Slade discography

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Slade discography
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Classic lineup of Slade in 1973
Studio albums15
Live albums6
Compilation albums10
EPs3
Singles56
Soundtrack albums1

The discography of Slade, an English rock band, consists of fifteen studio albums, fifty seven singles, four live albums, and twelve compilation albums.

Contents

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
CAN
[4]
FIN
[5]
GER
[6]
NED
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9] [10]
US
[11] [12]
Beginnings (as Ambrose Slade)
(US: Ballzy)
  • Released: 9 May 1969
  • Label: Fontana
Play It Loud
  • Released: 28 November 1970
  • Label: Polydor
40
Slayed?
  • Released: 1 November 1972
  • Label: Polydor
1132721010369
Old New Borrowed and Blue
(US: Stomp Your Hands, Clap Your Feet)
  • Released: 15 February 1974
  • Label: Polydor
1622039168
Slade in Flame
  • Released: 29 November 1974
  • Label: Polydor
62510412793
Nobody's Fools
  • Released: 5 March 1976
  • Label: Polydor
1414
Whatever Happened to Slade
  • Released: 21 March 1977
  • Label: Barn
Return to Base
  • Released: 1 October 1979
  • Label: Barn
We'll Bring the House Down 25
Till Deaf Do Us Part
  • Released: 13 November 1981
  • Label: RCA
68
The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome
  • Released: 3 December 1983
  • Label: RCA
49501720921
Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply
(North American version of The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome)
  • Released: 2 April 1984
  • Label: CBS
2633
Rogues Gallery
  • Released: 29 March 1985
  • Label: RCA
60642638527132
Crackers: The Christmas Party Album
  • Released: 18 November 1985
  • Label: Telstar
34
You Boyz Make Big Noize
  • Released: 27 April 1987
  • Label: RCA
9812
Keep On Rockin' (as Slade II)
  • Released: November 1994
  • Label: Play That Beat!
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
CAN
[16]
FIN
[5]
GER
[17]
NED
[7]
NOR
[8]
SWE
[9] [10]
US
[11]
Coz I Luv You
  • Released: March 1972
  • Label: Polydor
2910
Sladest
  • Released: 28 September 1973
  • Label: Polydor
13107513412129
The Story of Slade
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Barn Records
Slade Smashes!
(AUS: The Very Best of Slade)
  • Released: 1 November 1980
  • Label: Polydor
2148
Slades Greats
  • Released: 12 May 1984
  • Label: Polydor
8970
The Slade Collection 81–87
  • Released: March 1991
  • Label: RCA/BMG
Wall of Hits
  • Released: 11 November 1991
  • Label: Polydor
344465
The Slade Collection Vol. 2, 79–87
  • Released: December 1993
  • Label: RCA/BMG/Polydor
The Genesis of Slade
  • Released: 3 March 1996
  • Label: The Music Corporation
Feel the Noize – Greatest Hits
  • Released: February 1997
  • Label: Polydor
1910
Get Yer Boots On: The Best of Slade
The Very Best of Slade
  • Released: 28 November 2005
  • Label: Polydor
39
B-Sides
  • Released: 5 March 2007
  • Label: Salvo
Rockers
  • Released: 17 April 2007
  • Label: Salvo
In for a Penny: Raves & Faves
  • Released: 17 April 2007
  • Label: Shout! Factory
Merry Xmas Everybody: Party Hits 151 [18]
Cum On Feel the Hitz: The Best of Slade
  • Released: 25 September 2020
  • Label: BMG
85435
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Box sets

Title Album details
The Slade Box
  • Released: 2 October 2006
  • Label: Salvo
When Slade Rocked the World
  • Released: 13 November 2015
  • Label: Salvo
Feel the Noize – The Singlez Box!
  • Released: 31 May 2019
  • Label: BMG
All the World Is a Stage
  • Released: September 2022
  • Label: BMG

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
UK
[1]
AUS
[2]
AUT
[3]
BEL
[19]
CAN
[20]
FIN
[5]
GER
[21]
NOR
[8]
US
[11]
Slade Alive!
  • Released: 24 March 1972
  • Label: Polydor
21827752518158
Slade Alive, Vol. 2
  • Released: 27 October 1978
  • Label: Barn
Slade on Stage
  • Released: 11 December 1982
  • Label: RCA
58
Slade Alive! – The Live Anthology
  • Released: 21 August 2006
  • Label: Salvo
191 [18] 100
Live at the BBC
  • Released: 28 September 2009
  • Label: Salvo
Alive! At Reading
  • Released: 15 September 2023
  • Label: BMG
Live at the New Victoria Theatre, London 1975
  • Released: February 2024
  • Label: BMG
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Extended plays

TitleAlbum detailsPeak
chart
positions
UK
[1]
Six of the Best
  • Released: 24 May 1980
  • Label: Super
Alive at Reading
  • Released: 26 September 1980
  • Label: Cheapskate
44
Xmas Ear Bender
  • Released: 5 November 1980
  • Label: Cheapskate
70
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

