what’s your favorite t rex tune? comment below!

Where T.Rex was most associated with glam was in Bolan's love of fashion. Bowie used to mention a quote from Bolan when he was talking about mods and glam: Bolan: "I'm top mod. Your shoes are crap." Bowie: "You're short."

It is categorically impossible to be down in the dumps when listening to a new episode of Vinyl Monday!❤ Great job as always, Abby!!

While it is true that Eddie Cochran died in a car crash in England (he had been on a tour there), he was born in Minnesota and started his music career in California.

It's fascinating hearing the American perspective on glam - here in its home country, we tend to think of glam rock first and foremost as exactly that type of fuzzy, gritty, rough-and-ready, back-to-basics rock'n'roll - T. Rex, Slade, The Sweet, Mud, adopted American Suzi Quatro (plus a sex offender we no longer mention)... largely based around the band and audience stamping big platform boots (genuinely). Mud are fine, but I think you would really like Slade, The Sweet and Suzi, they're great singles acts, Slade in particular. The slicker and more sophisticated glam acts - Queen, early ABBA, Sparks, Roxy Music - we think of as a bit secondary. Not in musical terms (they tended to have the longer term success too, and find it easier to break out of the glam bracket), but just in terms of defining glam as a genre. Stomping singles bands first, polished album acts second. David Bowie - as is his way - tends to straddle the two.

Yay T. Rex!! Definitely love the Electric Warrior album. And also love The Slider too. Looking stunningly beautiful Abby. Definitely a beautiful Planet Queen!!

I saw T Rex in Milwaukee , opening for 3 Dog Night. I managed to meet Marc and Mickey after their set. I got pictures and autographs ! It was quite a thrill.

I would like to thank you for your perfect diction, which allows us foreigners to understand everything without the need to activate the subtitles. I'm looking forward to a Something/Anything review and seeing you replicate Todd Rundgren's makeup in Midnigjt Special 😂❤

Great choice Abby! Now that you're moving into Glam, time to explore Roxy Music. For Your Pleasure is a great place to start, but you can't go wrong with any of their albums.

I always got a kick out of Marc Bolan's lyrics as they could be both incredibly silly and deeply profound. In "Bang a Gong" alone there are lines like "the teeth of the hydra are upon you" to "She's got a hubcap, diamond-star halo." The man had an amazing imagination and could come up with killer guitar riffs!

I couldn't make the three minute mark. Waste of time.

Marc Bolan was a rock & roll star 🌟 ! 🇬🇧

My brother taught me to play guitar with this album. Jeepster and Planet Queen are two of my favorites and still so fun to play. This is one of my all time favorite albums and it doesn't stay off the turntable too long before another spin. I think you hit the tail on the donkey, this album and Marc Bolan are fun fun fun! I always have a great time visiting your channel and usually learn something too. And Ride a White Swan is a great song and introduced me to T. Rex. Looking forward to the new year of Vinyl Monday.

Tony Visconti is a fantastic producer and he totally captured the power and attitude of Marc Bolan in this landmark album

Planet Queen and Bang a Gong are stone cold classics, although my favourite of their songs is Children of the Revolution. Also, if this is the amount of feathers Abby puts on to talk about T Rex, I am scared for when she decides to tackle Elton John

What a fun ride! I saw Tyrannosaurus Rex at Motherwell town hall (in Scotland) in 69, Mickey on Bongos, Marc on acoustic, cross legged on the stage. Beard of Stars had just been released. That show blew my 15 year old mind! They played 'The Wizard' , 'By the light of a magical moon' among others, and finished the show with an electric version of 'Elemental Child' with Mickey on bass. They were on they're way up. The next time I saw them was in '71 at Glasgow Apollo (Greens Playhouse) after 'Get it on and Jeepster' were released, at the the height of their 'Electric Warrior' fame, with the full band. The place was packed and 'T-Rexstasy' was in in full bloom. And the tickets were cheap! The last time I saw them was at Motherwell Civic center in '76 around the release of 'Futuristic Dragon'. The crowds had diminished, there had been no hits for years, and they were bringing people in off the the street to try to fill the not-so-large-hall. Marc was overweight and not at his best, and Gloria Jones was playing keyboards and backing vocals. I can't remember who else was in the band. I emigrated to Canada in summer of 77, shortly before he died, and when that happened, it shook me. I had always thought I would meet him someday. Still, who would have thought that 'Get it On' would be as popular as it is, 50 odd years later!

