top ten glam moments somewhere down the line between ten & twenty has to be the mick ronson 'moonage daydream' lead. even more so now, since the DOC channel stopped airing those T REX/Tony Visconti monumental collaboration efforts. https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19530#msg-19530 Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:50:23 -0500 Phorum 5.2.23 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,20064#msg-20064 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,20064#msg-20064
Then, as they pick themselves up and limp home, they may feel free to twirl their Rollie Fingers / Salvadore Dali 'stache and quibble over typographic minutiae until the cows come home. I. don't. care.

Anyone who isn't of the Brassica family knows that it isn't just all music. Otherwise, there would be no need for the Trouser Press, this website, any critic or any opinion.

Anyone who wants to hold hands and sing "Kumbaya" is barking up the wrong tree.

Thank you for playing.

Say "goodnight Gracie."]]> HollowbodyKay Trouser Press Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:19:12 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,20046#msg-20046 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,20046#msg-20046 Deadwood when he continually referred to people he disliked as "hoople heads."

I have no idea if it was a phrase that already existed or if the show writers invented it.]]> breno Trouser Press Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:52:10 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,20044#msg-20044 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,20044#msg-20044 ira Trouser Press Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:54:50 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,20034#msg-20034 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,20034#msg-20034 Now that I've actually typed it, I guess she could have been referring to Orlando Bloom.]]> Aitch Trouser Press Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:29:05 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19991#msg-19991 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19991#msg-19991
Eh, maybe you'd get more joy out of life if you listened to Golden Smog's (appropriately titled) Down by the Old Mainstream...Track #7 is highly recommended.

Life's too short, dude. Seriously.

"Oh. and. BTW. the. every-. word. period. thing. has. been. played. out. since. early. 2007," Jermoe stated. while. curling. his. handlebar. moustache.



Post Edited (04-09-09 22:49)]]> Jermoe Trouser Press Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:47:20 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19990#msg-19990 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19990#msg-19990
What an insipid, colorless world some people are content to wander around in.

To paraphrase Darwin:

"Arrogance? Opinion? These are not just concepts. They are trophies I keep in my den as paperweights!"

Maybe I'm just all riled up because you were so milquetoast about Bolan?

You "rock" after your own fashion and I'll rock after mine.

"Just music? HUMBUG!"

Oh yeah ... folks have been using these for ages. See if it helps:





Post Edited (04-09-09 17:44)]]> HollowbodyKay Trouser Press Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:31:07 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19989#msg-19989 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19989#msg-19989
Close-minded much?

Wait, I know the answer already. Good luck with objectively measuring what's cool.]]> Jermoe Trouser Press Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:06:58 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19945#msg-19945 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19945#msg-19945
Quote

It's really all just music, right?

Frowns like Atahualpa.
Sets drink down on counter.
Brushes back Beethoven hair.
Removes Hubcap Diamond Star Halo.
Says morning prayer to Ra.

Short List of Expressionless Expressions regarding music that leave me mad enough to hunt bear with a stick:

"I just listen to whatever is on the radio."
"Well, if it's good, why haven't I heard of it before?"
"If it isn't popular it must not be very good."
"The new Bon Jovi ROCKS!"

and now I can add:

"It's really all just music, right?"

.
.
.

At least you phrased it as a question. The TRL board is yonder.]]> HollowbodyKay Trouser Press Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:03:45 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19939#msg-19939 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19939#msg-19939
I enjoy Mott the Hoople. And I enjoy Def Leppard. And The Darkness, for that matter. T Rex, not so much.

It's really all just music, right?

It's not like Miley Cyrus saying her favoritest band in the whole world is Radiohead...or is it?]]> Jermoe Trouser Press Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:11:04 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19937#msg-19937 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19937#msg-19937
Where's John Cooper Clarke when you need a pronunciation issue resolved?]]> HollowbodyKay Trouser Press Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:04:46 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19933#msg-19933 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19933#msg-19933
"Though people say we're an unlikely couple
Doris Day, and Mott the Hoople"

What the hell do I know?]]> nosepail Trouser Press Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:35:43 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19930#msg-19930 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19930#msg-19930
Quote

I wonder how many conversations on this board eventually make their way 'round to Mott the Hoople?

.
.
.

All I can ever think is "Mott's The Apple Juice."

... and don't bother dropping their name in any pick-up lines!

"Hey baby. You you still diggin' on Mott The Hoople?"

Wanna come on up and listen to some of my Mott The Hoople bootlegs?"

Is that a Mott The Hoople mirror you're wearing? 'Cause I can I can totally see myself in it!"(???)

I just like saying the name: "Mot-Tha-HOOple!"

FunnyThreadNotion:

"Worst Music-Related Pick-Up Lines Ever."

Real or made-up. I don't care.

"So ... you come to Diamanda Galas shows often?"

Why does that make me laugh? Strange as it might seem to me, it surely has to have happened. I imagine a dinner party composed of supposedly normal people:

"So how did you and Jane meet, John?"

"Oh. The same old thing, y'know? At a Diamanda Galas show."

"Oh? Plague Mass?"

"Yup."

.
.
.

I see that Britney Spears is doing Kohl's catalog work. I wanna see Diamanda do L.L. Bean or Bass Pro Shops! Maybe I will if I can get my photoshop fired up.]]> HollowbodyKay Trouser Press Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:48:04 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19926#msg-19926 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19926#msg-19926
I wonder how many conversations on this board eventually make their way 'round to Mott the Hoople?]]> Michael Toland Trouser Press Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:03:04 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19923#msg-19923 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19923#msg-19923 breno Trouser Press Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:46:43 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19920#msg-19920 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19920#msg-19920
I think Ira was dead on with his description. Maybe that's colored my vision as far as this band is concerned.