YearTitlePeak chart positions Certifications Parent album
UK
[22]
AUS
[2]
BEL
[23]
CAN
[24]
FIN
[5]
GER
[25]
IRE
[26]
NED
[7]
NOR
[8]
US
[27]
1966"You Better Run" (as The N' Betweens)Non-album single
1969"Genesis" (as Ambrose Slade)Beginnings
"Wild Winds Are Blowing" (as The Slade)Non-album single
1970"Shape of Things to Come"Play It Loud
"Know Who You Are" (UK only)
1971"Get Down and Get with It"167830344Non-album singles
"Coz I Luv You"17725912
"Look Wot You Dun"44312271462
1972"Take Me Bak 'Ome"11111104597
"Mama Weer All Crazee Now"1141111617376Slayed?
"Gudbuy T'Jane"2115727324768
1973"Cum On Feel the Noize"11251081698Non-album singles
"Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me"1391143163
"Let the Good Times Roll" (US only)114 [28] Slayed?
"My Friend Stan"24471051105Old New Borrowed and Blue
"Move Over" (Japan only)Slayed?
"Merry Xmas Everybody"1553194134
  • UK: 2× Platinum [14]
Non-album single
1974"Good Time Gals" (US only)Old New Borrowed and Blue
"Everyday"31322717443
"When the Lights Are Out" (US only)
"The Bangin' Man"3481873184Non-album single
"Far Far Away"217241282131Slade in Flame
1975"How Does It Feel"153611
"Thanks for the Memory
(Wham Bam Thank You Mam)
"
715133165Non-album single
"In for a Penny"1112Nobody's Fool
1976"Let's Call It Quits"11
"Nobody's Fool" [upper-alpha 1] 26 [30]
1977"Gypsy Roadhog"48Whatever Happened to Slade
"Burning in the Heat of Love"Non-album singles
"My Baby Left Me/ That's All Right"32
1978"Give Us a Goal" [upper-alpha 2]
"Rock 'n' Roll Bolero"
"It's Alright Buy Me" (France only)
1979"Ginny, Ginny"Return to Base
"I'm a Rocker" (Belgium only)
"Sign of the Times" (UK only)
"Okey Cokey" (UK only) [upper-alpha 3] Non-album single
1981"We'll Bring the House Down"1011We'll Bring the House Down
"Wheels Ain't Coming Down" (UK only)60
"Knuckle Sandwich Nancy" (UK only) [upper-alpha 4] Till Deaf Do Us Part
"Lock Up Your Daughters"2919
1982"Ruby Red" (UK only)51
"Rock and Roll Preacher" (Germany only)49
"(And Now the Waltz) C'est La Vie"50The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome
1983"My Oh My"26543127439137
"Cum On Feel the Noize" (re-issue)98Non-album single
1984"Run Runaway"7173313198720The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome
Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply
"All Join Hands"159Rogues Gallery
1985"7 Year Bitch"6039
"Myzsterious Mizster Jones"50
"Little Sheila"5086
"Do You Believe in Miracles"54Crackers: The Christmas Party Album
1987"Still the Same"73You Boyz Make Big Noize
"That's What Friends Are For"95
"Ooh La La in L.A."
"You Boyz Make Big Noize" (UK only)94Non-album single
"We Won't Give In" (UK only)121You Boyz Make Big Noize
1988"Let's Dance '88" (UK only)152Non-album single
1991"Radio Wall of Sound"21213022Wall of Hits
"Universe"76
1998"Merry Xmas Everybody '98 Remix"
(Slade vs Flush)
30Non-album singles
2013"Everyday" (re-issue)69
"—" denotes items that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Promotional only singles

YearSingleAlbumNotes
1966"Security"Non-album singleUS only, as The In-Be-Tweens
1972"Hear Me Calling"Slade Alive!UK only
1972"The Whole World's Goin' Crazee"Slayed?UK 7" flexi disc given free with Music Scene magazine
1980"Night Starvation"Six of the BestUK only
1984"Slam the Hammer Down"Keep Your Hands Off My Power SupplyAmerica only
1987"Ooh La La in L.A."You Boyz Make Big NoizeAmerica / Europe (excluding UK)

"Merry Xmas Everybody" single

"Merry Xmas Everybody" was annually re-released for most of the eighties in the UK.

Since the 21st century, chart rules changed in many territories to allow downloads of old singles to re-enter the singles charts.

19731980198119821983198419851986198919901991199820062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022
UK [1] 17032672047487199932120323550333549555530161719172126
IRE [34] 1183749486775683441
NED [7] 77399426167
SCO [35] 31214054313546446873706151585960
GER [36] 4809665


Videography

Videos

Music videos

YearVideo
1969"Mad Dog Cole"
"Wild Winds Are Blowing"
1971"Get Down and Get With It"
"Look Wot You Dun"
1972"Gudbuy T'Jane"
1973"Cum On Feel the Noize"
"My Friend Stan"
1974"Far Far Away"
1975"Thanks for the Memory (Wham Bam Thank You Mam)"
1976"Let's Call It Quits"
"Nobody's Fool"
1977"My Baby Left Me – That's All Right"
1978"Give Us a Goal"
1981"We'll Bring The House Down"
"Wheels Ain't Coming Down"
"Lock Up Your Daughters"
1982"Ruby Red"
1983"My Oh My"
1984"Run Runaway"
"All Join Hands"
1985"7 Year Bitch"
"Myzsterious Mizster Jones"
"Little Sheila"
"Do You Believe in Miracles"
1991"Radio Wall of Sound"
"Universe"

See also

Notes

  1. This single did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but did reach number three in the UK Star Breakers Chart. [29]
  2. This single did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but did reach number 70 in Gallup's National Top 100 Singles chart. [31]
  3. This single did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but did reach number 96 in the Record Business The Singles Chart. [32]
  4. This single did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but did reach number 101 in the Record Business Bubbling Under Singles chart. [33]

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