Customer Reviews
Slade at their peak - By: Peter Jones, 23 Feb 2007 
Backin the '70's there was a huge demand for something new from Slade, so they cobbled this together from their best tracks so far.
On Sladest here are helpings of bits of their excellent first album Play it Loud, plus a few hits & early classics.
Obsessed fans might prefer the actual early albums, but for a taster this is a great representation of Slade at the height of their Glam Rock fame.
Early compilation from Britain's finest 70's rockers - By: , 15 Nov 2000 
After years of slogging away on the UK live circuit, Slade finally cracked the Top 20 with Get Down & Get With Itin June 1971. Coz I Luv You, released the following November became the first of several UK No.1 hits, & just one of more than a dozen Top 20 hit singles throughout the remainder of the decade.
Sladest was originally issuedin 1973, as a stop gap release by their record company Polydor, following drummer Don Powell's horrific car crash on July 4 of the same year,in which his fiance Angela Morris was tragically killed.
Sladest contained all of their hits up until this time, & several songs released prior to their breakthrough, (Shape Of Things To Come, Pouk Hill, & One Way Hotel, to name a few).
Sladest is one of this writer's favourite Slade albums - & for anyone (at the time) not familiar with their work, was a terrific introduction to one of THE great bands of the era. More immediately accessible than the raucous Slade Alive, Sladest offered fans & non-fans alike an opportunity to get well into some of the greatest pop songs of the seventies! 4 stars. Kym Jones
