Reviews (page 6 of 7)
Ok, not awesome. 2.5
Why is this on the list? Seemed unremarkable
[How D'You Ride] had a strong start but soon became repetitive, [The Whole World's Goin' Crazee] is understandably iconic albeit I couldn't sit through the entire song (could probably do so if it came on the radio). [Look at Last Nite] had a darker? tone and it felt shorter than the others. The rest of the songs blended into one sound for me, apart from one or two slower ones.
I mean, it does live and represent a genre well. Decent sound but not great. Sure, have it on the list. I'm not listening to it often. It's good for when it came out and clearly influenced a lot of stuff, but is more fun than smart or especially good. Bar rock
Trying to be a hard rock band and not succeeding. Singles good.
Almost my first one star but some of it was pretty decent, some of the bass and some of the riffs - lots of it not for me though
Not terrible, but not that great either.
Not great
Generic rock album number... I lost count.
Reminiscent of The Who, Clash, AC/DC. Not huge on this as I’m not a big fan of ANY of the aforementioned bands. Coarse classic rock n roll vocals with a rhythm and blues backing that is unmistakably of the era. 2.5/5
Mama Weer All Crazy Now is super cool. The rest sounded better and more sophisticated than Motorhead but not by a huge margin.
2.4 1x catch up 8/11
this is what you'd get if the guy from ac/dc sang over royalty-free glam rock for an hour. hard pass. favorites: look at last nite, mama weer all crazee now, let the good times roll/feel so fine
Proto britpop
His was entertaining. Didn’t know there were hair bands in the early 70s. 2.95
Eh not that good.
This is kinda cheeks innit? Like T Rex if it was stupid. Like Alice Cooper but less entertaining. The best song here is probably Move Over, but Slade doesn’t really add much to the original in their cover it’s just an already great song. Not a fan.
5/10
Glam jams. Kiss+Alice Cooper esque.
This album starts with its worst, but gets better on the B-side, especially with the slower songs. I feel like energetic old-school hard rock about the pleasures of rockstar life didn’t age well in general. Can’t say I’m the biggest fan of the vocals here. Basically, nothing exciting happens vocal-wise through the album, though in some songs he sounds better than in others (Look At Last Nite). The instrumentals in Gudbuy Gudbuy shine (but repetitive one-word chorus grates fast). When you realize Ziggy and The Slider happened in the same year, Slayed? starts to sound dated and unimaginative too. Best: Look At Last Nite, Gudbuy Gudbuy, I Don't Mind
I'm pretty fine with the sound of a lot of this but nothing really stuck with me. And normally that would probably be a 3, hooowever here the singer's voice is actually kinda annoying to me!
I'm sorry, but this just didn't do it for me. The hard rock bits sounded like worse versions of any 70s hard rock I like, and the glam rock bits sounded like worse Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie.
There's 0 chance I listen to this again, but to their credit I could see this going crazee hard in '72. Standouts: I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen • Gudbuy Gudbuy • I Don't Mind
I do not care for this level of dad rock right now
Started fun, then kinda got old.
Pros: The album came out in 1972 and you can hear that this album clearly played a role in many later released glam rock albums. Cons: The lead singers voice is not my cup of tea as there is plenty of screaming on the album. The major issue I have with the album though are the terrible and unimaginative lyrics.
If Rock'n'Roll is a stew then this record (and every other record like it) is the potatoes...or the carrots. Yes, let's go with the carrots. Which is to say that while the stew might not be the same without the carrots...at the end of the day, it's just carrots, y'know? What I'm saying is I haven't heard this album before and yet, I've heard this album before, dozens of times. It wasn't unpleasant - it was just carrots.
Repulsive 💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻
Meh. Like warmed-over Zeppelin.
Negative aura. No slay 🖤😞🥀⛓
I genuinely really liked Look at Last Nite, but the rest of it is just hard rock. They really didn’t need to describe Jane as “so young… so young” I also can’t shake the feeling that there was some troop company in the Vietnam War that preferred to play How D’You Ride over Fortunate Son Gudbuy Slade. Without you, who knows where Quiet Riot would be today. And who cares
2.4 I like slade but there wasnt much for me that stood out as being super groundbreaking or anything. Bass playing is pretty busy but it seems to work ok
Rating: 5/10 Meh.
Kinda dull
Generic blues boogie rick
They asked the question & answered in their own album cover! “Slayed?” Thumbs sideways. MID AF is right dudes.
This sounds like the kind of thing that my little brother would listen to in high school and I would tolerate it as I didn’t totally hate it but it wasn’t anything I would ever seek out on my own. 2.5/5
2. Terrible
mid
A mix mash of songs that sound like other bands. Pretty forgettable. 4/10
We have Led Zeppelin at home
my ears hurt
1000% the soundtrack to some 60-70 year olds senior year of high school. What I picture the kids from Dazed and Confused would listen to while cruising around with absolutely nothing to do. It was probably sick then, but now? Now all I can hear is how this would be perfect for an Arcade or a clothing store ran by some old fart who refuses to listen to music past 1981.
