Futuristic Dragon [Import] [Limited Edition]
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Futuristic Dragon
T. Rex Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000C3H4SG Release Date: 2006-01-24 |
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The phenomenally popular and influential T.Rex spearheaded the glam-rock movement, a genre owing everything to its quintessential superstar, Marc Bolan. Rivaled only by Bowie, whose own glam period followed in their flamboyant footsteps, Bolan and T.Rex created an incredible vibe and sound whose legacy lives. Driven by primal grooves, effortless hooks, trippy vocals, and deliciously fat guitar riffs, their music was both infused with hippie spirituality and raw sexuality-a rich, ripe, sonic delight both primitive and evolved. While their music defined an era, their irresistible grooves are timeless, and Bolan's later, more experimental tracks, marrying pop genius with creative expansion and proto-punk power, underscore his groundbreaking artistry.Customer Reviews:
Futuristic Dragon Rocks!.......2007-05-14
Underrated Album.......2007-03-18
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Futuristic Dragon
T. Rex Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001EQX Release Date: 1997-03-18 |
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Digitally Remastered Double Disc Edition of the Classic T. Rex Album.Customer Reviews:
marc bolan and his chrome sitar.......2007-01-29
Futuristic Dragon .......2006-09-09
chrome sitar.......2004-10-23
If he'd only waited we would've caught up (really we would).......2004-06-10
Whats really interesting though is not the fact that here we have a bunch of richly textured songs that wail like vampires on heat but rather the way the album draws attention to the fact that a certain set of circumstances acted in concert to doom Bolan and deify his best mate Bowie.
There are remarkable parallels in the careers of Bolan and Bowie, but, where Bowie was arguably calculating and clever, Bolan was, to be frank, a bit of a tosser. Both boys started out markedly influenced by the residues of the hippie 60's with Mark all elfin and trippy and Bowie all folksy and long haired. Good friends it was nevertheless Marc who was undeniably the senior partner. Marc had hits and swooning girls whilst Bowie had 'interesting' potential. Check out the old "Jackie" magazines of the early seventies - Marc's all over them with Bowie making guest appearances. Bowie was cool'ish but that Bolan boy was sex on a stick.
Bolan clearly adored being adored (even if 90 percent of the fans were below the legal age of consent) and enthusiastically courted the media at every opportunity. In practice what this meant was a stretching the truth that only someone with a truly monstrous ego could sustain. He famously claimed to have jammed with Hendrix and taught him how to really wield that axe and that he'd spent three months in the woods in France living with a warlock learning how to cast spells. The truth about the magic is that on a weekend trip to Paris he went home with the juggling waiter who served dinner. Its unclear if he ever actually spent time with Hendrix at all.
None of this would matter were it not for the fact that the music powefully reminds us of the necessity to separate the artist from the art. Marc acted like a complete idiot because he loved the adulation but he equally clearly loved the music and wanted to push it into new territory. But, he'd made his deal with the devil. He got the fame he craved but it was almost entirely dependent on people not yet ready to follow him into a sort of funk soul that in another ten years would sound soooo right.
And on the margins, Bowie watched, learned and understood the importance of timing.
Bowie saw how one album could transform an audiance base and bring it all home. Electric Warrior cut Bolan loose from the earnest student types and gave Marc the swooning high school masses that lapped up his good looks as much as those beautifully crafted songs. Bowie took note and lo and behold we have Ziggy Stardust doing the same trick - but - with a twist. In contrast to Bolan, Bowie cut loose from the teeny boppers and aimed straight for the jugular of the very student types that Bolan had abandoned.
Tanx, and more particularly Futuristic Dragon, reveal Marc carving out a sound that was just quite simply unheard of at the time but who was there to 'get it'. Not the folks that had given Marc his start and if he seriously thought American lovers of funk and soul were going to embrace it delivered by a now pudgy former glam teenybop star from England he was even further away with the fairies than most people thought. Meanwhile, on the margins, Bowie waited.
