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Welcome to my own site based on the English rock group Slade. Currently not fully complete but almost there. Solo-related material not yet added, still some lyrics to add and a few odd pages.
Being born in 1994, I was never able to see the original Slade active, but regardless, they remain my favourite musical act for many reasons. Since a young age I had grew up listening to the music of my parents, including Steve Harley and Queen. Eventually I began to move away from the influences of the family's record collection. As every modern kid, I would often play video games on the Playstation 2 by the age of ten. There were three certain games that stood out which were Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Apart from obviously enjoying the games themselves, what I loved all the same was the ability to listen to music during play. My distaste for modern music has always been obvious and with the two of three games being set in the 1980s, it was perfect for me.
I found myself drawn to a good amount of material on the game but one song really stood out. It was a song titled Cum on Feel the Noize from the American rock band Quiet Riot. Now at the time of being ten years old, I wasn't sure what Quiet Riot was and so one evening I asked my father who sang Cum on Feel the Noize. Being British, the obvious answer turned out to be Slade. At my innocent age, I was confused as to why the name Slade was not in the game's booklet aside the song's name. Not familiar with artists covering other songs, I presumed that Quiet Riot was the nickname of a band member in Slade!
Fortunately my curiosity led to the rare treat of getting a CD from amazon.co.uk which was Slade's Greatest Hits. A few days later and the CD had arrived. I'm not sure what I made of the band's image at the time but it certainly interested me further. I put the CD into my Playstation 2 and heard Get Down and Get With It blast out of the TV. To be totally honest, at first I was dazzled as the song didn't sound like the group Quiet Riot and secondly the song sounded much older than Cum on Feel the Noize did.
I was unsure as to what was going on so I quickly skipped forward to Cum on Feel the Noize itselfand again I was completely confused.The song was the same song on the game but a completely different version. I soon realised this was not the same band, but I also realised that Slade wrote the song. Despite the confusing start to the Slade world, I found myself enjoying certain songs at first before loving the entire compilation. Look Wot You Dun had hit the right spot and I immediately knew of Merry Xmas Everybody. As odd as fate is, it turned out that I had already discovered Slade without realising it.
During the years of listening to my parent's music, my mother had the cassette version of the compilation Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 2 which featured Slade's Run Runaway. Also, my father was a fan of Dom Joly's Trigger Happy TV Series which led him to buy the soundtrack for series 2. A random choice of the three series at the time, it was the soundtrack for series 2 that contained Slade's Everyday ballad. I dearly loved both songs, Run Runaway for the pure energy and infectiousness, and Everyday for it's emotion and friendly sound. From the rest of the album, I found that I particularly liked My Friend Stan, Far Far Away, We'll Bring the House Down, Lock Up Your Daughters, My Oh My, All Join Hands and Radio Wall of Sound.
My love for Slade soon excelled when my parents allowed me to buy my next Slade album. Being so young, and being on dial-up internet, I couldn't simply research all I wanted about Slade and so a quick look at the discography list on wikipedia was the limit. Firstly, Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply had a pretty cool title to me but it was You Boyz Make Big Noize that caught my eye. A random choice really, I loved the title and so we visited amazon.co.uk to buy Slade's final studio album from 1987.
Once again, I received the album and unwrapped it from the packaging. Immediately, I loved the artwork but was confused by the track listing. On the amazon.co.uk page, it had listed two extra tracks instead of the 12 track CD I had received. As I always have, I wanted to collect every track from the band and so the fact that the track's You Boyz Make Big Noize and Boyz (Instrumental) was missing was disappointing. I would soon have my parents re-buy the album which this time I found only 13 tracks with the instrumental still missing! (Later I discovered that no CD with 14 tracks existed, amazon's mistake!) Putting the disc into my Playstation, I found myself loving the album and particularly the synthesizers which have always appealed to me personally.
My desire for the band's music was now in full throttle and I asked my grandparents if they would search for any Slade albums when they visit a shopping town. They soon ordered and gave me the album Rogues Gallery which again, I loved to bits. These two albums in particular became the soundtrack to my childhood live, living on the great Isle of Portland, Dorset. I even formed a little 'child' duo with my younger brother, pretending to be my own version of Slade!
Shortly following I had become the owner of The Slade Collection Vol.2, the Russian double CD release of We'll Bring the House Down/Sladest and Beginnings, finding myself loving all the albums. Soon my parents were beginning the idea of moving to Cornwall, something which I feared as I felt my life was on Portland. My father took a trip to St Austell, Cornwall for a job interview and came back with a vinyl copy of Slayed?. The album was fantastic and I particularly liked Look At Last Nite. The line in the lyric "you'll be right here today, gone tomorrow, maybe they'll care today, but not tomorrow" fitted with my fear of moving from my friends. Due to the fact that I didn't have my own vinyl player (and the house stereo was downstairs), I wouldn't play my vinyls very often and so I never listened to my vinyl records as much as I should have, preferring CDs that I could play in my own room or via a personal stereo.
