2021

Various Artists - Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins 1970-1976 Artist: Various Artists Title: Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins 1970-1976 / Various Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2021 Label: Grapefruit UPC: 5013929188709 Genre: Rock Album TracksDISC 1:1. Pyjamarama - Roxy Music2. Ma-Ma-Ma Belle - Electric Light Orchestra3. Barbecutie - Sparks4. Joey (Single Version) - Pretty Things5. Tumble with Me - the Hollywood Brats6. Rolling with My Baby (Single Version) - Silverhead7. Teenage Archangel - Be-Bop Deluxe8. On the Ball - Streak9. Once Bitten Twice Shy10. (Album Version) - Ian Hunter11. Kerb Crawler12. (Single Version) - Hawkwind13. Payroll - Brutus14. Bright Lights - England's Glory15. Andy Warhol - Dana Gillespie16. Blue Movie Star - Rococo17. White Light White Heat - Mick Ronson18. Send Me the Bill for Your Friendship - Duncan Browne19. Powerman - the Kinks20. Up in the Air - Bearded Lady21. The Prettiest Star - Simon Turner22. The Cops Are Coming -Heavy Metal Kids23. Glittery Obituary - Blackfoot Sue24. Street Urchin - Pink FairiesDISC 2:1. Take Me Bak 'Ome - Slade2. Little Darling - Thin Lizzy3. Cat's Eyes - Zior4. Satellite of Love - Lou Reed5. Gun - John Cale6. Lady Easy Action - Despair7. Shame Shame Shame - the Hammersmith Gorillas8. B-Movie Bedtime (Demo Version) - Doctors of Madness9. Gimme Some Skin - Iggy & the Stooges10. Rat Crawl - Third World War11. Give Yourself a Chance - Agnes Strange12. Chance Meeting - Bryan Ferry13. The Purple Speed Queen - Curved Air14. Earthling - Jobriath15. Big Day - Phil Manzanera Featuring Eno16. Around and Around - Slowload17. Strange Movies - the Troggs18. Rosie's Coming to Town - Rosie19. Queenage Baby - Wayne County20. Sweet Transvestite - Tim Curry21. The Six Teens - SweetDISC 3:1. Personality Crisis - New York Dolls2. I'm Waiting for the Man - Tina Harvey3. Small Town, Big Adventures - John Howard4. Space Ace - Brett Smiley5. The Dancer - Leo Sayer6. Peaches (What's It All About?) - Richmond7. Going Home - Strawbs8. I Love You for Your Mind (Not Your Body) - a Raincoat9. The Monk - Rupert Hine10. All I Wanna Be - Rusty11. The Browns - Duffy12. Last Chance - the Winkies13. Ragman - Hard Stuff14. Dog Meat - Flamin' Groovies15. Dozy Dora - Bullfrog16. Little Girl - Spiv17. Not Fade Away (Single Version) - Fumble18. High School Dropout - Crushed Butler19. Dodgem Dude (Demo Version) - Michael Moorcock & the Deep Fix20. Hollywood Nites - Kim Fowley21. King of the Night Time World - Hollywood Stars22. The Last of the Teenage Idols - the Sensational Alex Harvey Band23. Saturday Gigs - Mott the Hoople 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.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.