T. Rex

T. Rex Album: “Unicorn [Bonus Tracks]”

Album Information :

Title:

Unicorn [Bonus Tracks]

Release Date:2005-03-15

Type:Unknown

Genre:Rock, Classic Rock, 1970s Rock

Label:

Explicit Lyrics:Yes

UPC:4988005379634

Track Listing :
1	Chariots of Silk T. Rex, Marc Bolan and Marc Bolan & T. Rex
2	'Pon a Hill
3	Seal of Seasons
4	Throat of Winter
5	Catblack (The Wizard's Hat)
6	Stones for Avalon
7	She Was Born to Be My Unicorn
8	Like a White Star, Tangled and Far, Tulip That's What You Are

Review - :

The third {$Tyrannosaurus Rex} album, and their debut U.S. release, {^Unicorn} was also the first to steadfastly state the game plan which {$Marc Bolan} had been patiently formulating for two years -- the overnight transformation from underground icon to above-ground superstar. Not only does {^Unicorn} catch him experimenting with an electric guitar for the first time on record, it also sees {$Steve Peregrine Took} exchange his bongos for a full drum kit, minor deviations to be sure, but significant ones regardless. Listen closely and you can hear the future.The opening {&"Chariots of Silk"} sets the ball rolling, as slight and lovely as any of {$Bolan}'s early songs, but driven by a tumultuous drum roll, a pounding percussion which might be the sound of distant gunfire but could as easily be a petulant four-year-old stomping around an upstairs apartment. Either way, it must have been a rude awakening for the bliss-soaked hippie acid-heads who were the duo's most loyal audience at the time -- and, though the album settled down considerably thereafter, that initial sense of alarm never leaves. By the time one reaches the closing {&"Romany Soup,"} a nursery-jingle duet for voice and whispered secrets, you feel like you've just left the wildest roller coaster on earth. If the peaks are astonishing, however, the troughs are merely comparative. {&"Pon a Hill"} is certainly more remarkable for the backing chorus of absurd twitters than for a fairly standard {$Bolan} melody. But {&"Cat Black,"} a song which had been around since before {$Bolan} joined {$John's Children}, comes on like a lost {$Spector} classic, with apoplectic percussion and a positively soaring, wordless chorus. {&"She Was Born to Be My Unicorn,"} meanwhile, drifts by on piping Hammond and tympani, while {&"Warlord of the Royal Crocodiles"} is no less resonant than such a title demands. Reprising his role on the duo's first album, DJ {$John Peel} reappears to read a brief {\children's} story, but that truly is the only real point of contact between {^Unicorn} and its predecessors. Indeed, in a moment of pure prescient enthusiasm, {~Melody Maker}'s review tagged the once-painstakingly-eclectic acoustic duo "electrified teenybop" and, had things not gone horribly awry between {$Bolan} and {$Took} during their first US tour that same year, all that {$T Rex} was to achieve in the first years of the next decade might have instead fallen into place during the final years of the '60s. Because again, you can already hear the storm brewing. [This version of the album includes bonus material.] ~ Dave Thompson, All Music Guide


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