T.REX – Electric Warrior – 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition:
Glamiversary! Bolan's seminal rocker remastered with B-sides, demos and outtakes...
Electric Warrior – released in September 1971 – is the fundament of glam rock. Falling between T.Rex and The Slider, and released in September 1971, its achievement is remarkable given that it came almost a full year before the release of Roxy Music and The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust….
T.Rex at this moment still offered the rarefied version of what the next wave (Mud, Sweet, Glitter, Slade) would soon convert into hod-carriers’ high camp – rock ’n’ roll for rouged roofers. The secret lay in the time-travelling eclecticism of all three; Bolan had been laundered through the washing machine of successive 60s subcultures, from Mod to psychedelic folk, but already in Tyrannosaurus Rex the nostalgic troubadour impulse had been lavishly embellished with orientalist, rococo degree of pantomime that bordered on kitsch – onyx statuettes glimpsed through aspidistra leaves.
Bolan’s very public friendship with John Peel ensured plenty of radio exposure in the previous years, but he began to cut the DJ dead around now, jumping from the sinking Perfumed Garden/Middle Earth ship and restyling himself as a galactic rock star retooled for the 1970s. Even the ambience of Tony Visconti’s production is very different from the Joe Boyd/John Wood-style sound of folk-rock: Bill Legend’s drums swathed in a claustrophobic flutter-echo; Mickey Finn’s stipplings of congas and bongos; supermarket string arrangements; thong-tight humbucker fuzz from Bolan’s guitars; and his breathy vocal close up to the mic and shorn of its woolliest Tyrannosaurus Rex tics. No longer the clatter of a band in a room, the soundworld of Electric Warrior is an artificial acoustic palace of mirrors, curling smoke and follow-spots.
EXTRAS: This edition includes the more sedate hit “Hot Love”, plus B sides “There Was A Time/Raw Ramp”, and “King Of The Mountain Cometh” and “Woodland Rock”, a smooth fusion of Chuck Berry and backwards-guitar psych. The bonus audio disc is a real treat, containing unheard alternative versions and startlingly intimate home demos recorded by a lone Bolan.
T.REX
Electric Warrior 1971 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
D1 The Original Album, Singles A and B Sides D2 Demos and Outtakes, previously unreleased
2 CDs 2012
Mp3 320Kbps Size: 268 MB
Tracklist:
Electric Warrior Disc 1
01 Mambo Sun.mp3 8 MB 02 Cosmic Dancer.mp3 10 MB 03 Jeepster.mp3 10 MB 04 Monolith.mp3 9 MB 05 Lean Woman Blues.mp3 7 MB 06 Get It On.mp3 10 MB 07 Planet Queen.mp3 7 MB 08 Girl.mp3 6 MB 09 The Motivator.mp3 9 MB 10 Life's a Gas.mp3 5 MB 11 Rip Off.mp3 9 MB 12 There Was a Time-Raw Ramp [-][B-Side].mp3 12 MB 13 Hot Love [-][A-Side].mp3 11 MB 14 Woodland Rock [-][B-Side].mp3 6 MB 15 The King of the Mountain Cometh [-][B-Side].mp3 9 MB
Electric Warrior Disc 2
01 Electric Warrior Poem [Edit][US Radio Promo].mp3 1 MB 02 Mambo Sun [Edit][Instrumental Edit].mp3 9 MB 03 Cosmic Dancer [Mix][Vocal Mix].mp3 10 MB 04 Jeepster [Mix][Vocal Mix].mp3 10 MB 05 Monolith [Version][Working Version].mp3 6 MB 06 Lean Woman Blues [Version][Working Version].mp3 7 MB 07 Get It On [Full Length Version][Version].mp3 13 MB 08 Planet Queen [Version][Working Version].mp3 7 MB 09 Girl [Alternate Take][Alternative Master].mp3 6 MB 10 The Motivator [Version][Working Version].mp3 9 MB 11 Life's a Gas [Version][Working Version].mp3 8 MB 12 Rip Off [Instrumental][Instrumental].mp3 8 MB 13 Raw Ramp [Version][Working Version].mp3 5 MB 14 Electric Boogie [Version][Working Version].mp3 5 MB 15 Untitled (A.k.a. A Lot of Rubbish) [Instrumental] [Studio Outtake] [Ins.mp3 4 MB 16 Honey Don't [Outtake][Studio Outtake].mp3 8 MB 17 Planet Queen [Demo Version][Home Demo].mp3 6 MB 18 Girl [Acoustic Home Demo][Demo Version].mp3 2 MB 19 Jeepster [Demo Version][Home Demo].mp3 6 MB 20 Get It On [Acoustic Home Demo][Demo Version].mp3 8 MB 21 Electric Warrior Poem-Radio Advert [Edit][US Radio Promo].mp3 2 MB
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