July 20, 2004 | Posted by david at 07:52 PM

like an exploder

T. Rex

I don't know how it took me so long to listen to T. Rex, but it did. I picked up Electric Warrior on a whim last weekend, when I saw it on sale for super-cheap. Damn, it's good! I had only really heard "Bang A Gong", which itself is much better than I remembered. T. Rex was a band in the early seventies fronted by Mr. Marc Bolan, who, if the interview bonus track on the remastered edition of the album is any indication, was a very nice man who liked poetry and his fans. There are some very excellent tracks on here - like "Jeepster" and "Cosmic Dancer", which provided the movie Billy Elliot with a song for its title sequence - but I chose to post Planet Queen because it's very pretty in its own funky way. And it'll be in your head all day. Buy Electric Warrior here.

Comments

ooh!
T. Rex makes me tingle, for real - good choice dave

Posted by: robot blair at July 20, 2004 08:21 PM

You should check out some of T. Rex's early works - they're still T. Rex, but quite different. Less rocking, more hippy.

Posted by: Kate at July 20, 2004 09:01 PM

I thought T. Rex was a '90s band for a while -- sure heard them a lot back then.

Posted by: Scott Sanders at July 20, 2004 09:16 PM

I hated Billy Elliot because they smashed the family piano, that their beloved dead mother used to play, for firewood cuz they were so poor. But why didn't they just sell the piano? It was the 70s.
Its no wonder they were poor.

I Love TRex, esp "The Slider" and "Ride the White Swan"
Only Bob Marley has more shoddy posthumus Best of CDs.

The "20th Century Boy" set is one of the better ones.

Posted by: james at July 21, 2004 08:17 AM

Holy crap, I had no idea this was a T. Rex song.

I've only heard the Holy Cow cover version.. I posted it over here. Holy Cow never quite made it, but I think they roxx. It's a good cover version in that it sounds like any other Holy Cow song. ;)

=darwin!

Posted by: Darwin at July 22, 2004 03:34 AM

Usted habla espaņol

Posted by: Jony at November 4, 2004 01:59 PM
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