Various Artists
Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Release Date: Sep 4, 2020
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Tribute Albums, Sophisti-Pop
Record label: BMG
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Album Review: Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex by Various Artists
Very Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 7/10
In the often lamentable field of multi-artist tribute albums, no one put together better or more interesting ones than the late Hal Willner. While Willner had a real gift for matching artists to material, his real talent was the juxtaposition of diverse talents under one tent (1985's Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill is the only album where you'll find Sting, John Zorn, and Johnny Adams in the same place), and finding imaginative ways to link the material (using the recitations of Ken Nordine to bookend 1989's Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films). More than just a bunch of folks covering songs from the same artist or genres, Willner's projects were ALBUMS, using their diverse ingredients to create something more than the sum of the parts.
Opinion: Fairly Good
Is Marc Bolan an underrated songwriter, or an overrated one? In the popular imagination, one of pop's most perfect pixies is frozen forever in his imperial phase, the unassailable prince of British chart pop, shifting 7" singles in quantities unimaginable even a decade later. The run of T. Rex ….
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