The Slider (studio album) by T. Rex
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T. Rex bestography
The Slider is ranked 2nd best out of 30 albums by T. Rex on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by T. Rex is Electric Warrior which is ranked number 352 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,111.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 04/12/2024 17:58 | Aitch | | 78/100 |
20/100 | 04/05/2024 00:29 | Proto | | 42/100 |
70/100 | 02/20/2024 21:13 | AlexBMUFC | | 77/100 |
60/100 | 01/17/2024 02:44 | albumceleste | | 57/100 |
75/100 | 11/16/2023 15:28 | rafaelcalazans | | 53/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.7/100, a mean average of 78.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.
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Only song on this album that I don't really get into is Buick McKane, but Ballroom of Mars more than makes up for that. Other top tracks include Metal Guru, Rock On, Slider - "and when I'm sad, I slide" - superb
Album Rating: 72.46
(942/13)
1. "Metal Guru" - 84
2. "Mystic Lady" - 67
3. "Rock On" - 77
4. "The Slider" - 74
5. "Baby Boomerang" - 59
6. "Spaceball Ricochet" - 73
7. "Buick Mackane" - 93
Side B
1. "Telegram Sam" - 69
2. "Rabbit Fighter" - 67
3. "Baby Strange" - 66
4. "Ballrooms of Mars" - 81
5. "Chariot Choogle" - 61
6. "Main Man" - 71
rock and roll with common themes
Very enjoyable glam at it's finest. Tony Visconti's production just sends it into the stratosphere. The thick layered guitar walls combined with those annoying as hell backing vocals by Flo and Eddie. Irritating but it gets you. It's sounds like bubblegum metal and I mean that in a good way. Best Tracks: The Slider, Mystic Lady, The Ballroom of Mars.
Outstanding glam rock album from start to finish. They sound like they're having one hell of a good time!
Best Tracks: Buick Mackane, Metal Guru
A really fun time for music, and it still hits hard. Very cumbersome.
Favorite Tracks: Metal Guru, The Slider & Rock On
The second best T.Rex album after, electric warrior. The slider, is another fine record, again featuring some fantastic tracks in, telegram Sam, rock on, and the sublime, metal guru. Great rock'n'roll boogie music.
As colorful a first eight bars of an album as you'll ever hear, and with four funky songs behind it - and then along comes "Baby Boomerang," aimed at... Babies? I'm asking because it certainly wasn't aimed the three decades-old American who just sat listening to it. Also, did they have "Seventeen" magazine in England circa '72? I'm asking because "Spaceball Ricochet" sure seems aimed at that same marketing demographic - which is by way of saying: while I admire Bolan's ability to hit his targets, hearing music aimed like missiles aimed toward specific buying publics, like Sprite commercials, makes "The Slider" (the album, not the song) come off a bit cheap on the whole. Actually, scratch "cheap" - b/c market research don't come... Whether you hire a firm or do it yourself - and b/c the eccentricities bleed through, I'm betting Marc Bolan did it himself. And thank God. Eccentricities redeem songs like "Baby Strange," and push songs like the "Ballrooms of Mars" toward... Transcendence?
Overall, while "Electric Warrior" and "Tanx" come off more authentic, this one has moments that can hang with the best of either of 'em. And that's saying a lot. 85/100
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