You've heard Brain Fever on the new Listening To This Week, so now for the long player. Everything Has Led To This brings back so many memories to where music started for me. Glam Rock was when I started to buy music under my own steam.
It was a very Singles led genre, albums largely, in the first instance, singles and a load of covers or tosh. Few ever made an album as consistently great as this. Also, there seems something bizarre about the best UK Glam Rock nowadays coming from the West Coast Of America.
Los Angeles have fashioned something that sounds so 1974, wonderfully so. It has grabbed the best of the genre and produced an album as fun as the singles were from that era. This could be 14 great singles from the time, beautifully done.
The detail is wonderful, hand claps, fade outs, big riffs, memorable singalong choruses and songs as catchy as catchy can be. I half expected them to appear on this week's Top Of The Pops or Lift Off With Ayshea.
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It isn't all Glam, but thankfully most of it is. However, the back end of Punk / beginning of New Wave is celebrated splendidly on Fighting Words. I'm also reminded of the heavier Sweet B Sides on Disappointment and Power Pop is well represented by the likes of Only Lonely Tonight.
There's even Blockbuster sirens on the fast and loud Agree To Disagree. Fats Domino's I'm Alive is obviously a well covered song, but I have never heard it as Power Popped and Glammed Up as here. Albums like this should be treasured, it is an absolute crackerjack of a release.
You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on CD and as a Download.
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