I've mentioned before that every once in a while I wake up with a song going though my head that I can't shake. Yesterday morning it was "Run runaway" -- first I just had the melody, then "run, run away" emerged (just those lyrics), checked YouTube, and found it, luckily.
I'd remembered it as being some ridiculous 80's hair band but when I saw the video the song came back more strongly (I'm deaf now, could hear at the time, good memory for music) and it's a pretty good song!
It's by Slade -- I looked 'em up on Wikipedia to find out more about them and they're WAY cooler than I realized.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slade
Quote:Slade's influence
"Slade was certainly our greatest influence; not only in the crafting of rock songs but also as performers. Before Slade, no one really knew **** about how to make an audience riot. We really got off on that. There would probably never have been us without them." - Gene Simmons (Kiss)
"I spent most of the early 70s listening to Slade Alive thinking to myself, "Wow - this is what I want to do. I want to make that kind of intensity for myself. A couple of years later I was at CBGB's doing my best Noddy Holder." - Joey Ramone (The Ramones)
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"The whole punk rock thing really happened because of bands such as Slade and the like; rock bands that wouldn't back off." - Paul Weller (The Jam/The Style Council)
"Absolutely. Slade! A band that would never bend over." - Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Who knew?
They seem to never have really translated here (they're British) -- maybe because nobody was really a looker? The main guy (Noddy Holder) had a great voice though!
Not that he minds, just kind of bemused. Love it.
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