| Into the Night We Slide | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | The Radio Rats |
| Cover: | The_Radio_Rats_'Into_the_Night_We_Slide'.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | October 1978 |
| Recorded: | August – October 1978, Satbel Studios, Johannesburg |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 39:50 |
| Label: | Jo'Burg Records |
| Producer: | Greg Cutler |
| Next Title: | The Big Beat |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Into the Night We Slide was the debut album by Springs-based, South African rock group The Radio Rats and was distributed in 1978.[1]
The opening track and first single, "ZX Dan" (backed with "I'm Not in Love"), received national airplay and early in peaked at no. 2 on Johannesburg-based Radio 5. Still cherished as one of South Africa's greatest pop rock songs of all time, it received the second-most votes in the "All time favourite SA song" category in "The SA Rock Digest/Amuzine End of the Century Big Vote", in 1999.[2]
Side one of the album featured five songs and Side two the remaining five. Jonathan Handley composed the music and words for all.
In 2002, Fresh Music released a digitally remastered CD edition of Into the Night We Slide with two bonus tracks in "Crazy Caroline", the follow-up single in June 1979, and its B-side, "Rocket Road". The liner notes include rare photographs and a band bio.