Electric Warrior

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Have the heard the name T Rex, but have never listened to any of their albums. I was entertained and enjoyed a good portion of this album. Not sure I would call this psychedelic rock, but whatever. Right off the start thought Mambo Sun was a good tune. Not sure what he means when he says his wig's all pooped for you? There were some interesting lyrics throughout this entire album. Other songs I liked were Jeepster, Monolith and Life's a Gas with my favorites being It's a Ripoff (Bleached on the Beach, I want to tickle your peach. Yea, baby!) and Lean Woman Blues. Thought this was a good, entertaining album and I'll take some time to check some of their other stuff. Every now and then he lets out a little "awwww" that reminds me a little of Billy Idol. Can't explain in words, but damn, he made me think of Billy. Least favorite song is Bang a Gong. A remake was made when I was in college, by Power Station. Another song that is pretty good, but overplaying on the radio at the time makes me want to turn off whenever it comes on, to this day. I can see my listening to this entire album again. Thought the good sounds, songs and lyrics outweighed any negatives. A good solid 3 for me 3

The movie Longlegs opens with a title card with the lyrics "You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah Well, you're slim and you're weak You've got the teeth of the hydra upon you You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl" from Bang a Gong (Get It On) off of this album. Not really sure what it had to do with the movie other than part of the movie taking place in the 70's but neverthless, Longlegs is now one of my favorite horror movies. This album on the other hand is also really quite good! It really exemplifies what I love about 70's rock n roll. It never becomes too much. It never outstays its welcome. Really well produced and everyone in the band is clearly playing at top form. It's not anything I've never heard out of 70's rock but it's well done. I don't think it's aged as well as some of their contemporaries like Bowie but that may be partially due to their frontman's death. They may not have had the chance to really take off yet. Anyway, I remember this album selling a lot and I always meant to listen to it. I'm glad I did! 4

3.5 I know this band and album were supposedly super influential on the rock music to come in the decade ahead, and so with that in mind and with a title like “Electric Warrior”, I expected this to be a lot heavier, more in the vein of 20th Century Boy, one of two songs I knew by the band prior. Instead, this was more of a groovy, mellower, and oftentimes acoustic rock record - and I didn’t mind that. In fact, I enjoyed quite a bit of this. That being said, I can’t seem to pinpoint exactly what made this album so influential. It definitely sounds like an album that bridges the gap between the classic rock sound of the 60s and the flashy, flamboyant style of rock to come in the 70s, but I’m not sure exactly what seems to mark that transition here. Maybe it was Marc Bolan’s whole makeup and top hat thing? Anyway, regardless of what’s there to be said about legacy, in outright quality I’d say this is pretty good. I’m not sure anything stood out here as an immediate replayable favorite, but Mambo Sun, Jeepster, Planet Queen, Life’s a Gas, and of course Bang a Gong at least all stood out to me as fun, though their take on blues in Lean Woman Blues was nothing special. While I didn’t love Cosmic Dancer, it’s a hell of a lot better than Morrissey and David Bowie’s take on the song. As a diehard fan of both of those guys, that kind of pains me to say, but if you haven’t heard their version, well… it’s rough. Overall, solid classic rock album that never outstayed its welcome. Hope the next one is just as fun and upbeat!

КОНФЕТА БЛЧХА МУХА. Первый прослушанный альбом перед началом изучения музыки, никогда не пожалею. ДЖИПСТЕП, МАМБО САН, ГЕТ ИТ ОН АХУЙ. Есть немного пианинки, что хорошо дополняет звучание :). 10/10.

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Mambo sun, Cosmic dancer, Get it on

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I wasn't expecting to like this album much. And I didn't really. It was ok. The Slider was a nice surprise though last week. I did actually quite like that one. 2.5/3

Good lord this album is good. I am only familiar with a small amount of glam (Sparks & Bowie, which are both fantastic in their own right) but this showed a less eccentric side of glam which i adored. While some songs don't stand out as much, that doesn't make them bad or anything, they're just standing to some of the best rock songs I've ever heard. It has the insanely crisp and breathy production that I've come to know from Tony Visconti, which is readily apparent on tracks like Mambo Sun, Cosmic Dancer, and Life's a Gas. It hits hard but doesn't feel the need to beat you over the head with maximalism. Bolan's vocals are so smooth and the lyricism is genuinely poetic in its simplicity. Of course, I have to mention Get it On, which despite being played to death still hits as hard as the first time I heard it. The album really knows how to restrain itself so the big moments hit all the harder. Cannot recommend this enough if you are even peripherally interested in glam rock, as it's influence is bleeding out of everything that came after it (Ziggy Stardust especially).

unsurprisingly i liked this a lot

Surprise. I really enjoyed every bit of this, despite my lack of love for Brit pop/rock.

electric warrior contains the t. rex music i know. imagine my surprise discovering that this was their first glam rock album and had only done folk rock before! i hadn't known that t. rex was one of the pioneers of glam rock, either. like other artists early to a genre, they aren't as well known as others--david bowie is easily the most known. but t. rex created "get it on," so we're all winners here. as for the album, a lot of these songs are catchy. good hooks, easy to sing along with, but sometimes not entirely memorable. many songs seem to clump together. a lot of glam rock has to do with stage performance/presence, which doesn't come through the music as much, unless if you're david bowie or alice cooper. but there's some sort of attitude that does come through. i'm hearing some similarities with prince and david bowie, among others, so it's easy to see how influential electric warrior was. 3.5

This was a really solid album! I totally understand why these guys are known for "Get It On", but so much of the rest of their music falls into obscurity, which is too bad. You can tell that this album is a pioneering album among glam rock. It has all of those essential elements, and yet there's still a psychedelic crunchiness to this; it exists somewhere between David Bowie and The Beatles -- the straddling of two decades of sound. I never would have guessed T. Rex to be pioneers in this space, or that this wasn't their original sound. Super enjoyable! 3.5

Singles band. This is their best album but I’m still not convinced outside the singles.

Enjoyable listen, and some classic tracks and guitar work.

