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Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins 197076 (Clamshell Box)
Oh ! You Pretty Things
Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins 197076 (Clamshell Box)
Oh ! You Pretty Things
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.
.. PRETTY THINGS
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 3 |
Released | February 26, 2021 |
EAN/UPC | 5013929188709 |
Label | GRAPEFRUIT CRSEGBOX087 |
Genre | Rock |
Dimensions | 132 × 134 × 17 mm · 148 g |
Track list
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1. CD
- Pyjamarama - Roxy Music
- Ma-ma-ma Belle - Electric Light Orchestra
- Barbecutie - Sparks
- Joey (Single Version) - Pretty Things
- Tumble with Me - the Hollywood Brats
- Rolling with My Baby (Single Version) - Silverhead
- Teenage Archangel - Be-bop Deluxe
- On the Ball - Streak
- Once Bitten Twice Shy (Album Version) - Ian Hunter
- Kerb Crawler (Single Version) - Hawkwind
- Payroll - Brutus
- Bright Lights - England's Glory
- Andy Warhol - Dana Gillespie
- Blue Movie Star - Rococo
- White Light White Heat - Mick Ronson
- Send Me the Bill for Your Friendship - Duncan Browne
- Powerman - the Kinks
- Up in the Air - Bearded Lady
- The Prettiest Star - Simon Turner
- The Cops Are Coming - Heavy Metal Kids
- Glittery Obituary - Blackfoot Sue
- Street Urchin - Pink Fairies
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2. CD
- Take Me Bak 'ome - Slade
- Little Darling - Thin Lizzy
- Cat's Eyes - Zior
- Satellite of Love - Lou Reed
- Gun - John Cale
- Lady Easy Action - Despair
- Shame Shame Shame - the Hammersmith Gorillas
- B-movie Bedtime (Demo Version) - Doctors of Madness
- Gimme Some Skin - Iggy & the Stooges
- Rat Crawl - Third World War
- Give Yourself a Chance - Agnes Strange
- Chance Meeting - Bryan Ferry
- The Purple Speed Queen - Curved Air
- Earthling - Jobriath
- Big Day - Phil Manzanera Featuring Eno
- Around and Around - Slowload
- Strange Movies - the Troggs
- Rosie's Coming to Town - Rosie
- Queenage Baby - Wayne County
- Sweet Transvestite - Tim Curry
- The Six Teens - Sweet
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3. CD
- Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
- I'm Waiting for the Man - Tina Harvey
- Small Town, Big Adventures - John Howard
- Space Ace - Brett Smiley
- The Dancer - Leo Sayer
- Peaches (What's It All About?) - Richmond
- Going Home - Strawbs
- I Love You for Your Mind (Not Your Body) - a Raincoat
- The Monk - Rupert Hine
- All I Wanna Be - Rusty
- The Browns - Duffy
- Last Chance - the Winkies
- Ragman - Hard Stuff
- Dog Meat - Flamin' Groovies
- Dozy Dora - Bullfrog
- Little Girl - Spiv
- Not Fade Away (Single Version) - Fumble
- High School Dropout - Crushed Butler
- Dodgem Dude (Demo Version) - Michael Moorcock & the Deep Fix
- Hollywood Nites - Kim Fowley
- King of the Night Time World - Hollywood Stars
- The Last of the Teenage Idols - the Sensational Alex Harvey
- Saturday Gigs - Mott the Hoople
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