not bad but not too original for the time
🎧I’d need to be at a dive bar and 2-3 beverages deep to potentially enjoy this
Slade are to glam as Oasis are to Britpop. Working-class have-a-go's whose rudimentary stomping rock produced multiple hits for a largely male teen demographic and completely out of step with the aesthetic and pageantry of the movement they were thrown in with. Slade wore platforms like Noel Gallagher carried a Union Jack guitar, to ride a wave, but without seeming like a try-hard or a sell-out - they certainly didn't care how they looked. My uncle Paul liked Slade. My mother liked T-Rex. They were not sharing a pop cultural moment. Neither, do I think, were Oasis lads part of the same moment as the girls who liked Suede. Noddy Holder's lyrics don't mean much more to me than Noel Gallagher's - something about being young and hedonistic, there's a sort of life-affirming freedom in them. Being crazee is good, I think. While it ain't art, there's a time for such dumb, up-lifting thundering. I'm not saying it has to be Christmas, but I understand why it is Christmas. Also, I like that, while the band all went to the trouble of writing Slade on their fingers for the cover, Don Powell went and tapped his up as if he couldn't resist having a drum while the photographer set up. The thumbs, wavering like Roman Emperors, adjudicating whether or not the record slays us or not is just proof that they don't care. Their decision will never be communicated to us. The thumbs hover at maybe indefinitely. 2 Jesus Christ, this is awful. I’ve always liked Slade, which is to say I’ve never really listened to them beyond 3 songs, but it felt safe to assume that when Noddy Holder popped up on Radcliffe and Maconie and amused me with witty and erudite commentary on things that happened 30 years ago (now 50 years ago) that his band were bound to be highly enjoyable if perhaps artistically frivolous. No, not so. Shite is what they are. I think I actually recall them being shite in ‘Slade in Flame’ the one time I watched the film but of course they were playing characters from a different band so I didn’t make any assumptions. This was a tough listen. Here is an album that has nothing to say about Christmas. 1.5/5
I cared little for this. I’m gonna type few words bc this slop of boring butt rock is worth few words. 2 stars
quiet riot did cum on feel the noize better
Nah
The quality of songwriting has to be very strong for me to enjoy the wider sound, and unfortunately in this album that quality is lacking. Some OK songs, but overall really not very interesting.
I didn’t dislike it but thought it was nothing special and I’m going tougher with rankings now, sorry Noddy
Repetitive songs with repetitive lyrics. Stick to the Xmas songs lads
Meh.
It's like the Beatles, with zero finesse.
Ik niet echt leuk
Wow - right off the top, reminded me of untalented AC/DC, and could not get past that. I jumped around a bit but... not there for me. The album cover is pretty scary... [take a good luck - you'll get the vibe...]
Album 765 of 1089 Slade - Slayed? (1972) Rating : 2.35 / 5 Hard Rock with a little glam rock mixed in. It had its moments but just didn't connect. They're said to have been a glam rock force but that bit of history must have gotten by me.
This sounds like a million other classic rock songs. AC/DC and Kiss. Maybe if I was alive at the time I could discern the good from the bad or the original from the derivative. Weird blues songs about liking young girls. All these band couldn't help but be creepy. Mama Weer all Crazee Now sounds like it deserved to be a single and it pretty good for this genre.
I was expecting something like Bowie or T. Rex but this sounds more like AC/DC meets Led Zep. Not for me.
Meh that was not very good 2/5
maybe it slayed in 1972 but I found it pretty middling in 2025. would give it 2.5 stars if I could! I will round up.
From the crate of my dads vinyl collection with terribly dated rock. Some tracks has a pretty tight stomp though, a certain undeniable propulsion. Dumb rock is hit or miss for me though, and this is certainly most misses.
After a seven-month hiatus of perservering through this joyous list, I'm faced with Slade. This was very average rock, which felt like it wanted to be T-Rex but didn't quite reach those amibitions. I also felt annoyed by the spelling of the songs so minus a point for that
Bad 70s rock, goes along with the haircuts. Of its time, one better left where it was. I only just realized their ‘Move Over’ was a cover, which is obvious but for whatever reason I never linked them together. Doesn’t help any though really.
Listened Before? N Meh. I don't get what makes this a must listen. Just seems like another rock album. Nothing really stood out to me here. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Gudbuy T'Jane
Slayed my balls
I don't know why this is here. It sounds awful. Maybe two OK songs? I survived the whole thing though, so it gets two stars.
נחמד
Well this just opens itself to a world of puns from 2025. We have reviewed 10 albums from 1971 and this is the 10th from 1972. Did the musical world peak in these two years? Through my findings, I’d have to say absolutely not. But hey. The list loves these two years. We return to the Time Machine and turn that dial to the grooviest time for music and worst time for haircuts. Let’s. Get. SICKENING. How D’You Ride - well, slade, I sort of jump onto the board and put my foot near the… oh. He doesn’t care. He’s kinda shouting over me. Is this Sam Kinison? I like the general grit here, but the repetition is a lil bit nauseatin’ guvna. The Whole World’s Goin’ Crazee - It is?? Even back then? Nyah man. I thought these were the good ol days? It’s almost as if nostalgia colours the past and worry colours the present. Wild. Anyway, this song was truly horrible. Look at Last Nite - Hey fellas. Are we going to get a song without a misspelling here? This is going fairly well. Enjoying the bassline and the energy is there. Kind of trails off near the end unfortunately. I Won’t Let It ‘Appen Agen - The energy is getting more focused. It’s almost as if these guys are learning the craft of songwriting and musical theory as the album continues. I’m expecting a masterpiece by track uhhh SEVENTEEN. Oh blimey. Move Over - Cue that clip of the fans celebrating an Wngland goal in the World Cup. Beers everywhere for the correct spelling and for a HEAVY rock song here. Hell yeah. This style is so played out now, but having never heard this until now, it hits pretty hard for the day. Killer. Gudbuy T’Jane - I have to be honest, I don’t even know what this means. Well. There it is. Buddy enunciates way better than the song titles may advertise. She may be a queen, but this song is a tribute fit for a lowly countess of a regional hold in the *shudder* Eastern Reach. At best. Gudbuy Gudbuy - A tribute to Best Buy. Mama Weer All Crazy Now - man this thing went forever. I Don’t Mind - This is dragging fellas. We were supposed to be improving as time went on. Let the Good Times Roll/Feel So Fine - the song title takes up the whole text box here. It’s also taking up my time. I’m getting tired. I’m embarrassed. I went on a tirade about a bunch of songs that weren’t even in the album after this point. Well it wasn’t really a tirade. I just thought the album was too long. Can we just have a historically accurate discography database and let the freaks who want to listen to slightly louder guitar on Slade have their own wing in Spotify. I want to listen to the original release. Is that too much for a boy who may or may not be on the spectrum to ask??? Anyway. Slade asked me if they Slayed and mama, the house remains standing girl. I want to apologize to the band and especially the guy with the serf phenotype on the right. He looks like he needs it the most. Moments of fun, too much pap and in the end, simply not enough serving of the err, can I say that? I’ll let you enlightened readers fill in the last part. Tally ho. 2-2.5 HIGHLIGHTS: I Won’t Let It ‘Appen Agen, Move Over
Probably better live. Or on vinyl.
