Music lovers, who was your favorite Glam Rock group?

[bobthedrummer]

For me it was T-Rex.

Remember "Jeepster"?

"Bang a Gong"?

Marc Bolan rocked glam.:thumbsup:

[jonnyblitz]

1. I love T-Rex "the Slider"

when I saw "the smiths" in concert in the "80's" they played this for canned music in between bands. I liked it as much as the live music.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Excellent choice!

Fucking great album cover too.:yourock:

[Dr Fate]

2. Big Star

Well, not Glam technically- but songs like "Mod Lang" and "Don't Lie to Me" sound pretty glam.

[bobthedrummer]

17. You got me there, Doc. I don't think I remember them.

Mazzy Star I remember but I just can't recall Big Star right now.:smoke:
I remember their band name, but I can't recall any of their work.
Did they look glam as well?

[Dr Fate]

38. No- they did not look glam- but they were early 70's.

And had a T-Rex, Beatles or Cheap Trick kind of sound.

[peekaloo]

29. Alex Chilton!

conservative Glam. ;-)

[flakey_foont]

3. Have you ever heard Bolan

with Tyranosaurus Rex? Pre T-Rex... acoustic, mystical stuff...even before then he was with a group called JOHN'S Children....had a few hits in Britain..."Desdemona" and "Midsummer's Nights Scream"

Bowie/ Mott,,,,NY Dolls...

[bobthedrummer]

5. Yes, I've always listened to all kinds of music for 55 years.

Didn't The Sweet go through a glam phase too?

[flakey_foont]

6. The Sweet.

didn't they have that song about Louie Louie something...
Not THE Louie Louie!!!

[bobthedrummer]

7. They were a Chapman/Chin musical group that eventually did "Love Is

Like Oxygen" in the 1970's.

[flakey_foont]

10. My Bad

it was Stories....Brother Louie

[bobthedrummer]

12. That was a cover of Hot Chocolate's tune-Hot Chocolate wrote "Brother

Louie".

[flakey_foont]

13. OK

the Sweet did "FOX ON THE RUN" if I'm not mistaken....
not the bluegrass standard

[bobthedrummer]

27. Yes.

I can't remember if they also did "Ballroom Blitz" or not.
That's an ear worm though-"Ballroom Blitz". That's glam rock to me too.

[undergroundpanther]

18. Stories?

I thought NOBODY else had ever heard of them..

[bobthedrummer]

31. Got them in my library on cassette.

I've been looking to get ahold of a rarity called "Touch" by Touch, remember them-Touch from the late 1960's? But they weren't glam just weird freeform and jazzrock with very great lyrics imo.

[AntiCoup2K4]

20. No, their song was called "Little Willy"

North side , east side
Little Willy, Willy wears the crown, he's the king around town
Dancing, glancing
Willy drives them silly with his star shoe shimmy shuffle down
Way past one, and feeling allright
'Cos with little Willy round they can last all night
Hey down, stay down, stay down down

'Cos little Willy, Willy won't go home
But you can't push Willy round
Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little Willy, Willy won't go home

Up town, down town
Little Willy, Willy drives them wild with his run-around style
Inside, outside
Willy sends them silly with his star-shine shimmy shuffle smile
Mama done chase Willy down through the hall
But laugh, Willy laugh, he don't care at all
Hey down, stay down, stay down, down

'Cos little Willy, Willy won't go home
But you can't push Willy round
Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little Willy, Willy won't go home

Little Willy, Willy won't
Willy won't, Willy won't
Little Willy, Willy won't
Willy won't, Willy won't
Little Willy, Willy won't
Willy won't, Willy won't
Little Willy, Willy won't
Willy won't, Willy won't

Little Willy, Willy won't go home
But you can't push Willy round
Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little Willy, Willy won't go home

Little Willy, Willy won't go home
But you can't push Willy round
Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little Willy, Willy won't go home

Their other big hits were "Ballroom Blitz" and "Fox On The Run" as well as that dumb song about love and oxygen that came out late in their career.

[datasuspect]

15. yes yes

and yes

[quispquake]

8. Roxy Music

I absolutely love their first four albums...

[flakey_foont]

9. Roxy was good

Brian Eno

[bobthedrummer]

11. I think they're more New Romantic than Glam historically.

Glam was at the beginning of the 70's imo. But Bryan Ferry's musical career is highly respected here.:smoke:

[quispquake]

43. Listen to their first coupla albums with Eno...

They dressed & played some HEAVILY weird glam...

[datasuspect]

14. or the album "my people were fair and had stars in their hair

but now they're content to wear stars on their brow" by tyrannosaurus rex (bolan pre-electric group)?

who could forget such hits as trelawny lawn or afghan woman?

anybody?

[flakey_foont]

16. Chariots of silk she rode

stallions of gold she owned

Mad mage with a maid on his eyebrow

[datasuspect]

19. stark handsome eyes decide

that the unicorn is a beast of borrowed wisdom

[flakey_foont]

22. Geez

I used to think that I was the only person in the US who had that album

[datasuspect]

25. me too

i call you brother (or sister) whatever the case may be . . .

[flakey_foont]

28. Brother

how about the Incredible String Band??? they were more popular than Tyranosarus Rex....but kind of the same feel -...although definitely not glam..!

[undergroundpanther]

Dunno if it's glam

But anyone remember Focus?
Hocus pocus,the INSANE yodeling song?

[flakey_foont]

23. Jan Akkerman

great guitar player

[MrScorpio]

44. I know. I've got some

I've been into that great Dutch guitarist for 28 years

[sendero]

40. Focus is great..

... their followup, Hamburger Concerto, is some of the best classical/jazz/rock ever recorded. A masterpiece !!!!!!

But decidedly not glam :(

[Atlas Mugged]

24. Oh, good grief....

Yes, I do remember that. That and The Incredible String Band.

Damn, I'm old.

[Guy Fawkes]

21. David Bowie, hands down.

[datasuspect]

30. oh

fuck

yes

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

26. Mott The Hoople became a glam band after Bowie got a hold of them

...but it was the first post-Bowie album, "Mott," that's the killer...



:toast:

I got an idea
Go tell the superstar
All his hairs are turning grey
Star-spangled fear
As all the people disappear
The limelight fades away
Cos if you think you are a star
For so long they'll come from near and far
But you'll forget just who you are (yes you will)

You ain't the nazz
You're just a buzz
Some kinda temporary

[bobthedrummer]

32. Mick Ronson and Ian Hunter.

That there pair had lots of energy to spare after that.:smoke:
I really like Ian Hunter's solo stuff, like "Bastard".:smoke:

[RandomKoolzip]

33. Mott The Hoople and Slade.

[bobthedrummer]

34. Slade was a Chapman/Chin group too, if memory serves me well.

Maybe it's Chinn, not Chin-they wrote and produced a lot of glam in the UK.

[RandomKoolzip]

36. Nah, you're thinking of Sweet.

Slade's bass player wrote most of their material.

[6000eliot]

35. Mott, Roxy, and The Sweet!

[ArnoldLayne]

37. David Bowie,The Sweet and

Gary Glitter

[enigmatic]

39. The Gun Club

[roguevalley]

41. someone posted army of lovers last night. They win hands down.

[jandrok]

42. The New York Dolls

Pure trash. Most excellent.