Slade – Whatever Happened To Slade

When will this get a colored vinyl reissue???
(Like so many of their other albums)

Released in a more limited run than previous Slade LPs. Possibly due to the lack of success of Nobody’s Fools, possibly as it was on Chas Chandler’s Barn records. Sadly Slade were on their way down in public awareness, even sadder as this is quite possibly their best (and heaviest) set since “Slayed?”. I was lucky enough to have seen them on the UK tour ing this LP, in Glasgow early 1977. By the summer of that year the punk explosion had nailed the lid (albeit loosely) on Slade’s first period of glory. Reading was still a long way off, and 3 years in the dolrums affected the band in so many ways. However, as a swansong for their initial success - ie. swagger still intact - this is an absolute BELTER. Heavy rock at it’s best. No contest, Slade were still delivering, it’s just that their audience were moving on.

A stellar album but the mix on this pressing is pretty flat and missing the high end. All in all it’s still good enough for the money when you don’t want to shell out big bucks for the better releases.

this was a very over looked record by slade in 1977 probably due to other hard rock acts in the uk booming at this time like ufo, uriah heep, thin lizzy, status quo , rainbow and nazareth all who released very successful albums that year, also 1977 was the big punk explosion in the uk so for whatever reason this lp went quite over looked at this time, anyway this was always one of my favorite slade records belive it or not NOT MY FAVORITE but one of them, regardless this issue was released in the uk on barn records wich was run at that time by one of the of the depressions ( i could be wrong) and the label lasted but only a year and a half before it went under, polydor released this lp in other european markets but in the uk this was released on the barn label a small label at this time for a band like slade to be on, anyway the barn labels where brown and this lp also came with a inner lyric sheet, very nice copy to have.... this record was NOT released in the us

this is a very nice japan made cd replica papersleeve of the original 1977 lp sleeve of this semi classic. this disc includes 3 bonus tracks and comes with an inner sleeve for the cd and also a sheet with lyrics in both english and japanese, VERY NICE