Nobody's Fools (album)

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Nobody's Fools
Studio album by Slade
Released	March 5, 1976
Genre	Glam rock
Length	42.03
Label	Polydor Records (UK)
Producer	Chas Chandler
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Slade chronology
Slade in Flame (1974) Nobody's Fools (1976) Whatever Happened to Slade? (1977)

Nobody's Fools was an album by the British glam/hardrock group Slade. It was released in March, 1976 and reached position #14 on the English album charts.

It was also their first album (since their rise to fame) not to reach the UK Top 10, and to drop out of the chart after a chart run of only 4 weeks. It would be their last album that would make an appearance on the chart until 1980s compilation Slade Smashes!. The album also showed the band dropping their 'loud' and 'rocky' type songs, and move towards a more 'American' soul/pop sound. British fans accused Noddy Holder and Jim Lea as 'selling out' and forgetting about their fanbase in the UK, as the band had been in the States for most of 1975, trying to crack the market.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Nobody's Fool" (Holder/Lea) Did Not Chart
2. "Do The Dirty" (Holder/Lea)
3. "Let's Call It Quits" (Holder/Lea) UK #11
4. "Pack Up Your Troubles" (Holder/Lea)
5. "In For A Penny" (Holder/Lea) UK #11
6. "Get On Up" (Holder/Lea)
7. "L.A. Jinx" (Holder/Lea)
8. "Did Your Mama Ever Tell Ya" (Holder/Lea)
9. "Scratch My Back" (Holder/Lea)
10. "I'm A Talker" (Holder/Lea)
11. "All The World Is A Stage" (Holder/Lea)

[edit] Bonus tracks on the 2007 remaster

12. "Thanks For The Memory"
13. "Raining In My Champagne"
14. "Can You Just Imagine"
15. "When The Chips Are Down"

[edit] Personnel

• Noddy Holder - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
• Dave Hill - lead guitar
• Jim Lea - bass guitar
• Don Powell - drums

• Chas Chandler - producer

v • d • e Slade Dave Hill • Don Powell • Mal McNulty • John Berry Noddy Holder • Jim Lea • Steve Whalley • Steve Makin • Trevor Holliday • Dave Glover • Studio albums Beginnings (1969) • Play It Loud (1970) • Slayed? (1972) • Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (1974) • Slade In Flame (1974) • Nobody's Fools (1976) • Whatever Happened to Slade? (1977) • Return to Base (1979) • We'll Bring the House Down (1981) • Til Deaf Do Us Part (1981) • The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome (1983) • Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply (1984) • Rogues Gallery (1985) • You Boyz Make Big Noize (1987) Live albums Slade Alive! (1972) • Slade Alive, Vol. 2 (1978) • Slade on Stage (1982) Compilations Sladest (1973) • Slade Smashes! (1980) • Crackers: The Party Album (1985) • Wall of Hits (1991) • Feel The Noize- Greatest Hits (1997) • The Very Best of Slade (2005) • The Slade Box 4 CD Anthology 1969-1991 (2006)