T. Rex – Electric Warrior (1971) [MFSL 2020] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

T. Rex – Electric Warrior (1971) [MFSL 2020]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:17 minutes | Scans included | 1,69 GB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 0,98 GB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2209

Electric Warrior is a 1971 album by Marc Bolan’s band T. Rex, their sixth since their debut as Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1968, and their second under the name T. Rex. The album marked a turning point in the band’s sound, dispensing with the folk-oriented music of the group’s previous albums and pioneering a flamboyant, pop-friendly take on electric rock and roll known as glam rock. The album reached number 1 on the UK charts and became the best selling album of 1971. Electric Warrior has since received acclaim as a pivotal release of the glam rock movement.

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T. Rex – Electric Warrior (1971) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011 # UIGY-9502] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

T. Rex – Electric Warrior (1971) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011 # UIGY-9502]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:32 minutes | Scans included | 1,59 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 785 MB

Although it features the beautiful recorder of Leslie Penny and the Chieftains’ Paddy Maloney playing the uilean pipe, Ommadawn didn’t gain Mike Oldfield the success he was looking for – The album was released in the same year as the David Bedford-arranged Orchestral Tubular Bells and nine months after Oldfield picked up a Grammy award for the original Tubular Bells album – The most pleasing attribute of Ommadawn is its incorporation of both African and Irish music in its symphonic rock & roll mainframe – Boosted by a hearty amount of different horns, piano, cello, trumpet, and synthesizer, the album has its moments of rising action, but the whole of Ommadawn fails to keep its lovely segments around long enough, and there are some rather lengthy instances that include bland runs of unvaried music – Another plus is Oldfield’s use of a choir, giving the album a soft, humanistic feel when contrasted against the keyboards or synthesizer – While it does include flashes of Mike Oldfield’s brilliance, the entire album may seem a little anticlimactic when compared to some of his other releases.

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T. Rex – Electric Warrior (1971/2003) MCH SACD ISO

T. Rex – Electric Warrior (1971/2003)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0, 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Run Time: (2.0 / 5.1): 39:16 / 39:46 | 2,33 GB
Scans incl. | US – AM Records

Electric Warrior is the sixth album by British rock group T. Rex, and is widely considered to be one of the quintessential glam rock releases.

Electric Warrior reached number thirty-two in the US; it went to number one for several weeks in the UK, becoming the biggest album of 1971. In 2003 it was ranked number 160 in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album contains two of T. Rex’s most popular songs, “Get It On” and “Jeepster.” In the United States, “Get It On”‘s title was modified to “Bang a Gong (Get It On)” to distinguish it from Chase’s song “Get It On,” which was also released in late 1971. (The printing of the song title “Bang a Gong (Get It On)” on the back cover of original Reprise Records U.S. copies of Electric Warrior is obviously in a different typefont from the surrounding text, with the song’s original title retained when printing the lyrics.) “Get It On” was T. Rex’s biggest single and their only U.S. hit (#10).

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T. Rex – Electric Warrior (1971/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

T. Rex – Electric Warrior (1971/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:16 minutes | 457 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music

The album that essentially kick-started the U.K. glam rock craze, Electric Warrior completes T. Rex’s transformation from hippie folk-rockers into flamboyant avatars of trashy rock & roll. There are a few vestiges of those early days remaining in the acoustic-driven ballads, but Electric Warrior spends most of its time in a swinging, hip-shaking groove powered by Marc Bolan’s warm electric guitar. The music recalls not just the catchy simplicity of early rock & roll, but also the implicit sexuality — except that here, Bolan gleefully hauls it to the surface, singing out loud what was once only communicated through the shimmying beat. He takes obvious delight in turning teenage bubblegum rock into campy sleaze, not to mention filling it with pseudo-psychedelic hippie poetry. In fact, Bolan sounds just as obsessed with the heavens as he does with sex, whether he’s singing about spiritual mysticism or begging a flying saucer to take him away. It’s all done with the same theatrical flair, but Tony Visconti’s spacious, echoing production makes it surprisingly convincing. Still, the real reason Electric Warrior stands the test of time so well — despite its intended disposability — is that it revels so freely in its own absurdity and willful lack of substance. Not taking himself at all seriously, Bolan is free to pursue whatever silly wordplay, cosmic fantasies, or non sequitur imagery he feels like; his abandonment of any pretense to art becomes, ironically, a statement in itself. Bolan’s lack of pomposity, back-to-basics songwriting, and elaborate theatrics went on to influence everything from hard rock to punk to new wave. But in the end, it’s that sense of playfulness, combined with a raft of irresistible hooks, that keeps Electric Warrior such an infectious, invigorating listen today. – Steve Huey

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T. Rex – Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream? (1973) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

T. Rex – Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream? (1973) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:40:09 minutes | 2,39 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edsel

This instalment in the acclaimed ‘Year’ series of the works of Marc Bolan and T. Rex takes in a period of changeduring which Bolan was very active in recording studios in the US and Europe.

