Slade are fucking brilliant

[snackhead]

Jim Lea seven years ago - his first proper live gig in about 20 years
Cum on feel the noise

Song he wrote about Keith Moon

 

[Bomber]

Goodbye to Jane

Underated Rock band due to their pop chart success ? Forget the awful Xmas ditty and listen to their other stuff, these are class songs !!

 

[Meltingpot]

I love this Slade track:

Yeah, that's a good one, it's on a mid-70s Slade compilation "Sladest" which I don't know whether or not it's still available.

The first single I saw Slade do on "Top of the Pops" was "Shape of Things to Come" in 1970, which I think is a great song. I wish we had that optimism now about the future.

These lyrics may not be 100% accurate but they're better than the ones I found online;

There's a new sun
Rising up angry in the sky
There's a new voice
Crying we're not afraid to die

Let the old world
Make believe it's blind and deaf and dumb
But nothing can change the shape of things to come

There are changes
Lying ahead on every road
There are new thoughts
Ready and waiting to explode
When tomorrow is today
The bells may toll for some
But nothing can change the shape of things to come

The future's coming on now sweet and strong
And no-one's gonna hold it back for long

There are young dreams
Crowding out old realities
Revolutions
Sweeping in like a fresh new breeze

Let the old one
Make believe it's blind and deaf and dumb
Nothing can change the shape of things,
Nothing can change the shape of things,
Nothing can change the shape of things,
Nothing can change the shape of things,
Nothing can change the shape of things to come

Oh god, I've started crying now. What a song.

 

[discokermit]

slade are fucking brilliant!

i once stood next to nod at the bar of "the trumpet" in bilston (which was originally called "the royal exchange", i think, but was known as "the cunt and trumpet" so extensively that they officially changed it to "the trumpet" to minimise the cunt bit.). i was too scared to talk to him as i had once made a dick of myself in front of dave hill.

i've bumped into dave hill a few times. once i was on the next table to him in kfc, with my mates. on the way out i stood in front of him, playing air guitar and stamping my feet, going daaaa da da, dada daaa, dada daaa (the intro to gudbuy t'jane), with my nose in the air, doing what i thought was a brilliant impression of him. he looked a bit scared, so i went away.
the next time i saw him was in sainsburys. i wanted to get him to sign a cup-a-soup but after the previous time, i thought i'd best just avoid him.
the third time, i was behind him at a cash machine. he didn't think anyone was behind him and was reading out everything on the screen in a silly voice. when he turned round and saw me, he jumped a mile. i said "hello dave!" as he wen't back to his car, he sort of smiled and waved but was clearly very embarrassed.




gudbuy t'jane,

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Yeah, that's a good one, it's on a mid-70s Slade compilation "Sladest" which I don't know whether or not it's still available.

The first single I saw Slade do on "Top of the Pops" was "Shape of Things to Come" in 1970, which I think is a great song. I wish we had that optimism now about the future.

These lyrics may not be 100% accurate but they're better than the ones I found online;

There's a new sun
Rising up angry in the sky
There's a new voice
Crying we're not afraid to die

Let the old world
Make believe it's blind and deaf and dumb
But nothing can change the shape of things to come

There are changes
Lying ahead on every road
There are new thoughts
Ready and waiting to explode
When tomorrow is today
The bells may toll for some
But nothing can change the shape of things to come

The future's coming on now sweet and strong
And no-one's gonna hold it back for long

There are young dreams
Crowding out old realities
Revolutions
Sweeping in like a fresh new breeze

Let the old one
Make believe it's blind and deaf and dumb
Nothing can change the shape of things,
Nothing can change the shape of things,
Nothing can change the shape of things,
Nothing can change the shape of things,
Nothing can change the shape of things to come

Oh god, I've started crying now. What a song.

