Best Glam Metal Album????
 

I'm torn between Dr Feelgood and the eponymous D'Molls album... ( I don't class Enuff Z'Nuff as glam for reference)

Any other recommendations?

I loved glam rock in that day.

A few suggestions-

Cherry Pie- Warrant
Slippery when wet- Bon Jovi- ( not sure they count as glam)
Flesh and Blood- Poison
Trixter- Self titled
Cinderalla- Long Cold Winter
Slaughter-Stick it to Ya

Trixter are new for me - I'll try them out. The rest for me are a mixture of good and average... (BTW Cinderella 'Don't Know What You've Got...' won a few awards over here, and is still a personal favourite)

Just in case it's not obvious I've had a couple of beers and the glam rock idea was floated... ;)

Hardline- Double Eclipse

From Wikipedia....

In 1985, the group, intent on securing a recording contract, relocated to Los Angeles. Within 2 years of arriving in Hollywood, D'Molls inked a major recording contract with Atlantic Records and began work on their debut album. While the video for the single, "777," received substantial rotation on MTV, the album, a #2 import in England, failed to chart in the States. The record has been criticized for its feeble studio production that severely failed to capture the band's heavy driving, big bottomed, live sound and raw attack. Despite the album's gutless production, the band still toured the continental US, with Warrant as their support act. While playing in New York City, Atlantic's chairman/founder, Ahmet Ertegün, attended their show and was greatly moved by the band's live performance. He insisted that they immediately stop touring and get back in the studio to make a "real record."

How dare they! A true diamond in the rough.

Am I the only one who draws a big line between glam rock and hairbands/glam metal? I don't put Bowie, Queen and Roxy Music in the same category as Motley Crue, Bon Jovi and Warrant. Maybe I make too fine of a distinction.

That said, I'd say either Ziggy Stardust or For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music but I'm old school and don't like a lot of glam rock.

No, I wouldn't put any of the bands that you mentioned as glam either. One of the joys of this thread is now I'm relistening to the 1st Cinderella album (I only have the 1st three).

Great memories.

Bugger me... Night Songs was 1986. That was quite literally 23 years go. I now feel very very old

Winger - Pull
Extreme - Pornograffitti
Saigon Kick - The Lizard

I love all 3 of these albums, they may be on the outskirts of glam but they all had big hair so I lump them in together.

I've been both delighted and distractd by this train of thought. Not the date to get deep and meaningful about yesteryear. Again, I need to need to listen to the Winger album (unless we're talking about Kip Winger, in which case my enthusiasm is already waning!)

BTW Saigon Kick rocked - just two albums???

I'm going with Skid Row's "Skid Row."

Even though Motley Crue was the best, if someone says Glam Rock, I think the first band in my mind is Poison. "Look What the Cat Dragged In" was a pretty popular album and I guess might be considered the best. I wouldn't but someone could.

Skid Row were cool, but next level up - definitely (for me) not glam. But I agree their songs end 80's early 90's were tough to beat

The only person that has mentioned even one Glam Rock band in this thread as kcchief....All the rest are actually Glam Metal bands. Carry on.


/music nazi

Wow, we had almost the same collection back in the day.

Nobody mentioned any Sweet or Slade albums...for shame !

Pretty Boy Floyd - Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz

Transformer.

Enuff Z Nuff will make you get high on a New Thing.

poison - flesh and blood
crue - dr feel good
skid row - skid row
def lepard - pyromania

T Rex - The Slider.

You werent even a twinkle in your daddy's eye back then so you have no room to comment. ;)

I love everything by Skid Row. One of my favorite bands of all time.

I really liked the lizard also.

BTW I was also a closet Nelson fan.

Mt Rushmore of Glam Rock Albums (Glam rock (also known as glitter rock) is a style that developed in the UK in the post-hippie early 1970s that was "performed by singers and musicians wearing outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots." The flamboyant costumes, and visual styles of glam performers were a campy, theatrical blend of nostalgic references to science fiction and old movies.)

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
A night at the Opera - Queen
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Desolation Boulevard - Sweet


Mt Rushmore of Glam Metal Albums (Glam metal (also known as hair metal) is a term used to describe the visual style of certain heavy metal music bands that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene. It was popular throughout the 1980s and briefly in the early 1990s, combining the flamboyant look of glam rock and playing a power-chord based hard rock musical style.)

Open Up and Say...Ahhh! - Poison
Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue
Pyromania - Def Leppard
Night Songs - Cinderella

STRYPER!!!11!!!!1

While one of Def Leppard's influences was Slade, I don't see Pyromania as a glam rock album at all.

I'll go along with the "glam rock & glam metal are two different things" crowd on this one.

After some review of various candidates, I'd probably go with (in no order)
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
Desolation Boulevard - Sweet
Electric Warrior - T. Rext
Slayed? - Slade

The last slot could very well go to Billion Dollar Babies or Welcome to My Nightmare if I could figure out whether I want to include Alice Cooper in the genre or not.

Fair point - thread title changed.