British glam rock that could make some fun partying music (but for someone else, not me). Doesn’t take itself too seriously and is just here for a good time. Some decent riffs and vocal melodies, but outside of that I’m not finding much of interest. I instantly don’t dig the vocal sound, though that wears off over time. Maybe it sounded fresher at release, but the sound doesn’t fully hold up.
Slayed? Nope. Honestly these dudes just play generic rock from their era and the singer is just yelling into the mic the whole time. Not really a fan. 4/10
some decent songwriting here- in the vein of rock n' roll stompers. vocals are often a bit higher pitched than I like; they're kind of like a dollar-store led zepplin with really stupid lyrics. anyway. nice to experience the band whose song dominated a year of my youth via quiet riot. but i'll never listen to it again.
The first half of the album never quite gets there. The Gudbuy T’Jane Song is creepy but the rest of the second half is decent.
Not bad, less novelty than I was expecting.
This strained my patience right off the bat and granted, it's hard to commit to a Big Dumb Rock record like this in the middle of a work day. I warmed to it slightly as it went on. Wonderin Y is a legit good song and Look at Last Nite and I Won't Let it 'Appen Agen both managed to pique some interest, despite the tiresome, deliberately misspelled song titles. I don't love the singer at all. Mostly I hear in this the roots of many lamentable things: AC/DC, Twisted Sister, Motley Crue, etc. I could have easily died without listening to this, turns out.
Ugh , I referenced this band last week in the T rex entry but didn't know they actually had an lp on the list. The UK authors of the list seem to be desperate to find tolerable lps from bands that had a lot of hot singles (slade: 17 uk top 20s between 1971 and 1976, including 6 number 1s, according to the latest print edition of Dimery's book). So we get entries like this and THREE lps from dexys midnight runners. I feel like a us based list would have ignored both dexys and slade in favor of something like Pinback's s/t lp because trying to squeeze a competent album from a singles band is a mugs game. I still mostly know this band from the two Quiet Riot covers. I get that uk listeners may have a nostalgic fondness for this band that north Americans don't understand but I still can't give slade a 3 based on hearing this.
Led Zeppelin does Led Zeppelin better than Slade does Led Zeppelin.
The glamest of Glam Rock albums? Maybe, but that is all there is to it. 2/5
Pretty boring classic rock. Reminded me of T. Rex. 2.5
so england
Had their ancestors been petty criminals and sent to the British penal colony of Australia they may have turned out as a slightly mellower AC/DC. Pretty straightforward 70's rock. Nothing remarkable but not bad. 2.5 stars
The song titles on this album piss me off so much.
Meh
Not really my cup of tea sadly. Like the guys haircut though 4/10
I really disliked whatever vocal effect they abused throughout this.
Pretty dated.
Very generic glam rock from another band I've never heard of in this genre and time. The only song I recognized on this album was "Move Over" because it's a cover of Janis Joplin's original (and not nearly as good). I liked the rough edges but overall used cliche' rock tropes and other bands just did it all better. This is bonafide dad rock through and through. I hate the weird spellings on the track names and don't even get me started on the band name/album name thing. 2.0
Some original hair band music with a little more heart than what was produced in the 80s. Still not doing much for me like most of this genre. We all know their big hit but it isn't on this album so I'm hoping they don't make the list again for it. A take or leave it album with not much of a lasting effect. I'm sure they Slayed? it in their time but for me this gets 1.7...Goodbuy mates.
Nothing special but it's always a treat to get a decent rock album from a band I've never heard of. Almost felt like a conglomeration of a handful of 70's rock bands that had one-off hits (Quiet Riot, Ratt, Great White, Warrant, etc.). I can see how Slade could have gotten lost in the mix but it seems like they've been doing their thing for a little while so maybe their albums have some legs. Middle of the pack entry. 2.35 stars
Nothing special
I love Slade - the idea of Slade, anyway. They’re a uniquely British, kind of funny band and their hits are amazing - the Christmas one, obviously, but also “Mama We’re Oorll crazee noo “ or however you spell it… But. Whenever it comes to listening to a whole album, I always find it a bit disappointing. The album tracks just don’t can’t it I’m afraid. I’m sorry lads. I think this is a 2. Not a malicious 2. But a 2.
‘Slayed?’ is fun overall, but slight, and feels dated in a way that Bowie, T-Rex and other glammers don’t. The bogan spelling of a lot of the song titles also annoys me. ‘I Won’t Let It ‘Appen Agen’, ‘Move Over’ and ‘Gudbuy T’Jane’ are the best songs here.
Good, perhaps even great—pleasantly surprised by this
No thanks.
