I just got my hands on the Slade Box that was released last fall and I'm stunned. I'm too young to have lived through their first glory days (which missed the US anyways) but jumped on board when Quiet Riot shat out their covers and "My Oh My" and "Run Runaway" were all over MTV. Even bought Rogue's Gallery when it came out and liked a good deal of it. But though I had the relatively recent Get Your Boots On comp in my collection I just didn't have a clue as to how monumentally awesome these guys were!
And, to my ears, they sound pretty unique. I can hear where some of their stomp and bombast influenced AC/DC and some punk, and the nice booklet that came with the set quotes Gene Simmons on Slade's importance on Kiss (both in sound and career path - kill 'em live and critics be damned, as it were). But none of these artists touch that Slade sound - they are just singular. Slade. Nothing else.
Anyways, the box set really is killer. Sounds much better than Get Your Boots On, and even at 80-odd songs I want more. Time to import Slade Alive!
― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
aww, man... why didn't anyone TELL ME when i was younger how great slade were (other than the fact that no one in the USA seems to have heard of them)? having only recently discovered their early stuff i am in total fucking awe. i've got their songs going through my head 24 hours a day. i feel bad that the majority of my life i just thought of them as the gurning hat freaks from the "run runaway" video.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 24 December 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Doesn't really get any closer Spinal Tap than this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53MuI1VUdwc&feature=related
...and I mean that in a good way. A very good way! I can't stop watching that opening. It's up there with Sweat Loaf and the start of the Von LMO album.
I've always wondered if Husker Du's "Terms of Psychic Warfare" was inspired by Slade's "Run Runaway."
― bendy, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 01:10 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUKze6da7Uo
― drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember that video when it first came out :D
― POLL closes: April 31st (in 100 years) (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
God knows why they filmed it at West Brom tho.
― POLL closes: April 31st (in 100 years) (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
skinhead-era slade:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/chazhalo/Slade-1.jpg
― Brio, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm trying to think of other bands that both xhuxk and Geir rate so highly. This must be a pretty rare convergence of taste.
― o. nate, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Jim Lea was such a great bassist. Goddamn.
― The Hetfieldification of the Menopausal Male (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 17 June 2011 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
is this it the greatest exchange on this site, EVER?
So fucking classic, kinda Uk Cheap Trick― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, June 21, 2006 5:46 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You clown. Slade preceded Cheap Trick by a great deal re rock 'n' roll time. It would be vice versa if anything. And if you knew anything about Cheap Trick you'd know that on a DVD they put out a year ago one of 'em confessed to seeing a landmark Slade gig in the States, one I was at. "Geez, they use every cheap trick in the book," said the pre-Cheap Trick guy prior to forming Cheap Trick.― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Wednesday, June 21, 2006 6:33 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's not far from what I was thinking, fuckwit. Also Rick Nielsen/Bun E. were active from the mid60s or so, much like Slade, etc etc etc, "confessed"? What the fuck's that supposed to mean? Did Lemmy ever CONFESS to going to a Ramones show?― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, June 21, 2006 6:48 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Nice try, but your mind is tossing upon the ocean. You don't know what DVD I'm talking about, do ya? Was it a comedy? Come up with the title? Faking it is OK. I know you can.Cheap Trick was influenced by 60's/early 70's Brit hard rock, clown, and they've acknowledged it with some pride. So name 'em. Ouch, ouch.― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Wednesday, June 21, 2006 7:23 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I dunno, the Move I guess. I don't care about some Dvd― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, June 21, 2006 7:31 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Poliopolice, Friday, 7 September 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
aww, man... why didn't anyone TELL ME when i was younger how great slade were (other than the fact that no one in the USA seems to have heard of them)? having only recently discovered their early stuff i am in total fucking awe.
this to the power of 100.
this band = everything i ever wanted from 70s rock-n-roll.
so many classics beyond the singles ..
― mark e, Thursday, 28 February 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
i really loved them in the mid 70s. i had a couple of singles. but i don't remember one song by them.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 28 February 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
time to rediscover ..
― mark e, Thursday, 28 February 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
Their spelling certainly sucked...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 28 February 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
totally.
therefore it is time to delete their folder cos ...
