Solid Gold: The Best of T.Rex [Import]

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Album Description
German compilation loaded with 20 of the group's top hits & recordings. Highlights include, 'Metal Guru', 'Hot Love' (Live), 'Jeepster' (Live), 'Get It On' (Live), 'Telegram Sam' & many others. 1999. Repertoire.

Solid Gold: The Best of T.Rex
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HEREýS THE REAL GOLD!

Very Early Work

La the light of love

Solid Gold: The Best of T.Rex
T. Rex
Manufacturer: Repertoire
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000023XR9
Release Date: 2002-11-21

Telegram Sam
Metal Guru
Children of the Revolution
Solid Gold Easy Action
20th Century Boy
Groover
Truck On (Tyke)
Teenage Dream
Think Zinc
Light of Love
Zip Gun Boogie
New York City
Dreamy Lady
London Boys
I Love to Boogie
Laser Love
Soul of My Suit
Hot Love
Get It On
Jeepster
Ride a White Swan

Album Description

German compilation loaded with 20 of the group's top hits & recordings. Highlights include, 'Metal Guru', 'Hot Love' (Live), 'Jeepster' (Live), 'Get It On' (Live), 'Telegram Sam' & many others. 1999. Repertoire.

Album Details

20 Track Collection from the Band that was the Epitomy of the Glam Movement and It's Late Star Marc Bolan. Includes the Popular Advertising Hit '20th Century Boy' that Many People Are Searching for as Well as a Live Version of their Biggest American Hit 'get it On'.

Customer Reviews:

HEREýS THE REAL GOLD!.......2003-05-20

There's a lot of so-called Best Of T Rex compilations available that is anything but, mostly retreading obscure tracks from the late sixties. This one, titled SOLID GOLD: Best Of Marc Bolan and T Rex, is the real thing. It contains all of their biggest (Telegram Sam, Metal Guru, Solid Gold Easy Action, 20th Century Boy) and not so big hits (Truck On Tyke, Zip Gun Boogie, Laser Love, Children Of The Revolution) plus wonderful live versions of hits like Jeepster, Hot Love and Get It On, Bang A Gong. This last one was also their only Top 40 hit in the USA as far as I know. They were a glam/glitter band, but one with substance. Starting as a trippy hippy folk outfit in the late 60s, the band (basically just Marc Bolan) transformed itself into a snappy rock hit machine and scored massive hits with the soulful Hot Love and Get It On in 1971. Thereafter the hits came fast but they were fast, energetic 3-chord numbers with addictive hooks: Metal Guru, Jeepster etc. Truck On Tyke and Laser love were later hits and had a more melodic flow to their sound. This is a brilliant collection but much as the live versions of Hot Love and Get It On are good, I recommend that fans also get the studio versions of these amazing songs.

Very Early Work.......2003-05-15

This collection includes the very best tracks from the very early period T Rex, before they made the breakthrough in about 1970 and when they were still caught in the hippy-mythology thing, long before their megahit Hot Love. It is fairly interesting British folk-rock from the late 1960s but I think the title is somewhat misleading. The only tracks that really stand out are Debora, Child star and Salamanda Palganda,. Skip this one and get one of the complation that includes Hot Love and Get It On (Bang A Gong).

La the light of love.......1999-08-29

OMG! This is a great album for someone who is just starting to listen to T.rex. From the upbeat "ride the white swan" to the dramitic "teenage dream" This cd will lift u up and just make you jump infront of your mirror and start dancing the "zip gun boogie" cuz baby, u were "born to boogie"!!

Solid Gold Best of

Average customer rating:

Real gold

Solid Gold Best of
Marc & T Rex Bolan
Manufacturer: Msi Music Corp
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002B5UYI
Release Date: 2002-07-16

Customer Reviews:

Real gold.......2007-07-23

There's a lot of so-called Best Of T Rex compilations available that is anything but, mostly retreading obscure tracks from the late sixties. This one, titled SOLID GOLD: Best Of Marc Bolan and T Rex, is the real thing. It contains all of their biggest (Telegram Sam, Metal Guru, Solid Gold Easy Action, 20th Century Boy) and not so big hits (Truck On Tyke, Zip Gun Boogie, Laser Love, Children Of The Revolution) plus wonderful live versions of hits like Jeepster, Hot Love and Get It On, Bang A Gong. This last one was also their only Top 40 hit in the USA as far as I know. They were a glam/glitter band, but one with substance. Starting as a trippy hippy folk outfit in the late 60s, the band (basically just Marc Bolan) transformed itself into a snappy rock hit machine and scored massive hits with the soulful Hot Love and Get It On in 1971. Thereafter the hits came fast but they were fast, energetic 3-chord numbers with addictive hooks: Metal Guru, Jeepster etc. Truck On Tyke and Laser love were later hits and had a more melodic flow to their sound. This is a brilliant collection but much as the live versions of Hot Love and Get It On are good, I recommend that fans also get the studio versions of these amazing songs.

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