One for the Oldies (probably)

[Icy Gull]

We've had all sorts of bizarre music threads recently so how about your favourite Glam Rock band and song.

My choice would be Ziggy Stardust (yes I know it was Bowie but I got the impression that Bowie really believed he was Ziggy at the time drugs do strange things)

Favourite song - All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople. Co-incidentally produced by Bowie, I think.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

This is Dave the dour Northern misery

I was never really into Bowie, TBH.

my favourite Glam Rock band is/was Sweet

Fave song from that era was Stay With Me...Rod Stewart and the Faces.

 

[Lord Cornwallis]

Good choice BAG, Rod Stewart's best eversong IMHO, along with hot legs.
Leyla from that era.

 

[Lush]

Definitely The Sweet.

My favourite is Block Buster....

"You better beware, you better take care
You better watch out if you've got long black hair
He'll come from behind, you go out of your mind
You'd better not go, you'd never know what you'll find"

HOWEVER - they were also responsible for the excreable laugh-out-loud awfulness of "Alexander Graham Bell" - a single not just album filler if you please!

"A candle flickers in a window
Two thousand miles away she was there
There's a young man thinking by a window
How was she to know just how much he cared
He always knew just what he could do
He always knew that his dream would come true.

Alexander Graham Bell well he knew darned well
He could find the only way to talk across the U.S.A.
Telephone telephone never be on your own
Many many years ago he started something with his first 'Hello'
'Hello'

Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Alexander Graham
Alexander Graham Bell

The sun rises early in the morning
Millions of people still unaware
Something he discovered without warning
So he could show a girl just how much he cared.
He always knew just what he could do
He always knew that his dream would come true.

Alexander Graham Bell well he knew darned well etc etc "

 

[sams dad]

I know Roxy Music weren't a "Glam" band ,but one of my favourite tracks from the early '70's is Virginia Plain

 

[Beach Hut]

Despite his recent demise, Gary Glitter was a great act in his time.

 

[dougdeep]

Wizard, T-Rex, Kiss?

 

[oapdodge]

Slade

 

[Indefatigable]

Mud - Tiger Feet.

No contest. I laugh in the face of Sweet.



Virgina Plain though - good call.

 

[Trish]

Not sure if ELO were considered a Glam rock band but I loved them in the 70s/80s and have never tired of listening to them.
Its difficult to chose a favourite, but Turn to Stone, Evil Woman and Summer & Lightening are all pretty good.

 

[The Large One]

Favourite song - All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople. Co-incidentally produced by Bowie, I think.

Written by him as well. I expect a flaming from certain quarters (especially Attila) but I thought that Marc Bolan/T-Rex absolutely sucked... Very over-rated. Is it possible to have a favourite Glam Rock song? If I was flogged into having to admit my favourite number of the period, I would choose... further flogging. Oh, bloody hell - go on then, I nominate My Frend (sic) Stan by Slade. I can just about stomach that.

Although having said that, assuming he does fall into this category, I am going to pick Sebastian by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. Now that is a quality song.

 

[SussexSpur]

Re: Re: One for the Oldies (probably)

Written by him as well. I expect a flaming from certain quarters (especially Attila) but I thought that Marc Bolan/T-Rex absolutely sucked... Very over-rated. Is it possible to have a favourite Glam Rock song? If I was flogged into having to admit my favourite number of the period, I would choose... further flogging. Oh, bloody hell - go on then, I nominate My Frend (sic) Stan by Slade. I can just about stomach that.

Although having said that, assuming he does fall into this category, I am going to pick Sebastian by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. Now that is a quality song.

Snap, can never understand the adulation Marc Bolan's given by many.
Mind you, also think Bowie's massively over-rated.

Love Mott the Hoople's Roll Away The Stone, and also enjoy Wizzard's See My Baby Jive, though probably shouldn't admit that on a public forum. . .
Also have a guilty fondness for Chicory Tip's Son Of My Father, though surely only because of years of joyously chorusing the version with the infinitely-better lyrics, "Oh Teddy Teddy, Teddy Teddy Teddy Teddy Sheringham. . ."

Was a big fan of Steve Harley til I reviewed him at the glamorous surroundings of the Worthing Pavilion Theatre a few months back, and he came across as insufferably pompous, self-indulgent and tuneless. . . And sadly, Sebastian was one of the songs which came across worst and most embarrassingly-dated - that, and Riding The Waves For Virginia Woolf. . .

Give me Virginia Plain any day. . .

 

[Zed Seagull]

Mud - Tiger Feet.

No contest. I laugh in the face of Sweet.

Can only agree... Mud every time for me!

Zed Seagull

 

[Blackadder]

Glam Rock?

I'd have go with Sweet!

"Little Willy just won't go!"

If we can stretch to Slade being GR it would be them but I'm not sure they'd qualify!

Slade and then ELO were my bands in the 70s

T Rex were very samey (if that's a word) with their songs but they have one of the greatest intro's (I think it's twentieth century boy)

 

[Blackadder]

Having said that, nothing wrong with Mud either!

 

[sullyshuffle]

well Glam Rock may have been slagged off by many, but many good groups and songs came from that era

T.Rex, Roxy Music, Alice Cooper, Wizzard, Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Faces, Queen, Sparks. (remember that guy who never moved a muscle!).

All good in their own way.

Best singles....T Rex
Best Albums.....Roxy Music
Best fun time band....Faces
Best musicians.....Queen
Best long running survivor...Bowie
Best rebel band....Mott the Hoople

the list is endless....

 

[Icy Gull]

Despite his recent demise, Gary Glitter was a great act in his time.

The Glitter Band with their two drummers made some good singles most notably for me - Rock and Roll

I actually hated Glam rock at the time but looking back there were some good bands that came out of it. Marc Bolan was probably the instigator but "up their own arse" bands like Roxy Music are the ones who seem to have come out of it with the most street cred. Remember the sleeve to an early album of theirs , with Ferry's then girlfriend Jerry Hall draped across the sleeve? I always thought Roxy Music were too self indulgent to be a great band although they did make some good stuff like Virginia Plain, Love is the Drug most of it was pretty forgettable stuff imo.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I'd have go with Sweet!

"Little Willy just won't go!"

"but you can't put Willy where Willy won't go
tried telling everybody but, oh no,
Little Willy Willy won't go home'

Poetry!

Bowie's Aladdin Sane reminds me most of that time, particularly 'Time'.
Also liked Mott The Hoople, any band with a guitarist called Ariel Bender must have something going for it. My favourite Mott song, 'Saturday Gigs' wasn't a bit hit.

Don't know whether it is glam but I remember the impact of seeing Sparks singing 'This Town ain't big enough...' on TOTP for the first time, what language is he singing in?, and who's the creepy pervy looking bloke who looks like Hitler?

 

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