T. REX - Cosmic Dancer

[1987AREVALO]

GRACIAS POR LA CANCIÓN QUE ES EXCELENTE

[celestialcable]

I was Dancin' when I were 3

[Misducky03]

Jesus I´ve been looking for this song since I heard it in "Velvet Goldmine"... love it.

[Misducky03]

@Misducky03 I kinda had a feeling that was T-Rex singing, because I´ve heard they before...

[shatterdwing]

Would be cool to hear the original recording for the backwards guitar part.

[1987AREVALO]

MUY BUENA

[SuperAGEMAN]

i was on a plane to japan when Billy Elliot came on the screen best flight i ever had 13 hrs

[123jsbach]

ah well i guess we are all loons in one way or another.

[123jsbach]

@123jsbach somebody called me a loon that is why i wrote this.

[danklock3]

Checked this out because I love the Agents of Oblivion version..T Rex is great but I prefer Dax's vocals.

[Danorowski]

@danklock3 Ah, that's where I know this song from, used to listen to Agents looong time ago.

[alexmaggot4life]

Billy Elliot brought me here.

[MsNotzi]

I don't know about y'all, but this song always brings me back to the movie "Velvet Goldmine." Cool song.

[martusmarts]

listening to this while walking down the street is like being on a music video!

[Dananeeri]

nice video :

[ladaman100]

excelent i remember his music on radio luxemburg in my dads car as a kid n still love it now

[TraxGlam]

Love T.Rex always have & always will so much so I wrote a Tribute song as a thankyou ;)

[94blondebimbo]

What idiots dislike this?! rip Marc <3

[moeyash]

boss tune

[TheOrbitfan]

pure pure pure class bolan for ever

[Carreeanne]

Its the dogs bollocks

[jdoucetable]

GAHH!!! BILLY FUCKIN' ELLIOT!!

[JohnKulo]

He rocked himself right out of the womb, and sadly he also rocked himself into the tomb. RIP Marc

[RisingSon011]

@JohnKulo I think some chick drove him there actually . literally

[NacimaiZi]

B0NNE ANNEE !x)

[liveeloveelax]

grew up with t rex music. this song brings me to tears every time, reminding me of my childhood that came and left.

[Pimpification10Croat]

17 people can't dance.

[josker12]

real good

[Vladimir0538]

I inexplicably felt the urge for some weed.

[cricketbat08]

Billy Elliot movie classic.

[mrjellyman59]

ist album I bought with my own cash. Electric Warrior. 1971 (only 12)

[zizinetteful]

super music

[jackie6382]

One of my fave songs!! and your right they'll never be another artist like the unique marc bolan!! Defo the main man!!

[TRexGlamFan]

Voices like Bolan's come VERY rarely! At 16, i'm extremely proud to say he's my favorite musician!

[2Stardumb]

I love his string sections..........Smith westerns have some great tunes off dye it blonde that reminds me a little of the great T.rex

[bizzelify]

orrrrrr frigginnnnnn gasmicccccccc.

[tanx54]

SHEER CLASS FROM THE MAIN MAN.

[clovisr9]

I love bowie, bolan and billy elliot. bbbbbb

[luvingone]

I have shared this Album with a few generations,,, i mean if you play it, it makes some people feel *frisky* LOL,, just saying,,

[TheDidiFerr]

It's sounds like David Bowie...for this I really like it!

[Unbelievable182]

Billy Elliot (:

[MyWildlifeDairies]

Is it wrong to understand, the fear that dwells inside a man??

[hearditman]

@MyWildlifeDairies I'd change the spelling of your moniker friend, else people will think u r a crazy milkman!

[RAMLIA1]

LOve love love

[mmusemee]

:o)

[LoveIndigo678]

The inexplicable joy I felt when I started watching Billy Elliot and I heard this song.

[redonese]

@LoveIndigo678 amen to what you've said, man. !

[TheThroney]

that reversed solo at the end is a nice sound

[focaxelii]

4 chords = a Great song !!

[IndigoChild6]

Why can't artists nowadays be this good?

[JAMMIEjess]

one just melts into it

[totalcoolkid1]

@JAMMIEjess yah

[DataUnit]

<3

[jkjerome1]

Isn't it weird how movies can give context to music and make people love/hate the music as a result? Some people will like already the music for what it is before the movie, but the movie suddenly brings a lot of new fans who like it because it reminds them of the movie. It pisses me off that movies and ads have this power over music. Sometimes I'd like to know if I'd have liked the music anyway if it weren't for that association, but I'll never know cos the movie or ad got there first.

[shamwoww]

@jkjerome1 its called distinguishing between good and bad songs. this is clearly an amazing song and being in Billy Elliot makes it all the more epic

[Xxnicoroxxx]

this is beautiful

[consul1957]

The string section is totally and utterly amazing!

[hearditman]

@consul1957 Yeah well listen to the backing vocals, guitar and drums...oh and the lyrics and Bolan's singing and words. GENIUS.