Galm rock pretty much perfected. Really need more time with it.

'Bang a Gong (Get It on)' is alright. Dull. 2 / 5 stars.

I love this album. For some reason, on Apple Music, the song 'Jeepster' is not available which is a crime. What is Electric Warrior without Jeepster? Anyway - love it.

Exhibits A and B: "You're built like a car / You got a hubcap diamond star halo" ...and... "Just like a car you're pleasing to behold / I'll call you Jaguar if I may be so bold" ...pretty much sum this album up. Those lyrics are at once wonderful, stupid and nonsensical. It's pure blarney, but of the most addictive kind. And the music? Glam rock, yes, but glancing over its shoulder to the bongo'd-out sounds of Donovan and his ilk. There's a lazy, strolling feel to these songs - the biggies have it, but so does album fodder like 'Planet Queen' and 'Life's a Gas'. Do you like Marc Bolan's elfin bleat? I've lived with this music for a while and find it just another weird facet in this idiosyncratic collection of wigged-out star-bops. Just the ticket.

This one was just o.k. in my book. To be fair, my book is pretty just o.k. to begin with, so it's not like it's in bad company or anything. (In fact, Bad Company's not even in my book.) It was pleasant and made me think of Bowie. I suspect something else is there and I may just need to hear it another few times to find it.

Really great considering where rock was at when they wrote it

Not nearly as interesting as The Slider.

Meh

One of my college favorites and first vinyl purchases. T. Rex is completely underrated in the grand story of rock legends, but I still love Marc Bolan’s ability to move across genres and styles seamlessly. This album holds up, even if gets kind of stale after 6 or 7 tracks.

An offer from The Glamfather I simply can't refuse.

Classic album, a bit generic, but Bang a Gong gets it up to 4 stars by itself

Surprisingly bland, even boring. Never really seen the fuss about Get It On or Jeepster. Disappointing.

groovyy i just wish there was more of an overarching concept

That was a bit of a mess, honestly. Every other track was great. But the in-between tracks were... well, a mess. It legitimately felt like they did it on purpose. Even the production values swung back and forth between great and meh. Bit of a wild ride but overall, it was fun.

Would have been a 2 but then i remembered their hit song half way through the album

The album artwork is like the JUSTICE album. Unfortunately, this isn't even close to being as good as that album. This list has a highly disproportionate amount of rock and rock-adjacent genres. As an album that came out in the '70s, it falls under some of the trappings of most 70's music where they don't know how to end songs. Most of the songs are pretty boring too. "Get it on" is the most popular song on this album and while it is ok it deffinetly sounds like something that would be playing in a rundown bar where the average age is 55 and if you are under that age you are getting hit on by someone at least 20 years older than you and is gives big creep vibes. Needless to say this I am not liking this much at all. It isn't terrible I can see the musicallity of it, and the merrits of it. I wouldn't mind it all that much if it was playing in the background somewhere (most likely a bar as mentioned) but I don't want to liten to more of it if I had to. A strong 2/5

not very good. 2.5 star music, but i had to stop listening before the album was done because i was tired of it, so rounding down to a 2

4/5 I liked T. Rex last time the band popped up, and I liked them this time too! This band sounds like what I imagine when I think "Rock Band." The music is so smooth, and listenable. I really like the singer's voice. Overall just a really good experience.

Started well but faded for me. Seems a little misogynistic and of it's time (which I can forgive) but overall not a bad album. Can't say I'll rush back but I won't cringe in horror at the sheer mention of them either. Win?

My first

Fucking excellent

Não conhecia a banda mas com certeza ja escutado algumas das músicas do álbum, excelente trabalho, guitarra e vocais distintos com músicas que misturam estilos.

A fun, sometimes laidback, listen

Solid classic rock album, with a bit of David Bowie glam, Rolling Stones driving blues, and Hendrix guitar licks. The singing isn’t my favorite and there are some throw away tracks, but it’s overall not bad

Never listened to T.rex before, obviously recognised get it on. Really enjoyed this one, such a cool vibe and for 1971 it’s very impressive, Marc Bolans voice is so cool and uses it really well.

probably a 2.4. some classics, but quite samey a lot of the time

Glam rock just isn’t for me.

Hate to be too harsh on this album, it's good, but it sounds like every other 70s album on here. Having trouble finding distinct differences that make a T.Rex or Curtis Mayfield stand out.

Amazing album!

"Electric Warrior" is the second studio album by English rock band T. Rex and their sixth since since their debut as Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was a turning point away from folk-oriented musuc to flamboyant, pop-friendly glam rock. The album is credited as kick starting the glam-rock craze in the UK and as the first glam-rock album. The lyrics went away from earlier fairy tale to more common rock & roll cliches. Tony Visconti of David Bowie fame was the producer. The album reached No. 1 on the UK charts and was the best selling album of 1971 in the UK. A chunky, grinding, scratchy guitar opens "Mambo Sun." Lead singer and guitarist Marc Bolan with his whispering singing. There is a groove laying a foundation for what I think of classic T. Rex. Maybe about a journey for a girl and/or to find beauty. A little change of pace with the excellent "Cosmic Dancer"... acoustic guitar and strings. Very dreamy and grandiose. Supposedly about reincarnation. What we do know is that Bolan came dancing out of the womb, he danced at 8, he danced at 12...he danced. The drum start and that guitar riff get "Jeepster" going. Another song with a great groove. He's a Jeepster (guy) going to go anywhere for his girl. Side B begins with the glam rock poster child and anthem in "Get It On ( Bang a Gong)." That classic guitar riff. Add a sax. Hey, Rick Wakeman on keyboard. No need to discuss a song meaning here. The album ends with one of the more interesting songs on the album in "Rip Off." This sounds very David Bowie. Also, very busy. It's rockin' and a sax and strings. And then ends in a jazzy fashion. Hmmm! This is a solid album. Visconti adds high-end production as he did on the subsequent and equally great album "The Slider." A glam rock and overall rock classic.

ganz chillig

Not that interesting.