This 4CD set includes the “Tanx” and“Zinc Alloy” albums, and the non-album hit singles and their B-sides. CD3 features demos and outtakes from both albums, whilst CD4focuses on Bolan’s forays into soul music, including highlights of the abandoned album he wrote and produced for Sister Pat Hall.

The singles included are Children Of The Revolution, Solid Gold Easy Action, 20th Century Boy, The Groover, Truck On (Tyke) andTeenage Dream.

The 44 page perfect-bound booklet contains a brand new 16,000 word essay by acknowledged Bolan authority Mark Paytress(author of the definitive Bolan biography), detailing Bolan’s life through this eventful period. Also featured are many previously unpublished photos taken by Keith Morris in the course of 1973, as well as ephemera from the era.

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Marc Bolan & T. Rex – Star King (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Marc Bolan & T. Rex – Star King (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:11 minutes | 521 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edsel

Following the success of previous RSD releases Bump ‘n’ Grind and Shadowland, Star King compiles more very rare ‘working’ and ‘master’ versions of T. Rex favourites, including a 12 minute jam of Children Of The Revolution, and one previously unreleased track. All are taken from original master tapes, and all appear on vinyl for the first time.

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Marc Bolan & T.Rex – Born To Boogie (2016) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1

Title: Marc Bolan & T.Rex – Born To Boogie
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Rock, Rockumentary, Concert Film, Glam Rock, Hard Rock, Rock & Roll, Psychedelic Rock
Director: Ringo Starr
Artist: Marc Bolan – Vocals, Guitar; Mickey Finn – Hand Percussion, Congas; Steve Currie – Bass; Bill Legend – Drums; with Ringo Starr and Elton John

Production/Label: Edsel Records/Demon Music Group Ltd.
Duration: 03:15:57
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 26000 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2526 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Audio#2: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1741 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German
Size: 41.87 GB

Captured at the peak of T. Rextasy, ‘Born To Boogie’ is the Ringo Starr-directed 1972 film of the Godfather of Glam, Marc Bolan on Blu-Ray for the first time. Featuring live versions of T. Rex’s greatest hits, recorded at their famous Wembley concerts, the film also includes a legendary jam session with T.Rex joined by Ringo Starr and Elton John, and a mad hatter’s tea party with Catweazle and (Bolan/Bowie producer) Tony Visconti. The package also features the full matinee show as well as several extra features in SD. With new annotation by Mark Paytress and previously unpublished Keith Morris photos, ‘Born To Boogie’ is the ultimate film of Marc Bolan and superstardom in the early 1970s.
Born to Boogie consists of concert footage; recording studio scenes with Ringo Starr and Elton John, filmed at the Apple Studios in Savile Row, London;[citation needed] and various vignettes reminiscent of The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour, shot at Denham and Tittenhurst Park, Sunninghill. The Tea Party sequence was filmed at John Lennon’s estate in the same spots as Lennon’s “Imagine” video was filmed. The actor Geoffrey Bayldon of Catweazle fame was bemused to find that things were not going to plan when he arrived to play his role as a waiter at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Scene. The planned orchestra had to mime as the whole thing had not been planned too well.

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T. Rex – 1972 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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T. Rex – 1972 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 04:27:40 minutes | 2,90 GBGenre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edsel

A year full of T. Rextasy. formed in London in 1967 under the name Tyrannosaurus Rex by Marc Bolan (vocals, guitar) and Steve Peregrin Took (percussion, backing vocals), the band renamed itself T. Rex in 1970. Starting with psychedelic folk, the Brits soon became one of the most famous representatives of glam rock. A special year in the band’s career was 1972, and it is precisely to this year, 50 years later, that the box set “1972” is dedicated. Available on five CDs or six LPs and as a double LP on white vinyl with the highlights, “1972” brings together studio recordings, radio and live recordings by Marc Bolan and T. Rex.
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