Glam Rock - Search And Destroy

More logically, all T. Rex albums from the self-titled through Zinc Alloy and all singles from that time period. Bowie, Hunky Dory through Diamond Dogs. Roxy Music, self-titled debut through Stranded. A Sweet, a Slade and a Suzi Quatro best-of. Breaking it down by songs would take me forever and I have pasta to make, so I'll leave that to better people than I.

Other than that, any specific song reccomendations?

What songs would be good to being and end a glam rock compilation?

Basically just go buy anything ever produced by Chinn/Chapman.

on a more local note, nz's glam band space waltz are worth looking into, their LP has just been reissued on CD, and features their fabulous hit "out on the street" which is presently one of my favourite songs ever. alastair riddell of space waltz was a big bowie fan and boy did he shock everyone here in the 1970s by camping it up all over a family-oriented talent-search tv show *swoon*. ROCKY HORROR ROCKY HORROR richard o'brien baby.

01 - David Bowie - Suffragette City
02 - Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
03 - T-Rex - 20TH Century Boy
04 - Sweet - Blockbuster
05 - Gary Glitter - Rock 'n' Roll Part 2
06 - Suzie Quatro - Devil Gate Drive
07 - Slade - Gudbuy T'Jane
08 - Mott The Hoople - All The Way Fm Memphis
09 - Lou Reed - Hangin' 'Round
10 - New York Dolls - Jet Boy
11 - Brian Eno - Needles in the Camel's Eye
12 - Cockney Rebel - Mr Soft
13 - Sparks - Amateur Hour
14 - 10cc - Rubber Bullets
15 - David Bowie - Hang Onto Yourself
16 - Roxy Music - Editions Of You
17 - Brian Eno - The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch
18 - Lou Reed - Vicious
19 - T-Rex - Jeepster
20 - Gary Glitter - Hello Hello I'm Back Again
21 - Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
22 - David Bowie - John I'm Only Dancing
23 - Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

I'll also stick up for most of the first Suede album, especially the singles.

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1. Needle in the Camel's Eye performed by Brian Eno - 3:09
2. Hot One performed by Shudder To Think - 3:04
3. 20th Century Boy performed by Placebo - 3:42
4. 2HB performed by Venus In Furs - 5:39
5. T.V. Eye performed by Wylde Rattz - 5:24
6. Ballad of Maxwell Demon performed by Shudder To Think - 4:47
7. The Whole Shebang performed by Grant Lee Buffalo - 4:11
8. Ladytron performed by Venus In Furs - 4:26
9. We Are the Boyz performed by Pulp - 3:13
10. Virginia Plain performed by Roxy Music - 3:00
11. Personality Crisis performed by Teenage Fanclub / Donna Matthews - 3:49
12. Satellite of Love performed by Lou Reed - 3:41
13. Diamond Meadows performed by T Rex - 2:00
14. Bitter's End performed by Paul Kimble / Andy Mackay - 2:13
15. Baby's on Fire performed by Venus In Furs - 3:19
16. Bitter-Sweet performed by Venus In Furs - 4:55
17. Velvet Spacetime performed by Carter Burwell - 4:10
18. Tumbling Down performed by Venus In Furs - 3:28
19. Make Me Smile (Come up and See Me) performed by Steve Harley - 3:59

G.

glam rock was invented in hackney in 1947 — that is all

There's no perhaps about it! Poison in particular -- Rikki R. especially -- are old glam fiends, just the same as, say, Bauhaus were.

Soundtrack much better than movie, for sure. Fyi (if you dint know already): Venus in Furs = Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood

Doesn't legend have it Bowie wrote "Queen Bitch" for Freddie and Freddie wrote "Killer Queen" for the gnome?

1. Gary Glitter - I'm The Leader Of The Gang (Yes I Am!)
2. Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
3. Cockney Rebel - Sebastion
4. Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rains-A Gonna Fall
5. Slade - Coz I Luv You
6. Queen - Keep Yourself Alive
7. Lou Reed - Perfect Day
8. Mud - Tiger Feet
9. Brian Eno - The True Wheel
10. New York Dolls - Trash
11. Mott The Hoople - All The Way From Memphis
12. David Bowie - Queen Bitch
13. Suzi Quatro - If You Can't Give Me Love
14. Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home A Heartache
15. T.Rex - Hot Love

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Even ifn't, Hanoi are the ultimate glam rock band, since they stole 16 measures from everyone else who ever teased a follicle.

Special love for Wizzard, for glitter beards. Thanks.

Alice Cooper, Status Quo and Thin Lizzy were contemporaries and certainly overlapped in terms of fan base at very least; and let's not forget that Elton John and Rod Stewart both had a distinct glam phase too!

Would you count Barry Blue, The Bay City Rollers, Chicory Tip, Carl Douglas, David Dundas, Geordie, Kenny, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Slik, 10CC or Tonight as Glam?

Not sure about Showaddywaddy being Glam though.

Haven't read the whole thread but I hope these have been namechecked:

Judy Teen - Cockney Rebel
Stardust - David Essex
Seven Seas of Rye - Queen (I think so)
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us - Sparks
The In-Crowd - Bryan Ferry

"Not sure about Showaddywaddy being Glam though"

Well, musically they were heavily rooted in 50's Rock 'n' Roll sure; but then so were Mud, Gary Glitter, Alvin Stardust....; and their image was far too vividly over-the-top caricature / pastiche for them to be considered a straight revival band.

That reminds me - what about Darts?

I discount Showaddywaddy because they never had the obligatory sexually dubious member like Mud and Sweet (and Slade too, Dave Hill wore some poncey outifts).

OK, point taken.

excellent choice.

i wonder if we'll see a glam-rock revival, in the wake of the success of the darkness? or just a lot of hawkins-wannabees?

does 'ziggy stardust' count as glam? i think perhaps it does. and no mention of wolverhampton's finest - roy wood and wizzard - yet. there, that's that rectified, then. i don't know whether you'd want to listen to a whole album of their stuff, though.

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wolverhampton's finest - roy wood and wizzard

First single I ever bought was "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" - I got a 45p record token for Xmas and it was a choice between that or "My Coo-Ca-Choo" by Alvin Stardust. Did I make the right choice?

its a tough call. you did miss the lyric

'cool
cat
you're where its at
come on, let's go to my flat
and lay down and groove on the mat
oh won't you be my coo-ca-choo'.

i'll leave you to decide on whether that was a good thing. 45p? goodness. when i was young, records where a whopping 75 PENCE!

and spelling lessons were poor..

Glam Sandwich & Electro Flares

is glam getting a belated comeback?

or is it a compilation in search of a scene?

that rebel rule song was always a hidden classic though.

The new Kasabian single sounds exactly like The Sweet produced by Mike Leander. I'm sure they intended a Stone Roses/Led Zep hybrid but didn't quite have the chops to make it. All the better for it too.