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Wood Goblin wrote: Mon Aug 22, 2022 11:10 am Bowie, followed by Alice Cooper (if they count) or the Dolls (if they don’t). T Rex is fine when I hear them/him, but I’ve never felt compelled to dig deeper.

Sweet sucks. I don’t get the praise for that band.

And you’ve gotta be fucking kidding me about Hanoi Rocks.

I never...

--- and I mean ever...

... kid around about Hanoi Rocks.



Without Hanoi Rocks?

Murder City never cover that.

You seriously need to look into getting a fun transfusion if you don't get anything out of that.

Never mind this...



That number is right up there with the Pat Benetar tune "Shadows Of The Night" as far as "In The Car Sing Along..." goes.

While I'm at it...

As much as I love the "Classic Coke..." stuff?

This was a better mousetrap.

Nate Dort wrote: Mon Aug 22, 2022 9:36 am Sweet is probably my least favorite of the bunch. I'd take The Glitter Band or Wizzard or Mott or Suzy Quatro over Sweet.

Wood Goblin wrote: Mon Aug 22, 2022 11:10 am Sweet sucks. I don’t get the praise for that band.

Pretty sure the old PRF convinced me Sweet were a great band. Once you get past the Chinn / Chapman period - Wig-Wam Bam, Block Buster! - you'll find one of the best 70s rock bands. They have a similar appeal to me as Cheap Trick and Slade, and like them you hear quite a contrast between the poppier singles and the harder rocking live band. Sweet Fanny Adams onwards, and especially Desolation Boulevard, are the albums to explore. There's also at least one good live album whose name escapes me.

And you’ve gotta be fucking kidding me about Hanoi Rocks.

Quoted for truth.

As any Heritage Chart fan knows, Sweet are still rocking out - and with a GoPro on the drummer's head no less.

The best tracks from Electric Warrior and The Slider are too good.

Nate Dort wrote: Mon Aug 22, 2022 9:36 am Suzy Quatro

+1 for mentioning her. One of those artists I've been meaning to get into more, having liked what I've heard.

Am no glam rock buff, but it's a curious genre. More "capital R rock 'n'roll" than a lot of guitar-based music that's followed, in that the emphasis seems to have been on hooks and riffs, with ample pomp/attitude/showmanship and, often enough, sleaze...plus gaudiness for more than a few acts. What's curious to me is that for some bands it seems glam was a form of proto-punk almost, or linked to what people call "art rock," and for others, it was more or less proto-hair metal. Like, they wanted to be hair metal bands all along but the genre wasn't quite invented yet, so they settled on glam. Hah. There'd be an untidy overlapping of idioms and genres if one tried to map out the constellation of bands involved and trace their evolution, or in some cases de-evolution.

It's kinda strange/fascinating what gets lumped in with "glam rock." This is one of those genres that's really more about the aesthetic than the sound.

A lot of the early 70s glam rock was really geared towards reviving the '50s and early '60s R&B, blues, & early rock 'n roll sound, which is interesting because that was only like 15 years prior.
Wizzard was Roy Wood's way of trying to capture a Phil Spector thing.
Marc Bolan's Electric Warrior and The Slider stuff was a riff on Eddie Cochran and Chuck Berry.
Alvin Stardust.
Mud.
Suzy Quatro did some of this, though being cast as a regular on Happy Days helped solidify that image.

Then there's the more prog / art rock side of glam.
Bowie.
Roxy Music.
Mott The Hoople on the Ian Hunter-led albums.
Jobriath.
Some of the Alice Cooper stuff.
Lou Reed.
Be-Bop Deluxe.
Alex Harvey
Mick Ronson's solo stuff

Then you have the proto-punk glam stuff.
New York Dolls.
The Runaways.
Zolar X

I voted Bowie but T.Rex was close.