TS: Jacko or Bolan?

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Marc!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

And whose music has aged better?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Twelve years old, your elvish fingers kiss your Beethoven hair
The awesome people stare
They're unaware of all the angel sounds they see and hear
Debussy and Mendlessohn
Handel and Dvorak of old
Child star protege of Mister Gormez
Who said you'd go far
Child star and when you died at just thirteen they wept and wrung their hair
Sad to see them mourning you when you are there
Within the flowers and the trees

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

Michael Jackson is so tied up with me growing up that I can't separate it out -- it's like 1983 was nothing but a constant soundtrack of Thriller on the radio.

But in terms of who I listen to more these days, bring forth the Bopping Elf.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

i love the elf.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

probably even more than bowie. but maybe not prince.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

i love the elf.

Why thank you, sir.

― Ronnie James Dio (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

WTF!!!?? How can you ask that? I mean Jacko was great and all but it's no contest. If I may use thee olde rockist units of measure for a minute here I have to say Jackson had like 2 good albums while Bolan had at least 6 or 7 albums worth of classic material. They both had 2 phases to their career and one phase to the after-career. Naive elvin folk+bongo music >>>> exploito-kiddie soul. Several albums of classic glam anthems > an album and half worth of classic pop. I have a little trouble judging the after career though. Which is cooler: a tragic death at a young age (it's been done) or slipping into insanity and building a private theme-park as a monument to pedophiliac tendencies (at least it's unique).

For me it boils down to this...
MJ I can't live without == "Billie Jean".
Bolan I can't live without == Unicorn, Beard of Stars, T-Rex, Electric Warrior, Slider, Zinc Alloy.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

"Michael Jackson is so tied up with me growing up"

Hey, wait a minute....

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

Jackson by a mile.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Hey, wait a minute....

Oh don't worry, I let him go.

One day I will find out who Matos likes less than Bolan. (I think the answer is George Strait.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

i'm beginning to think that jacko, as great and as huge as he was, will end up being like....hmmm, valentino?, rudy vallee?, bing crosby? someone who was once extremely influential, but little remembered by people now. not that people don't know who bing crosby is... i dunno, maybe i'm wrong. maybe he will just be remembered as a crazy child-rapist. so sad really.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

"(I think the answer is George Strait.)"

He's crazy. "I Hate Everything" is the punk anthem of the decade.

Matos sez he likes the postal service AND bunnybrains today. so i don't know whether i should hug him or hit him!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

i think this is the part where i should say that i think jacko was a fucking jaw-dropping phenom and a one-in-a-million performer. once upon a time.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, total jaw-dropping phenom, but for what? Like 3 or 4 classic tracks? Bolan is totally underrated, particularly for his lyrics which are widely considered dumb in a dumb way but are actually dumb in a really cool way.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

haha reverse that and you're OTM.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

I like what Geo Strait I've heard, should pick up that 50 #1s thing of his.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

Unicorn is, I think. Bolan's masterpiece. Anyone ever read his book?

Dandy in the Underworld shows how hungry he still was. He could've been a significant force in new wave. What was he, 29 when he died? (And think of all he accomplished over that time.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

Anyone ever read his book?

Heh, I own it. :-)

The best upcoming DVD of 2005.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

i still wanna know if someone is ever gonna put out the complete marc show episodes on dvd. i will pay top-dollar.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

The Ringo movie is a little tedious, actually, no?

My favorite unheralded T. Rex album track: "Electric Slim and the Factory Hen" on Tanx.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

The Ringo movie is a little tedious, actually, no?

Only an hour long and pretty funny, I recall!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

i like me some t rex. i love me some "jeepster." but jacko wins this one as easily as david lee roth beats sammy hagar. "i want you back." "abc." "i'll be there." "rock with you." "don't stop till you get enough." "wanna be startin' something." "billie jean." blah blah blah. if you had to make a combined cdr of the 12 or 15 greatest recordings either of the two of them made, i'm not sure any bolan songs would be on it.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Not even "Get It On"? Harsh!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)

i might put "get it on" on there just for variety and for flow. i think it's a great fucking song. but i don't think it would be one of michael jackson's best dozen or so songs.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

fact checking cuz is SO ON THE MONEY

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)
(and as your fact checking cuz, i'd be obliged to call it "bang a gong [get it on]" in either case!)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

C'mon lets hear some more love for Jacko.

The Off the Wall album is phenomenal. You gotta count the Jackson 5 too.

Not saying I don't listen to Bolan more regularly but lets have some respect.

― hector (hector), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

(and as your fact checking cuz, i'd be obliged to call it "bang a gong [get it on]" in either case!)

