Slayed?

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

I'm so sick of all this glam garbage, and this is genuinely one of the worst ones yet. My main issue among many with this genre has always been the vocals, they are just so annoying and screechy. With some bands I can maybe just about forgive the singer as it does sometimes seem plausible that their voice "just happens to sound like that" (although that won't make me want to listen to their music), but with this it's so obvious that he's putting on the voice completely on purpose. Like they made the concious effort to make their music annoying as fuck when they were probably fully capable of making something half decent.

Why on earth is this here.

Proto arena hair. Gudbuy.

Just…no.

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.

The singer wants to be Robert Plant but isn't close, the songs are boring and pointless, and I refuse to acknowledge their dumbass spelling

Yeah, sure, this album’s influential. It influenced butt. They don’t even know how to spell

You know when you start counting the tracks until an album ends and you unintentionally stop listening like halfway through the track? Yea, that's what happened with this one. I can see the audience for this. but it aint me.

Horribly generic glam rock. The cutesy spellings in the song titles I found rather annoying. The two covers here, one from Janis Joplin, are insulting. This is one where I kept checking to see how many songs I had left until it was done and luckily I checked Wikipedia to confirm when the bonus tracks started so I could turn it off.

wack

the voice is annoying. the sound is bland. the topics are boring.

Not a big rock fan.

3/10 I absolutely LOATHE whenever the lead vocalist does this weird forced rough thing with his voice - it sounds so, so bad. Unfortunately I don't much like his voice, or the music itself, in any other track either. The album sounds very derivative.

I could not get past the first song.

70s cock rock with an annoying singer. If I really wanted to torture myself with that kind of music, I'd listen to Led Zeppelin who at least are better musicians.

Track one hits in and it never feels like track one stops! Just a generic sounding glam rock era band with nothing imaginative at all going on in the music or the lyrics- I mean just smashing a cymbal at one point and expecting it to sound good?!? Also what’s with all the random spellings like they are expecting the English language to be reinvented by them and take off. I even listened to the expanded edition so one glimmer at the end was the snippet of come on feel the noise! So disappointing. Best track- the snippet of ‘come on feel the noise’ on track 17.. I know a kop out so let’s say ‘track 1-17’ Worst track- also tracks 1-17 There’s been worse on this journey, just! 2/10

Wooowww this absolutely sucksss

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.

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.

Meat and potatoes rock and roll, lacking salt. Music for the pub. I can hear the influence of better bands all over this. It’s a fine listen but I really don’t think you have to listen to this before you die. Slade will always have Christmas.

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.

Lazy boogie/glam music. 'Crazee' how many times they can sing the word crazy. One of the lamest albums on the 1001 and I never want to go near it again.

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.