WOW, need this!

Rick A.

Universal Music Catalogue have created Oh Yes We Can Love: A History Of Glam Rock, a new five-CD box set due for release on 28 October 2013.

This 91-track collection charts the life of the genre rather than just focusing on the usual suspects, so although you will find Slade, T Rex, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Roxy Music et al on this set, disc one takes us right back to Noel Coward, Anthony Newley and The Velvet Underground. Later discs include songs by artists such as Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Morrissey and Suede.

The box will come with a 100-page booklet full of rare single sleeves, and an essay by Barney Hoskyns (author of the Glam!, Bowie, Bolan and the Glitter Rock Revolution).


DISC ONE
1. Noel Coward: Mad Dogs And Englishmen
2. Chuck Berry: Around and Around
3. Little Richard: Ooh My Soul
4. Vince Taylor & the Playboys: Brand New Cadillac
5. Max Harris: Gurney Slade
6. Anthony Newley: Bee Bom
7. Billy Fury: Jealousy
8. Howlin’ Wolf: You’ll Be Mine
9. Jacques Brel: Amsterdam
10. The Velvet Underground: I’m Waiting For My Man
11. David Bowie: London Bye Ta-Ta
12. The Stooges: 1969
13. The Kinks: Lola
14. Hot Legs: Neanderthal Man
15. Burundi Steiphenson Black : Burundi Black
16. Curved Air: Back Street Luv
17. Fanny: Charity Ball
18. The Murgatroyd Band: Theme From Magpie
19. Chicory Tip: Son Of My Father
20. T Rex: Hot Love
21. Slade :Coz I Luv You

DISC TWO
1. Mott The Hoople: All The Young Dudes
2. Lou Reed: Walk On the Wild Side
3. Roxy Music: Virginia Plain
4. T Rex: Metal Guru
5. The Osmonds: Crazy Horses
6. Dana Gillespie: Andy Warhol
7. Suzi Quatro: Can The Can
8. New York Dolls: Looking For A Kiss
9. Nazareth: This Flight Tonight
10. Sweet: Ballroom Blitz
11. Cozy Powell: Dance With The Devil
12. David Essex: Rock On
13. Wizzard : Angel Fingers (A Teen Ballad)
14. Elton John: Bennie and the Jets
15. Barry Blue: Dancing On A Saturday Night
16. Alvin Stardust: Ma Coo Ca Choo
17. Lulu: The Man Who Sold The World
18. Mick Ronson: Growing Up And I’m Fine
19. Cockney Rebel: Judy Teen

DISC THREE
1. Sparks: This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us
2. Hello: Tell Him
3. Mud: Tiger Feet
4. Jook : Bish Bash Bosh
5. Bryan Ferry: The ‘In’ Crowd
6. Patti Smith Group: Piss Factory
7. Cockney Rebel: Tumbling Down
8. The Glitter Band: Angel Face
9. Kenny: The Bump
10. The Rubettes: Sugar Baby Love
11. Fox: Only You Can
12. KISS: Rock And Roll All Nite
13. Sailor: A Glass Of Champagne
14. Ian Hunter : Once Bitten Twice Shy
15. Arrows: I Love Rock and Roll
16. Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night

DISC FOUR
1. Blondie: Rip Her To Shreds
2. Be Bop Deluxe: Ships In the Night
3. The Runaways: Cherry Bomb
4. ELO: Rockaria!
5. The Ramones: Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
6. The RAH Band: The Crunch
7. Rock Follies: OK?
8. Ultravox!: RockWrok
9. Ace Frehley: New York Groove
10. Judas Priest: Take On The World
11. Boney M: Rasputin
12. Generation X: Valley Of the Dolls
13. Human League: Rock and Roll Part Two / Nightclubbing
14. Magazine: The Light Pours Out Of Me
15. Adam and the Ants: “Antmusic”
16. Department S : Solid Gold Easy Action
17. Bauhaus: Ziggy Stardust
18. Dead Or Alive: That’s The Way (I Like It)

DISC FIVE
1. Sigue Sigue Sputnik : Love Missile F1-11
2. Hanoi Rocks : Up Around The Bend
3. Sisters Of Mercy: Emma
4. Morrissey: Glamorous Glue
5. Suede: Metal Mickey
6. The Fall: Glam Racket
7. Carter USM: Glam Rock Cops
8. Glam Metal Detectives: Everybody Up
9. Saint Etienne :Star
10. Earl Brutus: The SAS and the Glam That Goes With It
11. Gay Dad: To Earth With Love
12. Marilyn Manson: The Dope Show
13. Pulp: We Are The Boys
14. The Darkness: Growing On Me
15. Goldfrapp: Strict Machine
16. The Ark: Clamour For Glamour
17. Foxy Shazam: Unstoppable

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Interesting set, but other than the fact that Bowie covered Round & Round............. CHUCK BERRY IN A GLAM BOX?????

The absence of Gary Glitter goes without saying, but his backup band makes the cut.

A very inclusive definition of glam. Jacques Brel? Patti Smith? Judas Priest? Boney M? I can see Little Richard being an early influence, but Chuck Berry is indeed puzzling. Nice job of picking post-70s acts though.

I want one.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Brel is also probably because Bowie covered the song. Judas Priest may have fit their definition because Halford is gay?

Now the exclusion of David Werner's Whizz Kid album SUCKS!! And no Alice Cooper (the band)?

Is that Rock Follies song from the TV series, starring Rula Lenska?

And if you've got Dead Or Alive and Sigue Sigue Sputnik, what about Doctor and the Medics?

Does Gene Love Jezebel "Motion Of Love" fit the bill for glam?

The shadow of David Bowie hangs heavy over this set. Still, looks like the compilers could only get access to pre-1969 David Bowie stuff, so that's probably the 1967/8 outtake of "London Bye Ta Ta" released a few years ago, not the more rocking 1970 outtake.

To make up for the lack of Bowie, they've worked in some Bowie-related stuff, some of which obviously belongs here (Mott's "All the Young Dudes", Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"), some of which is lesser known but still pretty great (Lulu doing "The Man Who Sold the World", Dana Gillespie's rocking "Andy Warhol", both written/produced/arranged/performed by Bowie et al), and some of which really doesn't deserve to be here (the so-so "Growing Up and I'm Fine", a throwaway given to Mick Ronson -- forgettable if not written by Bowie).

Since the Spiders covered "Round and Round" for a (fantastic) b-side, that may be why that particularly Chuck Berry track made the list. (And of course, it will also covered by the Rolling Stones, the Animals, etc. -- other good reasons).

The Bowie influence extends even into the "modern" disc, as "Glamorous Glue" was produced by Mick Ronson. A great track, but I bet they would have rather used, say, "I Feel Fine" from BLACK TIE WHITE NOISE...

I've never heard DG's studio Warhol, but I LOVE the live version on the BBC boots.

Once again, Amazon.co.uk is the way to go. Just ordered it for under $50.