM-84 Harpoon submarine missile.

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Reception

In their retrospective review, Allmusic mostly praised the album's set of songs, commenting that they "married the expected boogie to a new wave quirkiness that was straight out of the year's hippest fashion guides. It works, as well – for the most part, anyway."

Side one

  1. "What You're Proposing" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) – 4:15
  2. "Run to Mummy" (Rossi, Andy Bown) – 3:08
  3. "Don't Drive My Car" (Rick Parfitt, Bown) – 4:30
  4. "Lies" (Rossi, Frost) – 3:56
  5. "Over the Edge" (Alan Lancaster, Keith Lamb) - 4:29

Side two

  1. "The Wild Ones" (Lancaster) – 3:53
  2. "Name of the Game" (Rossi, Lancaster, Bown) – 4:26
  3. "Coming and Going" (Parfitt, Bob Young) – 6:20
  4. "Rock 'n' Roll" (Rossi, Frost) – 5:23

2005 reissue bonus track

  1. "AB Blues" (Rossi, Parfitt, Lancaster, John Coghlan, Bown) – 4:28

Personnel

  • Francis Rossi – guitar, vocals
  • Rick Parfitt – guitar, vocals
  • Alan Lancaster – bass, vocals
  • John Coghlan – drums
  • Additional personnel
  • Andy Bown – keyboards
  • Bernie Frost – backing vocals
  • Bob Young – harmonica on "Coming And Going"
  • Songs

    1What You're Proposing3:51
    2Run to Mummy3:11
    3Don't Drive My Car4:31

    References

    Just Supposin' Wikipedia