Thursday, April 28, 2011
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
www.toddstadtman.com
THE LUCHA DIARIES!
Click to read
Available now from FAB Press
CLICK TO ORDER
The Final Chapter of the SF Punk Trio
CLICK TO PURCHASE
Sequel to Please Don't Be Waiting for Me
CLICK TO PURCHASE
The First Chapter of the SF Punk Trio
CLICK TO PURCHASE
Buy my album!
Now available:
The Directory of World Cinema: Turkey, from Intellect Ltd.
Now available:
Famous Monsters #270: Special lucha issue with articles by me, Dan Madigan, Keith J. Rainville & August Ragone
"Fear me!"
PROUD MEMBER
The Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit
Taiwan Noir Podcast
Pop Offensive
The Infernal Brains Podcast
Fighting Femmes, Fiends, and Fanatics
...the hell?
-
-
Fantastic Fest 2023: The Wait / La Espera (Spain, 2023) - The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts on F. Javier Gutierrez’s latest film screening this week at Fantastic Fest 2023! The Wait / La Espera is a ...17 hours ago
-
Neo-Crocodile is About to Explode! - Hold on to your outboard motors, because Killer Crocodile (1989) is the Greatest Movie EVER! Click on the Blu-ray cover or the title above to download our ...3 weeks ago
-
-
Justice Ninja Style (1985) - Over on our sibling site at Death Ray Dive, we reviewed the ultra-low-budget, shot-on-video 1985 action romp, JUSTICE NINJA STYLE, starring some enthusiast...1 year ago
-
Beautiful Thrilling Bloody Sword print on Blu-Ray complete with Tars Tarkas commentary! - Do you like swords? Do you like thrills? Do you like boutique Blu-Ray companies and freshly scanned 2K prints of obscure Taiwanese fantasy Snow White films...1 year ago
-
Mata Hari: Agent H21 – The Eye of Dawn - MATA HARI: Agent H21 – THE EYE OF DAWN is a pet project of mine. For many years now I have been interested in the story of Mata Hari – and even beyond that...5 years ago
-
An open letter to American Democratic party leaders - I am going to take up some space here to talk about American politics. I am disabling comments on the post because the internet is a cesspool of idiots and...5 years ago
-
Out to pasture - Covering Thai cinema and living in Thailand for the past decade or so has been an illuminating experience, one that I'm not sure whether I'll regret. I s...7 years ago
-
Don't Wanna Be a Cantopop Star - UNGH: Don't Wanna Be a Cantopop Star from duriandave on 8tracks Radio. I've got five posts simmering on the stove right now and each is insisting on takin...8 years ago
-
#54: Goliath and the Vampires! - Hello Monster Island Resorters, It’s time for another collaboration with that collection of creative minds known as the Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Su...11 years ago
-
Put Me Back In My Tomb - I have retired MCB but just wanted to let ya'll know I've fired up a Musick Blog and will be spending time over there from now on. Please check it out, it...11 years ago
-
-
Subscribe To 4DK:
Posts
Comments
6 comments:
Mud! The least glamorous glam rock name ever.
I'm also partial to "Moonlight Sally," "Tiger Feet" and "Dyna-mite."
Have you seen Julian Cope's recommended GlamRockSampler? Worth hunting down.
"Tiger Feet" almost won out by virtue of the synchronized dance moves in the TOTP clip, but I've always been more partial to this song. I recall hearing that they were some kind of hippie band before Chinn & Chapman got their hands on them, which explains the, uh, "earthy" name.
I haven't seen Cope's sampler. I'll have to hunt it down. Thanks.
Let me assist.
Julian's write up.
...and the music itself.
Julian's less interested in the poppier end of Glam and more with the stuff that trends between glam and prog plus the protopunk, but there's still very cool stuff here.
Thanks. That's an interesting list indeed. Maybe I'm too catholic in my definition of glam, but The Dictators? Even Be Bop Deluxe seems pretty liminal. Still, Julian definitely gets points for avoiding the usual suspects.
I've got to say the first Bebop Deluxe album was quite glammish and a total (excellent) Bowie ripoff. Then Bill Nelson ditched his original band for some dipshit musos and they got tweedly with the riffs.
But straight up Glam Rockers by them include: "Third Floor Heaven" and "Maid in Heaven" which are 100% glam genius. (Your mnemonic device then would be: "heaven is good.") And "Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus" is fun because (a) Nelson is a certified guitar god, and (b) it's very closely modeled on "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars."
Back to Julian's list, I really learned to love Doctors of Madness, the first two Chrome albums and the bizarre story of Neil Merryweather (Canadian folk rocker gone glam). Check out Merryweather's song "The Groove" - it's great.
I heard that Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars and Jet Silver & The Dolls of Venus once played a gig together, with Benny & The Jets opening. Probably just a rumor.
I don't mean to slag Be Bop Deluxe. I was a fan back in the day. In addition to those you mentioned, I remember liking "Jets at Dawn" and, of course, "Blazing Apostles". I also think that "Drastic Plastic" is one of the more credible attempts by an established rock act of that period to go "new wave". It's just that I think of glam as being more song oriented, and many of Be Bop's tracks, as you indicate, seem more intended as showcases for Nelson's guitar wizardry.
The only thing I remember about Doctor's of Madness is that they were heavily featured in a prime time, network news documentary about the workings of the music industry.
Post a Comment