A good cd for any Christmas party, which I think would be more of interest to
other than
Slade fans (as there have so many versions of this, plus it has 5 tracks
missing)...saying that
it's still good and worth a listen, and WILL get any one in the festive mood.
Most people associate Slade with "Merry Xmas Everybody" and don't realise
other songs they have
released from this cd...."Let's Dance", "Cum On Feel The Noize", "Okey Cokey"
And "Get Down And Get With It",
There is also a very good version of Band Aids "Feed The World"
included (which is well worth a listen)
This cd is not a Slade classic, but will get any one in the festive/party mood
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Secondly " The Slade Box 1969 - 1991 "
I thought "THE LIVE ANTHOLOGY" was
great but this set is AMAZING!, and a Slade fans complete package
containing 4 cds crammed with Slade classics (84 in
total)....all for around £15
Also accompanied with a 70 page booklet, telling the story
of Slade by Keith Altham, with loads of photos (some I've never seen before)
Plus their U.K. discography....... a well put together box set
and gets 10/10 from me.
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CD 1
This cd contains 20
tracks from albums..."Beginnings, Sladest, Play it loud, Slade alive , Slayed,
Old new borrowed and blue" and 3 B - sides. Stylishly with Slades 6 number 1's
on the first cd, and not spread amongst the other 3 cd's. The sound quality is
very good and gives just over 75 minutes of listening, an enjoyable throughout,
this cd shows why Slade went from 4 lads playing pubs, into "the band" that
rocked this planet... and will never be forgotten. Ones to pay attention
to are "The whole world's", "I'm mee..." and the FANTASTIC version of "Born to
be wild"
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CD 2
This cd has 21 great tracks, 14
tracks (compiled from albums..."Old new borrowed and blue," Flame", "Nobody's
fools" and "Whatever happened to Slade"), 4 singles and 3 B - sides. All
combining to make 77 minutes of powerful and easy listening....from "When the
chips are down" to "She did it to me". All tracks are crystal clear and sound
better than when they were originally on vinyl. My favourite tracks on this cd
are "Be", "It ain't love" and my very all time favourite
"Gypsy roadhog"
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The Slade Box Booklet
The 70 page booklet enclosed( Written by Keith Altham), is fantastic and
contains superb photos (some I've only seen since looking at this box set) There
is "Slade Wall Of 45's" showing single covers from U.K. and other
countries, The
U.K. Discography(7" singles,12" singles, flexi, Cd singles
(though not many) and
vinyl albums. My favourite part are the photos from "U.S. tour '74"
Photo's taken by Andrew Birkin.
I won't
spoil it by showing more photo's.....Just go out and BUY IT!!!...You won't be
disappointed.
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CD 3
This cd contains 21 tracks, 15 tracks
(compiled from albums..."Return to base", " We'll bring the down,Till deaf do us part" and "The amazing
kamikaze
syndrome"), 3 singles and 3 B - sides. Just over 75 minutes of excellent music."
Rock and roll preacher", "Till deaf do us part", and "A night to remember" are
brilliant tracks. My only complaint is "Okey cokey" is included, (But it was a
Slade release, peaking the charts at number 88, where other of these cd track
releases undeservingly failed over okey cokey)
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CD 4
This final cd contains 19 tracks compiled from albums "The amazing kamikaze
syndrome", "Rogues gallery", "Crackers" and "You boyz make big noize", 4 singles
and 4 B - sides, 75 minutes of pure genius (I can't fault anything on this
cd). "Ready to explode" gives me the impression it's Slades version of "Bat out
of hell" (Meatloaf)," Run run away" has excellent drumming by Don, Love the bag
pipe style guitaring (Reminds me of" Big Country", "Still the same" gives me the
impression "Slade were trying to re - insure their fans they hadn't altered" the
same as "We won't give in" to me meaning, they wont give up to the competition
of other groups/ bands. My final say on this cd is my favourite track is
"Universe" and as far as I'm concerned it should have been a hit...maybe some
one else should cover it...they got nothing to loose and who knows it may
benefit them BIG TIME.
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All in all...this is a
Fantastic cd collection and Superbly put together (Well done Tim Turan and Salvo). Every Slade fan should OWN
this and will never regret paying well under £20 for all this package contains.
This is the BEST remaster and I can't see anything beating it!!!
I hope to be
lucky enough to be able to review the future releases....so watch this space!!!
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