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Album · 1971

Electric Warrior

by T. Rex

Electric Warrior is a 1971 psychedelic rock album by T. Rex. It runs 11 tracks across 40 minutes. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.0/5 from 1 rating.

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11
Tracks
40 min
Runtime
117 bpm
Tempo
E major
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11 tracks · 40 min

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  • Electric Warrior [Expanded & Remastered]Expanded edition · 2003
  • Electric Warrior (Expanded Edition) [2003 Remaster]Expanded edition · 1971 · 18 tracks
    1. 1Mambo Sun
    2. 2Cosmic Dancer
    3. 3Jeepster
    4. 4Monolith
    5. 5Lean Woman Blues
    6. 6Bang a Gong (Get It On)
    7. 7Planet Queen
    8. 8Girl
    9. 9The Motivator
    10. 10Life's a Gas
    11. 11Rip Off
    12. 12There Was a Time (Single Version)
    13. 13Raw Ramp (Single Version)
    14. 14Planet Queen (Acoustic Version)
    15. 15Hot Love (Single Version)
    16. 16Woodland Rock (Single Version)
    17. 17King of the Mountain Cometh (Single Version)
    18. 18The T. Rex Electric Warrior Interview
  • Electric Warrior (2007 Remaster)Remaster · 1971 · 11 tracks
    1. 1Mambo Sun
    2. 2Cosmic Dancer
    3. 3Jeepster
    4. 4Monolith
    5. 5Lean Woman Blues
    6. 6Bang a Gong (Get It On)
    7. 7Planet Queen
    8. 8Girl
    9. 9The Motivator
    10. 10Life's a Gas
    11. 11Rip Off

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Electric Warrior is the sixth album by British rock group T. Rex (being the second album under that name with the first four billed as by Tyrannosaurus Rex). Electric Warrior reached number thirty-two in the US Billboard 200; it went to number one for several weeks in the UK Albums Chart, becoming the biggest selling album there in 1971. In 2003, it was ranked number 160 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album contained two of T. Rex's most popular songs, "Get It On" and "Jeepster." In the United States, "Get It On"'s title was modified to "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" to distinguish it from Chase's song "Get It On", which was also released in late 1971. (The printing of the song title "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" on the back cover of original Reprise Records U.S. copies of Electric Warrior is obviously in a different typefont from the surrounding text, with the song's original title retained when printing the lyrics.) "Get It On" was T. Rex's biggest selling single and their only US hit reaching number 10 in the Billboard Hot 100.

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Bolan, in a 1971 interview contained on the Rhino Records reissue, said of the album "I think Electric Warrior, for me, is the first album which is a statement of 1971 for us in England. I mean that's... If anyone ever wanted to know why we were big in the other part of the world, that album says it, for me." The sleeve was designed by British art design group Hipgnosis. In the November 2001 issue of Vanity Fair American musician Beck chose it as one of his 50 favorite album sleeves.

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Is Electric Warrior good?
Riffiter listeners rate Electric Warrior 4.0/5 from 1 rating.
When was Electric Warrior released?
Electric Warrior was released in 1971.
How many tracks are on Electric Warrior?
Electric Warrior has 11 tracks, with a runtime of 40 minutes.
What genre is Electric Warrior?
Electric Warrior is catalogued under Psychedelic Rock.
What BPM is Electric Warrior?
Electric Warrior runs at a median tempo of 117 BPM across its tracks, most often in E major, measured from audio analysis.
What albums are similar to Electric Warrior?
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Electric Warrior at a glance

Labels
Reprise Records, Fly Records
Recorded at
Trident Studios
Produced by
Tony Visconti

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