Nobody's taking my 69 Eyes bait, I see. Just as well - I gave that band plenty of chances as well, and in any incarnation (hair metal revivalists, goth rockers, the combo of the two they proffered on their most recent album) they're awful.]]> Michael Toland Trouser Press Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:02:54 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19919#msg-19919 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19919#msg-19919
Actually, I'd go ahead and say that on the whole Discover is a decent album, though HBK is correct in pointing out "Kick" as the best of the bunch.

And GLJ performed the useful service of being the subjects of insane devotion and love from Dave Thompson well into the mid-90s in Alternative Press, which alerted me to the fact that I didn't need to spend too much time considering his opinions on things - he was definitely coming from a much different place than I was.]]> breno Trouser Press Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:51:50 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19917#msg-19917 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19917#msg-19917
Quote

Or didn't Gene Loves Jezebel do that already?
.
.
.

Gene Loves Jezebel?

:::cue Crusty The Clown soundbite:::

Wretched bands of the Eighties do vex me!

"Kick" was a halfway decent tune, but not enough to sponge away all of the badness. What the hell was I thinking in high school?]]> HollowbodyKay Trouser Press Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:21:20 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19906#msg-19906 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19906#msg-19906 hoip chiggs Trouser Press Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:15:44 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19905#msg-19905 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19905#msg-19905
What about the Finnish band the 69 Eyes, who combine both approaches?

Or didn't Gene Loves Jezebel do that already?



Post Edited (03-31-09 16:02)]]> Michael Toland Trouser Press Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:01:36 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19904#msg-19904 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19904#msg-19904 10 "Glam Racket" by The Fall. (Just-ahh a moment ago)

09 Friends and I argue for a week over actual gender of Poison (1986).

08 Entire family grooves to Buster Poindexter at sister's high school graduation party. Clueless that he was a New York Doll, or even who the Dolls were. Gayness of Village People also totally missed during drunken "YMCA" sing-a-long (turn of last century).

07 Friend Mike O. gets fearfully f&*ked up and gets incredibly fou-fou haircut from alleged guy who is wearing makeup, frilly blouse, a houndstooth skirt, and a rhinestone "STYLIST" lapel pin (???). Was going for Rowland S. Howard look, but ends up looking like baggy-eyed Steve Shelley in a bad frightwig. "Stylist" is never seen again. (early 90s).

06 Cannot turn on MTV without seeing/hearing "The Glamorous Life" by Sheila E.. Slade also resurfaces about this time. Hah! (1984)

05 Der Bauhaus wedervereinigungen, versagen zu registrieren auf meinem persönlichen Richterskala(1998, 2005).

04 Velvet Goldmine (film) is "ok/so-so" (1998). Jonathan Rhys Meyers will later get role in "Bend It Like Beckham" and inexplicably opt for "ok/so-so" Indian chick over the profanity-inducing beauty of Keira Knightley.

03 Rykodisc reissues "The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars" as swank, two-LP set. Clear vinyl, baby! (Was it really 1990?)

02 Alice Cooper does The Muppet Show (1978).

01 Independent petty kingdom of Glywysing will eventually morph into Glamorgan, Wales (Circa 1091 AD. The rest is history, innit?)

.
.
.

Now to throw gasoline on the fire:

Which is better? The "Post-Kiss / Suckass Hairmetal" branch of the Glam Family tree, or the "Post-Bolan/Bowie gothpop" variety? I think you can all guess where I stand.]]> HollowbodyKay Trouser Press Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:31:40 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19799#msg-19799 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19799#msg-19799
I agree that glam and the rock musical seemed to be a perfect match, but it took until Hedwig & the Angry Inch for it to happen.

Speaking of horrible rock musicals, I watched The Apple over the weekend. Good god. It makes Phantom seem like fuckin' My Fair Lady in comparison. I recommend it just for the experience of seeing a movie into which a ton of money and ambition went, and is still wretched on every level.]]> Michael Toland Trouser Press Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:30:51 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19798#msg-19798 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19798#msg-19798
Didn't Brian DePalma write Phantom of the Paradise? I think he did, but am too lazy to look it up right now.]]> breno Trouser Press Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:17:15 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19791#msg-19791 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19791#msg-19791 Michael Toland Trouser Press Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:30:34 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19785#msg-19785 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19785#msg-19785 The Phantom of the Paradise on one of the movie channels. It wasn't too great of a movie, but it did have an interesting Glam atmosphere to it.]]> breno Trouser Press Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:28:12 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19773#msg-19773 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19773#msg-19773
thanks mike for dredging up this two week old post.
kateria was supposed to say something about either billy idol, rod stewart or john lydon but both of us have been drinking beer from a straw, wathcing the twelve hours of sebring (Fl. hi john!) and throwing chicken on the barbie.

the five CD disk player rages on but we've lost KATHLEEN somewhere along the way (now sleeping to ROD STEWART's Mercury '91 2disk Years).

Beacause no one actually can pass out to that right?]]> STEVE Trouser Press Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:11:26 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19772#msg-19772 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19772#msg-19772 Michael Toland Trouser Press Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:45:11 -0500 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19537#msg-19537 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19537#msg-19537 hoip chiggs Trouser Press Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:04:30 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19532#msg-19532 Re: top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19532#msg-19532
They had bigger singles than that one, but none that packed as much overall pizzazz.

]]> Delvin Trouser Press Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:22:55 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19530#msg-19530 top ten glam moments https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,19530,19530#msg-19530
even more so now, since the DOC channel stopped airing those T REX/Tony Visconti monumental collaboration efforts.]]> STEVE Trouser Press Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:25:45 -0600