Fuck that noise! I don't call you Assertion Reviewing Close Relation (Fact Checking Cuz), do I?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

well i might ask you to if assertion reviewing close relation had the same ring to it as bang a gong!

― ARCR (FCC) (fcc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

Anyway:

http://tb14.stratosfera.cz/obrazky2/rollingstone/2233s.jpeg

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~karlpeter/timgreen/images/tg_p3_b.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Then again:

http://www.supers.com.br/musica/imagens/glam-marc-bolan.jpg

http://www.gordonrichard.com/fall2000/tree.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Jackson wrote 1 song on "off the wall", one of the best, yes, but only one. He didn't write any of the great Motown stuff, and had very little to do with production. He wrote, what, about half of "Thriller"?

Two good, ok great, albums and a whole lot of crap and hype.

Bolan wins, no contest:

It's Black, It's White
It's Tough For You
To Get By
It's Black , It's White, Whoo

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Thursday, 13 January 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

Whoa I didnt know you had to write and produce your own records to be considered good.

I guess that throws Astraud Gilberto, Frank Sinatra, and Britney into the fire.

― hector (hector), Thursday, 13 January 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't think that's the case to be considered "good" or even "really good", but in a face off I think it comes into play.

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Thursday, 13 January 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Don't throw Britney in the fire!

― Tim Nermal, Thursday, 13 January 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

Actual-bothering-to-fact-check time: Jackson co-wrote one song on Off the Wall and wrote two himself. He wrote four songs on Thriller alone as well. None of which matters because they are two of the greatest albums ever made. Whereas Bolan has maybe one great album's worth of material total, if that.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 13 January 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

excuse me--one decent album's worth.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 13 January 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

"excuse me--one decent album's worth."

ohjeezus, where do you even begin with a statement like that? yer just crazy is all. You need two really big q-tips! although it is probably the prevailing trad rockcrit line on t-rex, so yoo r not alone. christgau would probably say half a decent album's worth.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

"Electric Warrior [Warner Bros., 1972]
As an acoustic warrior, back when he spelled out his group's first name and did concept albums about unicorns, Marc Bolan was considered "progressive," which meant he was as foolish as Donovan but not as famous. A freak hit turned him into a singer of rhythmic fairy tales for British pre-pubes, exactly what he was always suited for, and the great "Bang a Gong" extends his subject matter into the rock myth itself, which has its limits but sure beats unicorns. Now if he'd only recycle a few more pop readymades I could stop complaining about fey. B"

Why So Afraid Of Fey, Rockcrit Nation??? Embrace Yer Inner Feyness!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

MJ. It's all about the glittering disco socks.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Thursday, 13 January 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

this is sort of a difficult question, even though i dressed up as the slider for halloween, and am listening to the slider right now.

i still have totally warm feelings for michael jackson, and i sort of cant ignore the cultural phenomenon that he embodies all around the world. i know bolan was a phenomenon in the UK, but nowhere NEAR MJ. and for real, bolan had a shitty late period, too.

im going with bolan, just cause hes way fucking essential to my musical tastes these days, but MJ is one of the few icons that could make it a contest.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Why is there as yet no thread entitled
TS: The Sweet vs. The Time?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Since most T Rex sounds the same if you like ANY you should like a lot more than one Lp's worth

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

"ohjeezus, where do you even begin with a statement like that?"

How about here: He wrote great songs for John's Children. All four Tyrannosaurus Rex albums are great (ESPECIALLY THE THIRD AND FOURTH). The prime era T. Rex albums are great all the way through (Elec. Warrior, Slider, Tanx). I don't know about the '74-'76 period. His last album is grebt.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Jacko never wrote anything as cool as "Twentieth Century Boy" or "Telegram Sam." Then again, Jacko never wrote anything good and should be put to death anyway, so the contest is moot.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot about John's Children. That's another big point in Bolan's favor. The review of Electric Warrior up above is funny because I was just comparing Bolan to Donovan the other day. I think they were both unfairly judged as being a little too derivative, too simplistic, too fey and just second-rate in general when they actually both had quite a lot going on.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Bolan as songwriter; MJ as record-maker and basically everything else. Inspired by some recent thread about Bolan where I probably got long-winded, I went back and listened to as much Bolan as I could. OK, my problem is just the way those records sound, and the way they're played. See, I like the way Big Star did "Baby Strange" on that live album--that, to me, is the way it oughta be done. Big and fat. Which I suppose is like me saying that rockabilly oughta have more bass in it, historical revisionism or something. The best Michael Jackson songs are just so exquisitely produced, so full, and if I had to choose between the greatest T. Rex singles and something like "Rock with You," I'd pick the latter, I guess.

