Track Listing
1. Mambo Sun - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
2. Cosmic Dancer - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
3. Jeepster - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
4. Monolith - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
5. Lean Woman Blues - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
6. Get It On - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
7. Planet Queen - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
8. Girl - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
9. Motivator, The - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
10. Life's a Gas - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
11. Rip Off - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
12. Rip Off (Alternative Take) - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
13. Mambo Sun (Alternative Take) - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
14. Cosmic Dancer (Alternative Take) - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
15. Monolith (Alternative Take) - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
16. Get It on (Alternative Take) - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
17. Planet Queen (Alternative Take) - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
18. Motivator, The (Alternative Take) - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
19. Life's a Gas (Alternative Take) - (with Marc Bolan & T. Rex)
| Details | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Includes liner notes by Nikki Sudden, Cliff McLenehen & Bill Legend.
Remaster with eight extra songs.
CD contains 8 bonus tracks.
It's pretty easy to argue that T. Rex hit its peak with 1972's ELECTRIC WARRIOR. Song for song, WARRIOR sported the group's most consistent set of tunes. Marc Bolan found his voice here, both the metallic purr of songs like "Planet Queen" and the salacious crooning of "Life's a Gas." Tony Visconti's superb production gave the tunes much-needed heft, and the groovy, gritty guitar never sounded better. It also included the group's signature song, "Get it On (Bang a Gong)."
The ELECTRIC WARRIOR SESSIONS consists of earlier takes of some (but not all) of the album's tracks--sometimes in multiple versions--along with early rock & roll covers including "Summertime Blues" and Carl Perkins's "Honey Don't." Among the minutiae revealed by these rough versions is that Bolan's seemingly offhand, half-spoken "Meanwhile, I'm still thinkin'," in the fadeout of "Get it On" was actually in the song in a much earlier take. Most fascinating is the 12-minute 1971 Bolan interview. His words "I don't feel there's that much time to jive about anymore...I realize the urgency to do whatever you're gonna do...now" are eerily prophetic in the light of his fatal car crash five years later.
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