Slayed?

Rubbish. 1/5

The music, the vocals, and the lyrics are perfectly matched, at exactly the level of the album cover.

#8 ...you know, I went into this project to hear new and unfamiliar music to broaden my understanding of influential music, and that's exactly what I'm getting...

1. ride - 1.5 2. uuhole -1.5 3. night - 1 4. happen - 1 5. move - 1.5 6. jane - 1.5 7. Goodbye - 1.5 8. Mama -1.5 9. Mind -1.5 10. roll - 0 11. natural -1 12. candidate - 0 13. Wonder - 1 14. Evil - 0 15. Now - 1.5 16. Tonight -1.5 17. Fine - 1

Gibt keine 0

Wow, I always thought Spinal Tap was making fun of American rock bands. But every song on this album was an unintended parody skit.

The dudes on the cover are already giving it a half thumbs-down. I found this boring, repetitive, uninteresting, even obnoxious at times. I couldn't wait to turn it off.

what if the stones had no soul?

Just not for me. They seem like a good live band though.

Shite

This straight up sucks.

What? No.

This is the two hundredth album I’m rating. Why is he shirtless? Adding to my Playlist - I Won’t Let it Happen Again, Gudbuy T’Jane, Gudbuy Gudbuy, Mama Weer All Crazy Now, and I Don’ Mind. Not Adding to my Playlist - How d’ you Ride, The Whole World’s Goin’ Crazee, Look at Last Nite, Move Over, and Let the Good Times Roll/Feel So Fine. Let the Good Times Roll/Feel So Fine - Not bad but I like the Harry Nilsson version more. All in all I liked 5/10 songs. I want some more variety. I’m getting a bit tired of this rock.

It sounds like an album of filler tracks without the singles. Perfectly sound songs and production - but they don’t really have anything to say as a band - apart from wanting to be rock stars. Slade did not need to be on this list

I have never understood the appeal of Slade. Noddy has a very distinctive voice. But that is about it really.

No

I'll be honest. Not too excited for this. They misspelled every word on purpose, oh my God they're so silly. I haven't even started this yet, but judging by the cover and song titles alone, this is the most 70's thing ever. And the pun of the album title feels aggressively heterossexual, which is not what I am used to associating it with. Maybe my fault. I'll just press play. These crazy creaky vocals which feel right at home is all this noise. I am curious if future tracks will offer diversity. I actually like the second track much better. The energy is at least contagious, even if it all is kinda dumb. I may have spoken a bit too soon about enjoying it whole-heartedly. Ok, I think it's safe to say that I actually liked Look at last nite. While calmer, still keeps a lot of energy. Next track's more of the same. Was the Janis Joplin cover really necessary? Was changing the line "you know that I need a man" to "woman" really necessary? No one was questioning your sexuality, do not worry. This is honestly an offence to both my ears and brains. Offended, but by the quality (or lack thereof). Man, when is this gonna get good? Gudbuy T'Jane (I hate writing these titles) is one of the least bad so far!! Hurray fot that! The riff at the chorus is cool. What is this fiftch grade chorus in Gudbuy Gudbuy? If I were to parody this album, I'd call this song "Dudbye Dudbye". Get it haha? 'Cause it's a dud. Honestly that took way more brain power than they wasted on the making of this album. Mama Weer all crazee now (stupid stupid stupid) feels like the anthem of a generation. Just a generation I don't like. The dad rock for guys who hate their wives but love getting drunk together at the pub, 'cause they're so crazeeeeeeeee(they even misspell it!). I just know that the ground after mosh pit for this was filled with mud made from the regurgitated wine all these crazeeeee uncles threw up. Damn crazy bastards, truly the best generation. Thank god there are only two more tracks left, my god. As someone who loves songs with clapping sections, the few seconds of it in the closer offended me. I don't think that my mindset before listening was the cause for me disliking it. Sure, I was ready to hate it, but I have had that same mindset before many other listens, and when the music is good, it changes my mind. This did not. I was kinda hopeful after two ok-to-good tracks, but man, this goes downhill, fast. I thought the Joplin cover was the lowpoint, then Gudbuy Gudbuy came, and I almost had no words... Then the most famous song in the record came, and that managed to surpass my already very low expectations for how shit it would be. My God. I'M FREEEEEE. Sometimes I wonder why I do this to myself. Ofter people say that they look at a piece of art and say they could do it, as a way to say that it is not special. This is the kind of album I would've made if I was 8 and you asked me what was rock. Bad lyrics, bad instrumentals, repetitive vocals, just... not much to enjoy here. I can see how this laid the ground for some future bands, but I guess influence really does not equal quality. If this was a list of important historical albums, maybe you could write a paragraph to convince me it deserved to be included. On the list of albums I MUST here before I die? Yeah, this shit should be nowhere close. Very bad. I'm left wondering what score I should give it, and I always feel kinda bad giving a 1, but it's there for a reason, and putting this in the same category as some 2s would be offensive to those, Bye

