glampunk
Crab On The Rampage
gloompunk; glitter goth: disciple of Rikki Nadir: demonik in disguise, etc.
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Post by glampunk on Mar 17, 2008 2:03:54 GMT
GLAM ROCK !  Yep, it's a revival of yet another deeply unpopular thread! Nobody's allowed to think i'm running out of ideas or anything - I'm just that this is FAB 2008 and I'm having another GLAM ROCK episode! Also, In the true spirit of glam - i've killed off demonik!  ... although i might bring him back after this post!  To get us in the mood, here is my radical "improvement" on the Life On Mars soundtrack CD as another attempt compiling the Vault of Evil definitive Great Big Groovy Glam Globes pop classic! David Bowie - Five Years
Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize
T. Rex - Children Of The Revolution
Roxy Music - All I Want Is You
Mott The Hoople - Crash Street Kids
Alvin Stardust - Red Dress
Gary Glitter - Always Yours
Sparks - Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth
The Sweet - Blockbuster
Mott The Hoople - One Of The Boys
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Vambo
Alice Cooper - Schools Out
Gary Glitter - Rock 'n Roll (Part 2)
David Bowie - John, I'm Only Dancing
T. Rex - Metal Guru
The Osmonds - Crazy Horses
Sparks - Amateur Hour
Lou Reed - Satellite Of Love
New York Dolls - Jet Boy
Iggy & The Stooges - Search And Destroy
David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
T. Rex - Life's A Gas |
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glampunk
Crab On The Rampage
gloompunk; glitter goth: disciple of Rikki Nadir: demonik in disguise, etc.
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Post by glampunk on Mar 18, 2008 13:06:08 GMT
Bollocks, i never really did like books that much and I can't figure why everything you lot read has to be so horrible ..... Great moments from GLAM: Alvin Stardust - The Thinking Man's Elvis.Sweet Gene Vincent, it's Alvin! The one-time Shane Fenton poured himself into a black leather get up, came on all broody and did that clutchy thing with his hand at regular intervals to ensure maximum TOTP appearances and lots of hits! Another plus - he was dead crap at miming, particularly when he was pretending to play an excruciating guitar solo. Also proved the age old truth that for all their new fangled bra-burning and being in Women's Lib, what girls really wanted was just to be called "My Coo Ca Choo". Red Dress is unquestionably his masterpiece. Great Moments From GLAM: Top Of The Pops: The Sweet! Slagged off by know-it-all prog-rock snobs for not being 'real musicians' (see also Slade, T. Rex, Glitterband, etc.), the Sweet scored it a bit fortunate when people realised that their Blockbuster and Bowie's Jean Genie were identical in terms of nicked riff, and were grudgingly accepted thereafter just so long as they promised not to sing Little Willie ever again. Bassist Steve Priest celebrated by miming badly on TOTP while wearing lipstick, eye-shadow, a German WWII helmet, a swastika armband and monstrous silver platform boots. He also invented the Hitler moustache, as later endorsed by "that one out of Sparks with the creepy eyes."  that one out of Sparks with the creepy eyes Sweet-fact! The singer, Brian, lived in Rayner's Lane but sadly, he's dead now. The Punk Connection. Beki Bondage's Vice Squad did a mean cover of Teenage Rampage. |
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Post by carolinec on Mar 18, 2008 13:17:31 GMT
I can't figure why everything you lot read has to be so horrible ..... 'Cause we're really horrible people, Glam.  Thanks for some of the musical memories though. That Lou Reed Transformers album you mentioned on another thread takes me back a bit! Some of the later stuff you mention I'm a bit too old to know about though. |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 18, 2008 13:21:10 GMT
The Sweet certainly were Glamtastic - other covers included The Cockney Rejects massacring (or should that be mascara'ing) Blockbuster and NWOBHM wannabes Raven scorching through Hellraiser. I used to see a covers band called Paddy Goes To Holyhead who'd play for free in various West London dives on a Sunday lunchtime. They were rumoured to feature ex-members of (The) Sweet. The only real glam idols I can claim to have seen were GG (about 8 bloody times! before the fall of course) and Bowie, both well after the event. I did see the Glitter Band at the Marquee. One of the classic missed opportunities - Went with some pals to see Discharge bottom of the bill at the Lyceum circa 1980. The next band on performed one song and most of us walked out in disgust. They were the then unknown U2 (who ironically I would spend quite a bit of money seeing at Wembley Stadium years later). I've always kicked myself over this 'cos the headline band were Slade. The one of us who stayed claimed they were beyond excellent. (It's always the ones that you miss)
I say Glampunk - would you say Sigue Sigue Sputnik were Glam?
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glampunk
Crab On The Rampage
gloompunk; glitter goth: disciple of Rikki Nadir: demonik in disguise, etc.
