Audio CD review:
Marc Bolan & T. Rex - Work in Progress

Marc Bolan & T. Rex - Work in Progress

Band: Marc Bolan & T. Rex Title: Work in Progress Rating: Release Date: 24 January, 2006 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Is It True 2: Over The Flats 3: Jet Tambourine 4: Children Of The World 5: Did You Ever 6: Alligator Man 7: Shame On You 8: Rollin' Stone 9: Auto Machine 10: Would I Be The One 11: Meadows Of The Sea 12: Just Like Me 13: Spaceball Boot 14: Slider Blues 15: I Wanna Go 16: This Is My Life 17: Big Black Cat 18: Sure Enough 19: I'm Coming Back To Rock 'N' Roll 20: Pale Horse Riding 21: Depth Charge 22: King Of The Mountain Cometh 23: Dynamo 24: Over You Babe 25: Sad Man 26: Skateboard 27: 20th Century Baby 28: Everybody Needs Somebody 29: Teenage Angel 30: Auto Destruct 31: Young Boy Of Love 32: 21st Century Stance 33: Classic Rap 34: All Of My Love 35: Down Home Lady 36: Delanie (Everyday) 37: Saturday Night 38: Dance In The Midnight 39: Plateau Skull 40: Sky Church Music 41: Metropolis Incarnate 42: Bolan's Zip Gun 43: Lock Into Your Love 44: Bust My Ball 45: Savage Beethoven 46: Sanctified 47: (By The Light Of The) Magical Moon 48: Brain Police 49: Funky London Childhood 50: Reelin' & A Wheelin' & A Boppin' & A Bolan 51: Christmas Bop 52: Love Drunk 53: 20th Century Baby 54: Hot George 55: Write Me A Song

Customer Reviews Good, but not good enough (No, I'm afraid the so-called, Best of the Unchained Series, was nothing more than an exploitation; no better than Messin' With the Mystic -- another unhinged collection of outtakes from the latter half of Bolan's career. This represents the first SERIOUS effort to cut out the mountain of fat in the sea of "unreleased" material Bolan had the sense to leave that way, for the most part, in his lifetime. ) This set still has way too much dross, and worse, far too few of the true gems that exist. But I suppose one should expect no less: Did you really think they'd give you ALL the worthwhile stuff on one two CD set, with so much cash remaining to be siphoned off an unsuspecting music-buying public? No doubt to the compiler, this is an "honest" collection of what Bolan was "really like" when he wasn't playing what he knew was his best. One wonders what other "honest" music he thinks worthy of our attention (and hard-earned) when in a perfect world, a DECENT collection of the best o' Bolan's rest would look something like this: disc 1 1972-1973 Alligator Man Meadows of the Sea Mr. Motion (version 2) City Port (Fast Punk) Fast Blues - Easy Acton Dark-Lipped Woman Organ Thing (instrumental) All My Love (version I) This is My Life Big Black Cat Down Home Lady (version I) Sky Church Music Dance In the Midnight (version II) All My Love (version II) Hope Your Enjoy the Show (version II) I'm Coming to Rock 'n' Roll High Wire Yesterday (Everyday) (version I) Sad Girl Jet Tambourine Dance In the Midnight (version III) Saturation Syncopation (All Alone) (version I) disc 2 1974-1977 Bolan's Zip Gun Love For Me Depth Charge King of the Mountain Cometh Swahili Boogie Woman (version I) Baby Please, Baby Squeeze It's My City Swahili Boogie Woman (version II) Riff I'm a VooDoo Man London Boys Over You Babe Riff Wherever You Go It's Alright 21st Century Stance Messing With The Mystic Sailors of the Highway. Nice Summary of Unreleased Bolan For those of us who know he was more brilliant than given credit for and already own some of the hundreds of his unreleased songs, this new CD may contain some duplication. This CD is a great starting point for Bolan fans who have none of his myriad officially unreleased work. But recommended anyway. . . You can see a complete list of all Marc Bolan & T. Rex discography, or go back to the Marc Bolan & T. Rex tabs