Here's a list of some proper Glam Rock as opposed to someone doing a list full of ****ty hair metal and calling it Glam Rock instead.

T. Rex - Electric Warrior
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Framed
New York Dolls - S/T
Kiss - Destroyer
Heavy Metal Kids - S/T
Silverhead - S/T
The Tubes - S/T
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
Mott The Hoople - Mott
Slade - Slayed
Roxy Music - S/T
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
Girl - Sheer Greed
Lords Of The New Church - Method To Our Madness
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Hanoi Rocks - Back To Mystery City
Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock n Roll
The Dogs D'Amour - In The Dynamite Jet Saloon
The Throbs - The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds

feel free to pick any 10 of those

Prog rock

Yes - Close to the edge
Rush - 2112
Genesis - Selling England by the pound
King Crimson - In the court of the crimson king
Pink Floyd -Dark side of the moon
Marillion - Script for a jester's tear
Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn hearts
ELP (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) - Tarkus

That's just off the top of my head. Don't sue me.

^ No Crime of the Century? :(

EDIT: Mind you, I realize how tough choosing only ten is, and you may have considered including it. Just wanted to make sure you hadn't forgotten it.

I mean, at least Marrillion is helping the case for some of my favourite albums.

Yeah that's the problem. I had to come up with ten which would be seen as pretty much indispensable to the genre. Don't see CotC as that to be honest. Great record though!

Guess one of your first choices is made before we even get to the prog rock section! :laughing:

I've randomly decided to write this list first. Will have to go through all that **** before I can finalize it, so **** you.

You better add Japan - Adolescent Sex too.

These are just the preliminary sketches of just a few of the lists I'm working on. Most obviously need to be filled in, all of them need review, and plenty more lists need to be started in the first place. I'm just looking for input at this stage. I'm working on glam rock ATM, and hope to have the battle officially up by Tuesday at the latest. Bear with me, I want to get this moving, but I don't like having half-assed lists that leave off important albums that I end up kicking myself over later.

* I'd have a lot more done, but I've been taking the last few days to transfer a ****load of files from my cloud drive to my new external hard drive, and it's kind of taking up most of my time and bandwidth.



Also, any suggestions of genres I'm leaving out would be appreciated. I've already realized I left ol' school rock'n'roll (e.g. Elvis, Chuck Berry, etc). Considering just how massive a genre rock is, I'm also wondering if I shouldn't include certain movements, like the British Invasion, on their own. I'm already doing krautrock after all (which is just artsy, German prog rock).

@ Urban Thanks for your glam suggestions. It gives me something to smugly point to when people complain about me putting Motley Crue on the same list as Lou Reed. Still making my way through a bunch of those albums though, as they're moderately hard to find.

BTW, I always thought of glam rock as more of an arty thing (Bowie and Roxy Music), but I never knew just how much a lot of it was rooted in straight-up blues. I don't know that I'll use them for glam, but The Sensational Alex Harvey Band could very well find themselves on the blues rock list.

I propose a no wave list.

DNA - DNA on DNA
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks - Everything
The Lounge Lizards - The Lounge Lizards
Swans - Filth
James Chance and the Contortions - Buy
Daisuck & Prostitute ‎– 死ぬまで踊りつづけて
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Massacre - Killing Time
Suicide - Suicide
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire

I'm down, but are Suicide really no wave? They were around almost a decade earlier than any of those groups, and don't really share much in common with them musically. You've left off Confusion Is Sex. And I wouldn't normally use a compilation album, but considering how important it was, I think No New York should definitely be considered. Have to give most of the second half of that list a listen. Not to mention Mars' album. I don't remember how good it was, but it definitely bears revisiting.