Album cover and title so dumb that it's kinda funny. Song titles trying to be dumb-funny but don't make it. Starts off sounding like you'd described AC/DC to a bunch of Brits who'd never heard AC/DC and thought maybe it was kinda like Aftermath by the Rolling Stones. Then starts to sound like Led Zeppelin said "we should keep all our dumbest stuff, but also try to sound more like AC/DC". Then a little bit of if Bowie was more dumb and less fun. Somewhere in there is some weird rumbly stuff that's kinda cool. It's actually kinda alright. The perfect thing for you if you need a song to play in a movie scene that sounds kinda familiar, but the audience has definitely not heard. And also won't remember or ever think about again. music: hated. (⌐■_■)
Surprisingly quite a lot better than the average American glam rock I’ve heard in my life. Maybe because they’re English, it tracks more as Spinal Tap to me, which makes me like it more. Or maybe it’s because yesterday I listened to Steely Dan, and it was nice to follow that up with something that sounds like it was made by people who at least kinda enjoy making music.
Kinda like AC/DC and T.Rex, but way worse. I know of Slade for two reasons; their very average (but remarkably enduring) Christmas song, and a certain BBC6 DJ (my favourite one) from northern England who loves to play them occasionally. I'm fine with both of those, but I now know that I really don't need any more Slade in my life, no matter how it's spelled. On that subject, minus a star for the atrocious spelling on this album.
Disliked intensely!!
It’s fine. Reminds me a bit of Meatloaf but not as good.
So boring and played out there’s really nothing about this album to remember it sounds like a water down version of every other 70s rock band.
Ok, some songs were good, but please stop screaming at me...
Some of this album, I couldn't wait for the song to be over; the vocals in particular could be grating at times. Still, there were other moments that weren't so bad, although nothing surprised me or blew me away or made me ponder. Some of it sounded like they were definitely going for a Led Zeppelin sound, but then it seemed like this band is also a bridge to those '80s LA hair bands, which I generally don't like and find to be corny. All in all, this one didn't do too much for me. 2.5
I didn't really know how to take this one. It was typical 70s rock, but the vocals had a bit bit of cheesiness to them. Some interesting riffs but the album did not do much for me. Seems like a precursor to hair band rock.
Of its time
Ok
She's a queen can't you see what I mean; She's a queen See, see, she's a queen And I know she's alright, alright, alright, alright I say you're so young, you're so young I said goodbye to Jane, goodbye to Jane Get a kick from her Forties trip boots Goodbye to Jane, goodbye to Jane, has them made to match up to her suits Mom: No, we already have AC/DC at home. 2/5
Liked their hits in the 70s but wouldn’t listen to them now unless they happened to be on the radio. 2*
This really annoyed me. How the fuck have we gone from Tutti Frutti to this in 17 years? This is not rock and roll. It's so straight down the middle, while acting like it's all crazy and quirky and look at our silly hats. Ugh Glam.
This album makes me feel sad. It's not supposed to.
Music is ok for a while, quickly gets a bit samey and tiring. Unforgivable spelling though, so they lose a point for that.
Solid rock
No. Why is this here? Really?
Stadium Rock? Bar Rock? En cualquier caso, ya pasó su fecha de caducidad
strong 2.5 tho!
Didn’t really care for it
Half ass album
Slayed? No you did not
There is no deeper meaning here - it's shallow 70s glam rock. 'Look at Last Nite' is a highlight but there is very little else that stuck with me.
Slade is doing Slade-stuff. It’s overrated.
Siendo una clara influencia para la carrera de los australianos AC/DC, y por lo tanto del género del "Hard Rock", "Slayed?" de Slade cuenta con poderosas guitarras y voces carrasposas que atacan a quien escucha el LP agresivamente, con un tinte de glam rock británico. Sin embargo, encuentro que la producción en la pieza es de las peores que he escuchado en esta lista. La batería está enterrada a 5 kilómetros de los micrófonos, mientras las guitarras revientan la mezcla principal, para tratar de competir contra la voz. Para qué hablar del bajo, casi ni se escucha. ¿Influyente? Sí ¿Bueno? No.
Bad glam rock...
not for me
This one was hard to get into. I'm a fan of the era, but this didn't seem to be anything stellar from that time period.
All I knew about Slade was Cum on Feel the Noise (because the Quiet Riot cover). This album is kinda fun in a hair band before hair bands were a thing way- but I don’t want to hear it again.
Walmart brand AC/DC
This was a pretty meh listen for me. Lots of the songs just did their thing and went by without any kind of big "wow" moments. Unfortunately I predict that it will be kind of forgettable and I don't see myself coming back to listen based off of hooks that lingered in my head. 2/5, album cover is cheesy but funny in a nice way?
Run-of-the-mill 70's British rock. Don't really care for it. No standout tracks.
I found this a bit of a struggle. It's not a great set of songs. Sure, the glam/metal edge to it was interesting and for a time they were "huge" in the UK. But it really hasn't dated well.
I love Slade at Christmas It is not Christmas I did not love Slade
I was gonna give it three, but that guys' ripples are just too much.
Someone teach these mfs how to spell, I thought I was having stroke trying to sound them out aloud.
Ugh. If this was an 80's band, I'd call it hack. But it's from 1972. So it's at the root of the crap I had to listen to in the 1980s. Then I head a song I recognized and thought, oh, here's a reason they persisted. Then it dawned on me it was a Janis Joplin song that they seemed to have taken into the alley behind the studio, pissed on, then added it to the album.
Stór hluti plötunnar er bara þreytandi. Tvö lög sem ég fíla vel. Restin la la.
Definitely was not expecting this kind of band. This is alright. Noy my style of rock.
Lots of terrible. Weak songwriting, simplistic junk. Some of the second half is a small redemption but I don’t want to encourage future me to listen to it again.
