Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow

Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow Artist: T. Rex
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 081227321925
EAN: 0081227321925
ASIN: B000BH4YFY


Release Date: 2005-11-08

Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow


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Tracks:

  1. Venus Loon
  2. Sound Pit
  3. Explosive Mouth
  4. Galaxy
  5. Change
  6. Namelss Wildness
  7. Teenage Dream
  8. Liquid Gang
  9. Carsmile Smith and the Old One
  10. You've Got To Jive to Stay Alive
  11. Spanish Midnight
  12. Interstellar Sound
  13. Painless Persuasion v. The Meathawk Immaculate
  14. Avengers (Superbad)
  15. Leopards featuring Gardenia and the MIghty Slug
  16. Groover
  17. Midnight
  18. Truck On (Tyke)
  19. Sitting Here
  20. Satisfaction Pony

Tracks:

  1. Venus Loon (Disc 2)
  2. Sound Pit (Parts 1 & 2) (Disc 2)
  3. Explosive Mouth (Disc 2)
  4. Galaxy (Disc 2)
  5. Change (Signs) (Disc 2)
  6. Nameless Wilness (Disc 2)
  7. Teenage Dream (Disc 2)
  8. Liquid Gang (Disc 2)
  9. Carsmile Smith and the Old One (Disc 2)
  10. Spanish Midnight (Disc 2)
  11. Painless Persuasion v. The Meathawk Immaculate (Disc 2)
  12. Avengers (Superbad) (Disc 2)
  13. Leopards Featuring Gardenia and the Mighty Slug (Disc 2)
  14. Groover (Disc 2)
  15. Midnight (Disc 2)
  16. Truck On (Tyke) (Disc 2)
  17. Sitting Here (Sitting There) (Disc 2)
  18. Satisfaction Pony (Disc 2)
  19. Nameless Wildness (Disc 2)
  20. Carsmile Smith and The Old One (Solo) (Disc 2)
  21. Carsmile Smith and the Old One (With Organ) (Disc 2)
  22. Painless Persuasion V. The Meathawk Immaculate (Disc 2)
  23. Avengers (Superbad) (Disc 2)
  24. Leopards Featuring Gardenia and the Mighty Slug (Disc 2)

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This edition has been digitally re-mastered from the original analog master tapes. Included are non-album singles following the original record's order. There's also a newly produced bonus CD with a "work-in-progress version" of the album. These songs are rare versions (previously unreleased in the U.S.) arranged to mirror the original running order of the record.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Funky Bolan.......2007-01-27

Do not be scared off by what you've heard about this album. Yes, it began a rapid commercial decline for Marc Bolan and T. Rex, but undeservedly so. This was one of the first albums to fuse American funk sounds with English rock. Though it was recorded and released in England before Bowie's Young Americans album, it doesn't get the credit that album did for furthering funk rock since it was never issued in the States. The U.S. got half of this album coupled with half of Bolan's next UK issue (Bolan's Zip Gun)--Casablanca Records released it as Light of Love, which didn't perform well on the US album chart.

Overall though, Zinc Alloy is a better album than Young Americans, though it lacked a galvanizing title song like the Bowie classic. Some people were also put off by Bolan's girlfriend Gloria Jones' backing vocals coming out high in the mix. But you can't deny such catchy rockers as "Venus Loon," "Explosive Mouth" and "Nameless Wildness" or the era-ending ballad "Whatever Happened to the Teenage Dream." This edition also comes with the Top 5 UK single "The Groover" and amazing B-Sides like the hard-rocking "Midnight" and the pretty "Sitting Here."

Also, check out the guitar on the ballad "Change," which sounds like the Alice Cooper classic "Welcome to My Nightmare," released one year later.

3 out of 5 stars The first signs of the T.Rex decine........2006-01-26

I have bought every T.rex album since Electric Warrior on both vinyl and CD and this was the first one that sounded like Marc Bolan was running out of ideas and getting tired. Although the album starts of promising, with powerful songs like "Venus Loon" and "Sound Pit" the album begins to weeken in the middle and never really recovers.Some of the tracks are rather plain and the style is a little bit all over the place.
A lot of it sounds over produced in areas, and the Gloria Jones backing vocals are overdone and uneccessary at times.It was always going to be hard to follow albums like Electric Warrior and The Slider and even Tanx,but Bolan needed a killer at this point in his career and this wasnt it.Having said that it is the last of the Tony Visconti productions and still has some worthwhile moments, although I wouldnt introduce T.Rex to anyone who hadnt heard them, via this album.

4 out of 5 stars

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