Slayed?

3.5 - In an alternate universe T. Rex hears AC/DC and decides to shift their sound slightly to something more macho with less sophisticated sneer. This record might be the result. Hard, glam-inflected rock - kinda cool, kinda dumb. Perfect dive bar playlist fodder.

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imo you should have to pass a minimum threshold of groove and charisma before they let you have a rock band. 4/10

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Yes! It has this weird hybrid of almost Beatles esque sound in some parts but mostly good old dad rock throughout, was exhilarating Favourite song: Track 1 - How D’You Ride?

Bluesy and rough edged rock and roll. Rocks surprisingly hard, yet charming in its way. Fun stuff. Fave Songs: I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen, Move Over, Gudbuy Gudbuy, I Don' Mind, Mama Weer All Crazee Now

Really didn't enjoy the Janis Joplin move over cover, but most of the rest of the album is a pretty energetic, mostly entertaining rock album... though i can't help but think i wouldn't really listen much here as it seems Led Zeppelin was doing everything much better at the time.

Oh, my eyes perked up when I saw this next album. Probably my all time "Glittter Rock" band. They have originals that became hits for some other bands. "Mama, weer all crazy now" covered by "The Runaways" and "Quiet Riot". Quiet Riot's biggest hit "Cum on feel the Noise" was a Slade original. Of course thier cover of Janis Joplin's "Move on over" is pretty ritcheous, love the bass on that song. My all time Favorite Slade song is, "Run, Run Away"(not on this album), still remains heavy on my rotation. If you aren't familiar with it, do yourself a favor and listen.

This album sounds like it should be blaring in the grottiest bar imaginable in Blackpool. Some of the songs do sound like a B-Tec Led Zeppelin, and some of the vocals are incredibly grating. I was surprised by how much of this I enjoyed though, some of it is just meat and potatoes rock and roll done well. And sometimes that's enough to make up for their spelling of 'Goodbye'. Best Track: Gudbuy T'Jane Worst Track: How D'You Ride

Glam rock meets ACDC and it was simply horrrrible!

Really like Move Over, Gudbuy Gudbuy, I Don' Mind. Overall great album.

Consider me slayed. The cover of Janis Joplin’s Move Over is inspiring. I Don’t Mind may be slow paced, but it is powerful. This is a really good find.

Looking at the cover of Slayed? conjures up all sorts of bad vibes in the midst of the late 60s/early 70s sleaze; needlessly shirtless chap, suspicious looking geezers and the admittedly anticlimactic lameness of the album title. Color me sufficiently surprised, though, to hear that the music on here is like a blast of soda pop. It is no wonder that Slade's country folk embraced them and heralded them the patron saints of British rock and roll post-Beatles. Have a listen to Gudbuy T'Jane, Mama Weer All Crazee Now and My Life is Natural in order to come to terms with why. While best digested in short order, there's plenty of gems to be heard in this deluxe form. You'd be crazee to not give this a go. Favorites: The Whole World's Goin' Crazee, Move Over, Gudbuy T'Jane, Gudbuy Gudbuy, Mama Weer All Crazee Now, I Don't Mind, Let the Good Times Roll/Feel So Fine, My Life is Natural, Wonderin' Y, Man Who Speeks Evil.

Slade will always be a christmas band to me, so I went into this fully expecting a joke album. Especially with that haircut 🙈 But wow was I wrong! Actually a pretty good album!! Ended up actually knowing a handful songs too. The guys voice I didn't really like though Slayed? You kinda did 4 ⭐️

A delightful surprise! Never actually heard this band before - mainly just know them for Quiet Riot's cover of their "Cum On Feel The Noise" - I had a lot of fun with it. A few reflections, Larry King style: Makes me want to drink 75 pints of bitters and get punched in the nose...this is what's playing in the background when Ray and Dave Davies are getting into one of their legendary drunken fist fights...they must've inspired AC/DC...the Joplin cover is aces!

These greasers know how to have a good time! I like this strange Zeppelinesque/Beatles/Stones inspired ripoff thing they're doing, and they've given it a little sprinkle of Sabbath for good measure. The dude with the bangs fucks. He's a picture perfect vintage 70's rocker archetype that brings it all together. I like this a lot.

Really fun proto glam rock, if a bit willfully ignorant. Best track: Goodbuy T'Jane

Fun album. I had now idea they stomped so hard. This is proto hair metal (which I guess is what glam was)

horrifically generic and boring glam rock, solidly in the category of "will be impossible to recall exactly how it sounded two months from now"

The mayonaisse of the genre

There isn’t enough in this review about how bad these guys are. I was only a couple songs in when I realized I was getting nothing creatively. The production is poor and completely uninteresting. The instrumentation is alright, but derivative and the writing is so fucking atrocious. I don’t feel I need to explain. “The whole world’s goin’ crazee. Crazee crazee crazee crazee crazee.” The fuck? Not to mention they use the same hokey trop of spelling “crazy” as “crazee” twice on this project like they were really trying to get something going. Every song blends together and sounds like a boring version of every other glam rock artist out there at the time. “The Sweet”, “Rod Stewart”, “Mott the Hoople”, etc. Also the two covers on this record are insulting. I have no respect for this thing. Sorry. 1/5

I was 10 years old when this album was released. I didn't hear it until a little later, but it was thanks to Slade, among other things, that my musical tastes were formed in great detours. Nostalgia? Not a trace.