This is not the Slade you're looking for... Slayed Alive is the way.
i didn't feel the noize
Did not enjoy this - the vocals are very grating and the music is pretty dull dad rock
Like AC/DC with less screaming
Not essential
Sure it rocks, but it is rock by numbers for knobheads - it was in 1972 and is in 2024, I can't believe anyone loves this music
There was a time when this singles-band was the biggest thing on the planet, but personally, I don't find it a big loss they've mostly been forgotten.
weak rock, can't get over them not just being a Christmas novelty act and based on this album don't think I ever will. 2
Not a terrible album, just a very generic sound. I enjoy the vocals but there is nothing unique about the instrumentals at all. I'm sure someone enjoys this album, it's just not me.
Not a very good album from Wolverhampton's 2nd finest. Mama Weer All Crazee Now was a landmark single when I heard it as a boy. I didn't think music could get more exciting. I was very wrong. (But I still like that song, of course).
Not bad but very uninspired. Background music esque
no hate that was also kinda boring, probably because I'm not a major rock n roll fiend but it wasn't shite
2.5 Can't say there is anything bad here, but it is not a good sign that I was not moved positively or negatively after an hour of listening. The whole thing feels competent and maybe they're foundational for what came later, but I was pretty bored throughout.
Led balloon
2.5
Is Christmas already?
Noisy, but just not quitebthe rightvsort of noise. Kinda folk heros but never really engaged me. Still that guys fringe is epic.
I only knew the cartoonish (but undeniably great) big hits, this was very competent (apart from the lyrics perhaps) but felt kind of stuck between glam & blues-ey rock - never really matched up to its contemporaries in either direction.
That is such a naff cover. The music is mainly a poor man's Ziggy Stardust. Noddy Holder can sing, but the songs are only really of interest if you're a Glam Rock fan. Sounds very dated too. That said, I can imagine Led Zeppelin might've been vocally influenced by this. 'Move Over', for example, is a raw rock 'n' roll number with a pretty funky bass in the verse and some good drumming, guitar and vocals. That's about the highlight of it. Not my cuppa.
Sounds like the origin of a lot of shitty 80’s rock.
These guys are like the worst parts of all the great rock bands of their time.
2.5/5
Sort of generic, partly annoying, but mostly forgettable. The Joplin cover and the other cover were the only tracks I really enjoyed. Also I’m mildly triggered by all the track title misspellings. 2.4 stars
Not my cup of tea a two and that’s generous
Pretty forgettable
This was honestly more difficult to get through than I thought it would be. It started off strong because it felt like a rock album, but towards the end, I got kind of bored and it just felt like very ongoing. I can still understand why it’s good and, it’s not horrible however, not as good as I thought it would be. Too long.
I do like how polite they are in the promo voiceovers. But it's a lot of the same.
Workaday glam rock, competently executed, but nothing that stands out as overly memorable.
very forgettable
Comon' feel the noise! That's exactly what this album is :-(
Not as awful as I thought it was going to be based off the cover, but still not something that I will find myself revisiting. 2.5/5
It's classic rock. It's good classic rock, but I'm not really a classic rock kinda guy. Probably enjoyed My Life is Natural the most.
Really unmemorable and kinda annoying.
nah. deducted a star for those cringey song titles
Glam rock is near the bottom of my music genre tier list. This album didn't do anything to change my mind on that front. My favorite song on the album was Move Over, which isn't written by this group. My least favorite song was Gudbuy T'Jane where they just kept repeating "she's so young". It always feels creepy when a band full of men does that, and I feel like it happens a lot in this era.
didn't slay, unfortunately 😄🙄 wonderin', y
did not slay
Struck me as the epitome of “meh”. Lots of generic guitar noodling with mediocre songwriting.
2 - It's boring and a bit repetitive, as I was worried it might be. Anything I enjoyed got repeated so many times that I didn't care anymore. Not much else to say. I'll probably forget that I listened to it.
Nice
Its classic 70's rock a la Motley Crue. Just not my music.
Not for me
If I stumbled upon this band in a country pub on a Friday night, I would feel okay about it. If I heard they were playing again next week in a pub 5 miles away, I would not make the trip. Noddy Holder seems like a safe geezer though. I hope he earns a fat paycheck for many Christmases to come.
Hardest album cover ever made.
She's a queen, can't you see what I mean She's a queen See, (see) see, she's a queen And I know she's alright, alright, alright, alright I say you're so young, you're so young I say you're so young, you're so young I say you're so young, you're so young Yikes
Basic rock and roll from the distant past. It doesn't really tick many boxes for me. I always think of Slade as being an earlier form of other gimmicky bands like Black Lace, slightly embarrassing lyrics, lots of props to make up for the lack of talent, a bit cheesy. I don't like the dumb spellings in the song titles; it's just a bit sad. There were a couple of songs here that were kind of okay, but not enough to elevate this above a 2 star rating.
Falls into the unnecessary category for me. Not really as annoying as I thought it would be, but also didn’t find any of it catchy (save maybe the penultimate track), just feels very generic at this point. 2.4/5
Started off ok. Straight ahead Rock & Roll. No pretentions, just fun rock. By the end of the looong album, I no longer cared much. Not very good songs, not very good guitar work. Sounded like a high school version of AC/DC. Probably won’t ever listen to it again.
Defo not for me, glamrock is not my genre. 5/10
Instantly recognisable as Slade due to Noddy Holder's inimitable voice. Otherwise, despite looking like typically ridiculous 1970s British Glam Rockers, Slade sound very Britpop here. Could they be considered the first Britpop band, 20 years too early? Probably not, but they must have been a big influence. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Mama Weer All Crazee Now Date listened: 25/01/24
Perfectly okay, though feels especially generic. Everything -- music, vocal style lyrical content -- is kinda meh. The cutesy funetik song titles really helped push this into my first 2-star rating.
listened to two songs and had to stop.
