Saturday, May 29, 2021

The Great Glam Rock Revival

One of the pleasant surprises of this new(ish) millennium has been the mostly unheralded revival of 70s glam. It's not surprising that it's been an influence - I mean, you can hear Iggy, the Dolls, Bowie, or Mott in almost every non-metal high energy guitar band of the past 50 years (almost) - but what I do find surprising is the rebirth of that rolling, boot stomping beat of the obscure junk shop glam bands that followed in the jetstream of the originators and had a lifespan of the 3 minutes it took to play their single. There's a previous UHM mix that focuses entirely on that era here, if you're at all interested. 

And just a note on a couple of entries: these Crash Street Kids are a different band than the Crash Street Kids idolized in power pop circles for their "Into You" single in the 80s (although both are named after a Mott the Hoople song), and this Flash Bastard is a band from LA, as opposed to the similarly monikered bunch from Vancouver (compiled on previous mixes), and the GospelbeacH track is a cover of a song by Chunky (who were one of those aforementioned junk shop bands). 

Ever-Ready Supernatural Spawn Of Class and Glamour

1. Creem Circus Gimme Glitter
2. Crash St. Kids Mary, Queen of the Rock
3. Smash Fashi0n Super Glam
4. Gyasi Kiss Kiss
5. Biters Gypsy Rose
6. F0xy Shazam Teenage Demon Baby
7. B1ack 0wls I May Be Mistaken
8. G0spelbeacH Albatross Baby
9. Prima D0nna Soul Stripper
10. Wy1dlife Trash
11. Tsar The Love Explosion
12. The Nuc1ears Lightspeed Getaway
13. Mi1es Kane Cry On My Guitar
14. Po11y Put a Little English On It
15. Ve1veteen Rabbit Too Much, Just Enough
16. Sister Suzie What's Your Deal?
17. Faz Wa1tz Got Me Goin'
18. Zachary James & the A11-Seeing Eyes Outta Space
19. The Sore1s School Girl Blues
20. F1ash Bastard Stutter On
21. Stag Electric Mistress
22. Giuda Yellow Dash
23. River City Rebe1s Glitter and Gold
24. Sp0nge Wax Ecstatic (to Sell Angelina)

6 comments:

Ed said...

Now we're talkin'! This'd be a great subject for a compilation by some smart record label. Must be a dozen or so comps of '70s glam rock out there but none of the modern take on it

Roy Pearl said...

100% agree, Ed! A label should get on that.

biopunk said...

Thanks for the comp & dispelling my confusion over the Flash Bastards

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