14. Lady 2'13
(Marc Bolan)
15. Cadillac 3'51
(Marc Bolan)
16. Thunderwing 3'46
(Marc Bolan)
Total Time: 53:30
Marc Bolan - Guitars, Vocals
Steve Currie - Bass
Bit Legend - Drums
Mickey Finn - Hand Percussion, Congas, Vocals
Howard Kaylan - Background Vocals
Mark Volman - Background Vocals
Tony Visconti - String Arrangements
Tony Visconti - Producer
Dominique - Engineer
Freddy Hansson - Engineer
All Tracks have been Digitally Remastered
All Songs Written and Composed by Marc Bolan
Recorded at CHATEAU D'HEROUVILLE, Paris, France
and ROSENBERG STUDIOS, Copenhagen, Denmark
The SLIDER was Bolan's masterpiece. The album on which Bolan's characteristically inscrutable, hippy-dippy lyrics were perfectly balanced with crunchy glam-rock guitar riffs and great, whomping drum fills,
The SLIDER is a masterpiece of glam boogie. It spawned two of Bolan's biggest singles, "Metal Guru" and "Telegram Sam" (the latter of which just might be the best song Bolan ever wrote).
The David Bowie tribute "Main Man" and the goofy rockabilly giggle "Baby Strange", as well as the more delicate title track, are all up to that level as well.
This reissue includes three bonus tracks, the surprisingly worthwhile 1972 demos "Cadillac", "Thunderwing", and "Lady" that are formative glimpses at how wildly productive Marc Bolan was during this period of his career.
1. Metal Guru
Metal Guru is it you
Metal Guru is it you
Sitting there in your armour plated chair
Metal Guru is it true
Metal Guru is it true
All alone without a telephone
Metal Guru could it be
You're gonna brng my baby to me
She'll be wild you know
A rock and roll child
Metal Guru has it been
Just like a silet-studded sabre-tooth dream
I'll be clean you know
Metal Guru is it you
Metal Guru is it you
2. Mystic Lady
Baby mystic lady
You do own my night
Put my dogs to fright
Yea yea yea yea yea
Riding sliding sorceress
In your dungarees
Got me on my knees
The people in your life are cruel
Keep on riding that hard road
The lovers in your life are few
Keep on riding that hard road
Pleasant crescent moon
Fills my heart with pain
Fills my toes with rain
Oh bobby you're a hobby
With the learned ones
Like a setting sun
3. Rock On
I've been down there
Everybody's been there
Everyone everyone
Desolation angel
On the cover of my paper
Loves everyone everyone
Rock on rock on
Mild mouthed rita
She's a chevy chase cheetah
Loves everyone everyone
Teddy's going steady
He's a silver-plated poet
Loves everyone everyone
Prophet pumped the car-scar
Deeper only sweeter
Loves everyone
4. The Slider
I could never understand
The wind at all
Was like a ball of love
I could never never see
The cosmic sea
Was like a bumblebee
And when i'm sad
I slide
I have never never kissed
A car before
It's like a door
I have always always
Grown my own before
All schools are strange
And when I'm sad
I slide
I have never never
Nailed a nose before
That's hwo the garden grows
I could never understand
The wind at all
Was like a ball of love
And when i'm sad
I slide
Watch now
I'm gonna slide
5. Baby Boomerrang
Slim lined sheik faced
Angel of the night
In the graveyard of the night
New york witch in the dungeon
Of the day
I'm trying to write my novel
All you do is play
Mice pie dog-eye
Eagle on the wind
I'm searching through this garbage
Looking for a friend
Your uncle with an alligator
Chained to his leg
Dangles you your freedom
Then he offers you his bed
It seems to me to dream
Is something too wild
In max's kansas city
You a belladonna child
Riding on the higways
On the gateways to the south
You're talking with your boots
And you're walking with your mouth
Baby boomerang baby boomerang
You never spike a person
But you always bang the whole gang
Thank you ma'am
6. Spaceball Ricochet
I'm just a man
I understand the wind
And all the things
That make the children cry
With my les paul
I know i'm small
But i enjoy living
Anyway
Book after book
I get hooked
Everytime the writer
Talks to me like a friend
What can i do
We just live in a zoo
All i do is play
The spaceball ricochet
Deep in my heart
There's a house
That can hold
Almost all of you
I brought a car
It was old but kind
I gave it my mind
And it disappeared
I love a girl
She is a changeless angel
She's a city it's a pity
That I'm like me
I said how can i lay
When all i do is play
The spaceball ricochet
7. Buick Mackane
Buick buick buick mackane
Will you
Buick mackane will you be my
Girl
Rainy lady, queen of the rock
Will you help me to roll
Help me roll, to my soul
Slide slider
You're just a sexual glider
You're just a sexual glider
Be my plane in the rain
8. Telegram Sam
Telegram Sam
Telegram Sam
You're my main man
Golden nose slim
Golden nose slim
I know's where you 'bin
Purple pie pete
Purple pie pete
Your lips are like lightning
Girls melt in the heat
