Track Listing

1. Just A Little Bit
2. When The Lights Are Out
3. My Town
4. Find Yourself A Rainbow
5. Miles Out To Sea
6. We're Really Gonna Raise The Roof
7. Do We Still Do It
8. How Can It Be
9. Don't Blame Me
10. My Friend Stan
11. Everyday
12. Good Time Gals
13. I'm Mee I'm Now And That's Orl
14. Kill 'Em At The Hot Club Tonite
15. Bangin' Man
16. She Did It To Me
17. Slade Talk To 19 Readers

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3355 in Music
• Released on: 2006-08-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Customer Reviews

Probably the best Slade album
In 1974 "pop artistes" were either single bands - Sweet, Suzi Quatro etc or album bands - Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Led Zep etc etc. Slade were one of the few who managed to sell singles and albums. Old New Borrowed and Blue was released in February 1974 just after they had sold a million of the single Merry Christmas Everybody. I doubt that anyone would have guessed it at the time but Old New Borrowed and Blue was to be their last UK number one - whether album or single.

There is no doubt that it showed a greater maturity in song writing and arrangement and less of their stomping trademark. To my mind that is what makes it as an album. My personal favourite is "Miles out to Sea" - very Beatley and summery and maybe a better choice for the summer single than Banging Man turned out to be. Here you get Banging Man as a bonus track so you can take your pick.

This album has the variety of muscial style of most of the later Beatles albums which is what in my view makes it their best. Sadly though as Slade matured their record buying fans gave up on them. The Slade in Flame film would be out at the end of the year and Slade would have their last top three hit for nearly a decade but until the early eighties it was all downhill chartwise from now on.

Listen to and enjoy Slade's last number one. It is certainly worth £6.99.

Hooray!
It's terrific to be able to get this album on CD after so long - the packaging is good and the bonus tracks are a real, er, bonus!

One of my favourite Slade albums
Slade went through a period of churning out classic songs, which were sensitive, melodic and boot-stomping all at the same time.

Manager Chas Chandler pushed them into songwriting in the late sixties, and by the time of this LP, James Lea and Noddy Holder seemed to have found their feet. In my opinion, Slade were at their peak around 1974 in terms of the depth and beauty of their songs, which, complimented by Chas's down to earth production and the gimmick of the glamour and the songname mis-spelling, just fitted the time right at shifted albums by the bucketload.

A good song is always a good song no matter how much fashions change, and there are plenty to enjoy and love on this album.