Slade - Old New Borrowed and Blue (1974) [1992, Japan 1st Press, Polydor POCP-2177]

Slade - Old New Borrowed and Blue (1974)
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Slade took two years and a hit-and-rarities compilation (Sladest) to give back to 1972 following the UK topping the charts Slayed?, Two years during which the skin around the band had changed dramatically.It's not the yobs out on the wild stomp of yesteryear, the members of the quartet put the old bombastic demagoguery far behind them in 1974 and changed its efforts to make more mature pastures - the gentle "Everyday," the yearning "Far Far Away, "and decidedly beautiful" Miles Out to Sea. " Old New Borrowed and Blue was the album that introduced the chrysalis to its audience - not that you know from the opening below. Mounting a line of guitar-based materials, very loosely, around the guttural riffing of The Beatles' "Birthday," "Just a Little Bit" cranks with dynamics almost metallic, even if the in-concert improvisations that had long since done so one of the highlights of the live show. "We're going to Raise the Roof," "When the lights are out," and "My Town" also offer little that Slade was not already well known for and that, perhaps, was what the band members were thinking and . Glitter-drenched The thunder was old news now, they could write the rockers in their sleep.The vaudeville piano led "to meet a rainbow", though, was an entirely new territory, while the country-rock-inflected "How Can It Be" postulated a direction that Holder himself admitted he was a regular in his turn casa.Foi-disc "Everyday," however, who held the secret of the future of the band, a singalong crowd swinging majesty of scarf-waving that it could very well be solely responsible for every great album U2 has ever done. It was certainly the most memorable single Slade's new for some time and, as the cue for more hymns in the air, she became one of the most important songs in the entire repertoire of the group. In an album that, at best, be described as uneven, "Everyday" is a brand new day.

~ Dave Thompson, Rovi

 

01. Just a Little Bit
02. When the lights are off
03. My City
04. Find yourself a rainbow
05. Miles Out To Sea
06. We are really going to Raise The Roof
07. Do We still do it
08. How Can It Be
09. Do not Blame Me
10. My Friend Stan
11. Everyday
12. Good Time Gals

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