Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo

Infobox Album | Name = Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo
Type = Album
Artist = Status Quo


Released = September 1968
Genre = Psychedelic rock
Label = Pye
Length = 34:00
Producer = John Schroeder
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:epj9kentdq7q link] | Last album = -
This album = "Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo" (1968)
Next album = "Spare Parts" (1969)

"Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo" is a 1968 album by the British rock group Status Quo. In 1998, Castle Records re-released the album with additional tracks. The album covers a number of songs, including "Green Tambourine" by the Lemon Pipers and others by Tommy Roe and the Bee Gees. The lead single, "Pictures of Matchstick Men," remains the band's only major hit in the United States and reached #8 in Canada. "Ice in the Sun" reached #29 in Canada also.

Track listing

#"Black Veils of Melancholy" – 3:16 (Rossi)
#"When My Mind is Not Live" – 2:49 (Rossi/Parfitt)
#"Ice in the Sun" – 2:14 (Wilde/Scott)
#"Sheila" – 1:56 (Roe)
#"Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café" – 3:02 (Young)
#"Paradise Flat" – 3:13 (Wilde/Scott)
#"Technicolour Dreams" – 2:52 (Anthony King)
#"Spicks and Specks" – 2:45 (Gibb)
#"Elizabeth Dreams" – 3:28 (Wilde/Scott)
#"Sunny Cellophane Skies" – 2:46 (Lancaster)
#"Green Tambourine" – 2:18 (Leka/Pinz)
#"Pictures of Matchstick Men" – 3:16 (Rossi)

1998 reissue bonus tracks

#"To Be Free" – 2:37 (Lynes)
#"Pictures of Matchstick Men" – 3:15 (Rossi)
#"Paradise Flat" – 3:17 (Wilde/Scott)

Personnel

* John Coghlan - drums
* Alan Lancaster - bass, guitar, vocals
* Roy Lynes - organ, vocals
* Rick Parfitt - guitar, keyboards, vocals
* Francis Rossi - guitar, vocals