Never heard of this band.. You can tell this band is talented but lack the breakthrough songs. The songs are pretty generic garage rock. Vocals are pretty rockin' and they might be the best part of the band. Guitar work is pretty good in some songs but kind of forgettable in others. Drumming is average. Bass is... Well, it's there. I don't typically care for this type of Rock and Roll. Doesn't really do anything for me. It was an easy listen for sure. But this bands' peers definitely outshined them and left this band in the dust.
What an iconic, rock voice. I feel that the songs were not structured well enough to accompany that voice, especially lacking lyrically.
All I can hear is their Christmas song.
it's fine i guess the first couple songs had me thinking this was gonna suck ass. It's probably somewhere between 2 and 3 but I've been giving everything 3s lately so 2 it is
As far as glam rock goes it's alright but it's just a genre I will never respect or appreciate I think.
Not terrible but sounds like an AC/DC side project, who I'm not a fan of anyway. A few decent jams in here
good and unexpected. didn't know about Slade.
A just okay apbum
Cock Rock with a Limp Bizkit.
Kind of bored of this one. Maybe I'm inconsistent in what I enjoy. Enjoyed: guitars in Move Over -- but then I learned from other reviews that this is a cover. I don't think it says much when the song I enjoyed the most is a cover. 2* because I didn't hate it/wasn't total trash. Just meh. Also a LONG album. Also what's with the terrible audio quality of this album on Spotify? Kill Em at the Hot Club was also very different from all the 70s dude rock but kind of enjoyable. What's the deal with that last track with them talking as if they are on the radio with excerpts of their songs? Was this a thing at the time?
Put your shirt on, you factory defect Johnny Ramone looking mother fucker. This shit pretty dumb, but not very fun. I kinda want to like it but I really don't. The album needs to go harder or something. It just ain't it, my guy
Just not very good sounding, the songs aren't catchy, boring even. No wonder they didn't catch on world-wide.
Too major.
A couple of decent tunes (Mama Weer All Crazee Now and Gudbuy Gudbuy, but I think the idea of Glam Rock wasn't quite developed enough when this came out. Good on them for pioneering it but I still don't want to listen. 2.5 stars
Pish
70s hair metal. Halfway between The Stones and GnR, both in style and time period.
Oh dear, two songs in and it's as bad as I thought it would be. I tried so hard to turn my unconscious bias off in my head, but it turned out impossible. I've never worked out if they were supposed to be serious or not, well they are Brummies, and it's difficult to take them serious at the best of times. This isn't helped by the deliberately bad spelling of the song titles. However, then the third song started and liked it to a certain degree. Probably as it wasn't as cringey as the previous two efforts. Fourth track in, and still out of the cringe zone and vaguely enjoyable (Can I hear sleigh bells in the background?). Are they Glam rock or just rock? Too many questions which I don't really care too much about to answer. Track five and enjoying certain bits of the song. Dave's guitar playing is good, Noddy needs to move to Toyland. Six. Mmm... Na. Seven. Gudbuy Gudbuy (was that a 70's discount store?) They nailed it instrumentally, poor Noddy... pretty good though! Eight. Crazee stuff. Their most famous non-Christmas song? It's probably the best fast paced song on the album. Nine, back to slower pace, which works better in my opinion. Finally ten, bleugh, back to square one like the beginning of the album. A band far from fashionable to even admit listening to, but liking it? Giving it another play in the future? Again, too many difficult questions to answer. It's a low 2 as there was some promise. And no, I won't be listening to it ever again, life is too precious to waste.
Not a fan of his vocals. On some songs the vocals are also recorded really badly. Also, what's with the terribly spelled titles? I guess they thought it would be funny.
Just normal classic rock to me 2.5
Kuunneltavaa muttei aiheuttanut minkään tasoista kiimaa.
Ok rokkilevy
This is like the polar opposite of Roxy Music. Fairly dumb straightforward stompy rock. They borrow a ton from the Beatles. Despite the mindless lyrics (and obnoxious song titles), these songs do have an earnest boogie to them. Slade is kind of like a less aggressive, less sexist, and less musically adept AC/DC. So I guess in 2023 I could feel fine turning them up to 11, but no one would really be that interested.
I was prepared to write this one off, but while we were getting ready to go trick or treating, I found myself singing the chorus to “Mama we’re all crazee now” on repeat in my head. So, 2 stars for that.
When this album popped up I was excited because it was a band I didn’t know by name. Then I went to their Spotify page and learned it’s the band that originally wrote and performed “Cum on Feel the Noize.” Fun. When the album started it thought - not my thing, but I can listen. But as the album went on it just felt sillier and sillier. I can see the influence on bands that I really like, but this is probably the first and last time I deliberately listen to this band.
Not really my thing. I can appreciate what they’re going for, but it just doesn’t really work for me. It sort of sounds like Led Zeppelin meets AC/DC with a sprinkling of honky tonk. Favorite song: gudbuy gudbuy. 4/10
I never realized how much this guy sounds like Janis Joplin (or how much the guy from Quiet Riot sounds like this guy). However, I prefer when he just sings rather than the yelling that he spends most of his time doing. Musically, they sound similar to Sweet, imho. That's not a bad thing, but doesn't really help them stand out from the pack. The songs were okay, but nothing spectacular. "Gudbye Gudbye" was a really good tune. "I Don't Mind" had a bluesy swing to it that I liked. I prefer these guys to T. Rex, but I can see why they weren't as big as the T. Rex.
like if ACDC had no personality
70 glam rock. Originally did Cum on feel the Noize, not Quiet Riot.
