Electric Warrior

This is it. When your friends ask you what’s all the fuss about “glam” and “glitter” rock, put this on and sit back and smile. All the signposts are here: simple melodies that stay in your head for days; misogynistic lyrics about ball-busting birds succumbing to the charms and sexual prowess of the electric warrior, Marc Bolan; introspective evaluations of our place in the universe, all delivered in a soupcon of blues, folks, rawk, and pedal-to-the-metal, foot-stomping bravado that’s rarely been equalled, certainly in the subsequent careers of fellow glitterati, Bowie, Ian Hunter, Gary Glitter, and Roy Wood’s Wizzard. Slade may have moved more product, but that was over an extended career of chart toppers.

Electric Warrior stands the test of time as THE glam rock album of all time because it was the first to condense the movement into 40 minutes of all killer – no filler. Released a week before Bolan's 24th birthday, it topped the charts before Bowie, Glitter, and Slade, despite Bolan’s staunchest supporter John Peel practically disowning him for changing horses midstream, from the hippy gumbo of Tyrannosaurus Rex to the electric boogie woogie of T. Rex. The debut was a headscratching bridge between the two worlds, but non-LP hits ‘Ride A White Swan (#2) and ‘Hot Love’ (Bolan’s first chart topper) signalled the end of Tinkerbelle’s fairy dust.

Ripped from the 2012 double CD 40^th Anniversary Edition to MP3 @ 320kbps

I’m too fucking lazy to be bothered typing out the tracks, so go look here instead.