I’m not sure if you found this in your research, but the friendship between Marc Bolan & David Bowie is really heartwarming. They first met as teens being represented by the same agent as teen models doing catalogue work and would also work odd jobs together painting offices, etc. when modeling jobs were scarce. They had a bit of a falling out, but reconnected and became really good friends again several years prior to Marc’s death. After Marc’s death, Marc’s 2 year old son Rolan Bolan and his son’s mother Gloria Jones had no money, since Marc was still technically married to his 1st wife, she got everything. David Bowie helped support Gloria & Marc’s child for decades until Marc’s estate finally passed to his son. There’s so much criticism of “Toxic Masculinity” and this is a great example of “Positive Masculinity” and a not often discussed depth of Male Friendships that’s very much rooted in “Duty”, “obligation”, “responsibility”& “Sacrifice” in helping to provide for and take care of your friend’s family when they are no longer able to. There’s something truly instinctive about this that connects with Men on a very deep level.

One of the luckiest record hauls I ever had included Electric Warrior, Highway to Hell, and Abbey Road at a Salvation Army store where records were a dollar each.

As much as I love T. Rex, I still think his best two albums are Unicorn and Beard of Stars from the folk days, I love the colorful way Marc is always able to describe things.

So, 12 year old me in 1971 in Toronto was so turned on by "Bang a Gong" that I went out and bought the album Electric Warrior. Yes, in those days 12 year-olds were allowed to do that with no helicopter parents around. The first time that I was not influenced by my older brother and my older sister's boyfriend (Btw, he is still in 2024 my brother-in-law). It is still one of my favourite albums to this day. Too many stories to tell. Of course the lyrics make no sense, but they weren't supposed to, other than Cosmic Dancer. There is a bootleg recording of a Morrissey concert where David Bowie joins him on stage and they sing Cosmic Dancer. Absolutely Brilliant!!! I love your channel. No, I ADORE your channel.

This album must be cranked every time it's played.

This album hits all my buttons; with connections to David Bowie's Rise and Fall..., Flo and Eddie via Frank Zappa and includes my favorite T-Rex song, Mambo Sun. I really enjoy his slower beat music. Also I hope you enjoyed letting your hair be more itself.

Hello from rainy London. Love your reviews and the insight you give. Also the fun delivery. Thank you.

I requested this album a while ago on Vinyl Monday, I’m so excited for this review! Still one of my most sought after albums to get on vinyl

It's nice to see someone talking about T Rex. I only just got into them through Foul Quince's video and, because of that, they call me The Groover - so I'm glad to find and T Rex content I can. Very under appreciated band.

Never more a Manic Monday, since the moment you're doin your podcast Its so great to take out the album you choose to do, out of my collection (mostly, i own all of them, but on CD) and to hear your exegese on it with your always surprising and fitting outfits, playing and hearing the album in a whole new different kind of view, on volume 10 Please, go on! Favorite song is Cosmic Dancer, because i didn t dare to dance!

This is a well researched, articulated review . . .thanks! EW is the album that started me painting my nails.

The thumbnail looks perfect! Love this album so much fun all the way through I would say it's the perfect pop record despite not being pop per say, Marc Bolan is always so overlooked in conversations about music glad to see him getting more attention again R.I.P

Is it strange to dance so soon? I danced myself into the tomb.....can't get more epic than this.

Love the video and your glam look. Now, you're getting into the music of my youth. When I was in junior high, you couldn't turn on the radio without hearing "Bang a Gong," which was fine by me. I shudder to think how many years I've been listening to T Rex, and I still can't figure out half the lyrics. You're right that some of the later glam rock studio albums were too stiffly produced. Mott the Hoople is one of my favorites, but that's because I discovered them when I recorded a King Biscuit Flour Hour with the Kinks and the first 15 minutes was Mott the Hoople live. The "All the Young Dudes" and "Mott" albums have great songs, but they lacked that power and energy. "The Hoople" came a little closer, but you had to hear them live to get it. Kind of like the studio version of "Tommy" vs. live. Speaking of The Who, I think you'll like "Quadrophenia" better. If only Tommy had been recorded like that... BTW, be looking for a package from me at your PO Box. The post office claims it should be there by Thursday, but you know how they let rain and snow stay their couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

