QR also covered “Mama Weer All Crazee Now” by Slade. Slade championed the “ludicrous spelling” style of song titles long before Prince did it.
I loved 1980s KROQ too. Who can forget KROQ Happy Hour at Huntington Harbor Red Onion? I miss the OC.
Redondo Beach, represent. Though I’m old enough to know “KHJ plays all the hits!”
Don’t forget the shot in the video where they’re holding a big log in a tunnel. Subtle, they are. Subtle.
More like who can remember, if you know what I mean ;)
Actually, mine was the Redondo Beach location; hopefully Jonathan Chance doesn’t remember witnessing me acting a fool.
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Redondo Beach, represent. Though I’m old enough to know “KHJ plays all the hits!”
Hells yeah. 93 KHJ, playing on my Tootl a Loop radio
This is the EP version of the song, so whoever uploaded the video extended the video in as clumsy a way as possible for the extra twiddly bits at the beginning.
Hot damn! Horseshoe pier, Avenue I beach and Perry’s Pizza at Plaza del Amo, baby.
Bring it on!
Wait, what?
Run, Run Away? My, Oh My? Cheap ‘n’ Nasty Luv? Slade were great!
Thanks for triggering these memories. Love that song, and then just looking at the recommendations sends me far, far, far down Rock & Roll Memory Lane.
I’m not disagreeing, but they’re a UK band.
In the 70s they never put a song in the top 40. They topped out at #68 with Gudbuy T’Jane in 1972. Then nothing on the US charts until #37 with My Oh My and #20 with Run Runaway. During that space of 1971 to 1976, however, they placed 17 singles in the top 40 UK charts including 6 songs at #1.
Heck, man, ‘Cheap n Nasty Luv’ wasn’t even released as a single.
I love me some Slade, and I wish I’d have seen them, but I’m under no illusions about what I had to buy their albums in London and not in DC where I lived in the early 80s.
I listened to the ‘alternative’ station.
Slade’s back catalogue is well worth a rummage through if you like it loud and stompy. They weren’t averse to a gentler approach either, I have a soft spot for Everyday, it starts off fairly normally but Noddy can’t help himself, he could never be described as a balladeer.
If you do have a rummage and find yourself thinking “that’s very AC/DC” you’d be right. Noddy was offered the AC/DC lead singer position in 1980 but turned it down to keep playing with his mates. He apparently runs Dave Grohl close for “nicest man in rock”
Also, re - the orignal video, how come Dave Hill suits a beard? That shouldn’t work.
That song nets the band somewhere between £500,000 and £1 million a year in royalties. Nice pension plan.
Hard to argue. It’s just a perfect rock Xmas song. Dumb, kinda goofy but sweet. And it ends in a pun that even my grandmother got.
But to point out the difference between their US and UK popularity, I don’t think I’ve ever heard the song. I certainly don’t remember it.
I can’t understand how you could possibly get a Scottish vibe from that! 
There is a body of opinion Slade were at their best with How Does It Feel? from their mid seventies prime:
I always liked the UK Comedy Show **The Grimleys** set in the 1970s and featuring a host of stars in cameo roles including **Slade** lead singer **Noddy Holder **as a music teacher called Neville Holder - the character a fictionalised version of Noddy as if he had never joined a band.At the end of one episode (the theme of the episode being encouragement to try for your dreams) Noddy performs an acoustic version of Cum On Feel The Noize:
If nothing else it shows what a great voice (the real) Noddy had even after he had retired from the band.
TCMF-2L
Are we SURE they’re not the basis for Spinal Tap?
At the end of another he’s singing “So here it is, happy Easter, everybody’s having buns…”
I certainly remember hearing Run, Run Away back in the 80s. Of course,I was also in a big college town where the DJs might have played a bit more in the way of internationall songs.
Still, one of the oldies stations here has played it once or twice in the past few years.
I certainly remember hearing both “Run Run Away” and “My Oh My” back in the 1980s when they came out, and I’m pretty sure I saw the video for “Run Run Away” back then too.
If I heard them on the radio, they would have been on the town’s one decent but not especially hip or adventurous rock/pop station. If I saw the video(s), that may have been before we got our MTV, when my main source for music videos was WTBS’s “Night Tracks,” which played several hours of videos on Friday and Saturday nights. I got introduced to a lot of good music that way.