Album Review - Status Quo - Thirsty Work 

Ah Status Quo....Here in the UK I was about 11/12 years old back in 1973 and listening to and loving Status Quo...Piledriver,Hello,Blue For You etc etc,great Rock stuff but time moved on..then we got Living on an Island/Margarita Time and it all went pear shaped.Since about 1987 they've been a Comedy/Novelty act to rival The Darkness and they should have called it a day years ago.

Never improved after Never too late, which funnily enough was the last album from the original 4.

Another 5 years time-or less-and Quo will be doing Pontins residencies with The Barron Knights and The Krankies.

Are you trying to say that Thirsty Work isn't in the top echelon of Quo albums?

I actually quite like this album. Obviously it's miles away from Hello, but it's a very different Quo by 94. Sherri don't fail me now is my favourite track.

I love Quo so these words are not because I hate them, but this is my lowest point with band. It’s not that I want Quo to keep remaking Hello! or Quo album or not grow or explore different vibes to hard, heavy rock. It’s not even the actual songs I don’t like, it’s sound of Thirsty Work the parpy keyboards in particular. I know Quo have never courted being cool, but it’s like they sat down and decided to make the naffest, uncool sounding album they could. It sounds like I’m saying I don’t like the album because it’s ‘uncool’; maybe subconsciously I am but I just don’t enjoy listening to most of the music on Thirsty Work, despite there being songs in which I l like the melody. It’s such a shame too because in 1994 guitar based music was the in thing with Grunge and Britpop, but they make an album that makes Black Lace sound like prime Black Sabbath in comparison. I imagine you could hear a pin drop in the venue when they played Restless live.