{"id":7761,"date":"2019-08-30T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=7761"},"modified":"2019-08-23T20:55:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T20:55:45","slug":"slade-feel-the-noize-the-singlez-box-bmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=7761","title":{"rendered":"Slade \u2013 \u2018Feel The Noize \u2013 The Singlez Box\u2019 (BMG)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The first album I ever owned was \u2018Sladest\u2019 the 1973 released compilation album by Slade. It came with a second hand cassette recorder my mother picked up for me for my 7th birthday and as such it left a truly indelible mark on my life.<\/p>\n

Of the ten 7\u201d singles featured here in this soon to be released box set from BMG the A sides of the first six singles were all featured on \u2018Sladest\u2019, so there\u2019s no way I could feel anything other than total delight when listening to the likes of \u2018Coz I Love You\u2019 and \u2018Gudbuy T\u2019Jane\u2019 and the only thing that kind of disappoints me is that the likes of \u2018Look What You Dun\u2019 and \u2018Get Down And Get With It\u2019 aren\u2019t included too.<\/p>\n

Still you can\u2019t have everything I suppose, its just that after the lavish \u2018When Slade Rocked The World\u2019 LP box set released by Salvo back in 2015 which contained a cornucopia of wonderful Slade ephemera from the 1971 -1975 era the fact that nine of the ten singles contained within this set also draw from the same period I do have a real sense of deja-vu when revisiting these songs so soon after, and again if you are going to focus on this period and not include the seismic \u2018Merry Xmas Everybody\u2019 single then you do start to wonder what BMG are really trying to achieve with this release.<\/p>\n

The answer I guess lies in the fact that those nine singles all come housed in internationally released picture sleeves, complete (where applicable) with non-album B sides; songs like the acoustic stomp of \u2018My Life Is Natural\u2019, the Kinks-y pop of \u2018Kill \u2018Em At The Hot Club Tonite\u2019 and the simply superb \u2018Wonderin\u2019 Y\u2019, a song Noel Gallagher must have heard many times over when composing most of the \u2018(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?\u2019 album.\u00a0 Once again though these tracks have all been released previously on the expanded Salvo versions of the corresponding Slade albums, so it really does boil down to the fact that if you are a Slade completist if the tenth \u201cpromo only\u201d 7\u201d of \u2018Night Starvation\u2019 is really worth the admission price for this set?<\/p>\n

Look, I\u2019ll admit I\u2019ve already pre-ordered a copy of ‘Feel The Noize\u2019, but if you are something of a more casual fan there are certainly much more cost-effective ways of getting these songs. You just won\u2019t have the pic sleeves or the (ahem) flip-top box.<\/p>\n

Slade\u2019s music is timeless, and (largely) faultless, they are THE BAND I go to whenever I lose faith in life, plus as I once got caught with me trousers down by Noddy Holder at an Ozzy gig in Birmingham Odeon I do feel like we connected that day. Oh and please remember Slade are for life not just for Christmas, but there\u2019s certainly nothing stopping you adding this box set to your Christmas list.<\/p>\n

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Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n