Sometimes a cover tells you all you need to know. One of their albums (till deaf do us part) has a bent 6 inch nail hammered into an earhole. And I now believe these man-boys of Wolverhampton had no more meaningful or artistic ambition than to 'ave a go and cash in on the crap glam rock era. They sure 'ave succeeded in making satirically aweful music. But why did they make so much of it? As if english food, and the weather wasnt enough.

So good. You can hear so many of rhe bands they will go on to influence

My dad bought this on release. I'm not sure why, I think he only played it once. I played it a lot, still play it occasionally. I absolutely love it. Favourite songs have changed over the years, from Gudbye T'Jane or Mama weer Crazee Now to Look At Last Night.

great album

I was surprised to see a Slade album on this list. I'd really only heard the Quiet Riot versions of their songs. I enjoyed this a lot. High quality good time rock and roll.

A rocking good time.

Enjoyed.

Hard rock setentero. Vinilo.

I'll be the first to admit the lyrics are a bit trite, but that sound of Noddy Holder's highly distinctive vocals, fuzzed up guitars and pounding drums, oh man that sound is freaking awesum. I wish there was a contemporary band with this sort of ballsy rock.

This album has a great amount of rock styles and variety. Every song was good and you can tell there’s a lot of talent on the roster. Solid listen.

Nothing but bangers all the way through. What a blast.

So much fun! And great fucking songs. 5 stars album. Great old-school Brit rock.

Once in a while the UK bias of this list pays off. I doubt this album would be here otherwise. Like most Americans my age, we first heard Slade on their song Run Runaway. It was only years later I found out two of Quiet Riots biggest hits were both Slade songs, so I had to look into them. I've only listened to their greatest hits and live albums, but I can say I'm a fan. This is my first time listening to a studio album. It's just good, fun, stripped down rock & roll at its finest. You can tell the band is having fun playing. I had fun listening to all 10 songs. Gudbuy T'Jane and Mama Weer All Crazee Now were the ones I knew best, so they were my favorites.

I usually get bored with some pure classic rock bands but I loved this entire thing. Will definitely be looking into their other stuff. Rating: 4.8

I like it

Hard rock setentero. Vinilo.

Man I love this band. How did I not know of them until this year? Crazy. They are the original party band. Catchy, straight-forward rock & or roll. Love it!

Heavy glam boogie stomp goodness

Fantastic rock album! So engaging, stands the test of time.

The British equivalent of AC/DC but yammier and funnier. Underrated musicianship too. That backline is deceptively funky and tight for what is glam rock fun. Brilliant.

feeling generous, but its definitely a strong 4

Wow. Never heard of these guys, but super into their energy and sound. Raucous and dirty. Listen loud!

Pretty dynamic, it reminds me of sounds from Queen, Elo, or Oingo Boingo. Probably a good album to listen to while driving. I listened to some other albums by Slade, and I absolutely loved them! Favs: Dontcha stop Moving in Stereo

Good fun - almost AC/DC without the nudge nudge wink wink of it all - and maybe not as good either. However the record was a fun listen and a welcome on days when high pitched sneer shouts and rock and roll guitars are what you’re after.

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p261. 1972. 4 stars. Once you get past the platform shoes and flares, you find the spiritual British cousins of Creedence Clearwater Revival. No-nonsense pub rock with one of THE great vocalists. Point deducted for the redundant covers.

Funsies

A pretty good album, I liked Look At Last Nite and I Don't Mind the most.

Not sure I would go listen to the record, maybe for a party. The music is pretty good though. I could definitely see them in concert. That would be fun.

I wonder how well known Slade are outside of the UK. Here, everybody known them for Meery Xmas Everyone because it’s played extensively every year. They do still have a few other songs regularly played, such as this album’s Mama Weer All Crazee Now. Noddy Holder has a very distinctive voice, which I would completely understand if somebody said he sounds awful, but I personally quite like him. He’s got that shrill distortion that Bon Scott also had. This album is old school rock and roll through and through, and it’s pretty easy to enjoy if you can cope with the vocals.

Fun

88% Best: How D'You Ride; Look at Last Nite; Move Over; Gudbuy T'Jane; Mama Weer All Crazee Now Must-Hear? Sure

A howling approach Laid out on noisy rhythms Straight forward hard rock

3.5

I honestly thought this was 15 years younger than it actually is. Gotta give credit for inventing hair metal.

