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By 1977, the world had passed Slade by. At that point, they had been
concentrating exclusively on cracking the U.S.A. for several years,
without much success, and punk rock happened in Great Britain and
literally blew hitmakers like Slade off the map. Whatever Happened to
Slade? had the misfortune of following what was easily the band's
worst album at that point, Nobody's Fools, which did squat in England
and not much more in the U.S.A. The record was released only on band
manager Chas Chandler's Barn Records, since no one else would touch it
in the U.S. or Europe. Whatever Happened to Slade? is the band's
extremely loud reply to the news that they were has-beens. Whereas
Slade had been a huge influence on Kiss, the favor was now returned,
as Whatever has a bit of the Hotter Than Hell, early-Kiss sound, which
the band has acknowledged. It's still pure Slade, though. The songs
and playing here are pretty much out of sight, with monster riffs and
a different production style. Starting off with "Be," a tune unlike
any other the band had done, Slade sets the tone. It's going to be a
loud, raucous affair. "Be" reads and rhymes like a rap song, although
it is sung over a funky rock beat. "Lightning Never Strikes Twice"
shows bass player Jim Lea's emergence as a musician's musician. He
always was a great player and the core of the band, both live and in
the studio, but here Lea really gets a chance to shine. The song ends
with probably the closest approximation of what it feels like to be on
nitrous oxide. One of the singles from the album, "One Eyed Jacks with
Moustaches," sounds like classic Slade, but once again, radio wouldn't
touch it. Such is hipness in the music industry. The band was having
Top Ten singles just a couple of years earlier, but no one wanted to
know that. Slade was about humor and good cheer, two things British
punk, for the most part, was not about. So they were marginalized. For
the Slade fan, this is a great record, and one you probably never
heard. Rectify that. [The 2007 reissue features a generous 9 bonus
tracks.]
http://users.swing.be/amazingslade/
Tracks:
01. Be
02. Lightning Never Strikes Twice
03. Gypsy Roadhog
04. Dogs Of Vegeance
05. When Fantasy Calls
06. One Eyed Jacks With Moustaches
07. Big Apple Blues
08. Dead Men Tell No Tales
09. She's Got The Lot
10. It Ain't Love But It Ain't Bad
11. The Soul, The Roll And The Motion
12. Forest Full Of Needles (Bonus)
13. Burning In The Heat Of Love (Bonus)
14. Ready Steady Kids (Bonus)
15. My Baby Left Me: That's Alright (Bonus)
16. O.H.M.S. (Bonus)
17. Give Us A Goal (Bonus)
18. Daddio (Bonus)
19. Rock 'n' Roll Bolero (Bonus)
20. It's Alright Buy Me (Bonus)
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