The Slade style was becoming well-defined with its loud guitars, raw vocals and at its center, a great pop song. 'Take Me Bak 'Ome' was their second chart. While Slade were a big singles band, their catalog from 1969 through 1977 is a very strong batch of long players. Hidden away on 1974's 'Old New.

Contents • • • • • • • • Background [ ] Following the lack of commercial success of their debut Beginnings, the band and their new manager Chas Chandler began considering their next career move. Having not been pleased with the debut album, Chandler thought the band would benefit from writing their own material and a change of image. He decided that the band should project a skinhead image in the effort to generate interest in the band. Both guitarist and bassist were mortified by the revised image, but the band agreed to try the idea and adopted Dr Marten boots, braces, cropped hair and aggressive 'bovver boy' posturing. Coinciding with the new image, Ambrose Slade changed their name to 'The Slade', which was used on their single ', released in October 1969.

The single was another commercial failure. In March 1970, the band's next single, ', was released but also failed to chart. As a result, Chandler soon moved Slade from Fontana to Polydor Records, believing a higher profile label would boost sales. The band continued recording songs for their next album, with Chandler assuming responsibility for the group's production. For the album, much of the material was written by the band.

In September 1970, ' was released as the band's debut single on Polydor. However, it too was a commercial failure, as was its parent album, Play It Loud, when it was released in November. Afterwards, the band decided to drop their skinhead image and would achieve commercial success with their mid-1971 single '. Speaking to in 2005, lead vocalist recalled: 'We got a lot of flak for being a skinhead band, so gradually we changed. We replaced Doc Martens with platform boots. We became more colourful and then it all went berserk — Dave the Superyob with his spacesuits and all the rest.

It was a great laugh.' Later in 1973, the album would achieve commercial success in Canada after it was released there by Polydor, reaching No. In a 1975 interview, Holder said: 'Actually, Play It Loud did nothing at first.

When it came out, we hadn't had any hit records, or any success, and it sold a few. It sold about ten thousand copies, something like that.

But over the years, over the last four years since we've been having hits, it's still been selling slowly, slowly, and about two weeks ago, it reached a silver album.' Promotion [ ] The band appeared on the UK show Disco 2 to promote the album. They made three appearances during 1970, performing 'Shape of Things to Come', 'Know Who You Are' and 'Sweet Box'. All three performances have never surfaced since broadcasting.

Track listing [ ] No. Title Writer(s) Length 1.

'Raven',, 2:37 2. 'See Us Here' Lea, Holder, Powell 3:12 3. 'Dapple Rose' Lea, Powell 3:31 4. 'Could I', 2:45 5. 'One Way Hotel' Lea, Holder, Powell 2:40 6. ' Lea, Holder, Powell, Hill 2:53 8.

'I Remember' Lea, Powell 2:55 9. 'Pouk Hill' Lea, Holder, Powell 2:23 10. 'Angelina' Neil Innes 2:49 11. 'Dirty Joker' Lea, Powell 3:26 12. 'Sweet Box' Lea, Powell 3:24 Song information [ ] 'Raven' is the album's opener, which AllMusic believes to have been inspired. 'See Us Here' was described as being 'subtle Black Sabbath'. 'Dapple Rose' features lyrics from Powell that refers to a horse.

Recalling the inspiration behind the song, Powell recalled in 2009: 'I've always had a fondness for horses and where I lived with my parents there were some fields over the back and there were always gypsies camping there. They used to have these horses and donkeys and they always looked dead to me. They were not looked after which was sad.' The song featured as the B-Side to 'Know Who You Are'. 'Could I' is a cover of the 1969 song. 'One Way Hotel' originally appeared as the B-Side to 'Wild Winds are Blowing', but that version had more of a jazz influence in the guitar parts.

This was altered for the version that appeared on Play It Loud. 'The Shape of Things to Come' is a cover of the 1968 song. Import C4d Files Into 3ds Max. It band's performed the song on their first appearance on Top of the Pops, although the performance has not been seen since the original broadcast. Carta Semilogaritmica Bode Pdf. 'Know Who You Are' was originally an instrumental titled 'Genesis', which appeared on Beginnings. The band reworked the song into a song featuring lyrics. It later achieved greater recognition after appearing on the band's 1972 live album. 'I Remember' features lyrics by Powell about a man who loses his memory.