The Friday Canon: T-REX

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

T-REX T-RUEFAX:

Marc Bolan was actually frightened of cars and spookily predicted his own car-crash death!

Bolan replaced percussionist Steve Peregrin Took with Mickey Finn purely because the latter had an impressive motorcycle!

Marc's poetry book was called 'The Warlock Of Love'!

Just SIX ticks today!

[Poll #1040669]
Spandau Ballet (link)
1. Gold
2. True
3. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
4. To Cut A Long Story Short
=5. Instinction
=5. Through The Barricades

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Today's canon inspired by this (http://www.myspace.com/marcbolanthecelebration) popping into my werk inbox today. These sort of events always seem a bit morbid to me, dunno why.

Embarrass-o-fact

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I bought Placebo's first album and the Best of T-Rex on the same day!

Re: Embarrass-o-fact

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Cross-sell city: population YOU

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have only heard 'Hot Love'. It is DREADFUL and SACRILEGIOUS to the Kompakt original :)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

you should hear the baby ford original of children of the revolution...

[mooxyjoo.livejournal.com]

'frei' is the original there!!!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

despite walking around Barnes quite a lot (when i lived Chiswick-wards) i never saw no tree covered in blimmin ribbons. maybe it is usually invisible - maybe this is the reason bolan crashed into it.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I am showing my age here yet again, but I saw T. Rex in concert in my teen years. Marc was the first man I ever lusted after. I still rank him among my favourite singers, lyricists, songwriters and guitarists, as well as sex symbols. The first single I ever bought was Ride A White Swan - the sequence from that to 20th Century Boy strikes me as about as great a run of singles as anyone has ever released. I would have liked to tick everything here.

CONCUR

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

tick, vg :)

call it by its name

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

deboraarobed!

also: check out a young'n'posh j.peel readin nursery stories abt MOLES on "my ppl were fair and had sky in their hair (but now they're content to wear stars on their brows" <--- good title btw

Re: call it by its name

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

"hmmmm, suspect title" sa the prog-finder general, however marc did do his best to try and kill prog with his glitter and his jumpsuits etc

i used to work with a woman called deborah and spent half my life humming deboraarobed to myself (the first half obv, haven't quite perfected humming backwards yet...)

i think he wz a TERRIFIC writer

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

did you ever go to new york city
with a frog in your hand?

Re: i think he wz a TERRIFIC writer

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i thought it was

did you ever see a woman
coming out of new york city
with a frog in her hand

? wasn't it about meeting gloria off a plane?

Re: call it by its name

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

probbly i never listen words anyway

yr pal dubdobdeeeedbodbud

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I thought T-Rex was an accomplice of Jive Bunny for over half my life thus far.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I might add that since these were the years 0-11, this was an accolade rather than any sort of damnation.

Fortunately my liking of T-Rex survived the shock that they were not, in fact, a dinosaur suit.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Like many people I suspect, I only know three T-Rex songs (20th Century Boy, Get It On and Children Of The Revolution). I like all three. I'm not sure quite why I've never got around to hearing more T-Rex music actually.

'20th Century Boy' - ruined by Placebo
'Children Of The Revolution' - famously ruined by Reginald Dwight and Peter Doherty at Live 8

Has anyone covered and ruined 'Get It On'?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yes! Bus Stop ft DJ Daz!

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Has anyone covered and ruined 'Get It On'?

Oasis. I think they pretended it was called 'Cigarettes and Alcohol', or something?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

bdum tsch :)

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Has anyone covered and ruined 'Get It On'?

I don't remember the amount of ruinition, but it was on the b-side of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" single.

THIRTEEN TICKS

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

on the first run and that was being HARSH and only picking the ones i truly truly love.

i ♥ marc so much, christ i seem to have named myself after a song of his.

everyone else should go and get a five quid greatest hits (and d/l ride a white swan and get it on as they tend not to feature on such compilations).

if he had done 0 but record the first chord of 20th century boy he would still be in the top ten pop stars ever.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Why is Solid Gold Easy Action doing so badly? Inexplicable.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Argh dude misteryguest played it to death at Boutique, I can't hear it now without thinking of poledancing...

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

That's precisely my reason for loving it...

[martinv.livejournal.com]

The videos I have of Boutique (yes, there are videos, it can only be a matter of time before I'm bored enough to upload some choice poledancing clips...), despite being filmed over 4 or 5 different nights, suggest that the only songs we ever played were 'Solid Gold Easy Action' and 'You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)'

Which is clearly a lie. We also played The Darkness.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have just noticed what yr icon is :)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i think it's because UNFAIRLY we're only allowed six ticks, when clearly twelve would be much better...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It is M Bolan's fault for dying instead of releasing another twenty filler singles.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i blame the record co for not releasing those fillers following his death instead (haha, of course had there been another 20 i probably would've wanted to tick most of them as well)

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Utterly so. Solid Gold is one of my favourites.

WHAT OTHER ANIMALS

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

could deborah be like?

[fathands.livejournal.com]

I think I am in the minority here.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I thought they were amazing for a week after I bought the best of. But now the best singles have caught the ABBA-disease (overfamiliarity) and I can't really listen to them anymore. Metal Guru is still alright though.

[koganbot]

I ticked all five that I have heard. I am delighted (but a bit skeptical) to discover that four T-Rex songs I have not heard are better than "Jeepster."

T. Rex only had one song to enter the Top 40 in the U.S.: "Bang A Gong (Get It On)."

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Yesterday, leaving work, I saw a bloke wearing a t-shirt reading "T.REX ENGINEERING". I was so tempted to ask if he could built me a hubcap diamond star halo, but sensibly refrained.