I admit right away that I am a self-confessed fan of Status Quo. All too well I can still recall the insults I had therefore suffered at the beginning of the 70s of the fans artifiziellerer rock sounds of my acquaintance. If then but "Roll over lay down" or was the cover of Chuck Berry's "Bye bye Johnny" on the turntable, it urged these buddies to the dance floor. Well, to quota discs like "Dog of two heads", "Piledriver" or "Hello" reaches "On the level" not quite. These rolls the boogie rockers her success scheme easy to arg from. Of course, really bad discs has the force delivered almost never in their long creative period. "On the level" contains some of the highlights, but also rock musical average fare and a right dropouts. A class of its own, of course, the charts striker "Down Down" and the already mentioned "Bye bye Johnny". Also, the Quo-typical boogie stomper "Little lady" and the blues-rock song "Most of the time - both with very melodic passages -. Make the heart of Quo fans beat faster When Alan Lancaster composition" Broken Man "can man - rather untypical for Quo - hear influences of the Allman Brothers Other songs are Quo-average stuff (("I Saw The Light"; "Over and done"; "Night Ride"; "What to do") As Rick Parfitts uninspired.. tearjerker "Where I am" has on the album, but to me is puzzling. The remastered edition of "On the Level" evaluates the shekel in the rest on with great bonus tracks. may be mentioned here are especially the three songs a live . EP the Combo Both the outstanding "Roll over lay down" and "Gerdundula" and the Quo version of Steam hammer "Junior's Wailing" are top notch, the 14-minute live version of Roadhouse Blues "by the Doors - the". Rocker's Rollin 'CD box taken from the band - is me then but got too long. The Status Quo songs now match times more compact song formats, even if the concert atmosphere to longer stimulates Jams. Overall, I think "On the Level" in the remastered and with bonus tracks revamped form thus for a work which is to be settled in the upper middle of the Status Quo discography.
