Marc Bolan & T. Rex - Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow
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Artist: Marc Bolan & T. RexEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-01-28
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Venus Loon
- Sound Pit
- Explosive Mouth
- Galaxy
- Change
- Nameless Wildness
- Teenage Dream
- Liquid Gang
- Carlisle Smith & the Old One
- You've Got to Jive to Stay Alive - Spanish Midnight
- Interstellar Soul
- Painless Persuasion V. The Meathawk Immaculate
- Avengers (Superbad)
- Leopards Featuring Gardenia and the Mighty Slug
Music reviews of Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow
Music Review: Funky Bolan
Rating: 4 Stars
Do not be scared off by what you've heard about this album. Yes, it began a rapid commercial decline for Marc Bolan and T. Rex, but undeservedly so. This was one of the first albums to fuse American funk sounds with English rock. Though it was recorded and released in England before Bowie's Young Americans album, it doesn't get the credit that album did for furthering funk rock since it was never issued in the States. The U.S. got half of this album coupled with half of Bolan's next UK issue (Bolan's Zip Gun)--Casablanca Records released it as Light of Love, which didn't perform well on the US album chart.
Overall though, Zinc Alloy is a better album than Young Americans, though it lacked a galvanizing title song like the Bowie classic. Some people were also put off by Bolan's girlfriend Gloria Jones' backing vocals coming out high in the mix. But you can't deny such catchy rockers as "Venus Loon," "Explosive Mouth" and "Nameless Wildness" or the era-ending ballad "Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream." This edition also comes with the Top 5 UK single "The Groover" and amazing B-Sides like the hard-rocking "Midnight" and the pretty "Sitting Here."
Also, check out the guitar on the ballad "Change," which sounds like the Alice Cooper classic "Welcome to My Nightmare," released one year later.
Description of Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow
This edition has been digitally re-mastered from the original analog master tapes. Included are non-album singles following the original record's order. There's also a newly produced bonus CD with a "work-in-progress version" of the album. These songs are rare versions (previously unreleased in the U.S.) arranged to mirror the original running order of the record.General CDs
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