Futuristic Dragon [Import] [Limited Edition]

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Album Description
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.

Futuristic Dragon, Music, T Rex, Pop, Rock, Rock/Pop
Futuristic Dragon
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Futuristic Dragon Rocks!
  • Underrated Album
Futuristic Dragon
T. Rex
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000C3H4SG
Release Date: 2006-01-24

Tracks:

  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
  14. London Boys
  15. Laser Love
  16. Life's An Elevator

Tracks:

  1. Futuristic Dragon (Introduction)
  2. Chrome Sitar
  3. All Alone
  4. New York City
  5. My Little Baby
  6. Sensation Boulevard
  7. Dreamy Lady
  8. Dawn Storm
  9. Casual Agent
  10. London Boys
  11. Life's An Elevator
  12. Futuristic Drago (Introduction)
  13. All Alone
  14. Dreamy Lady
  15. Casual Agent
  16. Casual Agent
  17. All Alone
  18. Dreamy Lady
  19. London Boys
  20. Life's An Elevator

Album Description

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:

4 out of 5 stars Futuristic Dragon Rocks!.......2007-05-14

I did not know what to expect when I picked up this T-Rex album. Beginning with 'Jupitar Liar' I got that ol' time T-Rex feel. What a crunchy tight rock & roll song. Sadly, 'Dreamy Lady'(the most challenging song for me to like on the album) became the single instead of 'Jupitar Liar'. 'Chrome Sitar' is another well done venture. 'All Alone' is quite poppy to the point one might say bubblegum: but what a pleasure to pop. Only the twin guitar lead dates the song.
'New York City' is infectious and remains in your head long after listening to it. It's simplicity is it's stength. Also, it has lots of T-Rex backing elements to it.
The best song on the album is 'Causal Agent'. This has a bit of a philly/disco feel. It is a very tight production. It rocks!
Also, deserving mention are 'Laser Love' another great rocker. This is the second great song of the album. 'Ride My Wheels' sounds like a Steely Dan meets a funky T-Rex. You will love Marc's soul felt vocals.
All in all this album is a must for your T-Rex collection. While this is Marc's best self-produced effort by far, one can only imagine a Tony Visconti production may have raised the star rating to five.

4 out of 5 stars Underrated Album.......2007-03-18

"Futuristic Dragon" brings Marc Bolan and "T. Rex" back to a more familiar sound that he left after "The Slider" album. A lot of catchy tracks on this album, "Sensation Boulevard", "Laser Love", "Jupiter Liar", "Dreamy Lady" and "New York City". The album is leaning toward a more funkadelic sound. I find that I listen to "Electric Warrior", "The Slider", then skip past "Tanx" and "Zinc Alloy" to get to "Futuristic Dragon". It's catchy and upbeat. "Theme For A Dragon" is a real nice melody too. The All Music database gives this album a 2 and 1/2 star out of 5. I'd say 4 and 1/2 out of 5. If your getting into T. Rex then add this one to your list after you've absorbed "The Slider" and "Electric Warrior". Then on to "Dandy and The Underworld". (Don't forget his early stuff too.)
Futuristic Dragon
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • marc bolan and his chrome sitar
  • Futuristic Dragon
  • chrome sitar
  • If he'd only waited we would've caught up (really we would)
  • This album is better than people rate it!
Futuristic Dragon
T. Rex
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001EQX
Release Date: 1997-03-18

Tracks:

  1. Futuristic Dragon (Introduction)
  2. Jupiter Liar
  3. Chrome Star
  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
  14. London Boys
  15. Laser Love
  16. Life's An Elevator

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Double Disc Edition of the Classic T. Rex Album.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars marc bolan and his chrome sitar.......2007-01-29

T rex experienced something of a revival with this album.. which i don't understand - i feel they never lost their spark to begin with.. this is another chapter in the unfolding marc bolen odyssey.. the continually changing artist that he was.. futuristic dragon is a little more refined than zinc and zip gun but still equally experimental and exciting. The r and b flavor is laced with something harder driving (a return to the boogie?) There are some excellent tracks on this - including New york city (even if we don't understand the whole frog thing).

