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The Very Best of T-Rex
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Track Listing
- Telegram Sam
- Metal Guru
- Children Of The Revolution
- Solid Gold Easy Action
- Twentieth Century Boy
- Truck On (Tyke)
- Teenage Dreams
- Light Of Love
- New York City
- London Boys
- I Love To Boogie
- Laser Love
- Lady
- Born To Boogie
- Dandy In The Underworld
- Life's An Elevator
- All Alone
- Celebrate Summer
- Buick Mckane
- Chariot Choogle
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2266 in Music
- Released on: 2006-10-02
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .21 pounds
Customer Reviews
OK, BUT NOT A SATISFYING BOLAN COMPILATION
This is one of the best selling Bolan compilations around, and it's easy to understand why: the packaging is attractive, it's pricey and it includes many of Bolan's best known songs.
However, even if this album includes great T-Rex tracks, my opinion is that it is not the ideal T-Rex compilation, as it only includes tracks recorded between 1972 and 1977. This means that there is no Hot Love, no Get It On, no Jeepster, no Ride A White Swan. Obviously, there is not a single track from Bolan's best original album "Electric Warrior" as it was recorded in 1971.
Note also that the 1973 hit "The Groover" has cheekily been saved for the Vol. 2 that is the companion set to this album. (That album, by the way, is not a "Best of".compilation at all!)
In case you want to buy a T-Rex compilation, this is an OK alternative if you're short of money. My advice is that you get "The Essential Collection" (Polygram) instead.
Born to boogie
I bought this for my daughter-ahemm-on her 11th birthday because of the 'Billy Elliot' effect.
She hummed 'We love to boogie' so much we boughtn this hoping she would play it out but we found ourselves quietly-cough-singing along and knowing more of the words than we expected or were prepared to rpeviously admit we knew.
A good basic compialtion to have in your collection if you like the Seventies-Life on Mars went some way to gettin my husband and I to forgive the terrible wrongs the era did us and the selection is better than you'd think.
Really it needs to be spread over the two albums as there are more hits than you think along with songs you don't know and enough variety that might make you buy some of T-rex's other albums.
All in all a good buy, now we just have to stop her humming Agadoo without buying it and track down the person responsible for playing it to her and punish them harshly..
