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You can keep yer 'bustle in your hedgerow,' mate
Posted by niallb on 2 December 2011 - 5:30pm.
I'll take Nods any day of the week!
When it comes to the 70's my ipod is stuffed with luscious goodies from Zep, Yes, Purple, Quo, Genesis, Ash, Allmans and Springsteen to Drake, Taylor, Mitchell and Macca. But if you nailed my head to a coffee table I might pick this as the track from those loon panted days that I play the most. Wonderful songwriting, one of the greatest voices in rock and this lad has put together a really nice video.
Start your weekend as you mean to go on - with a bit of Slade!
How does it Feel?
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Can I be the first to say ?
TUNE !!
Try As Hard As You Like
but you cannot beat a bit o' Slade!
Wot he said
Unbeatable!
...and they made one of the greatest films about
life in a rock band - Slade In Flame
I'm fairly sure
my Dad would give his left leg to have been in Slade. As I'm sure many of his generation would.
Can I just say
that this is a reasonably entertaining read...
Really enjoyed it.
Honest, captured the era well and always amusing. Noddy is just such good value. A bloody nailed on national treasure if ever there was one. Someone posted the live video of 'Get Down Get With It' the other day and the vocals at the start are staggering. He's up there with Freddie Mercury in terms of a huge voice and range but the inflection in that intro is just so unique. Mrs. B comes from a few streets away from where Nods had his stomping ground (now there is a perfect analogy!) and he's a bloody hero in Walsall. More power to his elbow. He is considerably more talented than yow!
So you think my singing's out of time....
...well it makes me money!!!
Too right Nodster.
Baby, baby, babyyyyyyyyyyy
It's official...
I LOVE Slade :-)
This might have been a summer number one, but this clip is Christmas-tastic to me...
Everyday
One of the best songs wot they ever rote.
Top Band
but often forgotten in the revisionist versions of history.
Great songwriters, great performers - and they never seemed to take themselves too seriously. Rock n Roll performed with a smile (and a Midlands accent).
Everything dryed up for them around 1976 due to trying to break America.
They re-invented themselves (or perhaps just presented themselves to a new audience) due to Ozzy Osbournes illness at Reading Festival 1980, and Slade did returneth.
The mid-80s Slade is good, but "Run Runaway" is not exactly up there with "Cum On Feel The Noize" or "Skweeze Me Pleeze Me"
Who says Box Sets are just for looking at?
This one has just about everything you want from Slade (not everything, the full albums are still required), but has received numerous regular plays from start to finish. And its always a worthwhile few hours.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slade-Box-Set/dp/B000HDZAOG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&q...
To end this Slade 'love in', I believe that "How Does It Feel" is the second best song ever written.
There is definitely more to Slade than "that bloody Christmas song"
Slade
They weren't just the glam band they had more depth than that.
Good call.
I've posted this before but it's worth repeating
I saw them at the second Donnington in 1981 when the weather was terrible. Slade were announced and you could feel the crowd collectively thinking, "Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...." Slade came on, throwing bog rolls into the crowd and within a few minutes, the weather was forgotten and several thousand people found themselves unexpectedly having a good time.
And yes Stimpy, Flame is a great film and the soundtrack is damn good too. I got the DVD when it came out a few years ago and it had the CD included.
Noddy & that Lennon fella
They had the best voices of the whole British rock n roll scene.
Slade were my first band .. singles, posters, albums... the lot. I love them.
Slade were great.
Together with Mott the Hoople they were the best rock and roll band of the era. Both would knock Led Zep into a cardboard hat.
Slade
They were OK I spose.
Second only to the fabs IMHO, one of the best bands ever.
Slade rool.
How does it feel
gives the lie to the idea that Noddy was just a shouter.
Funny, this came up on my iPod at the weekend and I can honestly say I'd never really listened to it. I knew the tune from back in the day, but having been a big Slade fan in 72/73, by the time this came out I'd moved on to more 'serious' music about bustles in hedgerows
There's a whole album's worth of...
...their early B-sides that are fantastic: a bit proggy, but rocking in a poptastic, Beatles/revolver sort of way (Candidate, Gospel of Rasputin, Man Who Speaks Evil, One Way Hotel...). There's a good B-Sides 2CD set (CD No2 is dispensable, especially when it gets to the late 80s)
The 'Slade At The BBC' 2CD set is also fabulous - same early, largely pre-fame period of really interesting covers and forgotten gems: one disc of studio sessions, one disc live in 1972 just as they were becoming pop sensations...
Coz I luv you
How great is this? At once comical and menacing, worryingly dissonant chord sequence endlessly repeated, climaxing in a downright wonky violin solo. Stefan Grapelli plays Weimar dancehall in downtown Bilston, one of the weirdest number ones ever.
How right you are
They were dismissed at the time by 'serious' music fans (like me) as teenyboppers. How wrong I was.
SLADE!!
My seven year old self salutes you.
actually, my 44 year old self does as well.
Those boyz made big noyz (etc)
Okay, which one of us is going to be first to shout...
...IT'S CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Oh, it was me...)
For a while I was working with ...
A firm of printers in the Black Country. Absolutely rock hard, humorous, kind, and with that wonderful accent and the attitude that comes with it. Slade fans to a man even though it was the late 80s and they KNEW I would ask about it so they were waiting for the question - in fact I think some were related to Slade. Mind you they loved the Stuffies and Pop Will Eat Itself as well
Blimey, NewkyBrownBluffer...
...Black Country / Geordieland - how on earth did you communicate? Was there a lingua Franca you all understood - Essex, Manchester...? :-D
I'm only a Fake Geordie Colin
I grew up Darn Sarf but I repented of it :-)
If I am in Norn Iron with time (it does happen sometimes ) I will contact you
Splendid...
...what accent shall we use? :-D
Actually, I do an evening course at the mo wiff a diamond geezer from Essex and this running gag about him being Polish has developed (which he enjoys himself). It started when we got a new tutor for one module and from day one she just couldn't understand him - I explained he was from Poland. She believed it! It took several further exchanges between her/him before she realised the absurd truth. We had a lot of fun with Polish translation gags thereafter...
Far, Far Away
Another corker from Sir Nod & co showing their sensitive side.
Nibble Nobby's Nuts
Not sure if this advert went national...