PREFS : TOUT MOINS PREF : RIEN

Not bad...chill 70s vibe

As middle of the road as it gets for me. Bang a Gong is good and I like the guitar sound but the vocals are meh for me.

Great pop album, a fistful of monsters and strong songwriting throughout. His imperial period might have been brief, but it was imperial.

Bang a gong and other songs no one knows about

A pleasant listen. Bang a Gong doesn't sound like a 52 year old song!

Really fun album. I’ve never listened to any of these songs other than the two hits.

People rave about this and I don't know why. It's good and all. It just doesn't blow me away. And I love the power station's "Bang A Gong" more.

All the songs sounds the same in my opinion.

Part of what I like about T.Rex is it's all so economical - there are no wasted notes or superfluous parts. On paper these songs should be bog-standard, basic rock 'n' roll tunes, but between Marc Bolan's breezy vocals, the punchy production, some simple but impactful chord changes and some well deployed strings and horns, they're transformed into something a bit magical. Effortless cool and swagger.

Great album lots of fun!

This one was good! I liked it a lot. There was a song I've heard before but can't remember which. It's been in a bunch of movies.

8/10

7/10. Pretty good. Reminded me of Ziggy Stardust in parts, but not nearly as good overall.

A bit better than The Slider since I like Bang a Gong and Mambo Sun. 7/10

Truly awesome glam pop. So many of these are ear worms for me.

Really like this album. New to me.

Okay, so this was miles better than The Slider on basically all parameters. It still feels slightly like generic late 60s/early 70s psych/glam rock, but the songwriting is solid. 'Mambo Sun' kicks it all of with a pulsating rhythm that is groovy as hell, and 'Cosmic Dancer' is a great tune. Of course, 'Get It On' is a stone cold classic. It sounds formulaic but mainly because it somewhat defined the formula.

Peak Marc Bolan. Even better than the follow-up, The Slider, containing more than a handful of really great tracks - and then of course the anthem that it “Get It In”. As with most T. Rex records I start to lose interest toward the end as the songs slowly start blending together; simply just an effect of the Bolan signature sound and tempo. I really enjoyed this nonetheless.

Great album. Grabs your attention and doesn't let go.

Not very familiar with this band, but I really like the sound and vibe on this album. Great, easy listening rock music!

Ok but feels like run of the mill classic rock music

Some nice tunes in here

Very forgetable. Gets an extra star for Life's A Gas

Kende deze band alleen qua naam, maar zitten wat nummers bij die eigenlijk wel heel bekend zijn. Klinkt modern voor zijn tijd

Genius. This is the first rock album I ever heard, and I remember it as if it were yesterday. Mambo sun is my all time top T Rex track.

Already heard this one, still bangs. Love the balance of bangers and groovers. Faves: Mambo Sun, Jeepster, Bang a Gong, Girl, Life's a Gas

Love the glam rock - it's a fun listen & Bang a Gong bangs! Very listenable, lots of attitude, love it!

This album kicks ass! Love it. Cosmic Dancer is 10/10. Mambo Sun and Jeepster are 9.5/10. The rest are all just a notch below. Monolith gets an honorable mention too. So good. 9.5/10.

Enjoyed this one but some of the love songs were a little much for me. Really really liked Cosmic Dancer, a brilliant song for the ages.

Never heard of T. Rex before but definitely have heard Get It On. I can see why this album is influential. It has a really cool sound. Have to listen more to really get the lyrics and themes.

4.5

👍🏻👍🏻 7/10

i like it

J’aime beaucoup T. Rex, mais ce n’est pas mon album préféré. Par contre, la chanson Cosmic Dancer est pratiquement un chef-d’œuvre

As one of the most representative acts of the glam rock, T Rex is a charming band and this album is an example of that. I don’t know if it’s the voice delivery or song structures, but each track on the album is special. Even those that use the typical blues formula sound renovated, fresh. Cosmic dancer is one of the songs I would like to be played at my funeral.

Pretty good but why would i listen to this if i could just listen to ziggy stardust

It's hard to believe that a janglified Elliott Smith inspired glam rock, punk, and new wave.

Very pleasing and exciting at the same time, Bolan's smooth vocals and the warm overdriven guitar just sound beautiful together, and the tunes are very good.

felt like a rising dancing sun! joyous, 7/10

7th February 2023 Listened while in the office on a rare Tuesday. Watched Top Gun Maverick with McDonalds when we got home. A slap round the face with a jewel encrusted glove from the glam king. Glorious.

3.5 really

Classic. Reminds me of Billy Elliott which uses the songs a lot.

As someone who isn't typically a fan of psychedelic rock I was pleasantly surprised by this album and will definitely be checking out more T. Rex because this album absolutely slaps. Best tracks: Jeepster, Lean Woman Blues, Girl, Motivator, and Rip Off.

My first memory of T. Rex was in the opening scene of Billy Elliot, where the titular character was jumping in front of a yellow background with Cosmic Dancer playing in the background. A little later, Bang a Gong soundtracked the scene where Billy steals a book whilst the librarian got distracted from a striking laborer. These songs are on Electric Warrior, the album in which T. Rextacy was fully fleshed out. Marc Bolan had all the tools to be a star and he used those tools to completely overhaul the British music scene that was still reeling from The Beatles' breakup and herald a whole new, glammed up era. White swans were rode majestically into the sun as, for a good few years at least, T. Rextacy was in full swing. Life's a gas, indeed!

I'm really surprised by how much I've enjoyed this album. I knew Jeepster and Get It On (obviously), but the latter is a bit of a cliché at this point, so I wasn't expecting much. However, listening to the whole album through I was pretty blown away. Mambo Sun, Cosmic Dancer, Jeepster, Girl, and Life's a Gas are all incredible songs. Definitely deserves all the praise it gets, and even more proof that 1971 was one of the best years for popular music.

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Start to finish, this is awesome. Great variety on this one to keep things interesting. It’s pop, it’s psychedelic, it’s rock, it’s bluesy, it’s fucking great. Marc Bolan is a top tier front man, there’s nothing here I don’t love. It’s an easy 5 from me.

it was okay but not my cup of tea.