Sounds like AC/DC but they needed more time in the oven

Early hair metal, good fun

There's been a lot of dumb, howling 70s rock on this list (maybe call it "jock 'n' roll"?) but man, this one takes the cake, in a great way. It's got some little glam flourishes that remind me of Faces (if they were good) or T. Rex. It's got the riffs and good-time atmosphere that an AC/DC record would have. It's just fun. Headbangable fun. Favorite tracks: "Look At Last Nite", "I Don't Mind"

Good

The first band I really liked, the first album I bought with my own cash and what I joy to hear it again. Proof that Slade were, first and foremost, a great rock n roll band, not just the brilliant Gubuy to Jane and Mama Weer All Crazee Now, but also the Whole Worlds Going Crazy and How D'You Ride. But there are also moments like Look at Last Nite that reveal a more sensitive side to Slade that foreshadowed Slade in Flame. There are a few fillers but overall a real blast of an album

I wouldn’t choose to listen to it again. Was pretty good though ha

4 stars. Never heard of them but I really liked them

I would have loved this in high school. Not much imagination though. They rock, don't get me wrong, but in the most derivative way possible.

It's Slade!

Early 70's Scottish hard rock, what's not to like.

What a great glam album.

This was so fun! Slade reminds me of car journeys growing up. Almost certainly featured of the aforementioned air guitar album. Such a solid tunes. Iconic riffs. Put me in a good mood.

That was great fun for what it is, a load of rocking. I love those songs that are just liked 'we're a rocking and a rolling and it's a big rocking party and look at us we're rocking and looking at you, you're rocking too, we'll all having a big ol' rock 'n' roll party'

Really good. Like a punk version of Led Zeppelin.

Really good album. Never heard before. Reminded me of some of my favorite singers/groups of that time.

It's a blessed relief to hear non-Christmas Slade songs! 🙏 Straight ahead party hard rock, it's a fun listen. Amuses me that they spelled the song titles as they did, but Noddy's singing voice is actually pretty well enunciated - he doesn't drop the H when singing "I won't let it happen again", for example. I suppose a full on Wolverhampton accent while singing probably wouldn't fly though, heh. Fave tracks - "I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen", "Mama Weer All Crazee Now", and "I Don' Mind" for the originals - their cover of "Move Over" is pretty good too!

I've never heard of this band but liked it. Seemed like 80s hair metal rock before the 80s.

Love the first song

British arena rock. It will sound like a lot of other bands that came after it.

honest and classic seventies rock

All I came to do was to Cum On Feel the Noize and instead I had to listen to some fun glam.

Nothing too memorable, but each track is solid with some standing out more than others and all quite enjoyable. Like the music style, the singers voice and find it surprising this album came out in the early 70s. Feels like early hair metal on some tracks.

Well, I'm already familiar with Slade, having heard the two songs of theirs covered by Quiet Riot. In fact, one of those songs "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" is on this album. It's clear from listening to Slayed? that this is pure 70s hard rock bliss, where Noddy Holder delivers powerful snarly vocals while the rest of the band plays well for raunchy party anthems. It's the dumb kind of fun if the sound and misspelled song titles are to go by. If you can get into that mindset, then absolutely give it a shot.

They certainly have a distinct sound. I understand the popularity but it's just not for me.

Generic rock but I liked it.

I had this album when I was very young and was singing along with all the tracks whilst listening. Great to see such positivity from people who have never heard it before. Good time rock n roll. A solid 4/5.

Good music to listen to whilst enjoying a bostin cup a soup.

Enjoyed this a lot, quite nostalgic for me. Extra points given for the black country connection.

Helt okej hårdrocksalbum. Lyssnade igenom flera gånger och kan säga att det är en del schyssta låtar men inget direkt speciellt. Snubben med hårdrockspottfrillan gör det mycket bättre dock. Skulle säga att det är en stark 3a därför får den 4.

Quand même pas pire pour du garage rock sale de mononcle, ça roll sur un 10 cenne

Ridiculous, I love it. Song 10 is maybe my fav.

Really fun album! I’m honestly surprised I haven’t heard any of these songs before. I would come back to this.

i really wanted to give these guys 5 stars out of the gate but the fact is the poor bastards couldn’t be expected to write a whole album, they get 4 stars for the singles and the cover

That was a pleasant surprise, given I only knew them from their christmas song.

70s Glam Rock. Ok. +2 for Move Over 4/5

Slade are honestly a very underrated band. This album came out in 1972 so preceded bands such as AC/DC, so at the time Slade's sound must have been really quite unique. This album doesn't really have any filler and is just generally a fun time all around.

Didn’t know what I was getting. It was fun and I’d put some of these songs on at a BBQ or party for the energy and to get my friends scratching their heads. Is it earth shattering or revolutionary? Probably not.

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Gudbuy T’jane, Gudbuy gudbuy, Mama weer all crazee now, I don’t mind

Loving a bit of Slade. Bringing back memories of dad listening to this on vinyl

Enjoyable bobbins.

I enjoyed this more than I expected I would. It definitely rocks, and the softer tunes are, well, tuneful.

You can really hear what would become the hard rock and heavy metal of the later 70’s in this one.

Haven’t heard much British rock in this project that’s party riffs and a general upbeat style of rock and roll. This is definitely preferred to most of the other British rock albums that have been presented here. Pretty fun listen.

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