Rating: 1.2 Preferable to herpes, I guess.

it's a no for me.

This pretty much sucked. Sure, it has no doubt influenced other metal bands (Quiet Riot, for example, straight up owes their "success" to Slade), but outside of inspiring others to do a better job, this has zero value.

its hilarious how low quality the sound is on this album. I dont think I have ever heard an album that sounds like I am listening to it through sheet metal

This album had a few moments that weren’t too bad, but honestly, it also embodies everything I find distasteful and trashy about 70s tough guy glam rock. The whole time I couldn’t shake the mental image of the lifestyle this music seems to celebrate, like shirtless dudes in cut-off jeans, chugging cheap piss-water beer, ripping gas and belching like it’s a show of masculinity, all while parking their fleet of broken down cars in the front yard. So yeah… I’d definitely say this album took me on a journey, but just maybe not one I’d want to take again.

Ils ont besoin d'un cours de grammaire. Et de talent...

its not for me

Honestly it's just shot, nothing interesting here, the songs are crappie and formulaic and there isn't even anything bizzare weird or fun anout it, very dull. Couldn't even finish it

I like a few Slade songs, none of which are on this record

I guess the argument is supposed to go “well, without Slade you wouldn’t have Cheap Trick or AC/DC.” Of course, to accept that you have to outright ignore the existence of the New York Dolls, not to mention The Who. All four bands made much more fun and more musically pleasing versions of this. This wants to be fun, but in 2025, the bravado is the only thing that qualifies as a joke. It’s loud and crass, but not even in the way that KISS or Poison were. For some reason I keep seeing the word “glam” tossed around with this album, but it Lady Stardust did not bless this record.

I’m getting, like, insecure AC/DC? Each song should be maybe 20% slower to let it breathe and strut a little more. Also, and I fully cop to being a huge nerd, the misspelled titles just make it harder to remember the songs. If I liked “mama weer all crazee now,” (and I don’t, to be clear), it takes an extra half-second to translate that into “mama, we’re all crazy now,” which is an unnecessary barrier to replaying it. Real unforced error, Slade.

Already not a fan of classic rock, then “Look at Last Nite” sounds like a fake ass David Bowie/Elton John. It’s one thing to rip these guys off, but it doesn’t even fit the album. That kind of fires me up, not gonna lie.

meh not my thing

Haha whut wow okay I guess. First time I've considered how many albums 1001 albums is. In a vacuum I cannot name 1001 albums off the top of my head so... I dunno. I suppose this could make the cut. If Sly Stand! was the high end of the spectrum (so far), this is feeling like the other end. I don't know what these star ratings mean anymore. Can I give this a zero? Gudbuy Gudbuy > Gudbuy T'Jane > Mama Weer All Crazee Now > I Don't Mind > The Whole World Goin Crazee > Look at Last Nite > I Won't Let It Appen Again > Let The Good Times Roll Feel So Fine > How D'You Ride > Move Over Mama weer all crazee now? The whole werld goin crazeeeee? You must be CRAZEE if you think this is an album I need to listen to before I am allowed to die! This stinks!

Meh.

This is one of my least favorite types of rock music.

Not for me

Did not slay.

Just ok

Best song was the bad Janis cover.

Fun instrumentals at times, but most of the time it’s by the numbers blues rock with horrible singing. By the scale of this list, that’s a 1.

Kunne overhovedet ikke snuppe hans stemme, dybt træls at høre på. Gad godt have læst motivationen for at jeg skulle høre det her før jeg døde

This has such a bad production. The songs seems like jokes or something.. I couldn't get over how badly this sounded.

Like hair metal without the musical talent… not a slay

So not my style. I can't wait for the album to be over.

