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Track List
01) Tenement Lady
02) Rapids
03) Mister Mister
04) Broken Hearted Blues
05) Shock Rock
06) Country Honey
07) Electric Slim & The Factory Hen
08) Mad Donna
09) Born To Boogie
10) Life Is Strange
11) The Street & Babe Shadow
12) Highway Knees
13) Left Hand Luke
14) 20th Century Boy
15) Children of the Revolution
16) Jitterbug Love
17) Sunken Rags
18) Solid Gold Easy Action
19) Free Angel
01) Tenement Lady
02) Rapids
03) Mister Mister
04) Broken Hearted Blues
05) Shock Rock
06) Country Honey
07) Electric Slim & The Factory Hen
08) Mad Donna
09) Born To Boogie
10) Life Is Strange
11) The Street & Babe Shadow
12) Highway Knees
13) Left Hand Luke
14) 20th Century Boy
15) Children of the Revolution
16) Jitterbug Love
17) Sunken Rags
18) Solid Gold Easy Action
19) Free Angel
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1:42
1:47
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3:39
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2:55
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First Released
1973
Psychedelic Rock
Energetic
Rock/Pop
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Tanx is the eighth album by British rock band T. Rex, released in 1973. Tanx was a hit in UK and Europe but it failed to emulate the success of The Slider in the U.S., reaching only #102 in the album charts. It was critically derided by journalists who said the darker, adult sound was a complete departure from the unique melodic rock and roll that made the band famous.
It predates punk in some ways, with largely darker and more aggressive songs, and shorter songs than the previous two T. Rex albums (Electric Warrior and The Slider) with 9 of the songs less than three minutes long (by comparison, "Get It On" was 4:24), akin to Bolan's previous albums under the name Tyrannosaurus Rex and the debut album under the abbreviated "T. Rex" name (all of which had no more than 2 songs over three minutes per album). Tanx is also the first album notably to incorporate elements of soul music, further explored in the following album, Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow, and other subsequent T. Rex albums. Likewise, it's the beginning of Bolan's marked departure from the glam rock style which he originated and helped popularize, preceding contemporary David Bowie's departure from glam and move towards soul music with his album, Young Americans, by nearly 2 years.
The song "Born to Boogie" was actually not featured in the 1972 Ringo Starr produced film, also called Born to Boogie. Curiously, the popular single "20th Century Boy" was not included on the album.
The album is also widely known to be the last of T. Rex's string of successes since Electric Warrior; their next album Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow would prove to be a financial failure and put Bolan's musical career in jeopardy until 1976. It's also T. Rex's last album released under Reprise Records in the US, as Light of Love, released under Casablanca Records (like Reprise, distributed through Warner Bros. Records), would be the last of their albums released in the US.
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Tanx is the eighth album by British rock band T. Rex, released in 1973. Tanx was a hit in UK and Europe but it failed to emulate the success of The Slider in the U.S., reaching only #102 in the album charts. It was critically derided by journalists who said the darker, adult sound was a complete departure from the unique melodic rock and roll that made the band famous.
It predates punk in some ways, with largely darker and more aggressive songs, and shorter songs than the previous two T. Rex albums (Electric Warrior and The Slider) with 9 of the songs less than three minutes long (by comparison, "Get It On" was 4:24), akin to Bolan's previous albums under the name Tyrannosaurus Rex and the debut album under the abbreviated "T. Rex" name (all of which had no more than 2 songs over three minutes per album). Tanx is also the first album notably to incorporate elements of soul music, further explored in the following album, Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow, and other subsequent T. Rex albums. Likewise, it's the beginning of Bolan's marked departure from the glam rock style which he originated and helped popularize, preceding contemporary David Bowie's departure from glam and move towards soul music with his album, Young Americans, by nearly 2 years.
The song "Born to Boogie" was actually not featured in the 1972 Ringo Starr produced film, also called Born to Boogie. Curiously, the popular single "20th Century Boy" was not included on the album.
The album is also widely known to be the last of T. Rex's string of successes since Electric Warrior; their next album Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow would prove to be a financial failure and put Bolan's musical career in jeopardy until 1976. It's also T. Rex's last album released under Reprise Records in the US, as Light of Love, released under Casablanca Records (like Reprise, distributed through Warner Bros. Records), would be the last of their albums released in the US.
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