20th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection

20th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection

20th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-08-20
Music Label: Hip-O Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Debora - Tyrannosaurus Rex
  2. One Inch Rock - Tyrannosaurus Rex
  3. King Of The Rumbling Spires - Tyrannosaurus Rex
  4. By The Light of A Magical Moon - Tyrannosaurus Rex
  5. Elemental Child - Tyrannosaurus Rex
  6. Ride A White Swan
  7. Summertime Blues
  8. Jewel
  9. Beltane Walk
  10. Hot Love
  11. Get It On (Bang A Gong)
  12. There Was A Time / Raw Ramp
  13. Cosmic Dancer
  14. Jeepster
  15. Telegram Sam
  16. Metal Guru
  17. Mystic Lady
  18. The Slider
  19. Children Of The Revolution
  20. Solid Gold Easy Action
  21. 20th Century Boy
  22. Born To Boogie
  23. I Love To Boogie

Music reviews of 20th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection

Music Review: Bolan Knows How To Boogie
Rating: 5 Stars

This is hands-down the best single disc T. Rex collection in print. You get a 16-page booklet with excellent liner notes, lots of terrific pictures, track-by-track info on release dates and album sources of all the songs (the only thing missing is peak chart positions), along with artwork and release dates of all of Marc Bolan's studio albums from 1968's "My People Were Fair..." through 1977's "Dandy in the Underworld."

And then there's the music...WOW! It's never sounded better. The first three tracks are from the late Sixties when Tyrannosaurus Rex consisted of Bolan and percussionist Steve Peregrine Took beginning with their first UK hits "Debora" (No. 34) and "One Inch Rock" (No. 28). Tracks 4-9 were all released in 1970 and feature Took's replacement Micky Finn. The new duo had their first Top Ten hit in the UK when "Ride a White Swan" reached No. 2. By 1971 T. Rex was a full guitar-bass-drums band and their first single was the UK No. 1 "Hot Love," (the first of many songs to feature backing vocalists Flo and Eddie). For the next two years T. Rextasy was in full swing and Bolan and company would hit the British Top Ten eight more times. [T. Rex would crack the U.S. Top 40 only once, when "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" hit No. 10 in 1972.]

While Bolan is closely linked with the glam rock movement, his bag full of Chuck Berry riffs and electric boogie made him one of the most influential artists of the Seventies. Kudos to the folks at Hip-O for including songs like "Ride a White Swan," "Hot Love" and "Raw Ramp" (which I previously only had on an out-of-print WB anthology on cassette). However, it would have been better if they had expanded this to a 2-CD set like some of their other releases (John Hiatt, Robert Palmer, etc.). As it is, there's a 3-year gap between 1973's "Twentieth Century Boy" and 1976's "I Love to Boogie." T. Rex hit England's Top 40 seven times during that period. This is a generous 75-minute anthology, but it wouldn't have been difficult to fill a second disc when you realize that more than a dozen UK singles from throughout Bolan's career were excluded. Don't Get me wrong, this is an excellent collection. But as a longtime fan, I can never get enough. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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Despite scoring only one sizable American hit ("Bang a Gong") during its lifespan, Marc Bolan's T. Rex was one of the most influential rock acts of the '70s. This 23-track, digitally remastered anthology moves from the band's original, late-'60s roots as Tyrannosaurus Rex to the acoustic neo-folk duo of Bolan and Steve Peregrin Took to its more familiar electrified early-'70s incarnation. While many of his U.K. peers were smitten with prog-rock excesses and album-length ruminations during that period, Bolan obsessed on the pop-single form, stripping his music down to the elemental rock hooks of "Ride a White Swan" and the minimalist cover of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues." Coupled with a glam-era sense of style, his was a pop sensibility that presaged much of the succeeding waves of punk and new wave, hard rock and glam metal. Indeed, "Metal Guru" and "Children of the Revolution" now sound like clarion calls. If, as singles like "Gong," "Telegram Sam," and "Jeepster" indicate, Bolan was working from formula, it was an undeniably infectious one. And what could be more of an ironic tribute that a quarter-century after Bolan's untimely death in a car accident, his ballsy "20th Century Boy" became the soundtrack to a car advertising campaign? --Jerry McCulley

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