I'm trying to understand what differentiates glam rock as an actual genre of music. It seems more like grunge to me in that it was a music scene because all the glam rock acts I've listened to don't sound anything like each other.
I'm trying to understand what differentiates glam rock as an actual genre of music...
Charles Phillips
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Evan Taylor
glam rock in general is more of a general approach to showmanship and marketing, it's neither a scene nor a cohesive genre.
However, a lot of it features groovy songwriting and decadent male vocals that can be traced back either to Bowie or to Elvis.
Julian Lee
You're not suggesting that Glam Rock musicians were all pedophiles are you user?
Nicholas Hughes
>genres are only real if they can be identified soundwise!
autism
Glam rock and glam metal is just pop metal that has short, simple song structure usually relating to an aesthetic of sex and partying
Elijah Robinson
Glam Rock =/= Glam Metal
Dylan Lewis
To me, glam rock consists of two artists: David Bowie and Marc Bolan, and just refers to their general combination of androgyny/starchild/fuzzed-out guitars.
Roxy Music is more art rock, New York Dolls are proto-punk, Gary Glitter is a joke, Lou Reed mimicked it for a laugh, and Alice Cooper is something else entirely.
Jackson Stewart
Glam rock is vague musically, but glam metal has very distinct musical qualities such as:
-nasal high-pitched shouts with a twangy delivery
-blues song structures
-more focus on the bassline
-very groovy mid-paced riffs
-written mostly in pentatonic blues or jazz scales
-reverbed snares
-male choir backing vocals
-lots of power ballads
Noah Moore
listen to Semargl and Ratt back-to-back and you'll immediately see that there's a massive difference between pop metal and glam metal
Christopher Reed
Can't really put it any better than pic related, desu
Brody Thomas
Glam Rock sounds both artsy and popish, with lots of theatrics, lots of folk influence.
They often have kind of pop bubble gum background singing and somewhat complex song structure that is theatric/has different parts of the song to convey different movements/plot parts of the song
themes are often sex, androgyny, spacey shit, consumerism, sleaziness
Easton Ward
Charles Lopez
How the Sparks weren't bigger in the US, I'll never know.
Isaac Gray
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Ryder Brooks
What did he mean by this?
Oliver Gonzalez
Adam Thompson
Discovered these guys way to late in life:
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Xavier Jones
Rate my glam
Luis Perez
all of these are true except
>more focus on the bassline
glam metal bass lines were laughable
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Lincoln Bell
I'm not sure how Patti Smith's Glam, but pretty good selection
Jackson Perry
I wasn't sure where to put her since it sounded more like the artists in the glam scene than the ones later in the punk scene
Levi Watson
yeah they were simple as fuck but they were put forward in the mix and the song was structured around them
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Daniel Moore
Absolutely based.
Xavier Gonzalez
Glam is just rockabilly with makeup.