Oh You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins: Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins 1970-1976 / Various
Oh You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins: Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins 1970-1976 / Various
Format: CD
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Artist: Oh You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins
Label: Grapefruit
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929188709
Genre: Rock
Three CD set. In the teenage wastelands of grey early Seventies Britain, where the musical landscape was dominated by introspective singer-songwriters and dour rock bands, the emergence of the outrageous, androgynous, peacock-plumaged Glam Rock scene provided a vital spark in the dark. Sadly the genre was quickly hijacked by the backroom hustlers of the British music industry and their mutton-dressed-as-glam pop idol marionettes. However, Oh! You Pretty Things ignores such lightweight fripperies to concentrate on the real deal. We focus on the twin central strands of Glam Rock: the cerebral and the visceral, with the artier, experimental element of the scene joined by the Ladbroke Grove street rockers and the Steve Marriott-channelling chirpy Cockney geezer street urchins, many of whom had been to drama school and knew how to strike a pose. Big hits, inexplicable misses, seminal glam texts, cult classics, key album tracks, alternative versions and even a clutch of previously unreleased but essential recordings: Oh! You Pretty Things - housed in a clamshell box that contains a 40-page booklet of amazing photos and incredible stories - assembles all these and more to act as the definitive primer of a relatively short-lived but glorious musical and pop-cultural phenomenon.
Tracks:
1.1 Pyjamarama – Roxy Music
1.2 Ma-Ma-Ma Belle – Electric Light Orchestra
1.3 Barbecutie - Sparks
1.4 Joey (Single Version) – Pretty Things
1.5 Tumble With Me – The Hollywood Brats
1.6 Rolling With My Baby (Single Version) - Silverhead
1.7 Teenage Archangel – Be-Bop Deluxe
1.8 On The Ball - Streak
1.9 Once Bitten Twice Shy
1.10 (Album Version) – Ian Hunter
1.11 Kerb Crawler
1.12 (Single Version) - Hawkwind
1.13 Payroll - Brutus
1.14 Bright Lights – England's Glory
1.15 Andy Warhol – Dana Gillespie
1.16 Blue Movie Star - Rococo
1.17 White Light White Heat – Mick Ronson
1.18 Send Me The Bill For Your Friendship – Duncan Browne
1.19 Powerman – The Kinks
1.20 Up In The Air – Bearded Lady
1.21 The Prettiest Star – Simon Turner
1.22 The Cops Are Coming –Heavy Metal Kids
1.23 Glittery Obituary – Blackfoot Sue
1.24 Street Urchin – Pink Fairies
2.1 Take Me Bak 'Ome - Slade
2.2 Little Darling – Thin Lizzy
2.3 Cat's Eyes - Zior
2.4 Satellite Of Love – Lou Reed
2.5 Gun – John Cale
2.6 Lady Easy Action - Despair
2.7 Shame Shame Shame – The Hammersmith Gorillas
2.8 B-Movie Bedtime (Demo Version) – Doctors Of Madness
2.9 Gimme Some Skin – Iggy ; The Stooges
2.10 Rat Crawl – Third World War
2.11 Give Yourself A Chance – Agnes Strange
2.12 Chance Meeting – Bryan Ferry
2.13 The Purple Speed Queen – Curved Air
2.14 Earthling - Jobriath
2.15 Big Day – Phil Manzanera Featuring Eno
2.16 Around And Around - Slowload
2.17 Strange Movies – The Troggs
2.18 Rosie's Coming To Town - Rosie
2.19 Queenage Baby – Wayne County
2.20 Sweet Transvestite – Tim Curry
2.21 The Six Teens - Sweet
3.1 Personality Crisis – New York Dolls
3.2 I'm Waiting For The Man – Tina Harvey
3.3 Small Town, Big Adventures – John Howard
3.4 Space Ace – Brett Smiley
3.5 The Dancer – Leo Sayer
3.6 Peaches (What's It All About?) - Richmond
3.7 Going Home - Strawbs
3.8 I Love You For Your Mind (Not Your Body) - A Raincoat
3.9 The Monk – Rupert Hine
3.10 All I Wanna Be - Rusty
3.11 The Browns - Duffy
3.12 Last Chance – The Winkies
3.13 Ragman – Hard Stuff
3.14 Dog Meat – Flamin' Groovies
3.15 Dozy Dora - Bullfrog
3.16 Little Girl - Spiv
3.17 Not Fade Away (Single Version) - Fumble
3.18 High School Dropout – Crushed Butler
3.19 Dodgem Dude (Demo Version) – Michael Moorcock ; The Deep Fix
3.20 Hollywood Nites – Kim Fowley
3.21 King Of The Night Time World – Hollywood Stars
3.22 The Last Of The Teenage Idols – The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
3.23 Saturday Gigs – Mott The Hoople