Good album.

Highlight: Get It On

Całkiem przyjemne, Get it on najlepsze.

The tiniest Rex

Fun and sexy and funky. There's a reason Bowie was in love with Bolan.

Classic, fun, bouncy rock. Get it on!

2 трека прикольные, в общем не очень

I went back and looked at my review of the last T. Rex. In that review, I admitted my bias having read their story and about their connection to the Beatles. This time, remembering how much I liked that other album maybe got me a little too excited. This album is still great, and of course "Band the Gong" is them (I never knew who sang that song but always loved it). Still, it was a little disappointing based on the high expectations I had for it. That's not their fault. I want to give this a 4 because I think it's deserving. But I also want to give it a 3 because it's not as good as the other one (which I rated a 4). Screw it. Low 4 (not to be confused with the High 4 last time).

Nice energy and much fun!

Very impressive. You can hear glam rock finding a voice track by track. Cosmic Dancer is so hypnotizing, I had to listen a couple more times after the album was done.

This album was just not my cup of tea. I did not like it at all. Bla.

Tony Visconti … strings arrangement and drum sounds Bowie and Bolan 70s flavour Fun to go back to …

Genre: Glam Rock Favorite songs: Mambo sun and Get it on

I really enjoyed the vibe of the music

Didn’t realize how early they formed and released albums.

incredible rock album really special stuff 10/10

Is nice, but not my favorite

Very 70s, but in a good way! There are definite Beatles influences here, some Simon & Garfunkel parallels, and honestly? Get It On (the song that everyone knows) is probably the weakest track on the album. There's an awesome blues number called Lean Woman Blues that absolutely *slaps* and is going into my rotation of liked songs. I'm not sure that I'll come back to this on the reg, but it's definitely re-listenable!

I didn't know much about T. Rex before this 1001 challenge, and the first album I got here disappointed me since they have a nice name and didn't reach my expectations. Now, this is different: A fantastic release with almost every song in the right place, excellent songs, and lyrics...I was fully into the album during the listening...I expected moe of this T. Rex in the list.

Yeah ok

I truly enjoyed this album.....fantastic guitar work.....quite unexpexted...

I like it

Only really knew Get It On because of hearing it on classic rock radio in my dad’s car. The rest of the album is exactly as I expected, middle of the road, simple 70s rock. I do love this album cover, it’s minimalist but exciting in the best way. Good listening overall, I vibe with it.

Thoroughly enjoyed. Early 70s was a golden era of music without a doubt.

I liked this. I've never been a big fan of Get It On but I've recently doing I like a lot of their other music.

This album is the start of like 85% of the cool shit that happened in rock music after 1971. Guitar tone is absolute fire. The raw, back-to-basics sound is filled out with some uniquely odd backing vocals and instrumental flourishes. It’s a fun record. I don’t love every song (Cosmic dancer…) but most every track is a good time.

3.5/5

I'm not a big fan of T. Rex but really enjoyed listening to this album.

I've had a vague interest in T. Rex for a while now, so I'm happy to finally give an album of theirs a listen. I expected to like it, and I did. I was jamming for most of it. I don't like it enough to give it a 5, but it's still a really good album. I wonder if I'd like their other albums. My favourite song was Planet Queen.

It was okay. I really only liked bang a gong. Cosmic Dancer is sooo corny

Really was not a fan of this one. Surprised there was one song I recognized. Chelsea's opinion of Cosmic Dancer was spot on.

Ai että miten voikin olla tyylikkään jytäävää ja silti kevyttä ja swengaavaa samaan aikaan. Oikein hyvä levy. Go Bolan! 4/5

Letkeää ja särmikästä samaan aikaan. Etenkin alkupuoli on upea. Ei minusta tosin kanna ihan loppuun saakka.

Sitä parempaa klassikkorockailua. Sopivasti rouhea, sopivasti letkeä, 4/5

Good album. Glam rock + folk which is a combination I didn’t know I’m into. I’m already familiar with Cosmic Dancer and have it on some playlists. Nice experience listening to this album.

Bang A Gong was the beginning of my hippie awakening as a teen. So fun to hear the rest of this album. I like the vocalist & really did enjoy, but many of the songs sounded the same.

Personal opinion: *The Slider* is T. Rex's best LP. *Another* personal opinion: *Electric Warrior* also deserves to be included in a list of essential listens, and not only because it's this band's most famous album. The varied moods and textures explored on this one mark a milestone in Bolan's trajectory. Plus, it's got "Get It On", the proverbial cream of the cake that makes this record *another* masterpiece. Number of albums left to review: 722 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 136 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 67 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): 76

Glam rock at its best. Mambo Sun starts things with a greasy groovy riff. It's the best song on the album but there is really little drop off and there is not a dud on the album, unless I was being hyper picky and hen I could say I might skip Lean Woman Blues, easily done since it closes side 1. A 5 star album that belongs in every collection.

Oddly enough, I was quite into 'My People Were Fair...' before hearing any T. Rex material aside from 'Get It On' (which I didn't know was T. Rex at the time). Once I learned that Tyrannosaurus Rex became T. Rex, I checked out what I could (before I had a streaming subscription) on Youtube. I was really unimpressed and left it behind. I gave this album another try 10 or so years later, and while I warmed up a bit to it, I didn't get through the whole album. Fast forward to now, and I really love this project because I'm forced to get all the way through albums, for better or for worse. And what do you know...I loved this. I just hopped aboard the groove train for 40 minutes and jumped right back in for more. Such a great mix of rock n roll, blues, soul, with spashes of strings and horns perfectly placed. The low end, which the guitar is often part of, is a precise, chugging, tight foundation straight through the rockers. The ballads have the feel of soundscapes that you get lost in, with Bolan's weird, warbling vibrato floating on top. I love how a lot of this a throwback to early rock n roll, with these songs adding elements that take the sound in a different direction. 'Monolith' is a good example of this with the effected guitar lick over the old style backing ooo-ooo's. An album I've overlooked in the past, I will be coming back to this one.

