As a greatest hits set by one of the most popular bands around, it found its way into many a Christmas stocking, and BMG are no doubt hoping this reissue will do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s on blue and white splatter vinyl rather than the black, and housed in a single sleeve rather than the original gatefold, but is otherwise a faithful reproduction, right down to the LP-sized inner booklet.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nIrritatingly, that includes the rear cover tracklist, which still bears no resemblance whatsoever to the songs in the order they appear on the record!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I never did understand why Polydor had done that, but 49-year quibbles aside, this remains an album to get any party started, packed full of their biggest hits so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Any music lover of a certain age will know Cum On Feel The Noize<\/em>, Look Wot You Dun<\/em>, Gudbuy T’Jane<\/em> and Skweeze Me Pleeze Me<\/em> – and that’s just from side one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Side two continues in the same vein, with Take Me Bak ‘Ome<\/em>, Coz I Luv You<\/em>, Get Down And Get With It<\/em> and Mama Weer All Crazee Now<\/em> – super glam-rock stompers, one and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They’re the riff-filled singalongs which most people bought this album for, but the six tracks from their pre-fame albums show a different side to Slade and will perhaps intrigue the casual listener most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s the 1969 non-album single Wild Winds Are Blowing<\/em>; One Way Hotel<\/em>, Pouk Hill<\/em>, The Shape Of Things To Come<\/em> and Know Who You Are<\/em> from 1970’s Play It Loud<\/em> album; and Look At Last Night<\/em> from 1972’s Slayed?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n They show that beneath the glam-rock trimmings, there’s an accomplished hard rock band trying to get out – something that wouldn’t be recognised until 1980, when they enjoyed an unexpected revival after becoming a late addition to Reading Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sadly, the biggest Slade hit of them all, Merry Xmas Everybody<\/em>, is missing, as it didn’t come out until the first week in November (though it’s on the 20-track CD edition).<\/p>\n\n\n It is available as a four-track 12in on coloured vinyl, pictured above<\/em>, as is a deluxe reissue of 1985’s Crackers – The Christmas Party Album<\/em>, full of hits old and new and a few fun covers too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Go on, treat yourself or the Slade fan in your life – you know you want to feel the noize!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ALBUM REVIEW: Slade – Sladest (BMG Records)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,2397],"tags":[2188,2398],"class_list":["post-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-review","category-glam-rock","tag-slade","tag-sladest"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"slade\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ipamusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/slade-pic-by-barry-plummer.jpg?resize=640%2C661\")
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