Slide It In (The Ultimate Special Edition) (CD6+DVD)
WhitesnakeCD1 U.S. MIX (1985) 35TH ANNIVERSARY REMASTER
- Gambler
- Slide It In
- Slow An’ Easy
- Love Ain’t No Stranger
- Give Me More Time
- Standing In The Shadow
- Hungry For Love
- All Or Nothing
- Spit It Out
- Guilty Of Love
CD2 U.K. MIX (1984) 35TH ANNIVERSARY REMASTER
- Gambler
- Slide It In
- Slow An’ Easy
- Love Ain’t No Stranger
- Give Me More Time
- Standing In The Shadow
- Hungry For Love
- All Or Nothing
- Spit It Out
- Guilty Of Love
- Need Your Love So Bad – Single B-Side
- Gambler – 7 Eddie Kramer Mix (1983)
- Guilty Of Love – 7 Eddie Kramer Mix (1983)
CD3 35TH ANNIVERSARY REMIXES (2019)
- Slide It In
- Slow An’ Easy
- Love Ain’t No Stranger
- Give Me More Time
- Guilty Of Love
- All Or Nothing
- Spit It Out
- Standing In The Shadow
- Hungry For Love
- Gambler
- Need Your Love So Bad
CD4 MONITOR MIXES & INTROS (SEPTEMBER 1983)
- Intro to Gambler from David Coverdale
- Gambler
- Standing in the Shadow
- Intro to Slide It In from David Coverdale
- Slide It In
- Give Me More Time
- Intro to Love Ain’t No Stranger from David Coverdale
- Love Ain’t No Stranger
- Hungry For Love
- Intro to Guilty Of Love from David Coverdale
- Guilty Of Love
- Spit It Out
- Intro to Slow An’ Easy from David Coverdale
- Slow An’ Easy
- All Or Nothing
- David Coverdale discusses the U.S. vs U.K. versions of Slide It In
- Gambler
- Guilty Of Love
- Love Ain’t No Stranger
- Reading An’ Willing (Sweet Satisfaction)
CD5 LIVE IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND (MARCH 1, 1984)
- Gambler
- Guilty Of Love
- Reading An’ Willing (Sweet Satisfaction)
- Love Ain’t No Stranger
- Here I Go Again
- Slow An’ Easy
- Cryin’ In The Rain
- Keyboard Solo
- Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City
- Fool For Your Loving
- Need Your Love So Bad / Thank You Blues
- Slide It In
- Don’t Break My Heart Again
CD6 EARLY RUFF MIXES, ORIGINAL DEMOS AND OBSCURITIES
- All Or Nothing
- Hungry For Love
- Spit It Out
- Give Me More Time
- Slow An’ Easy
- Love Ain’t No Stranger
- Need Your Love So Bad – Instrumental
- All Or Nothing – acapella excerpts remix
- Slow An’ Easy – organ and drum excerpts remix
- Wheezy Interludes – various alcoholic studio antics, David and Mel fighting a cold
- Slow An’ Easy
- Slide It In
- Standing In The Shadow
- All Or Nothing
- Spit It Out
- Guilty Of Love
- Love Ain’t No Stranger
- Intro to Need Your Love So Bad from David Coverdale
- Need Your Love So Bad
- Body Heat
- The Gypsy In You
- Lounge Lizards
- Great Riff In The Morning
- The River Song
- Can’t Make A Deal With The Devil
- Prayer For The Dying
- Spend The Night With Me
- So Much To Live For
- Riff Raff Blues
- Thanks You Blues
DVD MUSIC VIDEOS & LIVE CLIPS
- Guilty Of Love – Music Video
- Slow An’ Easy – Music Video
- Love Ain't No Stranger – Music Video
- Give Me More Time – Top Of The Pops
- Standing In The Shadow – New Promo Video
- Love Ain’t No Stranger – Live… In The Still of the Night
- Slide It In – Live at Donington (1990)
- Jon Lord’s Last Whitesnake Show (1984)
- Gambler
- Guilty of Love
- Love Ain’t No Stranger
- Reading An’ Willing (Sweet Satisfaction)
- Whitesnake Chronicles: David Coverdale discusses the 35th anniversary of Slide It In
Whitesnake scored its first platinum-selling album in 1984 with Slide It In, a release that has sold more than four million copies worldwide thanks to hard-rocking songs like Love Ain’t No Stranger, Slow An’ Easy and the title track. The classic album turns 35 this year and Rhino is celebrating with several new versions, including an enormous seven-disc box set.
SLIDE IT IN: THE ULTIMATE SPECIAL EDITION will be available on March 8. The 6CD/DVD collection includes newly remastered versions of both the U.K. and U.S. mixes of the album, plus unreleased live and studio recordings, music videos, concert footage, and a new interview with Whitesnake founder and lead singer, David Coverdale. The music comes with a 60-page hardbound book that’s filled with rare photos and memorabilia from the era.
Three other versions of Slide It In will also be available the same day. A double-CD Deluxe Edition includes the newly remastered U.K. and U.S. mixes expanded with a selection of bonus tracks. The double-LP Deluxe Edition features the newly remastered U.K. and U.S. mixes. And finally, a single-disc version includes the newly remastered U.S. mix. The music will be available digitally as well.
After releasing Saints & Sinners in 1982, Whitesnake reconvened the following year in Germany to begin recording songs for what would become the band’s sixth studio album, Slide It In. At the time, band members included Coverdale, guitarists Micky Moody and Mel Galley, bassist Colin Hodgkinson and keyboardist Jon Lord. The album was initially released in 1984 in the U.K., where it climbed into the Top 10.
Soon after, the band’s line-up changed. Lord left to rejoin Deep Purple and Moody and Hodgkinson were replaced by guitarist John Skyes, and Neil Murray, who was Whitesnake’s original bassist. Prior to its U.S. release in 1985, Slide It In was remixed while newly recorded parts by Skyes, Murray and keyboardist Bill Cuomo were added, resulting in two distinct versions of the album, both of which are included in this set.
SLIDE IT IN: THE ULTIMATE SPECIAL EDITION features unreleased versions of every album track, including 35th Anniversary remixes made this year, as well as monitor mixes recorded in 1983. The set boasts more than a dozen unreleased live recordings from 1984 that feature an entire concert from Glasgow, Scotland, plus several songs from Lord’s final show with Whitesnake in Sweden. The collection’s final disc unearths 30 tracks that cover original demos and early mixes for album tracks, as well as unfinished song ideas.