Slade Smashes!

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Slade Smashes
Compilation album by Slade
Released	November 1, 1980
Genre	Hard rock
Label	Polydor
Producer	Slade
Slade chronology
Return to Base Slade Smashes We'll Bring the House Down

Slade Smashes was a compilation album by the British glam/hardrock group Slade. It was released November 1, 1980 and reached number 21 on the UK charts.

The album was issued in the wake of the band's new-found success following their appearance at the annual Reading Festival, filling in for Ozzy Osbourne. The album featured most of the band's big hits from their early and mid 1970s heyday in the UK as well as less successful tracks from the band's "down period" in the late 1970s. This collection, alongside the band's current release We'll Bring the House Down, further cemented Slade's comeback in the UK and Europe (and shortly afterwards, newfound success in the United States).

[edit] Track listing

1. "Cum on Feel the Noize" (Holder/Lea)
2. "My Friend Stan" (Holder/Lea)
3. "Far Far Away" (Holder/Lea)
4. "Coz I Luv You" (Holder/Lea)
5. "Everyday" (Holder/Lea)
6. "Gypsy Roadhog" (Holder/Lea)
7. "Thanks For The Memory (Wham Bam Thank You Mam)" (Holder/Lea)
8. "The Bangin' Man" (Holder/Lea)
9. "In For A Penny" (Holder/Lea)
10. "Skweeze Me Pleeze Me" (Holder/Lea)
11. "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" (Holder/Lea)
12. "Look Wot You Dun" (Holder/Lea)
13. "Take Me Back 'Ome" (Holder/Lea)
14. "Let's Call It Quits" (Holder/Lea)
15. "Give Us A Goal" (Holder/Lea)
16. "Merry Xmas Everybody" (Holder/Lea)
17. "How Does It Feel?" (Holder/Lea)
18. "My Baby Left Me - "That's Alright Mama" (Crudup)
19. "Get Down And Get With It" (Holder/Lea)
20. "Gudbuy T'Jane" (Holder/Lea)

[edit] Personnel

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

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)