250 Albums- An Arbitrary Rumble Through My Record Collection # 153 T. Rex - The Slider

 

To listen through to a T.Rex in 2025 is an exercise in exploration of a lost world. In actuality and of our own lost world. Bolan was fond of Tolkien and sliding into The Slider you could be marching through the fields of Middle Earth but in a satin jacket and glittery trousers and Rubettes cap and boots rather than the more practical country ware that Frodo and Co favoured.

But it's not much of an exercise to transport yourself back to your former self in 1973. In my case Private Road in Nottingham Alan Ball on Football Focus. Going wuth my older brother to Saturday morning Cinema showsYour dad with cool sideburns. Ollie Woods  who went to Australia sitting on a cake box on a Saturday afternoons. . The rough girls who lived at the end of the road and teased me for going to church with my parents. Going to your first fooyball matches and T Rex always marching high in the charts.