have i made a glam rock thread yet?
 

no?

ok well you know the drill. make conversation, post youtubes and stuff


bowie, t. rex, alice cooper, etc etc etc


http://youtube.com/watch?v=URVlLCgYTZQ if the audio quality on this were good it would be so amazing

omfg his costume from the 1980 floor show

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8arYqnp8tRE&feature=related

and brian ferry's outfit here is awesome. too bad it's from top of the pops:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_zoi6O-cq9I (haha i was laughing at his little hand gestures the whole time i was watching this)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVeEBMJt8vs

roxy music-ladytron

My kind of glam.

I really hate Bowie, but i Love T.rex... clearly something wrong with me.
Anyhow, i think Glam Rock is lost without this treasure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk30a0qsVIk

it's okay. i hate genesis. (which for the record is NOT GLAM ROCK and get it the fuck out of my thread please)

Its ok we all hate Phil Collins

I happen to think this is glam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjP9OXdX3mk
but thats probably just me

not even close but that's a great song

BUT...BUT... BUT.... Peter Gabriel!

Agreed sonny jim.

i like peter gabriel solo.

sorry they were awful but i did like his costumes

Well thats some consolation that you like his solo stuff. His first 4 albums are the best, he sold out after that (apart from his really rather excellent soundtracks).

That man also knows what a good album cover is.

shock the mon-kay!

ha ha, too right!

Bjork dresses like Peter Gabriel.

yeah she does. good call.

i hate peter gabriel for his part in bringing phil collins to international fame. if he stayed with genesis just a little bit longer phil wouldnt have made no jacket required and they wouldnt have recored invisible touch album...and mike and the mechanics wouldnt have existed and i would be king of all the land and unicorns wouldnt be extinct!

he still would have made SU SU SUDIO

worst song ever recorded

all this shit sucks.

GET THE FUCK OUT NOW

Of course, men in make up and all that.


They Might Be Giants!:)

Pistol shots
Gun shots
Pistol shots
Gun shots

Bullets from a revolver
Bullets from a gun
Bullets through the atmosphere
Here they come

John, I've been bad
And they're coming after me
Done someone wrong
And I fear that it was me

Sapphire bullets
Bullets of pure love

Sapphire bullets
Bullets of pure love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk3nxg-cTdk

Early T. Rex is so great ...

not if no jacket required was never made he wouldnt have. actually he would have given up drums altogether and became one of those annoying bastards that work in music stores selling drumsticks to kids and belittling their skinny arms saying shit like "you would be better off buying a bongo to start with sonny, and dont touch my zildyan crash" yknow the type.... smug arsehole..

so if gabriel didnt leave genesis, phil collins would now be a smug arsehole... hold on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh he probably still would have made buster!

well i didn't know it was on that album. not a fan you know. matter of fact i think he's a douchebag.

The Sweet are my favourite glam rock band - Ballroom Blitz, Fox On The Run etc.
What about the New York Dolls? Do they qualify as glam rock?

the new york dolls do indeed qualify. even though david johanssen ripped off practically every move from mick jagger.
mick jagger is the poor man's david johanssen.

I'm a fan of glam rock in theory - gorgeous outfits, decadence, campiness - but like T. Rex and The Sweet most of it is total crap.

There is only few good glam like Ladytron which is one of the best pieces of music of all time, other works of Roxy Music, the New York dolls and Ziggy Stardust which is an amazingly epiphanic record.

How about some early Alice Cooper? Love It to Death is an amazing album. The few songs I've heard off of Easy Action are pretty great too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRHFIVJtqpc