Unicorn (Digitally Remastered Deluxe Edition)
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Tyrannosaurus Rex
Unicorn (Digitally Remastered Deluxe Edition)
[ Universal Music / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 30 January 2015
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The third Tyrannosaurus Rex album, and their debut U.S. release, Unicorn was also the first to steadfastly state the game plan which Marc Bolan had been patiently formulating for two years -- the overnight transformation from underground icon to above ground superstar. Not only does it catch him experimenting with an electric guitar for the first time on record, it also sees Steve Peregrin Took exchange his bongos for a full drum kit, minor deviations to be sure, but significant ones regardless.
Either way, it must have been a rude awakening for the bliss-soaked hippy acid-heads who were the duo's most loyal audience at the time -- and, though the album settled down considerably thereafter, that initial sense of alarm never leaves.
Reprising his role on the duo's first album, DJ John Peel reappears to read a brief children's story, but that truly is the only real point of contact between Unicorn and its predecessors. Indeed, in a moment of pure prescient enthusiasm, Melody Maker's review tagged the once painstakingly eclectic acoustic duo "electrified teenybop" and, had things not gone horribly awry between Bolan and Took during their first U.S. tour that same year, all that T Rex was to achieve in the first years of the next decade might have instead fallen into place during the final years of the '60s.
Tracks 1-16 are from the original mono album produced by Tony Visconti, and tracks 24-28 are from John Peel's BBC Radio Show "Top Gear" 1969.
Tracks:
Disc One
1. Chariots Of Silk
2. 'Pon A Hill
3. The Seal Of Seasons
4. The Throat Of Winter
5. Cat Black (The Wizard's Hat)
6. Stones For Avalon
7. She Was Born To Be My Unicorn
8. Like A White Star, Tangled And Far, Tulip That's What You
9. Warlord Of The Royal Crocodiles
10. Evenings Of Damask
11. The Sea Beasts
12. Iscariot
13. Nijinsky Hind
14. The Pilgrim's Tale
15. The Misty Coast Of Albany
16. Romany Soup
17. Pewter Suitor
18. King Of The Rumbling Spires
19. Do You Remember
20. Once Upon The Seas Of Abyssinia
21. Demon Queen
22. Ill Starred Man
23. Blessed Wild Apple Girl
24. Chariots Of Silk
25. Once Upon The Seas Of Abyssinia
26. Nijinsky Hind
27. The Misty Coast Of Albany
28. Iscariot
Bonus Disc
1. Pewter Suitor (Take 3)
2. Chariots Of Silk (Take 1)
3. 'Pon A Hill (Take 2)
4. The Seal Of Seasons (Take 5)
5. The Throat Of Winter (Take 2)
6. Cat Black (The Wizard's Hat) (Take 1)
7. Stones For Avalon (Take 2)
8. She Was Born To Be My Unicorn (Take 1)
9. Like A White Star, Tangled And Far, Tulip That's What You Are (Take 1)
10. Warlord Of The Royal Crocodiles (Take 4)
11. Evenings Of Damask (Take 4)
12. The Sea Beasts (Take 3)
13. Iscariot (Take 4)
14. Nijinsky Hind (Take 5)
15. The Pilgrim's Tale (Take 1)
16. The Misty Coast Of Albany (Take 3)
17. Romany Soup (Take 1)
18. King Of The Rumbling Spires (Take 1)
19. King Of The Rumbling Spires (Take 3)
20. Do You Remember (Take 2)
21. Once Upon The Seas Of Abyssinia (Take 3)
22. Demon Queen (Take 1)
23. Ill Starred Man (Acoustic Version, Take 1)
24. Blessed Wild Apple Girl (Take 2)
25. The Lion And The Unicorn (Live At The Lyceum, London / 1969 / Mono)
26. Interview (Blue Thumb Promo 7")
