It's about time we had some Slade threadzzz

Get down and get with it
Coz I luv you
Mama weer all crazee now
Cum on feel the noize
Take me bak ome

..and Slade Alive is my favourite album too.

Brad

One of the best performances I have seen live, Slade at Castle Donnington in 1981.

Seeing 70,000 headbangers sing along to 'So this is Merry Christmas' in the middle of August is one of my most treasured memories.

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anyone else have a Slade Top 5?

No sorry only a bottom five.

I've heard one good Slade track but don't know what it's called, I haven't bothered to find out in case another track sounds like that fracking xmas song.

A fine example of a group whose singles output obscured some good albums and truly great album tracks. Laughably dismissed only by the ignorant they were also one if the few truly fantastic live acts of the 70s and made many who we now revere look rather self-indulgent and clueless. They were also the loudest live band of hat decade I believe.

In Noddy Holder they also had one of the greatest rock vocalists of all time. I truly hate the fact he never made a solo album.

Anyone who thinks they lack musical merit should be pointed toward

How Does It Feel and most of the Flame soundtrack
The whole of the Old, New, Borrowed and Blue Album
Slade Alive - makes most live albums sound a little fake.
Much of Nobodys Fool.

Mike

I saw Slade in Wolverhapton Civic Hall in the mid 70s; an incredible experience for a teenager. No wonder I missed out on Pink Floyd and such like - I was too busy enjoying myself with Slade, Reggae and Tamla Motown.

I heard once that they used Noddy's voice to make the announcement in the lifts in a building in Wallsall.

Donnington '81, was not a good day.
It rained all day, the sound was crap and Slade weren't bad.

There was a lovely story about Slade's manager booking Noddy with a New York vocal coach ahead of a long US tour.

He sat in the waiting room while Broadway actor and singers did scales with the coach. Gentle 'la,la,la' type stuff.

Noddy went in, and the coach asked him to sing a little. Noddy let loose at full blast with the chorus of 'Mama, we're all crazy now'.

The coach was somewhat taken aback, and asked 'if that was how he normally sang'.

Noddy said 'Yes'.

The coach replied, 'I'm sorry, but there is absolutely nothing at all I can do for you.'

On the subject of Donnington 1981, it was wet, the sound as muddy as the ground, and Blue Oyster Cult did one of the worst performances I has ever witnessed by a band, but Slade were absolutely fantastic, especially the encore where they got the roadies to hurl toilet rolls into the crowd, which set us off throwing anything we could get our hands on for the rest of the day.

Jamiel,

BOC - the set wasn't bad it was the sound, everybody suffered that day.

I had see AC/DC and Whitesnake already that year and BOC the following year, nothing was as bad as the sound that day

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Slade Alive - makes most live albums sound a little fake.

Great album I agree but ....wasn't it recorded in the studio with a load of people invited to give a "live" ambience to the recording? Sorry Noddy if I may have misremembered hearing this!

Fan club members as I recall, ahem, being one of them.

Mike

I was finding it hard listening the the Slade Hits I had more than once (no smart comments please)



so I searched out my vinyl



to have it confirmed it was the ghost of the black art of remastering at it again. My vinyl has too much of the rice krispies in the background so I decided to go for an early cd hits package



which being form 1991 sounds like it should sound like.


Amazon's free postage threshold to Ireland always gives a good excuse for more purchases so I went for





now this is remastered in 2006 and sounds wonderful. A clear improvement on the original.


This is a greeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttt album.

Look at last night is one of the better songs about the fickleness of fame.........

"You'll be right here today, come tomorrow,
maybe they'll care today but not tomorrow"



SJB

I think they fit into the category of acts that produce material that is of a higher standard that is generally appreciated. I don't think they ever took themselves particularly seriously.

Hearing the Imagined Village cover of "Cum on feel the noize" brought this into relief for me. Slowed down and sung by Martin Carthy it comes across as a plaintive memory of times past and parties that are long finished.

Its on You Tube if you want to investigate further.

great clip sometimes a cover-version brings out something in a song that you never noticed. Tremendous pathos in this version.


SJB

You only have to listen to "Darling be home soon" on Slade Alive! to view Slade in a different light - if you can excuse Noddy's burp that is!