T.REX


The Slider

(1972)



1. Metal Guru 2'25
(Marc Bolan)
2. Mystic Lady 3'10
(Marc Bolan)
3. Rock On 3'26
(Marc Bolan)
4. The Slider 3'22
(Marc Bolan)
5. Baby Boomerang 2'18
(Marc Bolan)
6. Spaceball Ricochet 3'38
(Marc Bolan)
7. Buick Mackane 3'31
(Marc Bolan)
8. Telegram Sam 3'43
(Marc Bolan)
9. Rabbit Fighter 3'55
(Marc Bolan)
10. Baby Strange 3'04
(Marc Bolan)
11. Ballrooms Of Mars 4'09
(Marc Bolan)
12. Chariot Choogle 2'45
(Marc Bolan)
13. Main Man 4'14
(Marc Bolan)

Bonus Tracks

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