Cum On Feel the Noize
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| Single by Slade | ||||
| B-side | "I'm Mee, I'm Now, an' That's Orl" | |||
| Released | February 23, 1973 | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, glam rock | |||
| Length | 4:31 | |||
| Writer(s) | Noddy Holder, Jim Lea | |||
| Producer | Chas Chandler | |||
| Certification | Gold | |||
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"Cum On Feel the Noize" is a rock song originally released by Slade in 1973.
Written by Jim Lea and Noddy Holder and produced by Chas Chandler, "Cum On Feel the Noize" was Slade's fourth number one single in the UK and their first to enter straight at number one. As a single from Slade it was a follow-up to "Gudbuy t'Jane", a #2-hit in the U.K., kept off the top notch by Chuck Berry's novelty single "My ding-a-ling" and later again by another novelty hit, "Long haired lover from Liverpool" from 9 year old Little Jimmy Osmond.
"Cum On Feel the Noize" entered at the top slot in the U.K.charts, was quite a rare feat at the time and was the first time this had happened since The Beatles with "Get Back" in 1969. It went on to spend four weeks at the top of the chart in March 1973. Typical of Slade's releases at the time, it fared less well in the USA where it would only peak at #98 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song actually inspired New York rock band Kiss to write their popular signature rock anthem "Rock and Roll All Nite".
The song is also commonly spelled as "Come On Feel the Noise", most likely due to common spelling or censorship reasons.
[edit] Quiet Riot cover version
The song was revived in 1983 by heavy metal band Quiet Riot, who also covered Slade's Mama Weer All Crazee Now. Quiet Riot's version of "Cum On Feel the Noize" went on to peak at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 19, 1983. It helped make Quiet Riot's Metal Health album a number-one hit. The song's success drew huge nationwide attention to the 1980s L.A. metal scene. It also helped to break Slade belatedly in the U.S. The song was certified gold by the RIAA. Originally, Kevin DuBrow and Frankie Banali were dead set on not covering the song, because they claimed that they hated it.
The Quiet Riot version is also featured in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City by Rockstar North, which takes place in 1986. It is also featured in the video game NHL 2K8 by 2K Sports. It was used in the fake trailer "The Fatties: Fart 2", which itself was attached to the film Tropic Thunder. The song is included in the soundtrack of the music video game Rock Revolution by Konami.
Quiet Riot's version of "Cum On Feel the Noize" was ranked #80 on VH1's 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders back in 2002, though the song was not Quiet Riot's only Top 40 hit and therefore not a true one-hit wonder. In 2009, it was named the 41st best hard rock song of all time also by VH1.[1]
| "Cum On Feel the Noize" | |
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| Single by Quiet Riot | |
| Released | 1983 |
| Recorded | 1982 |
| Genre | Heavy metal, hair metal |
| Length | 4:50 |
| Writer(s) | Noddy Holder, Jim Lea |
| Producer | Spencer Proffer |
[edit] Other cover versions
- "Cum On Feel the Noize" was subsequently covered by Oasis in 1996 as a B-side to their single "Don't Look Back in Anger".
- The song was covered by Montreal's Bran Van 3000 on their 1997 debut album, Glee, and was featured in a commercial for Excel gum.
- The song has also been covered by One Way System on their CD Writing on the Wall, and by the Welsh band The Oppressed.
- It is oftened erroneously believed that the song has been covered by the American band Twisted Sister [2].
- Sufjan Stevens would allude to the song in Come on Feel the Illinoise.
- J Dilla, a hip-hop producer used a sample of Neil Innes' son Miles singing this song on the track "Wild" from the Ruff Draft EP. Kid Cudi later used this sample on the song "Cudi Get" from his mixtape A Kid Named Cudi.
- The song was covered by Misako Honjo, a Japanese solo artist on her first album "Messiah's Blessing" (1982). The instrumentals and arrangement for this version were done by the Japanese heavy metal band Loudness.
- Beat Crusaders, a Japanese pop-rock band, released their album EPopMaking in 2007, which featured a track called "Come On Feel the Noise". However, despite the title, this is not a cover of the song by Slade.
- 4 Skins covered song along with "Thanks for the memories" on their 2008 EP.
- Quiet Riot's version of the song appeared on the soundtrack of the film Tropic Thunder, and also in an episode of, Malcolm in the Middle.
- Mooi Wark, a Dutch dialect rock band, covered the song and titled it "Kom Op Maok Een Vuust" on their 2008 album Bok 'm d'r op!
| Preceded by "Blockbuster!" by The Sweet |
UK number one single March 3, 1973 for four weeks |
Succeeded by "The Twelfth of Never" by Donny Osmond |
[edit] References
- ^ "spreadit.org music". http://music.spreadit.org/vh1-top-100-hard-rock-songs/. Retrieved February 7, 2009.
- ^ TWISTED SISTER Frontman Shares Funny Story About Late QUIET RIOT Singer - Nov. 28, 2007, on the confusion between Twisted Sister's "We're not gonna take it" and Quiet Riot's "Cum on Feel the Noize". Retrieved on June 4, 2009.
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