05/09/2024
In complete contrast to Lament, for only the fourth time in 25 years, Slik is back on CD, and the latest compilation comes once again from Cherry Red off-shot 7T's on 11th October. You may want to check this one out!
Preceding the first edition of re:VOX by a couple of years, but reviewed in an early issue, Repertoire's Best Of Slik was first off the block, with the following year's Forever and Ever from Universal sub-label Rotation containing a different selection of 18 single and album tracks. Slik had a lot more of the former than the latter once European-only 7"s are taken into account.
Fast forward a few years to 2007 and the 7T's label put out their own single disc compilation, this time presenting their sole album, plus another twelve extras across a packed 22 track package, and only missing two tracks that had appeared on that first disc from 1999.
With Slik: The Complete Collection, 7T's have gone one better, with a new double disc set that pulls together all the single and album tracks, plus a new to CD DJ edit of Requiem.
But that's not all, as for the first time this set ends with all three PVC tracks, another two from the Zones single, ending with the Rich Kids re-recording of PVC2's earlier Put You in the Picture to take the story right through to his next, sadly short-lived band before success in the 1980s beckoned.
Long overdue career overview of Scottish Glamsters Slik who for around six months in the mid 70s were the biggest most in-demand group in the UK! This 2CD 31 track set contains all of the band’s releases including the UK No.1 ‘Forever And Ever’ which also the Top Ten in Belgium, Holland and Ge...
