Slade - Pouk Hill Lyrics

Beautiful stereo production by Chas.

Always puzzled me why Slade weren't regarded as one of the great rock bands....
I suspect it was the terrible fad of the 70s & 80's of performing on kids tv, I remember being very sad seeing Slade perform to a studio full of 8 year olds for Crackerjack....
Marc Bolan suffered the same way, but his death and subsequent martyrdom pushed his tv series from peoples memories

Yes, I remember seeing Alice Cooper performing on some similar programme. I think the teeny-bopper label stuck to a lot of bands like Sweet, and they couldn't quite shake that. Also there were album bands and singles bands. It was looked on as 'serious music' if you disdained singles, bands like Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Yes were predominantly album bands, and bands like Slade, Sweet, Mott the Hoople were seen as pop, and only interested in charting with singles. I was 13 in 1973 and got my music from Top Of The Pops, then went out to buy the singles. Albums cost £5, far beyond my pocket, but I could always find 45p from my dinner money to buy a single.
I reckon those people into 'real rock' album bands missed out on not listening to Slade. Noddy Holder has an interesting anecdote in his biography about playing Reading, and all the 'rock' fans being really cool toward Slade, until they started knocking out those old hits everyone can sing along to

Pouk Hill,Walsall

Yeah, evidently Pouk Hill was where they had a photo shoot for their first album cover. It was done in the freezing cold with snow all around. That's what the song is about. (According to Noddy in a radio interview he gave).

grew up noody

early slade at their best

Beautiful song

Early signs of Slade's greatness

Simply the best, very versatile band of brilliant musicians !

For sure !

Me too! - Mr. Holder used to give Mr. Plant Lifts in his Dad's Window Cleaning Van - Holder surely one of the greatest frontman/rock vocalists ever.

i am a 52 year old male from the usa and i have around 3000LPs in my collection ive listend to slade for 30 some years and would rank them amoung the best pure rock n roll bands to come along cant compare them to bands like floyd zepplin stones they are of a differnt musical plain more like un earthly if you know what i mean slade is just pure heart n soul rock n roll rock on boys

@Rob Harding Slade and to a lesser extent The Sweet were awesome but its sad that the early 70s glam era in general seems to have been airbrushed from history. Slade made some truly classic songs. How does it feel is simply a masterpiece.

@dlamiss have to agree with that sentiment 100 %. Well said diamiss.

@Rob Harding thanks mate. they were a CLASS band, ironically 5/6 years ago saw Slade 2 and The Sweet live and it was a brilliant night.. The Sweet were perfect, Slade would always be handicapped without Noddy

@dlamiss Absolutely ! Nod does tend to stand out a bit, few can sound that good.

You sure know a good band when you see one.Well done to you, many in the states didn't.