Mick Ronson-Slaughter on 10th Ave (1974)


 

Artist: Mick Ronson

Title: Slaughter on 10th Avenue

Label: RCA Victor

Format: LP

Cat #: APL1-0353

Year of Release: 1974

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1974 Indianapolis Pressing

Sold Price: $12.99

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 10/28/20

Discogs Last Sold: 9/6/20 VG+/VG $10.39

Low: $3.00

Median: $10.39

High: $30.95 NM/VG+

Current low price: $4.65 VG/F, $9.00 VG/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26

Have/Want: 652/87

Where Sold: Albany, NY

Time it took to sell: 4 years

Where and When Bought: Nuggets, Boston early aughts under $10

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go?: No

Given Ronson is all over Spiders From Mars and toured in Rolling Thunder Review, you would think this album would have been substantial and important to me for a very long time.  You would be wrong.   

I'm having a bit of a tough time saying anything about this.  This is the second copy I sold this year, the second time I've listened in headphones start to finish since the first time a couple decades ago.   I bought it used on a Boston trip to the "new" Nuggets now in a bank down the street from where they once were.  They were having some kind of sale and I bought a ton of albums that day for half off.  This was still a curio for me at the time.  You would've thought I knew this given the complete Bowie and Dylan collections I had, but Ronson fell through the cracks somehow.  Streaming it for another listen to see if anything sticks.  It seems like it should be more substantial and important to me.

If you closed your eyes and didn't know, you woulda thought this was a peak glitter rock period Bowie album.  But it is not.  It opens with his take on label mate Elvis' "Love Me Tender."  Theatrical Bowie style intro bombast with nice distinctive soloing. But the theme is urban sleaze, not sentimentality. Cocaine hookers, pleasure men and, finally, slaughter adorn the album.  Pianos tinkle, guitars wail.

Bowie's all over the writing credits: "Growing Up And I'm Fine," "Music Is Lethal" and "Hey Ma, Get Papa" all have his input.  

But Ronson, the guitarist has the final word and the best tracks.  

As all guitarists should.

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