Here's the track:

 

[Cheesypoof]

Slade are brilliant, i agree. Brilliant songwriting and incredible voice from noddy

 

[Meltingpot]

Here's the track:

Thanks, should have thought of that myself. I don't have broadband though so I don't think of it as easily as someone who'd be able to use it themselves.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

I can actually remember them before that, when they were called the N'Betweens. They recorded 'You'd better Run' (originally by the USA band the Young Rascals I thiink). Robert Plant also recorded it around the same time (bout 66 or 67) which made for a bit of local rivalry

Edit: ah, I see Bakunin beat me to it. Never mind.

 

[phildwyer]

They anticipated the rappers with their phonetic spellings too.

 

[ice-is-forming]

i love slade...how does it feel? i went and saw their movie flame in about 1974?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slade_in_Flame_(album)

 

[shagnasty]

Tolerable - nay, grate!!! - in small doses, but I much perfer fellow Brummies .

Jeff lynn and roy wood rock

 

[Meltingpot]

i love slade...how does it feel? i went and saw their movie flame in about 1974?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slade_in_Flame_(album)

I'd like to see that film. It's seen in retrospect as a very perceptive critique of the music industry, especially at the time. "How Does It Feel" is on the soundtrack and a good song too.

 

[camouflage]

One of the best bands ever IMO , except maybe their christams song is massivly overplayed so I have a dislike of it but the rest of the stuff they have done is pure quality

Yeah I like Slade.

"Coz I luv you..." brilliant song.

Anyone who doesn't like at least one Slade tune is a robot from the future, come to destroy us all. It's okay to hate the christmas song though.

 

[phildwyer]

They never got any respect as a serious band either, did they? I suppose it was the silly clothes they wore.

 

[Meltingpot]

Yeah perhaps, and the deliberate misspellings (Coz I Luv You, Mama Weer All Crazee Now etc).

Almost everyone I knew liked "Slade Alive" though, that was a hell of a live rock album.

 

[phildwyer]

They should have stuck with their early skinhead image, then they'd *really* have been ahead of their time.

 

[Meltingpot]

Yeah, the trouble was that it didn't fit in with the culture of the time. Slade played hard rock whereas most skinheads at the time, the early 70s, were into reggae (especially Trojan bands such as Dave and Ansil Collins, Greyhound, the Pioneers etc.).

 

[rikwakefield]

Noddy has an incredible rock voice.

 

[Fedayn]

They should have stuck with their early skinhead image, then they'd *really* have been ahead of their time.

Given they adopted said image after it became popular how would they have been ahead of their time?

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Iconic front cover:

 

[Divisive Cotton]

The saddest song for an abused donkey EVER written

 

[mysterygirl]

Didn't they play a Reading Festival one year where everyone was slating them beforehand for being this naff un-trendy band with their xmas song and blew everyone away with a great set?

I've always had a fondness for Noddy and goofy Dave Hill

I don't know about Reading but that was definitely the case when they played Monsters of Rock at Donington - 1981? 82? I remember being on the hill wearing a black bin bag for a poncho in the rain with everyone having a really really good time during their set, despite all the mickey-taking beforehand.

 

[Meltingpot]

Slade at the Reading Festival

I think it was 1980, but I wish I'd been there. They went down a storm apparently.

@DC (post #80); well done for finding that cover. I was looking for that one but couldn't find it online.

 

[rikwakefield]

Iconic front cover:

Such a good look.

 

[Termite Man]

time for a bump of this thread I think.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Today I shall listen to Play it Loud

 

[Ron Merlin]

Good bump. I fucking love Slade.

Here's an old cover of Born To Be Wild I've just been made aware of:




Thanks to the [social networking site] group "Slade are for life... not just for Christmas" for this.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

That cover was on their first album Beginnings when they were Ambrose Slade - now that is a bad album. Awful.

 

[Ron Merlin]

Just wanted to post my favourite Slade song again:

 

[Ponyutd]

I saw Slade live at Wembley around the time of Cum On Feel The Noize, around 1972?. Pretty damn good to be fair. I had the ticket stub for ages. I'm sure it was 20p.