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Tanx: Expanded And Remastered (Digipak) (CD)

By: Marc Bolan & T. Rex (Artist)

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Marc Bolan Artist Snapshot:

T. Rex was one of the quintessential British glam rock acts. Led by rock peacock Marc Bolan, the band became a huge success in England during the early 1970s, their popularity nearing the level of Beatlemania 10 years earlier. T. Rex enjoyed a long string of Top Ten singles, albums, and sold-out concerts, and influenced countless punk and new wave bands, but it all came to a halt when Bolan died in a car crash in 1977.

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DISC 1 for Tanx: Expanded And Remastered (Digipak) (CD) Album By Marc Bolan & T. Rex (Artist)
1   Tenement Lady
2   Rapids
3   Mister Mister
4   Broken-Hearted Blues
5   Shock Rock
6   Country Honey
7   Electric Slim And The Factory Hen
8   Mad Donna
9   Born To Boogie
10   Life Is Strange
11   Street And Babe Shadow, The
12   Highway Knees
13   Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys
14   Children Of The Revolution - (bonus track)
15   Jitterbug Love - (bonus track)
16   Sunken Rags - (bonus track)
17   Solid Gold Easy Action - (bonus track)
18   Xmas Riff - (bonus track)
19   20th Century Boy - (bonus track)
20   Free Angel - (bonus track)
 
DISC 2 for Tanx: Expanded And Remastered (Digipak) (CD) Album By Marc Bolan & T. Rex (Artist)
1   Tenement Lady / Darling
2   Rapids - (incomplete)
3   Mister Mister
4   Broken-Hearted Blues
5   Country Honey
6   Mad Donna
7   Born To Boogie
8   Life Is Strange
9   Street And Babe Shadow, The
10   Highway Knees
11   Left Hand Luke
12   Children Of The Revolution - (incomplete)
13   Solid Gold Easy Action
14   Free Angel
15   Mister Mister - (acoustic & bass demo)
16   Broken-Hearted Blues - (acoustic & bass demo)
17   Street And The Babe Shadow, The - (acoustic & bass demo)
18   Tenement Lady - (acoustic & bass demo)
19   Tenement Lady - (acoustic demo)
20   Broken Hearted Blues - (acoustic demo)
21   Mad Donna - (acoustic demo; different lyrics)
22   Street And The Babe Shadow, The - (acoustic demo)
23   Left Hand Luke - (acoustic demo)
 

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Title Note

This two-disc 2002 edition is packaged in a digipak and plastic slipcase.

Disc one includes seven non-album single sides in addition to the original album.

Disc two includes 23 "work in progress" versions and demos, which mirror the original album's running order.

Includes a 16 page color booklet featuring lyrics, photos, and memorabilia.

Includes liner notes by Mark Paytress (Marc Bolan's biographer).

Marc Bolan & T. Rex: Marc Bolan (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Mickey Finn (vocals, congas, percussion); Steve Currie (bass guitar); Bill Legend (drums).

Additional personnel: Howard Casey (saxophone); Tony Visconti (Mellotron, background vocals).

Recording information: Chateau d'Herouville, France (1972).

Conventional wisdom concerning Marc Bolan is that TANX was the beginning of the end, but the two-disc 2002 reissue of the album goes a long way toward rectifying that false impression. TANX certainly tweaks the T. Rex formula, bringing Flo and Eddie's harmonies forward in the mix and adding horns and more keyboards. The songwriting is more varied as well, with ballads like "Broken Hearted Blues" and soulful rockers like "Mad Donna" amid the usual glam boogie. Although the TANX album proper did not score any hit singles in the States, this expanded 2002 edition collects several utterly essential singles that were released around the same time, including the immortal "20th Century Boy" and "Children of the Revolution." These songs led to a renewal of interest in T. Rex when they were used in an SUV ad and the film MOULIN ROUGE, respectively. There's also an entire second disc of alternate takes and demos of TANX tracks, making this the ultimate version of the album for the Marc Bolan completist.

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