STATUS QUO Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo (Impossibly rare DEBUT album from one of the world's best known rock bands, here in their first psychedelic incarnation, which they were soon to discard in favour of their morefamiliar sound as the album failed to chart and the follow-up Spare Parts fared as badly. The acid-induced sound makes some good use of phasing and psychedelic whimsy vocals to give a very definite 1967-68 sound. The album includes covers of Spicks And Specks and Green Tambourine as well as the original standout tracks Black Veils Of Melancholy and Technicolor Dreams as well as the well known Pictures Of Matchstick Men, front laminated flipback picture sleeve. The sleeve shows moderate general discolouration, mainly to the back, with the front showing just a little creasing at the edges but nothing interfering with the images & the colours still bright & vibrant. The vinyl is graded as VG & has been professionally cleaned & playtested; the surface area of the vinyl has a fair degree of scuffs and light hairlines with the labels showing a degree of spindlewear, all of which result in moderate ambient noise in places, although nothing to overpower the playback).