Please suggest a Suzi Quatro CD

Rocker

I discovered that I have no Suzi Quatro CDs in my collection. I am very impressed by the video, posted on this site, of her discussing bass and music. So what CD should I order to get a flavour of her music?  Thanks. 

Blueingreen

She used to have a radio show, Rockin' With Susie Q, where I thought she came across really brilliantly: warm, likeable, very knowledgeable and with excellent taste.  Worth digging those out.

As for her own material I can't say I was ever a fan.  She was sexy, had an image that worked well for the time, and could deliver a rocker, but she got the chance to be a manufactured glam rock star in the Chinn/Chapman stable and (perfectly understandably) went for it.  Whether she would have had a more substantial creative career if that hadn't happened who knows: some of what she recorded isn't terrible by any means but I wouldn't call it great either.

ICBM

I've got this one...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Suzi-Quatro-Gold-Collection/dp/B00000734R

I don't know if it's the best, but it's got most or all of the songs you would want as a starter, I think.

bazxkr

She used to live up the road from me in the early 80s and drink in my local country pub. Very normal person with a great personality and loved a pint and a game of darts. No diva that one ...great lady - altho very short haha amazing the way she threw that prec. bass around

Fretwired

Just buy a greatest hits album.

RandallFlagg

I have her first 2 albums which feature all the Mike Chapman written hits alongside a number of covers and the occasional self penned songs which aren't brilliant. That's enough, never felt the need to delve any deeper.

EricTheWeary

The one I’d associate with her is the first self titled one so that or a greatest hits I guess. 

Philly_Q

Seems like one of those cases where a greatest hits - and/or maybe a live album - is the way to go.

Maybe it's an unfair assumption, but I'd imagine the "proper" albums are mostly filler, very little killer.

pintspiller

Greatest hits would be the way to go. The wife got us tickets to see her in concert about ten years ago and there was too much of the middle-of-the-road-type splitting the audience into section. s and getting them to do backing-vocals crap.

She did unfamiliar material and did stints on piano and drums on occasion. She claimed to be wearing the same leather suits that she wore in the seventies but looked like an old woman in a spacesuit TBH.

I remember seeing her on Crackerjack and thinking she was a boy (everybody had long hair in those days). I was in Primary School in those days so somewhat innocent.

Philly_Q

pintspiller said:

I remember seeing her on Crackerjack and thinking she was a boy (everybody had long hair in those days). I was in Primary School in those days so somewhat innocent.

That reminds me, on the first couple of Rick Derringer albums he looks a lot like Suzi Quatro.  I wonder if they ever met?

scrumhalf

I think Mojo or Classic Rock did a best albums thing a few months ago. Someone might have a copy. 

StageStruck

A Greatest Hits compilation would have most of the essential stuff on it, from the glam rock stuff to the later 70s soft-rock material. Not even sure she released that much in the 80s and 90s
She did do an album a few years ago with Andy Scott of The Sweet & Don Powell of Slade called QSP that's worth a listen

freakboy1610

There's a good documentary about her on SkyArts (I think). She has an interesting story that goes well beyond the Chinn and Chapman era. She's sold 55 million albums worldwide!