Hello

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Customer reviews

review by: Alan date: 2008-04-12 rating:
Thee Best
Quite simply this is one of the best albums ever done by the Quo.Every song is excellent,remastering excellent,guitar tones and sound excellent the whole album is EXCELLENT.The songs move along at a brisk pace and all in all I can honestly say Hello is a hum dinger of a album,the band wouldnt find it easy in later works to match this benchmark sound of this astonishing work.
If you dond have this album and youre thinking of buying some Quo albums then I suggest this one first followed by the albums Quo,Whatever you Want and Dog Of Two Heads you wont go wrong.Hope this review has helped you in some way.Keep Rocking.

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review by: shopkins2112 date: 2006-04-30 rating:
The Five Pillars of Status Quo
In the period between 1972 and 1976 Status Quo released five successive album of unbelievable consistency and quality. Hello is widely regarded as the very finest album Quo have ever released; the best of the best. Caroline, Roll Over Lay Down, Blue Eyed Lady, Softer Ride and 4500 Times are all essentail 12-bar rockers that would probably figure in almost all right-thinking Quo fans' top 20 tracks; in fact seven of the eight tracks (not counting the extra track) figured in a recent poll of the 50 best Quo tracks, a testament to how essential this album is for not only any Quo fan but fans of top notch melodic hard rock. In conclusion, Hello is an essential, highly recommended album and with On The Level is, in my opinion, the absolute peak of Quo's work.

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review by: date: 2006-02-20 rating:
The 'must have' Quo album!
For anybody who wants to hear Status Quo at their magnificent, scintillating best, look no further! Hello is that release!

Although there are only eight songs (nine if you include the bonus) every single track here is right out of the top drawer, from the opening 'Roll Over Lay Down' to the closing 'Forty Five Hundred Times'.

Two songs were released as singles ('Caroline' and 'Roll Over Lay Down') but in my opinion Quo could have picked any or all of the songs on offer here and put them out as singles and they would have charted well - such is the strength of the album!

Listening to Hello remastered brings home to me just how disappointing some of their later releases really were!

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review by: davethorn13 date: 2005-12-07 rating:
Quo announce themselves as craftsmen
There is no one undisputed "best" Quo album, but "Hello!" is certainly a contender among long-time fans. Their second classic album for Vertigo, it's more sophisticated than its predecessor, "Piledriver", though of course I mean "sophisticated" in a relative way. Those who complain of Francis Rossi's penchant for lightweight pop in later years might be surprised to discover that he was writing melodic songs for this 1973 release. There were two major differences back then however. One was that Quo presented themselves as a scruffy, hard-driving band. This may be a more clinically-produced effort than "Piledriver" but there is no gloss. Keyboards, when added, are kept firmly in the background. Secondly, Rossi as a vocalist keeps his personality in reserve. These were the days when Quo were young and intense, too into their music to be showbiz stars.

As for the music, both sides of the LP began with songs that have become standards, "Roll Over Lay Down" and "Caroline". These songs have been belted out by many a pub band. "Claudie", "And It's Better Now", "Reason For Living" and "Blue-Eyed Lady" are all distinct, melodic songs worthy of supporting the main attractions. "Softer Ride" is more unusual, with its slow, almost moronic "I ain't gonna work" opening. The moment Quo move to a higher gear on this song is exhilarating. The original album closed with "Forty-Five Hundred Times", at around ten minutes Quo's longest studio track. This song has since taken on a life of its own, having been also worked up into its longer live concert form on the "Rock 'Til You Drop"
album. The quiet opening, led by Rick Parfitt, always creates a sense of expectation and when the rest of the band come in that expectation is totally fulfilled.

Many fans prefer the flawed intensity of "Piledriver", but "Hello!" is probably Quo's most consistent album, a true 1970s classic.


review by: crapmodem date: 2005-04-26 rating:
Of course it's a classic....
This is generally regarded as one of Status Quo's greatest works, if not the greatest. Certainly it contains some classics, including the track that finally established them as a mainstream chart act, Caroline. Also featured is the "how long does it last this time?" 4500 times, the favourite album track of the vast majority of their most devoted fans; and live favourites Roll Over Lay Down and Softer Ride.

However, the previous reviewer said "no one can deny that they rapidly slipped into self-parody". Well I and thousands of others DO deny that they slipped into anything even approaching self-parody. What they did was explore other types of music and musical styles, with varying degrees of success.

It may annoy some of Status Quo's most aggressive fans that they remain a successful act over 30 years later. But have they done so despite the changes or because of them?

What the excellent Hello album does (and did) is act as a benchmark. Along with the previous release, Piledriver, it said "this is where we are now" and did so very well.

Perhaps the only criticism I could make of it is that it was produced too well. Status Quo have always been at their best when performing live and this album gives only tiny hints of that magic. It is a studio album. The same tracks played live and I would cheerfully have given it 5 stars.

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