Various Artists - Oh! You Pretty Things: Glam Queens & Street Urchins 1970-1976 / Various (CD)

Details: 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.

Tracklist:

1. Pyjamarama – Roxy Music
2. Ma-Ma-Ma Belle – Electric Light Orchestra
3. Barbecutie - Sparks
4. Joey (Single Version) – Pretty Things
5. Tumble With Me – The Hollywood Brats
6. Rolling With My Baby (Single Version) - Silverhead
7. Teenage Archangel – Be-Bop Deluxe
8. On The Ball - Streak
9. Once Bitten Twice Shy
10. (Album Version) – Ian Hunter
11. Kerb Crawler
12. (Single Version) - Hawkwind
13. Payroll - Brutus
14. Bright Lights – England's Glory
15. Andy Warhol – Dana Gillespie
16. Blue Movie Star - Rococo
17. White Light White Heat – Mick Ronson
18. Send Me The Bill For Your Friendship – Duncan Browne
19. Powerman – The Kinks
20. Up In The Air – Bearded Lady
21. The Prettiest Star – Simon Turner
22. The Cops Are Coming –Heavy Metal Kids
23. Glittery Obituary – Blackfoot Sue
24. Street Urchin – Pink Fairies
25. Take Me Bak 'Ome - Slade
26. Little Darling – Thin Lizzy
27. Cat's Eyes - Zior
28. Satellite Of Love – Lou Reed
29. Gun – John Cale
30. Lady Easy Action - Despair
31. Shame Shame Shame – The Hammersmith Gorillas
32. B-Movie Bedtime (Demo Version) – Doctors Of Madness
33. Gimme Some Skin – Iggy ; The Stooges
34. Rat Crawl – Third World War
35. Give Yourself A Chance – Agnes Strange
36. Chance Meeting – Bryan Ferry
37. The Purple Speed Queen – Curved Air
38. Earthling - Jobriath
39. Big Day – Phil Manzanera Featuring Eno
40. Around And Around - Slowload
41. Strange Movies – The Troggs
42. Rosie's Coming To Town - Rosie
43. Queenage Baby – Wayne County
44. Sweet Transvestite – Tim Curry
45. The Six Teens - Sweet
46. Personality Crisis – New York Dolls
47. I'm Waiting For The Man – Tina Harvey
48. Small Town Big Adventures – John Howard
49. Space Ace – Brett Smiley
50. The Dancer – Leo Sayer
51. Peaches (What's It All About?) - Richmond
52. Going Home - Strawbs
53. I Love You For Your Mind (Not Your Body) - A Raincoat
54. The Monk – Rupert Hine
55. All I Wanna Be - Rusty
56. The Browns - Duffy
57. Last Chance – The Winkies
58. Ragman – Hard Stuff
59. Dog Meat – Flamin' Groovies
60. Dozy Dora - Bullfrog
61. Little Girl - Spiv
62. Not Fade Away (Single Version) - Fumble
63. High School Dropout – Crushed Butler
64. Dodgem Dude (Demo Version) – Michael Moorcock ; The Deep Fix
65. Hollywood Nites – Kim Fowley
66. King Of The Night Time World – Hollywood Stars
67. The Last Of The Teenage Idols – The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
68. Saturday Gigs – Mott The Hoople