Who is your favorite Glam Rock band?

Duran Duran... 😁

Queen😁

Hair metal band 😂 Jon Bon Jovi 😂

My vote goes to Bryan Ferry and Iggy Pop

Are you people actually sane? What do you mean, dark Mötley Crüe or Jon Bon Jovi? That’s just backwards!

T. Rex? Brett Smiley? David Bowie? The Arrows? Sweet/Slade? New York Dolls? Jobriath? Sparks? Now *that* is what real Glam Rock looks like.

dustyridge12 said:Seriously, are you guys out of your minds? Calling Mötley Crüe and Jon Bon Jovi black?

This whole thing is actually because of my previous post, since I brought up Jon Bon Jovi specifically to mock the term "hair metal," which I honestly find ridiculous, rather than for any other reason. 😁

dustyridge12 said:Are you guys out of your minds? How can you group Mötley Crüe, Jon Bon Jovi, and Queen together? That makes zero sense!

T. Rex? Brett Smiley? David Bowie? The Arrows? Sweet? Slade? New York Dolls? Jobriath? Sparks? Now *that* is real Glam Rock.

Look, Queen was basically the only band playing around with any kind of Glam vibe back in the old US territories. For what it's worth, I actually loved Queen back when Bebek was the frontman...😍

Anyway, yeah, T. Rex is probably the best Glam Rock band out there. As for Bowie... fine, if you really want to try and shove him into a specific genre or label.

And what about Gary Glitter?😁

Heh, I was thinking about the 80s... 🙄

Oh, absolutely. The legendary Gary Glitter.

Back when I was living in the States, there was this local band called Resonance. I don't recall exactly what they looked like on stage, but I managed to get my hands on one of their singles—it was Brian Eno—and man, it sounded pure Glam Rock. Just a fantastic record. I’ve been dying to track down another copy lately; if any of you happen to have it floating around, please let me know.

If we're talking about the '80s, then we aren't talking about Glam! It’s honestly such a massive mistake to lump those circus acts together with the actual bands from what was arguably one of the most prolific eras in all of rock 'n' roll history.

You all love Jon Bon Jovi, stop pretending.🙄

...Glam Rock played a massive role in shaping '80s pop-metal , even if most of those bands—aside from Def Leppard—were American and had minimal knowledge of the original sources.

Burzum
I’m done... Darkness is my law 🙂!

If people think Sparks belongs under the Glam Rock umbrella, I’ve gotta disagree—but if they do, then they’re easily number one. Then you’ve got the unmistakable stuff, like Duran Duran... And as for those eighties acts, whether it's the preppy Sweet/Slade types or whatever metal crowd, there’s really no debate here: neither of them were any good.

Sweet/Slade are absolutely essential if you want to wrap your head around the genre—just like Sparks. Honestly, I’m thinking specifically about those first two Sparks albums.

So, someone actually asks about Glam Rock and then claims Mötley Crüe is their favorite band. That's like saying they love Jazz clubs. Not even to mention they're into that awful 80s hair metal—honestly, a totally brainless genre that nobody misses now that it's dead...👎

New York Dolls

dustyridge12 said:Sweet/Slade are absolutely essential for understanding the whole genre, just like Sparks. And I'm talking about those first two Sparks albums.

Yeah, sure. I start a thread about Sparks and get exactly one reply... 😢 Which two? Are we talking Halfnelson or after they changed their name?

Halfnelson (produced by Todd Rundgren, who had his own unique take on Glam)

A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing
and the incomparable Kimono My House
Everything really started going downhill once they crossed paths with Giorgio Moroder.

Man, I still hold both Propaganda and Indiscreet pretty close to my heart, and honestly, even Introducing Sparks has some killer moments... though it’s a far cry from that Moroder era. That said, Kimono My House is hands down in a league of its own. One of these days, I'll sit down and write out the whole story of how that album basically gave me my life back during the darkest stretch I've ever had to deal with...

Look, I honestly think Moroder is bottom-tier stuff—in my book, that’s basically a downward spiral. If we’re being precise about the timeline, the Glam Rock era is usually pinned to the release of T. Rex's "Ride The White Swan" at the start, and it wraps up when they declared Ziggy Stardust dead. So, strictly speaking, anything released after Kimono My House doesn't really fall under the Glam umbrella.

You make a fair point, though—it’s a massive debate whether Sparks actually belong in the Glam category. For one thing, they’re Americans—even if everyone seems to talk with a British accent these days—and their albums were always quite a departure from the mainstream trends. But hey, the Glam crowd embraced them as one of their own, and at the end of the day, that’s what matters.

New York Dolls 😍