Talk:Slade

message: Yes, Hill and Powell have split up, but there is no indication anywhere that the original band is being named "Dave Hill's Slade". Yes, Powell has announced he is forming "Don Powell's Slade" (something he hasn't done yet), but Hill continues to lead the original slade - it didn't "end" when Powell was kicked out. If any of this changes, please cite it correctly. SnoopingAsUsual (talk) 18:37, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed references to "two Slades" (2020)

message: I have removed all or a majority of the fair use images on this page as their use was not in line with our Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria policy (likely in that the use is not minimal (3.a.) and it is in a list or a gallery (8.)) or our Wikipedia:Non-free content guideline that states that cover images may only be used for critical commentary on the cover itself, not just identification. Please do not re-add them without discussion. Kotepho 10:07, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: Having read the comments above, and the main article, it is obvious both suffer from an overdose of myth, hear'say, fancruft bollocks and 'my dad reckons' etc., and very little in the way of cited, referenced sources. Remembering Verifiability, Citations and the Five Pillars, is there someone with a knowledge of the band and Wikipedia itself, that could knock this article into shape? For a start - Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums states - Top UK group of the 1970s. They were the first act to have three singles enter at No.1. All six of the Wolvertampton band's chart-topping stompers were penned by Holder and Lee. Total UK sales: 6,520,171. Best selling single - "Merry Xmas Everybody": 1,006,500. would be better than that which currently purports to represent the band.
How the hell it is rated as a 'B' class article is beyond me. Many thanks in anticipation.
Derek R Bullamore (talk) 22:51, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have hoped to do some work on the article based on Noddy Holder's autobiography, among other sources, but have not been able to get to it just yet. I'd like to see Slade get to FA, but we do have a way to go here yet. Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:29, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: December 2008

message: I see this has sparked a bit of controversy alread. As someone born and raised in Wolverhampton I absolutely deny that Wolverhampton is in the Black Country. That was always south of us.... 'In my opinion' - and without any agreed definition of where the Black Country starts and stops (or even where it got it's name from) you can never get beyond that. But why bother? This is suppossed to be an article about Slade - why bring up a controversial topic like Black Country geography at all? Just remove it. Nod came from Walsall, Jim and Don from Wolverhampton and Dave moved there from Devon when he was little. All verifiable fact - and all that is needed. SAHBfan (talk) 13:09, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The Black Country

message: Unbelievable that this page has no references! I have several books on Slade and I'm keen to try and add references where I can - but I'm a noob and so don't want to jump in where I'm not suppossed to... I'm a bit scared off by the wikiProject headings. SAHBfan (talk) 13:09, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: The following has been removed from the main article, as all is unreferenced.  Please respect verifiability and sources if any, some, or all of the following is to reappear in the main article.
"Slade was certainly our greatest influence; not only in the crafting of rock songs but also as performers.  Before Slade, no one really knew shit about how to make an audience riot.  We really got off on that.  There would probably never have been us without them".  - Gene Simmons (Kiss)
"And when I look at the greatest hits section by Sweet, or Slade, or any other of my favourite bands, there are TONS of compilation records". - Gene Simmons (Kiss) - Interview, Utopia Records website.
"I spent most of the early 70s listening to Slade Alive! thinking to myself, "Wow - this is what I want to do.  I want to make that kind of intensity for myself. A couple of years later I was at CBGB's doing my best Noddy Holder".  - Joey Ramone (Ramones)
"Slade never compromised.  We always had the feeling that they were on our side.  I don't know but I think we were right". -  Steve Jones (Sex Pistols)
"They are a good group. I wanted to join them!" - Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night)
"I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ass. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!"  - Tom Jones
"Slade was the coolest band in England.  They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch".  - Alice Cooper
"Slade was never pretentious.  It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade.  They wrote great songs.  And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe". - Noel Gallagher (Oasis)
"The whole punk rock thing really happened because of bands such as Slade and the like; rock bands that wouldn't back off".  - Paul Weller (The Jam/The Style Council)
"Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over". - Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
"Slade was pretty much the only thing metal about glam rock in the 70s". - Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe) Ironically, Slade would replace Mötley Crüe as the opening act for Ozzy Osbourne.
"Whatever happened to bands that rocked liked Slade?  Y'know, that no-bullshit, fuck you, in your face, we're bad-as-hell-and-we-know-it kind of band?" - David Coverdale (Whitesnake)
Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer based their fictional band Spinal Tap, in the film, This is Spinal Tap, on the 'tour diaries' of numerous UK heavy metal and glam bands. The events occurring to Spinal Tap in the film are based on the real exploits of not only Slade but also Deep Purple, Saxon, Led Zeppelin and Ozzy Osbourne.
Slade's track "Give Us A Goal" was used in the FIFA 2009 television advertisement in 2008.
The band was the first to take the risk of booking the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London for a couple of nights (although David Bowie promptly booked the venue for a couple of dates before Slade were due to perform).
Most of the above was marked with a {Citation needed} tag dated August 2008.  Enough is enough. Thank you,
Derek R Bullamore (talk) 14:26, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing citations 

