0329. T. Rex
Electric Warrior

Marc Bolan had been starting bands since he was nine and by the time the band was T. Rex it was all a solo act with backing by whomever he saw fit (Tyrannosaurus Rex was a duo before Bolan fired the other guy, released one more album and then shortened the name). Electric Warrior is the sixth of the Tyrannosaurus / T. Rex releases and one of the defining glam rock albums.

Sadly it's a bit formulaic in its sound at the start, which when Get It On comes along makes the hit seem less of a stroke of genius and more of a stroke of luck (or a stroke of "we've worn you down so now you'll have to like it"), and while I've always considered T. Rex as all about Marc Bolan this time it feels like it's about Marc Bolan trying to get that one song just right.

But!
The single-song impression fades a bit on the second half of the album, whereupon the realization that the first half also contained differentiation occurs (irritatingly enough I go through the same phases each time I listen to Electric Warrior in its entirety).