VA - Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens And Street Urchins 1970-76 (2021) [3CD-Set]

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.

CD 1
01. Roxy Music – Pyjamerama – 02:54
02. Electric Light Orchestra – Ma-Ma-Ma Belle – 03:40
03. Sparks – Barbecutie – 03:10
04. Pretty Things – Joey – 03:21
05. The Hollywood Brats – Tumble With Me – 03:56
06. Silverhead – Rolling With My Baby (single version) – 02:55
07. Be Bop Deluxe – Teenage Archangel – 03:32
08. Streak – On the Ball – 03:10
09. Ian Hunter – Once Bitten Twice Shy (album version) – 04:47
10. Hawkwind – Kerb Crawler (single version) – 03:45
11. Brutus – Payroll – 02:42
12. England’s Glory – Bright Lights – 04:11
13. Dana Gillespie – Andy Warhol – 03:06
14. Rococo – Blue Movie Star – 02:05
15. Mick Ronson – White Light/White Heat – 04:11
16. Duncan Browne – Send Me the Bill for Your Friendship – 03:38
17. The Kinks – Powerman – 04:19
18. Bearded Lady – Up in the Air – 03:09
19. Simon Turner – The Prettiest Star – 02:47
20. Heavy Metal Kids – The Cops Are Coming – 03:48
21. Blackfoot Sue – Glittery Obituary – 03:37
22. Pink Fairies – Street Urchin – 07:05

CD 2
01. Slade – Take Me Bak ‘ome – 03:17
02. Thin Lizzy – Little Darling – 02:57
03. Zior – Cat’s Eyes – 03:00
04. Lou Reed – Satellite Of Love – 03:42
05. John Cale – Gun – 08:06
06. Despair – Lady Easy Action – 03:22
07. The Hammersmith Gorillas – Shame – 03:25
08. B – Movie Bedtime – 03:25
09. Iggy Pop & The Stooges – Gimme Some Skin – 02:46
10. Third World War – Rat Crawl – 06:28
11. Agnes Strange – Give Yourself A Chance – 03:30
12. Bryan Ferry – Chance Meeting – 03:17
13. Curved Air – The Purple Speed Queen – 03:34
14. Jobriath – Earthling – 03:34
15. Phil Manzanera Feat. Eno – Big Day – 03:46
16. Slowload – Around And Around – 03:31
17. The Troggs – Strange Movies – 02:57
18. Rosie – Rosie’s Coming To Town – 03:46
19. Wayne County – Queenage Baby – 03:54
20. Tim Curry – Sweet Transvestite – 03:12
21. Sweet – The Six Teens – 04:03

CD 3
01. New York Dolls – Personality Crisis – 03:44
02. Tina Harvey – I’m Waiting for the Man – 03:19
03. John Howard – Small Town, Big Adventures – 03:00
04. Brett Smiley – Space Ace – 03:52
05. Leo Sayer – The Dancer – 04:31
06. Richmond – Peaches (What’s It All About?) – 03:13
07. Strawbs – Going Home – 03:13
08. A Raincoat – I Love You for Your Mind (Not Your Body) – 02:56
09. Rupert Hine – The Monk – 02:36
10. Rusty – All I Wanna Be – 03:27
11. Duffy – The Browns – 03:05
12. The Winkies – Last Chance – 03:00
13. Hard Stuff – Ragman – 03:03
14. The Flamin’ Groovies – Dog Meat – 04:05
15. Bullfrog – Dozy Dora – 03:12
16. Spiv – Little Girl – 02:40
17. Fumble – Not Fade Away – 03:13
18. Crushed Butler – High School Dropout – 01:56
19. Michael Moorcock’s Deep Fix – Dodgem Dude – 02:58
20. Kim Fowley – Hollywood Nites – 02:30
21. Hollywood Stars – King of the Night Time World – 03:30
22. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – The Last of the Teenage Idols – 07:14
23. Mott the Hoople – Saturday Gigs – 04:23

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