Like it!! Especially Monolith and Mamba sun but honestly all the songs were good

That's nice

Solid glam fun.

T.Rex are glam rock gods. Some of my favorites are on here, but there are some sleepers too (which are not as great, in my opinion). Overall good album.

Really enjoyed it, pleasantly surprised! Will definitely listen to again.

Not the best album by T Rex but very good.

Im a sucker for this pop, glam 70s style of music, so mambo sun has this record on the right foot. interesting that the next 2 tracks are more downbeat. Bang With A Gong is such a bop. the rest of the album is that sot of midtempo meh.

This was fun and unexpected. A nice combo of rock, blues and funk - reminded me of the bar crawl we did on Beale Street in Memphis back in the day. Bang a Gong plus so much more - good times!

OK, if you are gonna name yourself "T.Rex," name your album "Electric Warrior" and put a badass rock stance silhouette on your cover, I'm going to expect some big, rocking, loud shit. You are not T.Rex, you are not even Allosaurus! You are Stegosaurus, Planteating with strings background Warrior. That's fine. Just be honest with us.

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Some nice rock, definitely easy on the ears. However, I prefer something that goes a little harder.

A lot of mediocre stuff. Lots of it.

Another album that started off enjoyable. This one ended very annoying.

Sounded like a bridge between the Beatles and Bowie

was expecting a load more 70s high pitched shite, but this was much better than that. the production and mixing is really good, there's nothing harsh in there, it's all at the right levels and it goes to show that decent production can improve a non-entity of a track. admittedly this does have some very famous songs on which is nice, but on the whole an enjoyable listen.

This record sounded like my nan scraping sawdust out of her fanny with a rusty spoon. In a good way.

I can't remember. Was probably okay .

Usually I can’t stand “glam rock” but this was really good! I really liked the bluesy feel that spans the whole record.

T3B 1. Bang a Gong (Get It On) 2. Planet Queen 3. Rip Off

first listen classic stuff

Its fine, but kind of a one-note thing. 3/5

Probably T Rex’s finest moment - an album jam packed with hits and floor stompers, slamming into the seventies with glam.

****

Big dumb fun. Bang a Gong was not a fluke—although it is by far the best example of its species. This shares some DNA with Bowie, but it’s all somehow less evolved. I don’t mind the nursery rhyme lyrics, B-minus solos, or caveman drums. You just have to put it on and not think too much.

It's groovy, it's vibey, it's lots of 12 bar blues, it's nothing amazing, but I like it. Dad has this on vinyl and I preferred listening to it drunk on Christmas with tons of dust on the record. But that's nostalgia value for ya

Dull in most places

Very fun album. Not sure I’d call it “good” but I liked listening to it. Good energy but I think it’s more enjoyable in smaller doses.

It's fascinating how this album released so close to the '50s and '60s, because it feels much newer than that. You can hear the influences it takes from rockabilly and old school soul, but it's then infused with modern glam, pop, a little bit of art and progressive rock, and some country. At the end of it, you get a record that sounds both like T. Rex's contemporaries like David Bowie, and newer bands like INXS. Achiveing timelessness like that is always a feat in my book so I enjoyed this a lot. Makes sense that a dinosaur would come up with a classic like this, amazing job Mr. Rex! Favorite tracks: Planet Queen and the surprisingly familiar Get It On

Exceptional album, no skips

An incredible album from start to finish with heart, soul and gripping guitar work

The album is fine. It’s a bit boring and uninteresting. It’s got a good sound overall, but it starts to get samey as the tracks tend to all have the exact same feel and sound. For a full album, it doesn’t hold up, but it makes for decent radio music as you’ll only end up hearing one of the songs anyway. Favorite track: Rip Off

I hear "Bang A Gong" on the radio. And I always confuse it for "Spirit in the Sky" and I'm always disappointed that it's T. Rex. I just don't care for this at all. It feels really bland. Everything about T. Rex feels bland, stale, and past expiration. I'm going to lose it if there's another one on this list.

Dug this! Didn’t know Trex, everything about it suggested it would be cheese city but solid album!

It was good. Didn't seem that special, but I also didn't read about it so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 3/5

First time listening to a T-Rex album all the way through. It seems like a solid proto-Bowie sound and I may well come back to it

People who think this is party music must go to pretty shit parties. Primary school nonsense lyrics and bland "grooves". I'll never get the love for T-Rex. Best Tracks: Mambo Sun; Jeepster; Get It On

Olipas tylsää ja perseestä

10/20/22 Lean lady blues that’s all.

Cool.

actually pretty good proto indie rock 3.5

5/10 not really something great, but it's good background music

Marc Bolan was way ahead of his time and sadly departed way too young. You can hear the imprint of this band and this album in particular on so many bands and genres, I think it still sounds fresh today and songs like Mambo Sun could be released today. Great stuff.

Love the production, love the guitar, love the vocals. It’s just a great sounding record.

Good not great. Between a 3 and a 4

I really enjoyed it, but it was nothing that I would call spectacular. Very good is where I'm at with it, and would gladly listen again.

The cover would indicate a heavier sound, but this album still kicks. It has a mellow charm, that easily ramps up when need be. Distorted guitar followed by clean acoustic like strumming maximizes the feel of this album. The drummer knows how to fill, with quick bursts instead of tiny taps merging parts of songs together. This album must have been “cool” when it came out. Its pretty cool now.

A wonderful band. Lots of great songs. Unique.

Funky and enjoyable, and not just the singles.

I liked this! I've always loved "Bang a Gong (Get it On)," so it was nice having a whole album of similar songs.

Perfect for a Saturday pottering around

I prefered Slider over that one. Interesting listen but did not quite stick with me.

I did not need to hear this before I die.

I like it! I knew one song already, it reminds me of what my mom would listen to.

This kinda left me flat.

never heard - pretty cool 3 stars

Raw and soulful. An absolutely perfect little time capsule of psychadelia-infused blues rock from 1971. Love it.

Very cool hippie rock

I'll probably look back one day and regret giving this a 4 instead of a 3, but it just feels right.

