Glam Rock

[Wacky Racer]

Any fans on here?....

Personally I thought it was great fun, the wonderful halcyon years of 1970-75 or am I looking through rose coloured spectacles?

Some classics to jog your memory:-

Sweet:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgrYf7VWASE

T.Rex:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-wXT9eUBm4

Slade:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8QpO3yVI2Q

Gary Glitter:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWa7V17n2no

David Bowie:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muMcWMKPEWQ



Yes or no?

[Godzuki]

I have a fair amount of Bowie, Early Queen, and a bit of Darkness who brought it back for 20 minutes!

[pacman1]

Ohhh yesss! Great days, but I guess you had to live through the era to fully appreciate. Kids wouldn't get it these days.

[LHD]

I can't look at Slade now without thinking of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Z5WjGlZ6E

[tractorguy]

Is Mud classed as a glam rock band?

I can't remeber what they looked like but the music was very glam rock.

Edited by tractorguy on Monday 21st March 13:55

[Godzuki]

tractorguy said:

Is Mud classed as a glam rock band?

No... It's wet soil.

[tractorguy]

Godzuki said:

tractorguy said:

Is Mud classed as a glam rock band?

No... It's wet soil.

Thanks, I have asked that in the homes and garden section.

[GAjon]

You can't leave out Mott the Hoople!

[Evangelion]

Oh, I think you can.

[Slade Alive]

Keep On Rockin!


Noddy

[S7Paul]

My personal favourite, Wizzard, featuring the massively talented & much underrated Roy Wood:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILcp2U886cI

At the time this came out I was looking for a new musical interest & didn't like most of the stuff that was around at the time. Then, one Saturday morning (probably during The Noel Edmonds Show on R1), Ball Park Incident blasted out of the radio. To my mind, it's everything a single should be; flat out from start to finish.

And just for good measure, here's its spiritual predecessor:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQEPYfXWWnI

[ratbane]

The Sweet. What a superb band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05DRxKDFw0o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt97CNiwN10&fea...

[The Lukas]

ratbane said:

The Sweet. What a superb band.

You sir have taste

[Bonne Route]

pacman1 said:

Ohhh yesss! Great days, but I guess you had to live through the era to fully appreciate. Kids wouldn't get it these days.

Oh how true! Luckily I did (and still do regularly!)

How about my absolute favourite piece of Glam: -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEalg62F8Zg

Saw them for the umteenth time at the O2 last month - brilliant!

[Slade Alive]

Bonne Route said:

How about my absolute favourite piece of Glam

Sorry but Roxy Music are not and never were glam! They were pretty awful though.

[S7Paul]

Slade Alive said:

Bonne Route said:

How about my absolute favourite piece of Glam

Sorry but Roxy Music are not and never were glam! They were pretty awful though.

They may not be so easy to categorise, but I'd say they were more Glam than anything else. If nothing else, the clothes were definitely Glam. And they were a very good, highly original band too (as well as being somewhat more influential than Slade). Sorry Noddy!

[Markh]

GAjon said:

You can't leave out Mott the Hoople!

Well said, still stands the test of time I think, this track covered by many , Bruce Dickinson, Oasis, Red Hot Chilli peppers, Travis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izJNQKNhFII

[ratbane]

This does it for me, though I'm never convinced of the glam rock title.

This is pure and unadulterated ROCK.

Mick Ronsons guitar work is incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p79JKclG-oc&fea...

[Slade Alive]

S7Paul said:

Slade Alive said:

Bonne Route said:

How about my absolute favourite piece of Glam

Sorry but Roxy Music are not and never were glam! They were pretty awful though.

They may not be so easy to categorise, but I'd say they were more Glam than anything else. If nothing else, the clothes were definitely Glam. And they were a very good, highly original band too (as well as being somewhat more influential than Slade). Sorry Noddy!

Don't be sorry Paul, it's all fun, which is what glam was really all about. The downside of that though were many in the industry didn't take glam so seriously back then. Thus the music and the talent was somewhat overlooked whilst the money from vinyl sales poured in to the industry fat cats.

Slade despite their huge huge success were perhaps the most underrated band of the time. Still are, given their achievement in 'pop' culture seemingly discrediting them as 'serious' musicians much more deserving of a place in rock culture like Zep and Sabbath say.

[S7Paul]

Slade Alive said:

S7Paul said:

Slade Alive said:

Bonne Route said:

How about my absolute favourite piece of Glam

Sorry but Roxy Music are not and never were glam! They were pretty awful though.

They may not be so easy to categorise, but I'd say they were more Glam than anything else. If nothing else, the clothes were definitely Glam. And they were a very good, highly original band too (as well as being somewhat more influential than Slade). Sorry Noddy!

Don't be sorry Paul, it's all fun, which is what glam was really all about. The downside of that though were many in the industry didn't take glam so seriously back then. Thus the music and the talent was somewhat overlooked whilst the money from vinyl sales poured in to the industry fat cats.

Slade despite their huge huge success were perhaps the most underrated band of the time. Still are, given their achievement in 'pop' culture seemingly discrediting them as 'serious' musicians much more deserving of a place in rock culture like Zep and Sabbath say.

I'm not knocking Slade, and am probably more aware than most that away from the pure commercial stuff they were a great hard rock band.

I think Glam gets a hard time generally because people can't see past the clothes. When you look at the back catalogue of Slade, Sweet, T Rex, early Bowie, etc. there's some damn good stuff there.

I take it from your comments that you, like me, lived through that era. Good times (despite the Rollers, Osmonds and other teenybopper stuff).

However, as soon as I heard things like Master of Reality & Space Ritual, my taste changed (forever, as it turned out).