''Just Supposin is the thirteenth album by Status Quo. Co-produced by the group and John Eden, it was recorded at

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. Released on 17 October 1980, it entered the

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at number 4. Three tracks were issued as singles the same year, "

What You're Proposing "What You're Proposing" is a single released by the British rock band Status Quo in 1980. It was included on their album ''Just Supposin. The B-side is "A B Blues", a non-album instrumental studio jam. Some later pressings of this single mis ...

", and a double A-side, "Lies"/"Don't Drive My Car". At the end of 1981 an edited version of another track, the uncharacteristic ballad "

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", appeared as a single after the release of Quo's subsequent album '' Never Too Late''. It was a prolific recording session, which included enough material for ''Never Too Late'', released only five months later. "Over the Edge" was co-written by bass player

Alan Lancaster Alan Charles Lancaster (7 February 1949 – 26 September 2021) was an English musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the rock band Status Quo, playing with the band from 1967 to 1985, with brief reunions in 2013 and 2014. As we ...

and Keith Lamb, lead singer of British bands The Case, Sleepy Talk and Mr. Toad, and founder and lead singer of Australia's successful glam rock band

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. The cover art work features the launch phase of a UGM-84

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submarine missile.

Reception

In their retrospective review,

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mostly praised the album's set of songs, commenting that they "married the expected boogie to a new wave quirkiness that was straight out of the year's hippest fashion guides. It works, as well – for the most part, anyway."

Track listing

;Side one # "

" (

Francis Rossi Francis Dominic Nicholas Michael Rossi, (born 29 May 1949) is an English musician, singer and songwriter. He is the co-founder, lead singer, lead guitarist and the sole continuous member of the rock band Status Quo. Early life Rossi was born o ...

, Bernie Frost) – 4:18 # "Run to Mummy" (Rossi, Andy Bown) – 3:12 # "Don't Drive My Car" ( Rick Parfitt, Bown) – 4:32 # " Lies" (Rossi, Frost) – 3:56 # "Over the Edge" (

, Keith Lamb) - 4:33 ;Side two

"The Wild Ones" (Lancaster) – 4:02
"Name of the Game" (Rossi, Lancaster, Bown) – 4:29
"Coming and Going" (Parfitt, Bob Young) – 6:21
"
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" (Rossi, Frost) – 5:23

2005 reissue bonus track

"AB Blues" (Rossi, Parfitt, Lancaster, John Coghlan, Bown) – 4:28

2017 double album deluxe edition reissue bonus tracks

Disc Two:

"AB Blues" – B-Side (Rossi, Parfitt, Lancaster, John Coghlan, Bown)

"Coming and Going" - Writing version 1980

"Don't Drive My Car" - Live - Le Mans 1981 *

"Over the Edge" - Live - Le Mans 1981 *

"Rock N Roll" - Live - Le Mans 1981 *

"Something 'bout You Baby I Like" - Live - Le Mans 1981 *

"What You're Proposing" - Live - Le Mans 1981 * * denotes previously unreleased live track.

Personnel

;Status Quo *

–

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* Rick Parfitt – guitar, vocals *

– bass, vocals * John Coghlan – drums ;Additional personnel * Andy Bown –

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*Bernie Frost –

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Reception

Track listing

2005 reissue bonus track

2017 double album deluxe edition reissue bonus tracks

Personnel

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

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References