Very simple

Farquaad ass haircut

huh. i guess thats slade then

Save me from this crap

Exactly what we dont need more of

meh

That's not a singing voice

Classic rock ain't it, bruh.

Is this the meat-and-potatoes, workingman's answer to T-Rex? If this is so, it's one that aged like milk. Glam rock and glitter can be so much more interesting than this on a musical level. Huge commercial success at the time, or so I hear. In another rock-related genre, reminds me how Amyl And The Sniffers are going big these days. Well, let's see how their studio albums hold up four or five decades from now. If not only one of those. What Slade and Amyl have in common is the sheer lack of originality of their very derivative music, and how it still inexplicably manages to cater to target audiences who could find something at least twice better in the same genre if only they put a little heart and energy into it. You'd have to add the awkward delivery of most of the vocal parts for Amyl, something that Slade can't be blamed for, admittedly. Quite a maddening situation, only mitigated by the fact that the two bands profit(ed) from the reputation of their incendiary live shows. Yet for both Slade and Amyl, even so distant in time from each other, there's the same mind-numbing phenomenon going on when it comes to the commercial success of their studio albums. Pure consumerism. Sheer ignorance of real musical virtues. Zero critical distance. Reading myself again, I know that I might come off a little too much like a sourpuss nitpicker here. So let me stress something positive about *Slayed?*. Given its very effective production values and the energetic choruses found everywhere in this record, it's probably not really a surprise that it reached initial success, and that even a lot of professional critics fell for it at the time. It's all dumb, but being dumb pays off sometimes. Besides, you can't expect each and every rock act to reinvent the wheel. At least, I'm glad that this app (and Dimery's book) made me spend some time to know more about Slade. I certainly didn't think that album was worth being included in their list, but it's always interesting to realize how some past crazes then fall into obscurity. And I can still put my mind back into 1972, get a whiff of that simpler-looking era, and enjoy the hackneyed ride in a tongue-in-cheek way. *Slayed?* ain't worse than 99.99% of the hair metal bands that followed their steps in the decade after, I guess. "My Life Is Natural", "Candidate", "Wonderin' Y" and "Man Who Speaks Evil" are even great tracks, far more imaginative than the rest on a harmonic and instrumental level. Still sleazy, yet also quite sophisticated. Sly and enticing. Slower yet more infectious. Alas, all those gems are not part of the original album, they are B-sides from the band's one-off singles. And comparatively-speaking, they make you realize why the album itself is such a letdown (as does the Janis Joplin cover in it). Because *Slayed?* is melodically inert, probably for commercial reasons. It takes the easy (middle of the) road. In other words, it's nothing other than a cheap cash grab for an act that had such a great potential in them, studio-album-wise. Ironical that a handful of compositions by the band themselves give you all you need to hear so as to realize how bad that record actually is. I don't know how many real hardcore fans of this band are still actively engaging in music these days... But I even suspect that some of them could actually agree with me here. When you look at the band's most popular individual tracks on Spotify, none of them comes from *Slayed?*. The leader of that pack of songs, one-off single "Come On Feel The Noize" is everything that the LP wants to be, only this time good and memorable. And I should probably hate the guts of "Merry X-mas Everybody", but I can't (probably because the song was already familiar, and has an interesting chord sequence to make up for the whole X-mas tune cliché). Likewise, *Slayed?* is not listed in the most popular albums by the band. So what, does that mean that, following the masses, the professional "critics" had it all wrong about the British glam rock band? And most of all, about where their strength really lay? Jeeze louise, that would be a first, right??!! 🙃 1/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (5 + 1) Number of albums left to review: 19 (plus the 80-ish extra LPs listed on this app, included because different past versions of the book have mentioned albums that have since been dropped in subsequent editions) Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 421 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 251 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 313 (including this one)

Mostly rubbish

omggg so passionate singer... so powerful voice... tämä on bändi tyhmille ihmisille. jos olet vittu tyhmä, on mahdollista että tämä bändi on sinulle taottu. ole huoleti, sanoja toistetaan sata kertaa ainakin että ymmärrys varmasti jää sinun vitun tyhmään pääkoppaasi. juo saatana vettä ennen kun astsut studioon, ''laulaja''..... paskoja covereita ja vielä paskempaa originaalia musiikkia. a one, twoo,, a one two tree fooour!!!!!! lets go !!!!! vittu neandertaalin näköistä bändijäsentä varmaan on epäironiset kuuntelijatkin aika paleoliittisen tuntuista sakkia... hominidae looking mf... nyt turpa kiinni pojat ja lähtekää metsästämään hunter gatherer looking piece of shits... move over

Not into the whiny rocker sound. Occasional cool riff.

