Smart art-glam suggestions?

dan you should check out sparks.

Dan, have you heard Marizane? They're the best Ziggy-era Bowie rip off I've ever heard. They have their own mythology and everything, and their record is gorgeous. Tony Visconti produced a few of the songs. They're from the Valley, but they sure don't sound it.

There are two great glam-sounding tracks on John Kongos' album "Kongos" that you might like: He's Gonna Step on You Again and (ugh, I can't remember the name, but it's first song/first side). The rest of the record sounds very different, though.

Covered by some chancers two decades later...I forget their name.

Also, check out Pink's "My Vietnam" - AMAZING!!!

It sure as heck is Ben St. Jacques from West Orange, NJ. Your name came up in conversation with some other West Orange-ites, recently. So I googled your name and found this thread. I figured if it was you, then you would respond, which you did. How's it going?

Ben

xpost, but did you READ the thread?

sparks.

just teasing, yes definately and I'd say much of the new wave material fits this as well, I could(and may...) devote a thread to big synth smart arty new wave, just to toss out some stuff:

Angst era Sparks, Cowboys International, Devo, Europeans(c'mon, who's got that single, I can't be the only one who likes it) The Cars, Magazine, more Ultravox, Alice Coopers' Clones etc

!!!!!!!!!!!

Scott, tell me more about the rockets?
(it's sounds like a combination of all my favorite musics into one!)

I'm glad to see Audience was mentioned here. Was about to revive to ask about them. Haven't heard them but they came up when researching Howard Werth. Seems Audience was a 70s UK art-rock band who's lead singer moved to LA to potentially take Jim Morrison's spot in the Doors (Elektra label-mates). He didn't but he stuck around LA for a bit and was involved in the Dangerhouse scene, including producing X before Ray Manzerek, and releasing 1 single on Dangerhouse, the pretty awesome Obsolete, which fits this thread very well. It's a bit punk/new wave but with a heavy t-rex/ziggy glam vibe. Anybody actually heard Audience?

Yes. I have the first two Audience records. They're best known for House On the Hill. Audience are arty and British. They also did twee well. Audience isn't a hard rock band, floating somewhere between Cockney Rebel and Jobriath. Very much a mood band, the mood being neurasthenic undernourished Brit. Did a Bertolt Brecht-Kurt Weill-like interpretation of "I Put a Spell On You." You should like reeds. At one point Werth used to say Led Zeppelin ripped the melody for Stairway to Heaven off them, having heard it in concert or off something from the first album. I have the first album and don't hear it. Interesting story, though.

Pretty Things: Silk Torpedo

http://www.prettythings.net/images/album7.jpg

I'm reviving this thread!

To mention Henry Badowski.

And say yeah to Cockney Rebel.

Rawk.

This never came up in this thread but I always loved Glass Candy and thought their poppy dance punk was plenty arty and glammy (though in retrospect probably more glam than art).

Here's an (unedited) review I wrote for Alternative Press back in the day:

GLASS CANDY
Love Love Love

Debbie Harry, meet Ziggy Stardust. Ziggy, Debbie.

The drummer plays like Moe Tucker on steroids and speed, the guitarist wears a Bowie- (or Runaways- or Sweet-approved) shag and abuses his guitar like a noise-rock Ace Frehley, and singer Ida No (geddit?) spastically and gamely channels both X-Ray Spex and Blondie, with the soul of a performance artist and, admittedly, a voice to match. But that’s okay; some of the best front-people in rock history never did manage to sing, and her stream-of-consciousness rants work because of her marvelously effective squealing shriek rather than in spite of it, atop arty no-wave devoid of pretentious usually associated with such shenanigans. (Troubleman Unlimited; www.troublemanunlimited.com)

Some live videos that capture their rawness quite nicely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2XYg7fIDPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL-yFNppCvk

I don't know what they're up to these days but they are allewgedly still around?

they’ve been making great moody soft focus “synth pop” for about 15 years now

I don’t think your username would like it

Cockney Rebel's. Timeless Flight is a great midpoint between Bowie and early Steely Dan

yeah Glass Candy changed a lot esp. after I helped introduce them to italo-disco.

saw thread title and thought of Doctors of Madness, Be Bop Deluxe and Deaf School all of which are already mentioned.

Zolar X maybe?

I love Glass Candy, haven't paid attention to if they'd done much recently though

Hmm... Sounds like I got off the Glass Candy train around the right time.

Bumping this very old thread of mine for two reason.

1. Anthony Moore's Out coming from Drag City:
https://www.dragcity.com/products/out

2. Realizing Skids deserve mention here, esp after the first album. Arty in a certain way, pompous for sure, but not bluesy/cock-rocky, just big.

Also realizing I hadn't become a full Simple Minds convert prior to starting this thread, and should say better than Skids they scratch a big part of this itch.

New York glam band from 1974. A couple of them ended up in David Johansen's post-New York Dolls band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8E-yjExXak

If no-one's mentioned Mott The Hoople I guess it's cos so much of their CV doesn't fit... but Honaloochie Boogie?
And I don't know much about The Tubes, but the three tracks I do know seem relevant (White Punks On Dope single).

That Space Amazon song rules, thanks!