t.rex : which is their 'ziggy stardust'.

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i know it's not zinc alloy or whatever it's called.

is 'the slider' the really great pop classic or is it
'electric warrior' or neither ? i might suddenly be getting into them.

― piscesboy, Friday, 17 October 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Tanx!

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Electric Warrior is one of the best albums of the 70's A total classic in my book. The first song, "Mambo Son", sounds like Madchester.

― David Gunnip (David Gunnip), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going with both. :P

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The Slider and Electric Warrior are both great albums. The Slider is a bit more classic rock and roll songs and Electric Warrior has more of a stoner soul songs.

"Monolith" in retrospect sounds like a prototype for triphop/downbeat, with the lazy funky drums, the strings and soul stirrer backup vocals.

― earlnash, Friday, 17 October 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Mambo Son", sounds like Madchester.

I don't know anything about Madchester, but I assume this means I would LOVE it. What am I missing?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The Slider

Zinc Alloy is an amazing record for a number of reasons, but I wouldn't put it first, second, or third on your shopping list.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I would argue that Electric Warrior has the stronger songs, but the production on The Slider is astounding and I return to it far more. I wish Flo & Eddie and power-chord string quartets and phased horns (heck, phased everything) were on every record by everyone.

― Beta, Friday, 17 October 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i vote for electric warrior, although you're not going to lose with either album.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 17 October 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Couldn't they have chosen a better band name?

― , Friday, 17 October 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope. It's a brilliant name for more than one reason.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Friday, 17 October 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer "The Slider", but I would say neither, as neither is even remotely close to the perfection of "Ziggy Stardust"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 17 October 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

the slider! the slider! its so good, i have two copies of it!! chariot choogle! buick mackane!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 18 October 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

'ziggy stardust' the song? that would have to be: '20th century Boy.'

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 18 October 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

the slider is the fastest i've ever bought a cd after listening to it on a listening station. about five seconds into the first song he screams, and before he finished the scream i had ejected the cd and started walking to the cash register. so i'll vote for that album, even tho i don't really understand the question.

― will g. (will g.), Saturday, 18 October 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

well, of the two 'electric warrior' reminds me more of 'ziggy stardust.' it's... slinkier. yeah.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 18 October 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Electric Warrior. The Slider has way too much filler. And by filler I mean everything but "Metal Guru", "The Slider", "Rock On", and "Buick Mackane".

― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Sunday, 19 October 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

*drops jaw*

Wow, that means you'd consider "Baby Strange" and "Telegram Sam" filler...

― johnny fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 19 October 2003 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

chariot choogle is filler!!!??

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 19 October 2003 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

rokk!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

The Slider is T. Rex's Ziggy Stardust. Why? Man Who Sold the World >>> Ziggy Stardust. Electric Warrior > Slider. Therefore, Slider is Ziggy and Electric Warrior is Bolan's MWSTW. How's that?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

I would say none. T.Rex are overrated, Bowie is genius.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

so i bought 'electric warrior'.

i love the first 3 trax and after that it sort of pales. each song goes on and on with one idea and never really goes anywhere.

it's a lot more...stoned than i thought it'd be.

― piscesboy, Monday, 11 April 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

I so associate this music with 1972 (the music room, McKenzie House, Kinnear Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, the UK, the world, the Universe, the mind of BOLAN) that it's hard for me to imagine someone listening to it in 2005 for the first time. What must it sound like?

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 11 April 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

The Man Who Sold The World remains one of my most disappointing purchases ever. And I bought it used.

Electric Warrior is better. Both are kinda "disappointingly" above average.

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

"Man Who Sold the World," along with some of "Aladdin Sane," are Bowie's "metal" records. So if you don't like Ronson at his hardest and loudest you maybe don't appreciate "Sold the World."

"The Slider" is Bolan's "metal" album.

Note I'm being a little elastic.

I've been listening to "Slider," "Electric Warrior," and "Tanx" a lot lately, probably because of Louis XIV making me want to enjoy the hard stock of better songs along with astounding Visconti production.

But if I want hard, I go with "The Slider." And if I'd want "Ziggy Stardust" pinnacle, I'd put on "Tanx." And if I want "Rip Off" -- which is just "uhhhh!!!" -- and the sound of what you can do by just plugging a Les Paul straight into the mixing desk and letting it distort the mixer's pre-amp for its electricity, then it's "Electric Warrior," which is just the better for it.

Bolan boogied in a cough syruppy way. Bowie didn't "boogie" as much although there's one in "Width of a Circle" and the new reissue of "Bowie Live" at the Tower displays "boogie" in the same song and whatever comes after it, "Jean Genie" I think, where he always "boogie'd" many thanks to a somewhat improved, hotter mastering and the live drumming of Tony Newman who plays the neat parts in swing time.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

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