― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
>Noel is clearly the new Noddy, more entertaining talking than singing<
But then, I have never really heard Noddy talk. He would have to be UNBELIEVABLY entertaining talker to be more entertaining than he is as a singer, though.
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― xhuxk, Monday, 25 April 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Monday, 25 April 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Now I get it. You mean Slade and Oasis to Brits are like Styx and Nightranger or Damn Yankees are to Yanks. Although Styx, Nightranger and Damn Yankees all were louder guitar bands than Oasis.
― George Smith, Monday, 25 April 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Damn right.
I get the impression in this thread that Slade would have been thought not be an influence on or like Oasis if they had been more of an abject failure like they were in the States. Slade did try in the US and it just wouldn't do. Maybe "Cum On Feel the Noize" is known but as such, mistakenly thought to be written by Quiet Riot. If "Run Runaway" actually charted years later, it didn't help them. And nothing from the early albums did anything although "Gudbuy T' Jane" is known to hard rock and some metal fans, Britny Fox, for example, covering it. And that was another US metal band that had a sound that was patterned on Slade.
― George Smith, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
"In Flame" -- the record, not the movie, was released in the US but no one listened to it as far as I know. They opened for Black Sabbath in support of it, something Oasis wouldn't survive in the US if it were tried. Slade didn't do any Beatle-esque numbers from "In Flame" that night.
Noddy Holder now advertises peanuts, for what it's worth.
Alice Cooper advertised for cheap and clean hotel rooms a year or so ago. We'll trade you!
― George Smith, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
As for post-Slade, Slade, Quiet Riot hit with "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" in the '80s too, didn't they? (And didn't some other metal band called the Mama's Boys, who I never heard, cover it simultaneously?)
― xhuxk, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― George Smith, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― George Smith, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, he is pretty entertaining. I watched the DVD of Slade In Flame (the movie) a while back and thought he was quite a good actor and the special feature interviews were fairly amusing. I suppose I might take it all differently if he were constantly on the TV over here but then Ozzy's recent overexposure hasn't dampened my love of Black Sabbath at all.
Even worse he was shilling back-to-school supplies for someplace like Target or Wallmart.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Paradoxically, the "Boots" anthology is kind of shitty with regards to what the US experience vis-a-vis vinyl was with Slade. The new compilation is predominantly their singles and the singles mixes and they don't sound like what was the vinyl experience in the US, the big easy to find catalog pieces being "Slade Alive," "Slayed" and "Sladest." And the mixes on those records are harder and heavier and that's how I remember them, so the Shout reissue basically sucked from my perspective because it portrayed a history and sound that just never existed in the US market for Slade. Shout should have just stuck with the "In Flame" DVD and worked on getting the rights to release the originals at a budget price.
― George Smith, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Obviously left off the art for the domestic release in 72.
― George Smith, Monday, 25 April 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Slade were generally an important influence on 80s hair/glam metal.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link