The Sliderrelease date: Jul. 21, 1972
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,77]
producer: Tony Visconti
label: EMI Records - nationality: England, UK
Tracklist: 1. "Metal Guru" (4,5 / 5) - 2. "Mystic Lady" (4 / 5) - 3. "Rock On" (4 / 5) - 4. "The Slider" (4 / 5) - 5. "Baby Boomerang" - 6. "Spaceball Richochet" (4 / 5) - 7. "Buick Mackane" - 8. "Telegram Sam" (4 / 5) - 9. "Rabbit Fighter" - 10. "Baby Strange" - 11. "Ballrooms of Mars" - 12. "Chariot Choogle" (4,5 / 5) - 13. "Main Man"
7th studio album release with Tyrannosaurus Rex / T.Rex. The style is very much the same as on Electric Warrior (1971), and the album is packed with great tracks that put Marc Bolan and Co. on top of glam rock. Actually, it's hard to say which album is the best of the two classic T. Tex albums of 1971 and '72, as they both contain some of the most classic glam rock songs of the era. Also, the year 1972 was truly a fine year of rock seeing such other fine releases as: David Bowie's (his best album ever) The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Lou Reed's Transformer, Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick, and Neil Young's Harvest, which explains the difficulty in reaching my top-3 that particular year. The album is enlisted in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
[ allmusic.com 5 / 5, Rolling Stone, Q Magazine 4 / 5 stars ]