I find the above comment about whether or not Jackson will be remembered as we do Jolson or Valentino intriguing. I think, unfortunately, he'll be remembered as a weirdo who once upon a time was hugely popular. He's such a strange figure. I mean, when Artie Shaw died I was talking about it to my mom who's 70, and all she could say was that "he was a mean man who got married too much." He was always pissed off about something but he was also a great musician. So I guess we'll have to wait 60 years to find out about Michael Jackson?

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

OK, my problem is just the way those records sound, and the way they're played.

Huh, I never heard of Tony Visconti-produced albums described as being too thin! Interesting, maybe it's just me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

And how much more fat can you get than a Les Paul?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

those records sound dinky to me, they needed more juice. but the songs--they're good, at times great.

I mean, I thought about it a bit--there's really no comparison between Bolan and Michael Jackson, it's not even a good comparison to begin with. They did totally different things. I don't always like Michael Jackson--"Thriller" aside from maybe "Billie Jean" never seemed like all that to me--but Michael Jackson was a motherfucker on a level with Prince or, name him/her. Marc Bolan--he was good at one or two things, looked good, but even as pop, the depth just isn't there for me. Nice enough. Christgau's review pretty much sums up my feelings about T. Rex, actually. Again, the comparison just doesn't seem apposite to me.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

TS: Tony Visconti or Quincy Jones?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

TS: Steve Peregrine Took or Bubbles?

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Steve Took is my favorite background vocalist of all time.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

those t. rex records are kind of dinky, sometimes for better, more often for worse. simply playing a les paul doth not a fat record make. simply playing a les paul, in fact, hath nothing to do with it.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Did anybody point out yet that all of Marc Bolan's great songs (all, like, five of them or so) sound almost exactly the same as each other? This contest isn't even close. Michael by several light years.

― chuck, Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Michael Jackson vs. Slade (or vs. Ian Hunter) (or, heck, even vs. Suzi Quatro or the Sweet) would be a much fairer matchup. (Though, obviously, in some ways, Michael might have more in common with Gary Glitter than with any of those other people.)

― chuck, Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

It's only a contest if you call it that. To me this is actually about as equal in the end as Prince/Bowie.

(xpost hey wait, most of Slade's best songs sound like each other too y'know!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Michael Jackson is more overrated than the Beatles, the Stones, and Dylan combined. Excise him from the canon already...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

But not ALL of them do, Ned. Some great Slade songs sound WAY different from other Slade songs. (Like for instance, "Run Runaway," for starters, and the Christmas one, and the ones that strut Mardi Gras style, and so on.) And Slade have many many many more great songs than Bolan does.

― chuck, Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

You've all got me convinced. I'm returning my Bolan box immediately. Desdemona, can you bring the packing materials, dear?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

I listen to Michael Jackson more than the Beatles, the Stones, and Dylan by a factor of about 100x. And I've never heard this Bolan character, which will probably cost me all of my ILM cred (such as it is).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

We'll have to agree to disagree, Chuck, less on Slade's worth than on what defines 'great.' I'll definitely say Bolan's arrangements generally tended towards the conservative once he found what he thought was the magic formula but "Ballrooms of Mars" isn't "Ride a White Swan" isn't "Celebrate Summer" isn't "Cosmic Dancer" isn't "20th Century Boy," etc.

And I've never heard this Bolan character

If you were a Brit I'd be more surprised; as it is, listening to Michael 100x more than Dylan in particular is a fine and good thing, but I am biased.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

"Ballrooms of Mars" isn't "Ride a White Swan" isn't "Celebrate Summer" isn't "Cosmic Dancer" isn't "20th Century Boy," etc."

Ned OTM. And you can go on from there, too.

A Les Paul is the "fattest" sounding electric guitar. Playing it through 100 watt tube amps is a fat sound.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

A Les Paul is the "fattest" sounding electric guitar. Playing it through 100 watt tube amps is a fat sound.

that entirely depends who's playing it, and how they're playing it.

and if you're talking about making records, that entirely depends on how it's recorded, how it's processed, how it's mixed, and what's going on with all the other instruments. you don't need a hot-shit guitar with double humbuckers to make a fat record, and having that guitar is no guarantee of fatness. as i said earlier, it's got pretty much nothing to do with it.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Bolan had a fat sound, though! Anyway, I wasn't saying that the records were fat, necessarily (I don't care if they're fat or not!--they sound good!). More just following up on Ned questioning the assertion that Visconti's productions were not fat, by mentioning that Bolan was playing a Les Paul.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Please listen to "Buick Mackane" right now.