5 out of 5 stars Futuristic Dragon .......2006-09-09

I would say this is one of the best Bolan albums I've heard but really I can't because I they're all amazing in their own unique way. I have to disagree with the guy that insulted "Jupiter Liar" and "All Alone" while sticking up for "New York City", I personally LOVE "All Alone" and "Jupiter Liar" over "New York City". The album has such a unique sound, it's really exhilirating and exciting hearing it. I've yet to tire of it. ALL the songs on it are great and I happen to think of "All Alone" as one of my personal favorite songs. This album is nowhere near as mellow as "The Slider" or as "Electric Warrior" so do not expect that. This is a really fast paced rocking album for the most part. Must buy.

4 out of 5 stars chrome sitar.......2004-10-23

What a cool, trippy sounding album! This is the first T-rex album I owned, and still My favorite. The only song on here that sucks is London boys, which is about a bunch of rump pumpers, other than that, highly recomended.

5 out of 5 stars If he'd only waited we would've caught up (really we would).......2004-06-10

For reasons too boring to go into I've been revisiting Marc Bolan lately and what an interesting experience its proving to be. I'd bailed after Slider and whilst continuing to get the occasional kick out of a blast from the past never bothered to listen to Tanx and everything that came afterwards. But then after reading the review of Futuristic Dragon by "derblueangel" I figured I really should check this album out. Well, splash me with tomato sauce and call me a sausage roll if this isn't one dam fine set of songs.

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".

4 out of 5 stars This album is better than people rate it!.......2003-12-09

I would've given it a 5 except that the bonus tracks are just ok. The album proper, Futuristic Dragon (intro) -Casual Agent, is super tight and a definate Marc Bolan gem.

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!
Dazzling Raiment - The Alternate Futuristic Dragon
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    Dazzling Raiment - The Alternate Futuristic Dragon
    T. Rex
    Manufacturer: Edsel Records UK
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0000011X9
    Release Date: 1997-06-24

    Tracks:

    1. Futuristic Dragon (Introduction)
    2. Chrome Star
    3. All Alone
    4. New York City
    5. My Little Baby
    6. Sensation Boulevard
    7. Dreamy Lady
    8. Dawn Storm
    9. Casual Agent (Extended Play)
    10. London Boys
    11. Life's An Elevator
    12. Futuristic Dragon (Introduction) (Bonus Out-Take)
    13. All Alone (Bonus Out-Take)
    14. Dreamy Lady (Bonus Out-Take)
    15. Casual Agent (Bonus Out-Take)
    16. Casual Agent (Bonus Out-Take)
    17. All Alone (Solo)
    18. Dreamy Lady (Solo)
    19. London Boys (Solo)
    20. Life's An Elevator (Solo)
    Futuristic Dragon
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      Futuristic Dragon
      T. Rex
      Manufacturer: Repertoire
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0000507KP
      Release Date: 2003-11-25

      Tracks:

      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
      14. London Boys [*]
      15. Laser Love [*]
      16. Life's an Elevator [*]

      Album Details

      Digipak plus 3 bonus tracks.
      Alternate Futuristic Dragon
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        Alternate Futuristic Dragon
        T.Rex
        ProductGroup: Music
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        ASIN: B0000566VL
        Futuristic Dragon
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          Futuristic Dragon
          T. Rex
          Manufacturer: Japanese Import
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B00005L8CB
          Release Date: 2002-04-23

          Tracks:

          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
          14. London Boys
          15. Laser Love
          16. Life's an Elevator

          Album Description

          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.
          Futuristic Dragon
          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
          • marc bolan and his chrome sitar
          • Futuristic Dragon
          • chrome sitar
          • If he'd only waited we would've caught up (really we would)
          • This album is better than people rate it!
          Futuristic Dragon
          T. Rex
          Manufacturer: Edsel Records UK
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B0000683WH
          Release Date: 2002-07-16

          Tracks:

          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
          14. London Boys
          15. Laser Love
          16. Life's An Elevator

          Tracks:

          1. Futuristic Dragon (Introduction)
          2. Chrome Sitar
          3. All Alone
          4. New York City
          5. My Little Baby
          6. Sensation Boulevard
          7. Dreamy Lady
          8. Dawn Storm
          9. Casual Agent
          10. London Boys
          11. Life's An Elevator
          12. Futuristic Dragon (Introduction)
          13. All Alone
          14. Dream Lady
          15. Casual Agent
          16. Casual Agent
          17. All Alone
          18. Dreamy Lady
          19. London Boys
          20. Life's An Elevator

          Album Details

          Digitally Remastered Double Disc Edition of the Classic T. Rex Album.

