29 April 2022

Party Like it's 1972

The Edsel label just released a box set (5CDs, 6LPs, or 2LP highlight edition) of T. Rex material entitled 1972.  It includes: The Slider; Live at Wembley: The Mattinee Show (with two previously unreleased mixes from The Evening Show); an expanded Born to Boogie: The Soundtrack Album; Bolan’s U.S. Radio Sessions; T. Rex Christmas Top of the Pops; non-LP B-sides, & the T. Rex Fan Club 1972 flexidisc.

So I've been re-listening to some & listening to much for the first time. Always loved Marc Bolan, who died much too young in a car crash two weeks before his 30th birthday in Barnes, London, 1977.

Here's some folk you probably all know doing their best to honor a swell lad. 

 

 

Various - Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan, Tzadik TZ 7126, 1998.
decryption codes in comments

Children of the Revolution (Arto Lindsay & Marc Ribot)
Telegram Sam (Rebecca Moore)
Get it On (Kramer)
Buick MacKane (Melvins)
Groove a Little (Medeski, Martin, & Wood)
Cosmic Dancer (Lo Galluccio)
Chariot Choogle (Fantomas & Mike Patton)
Ride a White Swan (Tall Dwarfs)
Rip-Off (Chris Cochrane)
Deboraarobed (Gary Lucas)
Mambo Sun (Ezster Balint)
Jeepster (Vernon Reid)
Lunacy's Back (Danny Cohen)
Life's a Gas (Elysian Fields)
Would I Be The One (Sean Lennon & Yuka Honda)
Love Charm (Cake Like)
Scenescof (Trey Spruance)
20th Century Boy (Buckethead)
Romany Soup (Lloyd Cole)
bonus track - Life’s a Gas (Shockabilly)
 
 
 

Children of the Revolution
Telegram Sam
Get it On
Buick MacKane
Groove a Little
Cosmic Dancer
Chariot Choogle
Ride a White Swan
Rip-Off
Deboraarobed
Mambo Sun
Jeepster
Lunacy's Back
Life's a Gas
Would I Be The One
Love Charm
Scenescof
20th Century Boy
Romany Soup

Enjoy,
NØ
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15 comments:

  1. NØ4/29/22, 6:52 PM

    Great Jewish Music
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  2. MrDave4/29/22, 8:54 PM

    Nice! I haven't gotten around to listening to the new box set yet but The Slider is an all time fave of mine. Electric Warrior ain't too shabby either. Thanks for comp of cover versions -- will be interesting to compare those versions with those on the recent Hal Wilner (RIP) tribute album. Cheers!

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  3. NØ4/30/22, 1:20 AM

    I think you'll find the Hal Winer Angelhead a bit more in the "trad musicality" vein with some great name but more mainstream folks. The Tzadik compilation is what I labeled "Experimental glam", a bit more outré I believe.

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  4. Anonymous4/30/22, 4:49 AM

    Great !!

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  5. MrDave4/30/22, 10:24 AM

    There's also some nice tribute comps that were put together by Angelo for his Power Pop Criminals blog last year, one each for The Slider and Electric Warriors:

    The Slider (zippy link on blog still working):
    https://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/2021/08/sliding-high.html

    Electric Warrior (zippy link expired, new link below link to blog post):
    https://powerpopcriminals.blogspot.com/2021/05/critical-acclaim-hit-record-perfect.html
    https://workupload.com/file/dRRJRvxLwGh

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    1. NØ4/30/22, 11:31 PM

      Thanks for the links. Anyone visiting this post will probably be as elated as I am.

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  6. ib4/30/22, 2:13 PM

    Love T.Rex. Many happy returns, brother.

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    1. NØ4/30/22, 11:30 PM

      Lo, the poet & author arises from the deep. Great to hear from you, was just thinking about you yesterday. Belated birthday wishes. Drop me a line sometime & let me know what's the skinny. Love T.Rex.

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  7. Anonymous5/1/22, 6:19 PM

    Bauhau's "Telegram Sam" is not a bad cover either. Cheers

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  8. rev.b5/1/22, 10:21 PM

    Sweet! Nice to have you back.

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  9. Viacomclosedmedown on youtube5/2/22, 8:31 AM

    Love T Rex so thanks and hey, just saw this for the first time as a Marc Bolan fangroup had it posted...check out the 1976 too right after but fourth song is TREX from this 1975 show with other greats! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoM8soRV3Vw

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    1. NØ5/2/22, 11:45 AM

      Mighty scary stuff. Man, '75 England was downright creepy.

      December 25, 1975
      Slade - In for a Penny
      Alvin Stardust - Angel from Hamburger Heaven
      Leo Sayer - Moonlighting
      Marc Bolan - Dreamy Lady
      Linda Lewis - It's in his kiss
      Justin Haywood & John Lodge - Blue Guitar
      Roxy Music - Love is the drug
      Sweet - Action
      David Essex - If I Could
      Kiki Dee - I've got the music in me
      David Essex-Oh Girl
      Mud - L L Lucy
      Bay city rollers - Money Honey

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    2. MrDave5/2/22, 12:09 PM

      Must have been quite a party backstage! Yikes

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    3. MrDave5/2/22, 12:35 PM

      Bolan looks like the illegitimate sex-child of Bobby Conn and (his lovely partner) Julie Pomerleau which I'm sure is exactly what the two of them were going for. Speaking of which, if you have any, I'd love to have it! (I've only got a low bitrate version of "Homeland").

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXev05GHlj0

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    4. NØ5/2/22, 10:53 PM

      Alvin Stardust doing the Gary Glitter thang. Much cocaine, ya think?

      I was going to do a Bobbie Conn post sometime back & I just kept putting it off because he is just soooooo crazzzzzzy. Now that you ask, I think I'll revive it. You asked for it. Bolan's hand-on-thigh action was creeping me out. Bobbie Conn is such a kool nerd that he can pull it off.

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