'flame' is being re-issued tomorrow, a semi autobiographical account of life on the road in 74/5 staring slade.

 

get past the well dodgy haircuts and bloody awful clothes and there was a great british pop group, fronted by noddy holder whos distinctive 'melodic shout' singing voice made their songs ..

 

my fav was 'cos i luv u', (text talk 30 years before text talk was invented?...lol) i loved the fiddle break, must be the only one in the charts ever!

 

'cum on feel the noize' was a super uptempo track perhaps would have been their 'theme' if it wasnt forthat bloody crimbo track <_< which tbh id be happy never to hear again! good?...yes... overplayed? DEFINATELY!

"Flame" is a great film. First saw in on TV in 1989 but I don't think it's been on since.

 

Didn't "Fisherman's Blues" by the Waterboys have a fiddle break too?

 

Oh, and "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan.

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QUOTE(Neil B @ Mar 27 2007, 03:18 PM) 955524[/snapback]

"Flame" is a great film. First saw in on TV in 1989 but I don't think it's been on since.

 

Didn't "Fisherman's Blues" by the Waterboys have a fiddle break too?

 

Oh, and "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan.

 

hello stranger! :)

 

yeah theres probably a few, but slade was the only #1.

Get down and get with it!

 

Before my time but still great.

 

I've been to the Merry Xmas Everybody tour a few times, obviously not as good without the Nod but still a fab night, and they usually have T-Rextasy on who are a brilliant tribute band IMO :)

get down and get with it was their first hit in '71, they were skinheads then! (remember in those days skinheads were 'bovver boys', yobs out for 'agro', violence.)

:lol: I really can't picture Dave Hill with a skinhead!

 

And I love the Vic and Bob skit, classic! :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/mushymanrob/slade-1.jpg

 

try this! about sept '71 , when their hair was growing..

Slade - How Does It Feel video

 

Taken from the Best British Musical ever "Slade In Flame" it seems incredible that this song broke their five year run of consecutive top 5 hits only reaching #15 in the UK.

 

One of the few things that Noel Gallagher & Damon Albarn can agree on is that this was their best single. I also think it is too.

 

 

I used to quite like Slade,they were huge in the early 70's, they sort of got blown away by the punk movement

well in truth brian, slade were already out by the time punk came in, their popularity had waned.

I thought their hair had grown by the time of "Get Down & Get With It"?

 

Ah well, I wasn't born so what do I know ^_^

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QUOTE(Neil B @ Mar 28 2007, 04:23 PM) 958088[/snapback]

I thought their hair had grown by the time of "Get Down & Get With It"?

 

Ah well, I wasn't born so what do I know ^_^

 

it was growing, i first saw them in mid '71 as a skinhead band, gdagwi was released and charted about august by which time they were growing it.

my fav slade song is Run Run Away in 1984 :wub:

my fav slade song is Run Run Away in 1984 :wub:

 

Not bad, but too much of a Big Country rip-off really.

 

I like "How Does It Feel" and "Bangin' Man" myself.

By 1975 Slade were in decline in the UK. It really had nothing to do with Punk, which did not really become big here until 1977. After all Punk had Zero effect on the popularity of ABBA, who were just as big in 1977 to 1981, as they were before then.

 

However Slade came back in the 1980's, with Big Hits like, 'My Oh My', & 'Run Run Away' - the 2nd of which became their biggest USA Hit - bigger there than any of their early 1970's Singles - it reached Number 20 there, in 1984. (Their biggest USA Song was, 'Cum On Feel The Noize', which Quiet Riot took to Number 5 there in 1983).

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didn't Slade spend a lot of 1975 in the US trying to make a breakthrough (once again) there? I have a vague memory of them being absent from the UK in 1975...

 

But I agree with zeus555, by 1975 their popularity was on the wane. The 3 singles they entered the charts with in 1974 all quickly reached their peak and fell fast. Back then acts never really had a shelf-life of more than a few years anyway, so after 1973, their peak year, they quite quickly fell away, probably selling just to loyal fans in 1974 and they too seemed to have largely gone in 1975. It was their appearance at Reading in 1980 that brought about a revival in fortunes, though of course that Christmas record did continue to attract massive airplay every year in between 1973 and 1980!

 

They were just a little before my time, my first real memory of the charts was Slade seemingly battling it out with Sweet to be #1 in 1973, though Sweet only managed it once. The following year, the year I really did start to get into the charts, both bands faded. It was all Mud for me back then!

Back then acts never really had a shelf-life of more than a few years anyway, ,

 

so whats new?..

 

so whats new?..

some seem to hang around a lot longer than they may have done in years gone by. I was thinking more of Westlife, but in recent years other (especially boybands) acts seem to have stayed around longer than they may have done two or three decades ago. For example, two of the biggest teen bands in the 70s, The Osmonds and Bay City Rollers managed to have about 3 years each at the top, one on the way up, one at the peak and one on the way down. It just seems like modern marketing (especially with the recentish concentration on maximising first week sales) extends the shelf life of acts in a way it never used to be.

 

i dont agree.... the stones?... had 8 years charting regularly, the beatles had 8, kinks had 6, jam, madness, etc etc etc... theres always been those who are longer lived then others who are more temporal. nearly every group from the britpop scene are now defunkt after a few years and i dare say many of todays 'indie' lot will be over after a couple of albums.

 

in every generation of music there are those whith a longer shelf life and those with a shorter one, tbh i think most of todays acts dont last as long and are dropped far quicker.

OK, Let's find 6 more Random Slade tracks to show their Greatness:

 

Get Down & Get With It (1971 UK#16)

 

Gudbuy Y'Jane (1972 UK#2)

 

Cum On Feel The Noize (1973 UK#1)

 

Far Far Away (1974 UK#2)

 

Rock'N'Roll Preacher (1981 UK #75+ but GER#3)

 

My Oh My (1983 UK#2) - Robbed of the Xmas #1 by the awful Flying Pickett's accapella massacre of a Yazoo classic.