Coz I Luv You

AMG Review of Coz I Luv You

Dave Thompson
All Music Guide

With "Coz I Luv You" having topped charts across much of Europe, this compilation was rushed out to bridge the gap between Slade's last album, Play It Loud, and the forthcoming Slade Alive in early 1972. In truth, there was little for the compilers to work with beyond adding the A- and B-sides of the band's last three singles ("Get Down and Get With It", "Coz I Luv You," and "Look Wot You Dun") to half-a-dozen tracks culled from Play It Loud itself. But still it's a terrific compilation, with the album cuts ("Pouk Hill", "Shape of Things to Come," and the oddly affecting "Dapple Rose" among them) certainly consistent with the majesty of the hits. Indeed, of all the myriad Slade compilations to have appeared over the decades since then, this -- the earliest of them all -- feels closer to a "real" album than any of them.