OH YEAH!! Ya look like a bunch o' dames....
But what a great tune, huh?
Who cares if "soothing" doesn't rhyme with "grooving". After reading the wikipedia entry on The Sweet and watching this video I can't believe this band wasn't one of the many informing the movie Spinal Tap. That little wink put me in mind of the hilarious "Flower People" tune from Spinal Tap's "psychedelic phase". Fave line from the article: "This dichotomy of bubblegum A-sides and heavy rock B-sides only served to confuse their teenage fan following." We wouldn't want to have rock bands doing anything which would confuse teenagers, now would we?
Glam rock helped set the stage for punk rock, and thus merits appreciation. A world where punk never happened is a grim notion indeed.
ReplyDeleteAndy Nowicki
NY Dolls = good evidence of that. But I think that punk would have happened anyway as a maturing of what a punkologist friend of mine called "60's punk". Music Machine, Troggs -- that kind of stuff. I saw a local band in Eastern PA back in the early 90's called "Creatures of the Golden Dawn" that just ripped my face right off. 2 guit, distorted harmonica, bass, drum and a 25 year time warp. 60's punk.
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