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars marc bolan and his chrome sitar.......2007-01-29

          T rex experienced something of a revival with this album.. which i don't understand - i feel they never lost their spark to begin with.. this is another chapter in the unfolding marc bolen odyssey.. the continually changing artist that he was.. futuristic dragon is a little more refined than zinc and zip gun but still equally experimental and exciting. The r and b flavor is laced with something harder driving (a return to the boogie?) There are some excellent tracks on this - including New york city (even if we don't understand the whole frog thing).

          5 out of 5 stars Futuristic Dragon .......2006-09-09

          I would say this is one of the best Bolan albums I've heard but really I can't because I they're all amazing in their own unique way. I have to disagree with the guy that insulted "Jupiter Liar" and "All Alone" while sticking up for "New York City", I personally LOVE "All Alone" and "Jupiter Liar" over "New York City". The album has such a unique sound, it's really exhilirating and exciting hearing it. I've yet to tire of it. ALL the songs on it are great and I happen to think of "All Alone" as one of my personal favorite songs. This album is nowhere near as mellow as "The Slider" or as "Electric Warrior" so do not expect that. This is a really fast paced rocking album for the most part. Must buy.

          4 out of 5 stars chrome sitar.......2004-10-23

          What a cool, trippy sounding album! This is the first T-rex album I owned, and still My favorite. The only song on here that sucks is London boys, which is about a bunch of rump pumpers, other than that, highly recomended.

          5 out of 5 stars If he'd only waited we would've caught up (really we would).......2004-06-10

          For reasons too boring to go into I've been revisiting Marc Bolan lately and what an interesting experience its proving to be. I'd bailed after Slider and whilst continuing to get the occasional kick out of a blast from the past never bothered to listen to Tanx and everything that came afterwards. But then after reading the review of Futuristic Dragon by "derblueangel" I figured I really should check this album out. Well, splash me with tomato sauce and call me a sausage roll if this isn't one dam fine set of songs.

          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".

          4 out of 5 stars This album is better than people rate it!.......2003-12-09

          I would've given it a 5 except that the bonus tracks are just ok. The album proper, Futuristic Dragon (intro) -Casual Agent, is super tight and a definate Marc Bolan gem.

          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!
          Taming the Russian Dragon
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            Taming the Russian Dragon

            Manufacturer: Bap
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

            GeneralGeneral | International | Styles | Music
            ASIN: B000CADIKC
            Release Date: 2001-01-16
            Futuristic Dragon
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              Futuristic Dragon
              T. Rex
              Manufacturer: Repertoire/Hepcat
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

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              ASIN: B0002B77JO
              Release Date: 2002-11-08
              Prophets, Seers & Sages the Angels of the Ages / Futuristic Dragon
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                Prophets, Seers & Sages the Angels of the Ages / Futuristic Dragon
                T Rex
                Manufacturer: CD Maximum
                ProductGroup: Music
                Binding: Audio CD

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                ASIN: B000JEHZK0

                Product Description

                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:

                1. Head Music + 5 [Explicit Lyrics] [Import] [Limited Edition]
                2. Homogenic [Import]
                3. I Want To Live A Simple Life
                4. Invisible Band [Import]
                5. Just a Spoonful
                6. Knife Feels Like Justice [Import]
                7. Laika Come Home [Import] [Limited Edition]
                8. Laughter [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]
                9. Live 1969 [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]
                10. Live in Hoff Alter Banhoff 1981 [Import] [Live] [Original recording remastered]

                Music

                music

                Music

                Popular Music popular_music_69

                Ofra Harnoy and Friends

                Reiner Stutz: Gitarre

                Remixed

                Number One Hits of the 1940's

                Schizophonic [ENHANCED CD] [Import]

                Pied Piper

                Planets (Arr. For Winds By Stephen Roberts)

                Shades of Blue and Gray

                Numero 1

                Slow Burn [CD-single] [Import]

                Raizes Nordestinas [Limited Edition] [Import]

                Party People Presents Ladies Night

                The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Vol. 3

                Chapter 1 The Sandworm Cometh: Early Recordings