Great record, lots of fun

I'm still playing catch-up but immediately turned around and put this album on again. To me it felt like walking through the Rock & Roll HOF and watching as genres and styles slowly shift and form into something that feels new and unrecognizable on its own but is clearly rooted in the musical past. These guys couldn't have known that a decade later Poison would be doing the 'Unskinny Bop' but here you have some dudes with great hair doing a song about sex with a hard-rocking hook. Sure some of the lyrics here still have that late 60's acid influence, but you can easily look at Sammy Haggar-era Van Halen's 'Love Walks In' and see a clear kindred connection. I mean is this the first hair album? It's all here - sexually charged songs (had to chuckle at the not even a little subtle golden cat/velvet hat lyrics in 'The Motivator'), blues riffs, drug-fueled lyrics - just promote a screaming electric guitar to co-lead vocalist and trade LSD for cocaine and heroine and you've got a rock-solid 80's hair metal album! Overall I didn't think there were any clunkers here. I appreciated the love-lorn desperation of 'Lean Woman Blues' and the laugh-it-off what-could-of-have-beens of its coda 'Life's a Gas'. 'Mambo Sun' was 60's funk fun, 'Cosmic Dancer' felt like vintage psychedelic Bowie (and not even a poor man's version), 'Jeepster' gets your feet tapping with its get-down riffs, 'Monolith' soothed like an acid-fueled lullaby, and 'Rip Off' got grungy as a proto-punk finale. Coming in knowing only 'Get It On' this album really impressed me, enough that I'm looking at the CD on Amazon as I write this - I think it could have a place in the rotation on this long road-trip to Montana I have in a few weeks!

Loved how it opened, was immediately pleased by the energy/taken with it (Mambo Sun). Loved the general vibes / upbeat rhythms. Exactly what I reach for in the morning. Could easily see myself windows down on a road trip blasting this as I speed by cornfields (the next stop on the road trip is near Peoria, Illinois.) Stand outs: Cosmic Dancer, Bang a Gong obviously. Cosmic Dancer felt like Bowie’s Space Oddity.

Interesting album. Apparently it the group was super popular in the UK and Get it On was their only major US hit. I can only recall one song that isn't in my standouts, but I liked those well enough, so I'll say pretty solid overall. Standouts: Cosmic Dancer, Monolith, Get it On, Life's A Gas

All the pomp and pageantry of the glam movement would have been consigned to relative anonymity and/or historical curiosity had Marc Bolan’s songwriting not been so damn good. And it is. An absolute masterpiece which moved rock music forward about twenty years in one fell swoop. Camp and flamboyant without feeling dated, this record attains the timeless status of all classic albums in a genre whose silliness often resists such classification. One of the easiest 5 star ratings I’ll give out.

Much better, grooving, more focused than their debut album.

very good sound, much better than I imagined it to be.

Eh. Recently listen to the Your Fav Band Sucks podcast on this band, so that could be affecting my opinion.

-S Tier- ***n/a*** -A Tier- Mambo Sun Jeepster -B Tier- Bang a Gong (Get It On) -C Tier- Lean Woman Blues Girl The Motivator Rip Off -D Tier- Cosmic Dancer Monolith Planet Queen Life’s a Gas AVG SCORE: 2.09 / 5

It sounds like the happy seventies of flares and top of the pops

Some good tracks and a good sound overall, but I’ve never thought it was a banger.

Firmly rooted in the bluz, this hard glam rock masterpiece ages well.

Not bad, though not much variety. Fun sound though.

Sleazy, starry-eyed fun.

J'en ai marre du rock des années 80 là

In some ways this is more artifice than art, Marc Bolan jumping on a trend. It paid off and there are some stonking tunes on this album.

Pretty good

Interesting enough.

Love me some T. Rex! One of their best. 4 stars.

Enjoyed the album, very reminiscent of my parents when we were really young. Better fuzzy guitar than I remembered, and similar to buzzard buzzard buzzard

Good

Although Bang a Gong was the most popular song on this album by far, there were still a lot of great tracks. They definitely have that late 70's sound that blends funk, rock, and acoustic guitar

Good, not amazing. Very influential, but I prefer what came next

Not too bad

Packaged with songs reminiscent of 1970s Vietnam War-era rock 'n roll, this album–an archetypal byproduct of the British Invasion–presents music that sounds like a mediocre imitation of more noteworthy artists from its decade. Perhaps, I am being ignorant and this is actually the album that inspired the more superior work of subsequent musicians, but even then, Electric Warrior is not so great. My only favorite tune off of this album is \"Cosmic Dancer.\" I acknowledge that if I were a baby boomer, I would most likely rank this album as one of the greatest in the history of rock music, but I have simply been exposed to this type of music too much in the past.

I had no idea this album was so soft. Almost.. too soft. Meh. Enjoyed "The Slider" more.

Beetje veel van het zelfde, maar wel oké

Semi-Ashamed of what i didn’t realize was Marc Bolan influenced. Knew he and Bowie were buds, but never having gotten into T.Rex, didn’t realize that what i love about Siouxsie and Joy Division, and (super red face) the Ramones comes from this guy.

Quite a few good songs on here Mambo Sun is my fav

I never was a fan of glam rock nor the song Bang A Gong. I like some of the songs on this album though. I think I might like the previous incarnation of this band as mystical folkies since that's more my thing and since I do like some things about their sound.

Good.

9.1

Pretty good overall. Great guitar sound and some banger tracks. There is a bit of monotony in the melodys from track to track.

