Blockbuster: A Glitter Glam Rock Experience

Dave Thompson, January 2000
"Blockbuster" is the ultimate document... the sound of the new paying tribute to the never-grow-old.

Product Description
BLOCKBUSTER

AN ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO 70’S GLAM ROCK

Conspiracy Music has announced the release date of the 70’s glam rock tribute album, Blockbuster, scheduled for retail release on January 30th, 2001. Featuring new tracks from major label recording artists, as well as groundbreaking indie groups, Blockbuster features cover tracks of classic glam songs from David Bowie, Mott The Hoople, Slade, Suzi Quatro, The Sweet, and Gary Glitter.

Executive produced by legendary KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, aka Rodney-On-The-ROQ, Blockbuster includes fifteen exclusive recordings from such groups as The Donnas, OtherStarPeople, Chicks, Dramarama, Nick Heyward, and Cyclefly. Blockbuster also features an exclusive track from members of Hole, Blondie, and The Go-Go’s.

In the spirit of giving new artists a platform, Blockbuster also features up-and-coming indie groups such as The Switchblade Kittens, World Dominatrix, The Fizzy Bangers, Eagle, Sugarfree, Velocette, UK Plc. and Pillbox.

As claimed by music journalist Dave Thompson (Alternative Press, Spin), “Blockbuster is the ultimate document of the impact of those stupendous times, the sound of the new paying tribute to the never-grow old.”

Blockbuster: A Glitter Glam Rock Experience

Tracks:

TUBE TOPS 2000 Rock And Roll-Part 2
OTHERSTARPEOPLESuffragette City
CHICKS I Love You Love Me Love
CYCLEFLY Five Years
UK PLC. Gudbuy TJane
THE FIZZY BANGERS Hell Raiser
EAGLE Dyna-Mite
SUGARFREE Blockbuster
PILLBOX Moonage Daydream
SWITCHBLADE KITTENS Can The Can
WORLD DOMINATRIX Angel Face
VELOCETTE Roll Away The Stone
NICK HEYWARD Hot Love
DRAMARAMA Raw Ramp
THE DONNAS Wig-Wam Bam

Album Description

BLOCKBUSTER

AN ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO 70'S GLAM ROCK

Conspiracy Music has announced the release date of the 70's glam rock tribute album, Blockbuster, scheduled for retail release on January 30th, 2001. Featuring new tracks from major label recording artists, as well as groundbreaking indie groups, Blockbuster features cover tracks of classic glam songs from David Bowie, Mott The Hoople, Slade, Suzi Quatro, The Sweet, and Gary Glitter.

Customer Reviews:

Mama, weer still crazee now!.......2001-03-27

The glitter/glam slam of 1972-75 was perhaps the finest, if not funniest, 15 minutes for prefab teenypop designed specifically to irritate parents and separate children from their allowances. Unlike "Velvet Goldmine," which went overboard on Roxy Music and rock-critic cred, this raucous tribute includes three selections from David Bowie's seminal "Ziggy Stardust," but the spotlight really shines on the interchangeable hit machines that defined the era: the Sweet (before they dropped the "the" and invented Def Leppard, Poison and 1980s glam-metal in general with "Sweet Fanny Adams"), Suzi Quatro, Slade, Mud, Gary Glitter and his Glitter Band, many of whom were masterfully manipulated behind the scenes by songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman (who went on to produce Blondie and the Knack) and producer Mickie Most. The lack of any bonafide stars beyond the Donnas doesn't detract from the giddy sense of the absurd that permeates the proceedings; you can practically hear the bands stomping the floor with their vintage platform shoes as they chew up riff-o-rama tribal nursery rhymes such as "Wig Wam Bam," "Can the Can" and "Gudbuy T'Jane." Toss in a generous helping of T. Rex and Velocette's touching take on Mott the Hoople's elegiac "Roll Away The Stone," and you've got one of the best cover albums in the history of this justifiably-maligned genre. Props to El Lay deejay legend Rodney Bingenheimer, the Dick Clark of glitter, punk, new wave, alternative and everything cool, for godfathering the process and getting it so right.

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