Brilliant Double CD with tracks picked by the Blow Monkey's 'Dr. Roberts'. A terrific selection of T-Rex including some great album tracks to make this a 'personal fan selection' which works really well! As one of our Club Members commented recently when she got it for Rexmas "I have all the tracks, but listening to them in this Double CD meant that I hard some tracks which I haven't heard in ages & when I heard them, I wondered why I hadn't listened to them more often!"

Track Listing

1. Twentieth Century Boy
2. Country Honey
3. Mad Donna
4. Cadillac
5. Mystic Lady
6. Children of the Revolution
7. Free Angel
8. Rapids
9. Spaceball Ricochet
10. Thunderwing
11. Metal Guru
12. Telegram Sam
13. Rabbit Fighter
14. Buick Mackane
15. Baby Boomerang
16. Tenement Lady
17. Electric Slim and the Factory Hen
18. Solid Gold Easy Action
19. Jitterbug Love
20. Ballrooms of Mars
21. Born To Boogie
22. Baby Strange
23. Chariot Choogle
24. The Groover
25. Venus Loon
26. Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream
27. New York City
28. Think Zinc
29. Truck on (Tyke)
30. Broken Hearted Blues
31. Dawn Storm
32. Explosive Mouth
33. Solid Baby
34. All Alone
35. Blackjack
36. Left Hand Luke
37. Sky Church Music
38. Girl in the Thunderbolt Suit
39. Sitting Here
40. I Love To Boogie
41. Light Of Love
42. Satisfaction Pony
43. The Leopards feat Gardenia and the Mighty Slug
44. City Port
45. Pain and Love

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7093 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-23
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .27 pounds

CD Description
'Children Of the Revolution' is a comprehensive collection of the best moments of Marc Bolan and his band of 70s glam rockers, T-Rex. One of the most successful singles bands of all time, Bolan cut a swathe across the decade with his blues-inflected rock 'n' roll hits, many of which are featured onthis collection. Includes the tracks 'Twentieth Century Boy', 'Free Angel' and 'Children Of the Revolution'.

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Customer Reviews

CD Of The Revolution!
What can I say 45 tracks of Marc Bolan & T-Rex for £6!!! If you want a good value for money T-rex bargain and you are unsure what to get. This one has to be it. 20th Century Boy, Born to Boogie and Children.. are all here!

MARC BOLAN A 1970S LATE RETROSPECTIVE
The album title is to say the least misleading.This is a good package generally but, by no means an introduction to Marc bolan.The true introduction lies in the main with the begining of doves.An introduction to TRex see Electric Warrior.This a a overview of the later T Rex .Worth a listen in the main.

Moments of Greatness
This compilation provides a generous selection of songs from the latter half of Marc Bolan's career. It does not include any material from the several albums released in the late sixties, early seventies under the name Tyrannosaurus Rex, which are more psychedelic folk, influenced by Donovan. Then Bolan realized that Donovan wasn't cool anymore and changed to T.Rex and to an electric rockier sound and spent a year and a half or so as the biggest act in Britain. The earlier hits from this period are NOT included here: that is, no Get it on, Hot Love, Jeepster or their breakthrough hit, the insanely infectious Ride a White Swan. Cosmic Dancer is also missing.
What is here is the best from 1972 to Bolan's death in 1977. Starting with the big hits from the second half of their golden period: Children of the Revolution, Twentieth Century Boy, Metal Guru, Telegram Sam and Solid Gold Easy Action. Then the hits dried up but Bolan continued writing to pretty much the same formula: repetitive lyrics that made little sense and simple blues based progressions. T-Rex had one minor hit before Bolan's death with the extremely formulaic, moderately catchy I Love to Boogie. The final two songs on the collection, City Port and Pain and Love, showcase a much more mature sound, definitely among the better songs here.
There are a lot of songs on this collection, some are boring, some are fun, a few are great. It's not ideal as an introduction to Bolan because it misses out on many of his greatest songs. There are a multitude of T-Rex compilations available, some of which include all of the hits. If you get this one, though, you probably have all the late-period Bolan you need(not having the original albums, I can't say for sure, but it feels like enough to me). And it's probably worth the price for Metal Guru and Telegram Sam alone.