Slade -- Play It Loud

  1970 second release, Play It Loud, by Slade.  As you can see by the cover this doesn't look like the same Slade that play Cum On Feel The Noize, but I assure you it is.  As suggested by Chas Chandler (you know the one, Animals bass player, Hendrix manager), their producer, they adopted the skinhead look, not the racist kind we all know and hate, that genre of skinhead comes later, no no, this is the working class version of the mods, well sorta, but still very chic.  I read that this album is suppose to be a Punk Rock record seven years before the UK explosion, f*ck that sh*t, this garbage sounded more like a cross between early Queen and Pub Rock.  It might be fine when you're totally sh*tfaced, and these guys are the bar band that you don't have to hear again, but a timeless influential classic, bah ha ha ha!  Play It Loud, no thanks, I'll stick to Sladest, in stilettos!