Telegram Sam
You're my main man
Telegram Sam
You're my main man
Bobby's alright
Bobby's alright
He's a natural born poet
He's just out a sight
Jungle faced jake
Jungle faced jake
I said make no mistake
About jungle faced jake
Automatic shoes
Automatic shoes
Give me 3D vision
And the california blues
Me i funk but I don't care
I ain't no square with my corkscrew hair
Telegram Sam
Telegram Sam I'm a howlin' wolf
9. Rabbit Fighter
Shady politician in my bed
Tying bolts of lightning to his head
Call me rabbit fighter you know it's true
'cos babe i'll rabbit fight all over you
Tramp king of the city he's my friend
Moondog's just a prophet to the end
Call me rabbit fighter you knoiw it's true
'cos babe i'll rabbit fight all over you
I saw a dude unscrewed and badly turned
Laughing
'cos he'd gotten what he'd earned
Call me rabbit fighter you know it's true
'cos babe i'll rabbit fight all over you
Call me rabbit fighter
Jo jo don't you know
10. Baby Strange
I see you walking
I see you talking
With all of my friends
I'm shadowed under you're like some thunder
I wanna be your friend
I wanna call you
I wanna ball you all night long
In winds of passion my whip is lashing
I wanna get you and then
Cooo you're strange
Don't lame me baby strage
Don't lame me baby
The city's shaking
I ain't faking baby this is the end
I'm overloaded my head's exploded
I wanna get you and then
11. Ballrooms Of Mars
You gonna look fine
Be primed for dancing
You're gonna trip and glide
All on the trembling plane
Your diamond hands
Will be stacked with roses
And wind and cars
And people of the past
I'll call you thing
Just when the moon sings
And place your face in stone
Upon the hills of stars
And gripped in the arms
Of the changeless madman
We'll dance our lives away
In the ballrooms of mars
You talk about day
I'm talking 'bout night time
When the monsters call out
The names of men
Bob Dylan knows
And i bet alan freed did
There are things in night
That better not to behold
You dance
With your lizard leather boots on
And pull the strings
That change the faces of men
You diamond browed hag
You're a gutter-gaunt gangster
John Lennon knows your name
And I've seen his
12. Chariot Choogle
Girl you are a groove
You're like the planets when you move
See the winter' coming
In a two finned caddy
Gonna walk upon the waters
Go oooo yea
Girl you gotta cook
You got the chariot by the hook
I'm riding in the rain
Got my blue suede shoes
Gonna give up all my pain
And go ooooo yea
Baby you know who you are
Baby you know who you are
Don't you know who you are
Standing on your porch
You wear your pleasure like a torch
Hiding in the road
Like a paolini toad
Gonna give up all my load
And go oooo yea
13. Main Man
Are you my main man
Are you now are you now
Are you my main man
Are you now are you now
Are you now
Are you a god man
Are you now are you now
Are you a frog man
Are you now are you now are you now
Heaven is hot babe
Everso everso
Heaven is hot babe
Watch it glow watch it glow
Watch it glow
Bolan likes to rock now
Yes he does yes he does
Bolan likes to rock now
Yes he does, yes he does
Is there a sane man
Anywhere anywhere
Got giraffes in my hair
And i don't care
No i don't care, no i don't care
As a child i laughed a lot
O yes i did o yes i did
Now it seems i cry a lot
O tell me true don't you
14. Lady
Lady, like a like a lady like a like a
I'm gonna give all my love to you
Lady, like a like a lady like a like a
I'm gonna dance ill the rain for you
Got you feeling, mama
Got the feeling, mama
Got to dream about it, yeah, yeah
Shaking, my bones are aching
I'm like a scampering train for you
Baby, like a like a baby like a like a
I'm gonna give my pain to you
15. Cadillac
Yeah
Baby I wanna walk you home
Oh baby I wanna walk you home
There's a shadow in the bedroom
And I'm scared to sleep alone
Baby doesn't everybody
Weep Oh baby doesn't everybody weep
I'd slide up there beside you
But my nightmare's oh too steep
Yeah
Baby I wanna buy you a Cadillac
Baby I wanna buy you a Cadillac
I bought it with my song
But you say that you're gonna give it back
Yeah
Baby I love you baby
I love you baby
I love you baby
16. Thunderwing
I was walking down the skyway my way
When I saw the legs that I love
I was thinking about drinking something
When I saw the legs that I love
I bought a car 'twas a low slung thunderwing
It moved like the sun of the dawn
My little baby she's a tip-a-toed vamp rider
She moves like the sun of the dawn
Ooh
Yeah, get it on
Do your thing,
love on the Thunderwing
Do your thing, love on the Thunderwing
Yeah
Get it on, get it on whooo
Well my wings had grooves
And my baseball boots bounce
When I hear the music I love
A soapbox chord was the start of my wandering
When I hear the music I love
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