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Poll Question: What's your favorite glam rock album of all time?
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    Posted: February 10 2012 at 17:58
There is another side to teen glam band Sweet that would probably surprise many on PA i.e. they were a very highly accomplished hard rock band when they played the music they wanted to make
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I had some connection to it in reality which was stunning for me. I had a guitartist friend who played like Alan Holdsworth and was a guitarist for the New York Dolls. I toured along with the Dead End Kids and Ian Hunter. I followed Glam Rock long before I ever hit the road. I liked the Slider by T.REX, Country Life -Roxy Music, early Bowie. The first 2 Ian HUnter releases and "White Punks On Dope" felt like a closing to it all.  
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There are a couple of great Sweet songs posted here already - but check out the crazy twin guitar on this oneHeadbanger
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Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

 
 
T Rex or Tyrannasaurus Rex were a bit different when they started. 
 
John Peel RIP introduces them 1968


Great stuff - thanks for posting thatStar
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Originally posted by LinusW LinusW wrote:

Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I voted For Your Pleasure.  I don't like those Bowie albums as much as most people do.  T. Rex is much more fun.  But Roxy Music were incredible.


Yes, indeed. Still a massive Bowie fan, though.
Not very familiar with T.Rex. Something that should be remedied?



I think that "Electric Warrior", "The Slider" and "Tanx" are well worth listening in,
but be sure that Marc Bolan was the least progressive of the three.
It's far more old time rock'n'roll & boogie-infected... the music is more simple but very charming.
HE was the "Glam" of it.
I agree with you concerning Roxy, though...
in many ways they were better, far more adventurous.
But it was T.Rex that I grew up with... my elder brother bringing home all their albums and singles in the early 70s.
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Originally posted by lucas lucas wrote:

 

Queen are not glam.... They had glammish look, but never played glam songs.
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Other, "Sladest" by Slade.
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I was into The Sweet, Slade & Mud, as so many other kids I suppose. Chinn & Chapman!
And then, like many others, I got attracted to Queen.

Nowadays, my favorite artists of glam would be Roxy Music, on the strength of their first two albums.
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Points: 6797 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2012 at 14:17
 
 
T Rex or Tyrannasaurus Rex were a bit different when they started. 
 
John Peel RIP introduces them 1968
 
 
 
 
 
 
This is pre his days of impersonating Glam Rock! LOL


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T. Rex seem to have settled into a glam rock groove. I was quite suprised when working backwards to discover the first "T. Rex" album and the preceding "A Beard Of Stars" and "Unicorn" albums as "Tyrannosaurus Rex".
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I voted For Your Pleasure.  I don't like those Bowie albums as much as most people do.  T. Rex is much more fun.  But Roxy Music were incredible.


Yes, indeed. Still a massive Bowie fan, though.
Not very familiar with T.Rex. Something that should be remedied?

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I voted For Your Pleasure.  I don't like those Bowie albums as much as most people do.  T. Rex is much more fun.  But Roxy Music were incredible.
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Points: 705 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2012 at 01:24
The earlier "Sparks" album has some very strange compositions - and a nice guitar solo in "No More Mr Nice Guys".
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by rupert rupert wrote:

Marc Bolan, for me, impersonated "Glam Rock",
did you mean "impersonated" or "personified" ?


thanks for that question, I'll take my dictionary now ( I'm a German ! )... wait...
PERSONIFIED !
Thanks again, sorry

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Originally posted by rupert rupert wrote:

Marc Bolan, for me, impersonated "Glam Rock",
did you mean "impersonated" or "personified" ?
What?
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Hunky Dory. Though I love Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and T.Rex' Tanx very much too.
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So hard so hard so hard to choose...
I have to go for "The Slider", though.
Marc Bolan, for me, impersonated "Glam Rock",
Bowie may have produced music of more merit
as well as Roxy Music's first three albums may have "aged" the best...
I grew up on T.Rex, Marc was a main influence for me to pick up guitar
and write songs myself, and so it has to be him for me, still.
When I was a young boy, I slightly preferred "Electric Warrior",
but "The Slider" is more fun...
thanks for this topic !

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