Slade Alive! [Import, Original recording remastered]

Slade | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 28, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: SALVO
• ASIN: B000GJ0MCG
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,607 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hear Me Calling

2. In Like The Shot From My Gun

3. Darling Be Home Soon

4. Know Who You Are

5. Keep On Rocking

6. Get Down & Get With It

7. Born To Be Wild

8. Be

9. Burning In The Heat Of Love

10. My Baby Left Me

11. Everyday

12. Get On Up

13. Gudbuy T’Jane

14. Mama Weer All Crazee Now

15. My Baby Left Me

16. One-Eyed Jacks With Moustaches

17. Cum On Feel The Noize

18. Rock & Roll Preacher

19. When I’M Dancin’ I Ain’T Fightin

20. Tak’ Me Bak ‘Ome

See all 33 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GET SLADE, February 12, 2007

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Robin D. Taviner "Call Sign: Dolittle" (Macon, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slade Alive! (Audio CD)

If you're already familiar with Slade's brand of unadulterated, balls-to-the-wall ROCK, then save yourself a bit of time and just buy it. You will NOT be disappointed.

If you've never heard of Slade until now, keep reading and I'll do my best to explain why this release is worth every penny. I'll leave it to others to pontificate on track lists and subjective opinion. Since I've never seen them perform live, I feel the only way to fully endorse your purchase is to start at the beginning and at least explain why I chose to buy this CD at 50 years of age. If my words strike a chord in your rock & roll heart then this exceptional release is probably for you.

I first bought "Slade Alive" on vinyl in the early 70's. Now, after seconds of wracking my brain, I can't for the life of me remember why I actually bought it. My parents' musical tastes ran from classical to easy listening so maybe I was just musically rebelling against whatever it is that adolescent teens rebel against when they've got nothing against which to actually rebel.

Leaning more to the rockier side of the road, I do recall owning record albums ranging from Chuck Berry's, "London Sessions" (Live), to The Stone's octagonal packaged, "Through the Past, Darkly" and "Led Zeppelin III" (with yet another gimmicky cover design).

Point is, when I first dropped the stylus on "Slade Alive" as a young teen, I was literally transformed. I thought I knew rock & roll until I heard these guys. They were RAW, RUDE & RAUCOUS - the perfect blend of soul-borne mania, jackhammer rhythms, solid bass lines, over-the-top guitar leads, and ferocious vocals. Most of all, their live recordings screamed of FUN!

"Slade Alive!" is a powerful force to be reckoned with - steeped in expert musicianship that refused to take itself too seriously. Unfortunately, while endearing themselves to European rockers, they were largely ignored in North America. The loss was entirely ours here in the United States & Canada.

This Slade release is actually a re-mastered, two disc version of four separate live releases. (The sound quality is extraordinary.) For anyone interested, these Slade tracks will have you up, dancing, and whipping your air guitar into a frothing, festive frenzy.

Hearing some of my favorite songs again for the first time in over 35 years, I'm amazed how well all of the tracks on, "Slade Alive!" hold up. Yes, they sound like pissed-stupid, soccer hooligans in a few places, but overall this release captures the pure energy of what their live shows must have been like during that grand, brief, and compressed era of early 70's POWERGLAMROCK&ROLL..

Sadly, no one is very likely to see Slade on stage any time soon. If you were one of the lucky few to have seen Slade perform live, my Noddy hat is indeed doffed to you! (If you're ever in Macon, Georgia, I'd be honored to pony up a pint or two just to hear what their live shows were really like.)

And before you write them off as a bunch of impotent geezers, let me tell you how far ahead of their time they were in at least one category. Slade appears to have pioneered the now popular habit of "urban" spelling for some of their song titles. To wit: "Mama Weer All Crazee Now," "Gudbuy T'Jane," and "Cum On Feel The Noize." Coincidentally, these are three of their most popular songs. Go figure.

So there you have it. If you love great Rock & Roll tempered by fine musicianship and unpretentious audacity, then this disc is definitely for you.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bangin' Men, January 9, 2009

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Garwayne (Ashburn, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slade Alive! (Audio CD)

We had the good fortune of coming of age in the D.C. metro area in the early 70's and had incredible musical outlets like WHFS, 102.3 on your FM dial and the Barry Richards rock show on the television that played artist films (pre-dated MTV by years) such as Bowie, Alice Cooper, etc. I am sure it was through one of these venues that we were exposed to Slade. They rocked harder than anyone that was being played via the mainstream media and yes, we did have the great foresight and great fortune to see Slade live at the Capital Centre in Largo, MD as the openers for Aerosmith around '75.

I tore through three copies of this on vinyl in the '70's and as has been stated previously, JUST BUY IT. Put it on, strip down to your boxers and prepare to give your favorite listening area (basement, rec room, etc.) a workout. Rock 'n roll can't be played any better or louder than this. Period.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Greatest... EVER, January 13, 2007

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King of Mars (Mars) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slade Alive! (Audio CD)

I've been listening to this album since it was given to me by my aunt in around 1973 (I've got it on CD now). This version of Born To Be Wild makes Mars Bonfire's version sound like Leonard Cohen on downers. It's the greatest noise I've ever heard. Pure Loud Noise with Brilliance. Dave Hill's guitar solo on Darling Be Home Soon is just sublime. After 24 years this is still my favourite live band, and that's really saying something.