Thursday, 24 April 2008
Slade
Artist: Slade
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Rock
Other
Rock: Hard-Rock
Retro
Rock: Glam Rock
Pop
Discography:
You boyz make big noize
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Rogues Gallery
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Get Yer Boots On: The Best Of Slade
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
Collection
Year: 2001
Tracks: 23
Feel The Noize (Greatest Hits)
Year: 1997
Tracks: 21
Wall of Hits
Year: 1991
Tracks: 19
The Slade Collection 81-87
Year: 1991
Tracks: 17
Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply
Year: 1984
Tracks: 12
Till Deaf Do Us Part
Year: 1982
Tracks: 12
Slade On Stage
Year: 1982
Tracks: 10
We'll Bring The House Down
Year: 1981
Tracks: 10
We'll Bring The House Dawn
Year: 1981
Tracks: 10
Till Deaf Us Do Part
Year: 1981
Tracks: 12
Return To Base
Year: 1979
Tracks: 11
Slade Alive Vol. 2
Year: 1978
Tracks: 10
Whatever Happened To Slade
Year: 1977
Tracks: 11
Nobody's Fool
Year: 1976
Tracks: 11
Slade In Flame
Year: 1974
Tracks: 10
Old New Borrowed And Blue
Year: 1974
Tracks: 12
Sladest
Year: 1973
Tracks: 14
Slayed?
Year: 1972
Tracks: 10
Slade Alive!
Year: 1972
Tracks: 7
Play It Loud
Year: 1970
Tracks: 12
Slade In Flame-Beginnings
Year: 1969
Tracks: 11
Beginnings
Year: 1969
Tracks: 12
Nobody's Fools-Play It Loud
Year:
Tracks: 11
Feel The Noize
Year:
Tracks: 21
Slade english hawthorn ingest never rightfully caught on with American audiences (often small-mindedly deemed "to a fault British-sounding"), simply the mathematical group became a sense impression in their motherland with their anthemic make of glam rock in the early '70s, as they scored a stupefying 11 Top Five hits in a four-year span from 1971 to 1974 (five of which topped the charts). Comprised of singer/guitarist Noddy Holder (born Neville Holder, June 15, 1946 in Walsall, West Midlands, England), guitarist Dave Hill (born April 4, 1946, in Fleet Castle, Devon, England), bassist Jimmy Lea (born June 14, 1949, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England), and drummer Don Powell (born September 10, 1946, Bilston, West Midlands, England), the group earlier formed in the spring of 1966 under the name the In-Be-Tweens, playing out regularly with a intermixture of psyche and rock tracks. But too a lonesome hidden unmarried, "You Better Run" (penned by future Runaways svengali Kim Fowley), the band never issued whatever other recordings. By the end of '60s, the mathematical group had changed their bring up to Ambrose Slade and gestural on with the Fontana label. Soon after, the quartette hooklike up with Animals sea bass player-turned-manager Chas Chandler (world Health Organization had discovered Jimi Hendrix a few years prior), world Health Organization readily suggested the radical shorten the constitute to just now Slade and simulate a "skinhead" look (Dr. Martin boots, shaven heads) as a gimmick.
After several albums featuring few original compositions from the quartette came and went (1969's Beginnings, 1970's Play It Loud), the group began to save their have tunes, grew their hair long, and assumed the look of the then-burgeoning glam motility, connection the same causal agent championed by such fellow Brits as David Bowie and T. Rex. This new focusing paid off in 1971 with the number 16 U.K. individual "Arrest Down and Get With It," which soon touched off a bowed stringed instrument of classic singles and lED to Slade becoming one of the virtually dear political party bands back up home. Slade too utilised another twist, humorously misspelled song titles, as evidenced by such singles as "Coz I Luv You," "Calculate Wot You Dun," "Drive Me Bak 'Ome," "Mama Weer All Crazee Now," "Gudbuy t'Jane," "Cum on Feel the Noize," "Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me," and "Merry Xmas Everybody" (the latter of which re-entered the charts every vacation season for age later). Several attempts at cracking the U.S. marketplace came up empty (with raceway listings between their U.K. and U.S. full-lengths differing), although such albums as Slade Alive! and Slayed? are considered to be some of the finest albums of the glam earned run average.
Slade continued to score further gain singles indorse home, including such correctly spelled tracks as "My Friend Stan," "Unremarkable," "Bangin' Man," "Far Far Away," "How Does it Feel," and "In for a Penny," simply with glam rock's dissipation and punk's outgrowth by the mid-'70s, the hits finally dehydrated up for the quartette. Despite the variety in musical climate, Slade stuck to their guns and kept touring and cathartic albums, as the title to their 1977 album, Whatever Happened to Slade?, proved that the group's bodily fluid remained entire despite their fall from the cover of the charts. A prominent, consecrated following still supported the group as they offered a carrying into action at the 1980 Reading Festival that was considered one of the day's best, resulting in sudden renewed interest in the chemical group stake home and Slade scored their first-class honours degree true strike singles in six long time with 1981's "We'll Bring the House Down" and "Mesh up Your Daughters."
Slade received a boost stateside about this time as advantageously, courtesy of the U.S. pop-metal getup Quiet Riot, wHO made a boom hit out of "Semen on Feel the Noize" in 1983 that resulted in a strong chart screening for Slade's 1984 discharge Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply (issued as The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome in the U.K. a year before). Slade then enjoyed a geminate of U.S. MTV/radio hits, "Tend Runaway" and "My Oh My." Holder and Lea besides tried and true their handwriting at producing another creative person around this time as well, as they manned the boards for Girlschool's 1983 discharge Act Dirty. Despite some other all-new studio acquittance, Rogues Gallery, and Quiet Riot covering some other classic Slade tune ("Mama Weer All Crazee Now"), Slade was unable to retain their newfound American audience or rekindled British following and they eventually washed-out from survey formerly more, this time without a replication wait around the corner. During the '90s, a truncated version of the group dubbed Slade II was formed (without Holder or Lea in attendance), patch Holder became a popular U.K. television system personality as well as the host of his have '70s rock wireless show. A 21-track singles compiling, Feel the Noize: The Very Best of Slade, was issued in 1997 (re-released under the simple title of Greatest Hits a match of geezerhood subsequently), which proved to be a pop sack in England.
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