1980 studio album by Status Quo

Just Supposin` is the thirteenth album by Status Quo. Co-produced by the group and John Eden, it was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin. Released on 17 October 1980,[2] it entered the UK albums chart at number 4.

The Windmill Lane sessions were highly prolific for the band, resulting in two albums worth of material, Just Supposin` and its follow-up Never Too Late, released the next year.

Initially, two singles were issued from the album, "What You`re Proposing", and a double A-side, "Lies"/"Don`t Drive My Car". At the end of 1981, after the release of Never Too Late, an edited version of another track from Just Supposin`, the uncharacteristic ballad "Rock `n` Roll", also appeared as a single.

"Over the Edge" was co-written by bass player Alan Lancaster 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 Hush.

The cover art work features the launch phase of a UGM-84 Harpoon submarine missile.[3]

Reception

In their retrospective review, AllMusic 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."[1]

Track listing

Side one

1. "What You`re Proposing" (Francis Rossi, Bernie Frost) – 4:18
2. "Run to Mummy" (Rossi, Andy Bown) – 3:12
3. "Don`t Drive My Car" (Rick Parfitt, Bown) – 4:32
4. "Lies" (Rossi, Frost) – 3:56
5. "Over the Edge" (Alan Lancaster, Keith Lamb) – 4:33

Side two

6. "The Wild Ones" (Lancaster) – 4:02

7. "Name of the Game" (Rossi, Lancaster, Bown) – 4:29

8. "Coming and Going" (Parfitt, Bob Young) – 6:21

9. "Rock `n` Roll" (Rossi, Frost) – 5:23

2005 remaster bonus track

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

2017 deluxe edition bonus tracks