T.REX are an absolutely amazing band. I have The Slider (on Reprise Records) and Tanx (orig. uk press) in my collection, both great albums that make a great trilogy of albums. Their other stuff is very, very different to the glam stuff they're known for (e.g. the psych folk stuff, which Unicorn is my fave early T.REX album, the funk/soul of Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow: A Creamed Cage in August, and the power pop/punkish(?) finalé album Dandy in the Underworld.) His life was cut too short and he was probably the most influential guy for promoting UK punk/new wave, introducing youths to Generation X, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Radio Stars, the matured Bay City Rollers and lots more. I have an early UK copy of 'Get it On' on 45 and it gets regular play on my turntable.

David Bowie: who needs TV when I got T. Rex

T. Rex is the vibe. The coolest, grooviest jams.

Awesome, this is one of my all-time favorite albums. When I was a teen in the early '90s watching Mtv's Closet Classics show, I saw a clip of them doing "Jeepster" on Beat Club & became obsessed. The earlier Tyrannosaurus Rex stuff is great too.

"Seagull Woman" is one my favorites and "Raw Ramp"...along with Cosmic Dancer and Planet Queen...PLEASE if you haven't yet, find a boot online called "The Children of Rarn Suite" , especially the version that Tony Visconti later added strings to...a real cult treat...I don't like Marc's lyrics but his voice and talent for melody make up for it

That was a seriously comprehensive review. I learned a lot! I can't believe I'm not subscribed, gonna remedy that!

Thanks again Abby I love your content ❤️

Bad lyrics bad damned, Monolith is my favorite track! From the record scratch intro, the whole thing is so smooth and chill. The verse melody is my favorite thing on here, he has strange hooks. Electric Slim & the Factory Hen off Tanx hits me in a similar way. Love Bolan Psyched to see this one covered! Great Vinyl Monday ⭐️🪘🪘

Awesome video as always, Abby! Love the outfit for this one! Marc Bolan is the guy who finally made me appreciate glam rock for the first time Hoping we get the Talk Talk episode, whenever that may be :)

Love the album - thanks for another great episode!

At first, I thought this channel was the ultimate in what could be produced for the KZfaq format and there's no way it could be improved upon... Boy!--was I ever proven wrong! It just keeps getting more and more fabulous! Super analysis of transition from acid-folk to glam! Metal came from psychedelia too when heavy delta blues knocked her up and she gave birth to "Dazed And Confused."

Wonderful job! You definitely covered it! Rock and Roll is fun!!

Every Monday I start my day with you.

Didn’t know what a jeepster was, now I can define myself as one

True outer space experience is hearing their early hippie albums.

I love the strings and production in general. Love this album, very vibey

As much as I love the T.Rex trio of Electric Warrior, The Slider and Tanx the T.Rex self titled debut is really cool and different. Way more acoustic, way more 'personal'. It took way too long for me to discover it so if you haven't, give it a listen.

awesome. Thanks for doing this

extremely funny and straight to the point. really, really nice. thank youuu!

Excellent job! Very appreciated 😁

Hi Abi, greetings from the UK. Thank you for these little gems on Monday. Recently discovered your KZfaq channel and enjoy hearing your take on a lot of albums I have. With all the albums you have done around 1967-69, have you considered doing an episode on the Kinks? Especially as their albums Village Green Preservation Society or Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) are often overlooked classics of the time

I love this album, my wife bought me the T-Shirt for Christmas

Great fun video for a great fun album. Thank you Abby. Loved the little pouty Bolanesque cameos! I've always found Bolan's music to be personal universal, everyone finds a different meaning. It can touch your soul. Been a fan since Children of the Revolution. When Elvis died i didn't believe it, when Bolan died i was dumbstruck.

Your best look yet. Nice job!!

one of the best albums of the 70s! this is one of your best looks too!

Love this album what a rythym section and what a groove!!!!.

I lived close where he died. I was young but it had an effect.Bowie did a little impression on the Man Who Sold the World,

You pretty much summed up my thoughts on this record. 👍

I like T Rex, never got deep into them though. I played a few of their songs live over the years. I was in a band that did a version of Hot Love to a rockabilly beat. It works better than you’d think. Great work Abby.

