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In for a Penny: Raves & Faves

In for a Penny: Raves & Faves
Slade In for a Penny Raves & Faves 2007 Compilation Album Cover.jpg
Compilation album by Slade
Released 17 April 2007
Genre Rock
Length 48:49
Label Shout! Factory
Producer Chas Chandler
Slade chronology
Rockers
(2007)Rockers2007
In for a Penny: Raves & Faves
(2007)
Live at the BBC
(2009)Live at the BBC2009
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars
CMJ New Music Monthly favourable
OffBeat favourable

In for a Penny: Raves & Faves is a compilation album by the British rock band Slade, released in America only by Shout! Factory in April 2007. It was the second Slade compilation to be released in America since Shout! Factory's 2004 release Get Yer Boots On: The Best of Slade. The compilation features fifteen tracks, covering the band's career from 1970 to 1977. It includes album tracks, B-sides and singles that were hits in the UK and European.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic commented: "In for a Penny: Raves & Faves functions as a "more of the best" companion to Shout! Factory's excellent 2004 Get Yer Boots On: The Best of Slade. In for a Penny concentrates on hits that didn't climb as high on the charts, as well as deep album tracks, B-sides, and non-LP singles. This isn't much use for big hardcore fans, since most of the rarities appear on expanded reissues or other British comps, but this isn't designed with them in mind: it's for those who have Get Yer Boots On, or some other hits compilation, and want to hear more. [The] compilation producers sort through the abundance of Slade recordings and whittles it down to a dynamite 15-track collection. Even if they're not quite as timeless as Slade's biggest hits, these are pieces of glittering trash from the litterbin that are as much giddy fun as anything on Get Yer Boots On, which means anybody who loved that disc shouldn't hesitate to pick this set up."

CMJ New Music Monthly wrote: "This is the companion jam to the fine Get Yer Boots On: The Best of Slade. Nab that first if you haven't yet acquainted yourself with this fab band of platform-pouncing, plaid-unitard glam geniuses. If there actually was anything way-out and groovy about the '70s, Slade is the embodiment of it. Huge gods in the UK, they never made much of a dent here until Quiet Riot covered, like, 20 of their songs in the '80s. But don't hold that against Slade. Contrary to the usual critical putdowns of their genre's teen-bubblegum tendencies, the craw-hooking singalongs and Nuggets-era covers here prove Slade's deep knowledge of big harmonies, rugged riffs and really funny phrases about constant sexual pursuit. With loopy off-the-beaten-hits rarities, swell liner note stories for each one and garish band pics, the only complaint is that the mastering is whack, with some tunes much louder than others. Otherwise, you're in for a pound."


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