Re: T. Rex - Electric Warrior (1971)

by Guest Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:36 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:
my copy dosn't have the poster! I want my poster!

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by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:36 pm

This is a bit more interesting.

by Nightjar Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:37 pm

RIP_OFF!

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:37 pm

Like when Adam Ant shook it up by doing Ant Rap. happy

by Guest Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:37 pm

Nightjar wrote:"Life's a gas,
I hope it's gonna last".

You know what Marc Bolan's last hit was?

bawl

by Guest Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:37 pm

by Nightjar Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:37 pm

There're not a lot of albums with a better sign off than this. box

by Nightjar Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:38 pm

"The President's weird - he's got a burgundy beard!"

by Guest Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:38 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:39 pm

Mad sax.

by Nightjar Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:39 pm

These lyrics deserve a full reprint. box

In the moonlight
Fighting with the night
It's a rip-off
Kissing all the slain
I'm bleeding in the rain
Such a rip-off

Rocking in the nude
I'm feeling such a dude
It's a rip-off
Dancing in the dark
With the tramps in the Park
It's a rip-off
Such a rip-off

See your baby's stud
Sliding in my mud
It's a rip-off
Bleached on the beach
I want to tickle your peach
It's a rip-off
Such a rip-off

See the girl in dance
In her man-skin pants
Such a rip-off
Terraplane Tommy
Wants to bang your gong
It's a rip-off
Such a rip-off

Gypsy girl's good
People treat her like a fool
It's a rip-off
The President's weird
He's got burgundy beard
It's a rip-off
Such a rip-off

I'm the King of the highway
I'm the Queen of the hop
You should see me
At the Governor's ball
Doing the rip-off bop

I'm a social person
I'm the creature in disguise
There's a man with a whip
On his silver lip
Living inside my eyes

I'm the cat from the alley
I'm the fleetfoot voodoo man
There's very little that's ever said
All of which I understand

Caught like skunk
In space and time
It's a rip-off
If it's hers
Well it must be mine
It's a rip-off
Such a rip-off

by Guest Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:39 pm

I've just found a copy of this in my ~~iTunes~~ Music library.

by Nightjar Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:40 pm

Wow!

What a record.

by Guest Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:40 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Mad sax.

Ian McDonald of King Crimson and the Ian McDonald Band ft. Ian McDonald

by Guest Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:42 pm

Talking about Ian McDonald can we do this 1968 album soon?

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Never heard it.

by Nightjar Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:42 pm

Despite it's middle-section lull and it's most famous song being played to death it deserves the top accolade. yes

by Guest Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:43 pm

Anyway, Electric Warrior was even better than I remember it.

My one regret was not being into Bolan when I was younger. yes

And I believed the fools who said he was a 'singles' artist.

by Nightjar Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:47 pm

The album starts strongly, builds magically, strongly then falls away into something of a trough for a spell before rallying powerfully and reaching an epic yet perfectly nuanced and impressive crescendo.

You can really the influence on Bowie and the direction he chose to take 'Ziggy' in off the back of Leccy WozzerZ.

by Nightjar Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:49 pm

It's just such fun to listen to.

Bolan is the very man for these dark times.

God bless him.

by Guest Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:52 pm

We could do Bolan's Zip Gun, I've not heard that one. yes

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