'Coz I Luv You' was the start, but by 'Take Me Bak 'Ome' there was no denying it - Slade had fully embraced every Glam cliché in the book. A fuzzy, two chord guitar lead, a stomping drum and handclap beat a monkey could follow and a chorus designed for nothing else except shouting out loud, it was all there. Everything except a decent song that is - Slade's tale of trying to pull a woman pissed up on brandy, only to be thwarted by her boyfriend(?) who 'looks twice the size of me' has a certain earthy humour, but it's a lyric that's trying to be sledgehammered into a tune that simply isn't there.Noddy is game as ever and yells this one like the odds on favourite in a 'Sing Yourself Hoarse' competition, but his exuberance can't hide the fact that 'Take Me Bak 'Ome' sounds more like a rough demo or a half written chorus that's been given a studio gloss rather than the finished article. As a final throw of the dice it gets louder and wilder as it moves toward the end until the beat sounds like a sampled industrial press, but the effect is more one of desperation that genuine excitement. Even Glam Rock needs more than that to hold the interest. Probably Slade's least memorable number one.
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