This album was originally released in 1981 and what we have here is a very heavy rock'n'roll with Slade at its best.Great riffs and songs.The song Rock'n'roll preacher is an Anthem!This is one of my all time favorites Rock'n'Roll albuns along with Doctor Feelgood's Malpractice,AC/DC Highway to Hell,Krokus Metal rendezvous,Black Sabbath's Volume 4,Deep Purple In Rock,Motorhead's Ace of Spades etc...If you like rock'n'roll in its PURE&RAW form you'll love this. Highly Recommended!
My love affair with Slade was over my the mid 70s. I had my albiums, saw them in possibly the best live show I've ever attended, and then moved on from most rock and roll. As time passed my musical tastes expanded and I my appreciation of power chord sludge diminished. All the stuff of my youth, The Who, The James Gang, early Jethro Tull, Steve Winwood....well, I played less and less. Just seemed silly and tedious and boring. (And much of it still does.)
About 8 years ago I purchased a complete Slade CD set from Russia that was almost certainly made without the boys making a bob. And I learned that they had a long successful career after I stopped listening, with a radio hit, Run Runaway, that my co-worker (14 years younger than I) knew! I had no idea; I had heard none of this post 1976 output. I listened and found myself enchanted. Yeah, I know, guys who happily savor Machaut and Palestrina should not enjoy this mindless, repetitive (and sexist) drivel. But I did. Lots.
So now I am a quasi-expert on the entire Slade oeuvre. And this CD is a knockout. Not a weak cut on it, with a sensational opening song (that was brilliantly performed live on Slade On Stage) and a string of rocking, rolling, and rollicking songs that make me happy. With glorious remastering, this is a blast. (And on this re-release, even the--sole--bonus track is worthy.) Jim Lea could write a tune! And while I know they were disparaged as weak musicians, Noddy's vocals on top of Dave's guitar is a blend I almost always find appealing
I think what makes Slade last while all the other guys I enjoyed are mostly out of my CD player is that they were totally unpretentious. These guys played to have fun, and share that fun with their audience. They did have fun. No poetry, no statements, no wisdom, thank goodness!, just jolly pounding boot-stomping rock and roll.
Remember, I did not hear of this until about 2002, over 20 years after its initial release. So this is not nostalgia or reliving my past. This is good stuff. Well written, well played, and just loads of fun.
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