19th of August year 2022

My favorite glam rock album ever, and that's not an understatement considering how much I love Roxy Music and Bowie. In a lot of ways reminds me of what The Clash would do with London Calling. Bolan takes all these different styles, from blues ("Lean Woman Blues"), rockabilly ("Jeepster"), doo-wop ("Monolith"), jazz, baroque pop ("Cosmic Dancer"), gospel ("Bang a Gong"), and folk ("Girl") among others, and twists them to create this unique cool rock style that is kept interesting and exciting in each track. I adore his songwriting style: heart-spoken lyrics sung with confidence and in short segments to this mysterious girl. The highlight is definitely Bolan as the vocalist (even his grunts are awesome) and guitarist (really draws your attention), but there's something unique to love about every track, from the back vocals to the variety of instruments (they use congos, bongos, strings, and even a flugelhorn in "Girl"). The flow is perfect, starting off with really strong tracks, putting their massive hit in the middle, and closing off with the shocking out-of-nowhere proto-punk "Rip Off" featuring Ian McDonald on sax, reminding me of a Kurt Cobain stunt on In Utero. Even the bonus tracks are incredible and worth the listen. (I just wish they didn't put "Planet Queen" again.) It's also super influential for its time. Coming out before even Hunky Dory, this was a style of rock that was like nothing else of the era. This "back-to-basics" approach would influence other glam rock and proto-punk acts that would serve as the inspiration for the whole punk and alt-rock movements. I've once called T Rex the indie rock band from the 70s, and I'll say it again here, cause they really could have released this 25 years later and fit in with the crowd. This is a record I put on often to increase my mood.

This album was an early glam rock statement piece. It features crunchy grooves and was a lot of fun to listen to. Marc Bolan has a very unique sound which makes T Rex instantly recognizable in their post folk glam form. This album influenced everyone Bowie, to the Cure and that reason alone gets it a 5 of 5. But simply put, it’s just a phenomenal album

Relaxte pop-rock-muziek. Ik vind het nummer "Cosmic Dancer" wel heel leuk en "Get It On" kent ook iedereen. De rest van het album is ook goed te luisteren. ****

A fabulous album. Already on my favourite list but always worth a prompt to listen again.

2tracks in..If you told me this was a new louisxiv recording I’d believe you. Slick dogs and ponies was clearly influenced heavily by this track, and trex in general. I only have a greatest hits of trex, and while I let it play I don’t pop it on much, there are some great sounds in here though. I guess like meatloaf the album artwork doesn’t match the music for me. By the end I was a little bored, nice enough with the odd hit, but what feels like filler. Cherry picking tracks for me in future

I quite enjoyed this whole album. While I'd heard one or two songs off it, overall it's got great guitar and rhythm and the vocals were great too.

Funky.

Not bad but not super exciting either. A couple of good tracks.

Penis Music Falls off in the second half, but the first few songs are really really good

Theres a lot of god stuff on here

Le daría 1000 estrellas.

First and foremost, it's got a damn good sound. The album is just a joy to the ears, a pleasure to listen to. 'Get it On' is obviously great, but the whole album feels amazingly packaged. Great guitarwork, great vocals, great production to make everything feel cohesive even when the vibes may be completely different, like when you move from 'Lean Woman Blues' to 'Get it On.' Leaves you wanting more, which is both a good and bad thing. I feel like an album should be a complete experience, with a climax and a resolution, like a story, but there's something to be said about an album that makes you want to listen to it again immediately. And that's the feeling 'Electric Warrior' left me with.

Pretty cool album, I’ll look for more stuff from this band

Vraiment adoré, je vais écouter à nouveau.

Initial impressions - how disappointing. For a band called T-Rex, they certainly don’t have any bite. It’s light rock and roll country styled sound, which is fine, if not a bit forgettable, but I personally did not enjoy the voice of the singer, his voice is not particular distinctive, even weak and dreary at points ‘Get it on’ - the hit song from this album stood head and shoulders above the other songs. ‘Rip off’ is pretty noisy and heavy, a welcome change from the other songs. ‘There was a time’ has some good string accompaniment. The album is well produced, and has a good variety of instruments featured, and for the 1970s, I can see that it’s well regarded - with a different singer, I could have quite enjoyed it, but as it stands I found this album quite a chore to listen to really. 4/10

I love the interview Spotify has with Marc Bolan on this album. He talks about how it's simple and direct. He felt like there wasn't much time to communicate with people; time is fleeting, so let's just get to it. Six years later, he dies in a car crash. It's a very charismatic collection of tunes. I didn't really know many of the songs before this, so it was a real treat to listen to the entire piece.

well paced album that pickups up when it starts to get a little tedious. punctuated with some excellent bops too. 72/100 gecs

I thought I would like this album more since Bang a Gong is such a Banger (pun intended). Sadly, the rest of the album doesn't live up to that track and I found it to be nothing more than decent background listening.

3.4/5. Just ok, a fairly generic rock album. Not bad, just not something I'd listen to again.

Great album, on par with Bowie's Aladdin Sane period.

A quintessential hammock-lounging album. Even though it kicked off the Glam Rock scene, it still has a sound unlike anything else and questions what road Glam could have went down if everyone mellowed out instead of hamming it up.

Not very electronic, but really good

Beat Mambo Sun. Jeepster para Moom. Vocal Monolith. Get It On tem uma boa levada. Hot Love - A Side tem uma levada ótima também. The King of The Mountain tem um turiru tal tal legal.

It was pretty good but not really my type

There were some heaters. Very glam rocky.

Pretty boring. At least to my ears.

Surprising enjoyable. Upbeat and funky.

recording quality stands out. drums are super punchy, really a lot of headroom. great songs, not all the same sounding. sometimes zz top feeling, sometimes pink floyd feeling. guitar tones are chefs kiss.

So bluesy and bouncy! I’ve heard more of the songs than I realized - had Cosmic Dancer & Get It On already. Is is fair to say this album is more music than lyrics? I’m not even sure I could fully explain what I mean by that…but it feels true lol.

Too repetitive

Good instrumentals, loved the blues rock beats in the few songs that had them. The lyrics are repetitive and boring throughout the album as well as oddly confusing. The lyricism was major problem for this album.

Liked: Monolith Lean Woman Blues Girl Production is great

Toch knap gedaan

Die ‘swing’ in de nummers van T.Rex kan mij altijd wel bekoren!

Helemaal niks mis mee, die T.Rex!

God I hate this guy’s voice. The instrumentals save it from bottom marks.

