Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives, Recognizing the truth that an infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made (as long as they take turn), this latest shared post turns the GREM! spotlight on "20th Century Boy" by T. Rex.
This T. Rex piece was prepared for inclusion in my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), but is not a part of that book's current plan. The chapter mentions an oddball 2-LP various-artists collection called Heavy Metal, which I picked up in the '70s and wrote about here.
My Heavy Metal album retrospective (which is also quoted in the T. Rex chapter) was originally posted as part of my Rescued From The Budget Bin! series. The only other Rescued From The Budget Bin! piece published so far waxed blubberific over The Very Best Of The Hollies.
Rescued From The Budget Bin! is one of several blog series I put under the (slightly) wider category of My LP Appreciations. The My LP Appreciations umbrella encompasses used albums in Second-Hand Sound (the Monkees' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. and Headquarters and The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees), greatest-hits sets in The Best Of Everything (Monkeemania--plainly, I like writing about the Monkees--and The Best Of The Bobby Fuller Four), perfect albums in Love At First Spin (Drop Out With The Barracudas, Mr. Tambourine Man, and Rocket To Russia), albums received as gifts in Groove Gratitude (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and The White Album), a missed opportunity in The One That Got Away! (the Dave Clark Five's Glad All Over Again), and a separate admission that Beatles VI and Beatles '65 are my all-time favorite albums.
Yeah, I like a lot of stuff, including T. Rex. A Greatest Record Ever Made! celebration of T. Rex's "20th Century Boy" is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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