Slade - Slayed? (1972/2021)
Slade - Slayed? (1972/2021)
Vinyl Rip | 32-bit/384 kHz | WavPack(2xImage + Cue) > 4.50 Gb | Artwork > 7.05 Mb
or 24-bit/192 kHz | Flac(Tracks) > 1.31 Gb
BMG, BMGCAT501LP | Glam, Hard Rock
~ Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Yellow and Black splatter ~
Vinyl Rip | 32-bit/384 kHz | WavPack(2xImage + Cue) > 4.50 Gb | Artwork > 7.05 Mb
or 24-bit/192 kHz | Flac(Tracks) > 1.31 Gb
BMG, BMGCAT501LP | Glam, Hard Rock
~ Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Yellow and Black splatter ~
Slade might have built its everywhere-but-America fame upon a succession of gut-tearing hit singles, but the band's true rocking credentials were on display elsewhere, in the second to none stage show that had already been preserved on the epochal Slade Alive! earlier in 1972 and across the chain of storming B-sides that had accompanied the smashes so far. Slayed? may have been only the band's second studio album in four years, but it reinforced that barrage with enough mighty stompers that the band could have taken the next year off and still not run out of steam. Even if one excises past hits "Gudbuy t' Jane" and "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" from the equation, Slayed? is a nonstop party, from the riotously self-fulfilling prophecy of "The Whole World's Goin' Crazee" to the down-key but still eminently stompalong-able "Look at Last Nite," the latter a reminder that, even at its loudest, Slade was still capable of some fetching balladry. Or should that be the other way around? The tomahawk riffing of "I Won't Let It 'Appen Again" is another highlight – a similar arrangement was later borrowed, to excellent effect, for sometime support band Blue Öyster Cult's version of another Slade favorite, the rocker anthem "Born to Be Wild," while "Gudbuy Gudbuy" lurches like a battalion of tanks and matches a stirring Dave Hill guitar break to one of Noddy Holder's coolest-ever vocals. A couple of covers break the Holder/Lea songwriting domination. A bass-heavy blues boogie through Janis Joplin's "Move Over had graced a Slade BBC session earlier in the year, and provoked such a great response that they had no option but to re-record it, while the closing medley of "Let the Good Times Roll" and "Feel So Fine" was the closest you could come to the mania of a Slade live show without actually going out and buying a ticket. Of course, listeners don't have that option today. But stick on Slayed?, crank the volume well up – and the whole world will be going crazee all over again.by Dave Thompson
Slade - Slayed? (1972/2021):
Tracklist:
A1 How D'You Ride
A2 The Whole Worlds Goin' Crazee
A3 Look At Last Nite
Written-By – Lea*, Holder*
A4 I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen
A5 Move Over
B1 Gudbuy T' Jane
B2 Gudbuy Gudbuy
B3 Mama Weer All Crazee Now
B4 I Don' Mind
B5 Let The Good Times Roll
Original ripper: uta5erika5
Original format: 32/384
Vinyl Condition: NM
Direct Drive Turntable: Denon DP-A100
Cartridge: Soundsmith Aida MKII ES
Amplifier: Manley Labs CHINOOK Special Edition MKII
ADC: RME ADI-2 Pro FS
Processing: iZotop RX9
Downsampled to 24/192
Slade - Slayed? (1972/2021)
Slade - Slayed? (1972/2021)
Slade - Slayed? (1972/2021)