Is this album objectively a perfect record? No, I will admit that. But I don't care, this album came to me nearly a decade ago, right when I was really getting into music and the art of listening to entire albums, and it has stayed with me the whole time. I'm still impressed by certain songs like "Monolith" and "Life's A Gas" and the real emotions I feel listening to them. Not perfect, but to me, it's a damn classic.

Up-close vocals and laid back instrumentation make this effortlessly cool in the way Roxy Music could never pull off. The tracks that don't sound like Bowie are better than the Bowie-esque ones and the album as a whole is yet to be thoroughly mined for 21st Century Hipster Cinema soundtracks.

I love T. Rex and their distinctive vocals and fun beats. Cosmic Dancer and Get It On have been long time favorites of mine. Some of their songs definitely are very similar sounding, but as I enjoy them, I'm going to ignore that!

Bang a Gong is a great song. The rest was enjoyable but not something I'll go back to.

This album is overall an enjoyable album with some cool rock sounds. Nothing outstanding but solid

Bang a gong is amazing. You knew the other songs on this album were by the same band, but without the same magic. It wasn't bad, just nothing else "good".

p252. 1971. 4 stars Fey, but muscular. Absolutely fabulous early 70s glam rock. As with all things Bolan, lyrically suspect, but the riffs and band and production are still fantastic. Some filler, especially on the 2nd side, but if you can't dance to at least one track on this you are officially dead. "Just like a car/You're pleasing to behold/I'll call you Jaguar/If I may be so bold" "Girl I'm just a vampire for your love/And I'm gonna SUCK ya"

They never really hit for me - always seemed to be style over substance

My first exposure to T. Rex was as the weird original version of the Power Station’s awesome “Get It On,” which was very popular when I was in high school. I got to appreciate the T. Rex version more as time went on. I did feel like this was the album you’d get if you just bought it for that song. It sounds about right for the group, but there’s nothing better on it to grab your soul. It’s not unpleasant, but it’s just not obvious to me why it’s on this list.

This one surprised me. I imagined that it would all sound like Bang a Gong, but it kinda didn't....but also, it kinda did....I thought that I kinda liked it.

I didn't hear much that I didn't expect from T. Rex. I love Jeepster even though I don't know what it means exactly.

"Bang a Gong" has been a favorite song of mine for around 40 years. I still love it and have never really been bored by it. I'm sure I've heard a couple of other tunes from them in that time but I sure can't think of any names. None of the other tracks on this album ring any bells. So it looks like this will be largely a new listening experience. I've discovered yet another album worthy of the one hit off it that I'm intimately familiar with. There's a good bit of "Bang a Gong" style music that I really loved ("Mambo Sun", "Jeepster", "The Motivator" to name a few), but the surprise was the presence of a softer side of T-Rex. "Cosmic Dancer" is a string-filled, beautiful song that I fell instantly in love with. "Monolith" marches along accompanied by a lovely choir, while "Life's a Gas" is really touching. Great album!

He's the king of the effortlessly cool guitar riff

Great glam rock

I like this more than The Slider for sure. "Cosmic Dancer" is a classic and "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" is an all time classic. "Monolith" wa a somewhat deep cut on this album that I vibed with and "The Motivator" was the same way. Pretty good album.

The early notes of slacker rock take hold here, each track unhurried but delivered with clear focus and enchanting progressions. This does mean a few tracks last a bit longer than they should (a minute could easily be chopped off most of the tracks here), but the earnest and lyrical storytelling + varied instrumentation mean even the overlong tracks float by enjoyably.

Good rock album but not every song was great.

This is the T. Rex you're looking for. The number of classic albums released in both 1971 (and 1972) is simply staggering. I somehow ran 5 miles while listening to this (in the interest of full disclosure, it was the expanded version, I needed the extra padding those bonus songs provided to get to 5 miles). T. Rex should have soared into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame on this album alone.

I was impressed by Slider, but this one is more dull. Anyway, Cosmic Dancer is a legend.

Reminded me how good Jeepster and Get it on were.

I guess I didn't really understand what Glam rock was but this is the definition. Faves: Get It On, Cosmic Dancer, Jeepster

Glam rock. Un megahit. Vinilo.

Pues muy chulo.

Absolutely loooove this album! The sound of Marc Bolan's voice is so happy to me! Cosmic Dancer is an old favourite and an absolutely beautiful song, I would be absolutely made up if I'd written something that incredible. Get it on is an absolute BOP and this entire album is wonderfully feel-good.

Wonderful album, a classic

Ahh yes more T Rex! I absolutely loved this album and has one of my fave songs of all times 'Life's A Gas' . T Rex makes me feel so nostalgic and almost a bit emotional, I'm not sure why, of a time I wasn't even a part of! Its all just quite light hearted but reminiscent of good times

Again, a very good album that for some reason I've never listened to before.

I feel like I have become out of step with the daily album. I didn't even see this one...

Marc Bolan really was terribly good at what he did.

All the songs I didn't know made me think "Yep, this sounds like a song by the group that did 'Bang a Gong (Get It On)'"

Letkeätä perusrockia melkoisen 60-lukulaisilla soundeilla. Jossain biiseissä stemmoineen ja jousineen tulee hyvin vahvat myöhäisemmän ajan Beatles-vibat. Get it On oli tuttu kappale josta en ole koskaan pitänyt. Valju kokonaiskuva jäi vaikka varsinkin levyn loppupuoli oli jo hieman mielenkiintoisempaa. Kax.

Música animada, pero similar a otras

This was whelming. Apparently it's a radical change from their old folk sound (though multiple track still sound like folk...to give credit though, many do NOT), and it's the first "glam rock" album. Those portions were entertaining from a historical standpoint. Interesting band history, not much more to say but I especially enjoyed the last song.

this was the rock music too

I'm your cosmic dancer, a dancer for galaxys, i'll dance anywhere you want me to dance. Except Mars. I didn't remember to make reservations on the Musk shuttle. Don't really know why, but this kind of appeals to me.

Definitely a bit better than i expected. Channels a lot of a david bowie vibe, with a restrained rock sound that has a good vocal hook. I could pass on Jeepster, but the rest was pretty solid

Best t-rex All the time