message: I've been going through my books about, or including, Slade looking for verifiable quotes. Here's a few, more to follow:
"There was a new skinhead band around, and they had bigger stacks of amps, and they were louder than we were. And we didn't like that!" - Rick Parfitt, Status Quo (1)
"They were a proper geezer's band, but they dressed like the Diddy Men, didn't they?" - Noel Gallagher, Oasis (1)
"Slade were certsinly our greatest influence; not only in the crafting of rock songs but also as performers. Before Slade, no one really knew shit about how to make an audience riot. We really got off on that.There would probably never have been us without them." - Gene Simmonds, Kiss (1)
"When Slade broke in 1972 I began to get really nervous. Here I am killing myself to write the next incredible riff and then I see these four blokes pounding out four chords over and over, and loving every minute of it. I bought all of their albums and thought, maybe I wanted to join the band. Bands like Slade really inspired me to get back to my root of inspiration: heavy, intelligent but fun rock and roll." - Ritchie Blackmore, Deep Purple (1)
"They should have been the biggest thing since the Beatles in America." - Ozzy Osbourne (1)
"Slade! A band that would never bend over." - Kurt Cobain, Nirvana (1)
"Whatever hapenned to bands that rocked like Slade? Y'know, that no-bullshit, fuck you, in your face, we're bad-as-hell-and-we-know-it kind of band?" - David Coverdale, Whitesnake (1)
"There's more to be learned about the nature of class warfare from a Slade gig than from just about any other current cultural event" (2)
1. "Cum On Feel The Noize - The Story Of Slade" Alan Parker & Steve Grantley, Carlton Books 2006 
2. Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 29 September 1973 
SAHBfan (talk) 09:39, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotes WITH citations 

message: Please note that the article has been moved to Slade (band) by another editor. I then perfomed a requested housekeeping move to have the dab page at Slade. If this is fine a lot of links to Slade need to be fixed. Otherwise the move should be reversed.--Tikiwont (talk) 11:41, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: I thought the band were called Greenslade at some point in their history. Anybody have any info on that? I think I got that from the sleevenotes of an album but don't have access to my vinyl at the moment. As an aside, I was lucky enough to see Slade live and they were definitely 'a live band'. I wonder if their popularity waned when they stopped touring.--Ykraps (talk) 08:25, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You're probably right, I'm getting confused. It happens as you get older :). Thanks--Ykraps (talk) 08:53, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No worries my friend. If you type Ambrose Slade into the search field on Wikipedia it redirects you to the Slade home page. I too was fortunate enough to see Slade live at Leeds University in 1974 on the Sladest tour and at Reading Festival in 1980 (their best performance ever in my opinion)when they replaced Black Sabbath at a moments notice and had the crowd singing Merry Christmas Everybody in the middle of August.  Rock on Noddy!!! ..  Chilkoot (talk) 13:12, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greenslade? 

message: This article contains a lot of information about the individual members of the band which I am proposing to delete and, where appropriate, add to the already existing articles of: Noddy Holder, Jim Lea, Don Powell, Dave Hill.
My reasoning is that the article, as it stands, seems overly long and should concentrate on the band as a whole. Comments anyone?--Ykraps (talk) 07:44, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It won't be a big shock that I agree that you should cut down this material, since an article about a band should be about the band. It may be worth seeing if any of this can be moved to articles for the members.--SabreBD (talk) 08:23, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposing to delete large parts of this article. 

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message: "the last thing we want to do is to mess around [with] the people who have put us where we are"
To "mess (someone) around" is to ill-use them, say one thing then do another regardless if it hurts or harms them. That is obviously the intended meaning here.
Whereas to "mess around with" someone is to associate with them, including an implication of having sex with them. That's plainly not what is being said. So why the parenthetic "with"? Nuttyskin (talk) 17:30, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
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message: For the lead. I just wonder if we couldn't use "hard Glam Rock" instead ? Boeing720 (talk) 02:14, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it might be worth just using "Slade are an English rock band", similar to the opening line of Queen's article. You are right that the band were not just a Glam rock band. The height of their commercial success was indeed during the Glam rock era, but they did not begin as a Glam rock band in the 1960s, and they certainly moved onto other styles of Rock in the later 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Do any editors have any thoughts on this? Ajsmith141 (talk) 16:06, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The current Slade sell themselves as Glam Rock but as above, the original group were going long before Glam and after it had waned. They are a Glam group but were pop and rock.--Egghead06 (talk) 16:22, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

text: Glam rock was just a fashion thing for them. Their 60s stuff wasn't glam. Even their glam-era music was largely boogie-rock and pop. Then they had a second wind with their hard rock material. 'Rock' is the best description for the lede. --Michig (talk) 16:29, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
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message: I have often heard mention of Cup of Soup and Slade, but there is no mention here. I came to Wikipedia to find out more about Slade and Cup of Soup.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:4B00:87FF:9B00:7C00:373A:1BA7:9DB4 (talk) 21:39, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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message: Someone added, “Not to be confused with Sade (band) or Slave (band).” What about Snape (character), or grape (fruit)? I’m illustrating how absurd this instruction is. Nicmart (talk) 17:07, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
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message: Does any one know how they got their name? If so, this would make an interesting addition to the article. Vorbee (talk) 17:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
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