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T-Rex: Bolan Boogie

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Label: Fly Records
Released: 1972.04.01
Time:
 45:44
Category: Glam Rock, Psychedelic Folk
Producer(s): Tony Visconti
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.marc-bolan.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Get It On [single A-side; from Electric Warrior] (M.Bolan) - 4:25
[2] Beltane Walk [from T. Rex] (M.Bolan) - 2:20
[3] The King of the Mountain Cometh [single B-side of "Hot Love"] (M.Bolan) - 3:48
[4] Jewel [from T. Rex] (M.Bolan) - 2:48
[5] She Was Born to Be My Unicorn [from Unicorn] (M.Bolan) - 2:32
[6] Dove [from A Beard of Stars] (M.Bolan) - 2:02
[7] Woodland Rock [single B-side of "Hot Love"] (M.Bolan) - 2:25
[8] Ride a White Swan [single A-side] (M.Bolan) - 2:13
[9] Raw Ramp [single B-side of "Get It On"] (M.Bolan) - 5:13
[10] Jeepster [single A-side; from Electric Warrior] (M.Bolan) - 4:08
[11] Fist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart [from A Beard of Stars] (M.Bolan) - 2:41
[12] By the Light of a Magical Moon [single A-side; from A Beard of Stars] (M.Bolan) - 2:46
[13] Summertime Blues [single B-side of "Ride a White Swan"] (E.Cochran/J.Capehart) - 2:40
[14] Hot Love [single A-side] (M.Bolan) - 4:55

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Marc Bolan - Lead Vocals, Guitar
Steve Currie - Bass
Bill Legend - Drums
Steve Peregrin Took - Percussion
Mickey Finn - Percussion

Tony Visconti - Producer
John Hays - Design
Michael Putland - Photography
John Tobler - Liner Notes

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Bolan Boogie is a compilation album by English glam rock act T. Rex. After Marc Bolan had left Fly Records to form his own label distributed through EMI/T. Rex Wax Co, his former label released this "best of" compilation in 1972 with recent single A- and B- sides, many of which had not appeared on previous albums. Also included are songs from the early Tyrannosaurus Rex albums. Bolan Boogie was released in April 1972 by record label Fly. It reached number 1 in the UK Albums Chart.



The first (but certainly not the last) of the compilations issued in the wake of T. Rex's U.K. chart breakthrough, Bolan Boogie was also many of the band's new fans' first chance to acquaint themselves with all that Marc Bolan had done in the past -- a point which the compilers certainly kept in mind. The catalog at their disposal was vast, reaching back to the acoustic birth of Tyrannosaurus Rex. Sensibly, however, Bolan Boogie concentrates on the material that lived up its title -- aside from one cut drawn from 1969's Unicorn, the entire album dated from the arrival of Mickey Finn, and the attendant headlong dive into electricity launched by the Beard of Stars album, and culminating with the epochal Electric Warrior album. Some incontrovertible classics emerge. "Beltane Walk," "The King of the Mountain Cometh," and "Fist Heart Mighty Drawn Dart" prove that Bolan's early flair for myth-weaving had effortlessly survived the move to amplification, while "Jewel" allies that assurance with some of the most gratuitously dirty guitar of the age. "Raw Ramp," a five-minute rock opera buried on the back of "Get It On," too, bristles with dynamism -- it opens gently, lavish strings and sad ballad sweet, pauses for a moment, then returns as a shuffling blues putdown ("you think you're champ, but girl, you ain't nothing but a raw ramp" -- whatever that may be), then concludes with a heads-down electric boogie. Perhaps the crowning glory, however, comes with T. Rex's take on "Summertime Blues," simultaneously the most unexpected track of them all, and the most appropriate one as well -- the ultimate anthem of youth disaffection, from the ultimate symbol of teenaged rebellion. The first new pop idol of the new decade, the first since the Beatles disbanded, Bolan hadn't simply shattered all predictions and preoccupations for the new decade. He had, single-handedly, dragged rock & roll out of a premature grave, then gift-wrapped it back to the kids who needed it most. They'd never have to work late again.

Dave Thompson - All Music Guide
 

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