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T. Rex
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VOL № RR012 — June 2024

T. Rex

T. Rex
Why you'll love it...
This album, a pair of gorgeous, androgynous longhairs with incredible cheekbones on its cover, showed up first. Its songs talked of girls with jewels on their lips riding zebras and a chance encounter with a wizard. The sound was a strange brew concocted from different strains of earlier rock ’n’ roll: some folk, some rock, and an undeniable debt to Eddie Cochran. Marc Bolan’s music, persona, and look were strange, beautiful, and whimsical enough that if you tried to explain his massive popularity to somebody born after the century Bolan lived in, for just shy of 30 years, it would probably sound like a story from eons ago. We know glam came after T. Rex, but it’s also just a skip to the Sex Pistols, Ramones, and more punk from there; it’s also not far from the “post” sounds that came o...
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Label
WEA
Original Release Year
1970
Release Type
Reissue
Format
1 LP
Speed
33 1/3 rpm
Vinyl Size
12 inch
Weight
180 gram
Foil Stamped
Yes
Color
Jewel of Frost
Jacket
Direct-To-Board; Gatefold
Mastering Studio
Sterling Sound
Mastering Engineer
Ryan Smith
Pressing Location
GZ Vinyl
Remastering Details
(AAA) Lacquers Cut From the Master Tapes by Ryan Smith, Sterling Sound
Extras
Listening Notes Booklet by Jason Diamond
LP 1 / Side A
1 The Children Of Rarn
2 Jewel
3 The Visit
4 Childe
5 The Time Of Love Is Now
6 Diamond Meadows
7 Root Of Star
8 Beltane Walk
LP 1 / Side B
1 Is It Love?
2 One Inch Rock
3 Summer Deep
4 Seagull Woman
5 Suneye
6 The Wizard
7 Ride A White Swan
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