Eventually we had begun to take trips to St Austell, searching for a new house. Whilst there I would ask every home owner we visited if they liked Slade and I managed to visit the town, getting myself a CD copy of Slade Alive! and later vinyl copies of Old New Borrowed and Blue, Slade in Flame and Slade Smashes! Impressed with these albums, my final order on amazon within Dorset was Nobody's Fools which sadly never arrived.
In August 2005, we moved to St Austell where I found myself completely out of place, confused and rather upset at leaving my perfect life in Dorset. Things were tough for me but Slade got me through it. This was particularly in secondary school, where I felt out of place, and at first with no friends at all. The only thing keeping me occupied at break times was playing Slade songs in my head. Soon in Cornwall, I managed to get a hold of The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome, Nobody's Fools and Till Deaf Do Us Part, once again loving the albums. Eventually, I found the Russian double CD release of Play It Loud/Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply, Crackers and a vinyl copy of Slade on Stage. I had ordered the Slade Alive Vol.2 album before but the store closed before I could get it.
Having never seen actual video footage of Slade, the 2005 DVD release The Very Best of Slade proved to be a huge interest to me. The remainder of the albums Whatever Happened to Slade, Return to Base, Slade Alive Vol.2 and all the Slade b-sides wouldn't come to me until the Salvo remasters, where I loved each album once again. Having collected all official material, I was always on the search for new material - either music or video, such as the Blessings in Disguise songs Crying in the Rain and Wild Nights from 1989. Soon after, I persuaded my dad to get broadband internet which allowed me to see all kinds of footage of Slade on Youtube.
Since my love for the band, I had in my young mind that I must only like Slade and no other music. Eventually by 2007, I couldn't resist the sound of American rock band Cheap Trick, a band my dad had the Greatest Hits album of. Eventually, I returned to my mother's Now That's What I Call Music Vol.2 where I began to find new artists, mainly from the 1980s. Today, I have a huge collection of CDs from many 1980s musical artists as well as being a film collector. My musical taste proved to be many styles from rock, pop, 80s dance, country etc, but what remains certain throughout my music findings, I have always had Slade at my number one position...
This website is in dedication to my favourite band, for all the joy they have given me over the years. Beforehand, you will find my work mainly on wikipedia, where I have literally added unbelievable amounts of information on Slade's articles. I have created the majority of articles on Slade's singles, added huge amounts of information on the albums and even rewrote Slade's biography. This information will be found on this site as well but as you now know, I am not merely copying other's work. In fact, this may be the only Slade site from someone as young as me.
Ashley Smith
Being born in 1994, I was never able to see the original Slade active, but regardless, they remain my favourite musical act for many reasons. Since a young age I had grew up listening to the music of my parents, including Steve Harley and Queen. Eventually I began to move away from the influences of the family's record collection. As every modern kid, I would often play video games on the Playstation 2 by the age of ten. There were three certain games that stood out which were Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Apart from obviously enjoying the games themselves, what I loved all the same was the ability to listen to music during play. My distaste for modern music has always been obvious and with the two of three games being set in the 1980s, it was perfect for me.
I found myself drawn to a good amount of material on the game but one song really stood out. It was a song titled Cum on Feel the Noize from the American rock band Quiet Riot. Now at the time of being ten years old, I wasn't sure what Quiet Riot was and so one evening I asked my father who sang Cum on Feel the Noize. Being British, the obvious answer turned out to be Slade. At my innocent age, I was confused as to why the name Slade was not in the game's booklet aside the song's name. Not familiar with artists covering other songs, I presumed that Quiet Riot was the nickname of a band member in Slade!
Fortunately my curiosity led to the rare treat of getting a CD from amazon.co.uk which was Slade's Greatest Hits. A few days later and the CD had arrived. I'm not sure what I made of the band's image at the time but it certainly interested me further. I put the CD into my Playstation 2 and heard Get Down and Get With It blast out of the TV. To be totally honest, at first I was dazzled as the song didn't sound like the group Quiet Riot and secondly the song sounded much older than Cum on Feel the Noize did.
I was unsure as to what was going on so I quickly skipped forward to Cum on Feel the Noize itselfand again I was completely confused.The song was the same song on the game but a completely different version. I soon realised this was not the same band, but I also realised that Slade wrote the song. Despite the confusing start to the Slade world, I found myself enjoying certain songs at first before loving the entire compilation. Look Wot You Dun had hit the right spot and I immediately knew of Merry Xmas Everybody. As odd as fate is, it turned out that I had already discovered Slade without realising it.
During the years of listening to my parent's music, my mother had the cassette version of the compilation Now That's What I Call Music Vol. 2 which featured Slade's Run Runaway. Also, my father was a fan of Dom Joly's Trigger Happy TV Series which led him to buy the soundtrack for series 2. A random choice of the three series at the time, it was the soundtrack for series 2 that contained Slade's Everyday ballad. I dearly loved both songs, Run Runaway for the pure energy and infectiousness, and Everyday for it's emotion and friendly sound. From the rest of the album, I found that I particularly liked My Friend Stan, Far Far Away, We'll Bring the House Down, Lock Up Your Daughters, My Oh My, All Join Hands and Radio Wall of Sound.