― mark e, Thursday, 28 February 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
i just listened to "cum on feel the noize" and i must say that it is really rubbish. it wasn't one of my singles though. i was about 13 when i was a fan, i also loved the sweet at the time. i think glam rock may have been fun at the time but most of it didn't age particularly well.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 28 February 2013 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
6 song set from a 1971 tv appearance. Glorious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVMygJ90UK0
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 11 August 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPTk5poAa1c
Been listening a lot to "Slayed?". Love that album. This performance is pretty great, I like how the lead singer has all these buttons stuck to his hat, so they catch the light and leave temporary glowing circles from blowing out the cameras.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
Got a nice vinyl copy of the In Flame soundtrack today (American version, with a shuffled tracklist and "The Bangin' Man" added).
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 May 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
these are great
http://www.sladescrapbook.com/uploads/7/6/6/0/7660950/9350955_orig.jpg
http://www.sladescrapbook.com/uploads/7/6/6/0/7660950/8052402_orig.jpg
http://www.sladescrapbook.com/uploads/7/6/6/0/7660950/7356909_orig.jpg
http://www.sladescrapbook.com/uploads/7/6/6/0/7660950/7000605_orig.jpg
from Jackie magazine, via this website: http://www.sladescrapbook.com/cuttings-1974.html
― soref, Sunday, 24 April 2016 02:42 (eight years ago) link
Neville = Noddy, who are Ernest and Archibald I wonder?
― Mark G, Monday, 25 April 2016 06:50 (eight years ago) link
http://davidsteen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/dave_hill2_steen.jpg
I would buy a coffee-table book of photographs documenting Dave Hill's various looks throughout the years
― soref, Friday, 8 July 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
http://www.stlbook.com/pages/1960s/images/62_63/8_slade.jpg
― soref, Friday, 8 July 2016 02:54 (seven years ago) link
http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/c3d57f8bb0864ac5b21b9472b80e3df2/slade-uk-pop-group-with-dave-hill-in-1974-ecrftk.jpg
― soref, Friday, 8 July 2016 02:57 (seven years ago) link
http://i802.photobucket.com/albums/yy304/MickeyP_666/Slade%20Blog/2DandDlarge.jpg
― soref, Friday, 8 July 2016 03:00 (seven years ago) link
http://static.muzobzor.ru/images/269/dave-hill-1997196-600X757.jpeg
― soref, Friday, 8 July 2016 03:10 (seven years ago) link
eyebrows
― brimstead, Friday, 8 July 2016 03:42 (seven years ago) link
http://i63.tinypic.com/2qbcaic.jpg
― Have you hugged your timeghoul today? (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 8 July 2016 08:30 (seven years ago) link
damn i absolutely love the first pic soref posted. killer hat.
― brimstead, Friday, 8 July 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
Me too, but it made me wonder if he had groupies back in the day.
― Dan is a #VegetablePuppet, he is NOT REAL. #flatearth (Dan Peterson), Friday, 8 July 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/9c/9b/0b/9c9b0b87cd56e7561a05e887a7986d0a.jpg
― soref, Saturday, 9 July 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
boy that noddy holder sure can belt
― j., Tuesday, 26 December 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
Slade drummer Don Powell 'fired by email' after 57-year partnership. Drummer claims guitarist Dave Hill, a friend since 1963, fired him with ‘cold’ email, which Hill disputes.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/05/slade-drummer-don-powell-fired-over-email-after-57-year-partnership
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
I read that on the Express & Star website tonight, it seems sad to me when people get to that age and still have these stupid fights over presumably very little
― GK Chessington's World of Adventure (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
Very sad that these old dudes who were basically working as a tribute act can't get along and are now divided into two tribute acts.
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 February 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link
https://phildellio.tripod.com/martha.jpg
"I don't know about these Beatles covers--I feel like there's something else we could be doing."
― clemenza, Friday, 16 April 2021 03:34 (three years ago) link
If you ever wanted to see Paul Williams introduce Slade to America, here it is..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIcu8gqV_2c
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 27 August 2023 01:07 (nine months ago) link