Well, there was also the trend that you could still be a good draw even with little record sales and airplay. The Slade comp put out last year, "Get Your Boots On" or whatever, makes slight mention of this with regards to Slade in the States. They were a decent word-of-mouth draw although no one bought the records.
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