I remember seeing them appear together a couple of years before this, when Bowie the warm up act for Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bolan's previous incarnation.
Bolan sucked with that fey, cross-legged elf shit, but Bowie was out promoting The Man Who Sold The World and he was great. posted by PeterMcDermott at 5:36 PM on September 16, 2007
Never actually seen clips of Bolan live, cool. I always loved T. Rex, they just didn't sound like ANYONE else. posted by Aversion Therapy at 5:57 PM on September 16, 2007
Awesome. Had no idea the 80's version was a remake. Should have known better. posted by itchylick at 6:49 PM on September 16, 2007
Is it just me, or is the beginning of Bang a Gong the exact same thing as the beginning of "It's Only Rock And Roll (But I Like It)? Who nicked who? posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 6:51 PM on September 16, 2007
Little known fact about Bolan: he was crap. posted by Henry C. Mabuse at 8:25 PM on September 16, 2007
Decades-old rock debates make me HAWT! posted by telstar at 10:05 PM on September 16, 2007
Little known fact about Bolan: he was crap.
Obvious troll is obvious.
The great thing about the Edsel CD reissues of T Rex stuff is that they are all two-disc sets, with the second discs comprising alternate versions & demos.
I highly recommend Rabbit Fighter (Alternate Slider) and Left Hand Luke (Alternate Tanx). With the production stripped back, you can focus on Bolan's characteristically delightful wordplay. posted by Dr-Baa at 6:52 AM on September 17, 2007
"Who nicked who?"
Common ancestry: Little Queenie by Chuck Berry. More at the wikipedia page for Get It On. posted by kimota at 7:17 AM on September 17, 2007
Yutubez giveth and Prince taketh away. posted by Fupped Duck at 8:55 AM on September 17, 2007
I have loved T.Rex for years. The guitar intro to "20th Century Boy" is wonderfully wicked.
Marc Bolan and co. got it very right with a combination of strange lyrics left over from psydelica (sp?), not so subtle sex in the beat and guitars, and wove it together in a way that no other band of their era did. Many of the 80s hair metal bands attempted to copy Bolan but lacked his deft touch.
Over the years, a wide variety of my friends have come out as Bolan fans, folks one would not expect from their other musical tastes.
Over the last year, I have been playing songs from Metal Guru and 20th Century Boy frequently. 35 years later the songs are a audio delight. posted by msjen at 10:15 AM on September 17, 2007
Wow, I came in here wanting to say that Marc Bolan is probably the coolest Jew since Jesus; that Animal Collective's Sung Tongs was about 50% Unicorn and 50% Brazilian artist Gilberto Gil and that Devendra Banhart has been humping Marc's folkie corpse for all it's worth; that T Rex did more for actual rock in the seventies than most other turds of the decade by essentially rewriting the same two songs over and over; that he made women and men wet their pants with a simple pout; and that he could write the greatest silly--or stupid, whatever--lyrics ever, giving so much emotion to lines like "I danced myself right out the womb" that the story of self-reliance and loneliness becomes perfectly clear (close second in this category: Ozzy). But maybe it's not worth it.
Bolan sucked with that fey, cross-legged elf shit, but Bowie was out promoting The Man Who Sold The World and he was great.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 5:36 PM on September 16 [ +] [ !]
yeah, cuz Bowie ripping him off at every turn with less glamor and granny dresses was much cooler.
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I remember seeing them appear together a couple of years before this, when Bowie the warm up act for Tyrannosaurus Rex, Bolan's previous incarnation.
Bolan sucked with that fey, cross-legged elf shit, but Bowie was out promoting The Man Who Sold The World and he was great.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 5:36 PM on September 16, 2007