Re: Alvin Stardust - The Untouchable (1973)

by Guest Fri May 01, 2020 9:10 pm

Er... Hmm.

I think I'd give it 3/5, but he's just so likeable, I'm pumping it up to 4****.

Just.

Ever seen the film Stardust? Blimey it's depressing. happy

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri May 01, 2020 9:10 pm

It is over.

That was an insubstantial but likeable album that could have done with more double-tracked guitars, handclaps and sense of menace.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it. Excited

by Guest Fri May 01, 2020 9:11 pm

Nightjar wrote:
WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:It's like it's 50s Rn'R fighting with 70s Glam on every track.

I can respect that.

I'd be happier if Glam came out on top more often.

This

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri May 01, 2020 9:11 pm

I have given it three stars.

by Nightjar Fri May 01, 2020 9:13 pm

I'm not having it.

That was really bad.

There was the single and then it was a joke.

Thinking it was any good is like believing that Terry Wogan's The Floral Dance is a worthy addition to the tradition of folk music.

Bizarre really.

It was almost like a con or fraud perpetuated by Soho spivs on simple '70s teens hung up on (proper) Glam.

Have a hit off the back of Glam and then fill the rest of the album out with lazy, hacked out in one take rock 'n roll/country pseudo-standards.

Shoddy.

Cheap.

by Guest Fri May 01, 2020 9:15 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Hints of Lady Madonna.

Maybe it's an old rock and roll song they both ~~ripped off~~ inspired by?
Lady Madonna ripped-off Humphrey Lyttleton's Bad Penny Blues.

I'll check that out as soon as I've finished this.

Yep.

by Nightjar Fri May 01, 2020 9:17 pm

I feel a sense of 1970s greasy patina has settled over me in the listening of to that album. ugh

Not that that's a bad thing.

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Alvin Stardust - The Untouchable (1973)

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