Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn
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Artist: Tyrannosaurus RexEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-10-25
Music Label: Universal UK
Soundtracks:
- Chariots Of Silk
- 'pon A Hill
- Seal Of Seasons
- Throat Of Winter
- Cat Black (The Wizard's Hat)
- Stones For Avalon
- She Was Born To Be A Unicorn
- Like A White Estar Tangled And Far Tulip That's What You Are
- Warlord Of The Royal Crocodiles
- Eveningsof Damask
- Sea Beasts
- Iscariot
- Nijinsky Hind
- Pilgrim's Tale
- Misty Coast Of Albany
- Romany Soup
- Pewter Suitor (Single Version) (Bonus Track)
- King Of The Rumbling Spires (Single Version) (Bonus Track)
- Do You Remember (Single Version) (Bonus Track)
- 'pon A Hill (Take 1) (Bonus Track)
- Seal Of Seasons (Take 1) (Bonus Track)
- Throat Of Winter (Take 1) (Bonus Track)
- She Was Born To Be My Unicon (Take 1) (Bonus Track)
- Warlord Of The Royal Crocodiles (Take 1) (Bonus Track)
- Evenings Of Damask (Take 5) (Bonus Track)
- Iscariot (Take 3 ) (Bonus Track)
- Misty Coast Of Albany (Take 1) (Bonus Track)
- Romany Soup (Take 2) (Bonus Track)
- Pewter Suitor (Take 1) (Bonus Track)
- King Of The Rumbling Spires (Take 7) (Bonus Track)
- Do You Remember (Take 3) (Bonus Track)
Free Music Notes for Unicorn
Free Music Review: Fab flocks of FOLKnotes float inna FREAK out folly
Hit: 5 Stars
I never knew ANYTHING about Tyrannosaurus Rex before i picked up this CD this week. Unless i'm experiencing something like a sonic equivalent of "love at first sign", a simple inflatuation, I have to say that this album UNICORN has completely charmed and captivated me. This doesnt happen much to me. If someone really LOVES something, it's because they see something of themselves in it. Somehow, from this psychedelic folk album that is all but unknown in the USA, i've heard melodies, that existed in my mind for incarnations.Once you hear the strange poetic images, and the evocative sounds, you'll be convinced Marc Bolan channeled these delicate tunes from Rivendale during the second age of MIDDLE EARTH, or from the last days of Atlantis. I bought BEARD OF STARS also, but for me UNICORN outranks it. First off, both members from the UNICORN version of Tyrannosaurus Rex had tragic lives. Marc and Steve were both dead by the time they were 30. So, as with Nick Drake, Tim Buckley or Phil Ochs, a sad poetic mystique surrounds people that never made it past their youth. Maybe some people own a vision of beauty so transcendent and otherworldly, that the world removes them, and takes them back to that etheric plane they belong to. These were guys not given to sticking to the rules, and writing comprehensible, big-money big-money POP. Well, I mean, sure T REX was money making pop, but except for that quavering, unique voice, its hard to make the connection between this album and the T REX sound. IF anything, this album is as much about POETRY as it is MUSIC. (The last 6 minutes of UNICORN is a spoken word poem.) Here's poetry floating just beyond the grasp of the intellect. The music at first seems to lack the lush, "thick" 60s psychedelic folk ideal. This is just stripped down acoustic guitar(s), matched to wierd percussion like tabla, bongos, maracas, and nice tripped out production. The maracas dance from one speaker to the other, and thick vocal overdubs appear and disappear. It's cool, dude. Sometimes a Tamboura hums....or is that harmonium? Who knows? The sound can be at times as indistinct and incomprehesible as the lyrics. The new edition offers you Marc's lyrics printed out, but dont expect THAT to be of help deciphering his meaning. It's best to allow yourself to be transported by the album to another, more hopeful, more colorful age. Discribing the individual songs would ruin your first listen...it'd be a spoiler, believe me. Just look forward to strange,ineffable combinations of Bolan's wavering, vibrato tenor over the cool countermelodies of Steve Took, along with Steve's direct, succinct percussion that's SO EFFECTIVE. I don't hear a lot of guitar overdubbing, altho one song has Tony Visconti (their famous producer) playing some pounding piano. This reissue is very well done. Since so many of the songs are VERY short, its nice to have extra takes from the vault, and a couple of singles, including one that starts the movement towards the electric sound T REX mastered a couple of years later. I recommend this album to ANYONE who likes MADCAP LAUGHS by Syd Barrett, INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, FOLKJOKEOPUS by Roy Harper, or Tim Buckley's surreal period. (More because of the unusual voice, mixed with strange lyrics, than the sound, which isnt as heavey as the BUCKLEY LPs.)
Unicorn Poster
Pre-glam rock era T. Rex (then Tyrannosaurus Rex) re-issue their early albums including this, 'Unicorn'. Considered a cornerstone of the 60s British Underground along with The Soft Machine, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, Cream, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, this expanded edition includes original artwork, lyrics, sleevenotes by Marc Bolan biographer Mark Paytress, rare photographs by Peter Sanders, and bonus tracks with stereo recordings and outtakes. First pressings come with a slipcase. Universal. 2004.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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