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Poll Question: What's your favorite glam rock album of all time?
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Points: 24638 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2011 at 06:30
Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

What about Suzy Quatro? the Runaways and Joan Jett? i love Rock'n Roll LOL
 
Suzi Quatro, the little girl with the big throat... She should have been mentioned before Embarrassed. And Gary Glitter too Sick.
 
The Runaways, Joan Jett was one of them, are part of another story, these gals came later, '77-78, they were of about my age.
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Originally posted by Guzzman Guzzman wrote:

I think that in the hayday of GlamRock albums weren't as important as singles. Thus a lot of GlamRock-albums were mere compilations of singles. I would never have dreamed about buying an album by Gary Glitter, The Glitter Band, Alvin Stardust (he deserves to be mentioned) or Sweet. If you liked the singles, you liked the singles (and to name just one example: The Sweet had some surprising Hardrock-numbers as B-sides of their singles. Im talking vinyl, of course).

I voted for Bowie and Ziggy Stardust, one of the most important (concept!) albums of the 70s.
Sweet album's (from Sweet FA onwards) are worth buying since they are more hardrock than their Chin/Chap glam singles would have you believe.
 
Sparks and T. Rex are two other glam bands I wouldn't (didn't) hesitate in buying albums of.
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I think that in the hayday of GlamRock albums weren't as important as singles. Thus a lot of GlamRock-albums were mere compilations of singles. I would never have dreamed about buying an album by Gary Glitter, The Glitter Band, Alvin Stardust (he deserves to be mentioned) or Sweet. If you liked the singles, you liked the singles (and to name just one example: The Sweet had some surprising Hardrock-numbers as B-sides of their singles. Im talking vinyl, of course).

I voted for Bowie and Ziggy Stardust, one of the most important (concept!) albums of the 70s.
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This thread needs more Suzi Quatro.
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Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

... Joan Jett? i love Rock'n Roll LOL
Or the original version:
 
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What about Suzy Quatro? the Runaways and Joan Jett? i love Rock'n Roll LOL
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2011 at 16:49
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Originally posted by Harry Hood Harry Hood wrote:

The Tubes self titled debut is pretty amazing. 
 
I like the later Todd Rungren produced Remote Control although it doesn't really have much to do with Glam Rock. The Tubes were a hard band to put a label on.
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For Your Pleasure from the list, but leaving out Sweet is a bit of a shame.
 
 
On a similar vein, a long forgotten band and a shade of a Sweet clone Son Of A Gun won TV talent show "New Faces" then scored a complete "miss" with their Phil Wainman produce debut single "Maison De L'Amour" and then disapeared into obscurity. Pity really because it wasn't a bad single. I would post it here but the muppet who uploaded the track to YouTube accompanied it with a cheesecake glamour slideshow so it's NSFW, so be warned, here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZKT4zdbHwc 
 
Early incarnation of Smokie weren't bad as an early Sweet clone either (called Smokey then, name change because Smokey Robinson threw a tantrum), 'twas later they turned rubbish :
 
 
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Desolation Boulavard-Sweet
For Your Pleasure-Roxy Music
...Featuring Little Willy and Blockbuster-Sweet
Mott-Mott The Hoople
Roxy Music-Roxy Music
Love It To Death-Alice Cooper
Rock And Roll Over-Kiss
Queen II-Queen
Strangers-Blackfoot Sue
Framed-The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
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Points: 4006 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2011 at 04:51
The Slider, but these are all top albums. Here are another couple of great bands:
 
 
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Points: 1305 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2011 at 02:55
The Tubes self titled debut is pretty amazing. 
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Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

There are a few of these I don't know of but there are not many albums I like as much as Sparks's Kimono My House.  Or their next one, Propaganda.
 
The Sparks were one of the best bands in the genre. How could I forget to mention them? This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us (1974) is one of my favourite hits ever.
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The first band I ever liked and also the first band I ever saw live. Also this is the frist record I ever bought
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There are a few of these I don't know of but there are not many albums I like as much as Sparks's Kimono My House.  Or their next one, Propaganda.

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Mott The Hoople is classic stuff but Ziggy Stardust is such a great.

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Hmmm...my top ten would be...
 
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust  (an all-time top twenty rock album for me)
Cooper - Killer
Mott the Hoople - The Hoople
Bowie - Aladin Sane
T-Rex - Electric Warrior
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Cooper - Love it to Death
Roxy Music - Prairie Life
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Roxie Music - For Your Pleasure
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