Glam rock (also known as glitter rock) is a style of rock and pop music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, which was performed by singers and musicians who wore outrageous clothes, makeup and hairstyles, particularly platform-soled boots and glitter. The flamboyant costumes and visual styles of glam performers were often camp or androgynous, and have been connected with new views of gender roles.
Based in Los Angeles and nudging shoulders with every Sunset Strip wannabe (including Quiet Riot, Rough Cutt, Motley Crue, and Dokken) Cats In Boots found a new path forward by developing a huge following in Japan that quickly manifested into a series of major record companies falling over themselves to get the band to sign on the dotted line.
While it might not end up being Kelowna BC quartet The Wild!, the band certainly plays like they want it. With their debut EP GxDxWxB, they apply their no-bullshit approach to riffing and partying hard, suggesting that they were weaned on a steady diet of Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC, and ZZ Top. But it goes deeper than that.
With a name like Pretty Vacant I thought this was going to be quite a punk sounding CD (punk not being my favorite genre), but Pretty Vacant aren’t especially punk. For sure you can hear some punk influences in songs like “Anything Goes” and “Shoulda Said No” but its more the bouncy, fun side of the punk attitude, mixed in with glam. What Pretty Vacant actually is is more glam rock straight off the Sunset Strip and this particular sleaze rocker likes that!
MUCH NEEDED REISSUE OF THIS EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND 80s-STYLE MELODIC HARD ROCK / SLEAZE / GLAM RELEASE. FEATURES DAVE BELANGER OF FASHION POLICE / PRETTY VACANT. RECOMMENDED TO FANS OF: Pretty Vacant , Sweet Pain , Fashion Police , Tainted Angel , Blue Tiger , Alleycat Scratch , Kinki Stunt ETC…
ALL FANS OF 80s GLAM / SLEAZY HARD ROCK SHOULD RE-DISCOVER THE BUMP N GRIND OF HARLOW AND GRAB YOUR COPY TODAY! THIS IS GREAT STUFF AND VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Year Of Release: 2013
Genre, Style: Hard Rock, Glam
Country: United States
Category: Sleaze Glam
Year: 1986
Label: PVC Or Jem Records
Country:Norway
Released:2001
Genre:Rock Glam
Digitally remastered by John Rivers at Woodbine Studios in Leamington Spa (where the Rag Dolls first session was recorded in November 1982), sleeve and artwork by the man responsible for both Jacobites” and “Robespierre’s Velvet Basement”,