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Poll Question: What's your favorite glam rock album of all time?
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    Posted: May 16 2011 at 16:07
I don't pretend to have any extreme glam rock knowledge. I've been exploring the genre for the past few weeks and have really grown to adore T.Rex and Bowie. Roxy Music was fine, too. This is a terribly incomplete list. I'm mainly looking for suggestions outside of Bowie, Rex, Hoople, Roxy, and the New York Dolls. I didn't include Heroes or Low for some reason or another.
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Wow, this triggers some nostalgic feelings. I started to get interested in pop and rock music when I was a wee teenage laddie of about 12 years old. You were right not to include Heroes or Low: Bowie may have been a glam rock artist for some time, but these albums were of a later date: the real glam rock years were from 1971 to 1974.
 
Some other glam rock artists of the period of whom most were of a lesser artistic level than the ones you mentioned: The Sweet, Middle of the Road, Slade, David Cassidy (many girls of my age were in love with him Cry), The Osmonds, Alice Cooper, Gary Glitter. These crowded the singles charts in those days.
 
At that time I did not listen to albums yet. This started with Pink Floyd and turned me into prog.
 
BTW, my vote goes to Hunky Dory.
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Wow, this triggers some nostalgic feelings. I started to get interested in pop and rock music when I was a wee teenage laddie of about 12 years old. You were right not to include Heroes or Low: Bowie may have been a glam rock artist for some time, but these albums were of a later date: the real glam rock years were from 1971 to 1974.
 
Some other glam rock artists of the period of whom most were of a lesser artistic level than the ones you mentioned: The Sweet, Middle of the Road, Slade, David Cassidy (many girls of my age were in love with him Cry), The Osmonds, Alice Cooper, Gary Glitter. These crowded the singles charts in those days.
 
At that time I did not listen to albums yet. This started with Pink Floyd and turned me into prog.
 
BTW, my vote goes to Hunky Dory.

I forgot to include Cooper. I figured him more of a hard rocker, but to not include his material from School's Out to Welcome to my Nightmare would be foolish.
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I've been meaning to hear many of these albums but haven't, therefore I vote for Aladdin Sane.
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Some great albums but I'm not voting as a protest for missing out Slade.

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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Some great albums but I'm not voting as a protest for missing out Slade.

There is an Other option. :)
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Of these I will go for Electric Warrior.  But Bowie could easily get my vote.
 
From a later time I quite like Hanoi Rocks who were basically responsible for many a band in the eighties
 
 
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Personally I have to go for Tanx and Ziggy Stardust.
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Sparks is okey from what I have heard (and he is glam rock)
 
the first Roxy album is glam rock with RiO elements, Ziggy Stardust is what it is a statement of rock and roll, but also Elton Johns album Don't Shoot me Im only the Piano Player, and Captain Fantastic is glam rock.
 
 


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Ziggy Stardust
Slider
Aladin Sane
Hunk Dory
Electric Warrior 

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

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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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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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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 Tubes self titled debut is pretty amazing. 
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The Slider, but these are all top albums. Here are another couple of great bands:
 
 
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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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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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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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