Smart art-glam suggestions?

Been meaning to check that out. Have some of the old vinyl. Also seen some people talking about how this is the good stuff and forget the later “Fashion” stuff, but that stuff is not without its charms or fans.

Hearing this for the first time do to friend posting it on Facebook. Hawkwind stripped down a bit for the new wave/punk years and fitting this description.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCe7GGW3bQ

That was the first Hawkwind album I heard, back in the 80s. It's a big rebound from the previous album Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music, which is completely limp.

“city of lagoon” rules tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svSV_G65CF4

Seeing now that that hawk wind song was one of the first responses.

I need to do a deep-dive on this thread.

the next hawkwind album (PXR5 from 1980) kicks off with this great john-foxx-fronting-the-stooges banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLRzKBShYjw
Hawkwind - Death Trap

...which might not be what you're looking for, but it is fucking great

PXR5 is a good album!

Be Bop Deluxe have been mentioned but Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound-On-Sound might fit here? I love that album.

Great thread. Dave Brock's solo lp 'Earthed to the Ground' from 1984:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EvGc61PUlo

I wish this track went on for a whole side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT2ZkUS4gio

and scott metioned the hawklords album at the start of the thread but this song in particular is well worth checking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuSE9vFlyMQ
Hawklords - 25 Years

that whole album is worth checking out

I was at a gig last Friday, never heard the headline band before and I said to my friend, I liked the last song when it went all Hawkwind at the end. he just looked at me blankly. not sure if that was because he didn't know who Hawkwind were or if they actually didn't sound like Hawkwind at the end at all

oh! very relevant to this thread, Deaf School are playing in Brighton on Friday

sorry actually next Friday

dont really know much about deaf school other than the fact that clive langer was in them

no idea who's in them now, but their first 2 albums are both good and in this area

I love Langer, esp his ep and love Deaf School, kind of musical theater Roxy Music with a cast of characters. Was talking somewhere about this whole genre on one of the DIY poll threads. The Yachts. Sailor. Metro. Some good bands and songs but kinda fell through the cracks and wiped away by punk and new wave, though some members reinvented themselves there of course.

very tangentially related self-promo...was on The Lot radio a few weeks back with nothing but late 70s/early 80s 7"s and while it's mostly post-punk/punk type stuff there's some arty power pop and stuff that crosses over with this thread in there as well. Worth a listen in any case. https://soundcloud.com/thelotradio/superimpositions-special-guest-dan-selzer-the-lot-radio-10-24-2022

Boy does "25 Years" sound like an early Ultravox! ripoff. But then John Foxx was deeply influenced by Hawkwind so chicken-egg-etc.