Bands Who Have Excellent Songs On Late '70s/Early '80s European K-Tel-Style Compilations

[koganbot]

I Have Never Heard Entire Albums By These Bands Who Have Excellent Songs On Late '70s/Early '80s European K-Tel-Style Compilations

Do any of them have albums worth hearing? The world wants to know, or at least I do.

The "I" who's saying this is chuckeddy. He has a feeling some folks on poptimists might be interested in this and might have input for it too, either there or here. The thread starts with these two compilations, but there are many more lists, contributed by Xhuxk and others, and quite a few YouTube imbeds:

Double Dancing (Record 2) (K-Tel Finland 1983)

GARY LOW "I Want You"
FREEZ "Pop Goes My Love" (have only otherwise heard his/their electro-hop classic "I.O.U." before)
STYLE "Dark Eyes"
BLACK LACE "Superman" (talked dance steps, sounds like an English version of Claudio Chechetto's Italian early '80s "Gioca-Jouer," or maybe the other way around)
CAROLA HĂGGVIST "Hunger"
DAVID GRANT "Love Will Find A Way" (Linx-style early '80s Brit soul I guess?)

― xhuxk, Sunday, 11 January 2009 16:59 (2 days ago) Permalink

Disco Fever (K-Tel U.K. 1977)

BROTHERHOOD OF MAN "Angelo" (Second-tier ABBAs, right?)
MERI WILSON "Telephone Man" (top 20 hit in U.S.!)
SMOKIE "It's Your Life" (superstars in this world, I guess. Lots of hits on lots of these compilations; "Living Next Door To Alice" was their only U.S. top 40)

Comments

Re: duppity dob dee

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

glitter = glitter (he's the source of the term, i suspect)

slade gave thought to albums as collections of songs; sweet not so much

by this token the runaways probably are glam: tho protopunk (uk timing) is a better bet

joan jett in particular came and hung out with the lesser pistols, rats etc -- and her whole career since is neo-glam metalgum hurrah

Re: duppity dob dee

[chuckeddy.livejournal.com]

>slade gave thought to albums as collections of songs; sweet not so much <

But again, they did later in their career, though, right? (At least by the time of *Desolation Boulevard* -- huge at my high school in Michigan by the way, and also a great LP -- if not earlier.)

Re: duppity dob dee

[koganbot]

I'd guess that the term is the source of Gary Glitter's name and not vice versa, as Bolan was already scoring hits and wearing glitter before Gary Glitter had hits. But I really don't know. Wikipedia not a big help in this matter (says that "glam rock" was also known as "glitter rock" and usefully informs us that "Glam fans (usually referred to in the contemporary music press as 'glitter kids') and performers distinguished themselves from earth-toned hippie culture with a deliberately 'artificial' look."

Earth-toned hippie culture?

[koganbot]

Glam or Glitter? YOU choose!

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