now that the dust has cleared from RECORD STORE DAY 2013, i'll highlight a few of my favorite releases from this year's vinyl / record shop celebrating holiday. my apologies if this is a tease, cuz no one these releases were pressed in enough quantities to go around, but at least you can stream some of the excellent jams on TINY GROOVES (not that makes up for the exclusivity of it all)......yes, TY SEGALL is one prolific stream of energy, so it's no surprise that he teamed up with his old label GONER for another gem in the form of a RSD single....this time around a follow up to 2011's RSD 12 inch T REX covers EP, aptly titled TY REX 2...... two more MARC BOLAN glam / psych bangers done up in that sweetly melodic / chaotic garage way that TY SEGALL has down in spades......
the A SIDE is CAT BLACK (THE WIZARD HAT'S) from Tyrannosaurus Rex's 1969 lp UNICORN and the B SIDE is MOTIVATOR from the epically classic T-REX album ELECTRIC WARRIOR.... both songs highlight TY's kinship / love for T REX and if you thought no one was up to the challenge of taking on such memorable songs and making them their own, you are wrong...... these two songs are some of the best / most fun covers i've heard in quite some time (and if you've been to a ty segall show, you know the guy has a way of making any cover song from sabbath to james gang killer).....
probably only the diehard ty segall fans got ahold of this one on record store day, but seriously everyone should have these two songs in their collection..... repeat listens hands down.
LISTEN TO THE ENTIRETY OF TY REX 2 BELOW,
and scramble around the internet to grab a copy for yerself soon,
this one's gonna be super collectible........
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