I listened to this album a lot this past summer, one of my favorite albums. Glam rock bands seem to bear little in common except their roots in 50's rock and roll. Marc Bolan cannot be taken seriously, but writes music that is sort of silly, but really enjoyable. Sometimes that is all you need.

Listened to this album like 2 weeks ago for the first time stoked it’s the newest video

I alsked you about this last week so in my own head canon I got you to do this

Abby brings to light another example when I thought I had to be mishearing lyrics because what I thought I was hearing made no sense to me- "You've got a hubcap diamond star halo" and I was actually hearing it correctly. Had the same experience with Dylan's "My Back Pages"- "Crimson flames tied through my ears/Floating high and mighty traps". I was certain I must have had that wrong...until I read the lyrics.

Good Abby that you praise Marc's guitar playing. He is definitely underrated, he was back then and he still is now. 'Electric warrior' is a timeless classic. Still sounds great today.

“Live With Me” by the Rolling Stones from Let It Bleed is glam rock before the term was even a thing. The same for “Brown Sugar” (recorded in late 1969) and “Bitch” from Sticky Fingers.

Forced perspective is the camera angle. Look at how Nirvana pics have Krist about thirteen yards behind the other lads.

Thank you for this Abby

Thanks, I enjoyed this video

Nice job. I remember being enamored with "The Slider" album. Loved it. For some reason, it was the only T. Rex album I ever bought (Actually I do remember why - I was a just a kid without a lot of resources)...🤑

LOVE T Rex and so glad to hear you cover it. Thing about T.Rex is that, a lot like Ramones, they do one thing really well and, when they step outside that, things kinda get rough. Slider is my jam. A real shame we never got 80s electro-warrior Marc❤️

Yeay!!! Sunday 25th October Fairfield Halls!!! I was there man!!! (and Marc smiled back at me!! RiP) xx

The glitter glam period was great, great music with heavy guitars, I love that combination. Marc Bolan also inspired one of my favorite guitar players to pick up a geetar and start playing

As a short king at 5’5 I had to laugh at the teasing… it’s easy to forget that both Marc Bolan is 5’4, Angus young is 5’1, and Steve Marriott was 5’5 and yet all of these legends are just amazing and I appreciate that you pointed this little factoid out! Thank you! These dudes brought it and we love it! Thank you for finally covering T. rex! One of my favorites from London glam scene and I’ve been to London I loved going over there and learning to learn about the music that we as Americans rejected on the first go around! Love the channel😊

T Rex is like a box of sugar coated cereal, what drew me to them was the catchy guitar riffs and repetitive melodies, get it on , bang a gong was played 10 times a day every day on radio stations in Maine, my favorite song is 20th century boy , now Marc's death was a preventable tragedy, he never learned to drive, I remember hearing about his death buried on the back pages of the newspaper, the cult reminds me T Rex a little, sonic temple is a great album along with electric, new york

Electric Warrior is a great album. I have a boxset which is the whole album divided on 7" singles. I consider it to be one of my coolest purchases.

Born in 1955, I accepted T.Rex quite well but my favourites were others. „Get it on“ has been played so often that it still sounds in my ears 😂 In the genre of Glam Rock I preferred The Slade. Love your channel and the dresses fitting to each episode 👌 Peter from Austria

Jeepster is one of my favourite T.Rex songs. Marc admitted that he had ripped it off from Howlin' Wolf's "You'll be Mine" (written by Willie Dixon). Part of the drum sound on the track was actually from Marc enthusiastically stomping his feet on the studio floor as he played.

T rex, sweet, gary glitter and the mighty slade soundtrack to the glam 70's still listen to slade now even now,as usual great episode.

Les Rallizes Dénudés - '77 Live Craziest band history I can think of - One concert caused an earthquake, one of the members resided in North Korea, and the first album came out 25 years after the band formed.

There's been a strong rumour for years that Bolan plays guitar on Ike and Tina Turner's 'Nutbush City Limits'. If you ever get to come to London, Olympic Studios and Bolan's shrine sit either side of Barnes Common.

Mark Feld changed his name a few times. He was Toby Tyler, MarK Bowland, and finally Marc Bolan. Early on he shared a flat with British actor James Bolam, which may be where he got his most well known name from. But its also rumoured that he took the name for the surnames Bowie & Dylan, his friend and his hero. The "Bo" either from Bowie, or from Bob, and the "lan" from Dylan. Putting them together to make Bolan.

