Suzi Quatro - The Girl From Detroit City (2014) [4CD Box Set]

Suzi Quatro is a performer as famous for her image as her music; Quatro was rock & roll’s prototypical Bad Girl, the woman in the leather jumpsuit with the enormous bass guitar (well, it looked enormous, given that Quatro is only five feet tall), looking sexy but ferocious as she banged out her glam rock hits in her ’70s glory days. Quatro is a woman who titled one of her albums Your Mamma Won’t Like Me for a reason. But there’s more to Suzi Quatro than all that, and she seems determined to show off the full range of her 50-year career in music on the box set The Girl from Detroit City. Quatro is a rocker but she’s also a showbiz lifer, and the music spread over these four discs is the work of someone up to do a little bit of everything, and along with Chapman/Chinn thunderboomers like “Can the Can,” “49 Crash,” and “Daytona Demon,” you also get vintage garage rock (three numbers from Quatro’s first band, the Pleasure Seekers, including the gloriously snotty “What a Way to Die”), easygoing pop numbers like “Stumblin’ In” (her hit duet with Chris Norman of Smokie), power ballads such as “Lonely Is the Hardest,” heartbroken numbers like “Heart of Stone,” country-inflected songs such as “Two Miles Out of Georgia,” an electro-processed dance version of “Wild Thing” (with Reg Presley of the Troggs as Suzi’s duet partner), show tunes (two songs from the British revival of Annie, Get Your Gun with Quatro as Annie Oakley), a tribute to Elvis Presley (“Singing with the Angels,” featuring James Burton and the Jordanaires), and even a hint of smooth jazz on “If You Can’t Give Me Love.” The Girl from Detroit City is sequenced so that the first three discs play like a writ-large “best-of” collection, while disc four is mostly devoted to rarities and unreleased material, including such puzzlers as a sexed-up cover of the Normal’s “Warm Leatherette” and a lushly melodramatic version of the Eagles’ “Desperado,” with Jeff Beck on guitar. This set’s desire to cover all the bases of Quatro’s life in music is its blessing and its curse; her most devoted fans will be thrilled with the eclectic track selection, but folks most interested in Suzi the Rocker will find themselves skipping through much of disc three and nearly all of disc four. (Those folks would be better served with EMI’s single-disc The Essential Suzi Quatro.) Still, The Girl from Detroit City certainly goes the extra mile to tell the Suzi Quatro story in all its complexity and detail, and Suzi offers plenty of her own thoughts on her life and career in the extensive liner notes and song-by-song commentary. ― Allmusic

CD 1
01. What A Way To Die (With Pleasure Seekers) – 2:25
02. Light Of Love (With Pleasure Seekers) – 3:01
03. Locked In Your Love (With Pleasure Seekers) – 2:34
04. Rolling Stone – 2:47
05. Can The Can – 3:36
06. Ain’t Ya Something Honey – 4:08
07. 48 Crash – 3:55
08. All Shook Up – 3:50
09. Glycerine Queen – 3:49
10. Daytona Demon – 4:03
11. Roman Fingers – 3:48
12. Devil Gate Drive – 3:49
13. In The Morning – 2:37
14. Too Big – 3:22
15. The Wild One (Single Version) – 2:53
16. Your Mama Won’t Like Me – 4:00
17. I Bit Off More Than I Could Chew – 3:44
18. You Can Make Me Want You – 3:34
19. Michael – 3:42
20. I May Be Too Young – 2:58
21. Half As Much As Me – 4:15
22. American Lady (Alternative Version) – 3:51

CD 2
01. Tear Me Apart – 3:01
02. If You Can’t Give Me Love – 3:56
03. Suicide – 4:07
04. The Race Is On – 4:04
05. Stumblin’ In (with Chris Norman) – 3:58
06. I’ve Never Been In Love – 3:03
07. Mind Demons – 2:28
08. She’s In Love With You – 3:33
09. Hollywood – 2:59
10. Mamas Boy – 3:38
11. Love Hurts – 2:47
12. Rock Hard – 3:21
13. Lonely Is The Hardest – 3:48
14. Ego In The Night – 3:38
15. Lipstick – 4:11
16. Glad All Over – 2:50
17. Heart Of Stone – 3:25
18. Main Attraction – 3:15
19. Two Miles Out Of Georgia – 3:30
20. Can I Be Your Girl? – 3:52
21. Good Girl (Looking For A Bad Time) – 3:31
22. Wild Thing (with Reg Presley) – 3:53

CD 3
01. I Got The Sun In The Morning – 4:54
02. Moonshine Lullaby – 3:48
03. If You Can’t Give Me Love (Piano Version) – 5:08
04. Baby You’re A Star – 3:48
05. Kiss Me Goodbye – 4:09
06. Back To The Drive – 4:33
07. I’ll Walk Through The Fire With You – 4:30
08. No Choice – 5:33
09. I Don’t Do Gentle – 4:26
10. Fifteen Minutes Of Fame – 3:52
11. Whatever Love Is – 4:44
12. Strict Machine – 3:11
13. Breaking Dishes – 4:02
14. A Girl Like Me – 4:32
15. Singing With Angels – 3:57
16. Does Your Mama Know (with Andy Scott) – 2:57
17. The Cost Of Living – 3:41
18. Girl From Detroit City – 4:07

CD 4
01. Curly Hair For Sale – 3:09
02. Sugar Flash Rapper – 3:33
03. Ain’t Got No Home – 2:21
04. Sweet Nothings – 2:22
05. Wild In The Night – 3:18
06. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – 2:41
07. What Goes Around (Demo Version) – 3:10
08. Love And War – 3:35
09. Walking Through The Changes – 3:57
10. Warm Leatherette – 3:26
11. Intimate Strangers – 4:24
12. And So To Bed – 3:32
13. Sometimes Love Is Letting Go – 4:28
14. Flying To My Destiny – 4:36
15. Free The Butterfly – 5:06
16. Ambition – 5:35
17. If There Ever Was A Reason – 4:22
18. Desperado (with Jeff Beck) – 3:22
19. Dancing In The Wind – 4:50
20. 20-No Choice (Demo Version) – 3:57

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