Bowie, it would seem, genuinely loved Marc and his sound and it comes squarely to the foreground on Station to Station and Young Americans(and just by the by, check out the sax on Tanx and Futuristic Dragon if you miss the days when David actually played). What a difference a few years and and different audiance makes. Bolan is derided as having lost the plot whilst Bowie is lauded as innovative and right on the money.
We'll never know what might have been but the later Marc was clearly well on the way to capturing something unique in the way he melded together boogie, funk, soul, and a Spector'ish wall of sound that none of us had ever heard before. Maybe without what Bowie went on to achieve we wouldn't fully appreciate just what overlooked gems albums like Futuristic Dragon really are - maybe - whats certain is that its hard not to listen to these songs and curse the fates "its a rip off".
This album is better than people rate it!.......2003-12-09
It's more disco and funky but still retains that sort of trashy fun sound that's so loveable on 'Tanx'. I have 16 T-Rex albums which either makes me an expert or just plain crazy (probably both). This is truely his last great album. There are songs from the 1 or 2 albums afterwards, but basically this is the final complete gem of the late Marc Bolan!
The second album 'Dazzling Arrainment' is pretty good as well. Some of the earlier paired down versions of songs on 'Futuristic Dragon' sound just as good as the originals but produced in a much more paired down raw format.
In short: get these songs and listen to them immediately! It's good for you!
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Dazzling Raiment - The Alternate Futuristic Dragon
T. Rex Manufacturer: Edsel Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000011X9 Release Date: 1997-06-24 |
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Futuristic Dragon
T. Rex Manufacturer: Repertoire ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000507KP Release Date: 2003-11-25 |
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Digipak plus 3 bonus tracks.
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Alternate Futuristic Dragon
T.Rex ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000566VL |
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Futuristic Dragon
T. Rex Manufacturer: Japanese Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005L8CB Release Date: 2002-04-23 |
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Japanese exclusive release packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. Originally released in 1976. Includes a poster that measures approx. 14 x 9 inches. 2001 release.Album Details
Japanese limited version featuring an LP style slipcase.
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Futuristic Dragon
T. Rex Manufacturer: Edsel Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000683WH Release Date: 2002-07-16 |
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Digitally Remastered Double Disc Edition of the Classic T. Rex Album.Customer Reviews:
marc bolan and his chrome sitar.......2007-01-29
Futuristic Dragon .......2006-09-09
chrome sitar.......2004-10-23
If he'd only waited we would've caught up (really we would).......2004-06-10
Whats really interesting though is not the fact that here we have a bunch of richly textured songs that wail like vampires on heat but rather the way the album draws attention to the fact that a certain set of circumstances acted in concert to doom Bolan and deify his best mate Bowie.
There are remarkable parallels in the careers of Bolan and Bowie, but, where Bowie was arguably calculating and clever, Bolan was, to be frank, a bit of a tosser. Both boys started out markedly influenced by the residues of the hippie 60's with Mark all elfin and trippy and Bowie all folksy and long haired. Good friends it was nevertheless Marc who was undeniably the senior partner. Marc had hits and swooning girls whilst Bowie had 'interesting' potential. Check out the old "Jackie" magazines of the early seventies - Marc's all over them with Bowie making guest appearances. Bowie was cool'ish but that Bolan boy was sex on a stick.
Bolan clearly adored being adored (even if 90 percent of the fans were below the legal age of consent) and enthusiastically courted the media at every opportunity. In practice what this meant was a stretching the truth that only someone with a truly monstrous ego could sustain. He famously claimed to have jammed with Hendrix and taught him how to really wield that axe and that he'd spent three months in the woods in France living with a warlock learning how to cast spells. The truth about the magic is that on a weekend trip to Paris he went home with the juggling waiter who served dinner. Its unclear if he ever actually spent time with Hendrix at all.
None of this would matter were it not for the fact that the music powefully reminds us of the necessity to separate the artist from the art. Marc acted like a complete idiot because he loved the adulation but he equally clearly loved the music and wanted to push it into new territory. But, he'd made his deal with the devil. He got the fame he craved but it was almost entirely dependent on people not yet ready to follow him into a sort of funk soul that in another ten years would sound soooo right.
