I challenge you fuxors to name me a better glam rock record than Be Bop Deluxe's Axe Victim.

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― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

anything by t rex. anything by the sweet. anything by slade. should i go on?

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

wouldn't seem necessary

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

i like that record though. i'll admit i'm not the hugest be bop fan. but that one is good. not as good as nadir's big chance though. or a sparks record.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

it is like a 100 X better than Nadir's Big Chance.

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

julian cope did an album of the month feature on this beauty that's worth looking at

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

i like nadir's big chance more. i sold my copy though. still own a copy of axe victim.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

I like Nadir 1000x more then Be-Bop Deluxe!

― dan selzer, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

Though this is starting to sound like my "art glam" thread. Were you on that Tim?

― dan selzer, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

I have never heard a Be Bop Deluxe LP other than this'un. Different band. Have you heard AXE VICTIM, Danny?

I don't remember if I was on that thred...

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

that jobriath album i had was better than axe victim too. i think i gave my copy to chuck though, so i can't check. bay city rollers had better albums too. so did david bowie. doctors of madness were way better than be bop deluxe too:

http://www.doorag.f9.co.uk/doctorsofmadness/images/docs2B.gif

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

i remember that thread! that was a good one. i probably pimped doctors of madness there too.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

Here's the Cope thing:

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/1149

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

i'm glad dan finally heard Rockets. they were made for him.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

my heroes:

http://lesguitaresjacobacci.free.fr/LesRockets/05.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

the evolution is amazing!!!

http://digilander.libero.it/rockets/A_r_72.jpg

http://digilander.libero.it/rockets/A_r_75.jpg

http://digilander.libero.it/rockets/A_r_78.jpg

http://digilander.libero.it/rockets/A_r_80.jpg

http://digilander.libero.it/rockets/A_r_84.jpg

http://digilander.libero.it/rockets/A_r_85.jpg

http://digilander.libero.it/rockets/A_r_00.jpg

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

Ha-ha, you've never liked Bill Nelson. However, Sunbust Finish is the real axe record in BeBop's catalog. "Crying to the Sky" has his best solo and the album cover has him looking more Bowie than Young Americans Bowie. Anyway, "Blazing Apostles" is a great tune, too.

― Gorge, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

i bought modern music by be bop deluxe recently.

it kinda bummed me out. i was expecting to like them.

it ain't got nothin' on the slade greatest hits i just got.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 6 April 2007 02:54 (eighteen years ago)

again, different band.

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:00 (eighteen years ago)

I'd forgotten how enjoyable Julian Cope's comic-metaphoric writing style was:

"Bill’s guitar frenziedly (and poly-rhythmically) punctuates every dramatic lyrical assertion with the kind of teenage girl ‘hearts-drawn-above-every-I’ and sideways-on email smileys that set him up as an amphetamine Richard Clayderman-of-the-guitar."

I haven't heard the record, but that paints an enticingly daft picture.

― moley, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

he makes EVERYTHING sound like that though.

― scott seward, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.radio.rai.it/radioscrigno/img_schede/06_84-richard-clayderman.jpg

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

I'm with Cope on this one, needless to say!

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 6 April 2007 03:17 (eighteen years ago)

I love the Be Bop song "Modern Music"...never have heard any other tracks I liked as much by them, and I did try quite a few. I have far more respect for Bill Nelson's solo career.

Nothing could compete with Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel from this era, anyway.

― Bimble, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

you were on it, Tim...

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=26972

― dan selzer, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

has any band ever been more poorly served by their name?

― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 7 March 2016 19:39 (nine years ago)

Yeah, I always think of them as belonging in the same world as, like, Dixie Dregs and Brecker Brothers, but of course they are totally not like that.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 March 2016 19:47 (nine years ago)

I've heard Speed of the Wind on satellite radio a few times. Very cool song from a different album.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 7 March 2016 20:11 (nine years ago)

The "Futurist Manifesto" box has their complete studio works and shows them moving from glam to rock to new wave. Love that last album, by which time Bill Nelson had outgrown the rest of the band.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 7 March 2016 20:21 (nine years ago)

If not pub eoc

Yeah, I always think of them as belonging in the same world as, like, Dixie Dregs and Brecker Brothers, but of course they are totally not like that.

I thought they must be pub rock, like Ducks Deluxe.

― Jesperson, I think we're lost (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 March 2016 20:43 (nine years ago)

^^^

― lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 7 March 2016 21:02 (nine years ago)

this band goes in one ear and out the other for me.

bill nelson is great, though. love his synth-pop records. and his ebow playing on YMO's naughty boys.

― lute bro (brimstead), Monday, 7 March 2016 21:03 (nine years ago)

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