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(thread titled ripped off admiringly from venga's Slade thread)

What's the glitterbestest most glamtastic platformbootstompingest glam single of all time?

(if it's all the same to you all, can we eliminate "Rock & Roll Pts. 1 & 2" now on the grounds of predicability?)

my nominees:

Sweet - Wig Wam Bam

Ace Freheley - Back In The New York Groove

The Runaways - Cherry Bomb

― fritz, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"20th Century Boy". T Rex. End of discussion.

― David Raposa, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re-open discussion: "Metal Guru" by T-Rex.

― alex in montreal, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cum On Feel The Noize (Slade's version natch) is one of my favourite singles ever. So, that then.

― Venga, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Timelords - "Doctorin The Tardis"

― Tom, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Arrows: I Love Rock'n'Roll

(I know their version = lame rubbish, but we're the ones singing along, so it doesn't matter. Only them cuz it's arguably NOT glam- pop when Joan J duz it = gratest single of all time bar nun)

― mark s, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Singing Nun?

― Tom, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sugar baby love by the Rubettes, just try hitting those high notes.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Might be too high glam, and it's more swaying-back-and-forth singalonga than stomping, but how about Bowie's "Drive In Saturday"?

― , Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And for stomping I'd go with Mud's "Tigerfeet".

― Arthur, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Morrissey: 'Glamorous Glue'.

― DavidM, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Sweet -- Ballroom Blitz.

Mark: I'd be interested to hear why you find JJ's "I Love Rock And Roll" her standout track. Phaps I head the weird al version (I love Rocky Road) first, and thus was subsequently turned off, but I simply never found it one of her stronger tracks.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

JJ standout track = "hate myself fer lovin you", prolly (tho i also like her version of "little drummer boy") (as well as every other song she's ever done, nearly)
BUT greatest song in history of time = ilrnr
because... er, because a. it wuz answer record to runaways cover of lou reed's "her LIFE was SAVED by rock'n'roll", and b. this wuz in fact true...

― mark s, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

T. Rex tally: Metal Guru-2, 20c. Boy-1

MG is the only song I've ever heard on a jukebox and immediately had to find out what it was. Bought the CD the next day.

― tha chzza, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Obviously T. Rex, harder is which one. "The Groover", anyone?

― Sean, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"rabbit fighter" :)

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've always been partial to 'Jeepster'.

― Jason, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the runaways covered that? *gasps* I must have. "Despite all the com-pu-tations. You could just tuuuune into a rocknroll station and it was all right.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So here's a question -- how many Belle and Sebastian fans would listen to the song 'Jeepster' out of a sense of duty and then run screaming away at the idea of someone actually having fun with a song? ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm going to listen to that song just to find out. I downloaded it earlier and realized after three minutes why the word "Jeepster" looked familiar.

Even seeing the title of this thread gets "20th Century Boy" stuck in my head. Thank you oh so much.

― Lyra, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There you go. Let me know the results. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stupid and annoying, but I'm afraid I'm going to start listening to it obsessively sometime. I tend to do that with cute songs I hate.

― Lyra, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"cherry bomb" is an inspired choice. i've only heard the quiet riot version of "cum on feel the noize" but it's a great song. i feel compelled to put in a word for poison's "talk dirty to me."

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pat Benatar (Jose Canseco's favorite "band" of all time, no less): "Heartbreaker", though it'd be hard to sing along to the pre-chorus. Also, Daphne and Celeste - "School's Out". "Wig Wam Bam" by the Donnas is pretty awesome too.

― Kris, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I first heard "Heartbreaker" back in 1980 I thought it was the new Runaways single. And that version of "Rock 'n' Roll" is so good, very cowbell-driven with an insistent "It's alright!" chant followed by a glamtastic "You betcha!"

― Arthur, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If the runaways cover (just heard -- thanx audiogalaxy!) had been released in '99, it would have been described as a "deconstruction" which of course is a hideous misuse of the term, but acquired a non-academic meaning of its own. The cowbell reminds me of the terrible version of Sweet Jane on the fully loaded release. What does the narrative transform into with doubled vocals? Like the mechanical quality of Lou's vocals got translated to the whole structure of the song.

As for Pat Benetar, "Love is a Battlefield" is perhaps a slightly more tricky singalong, but much more anthemic.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the idea of the Runaways' vers. of "Rock & Roll" taking this crown - with just about any T Rex in there too (though Bang A Gong is the stompiest singalongest T Rex song... except maybe Children of The Revolution... so stompin' its almost goose-steppin')...

but just to steer things away from Pat Benetar, how about...

Suzi Quatro - Can The Can

Mott the Hoople - Roll Away the Stone

Roxy Music - Do the Strand

Sweet - Fox on the Run

― fritz, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Benatar: fab, but not Glam Rock.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

& damn you, arthur... now I have to go buy a Mud album!

― fritz, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually Fritz, I think Mud only had two good songs-- "Tiger Feet" and "Dynamite"--and they're both on The Best Glam Rock Album in the World Ever (along with half the songs mentioned on this thread), so I'd go with that if you can find it. The rest of Mud's songs were crap early 70s rockabilly pop to the best of my recollection.

― Arthur, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

Suzi Quatro.....

― Sugar Karis, Friday, 5 May 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

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