23 Oct '07 - 152 W - + 2 - 4 Cover Versions: #2 Mama Weer All Crazee Now

I hadn’t realised until recently the extent of the musical debt that Quiet Riot owe to Slade. In my last blog entry, I posted Quiet Riot’s version of Slade’s wonderful Cum On Feel The Noize. In fact, Quiet Riot followed up the success of that single with another Slade anthem, Mama Weer All Crazee Now. I’ve just watched the Quiet Riot video and I have to say it’s a decent cover version - in fact, it’s very like the Slade original apart from a few sound effects, some extra guitar-solo stuff - and (in my opinion) a total lack of the sheer raw energy of the Slade original. Here’s Quiet Riot from 1984...



And here is the definitive Slade version from 1972...



C’mon. How can anyone think the Quiet Riot version is better...? Slade are just soooooo darn’ rockin’!

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