Slade – Mama Weer All Crazee Now (Video)
April 20th, 2010 . by Alexander Fisher
In the early ‘70’s, several British bands like Slade were being promoted as “The Next Beatles”. Along with T. Rex and David Bowie’s Spiders From Mars, Slade helped front a British “glam” rock music scene that was usually more about long hair, wearing striped pants and knee high boots while playing hard rock music, than screaming girls at airports. Some of their other top 40 hit songs, besides Mama Weer All Crazee Now, included Coz I Luv You, Look Wot You Dun, Take Me Bak ‘Ome, Gudbuy T’ Jane, and Cum On Feel the Noize.
The hard rock band Quiet Riot seemed to make a career out of covering Slade songs in the 1980’s. They recorded this song and also had a big hit with Cum On Feel the Noize. While Quiet Riot’s covers were good, I always preferred the original Slade recordings.
Slade is a sometimes forgotten component of my early seventies musical tastes, along with other rock groups like Bloodrock and Rare Earth. They made some of the best, purest hard rock of their time. They just weren’t very good at spelling.
