― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 6 March 2004 08:02 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 6 March 2004 08:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeff Strell (jeff_s), Saturday, 6 March 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago) link
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― Fragrant Vagrant, Saturday, 6 March 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 6 March 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link
Covered by some chancers two decades later...I forget their name.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Gennifer Flowers, Sunday, 7 March 2004 04:22 (twenty years ago) link
Also, check out Pink's "My Vietnam" - AMAZING!!!
― Heimlich "Maneuver" Fassbinder Heimlich "Maneuver" Fassbinder, Sunday, 7 March 2004 04:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 7 March 2004 06:16 (twenty years ago) link
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― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 March 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Ben St. Jacques, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago) link
xpost, but did you READ the thread?
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 00:48 (twenty years ago) link
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― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:21 (twenty years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!!
Scott, tell me more about the rockets?(it's sounds like a combination of all my favorite musics into one!)
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 02:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ursula 1000, Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
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?
― dan selzer, Saturday, 28 July 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Gorge, Saturday, 28 July 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Pretty Things: Silk Torpedo
http://www.prettythings.net/images/album7.jpg
― bendy, Saturday, 28 July 2007 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm reviving this thread!
To mention Henry Badowski.
And say yeah to Cockney Rebel.
― dan selzer, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:22 (three years ago) link
Rawk.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 June 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
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 CANDYLove Love LoveDebbie 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)
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=t2XYg7fIDPchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL-yFNppCvk
I don't know what they're up to these days but they are allewgedly still around?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 26 June 2020 06:41 (three years ago) link
they’ve been making great moody soft focus “synth pop” for about 15 years nowI don’t think your username would like it
― brimstead, Friday, 26 June 2020 06:57 (three years ago) link
Cockney Rebel's. Timeless Flight is a great midpoint between Bowie and early Steely Dan
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 June 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
yeah Glass Candy changed a lot esp. after I helped introduce them to italo-disco.
― dan selzer, Friday, 26 June 2020 13:47 (three years ago) link
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
― chipstick rebellion (Colonel Poo), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
Hmm... Sounds like I got off the Glass Candy train around the right time.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 27 June 2020 03:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 October 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
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
― everything, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 22:01 (three years ago) link
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).
― Maltrsnapper, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
That Space Amazon song rules, thanks!
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
wish the intro just repeated over and over gain, don't love it otherwise.
― dan selzer, Friday, 30 October 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
smart art glam adjacent, more raw art punk perhaps but new to me, missed this reissue and can't find it on bandcamp sadly.
https://lightintheattic.net/releases/2230-dumb-records-1977-1979
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
name sounds familiar, but should be more familiar to me ... considering ... let me know if you find it! I'd be shocked if no one I know has a copy.
― sarahell, Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
there are samples on that page and sound interesting. I just want to pay for a download is that too much to ask?
― dan selzer, Thursday, 9 September 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
surely The Sensational Alex Harvey Band qualify here ? they were arty and rather glam from time to time
― mark e, Thursday, 9 September 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link