Track Listings (20) - Disc #1| All Artists: Various Artists Title: Velvet Tinmine Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: RPM-RETRO Release Date: 5/12/2009 Album Type: Import Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock Styles: Oldies, Glam Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 |
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2009 repackaging of this long out-of-print compilation of obscure Glam Pop nuggets. The album has been unavailable for a period but due to popular demand, it is available again with updated packaging, revised sleeve notes... more » |
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Album Description 2009 repackaging of this long out-of-print compilation of obscure Glam Pop nuggets. The album has been unavailable for a period but due to popular demand, it is available again with updated packaging, revised sleeve notes and four different tracks. With stack-heeled beats, handclaps, tub-thumping, and vamped up Rock 'N' Roll guitars being as popular now as ever, this is a good time to get into Junkshop Glam and the star spandex glories of Velvet Tinmine. 21 tracks including cuts from Tartan Horde (AKA Nick Lowe), The Arrows, Simon Turner, Iron Virgin and many others. RPM. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsFab, baby! 11/08/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "Arguably UK glam rock is the least regarded pop genre to emerge in the last 50 years or so (although UK folk rock might run it a close second) so how bad must be the Brit glam rock records that bombed even when glam was king? The surprising answer, after listening to this cheeky compilation, is actually not bad at all. The line notes are fun, and just the right side of tongue in cheek, to leave you unsure whether this entire project isn't meant as the most collosal joke. And yet, as is pointed out, these bands and tracks do represent some sort of pure pop ideal. They arrived overnight, no agenda, no tedious "development", no slick marketing (no marketing at all in some cases) and a do it yourself philosophy that is pure punk. The sleevenotes also give a scholarly history of glam, and the three "great" glam traditions: art school rock (David Bowie, T Rex, Roxy Music etc), the "Chinnichap" teeny bands (Suzi Quatro, Sweet) and most bizarrely, and disturbingly of all, the "brickies in mascara" phenomenon and the stomping "British West Midlands Sound"(Slade, Mud). Junkshop examples of all three will be found on the compilation. I've always felt that glam rock principally developed to service the needs of the footwear industry. Viz, while wearing stack soles of any height, the wearer soon discovers that only two sorts of dancing are possible: a stepping forward and stepping back dance, and a dance where you stand still and stomp one foot on the ground. Glam tunes are perfect for these moves, but that is about all. I'm also reminded on the comment about the early 18th century "graveyard school" of English poets by Kenneth Clarke to the effect that within a few years of the fashion all possible combinations of owls, ivy and moonlight had been exhausted. Read the same for glam lyrics except substitute "rebels", "revolution" and "school". Overall, enormous fun and great for pricking the pomposity of muso-snob friends" Bubblemetal Powerpop! saddyboy | indianapolis, in United States | 10/23/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "one: hooky! if you're a fan of 60's bubblegum/garage, 70-80 power pop and glam, this is all you...two: just about all the artists are total unknowns in the U.S., ergo, it's like discovering buried treasure...Enjoy!"
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