Glam metal vocals with 70's rock instrumentation. While I don't doubt that glam had it's moment in the 70's and reinvented into the 80's, I can't help but feel like this album does not need to be on the list.
eh. not awful but will never revisit
Slade were a singles band. Which doesn’t mean they didn’t have hit albums. This was a big hit album. But, apart from the 2 hit singles taken from it, Gudbuy T’Jane & especially Mama Weer All Crazee Now, the remainder is less than thrilling. They actually released 2 other singles, both covers : the Janis Joplin hit Move Over (Japan only) & the old Shirley & Lee rocker, Let The Good Times Roll (U.S. only) neither of which they embellished. I found most of this album dead boring. Slade’s best album by a country mile was Slade Alive, the album that preceded Slayed. It was great, probably because they were terrific live. I have a single, Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me, which was released in 1973 & the B-Side, Kill ‘Em At The Hot Club Tonite is amazing - it’s like a nod to Django Reinhardt. So they were an interesting band. But not a lot on this album.
Olipas paskaa mutta ok silti ei saa haukkumaan ryhtyä nukkuen kuuntelin albumi… objectiveko.. view_video.php?viewkey=64abe4fe55ce8 Tää oli taas liian analyyttistä annetaan 1,2/5 koska ei meikäläiswn pää kestä tollasia analyyttisiä konsepteja hankala ymmärtää välillä tippuu kärryiltä ja näin varmaan paskin tunti mitä joutunu kärsinä yrittäen nauttien taiteesta, oli vaan paskaa taiddetta oisko joka päivä yks uus emt ei varmaa taitaa jäädä tähän oli sen verran paska kokemus mutta koko tunti mentiin silmiä avaamatta paitsi loppukohtaus silmät auki naps… Intensiteetti 10/100, mielikuvat oli muutama hyvä konsepti 15/100, ääni 30/100, sanavarasto 10/100 eli semipaska, puhumisen taito 3/100 yhteisarvosana 68……..
Didnt do anything for me, but I also didn't outright hate it.
Ok
Knew this album, but it is not the kind of glam rock I usually like to listen to. It is miles away from T. Rex, David Bowie, Mott The Hoople etc. The album cover is rather silly and says it all. Some catchy songs though - it is a pity that many of their classic singles were non-album tracks... Score: 2 stars.
Not really in my bones anymore…
Nobby’s voice is so grating most of the time, though there are some decent songs later on where he uses a lower register and they reign things back a bit (Gudbuy Gudbuy and I Don’t Mind primarily, as well as the very Zeppelin-esque bonus track My Life is Natural) For the most part though this is just the most tepid form of cock rock, with hideous mixing and lyrics that range from being intolerably cringe (slayed r just soooo crazee n luv rok n rol) to pretty creepy in Gudbuy T’Jane
This is the sort of thing I wouldn't have liked much when it came out, but I find more bearable now. I didn't read the reviews, but I'm sure they're proto-something or other, and influenced a lot of bands that I didn't like, but at least they were the first.
Nice old school rock album. Little monotonous.
2.5
When played backwards, this album sounds like The Beatles growing their hair out and taking their shirts off. 2.5/5
A 70s band that sounds like an 80s band in the worst way
No
flat, uninspired, generic rock
For its time and genre, I can see why it held a lot of appeal. It's energetic and fun rock performed with a lot of skill. Personally, it doesn't really click solidly with my own tastes. Nothing at all wrong with it, not at all, just how I happen to experience it.
Britisk hard rock, 70’er
inoffensive enough, wouldn't turn it off if it came on the radio
I cared so very little for this (though it had a few surprising numbers)
https://youtu.be/eWksvwqM3Ok
Fucking hell.
2.5 I suppose, its just rock and I saw Marvin Gaye and Pink Floyd in my history tab so I couldn't really wait for this to get to over to get to them.
Feels like generic 70s hard rock
Another fun album, but not a lot really stands out (apart from the atrocious spelling!). Mama Weer All Crazee Now is the best of a beige bunch, 2/5.
Sådär!
It has the elements for a good rock record. You can tell it birthed some hair metal. It’s like the Beatles could r dubs a good hook. Too much discombobulation.
Over de top en over de datum.
Eh.
Maybe you had to be there to get it.
Slade are antecedent to much, but they don't capture the magic of influences, influees, or the in-between here. Killer cover and a strong build in the second half, but I found it slightly flat and neither glammy nor jammy. Can't say I've heard any of these songs at the supermarket; Maybe we should have.
Yeah, I don't know. First of all, the guy's voice grates on me. And although the band is clearly tight (great bassist!), I just can't get into this kind of meat-and-potatoes, feet-stomping, high-school-beer-chugging rock-n-roll. I did, however, enjoy the hell out of Gudbuy Gudbuy. Final note: Their idiosyncratic spelling really gets on my nerves.
This is music that only white people without much rhythm would like. So, like Judas Priest. And the music is juvenile. AC/DC's music is pretty simplistic too, but AC/DC is the best there is at such music. Slade is not. This is music that would mostly appeal to middle school children... from the 70s, no less. Note: I am not at all surprised that the general editor of the 1001 Albums book is British. Once again, we have an album that hit #1 in the UK, but was largely ignored anywhere else except Australia. More British bias, IMO. Just because you (and your friends) grew up really digging a band doesn't mean they're good.
Apart from the song, Come On Feel the Noize, I hadn't listened to any Slade and that was second-hand as that song "popularized" by Quiet Riot, annoys the crap out of me anytime I hear it on the radio. Slade is an okay rock band, though so generic they are hard to differentiate from other similar sounding 70's hard rock bands and you can hear their influence on early Queen. I listened to the whole thing, because there wasn't much to hate, but I will take a pass if I see a Slade album at the record store.