If you tell me it's not fat
I shall eat my hat

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

you're the second person who's offered to eat his hat in an ILM conversation with me this week! maybe i should take you and rick massimo out to dinner at the local fedora store.*

*pending my future evaluation of "buick mackane," of course

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Will you eat your fat?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Like Erik Satie, I only eat foods that are white: fat, coconut, shavings of bone, etc.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

A Les Paul is the "fattest" sounding electric guitar. Playing it through 100 watt tube amps is a fat sound.

that entirely depends who's playing it, and how they're playing it.

That's true...to a degree...however, the Les Paul does have a certain inate sound that is, generally, fatter and less clean and crystal than say a Telecaster or Strat....the player makes a difference, but there are certain qualities of a guitar that make it sound a certain way

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

well, yeah, of course there are certain qualities of a guitar ... and an amp ... and whatever stomp boxes lay between them ... and whatever outboard processers lay in wait after them ... that make it sound a certain way.

but none of that makes as big a difference as the player.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

i love how t.rex records sound. from first to last.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Even Zinc Alloy?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

There IS something simple in the T. Rex formula:I listened to them over the Xmas vacation after reading eddie hurt's previous criticism dreading how it was gonna sound and thinking I wasn't going to like it. But it's a winning formula, people! I can see why Bolan gave the punks his stamp of approval. And maybe the guitars are a little thin compared to ... something that's fatter, but they're not as thin as what those fcuking Lord-Algae brothers did the 'Mats on Don't Tell a Soul

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

i'll have to play it. it's been awhile. zinc alloy, that is. i was really just being hyperbolic. but i'll bet it sounds great!! i've never heard t.rex on cd.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

There are some good remastering jobs...and then there aren't.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

if i can handle dodgey visconti and fan club reissues up the wazoo i could probably handle anything. but of the actual original albums, i've never had a problem with how they sound.

everyone was talking about can remasters awhile back and i was just listening to the delay68 thing on spoon vinyl and i honestly can't imagine it sounding better, but i suppose it's possible. i was listening to my pristine japanese copy of madcap laughs today too. damn does that thing just jump out at you. hubba hubba.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

thin-ness is part of the essence of the T. Rex thang, I admit. Well, I listen to far more soul music than I do rockabilly, you know--they are two different things. Chalk it up to my, err, "personality." Thin vs. fat, whatever.

I think I only know this acoustic version of "Buick McKane" for some reason, I have this condensed version of my girlfriend's boxed set on which it appears. I guess there's another one w/ full band?

I think Slade has a bit more sonic variety than T. Rex myself.

Was T. Rex a species of that early-'70s rock and roll/rockabilly revivalism?

Next big matchup: Richard Harris vs. Scott Walker. I'm listening to "A Tramp Shining" right now and kind of liking it. He's a brand-new clown. Time for a drink perhaps.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

i think i'm gonna listen to some alan vega rockabilly right about now. Some "kung foo cowboy"".

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

Zinc Alloy sounds great! It's a totally trebly blast of cocaine glitter at the frank-n-furter mansion! Those Michael Jackson records that everyone is going crazy for are just so dull sounding. There's no midrange honk, no searing treble bite, and no fuzz. It's all murky bass with a little squeaky voice on top. All of these complaints about T-Rex being thin are just Bassist.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 14 January 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

ROFFLE

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 14 January 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

bang a gong [get it on]
How come it's called Get It On on the box set? US/UK single/album track fun?

Meanwhile, I'm still thinking: has any one mentioned the Chuck Berry influence on Marc Bolan and how that got passed through him to the punks, perhaps? Or is that a topic for another thread? Like this one:Why is Lou Reed so often referred to as the Godfather of Punk?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

Nothing to add BUT re: Phatness -
Listen to "Spaceball Ricochet", "Planet Queen", "Mambo Sun", "Chariot Choogle", "The Motivator", "Rip Off", "Buick Mackane", "Rock On", and "Baby Boomerang" and tell me Visconti don't get things sounding chunky as whalemeat.
But a daft question cos they're both too wonderful to ignore.

― Neil Kulkarni, Friday, 14 January 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Fuckin' a, that last T. Rex album Dandy in the Underworld is great. Sound is not as hot as the classic early '70s albums, but man...

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 15 January 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

marc

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

My main problem with MJ is that his prime period stuff sounds like slightly more pacey show tunes. I mean, I *like* showtunes, but the fuss about clssicness I don;t get. Except for "Billie jean", which is one of the most terrifying songs I've ever heard.

Marc always sounded like he was from another galaxy where they had electricity instead of water with an unlimited amount of free access 100 stacks and where girls had purple faces with hemitite-flaked green eye shadow. So Marc wins.

― Ian in brooklyn, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

Did anybody point out yet that all of Marc Bolan's great songs (all, like, five of them or so) sound almost exactly the same as each other?

CRAZIEST FUCKING THING EVER SAID EVER!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

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