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Post by glampunk on Mar 18, 2008 13:41:34 GMT
I say Glampunk - would you say Sigue Sigue Sputnik were Glam? Yeah, but a very contrived version (see also the Specimen). That was really awful when the glitter-monster was exposed, weren't it? I still find it difficult to listen to any of that stuff without the bile rising. I feel sorry for his old band-members, that's for sure. More torture: Great moments from GLAM: Top Of The Pops Annuals More car-boot faves. These are excellent. On the strength of the 1975 and 1977 offerings, they take approx ten minutes to read on account of the several pages of Your Favourite Pin-Ups! - Alvin Stardust, The Rubettes, Mud, Gilbert O., BCR, Wizzard and Jimmy Saville by the looks of it - and articles you have to skip on account of their questionable subject matter ( Dave Lee Travis - The Hairy Cornflake, etc.). Fortunately the latter is more than made up for by the tricky Eye Spy and Pop Quiz competitions and articles of the How REAL Is David Bowie?, The Rolling Stones - They Keep On Rolling, Osmondmania! and Girls, Lovely Girls! calibre. Best of all: three pages devoted to Heartthrobs!. Peters & Lee, Noel Edmonds, The New Seekers, Sir Elts, John Coglan of "the Quo" .... Relax, i'm going Goth next week ..... |
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Post by pulphack on Mar 18, 2008 13:47:52 GMT
Paddy Goes To Hollyhead played the Standard a lot (i mean A LOT), and their guitarist was one Andy Scott - no, not the Brentford manager and ex-Brentford and O's winger, but the one who was in the Sweet!
They were rather good, as it goes. I never did see the wonderfully named Guns'N'Wankers, though...
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Post by dem bones on Mar 18, 2008 16:55:23 GMT
I can't figure why everything you lot read has to be so horrible ..... 'Cause we're really horrible people, Glam. Grown men and women running away and being eaten alive by mutant giant scorpions? spectres putting the willies up innocent young heiresses? I call it plain anti-social. For shame, madam! Mr. Lurid's Transformer is most enjoyable, granted, and Bowie contributes nice "pom pom pom"'s to Satellite Of Love, but it pales against Berlin. Seldom has a rock album been so harrowing to listen to, and I speak as a Peter Hammill man which ought to count for something on the subject. Damn. I forgot. Do me a favour; notch this down as one of glampunks, because I've killed me off.  |
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Post by jerrylad on Mar 18, 2008 19:15:54 GMT
Great list of tunes there Glampunk, I still listen to T Rex more than anything else.Found Never Turn Your Back on U-tube the other week and remembered just how great it was. Would have to put Sugar Baby Love in myself I think as I love the high bits  |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 18, 2008 21:09:46 GMT
That Paddy goes to Hollyhead wasn't the german band with a singer called Paddy Schmidt was it?
I was that glamrocker I am afraid to say. David Bowie was the man, Lou Reed was his buddy and I even bought the Mick Ronson Album Slaughter on something avenue
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glampunk
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by glampunk on Mar 21, 2008 0:51:38 GMT
Great moments from GLAM: Alice Cooper!Alice was so great in the early 'seventies. He had a slinky snake and everybody wanted to ban him, especially Mary Whitehouse and some MP called Leo Abse or something who nobody had ever heard of before he started going on about how "sick" AC was and he mustn't be allowed to do his groovy pantomime horror stage show in England! School's Out is maybe his most famous song, but, superb as it unquestionably is, my preference is for Eighteen, Dead Babies much of Love It To Death and everything on the brilliant Billion Dollar Babies album (produced by Bob "Berlin" Ezrin who clearly likes upsetting people). Photo shows Alice performing School's Out on Top Of The Pops pricking bubbles with his sword. "We can't salute ya, can't find a flag, if that don't suit ya that's a drag"! Sheer poetry from the great man in the runny mascara!
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Post by phantomrider on Mar 24, 2008 12:51:24 GMT
First record I ever bought was Blockbuster by the Sweet. Alvin has done back to his Rockin' Roots, recording with German(?) band Wild Black Jets - a surprising mix of neo rockabilly and rock n roll....... www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Ckl7g-BzY&NR=1 |
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Post by dem bones on Feb 20, 2016 10:51:52 GMT
The Gary Glitter Annual 1975 (World Distribution Ltd, 1974. Compiled by Julie Webb) Recent excavation of front room unearthed perhaps the saddest items in dem(smirk) library. Sad in that I adore the all stomping all chanting Glitter Band sound, and the 75 annual arrived with the tinsel buffoon and seminal group at height of their glam powers. Unlike the J. Saville content in Top Of The Pops Annual 1975, there's no discernible sinister element to this package, though photo accompanying 'Gary Meets The Fans' has acquired retrospective creepiness. How awful to be a member of that band, all but airbrushed from history because their front man so abused his popularity to prey upon under-age fans.  Stuff to send Gary ... in Prison
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