T Rex - Tanx And Zinc Alloy (2014) 4CD Super Deluxe Box Set [email protected] Beolab1700
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Artist...............: T. Rex Album................: Tanx And Zinc Alloy Genre................: Rock Source...............: CD Year.................: 2014 Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520 Codec................: LAME 3.98 Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps) Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3 Information..........: FULL SCANS
Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 08/11/2014
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Tracklist CD1 - Tanx [Remaster 2014]:
01 Tenement Lady 02 Rapids 03 Mister Mister 04 Broken-Hearted Blues 05 Shock Rock 06 Country Honey 07 Electric Slim And The Factory Hen 08 Mad Donna 09 Born To Boogie 10 Life Is Strange 11 The Street And Babe Shadow 12 Highway Knees 13 Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys
Tracklist CD2 - Tanx Period A And B Sides:
01 Children Of The Revolution 02 Jitterbug Love 03 Sunken Rags 04 Solid Gold Easy Action 05 Xmas Riff 06 20th Century Boy 07 Free Angel
Demos And Outtakes: 08 Pepsi Jingle 09 Mister Motion 10 The Street And Babe Shadow 11 Free Angel 12 Rapids 13 Life Is Strange 14 Mister Mister 15 Jitterbug Love 44 16 Country Honey 17 Highway Knees 18 Mad Donna 19 Electric Slim & The Factory Hen (alias You Got The Look) 20 Left Hand Luke 21 Free Angel (Alternate Version) 22 Fast Blues - Easy Action 23 Sunken Rags (Solo Acoustic Version) 24 Xmas Fan Club Flexi (Full Version)
Tracklist CD3 - Zinc Alloy [Remaster 2014]:
01 Venus Loon 02 Sound Pit 03 Explosive Mouth 04 Galaxy 05 Change 06 Nameless Wildness 07 Teenage Dream 08 Liquid Gang 09 Carsmile Smith And The Old One 10 You’ve Got To Jive To Stay Alive - Spanish Midnight 11 Interstellar Soul 12 Painless Persuasion v. The Meathawk Immaculate 13 The Avengers (Superbad) 14 The Leopards Featuring Gardenia And The Mighty Slug
Tracklist CD4 - Zinc Alloy Period A And B Sides:
01 The Groover 02 Midnight 03 Truck On (Tyke) 04 Sitting Here 05 Satisfaction Pony
Big Garrot Single: 06 Black Jack 07 Squint Eye Mangle
Demos And Outtakes: 08 Geraldine & The Mighty Slug 09 Change (Solo Electric) 10 Avengers Superbad (Solo Electric) 11 Galaxy 12 Carsmile Smith & The Old One 13 Spanish Midnight 14 Sitting There / Here 15 Look To Your Soul 16 The Leopards Featuring Gardenia And The Mighty Slug 17 Groover (Solo Acoustic) 18 Truck On (Solo Acoustic with Gloria Jones) 19 Saturday Night 20 Dance In The Midnight 21 Down Home Lady 22 Saturation Syncopation 23 Delanie 24 All My Love 25 Hope You Enjoy The Show 26 Saturday Night (Alternate Version) 27 Interview (Radio January 1974)
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This 80 page 12x12 hardback book includes: 4 x CDs and 1 x DVD “Tanx” and “Zinc Alloy” and the contemporary singles remastered by producer Tony Visconti, Demos and outtakes, Brand new liner notes by Tony Visconti and acknowledged expert Mark Paytress, Plus photographs of ‘Tanx’ and ‘Zinc Alloy’ period 7” singles from around the world, previously unpublished photos, sheet music and press cuttings.
Preceded by some of Bolan’s most fondly-remembered singles, “Children Of The Revolution”, “Solid Gold Easy Action” and the classic “20th Century Boy”, 1973’s Tanx was the first T. Rex album to make full use of the ever-expanding range of studio gadgets. And while the album represented a new musical departure, several tracks maintained a direct link to the old sound. Hit singles “The Groover” and “Truck On (Tyke)” preceded Zinc Alloy, which was released in March 1974, and included the follow-up hit “Teenage Dream”. The results of listening to black radio stations whilst touring the US during 1973 are apparent on this album, something of an oft-overlooked treasure trove.
While many stateside listeners never got much deeper into T. Rex and Marc Bolan's massive catalog than the boogie glam fun of "Bang a Gong (Get It On)," Bolan spent much of his life as an ever-morphing pop star in his U.K. home, recording hits and even living on as a television personality until his death in 1977. This massive repackaging of Tanx/Zinc Alloy inspects a two-year period in Bolan's glam rock phase, which could be looked upon as transitional, moving away from the woozy, sexy hard rock of Electric Warrior and The Slider into far more soul-inflected pop fare. When Tanx and Zinc Alloy appeared in 1973 and 1974, respectively, they were initially seen as commercially disappointing, with depleted sales and far less in the way of hits than their predecessors. The expanded instrumentation and production trickery of the albums would age better than it seemed, however, and songs from this time seemed to point at an embrace of soul backup singers, string arrangements, and other slick pop elements that Bowie would enjoy massive success with a few years later on his Young Americans album. Tanx/Zinc Alloy in this Deluxe Edition presentation includes both albums and singles from their respective periods remastered in full by original producer Tony Visconti (with assistance from Ted Jensen) as well as track after track of demos, outtakes, alternate versions, and other scraps from the cutting-room floor. All told, the collection includes more than 80 tracks from this particular period of Bolan's oeuvre. Though less celebrated than his best-loved hits, the highlights here are among some of his best-written songs, and the production choices he was making on these records were far more interesting than the straightforward rock of his first few T. Rex albums, despite their superior overall quality. This set is a must for any completist and will reveal much to anyone interested in Bolan's curious, inspired paths of development.
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