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- Artist: T. Rex
- Rating:
- Release Date: June 15, 2004
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Rock
Review
The first major release under son Rolan Bolan's stewardship of Marc Bolan's back catalog, Total T. Rex is a six-disc, 72-track collection that rounds up a mountain of material from 1971-1972, largely live but also including radio sessions, demos, and even a bonus DVD's worth of live footage. Little of it is entirely new to the avid collector, although the cleaned-up sound and sensible chronology is an improvement on many past attempts to anthologize this period. A few of the live recordings, too, seem to hail from hitherto untapped sources, although the only disc that really counts as "invaluable" would be the one that delves into the sessions for 1971's Electric Warrior watershed and hauls out the hitherto unheard title track -- which shifts so quickly into the so-familiar "There Was a Time" that one wonders what all the fuss has been about. Elsewhere, demos and rehearsals do round up a few more items of interest, but the entire package is really recommended only to collectors who, having spent the last decade or so in a land with no record stores, haven't already been tempted by much the same material in a wealth of other packagings. ~ Dave Thompson, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Spaceball Ricochet [Unplugged Version] | Marc Bolan | Marc Bolan | (5:08) |
| Jeepster [Unplugged Version] | Marc Bolan | Marc Bolan | (5:05) |
| Cosmic Dancer [Unplugged Version] | Marc Bolan | Marc Bolan | (7:53) |
| Main Man [Unplugged Version] | Marc Bolan | Marc Bolan | (6:22) |
| Ballrooms of Mars [Unplugged Version] | Marc Bolan | Marc Bolan | (3:47) |
| Mystic Lady [Unplugged Version] | Marc Bolan | Marc Bolan | (3:18) |
| Girl [Unplugged Version] | Marc Bolan | Marc Bolan | (2:55) |
| Baby Strange [Unplugged Version] | Marc Bolan | Marc Bolan | (3:00) |
| Spaceball Ricochet | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (4:55) |
| Left Hand Luke | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (3:40) |
| Slider | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (4:07) |
| Interview & Jingles | T. Rex | (8:33) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Cosmic Dancer | Marc Bolan | Marc Bolan | (3:58) |
| Planet Queen | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (3:33) |
| Elemental Child | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (8:27) |
| Jewel | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (12:21) |
| Hot Love | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (3:41) |
| Cosmic Dancer | Marc Bolan | Mickey Finn, Marc Bolan | (7:11) |
| Honey Don't | Carl Perkins | Mickey Finn, Marc Bolan | (4:48) |
| Planet Queen | Marc Bolan | Mickey Finn, Marc Bolan | (3:55) |
| Get It On Blues | Marc Bolan | Mickey Finn, Marc Bolan | (7:06) |
| Radio Ad | T. Rex | (1:07) |
CD 3
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Cadilac [Live] | T. Rex | (14:08) | |
| Jeepster [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (8:54) |
| Thunderwing [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (6:45) |
| Baby Strange [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (2:40) |
| Spaceball Ricochet [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (4:41) |
| Girl [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (4:24) |
| Cosmic Dancer [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (4:24) |
| Hot Love [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (2:12) |
| Get It On [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (7:58) |
| Beltane Walk [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (4:19) |
| One Inch Rock [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (2:15) |
| Girl [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (5:37) |
CD 4
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Jeepster [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (5:40) |
| Cadilac [Live] | T. Rex | (4:46) | |
| Baby Strange [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (6:05) |
| Debora [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (4:19) |
| Spaceball Ricochet [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (4:29) |
| Telegram Sam [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (4:25) |
| Beltane Walk [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (5:31) |
| One Inch Rock [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (4:50) |
| Spaceball Ricochet [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (3:18) |
| Debora [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (6:58) |
| Instrumental Jam [Live] | T. Rex | (5:45) | |
| Elemental Child [Live] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (13:22) |
CD 5
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Electric Warrior/There Was a Time [Demo Version] | T. Rex | (2:08) | |
| Planet Queen [Demo Version] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (2:26) |
| Guitar Jam [Demo Version] | T. Rex | (0:32) | |
| Girl [Demo Version] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (1:40) |
| Guitar Jam #2 [Demo Version] | T. Rex | (0:18) | |
| Girl #2 [Demo Version] | T. Rex | (2:50) | |
| Guitar Jam #3 [Demo Version] | T. Rex | (4:04) | |
| Get It On [Demo Version] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (3:17) |
| Jeepster [Demo Version] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (4:59) |
| Dark Lipped Woman [Demo Version] | T. Rex | (1:57) | |
| Life's a Gas [Demo Version] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (2:47) |
| Honey Don't [Rehearsal] | Carl Perkins | T. Rex | (6:49) |
| Summertime Blues [Rehearsal] | Eddie Cochran, |
T. Rex | (3:32) |
| Interview [Demo Version] | T. Rex | (12:56) | |
| Alligator Man [Demo Version] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (2:13) |
| Sailors of the Highway [Demo Version] | Marc Bolan | T. Rex | (2:15) |
| Children of Ram [Demo Version] | T. Rex | (15:22) |
CD 6
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Jewel [DVD][Live] | T. Rex | ||
| Ride a White Swan [DVD][Live] | T. Rex | ||
| Elemental Child [DVD][Live] | T. Rex | ||
| Summertime Blues [DVD][Live] | Eddie Cochran, |
T. Rex | |
| Jeepster [DVD][Live] | T. Rex | ||
| Hot Love [DVD][Live] | T. Rex | ||
| Cadilac [DVD][Live] | T. Rex | ||
| Telegram Sam [DVD][Live] | T. Rex | ||
| Spaceball Ricochet [DVD][Live] | T. Rex |
