#89
March 29 1985
Slade
Rogues Gallery
Genre: Glam Rock
3 out of 5
The opening track “Hey Ho Wish You Well” is a rewrite of Run Runaway (Later, “I’ll Be There” does the same thing). Like almost note for note.
But once you get past that obvious attempt to cash in on a hit record, the album doesn’t completly suck. It’s Slade, man. And, until The Listening Post, I had no idea how much I liked them.
The only Mysterious thing about the “Myzsterious Mizster Jones” is why they rewrote Laura Branigan’s “Gloria”?
This sounds like a band trying to capitalize on the success of a hit single. It doesn’t have the audacity or lunacy of the last couple.
It’s the sound of old rockers running around the track for one more attempt at the cash machine.
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