T. Rex - Electric Warrior (w/ guest Nikolina the Terrible)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Singer Nikolina the Terrible of the Production (theproductionband.com) joins Bill and Brian to discuss T. Rex's Electric Warrior (1971, Reprise). Nicole talks about how this album is one of her earliest memories and how she grew up listening to T. Rex. Bill, Brian, and Nicole then talk about how T. Rex didn't quite cross the pond with the same success they enjoyed in the UK, Marc Bolan's unique voice, Tony Visconti's production, what exactly glam is, and more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bell. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.7	1971's Electric Warrior by T-Rex.
0:09.0	What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:28.2	We're going to try to have the conversation around the album that fans do by talking about how we got into the music, what makes it cool.
0:35.8	And then we're going to do a track-by-track review.
0:38.9	Ooh, you know I love me some track-by-track reviews.
0:43.2	Favorite Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor, track-by-track.
0:47.0	Ooh, you know what? Oh, my God.
0:49.8	That's our new goal in life.
0:51.7	Oh, yes.
0:53.7	And it's going to be like moose tracks.
0:55.3	Okay.
0:56.1	All right.
0:56.6	So we're going to be talking about T-Rex today, and we're not going to be doing it alone, Brian.
1:00.9	No, sir.
1:02.2	Joining us today is going to be Nicolina the Terrible from the band The Production.
1:07.8	Yeah, great.
1:09.5	I don't want to say glam rock, but they're kind of glamy.
1:13.3	Yeah.
1:13.6	Rock and roll band.
1:14.8	They put on a production.
1:16.0	Yes, they do.
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