1 	Just Want A Little Bit	3:58
2 	When The Lights Are Out 	3:05
3 	My Town 	3:05
4 	Find Yourself A Rainbow 	2:09
5 	Miles Out To Sea 	3:48
6 	We're Really Gonna Raise The Roof 	3:06
7 	Do We Still Do It 	2:59
8 	How Can It Be 	3:00
9 	Don't Blame Me 	2:32
10 	My Friend Stan 	2:40
11 	Everyday 	3:09
12 	Good Time Gals 	3:30
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13 	I'm Mee I'm Now And That's Orl 	3:42
14 	Kill 'Em At The Hot Club Tonite 	3:21
15 	The Bangin' Man 	4:12
16 	She Did It To Me 	3:19
17 	Slade Talk To "19" Reader 	5:35

Dave Hill - Guitar, Vocals
Noddy Holder - Guitar, Vocals
Jim Lea - Bass, Keyboards, Violin, Vocals 
Don Powell - Drums 
Tommy Burton - Piano 

It took Slade two years and one hits-and-rarities compilation (Sladest) to get around to following up 1972's U.K. chart-topping Slayed?, two years during which the entire complexion of the band had altered dramatically. No longer the rampant yobs out on the stomp of yore, the quartet members placed the rabble-rousing bombast of old far behind them during 1974, and switched their songwriting efforts to more mellow pastures -- the gentle "Everyday," the yearning "Far Far Away," and the decidedly pretty "Miles Out to Sea." Old New Borrowed and Blue was the album that introduced the chrysalis to its audience -- not that you'd know it from the opening bellow. Riding a raw guitar line based, very loosely, around the guttural riffing of the Beatles' "Birthday," "Just a Little Bit" cranks in with almost metallic dynamics, even retaining the in-concert ad-libbing that had long since made it a highlight of the live show. "We're Gonna Raise the Roof," "When the Lights Are Out," and "My Town," too, offer little that Slade wasn't already well renowned for and that, perhaps, was what the bandmembers were thinking as well. The glitter-soaked thunderclap was old news now; they could write those rockers in their sleep. The vaudeville piano-led "Find Yourself a Rainbow," though, was new territory altogether, while the country-rock-inflected "How Can It Be" posited a direction that Holder himself admitted had long been a regular on his home turntable. It was "Everyday," however, that held the secret of the band's future, a crowd-swaying singalong of such scarf-waving majesty that it might well be single-handedly responsible for every great record U2 has ever made. It was certainly Slade's most memorable new single in a while and, as the cue for further airborne anthems, it became one of the most crucial songs in the group's entire repertoire. On an album that, at best, can be described as patchy, "Everyday" is a new day altogether. ---Dave Thompson, AllMusic Review

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1 	How D'You Ride 	
2 	The Whole World's Goin' Crazee 	
3 	Look At Last Nite 	
4 	I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen 	
5 	Move Over 	
6 	Gudbuy T'Jane 	
7 	Gudbuy Gudbuy 	
8 	Mama Weer All Crazee Now 	
9 	I Don't Mind 	
10 	Let The Good Time Roll - Feel So Fine

Dave Hill - Guitar, Vocals
Noddy Holder - Guitar, Vocals
Jim Lea - Bass, Keyboards, Violin, Vocals
Don Powell - Drums 

Slade might have built its everywhere-but-America fame upon a succession of gut-tearing hit singles, but the band's true rocking credentials were on display elsewhere, in the second to none stage show that had already been preserved on the epochal Slade Alive! earlier in 1972 and across the chain of storming B-sides that had accompanied the smashes so far. Slayed? may have been only the band's second studio album in four years, but it reinforced that barrage with enough mighty stompers that the band could have taken the next year off and still not run out of steam. Even if one excises past hits "Gudbuy t' Jane" and "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" from the equation, Slayed? is a nonstop party, from the riotously self-fulfilling prophecy of "The Whole World's Goin' Crazee" to the down-key but still eminently stompalong-able "Look at Last Nite," the latter a reminder that, even at its loudest, Slade was still capable of some fetching balladry. Or should that be the other way around? The tomahawk riffing of "I Won't Let It 'Appen Again" is another highlight -- a similar arrangement was later borrowed, to excellent effect, for sometime support band Blue Öyster Cult's version of another Slade favorite, the rocker anthem "Born to Be Wild," while "Gudbuy Gudbuy" lurches like a battalion of tanks and matches a stirring Dave Hill guitar break to one of Noddy Holder's coolest-ever vocals. A couple of covers break the Holder/Lea songwriting domination. A bass-heavy blues boogie through Janis Joplin's "Move Over had graced a Slade BBC session earlier in the year, and provoked such a great response that they had no option but to re-record it, while the closing medley of "Let the Good Times Roll" and "Feel So Fine" was the closest you could come to the mania of a Slade live show without actually going out and buying a ticket. Of course, listeners don't have that option today. But stick on Slayed?, crank the volume well up -- and the whole world will be going crazee all over again. ---Dave Thompson, AllMusic Review

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