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    Posted: August 19 2005 at 04:48
Tyrannnosaurus Rex - Marc Bolan/Steve Took

Hippie Fairy Folk!
At first, I thought this stuff was really odd, but now for some reason I'm liking it quite a bit. I get Bolan's silly tunes stuck in my head. There's something about that London underground...

What do you all think?
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Points: 1422 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2005 at 05:14
I used to be into Bolan a few years back.  really liked it.  I think it was due to Bolan's voice, but they seem to capture the sound of the era and bottle it.  now whenever you hear the music again, you instantly think back to the 70s.
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Points: 27802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2005 at 09:08
Love T-Rex,Marc Bolan was brilliant.Growing up,besides being into prog and metal,I really liked glam rock and listened to a lot of T Rex.Bolan had a great voice and wrote simple but awesome bluesy rock tunes.It was weird seeing this thread because about 2 weeks ago I listened Electric Warrior and The Slider for the first time in a long while.


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Points: 3928 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2005 at 09:31
The early albums are very patchy to these ears- they can get dull, and the poetry at the end of most of them is hard going for me...
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T.Rex are a great band. Electric Warrior and The Slider are my preferred albums.
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Electric Warrior certainly is one of the great British rock classics.
I have to say too, even though I wasn't even born at the time of Glam Rock, I'm quite enjoying discovering it. A bit of a guilty pleasure, but some great rocking tunes in there!
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I do think that the whole Tyrannnosaurus Rex/T Rex/Bolan experience could be condensed into a nice double CD collection ... the first with the folky hippie tracks, the second with the glam phase ...

because even though it's good stuff, it can get a little too repitetive ... whether it's the acoustic albums ... or the post Slider Glam albums ... I think the Electric Warrior album is awesome though ...

My favourites ...

Tyrannousaurus Rex: Cat Black (The Wizard's Hat), Once Upon The Seas Of Abbysinia, Find A Little Wood, Elemental Child, Strange Orchestras, King Of The Rumbling Spires, Lofty Skies

T Rex: Planet Queen, Get It On (Bang A Gong), Ride A White Swan, Cosmic Dancer, Metal Guru, Ballrooms Of Mars

       and a sigh for days gone by ...
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