One song you never hear anything of

[noproblems]

Accident Prone.

Never included on compilation albums. How come?

[mortified]

It's on one or two but, you're right, it tends to get left off most of them. Not sure why. Probably the same as other, earlier songs that weren't major hits like She Don't Fool Me. 

It's on the From The Makers Of triple album from 1982 and also made it onto a recent less fan-fared compilation (2016) called Whatever You Want - Essential Status Quo (or something like that). It was also included on the Pictures - 40 Years of Hits release, but only the 4-disc Earbook version. It's not on the bog standard CD. 

But it's good question considering other, even lesser hits keep pitching up 

[frozenhero]

May 14, 2021 14:18:12 GMT mortified said:

It's on one or two but, you're right, it tends to get left off most of them. Not sure why. Probably the same as other, earlier songs that weren't major hits like She Don't Fool Me. 

Earlier?

[mortified]

May 29, 2021 16:42:43 GMT frozenhero said:

May 14, 2021 14:18:12 GMT mortified said:

It's on one or two but, you're right, it tends to get left off most of them. Not sure why. Probably the same as other, earlier songs that weren't major hits like She Don't Fool Me. 

Earlier?

Yeah, sorry. That came across wrong. I just meant earlier than more recently (i.e. 70's and 80's) as opposed to earlier than Accident Prone. 

It will have been left off 12 Gold Bars, for example, so they could market the '12'. Same with Volume II and She Don't Fool Me. Because they were lesser hits than the others and leaving each one out fitted very nicely with the marketing campaign. 

[ant]

I guess it doesn't fit the standard Quo sound.