Released 17 October 1980 Release date 17 October 1980 Genre Rock music | Length 40:25 Label Universal Music LLC | |
![]() | ||
Similar Status Quo albums, Rock music albums |
Status quo what s your proposing hq
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
- Status quo what s your proposing hq
- Status quo what you re proposing just supposin
- Reception
- Side one
- Side two
- 2005 reissue bonus track
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
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.
Status quo what you re proposing just supposin
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
- "What You're Proposing" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) – 4:15
- "Run to Mummy" (Rossi, Andy Bown) – 3:08
- "Don't Drive My Car" (Rick Parfitt, Bown) – 4:30
- "Lies" (Rossi, Frost) – 3:56
- "Over the Edge" (Alan Lancaster, Keith Lamb) - 4:29
Side two
- "The Wild Ones" (Lancaster) – 3:53
- "Name of the Game" (Rossi, Lancaster, Bown) – 4:26
- "Coming and Going" (Parfitt, Bob Young) – 6:20
- "Rock 'n' Roll" (Rossi, Frost) – 5:23
2005 reissue bonus track
- "AB Blues" (Rossi, Parfitt, Lancaster, John Coghlan, Bown) – 4:28
Personnel
Songs
1What You're Proposing3:51
2Run to Mummy3:11
3Don't Drive My Car4:31