Yuck

I’ll preface this by saying I was never a fan of Slade. If I could describe this LP in one word, it would be ‘inoffensive’ (from a musical perspective), or ‘outdated’. It simply feels like a product of its time and nothing really strikes me as a standout throughout the tracklist. The band seem to be straddling a fine line between what I now consider ‘grandad rock’ (like Status Quo), and early glam rock (but they’re just barely holding onto that one in this album). I found Holder’s vocals to be irritating, repetitive, and try-hard. The musicianship feels uninventive. And most of the songs were, for lack of a better term, boring. The whole album just lacks originality. I don’t feel like there’s anything substantial to set Slade apart from other bands around that era - and there were a lot of great bands who were in their absolute prime then. In short - this album is totally forgettable and I think there is a vast amount of similar works that are more deserving of a spotlight.

Didn't like it at all

This album sounds like it may have influenced the genre of glam rock. I hate glam rock. Quite poorly recorded; tons of clipping throughout the album. Several times throughout, I was wondering if I had accidentally damaged my headphones somehow and had to go listen to a reference track to be sure my gear wasn't the problem. It wasn't my gear. "I don't mind" wasn't bad. I liked the blues-like pace and feel, but toward the end, they went back to sounding like a high school AC/DC cover band that forgot all of AC/DC's songs. This album was really difficult to listen to. Very little merit for me 1.5

Gudbye T'Jane Mama Weer All Crazee Now

Slayed? It didn't for me, not my kind of thing at all

This album is the worst I've listened to so far. This is like a glam rock cover band.

Not going to pretend that I finished this album.

Unbearable hair rock

I hate this kind of music. I did not listen since I've heard it before.

For some reason this wasn't listed in apple music

This one was tough to swallow for me. Unbridled crappy rock and roll. I only like the gimmicky novelty song they put together at the end titled, “kill em at the hot club tonite”

Another 79’s rock band, that did nothing on the charts. Boring.

Before listening: These guys sang 'Cum on Feel the Noize'. Which I only know from Quiet Riot. Which I only know from Oasis. Other than that, I know nothing about Slade. Oh, I also know they misspell song titles for some reason. I don't know if I should take them seriously. To me, they look a joke band, a bit like Spinal Tap or KISS. After listening: I really felt nothing for this album. Wasn't bad, just you know, blah. I'll be honest, the album I had was an expanded version that went for over an hour so your boy DNF. I've already forgotten all of the songs I've heard. That's two boring albums in a row for me (Thanks, Aftermath by the Stones), but oh well, onto the next.

Pretty standard cock rock from this era, though at times it's hard to tell if they're making fun of their peers or joining them for the success. Either way, not a hugely interesting release.

First album of the 1001 that I haven’t heard before! And… it’s dad rock. They’re not bad though, they remind me a bit of Rainbow but more on the glam side and less on the hard rock/metal side. It’s interesting but certainly not something I’d consider for a top 1000 albums of all time. I could see this being well-liked when released, but it seems quite tame compared to lots of other glam/hard rock of the time. I also think they sound similar to some other bands like The Saints or Twisted Sister which came later, so I can see how their vibe set the stage for later bands to expand and improve on the sound.

Rough with every song sounding identical. 1/4

Very mediocre.

Full disclosure: I have a hatred for Slade just based on that damn Christmas song. So with that said, I didn’t know what to think when I searched for this to listen to but track one started off like something I could enjoy and then Nobby starts singing and you know what I think that is what killed it for me. I just couldn’t enjoy this album and I think that’s due to Nobby Holder’s voice. Some might say it’s unique, but for me it’s just not enjoyable to listen to.

No

Couldn't get past the low quality. Feels like a cheaper version of every generic 70's rock radio trope combined into one. 1 "no thank you" out of 5 🚫

Demonstrating the art of being noisy for the sake of being noisy

First song could have been a one-hit wonder. The rest is garbage.

Not for me

no

Feels generic, probably because the band seems to be a precursor for years of later rock. It’s kind of hilarious sometimes, but I’d never listen to it again.