When he first appeared on the scene and he was less rock and more middle-earth folksy, fans used to call him the 'Hallucinated Pixie.' Great rock guitarist though, did the riff on 'Nut Bush City Limits'. Loved just about everything he did, especially ' Get It On'.

Never hear Life’s A Gas before and now I can’t get it out of my head!

I feel like a lot of people who had never heard of T-rex before are going to associate with LongLegs

Great video Abby. Favourite T-Rex song has to be “Life’s A Gas”

Perigrine Tuuk is a Lord of the Rings reference, great review of one of my all time favorite lps and band , I loved I was one of the very few fans in my neighborhood, Tony Visconti is a genius

i didn't realize the cabinet across the other side of the room still exists! i thought everything was out in the new shelves. the electric warrior album art is striking but vinyl monday's thumbnail is better! i like the emphasis on feeling the goodness in some of these tracks. if you're at a table near a dancefloor and some of this stuff kicks off it will get you out of your seat and if you ever play in a covers band, near the end of a set It's rolled gold. ( i love to boogie is sheer hell to sing). enjoy it for what it is. it's a waltzer ride ( british thing?).

Got an early copy of the LP on the Fly label with photos of mark and Finn on the disc with the illustrations, on the inner sleeve but only had the full details with the CD. As for a favourite‘ whatever happened to the teenage dream’ and metal Guru, cosmic dancer, Telegram Sam….

Have you written any books i can find?

Marc Bolan and T.Rex arguably also released one of the first punk songs Solid Gold Easy Action in '73, but Woodland Rock in '70 was punk at it's essence. Johnny Rotten gave T.Rex as his first influence for punk. The Ramones were huge T.Rex fans. Next, Syd Barrett began wearing eyeliner in July '67. Right after his management signed Marc Bolan to the Blackhills artist roster. So it's likely Syd Barrett ripped Marc Bolan's style.Not the other way around. June Child was the Pink Floyd's manager assistant and later married Marc Bolan.

Badfinger was a band used for all the leftover Beatles songs after they broke up ELO was the band picking up where the Beatles left off. Apologies off subject somewhat 😊😮😅😢😮😂😢❤

Thinking about this era, do you have access to Mott the Hoople’s “ The Hoople” album? Other good ones I want to mention; Cat Stevens’ “Teaser & the Firecat” and Badfinger’s “Straight Up”. If someone hasn’t mentioned them yet….

I listened to WMC FM 100 in Memphos 1971. The format freeform radio, Album cuts but NOT A.O.R.. Memphis record shops sold more pf Bowie's Ziggy Stardust than anywhere else in America. "Get It On (Bang A Gong)" and "It's A Ripoff" were played in rotation. I thin it's arip off is a GREAT. The whole lp is wonderful!

Marc Bolan was my 1st ever crush and I was one of those teeny boppers but I loved the music and still do. I have most of their albums except for Zip Gun. My favourite tracks from Electric Warrior are Cosmic Dancer and Planet Queen. My favourite T-Rex track is Rabbit Fighter or Rapids or Ballrooms of Mars. Could also be Cadillac I can't choose just one. Great video

Bauhaus covered Telegram Sam quite well & Robert Palmer showcased his excellent voice on The Power Station 🚉 version of Get It On.

«Small kings, I love and respect you, but I just can't do it» :D

I agree with your take on glam rock. Early>later, however the first two Hanoi Rocks albums are fantastically loose glam rock releases. Worth checking out.

Recently realised the similarities between Lean Woman Blues and The Beatle's Yer Blues, both obviously referencing the blues, but also sonically. Give them a listen back to back and you'll really see what I mean. Also check out the three song combo thats on the deluxe version on streaming. Great video and great album Abby :>

I never really got into T-rex, mostly because of another band of the era was featured in my childhood household: Sweet. And I do recommend you to check out Sweet Fanny Adams and/or Desolation Boulevard. Of T-Rex songs Children of the Revolution is the one that has stuck the most with me. Parts of Bang a Gong and Hot Love was included in one of Jive Bunnys mixbits from the 90's and they are also a part of my T-rex memory bank- and I like them of course. I really need to add some T-rex to my work playlist, thanks for the reminder :) (edit for additional memories)

My favorite T-Rex album