And on the margins, Bowie watched, learned and understood the importance of timing.
Bowie saw how one album could transform an audiance base and bring it all home. Electric Warrior cut Bolan loose from the earnest student types and gave Marc the swooning high school masses that lapped up his good looks as much as those beautifully crafted songs. Bowie took note and lo and behold we have Ziggy Stardust doing the same trick - but - with a twist. In contrast to Bolan, Bowie cut loose from the teeny boppers and aimed straight for the jugular of the very student types that Bolan had abandoned.
Tanx, and more particularly Futuristic Dragon, reveal Marc carving out a sound that was just quite simply unheard of at the time but who was there to 'get it'. Not the folks that had given Marc his start and if he seriously thought American lovers of funk and soul were going to embrace it delivered by a now pudgy former glam teenybop star from England he was even further away with the fairies than most people thought. Meanwhile, on the margins, Bowie waited.
Bowie, it would seem, genuinely loved Marc and his sound and it comes squarely to the foreground on Station to Station and Young Americans(and just by the by, check out the sax on Tanx and Futuristic Dragon if you miss the days when David actually played). What a difference a few years and and different audiance makes. Bolan is derided as having lost the plot whilst Bowie is lauded as innovative and right on the money.
We'll never know what might have been but the later Marc was clearly well on the way to capturing something unique in the way he melded together boogie, funk, soul, and a Spector'ish wall of sound that none of us had ever heard before. Maybe without what Bowie went on to achieve we wouldn't fully appreciate just what overlooked gems albums like Futuristic Dragon really are - maybe - whats certain is that its hard not to listen to these songs and curse the fates "its a rip off".
This album is better than people rate it!.......2003-12-09
It's more disco and funky but still retains that sort of trashy fun sound that's so loveable on 'Tanx'. I have 16 T-Rex albums which either makes me an expert or just plain crazy (probably both). This is truely his last great album. There are songs from the 1 or 2 albums afterwards, but basically this is the final complete gem of the late Marc Bolan!
The second album 'Dazzling Arrainment' is pretty good as well. Some of the earlier paired down versions of songs on 'Futuristic Dragon' sound just as good as the originals but produced in a much more paired down raw format.
In short: get these songs and listen to them immediately! It's good for you!
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Taming the Russian Dragon
Manufacturer: Bap ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CADIKC Release Date: 2001-01-16 |
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Futuristic Dragon
T. Rex Manufacturer: Repertoire/Hepcat ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0002B77JO Release Date: 2002-11-08 |
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Prophets, Seers & Sages the Angels of the Ages / Futuristic Dragon
T Rex Manufacturer: CD Maximum ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000JEHZK0 |
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2 albums on 1CD -30 trx total - "Prophets, Seers & Sages ..." - 14 trx & "Futuristic Dragon" - 13 trx + 3 bonus trx. Rare official release made exclusively for Russia, in English. "Prophets, Seers & Sages the Angels of the Ages": 1. Deboraarobed. 2. Stacey Grove. 3. Wind Quartets. 4. Consuela. 5. Trelawney Lawn. 6. Aznageel the Mage. 7. Friends. 8. Salamanda Palaganda. 9. Our Wonderful Brownskin Man. 10. O Harley (The Saltimbaques). 11. Eastern Spell. 12. Travelling Tragition. 13. Juniper Suction. 14. Scenes of Dynasty. "Futuristic Dragon": 1. Futuristic Dragon (Introduction). 2. Jupiter Liar. 3. Chrome Sitar. 4. All Alone. 5. New York City. 6. My Little Baby. 7. Calling All Destroyers. 8. Theme for a Dragon. 9. Sensation Boulevard. 10. Ride My Wheels. 11. Dreamy Lady. 12. Dawn Storm. 13. Casual Agent. Bonus: 1. London Boys. 2. Laser Love. 3. Life's an Elevator.Music:
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