I mean, it's okay? But it feels more like someone's cover band than anything that's really worth listening to when there are far better rock bands from this timeframe.
I'm sure there's something to be said about the foundations of glam but who really needed it anyway
it's fine? Not really my cup of tea, but I didn't mind listening to it.
Just another rock album, nothing less, nothing more. A dissapointing record.
meh. Just not feeling it
bro i’ve heard this same album too many times now, i feel like way too many albums on here are way too similar, uninspired and derivative
Worse AC/DC funny music Gudbuy T’Jane is cool, nvm beginning was nice tho Pretty horrible
My ears definitely feel slayed after listening to this shit
Poster child for the worst era in rock. Late 70s garbage only a few years early.
Fucking awful
I thought this would be bottom of the pile but in the end it’s not the worse album this year
Not even the album with Cum on Feel the Noize? You know, the (only) hit they have - that Quiet Riot made famous What's the point of listening to this generic glam?
slayed? no.
Spelling leafs a lot to be dizired
Glad Metallica offered the final version of this, kinda sucks. Not an AcDc fan or much of this “hard rock”. Zeppelin does a decent job because it’s hard blues inspired, same with Blue Cheer. This is too but its more facile, there’s not much bite, teen party music
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I hate everything about it, the sound, the lyricism (or better complete lack thereof), the "cool" misspelling of the song titles, the cover, the songwriting, everything. Slade is one of these bands you'll find on half-heartedly compiled best-of-the-best-of-the-70s collections, not because they have a lasting impact, but because their licensing is - thanks to their desperate search for continued relevance - dirt cheap. Would give 0/10 if I could.
1/1
Listen to “Move Over” the rest is pish. -TomB
AC/DC but with bad songs.
Awful
They did, infact, kinda slay? I only knew their Christmas song before this. Fav song is ‘The Whole World’s Goin’ Crazee’.
Meh
Even though that genre not my cup of tea at all, I normally would be open and listen to the album without any negativ opinions or thoughts beforehand. But this was just bad, sry.
Sounds like a bad AC/DC cover band.
Sheeet
I know slade. I haven’t listened to them though. I’ve heard a couple of their songs. How D’You ride?: 6.5/10 Not too bad, I like the guitar. The whole worlds going crazee: 5/10 Cliche city. Look at last nite: 5/10 Pretty standard song. I won’t let it appen again: 4.5/10 Boring. Move over: 6/10 Gudbuy t’jane: 4/10 Gudbury gudbury: 4.5/10 Mama were all crazee now: 4/10 I don’t mind: 4/10 Let the good times roll/ feel so fine.: 4/10
Slade are responsible for the worst Christmas song ever and for that alone I hate them. Turns out their regular music is bad too. No Slade, you didn't "slay". Now sashay away 1/5
Background noise (derogatory)
The boringest version of the most boring kind of 70’s rock and done very poorly. Sounds like a fictitious band in a movie about a mediocre band and the actors are playing and singing the instruments instead of professional musicians. Also did not realize that Quiet Riot didn’t write Cum on Feel the Noise. Also the thing with sideways thumbs is probably one of the worst album covers ever.
Never heard of this before. Wish it stayed that way, I can't stand that boring classic rock sound.
meh.
favs: the whole world’s goin crazee wonderin’ y rating 1/5
This band is an embarrassment to British culture. Old fashioned dad rock which hasn’t been relevant in 50 years. Has no place on this list.
Too much yelling by song 2. I could hear some potential in the instruments, but it took me multiple tries and I don’t think I finished the album.
Who? Edit: This sucks
Occasional moments of “oh, this isn’t awful” were drowned out by the rest of the album.
Yikes. This sucks.
A raw and uninspiring album. Not my sound at all, with a lot of rock albums I hope for some range in songwriting and pacing, but this album is a straight shot all the way through.
They wanted to be AC/DC and somehow were worse. Boo.
Sucked?
I’ll take 550 Albums to hear before you die if it means I don’t get anymore of this mediocre militant 70s rock records
I don’t hate the guitar rock, but I really hate the guy’s voice.
Just uninteresting and boring rock is all I hear. Not for me.
Is this meant to be a joke or some sort of parody??
These vocals are like chalk and cheese. It worked on the Christmas song. It falls firmly flat on its face here
I thought this album was supposed to be good for how many times I've seen it around. But it's just proto cock rock and can get a 1 star for the album cover. Will I listen to again: 0%
Fat bros tryna get laid with their best Led Zeppelin impression.
No
I'm to understand this is proto-glam rock? First thought: *sigh* If only you had been strangled in the crib... Thing is tho, it's proto-. Early stages, still developing, & the bones are not terrible. That's the problem with strangling babies. They're babies! So cute & sweet. And they grab your pinky with their entire little hand and the little fingernails are so impossibly adorable. Even when you know they will grow up and unleash a plague on society, it's difficult to follow thru. I mean, it's not *difficult.* Probably one of the easiest strangulations most people will encounter in a lifetime. But *emotionally* I mean. *Morally* difficult. ANYway... Obviously it's nowhere near the worst excesses of the glam era. And there are certainly bits and pieces that are, at the very least, enjoyable. But it's iust so goddamned much. *A* song or three is great in a dirty strip club mixed in with some other god-awful lowest common denominator top 40 slop. But an *entire album* STRAIGHT THRU?!?!! Couldn't do it. It's a 1-star from me, but tack on an honorary star for trailblazing in the intentional misspellings space. (Oh gtfo myface with the beatles--that was one thing & a clever pun. These cats are capitalizing on each &every opportunity to trick things up for apparently no reason other than they love chaos. Shoutout the OG *Cum on Feel tha Noize* AND a double high five for being significant/influential in their scene. But still. Point-83 stars, rounded up to 1.