My love for Slade soon excelled when my parents allowed me to buy my next Slade album. Being so young, and being on dial-up internet, I couldn't simply research all I wanted about Slade and so a quick look at the discography list on wikipedia was the limit. Firstly, Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply had a pretty cool title to me but it was You Boyz Make Big Noize that caught my eye. A random choice really, I loved the title and so we visited amazon.co.uk to buy Slade's final studio album from 1987.
Once again, I received the album and unwrapped it from the packaging. Immediately, I loved the artwork but was confused by the track listing. On the amazon.co.uk page, it had listed two extra tracks instead of the 12 track CD I had received. As I always have, I wanted to collect every track from the band and so the fact that the track's You Boyz Make Big Noize and Boyz (Instrumental) was missing was disappointing. I would soon have my parents re-buy the album which this time I found only 13 tracks with the instrumental still missing! (Later I discovered that no CD with 14 tracks existed, amazon's mistake!) Putting the disc into my Playstation, I found myself loving the album and particularly the synthesizers which have always appealed to me personally.
My desire for the band's music was now in full throttle and I asked my grandparents if they would search for any Slade albums when they visit a shopping town. They soon ordered and gave me the album Rogues Gallery which again, I loved to bits. These two albums in particular became the soundtrack to my childhood live, living on the great Isle of Portland, Dorset. I even formed a little 'child' duo with my younger brother, pretending to be my own version of Slade!
Shortly following I had become the owner of The Slade Collection Vol.2, the Russian double CD release of We'll Bring the House Down/Sladest and Beginnings, finding myself loving all the albums. Soon my parents were beginning the idea of moving to Cornwall, something which I feared as I felt my life was on Portland. My father took a trip to St Austell, Cornwall for a job interview and came back with a vinyl copy of Slayed?. The album was fantastic and I particularly liked Look At Last Nite. The line in the lyric "you'll be right here today, gone tomorrow, maybe they'll care today, but not tomorrow" fitted with my fear of moving from my friends. Due to the fact that I didn't have my own vinyl player (and the house stereo was downstairs), I wouldn't play my vinyls very often and so I never listened to my vinyl records as much as I should have, preferring CDs that I could play in my own room or via a personal stereo.
Eventually we had begun to take trips to St Austell, searching for a new house. Whilst there I would ask every home owner we visited if they liked Slade and I managed to visit the town, getting myself a CD copy of Slade Alive! and later vinyl copies of Old New Borrowed and Blue, Slade in Flame and Slade Smashes! Impressed with these albums, my final order on amazon within Dorset was Nobody's Fools which sadly never arrived.
In August 2005, we moved to St Austell where I found myself completely out of place, confused and rather upset at leaving my perfect life in Dorset. Things were tough for me but Slade got me through it. This was particularly in secondary school, where I felt out of place, and at first with no friends at all. The only thing keeping me occupied at break times was playing Slade songs in my head. Soon in Cornwall, I managed to get a hold of The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome, Nobody's Fools and Till Deaf Do Us Part, once again loving the albums. Eventually, I found the Russian double CD release of Play It Loud/Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply, Crackers and a vinyl copy of Slade on Stage. I had ordered the Slade Alive Vol.2 album before but the store closed before I could get it.
Having never seen actual video footage of Slade, the 2005 DVD release The Very Best of Slade proved to be a huge interest to me. The remainder of the albums Whatever Happened to Slade, Return to Base, Slade Alive Vol.2 and all the Slade b-sides wouldn't come to me until the Salvo remasters, where I loved each album once again. Having collected all official material, I was always on the search for new material - either music or video, such as the Blessings in Disguise songs Crying in the Rain and Wild Nights from 1989. Soon after, I persuaded my dad to get broadband internet which allowed me to see all kinds of footage of Slade on Youtube.
Since my love for the band, I had in my young mind that I must only like Slade and no other music. Eventually by 2007, I couldn't resist the sound of American rock band Cheap Trick, a band my dad had the Greatest Hits album of. Eventually, I returned to my mother's Now That's What I Call Music Vol.2 where I began to find new artists, mainly from the 1980s. Today, I have a huge collection of CDs from many 1980s musical artists as well as being a film collector. My musical taste proved to be many styles from rock, pop, 80s dance, country etc, but what remains certain throughout my music findings, I have always had Slade at my number one position...
This website is in dedication to my favourite band, for all the joy they have given me over the years. Beforehand, you will find my work mainly on wikipedia, where I have literally added unbelievable amounts of information on Slade's articles. I have created the majority of articles on Slade's singles, added huge amounts of information on the albums and even rewrote Slade's biography. This information will be found on this site as well but as you now know, I am not merely copying other's work. In fact, this may be the only Slade site from someone as young as me.
Ashley Smith
