It may be an observation that’s entered popular culture, but that doesn’t make it any less true: it’s easy to tell a ‘Status Quo’ single. As obvious as a tabloid newspaper scoop being down to hacking or that a London teenager didn’t get their new 40-inch plasma screen through hard graft, singles by ‘Status Quo’ always follow the same pattern, as if they go into a recording studio and take down the music equivalent of a knitting pattern and press a few buttons on the computer.
But, even if their records share a common theme, it doesn’t necessarily make them bad. In fact, ‘Two Way Traffic’, the third cut from their recent ‘Quid Pro Quo’ album, is up there with their best, even though, yes, it does sound in the same style as their rest, though maybe not as much as their last single ‘rock ‘n’ roll ‘n’ you’ did, with more focus on a choral effect from the instruments.
Built around their usual guitar sound, it’s another obvious album opener with a powerful start and a fast paced nature to the whole track, rocking away and providing both well-written verses and chorus.
Production-wise, the guitar solo and vocal effect two-thirds in add lots to the track, as do the variations in the guitar as it reaches a close. If it wasn’t for the fact they look as they do now, this could easily fit in with the classics of the ‘In The Army Now’ / ‘Rocking All Over The World’ era.
Yes, they may be old, but that doesn’t mean this isn’t a great slice of rock that stands out in their lengthy career and provides as catchy a chorus as you’re going to get from the younger acts releasing material this year.
Sunday 14 August 2011
Status Quo - Two Way Traffic (Single Review)
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