Glamrock for a Gloomy Friday Afternoon
Sep. 26th, 2008 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Apart from some individual songs, I wasn't much into glam back in the day. Or even much today, but I do like this one, "Ballroom Blitz" by the Sweet. There's some nifty drumming, and it's got the over the top vocal bridge by the bass player. I mostly remember the Sweet for one of the worst songs ever inflicted on me back in my college days, "Little Willie."
Apart from some individual songs, I wasn't much into glam back in the day. Or even much today, but I do like this one, "Ballroom Blitz" by the Sweet. There's some nifty drumming, and it's got the over the top vocal bridge by the bass player. I mostly remember the Sweet for one of the worst songs ever inflicted on me back in my college days, "Little Willie."
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Date: 2008-09-26 11:02 pm (UTC)That's interesting; I didn't think of Mick Ronson as glam - I thought of him as proto-punk. Phil Manzanera I thought of as sort of a Brian-Eno-mold heavy-subculture textural sort of art-house player rather than glam. But you're right; they're both pretty amazing and they do fall into the subculture.
Mike Leander....well, we shall agree to disagree on that; I find his production to be a harbinger of Johnny Marr's fill-every-available-space production technique, with waaaaay too much compression. It gives me ear fatigue.....
It's what happened after Glyn Johns did Who's Next by using SM58s on a Twin and used the trim on the board as a de facto crude compressor; suddenly, every producer in the free world was cranking up ever more tube compression to fill space with white noise, which culminated (for my ears, at any rate) in the ludicrously lacking dynamics and brittle sound of Clapton's Journeyman album. Opinions vary, however...
Eno, though == sonic genius without a doubt. Not a question there. I know he was glam but I still can't get my head around the transformation from that to "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts."....
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Date: 2008-09-26 11:58 pm (UTC)About Ronson, my snarky answer to the original comment was going to be "David Bowie waves hello." It does seem like it would've been pretty easy to switch from glam to punk.
Of course for real excess, there were the prog rock bands that also dipped into glam for the outfits. My ex was a huge fan of a lot of them, some of which spilled over to me.