[consul1957]

@hearditman I totally agree!

[consul1957]

Tony Visconti: GENIUS.

[iiree77]

Thumbs up if Billy Elliot bought you to this song :)

[TheSaoirse777]

@iiree77 And x factor , it brought me herz too , i'm being sarcastic btw! in case you don't understand....

[lankyj91]

I zoned out to this when i was baked. Surround shit, and just...a completely emtpy head. Free from the mental chains of procrastination and hate.

[yeungrulz]

fking best music to smoke weed to, shoulda tried it when i still smoked though :(

[mchugh582]

the beat the man how could any one not love this

[Herb323232]

sometimes when im home alone, i listen to this song and imagine ben cousins is singing it.

[MarcoZucchi81]

Just an incredible song... and an incredible drumming here...

[consul1957]

@MarcoZucchi81 I agree, great sound, great feel...perfect for Bolan..I would have liked to hear Ringo and Bolan on a record together though...

[hearditman]

@consul1957 Back off Boogaloo????

[NappyHeadedHorse]

@hearditman Yes, there was also that documentary Ringo directed about T.Rex, on which Ringo played the drums on a few live performances filmed in John Lennon's mansion.

[new70sLover]

I will never forget my very first concert was TRex at the Hordern Pavillion 1973. Managed to touch both Marc and Mickey Finn who was on bongo drums, I was at the stage. Awesome then and still brings a smile to my face whenever I think of Marc Bolan.

[BritishRailways60163]

Love this song!

[BritishRailways60163]

Ya bin playin ma record ya little twat?!!!

[10douglase]

@BritishRailways60163 Haha I love Billy Elliot

[henryunagi]

marc's the best...why are the good ones taken from us much too soon? and we are stuck with the idiots, who never seem to go anywhere, [sigh!]

[kimmetje1976]

awesome song, love it!

[KurtRileyOfficial]

I danced myself into the tomb.

[bolanrules]

THIS SONG WILL STILL BE AROUND WHEN WE AIN'T. SO JUST ENJOY.XX LOVE TO ALL. AND KEEP DANCING!!!

[TheToneboss]

this song is sooo sooothing and real. i love bolan and his magic heart

[imaegg12]

It's sad to think that there's probably never going to be a similar artist like Marc Bolan, but at least we can appreciate the wonderful music he provided us with, so don't let there be any Youtube hate and just enjoy his unique, wonderful music?

[sezlindsay]

Sunsensations..do it or your life will pass u by asap

[jdoucetable]

ha Billy Elliot brought me here!!

[natacha1957]

Now angels,

But good music.

Thanks.

[gorseydog]

This is where Bowie got his Hunky Dory vibe from.

[emeraldfrog1]

@gorseydog

Seems everyone is ignoring the most basic Marc Bolin fact: the boy sounded good on drugs. Not that I ever did any LSD or other illicit stuff. Of courssssse not. But I've heard that his little soft voice and the soft rock qualities of his band mates and their music had a lot to do with his popularity. Just a thought, friends... It could be true. Lamar

[garyw930]

May I recommend the book 'An Essential Guide To Music In The 1970s' by Johnny Zero. The author is a big fan of this track.

[garylongden]

as a veteran of the era I had forgotten how fey Bolan was. A man who deperately tried to stay in Bowie's slipstream, and failed. nice song though.

[EduWestCoastRap]

WONDERFUL

[sunsensations]

I'm really depressed right now... Now I'm 21... I really wanted to learn to dance, to do ballet, to play the piano, to travel overseas, to have adventures... I'm kinda like a grown up kid... Now I'm stuck in the school... I feel like shit, don't have time for me, don't know myself that well. I just hope life gets better... I feed on it. I just ask to the cosmic forces within us to give me something, to give me fire or whatever the hell they want to give me... To let me live my life and be happy.

[EduWestCoastRap]

@sunsensations hey man, don't wait for your luck to turn better, if you have a dream GO FOR IT!!!!!

[gullsrus]

Classic

[garyw930]

May I recommend the book 'An Essential Guide To Music In The 1970s' by Johnny Zero. The author is a big fan of this track.

[13Bee1]

i tried but i really don't think i can describe how this song makes me feel, what it means to me.

[XxBeatlesforeverxX]

@13Bee1 You don't have to. We all feel like that all the time.

[luccharliedontsurf]

R.I.P.

[pos6666666]

Deadboy and the Elephantmen

[999nowhereman]

My friend Jen sent me here

[bushtucker13]

My first ever record was "Ride a White Swan"I am 52 now and every track brings back massive powerful thoughts and memories.What a fucking wasted talent wrapped around atree in Barnes.Is there a God????

[godisdeadagain]

@bushtucker13 NOPE! Not one that cares anyway

[gryphonlaments]

I don't typically care for glam rock, but T. Rex is an extremely good band.

[TheOrbitfan]

pure magic

[reverendjimj]

fuckiing powerful

[PhoeFira]

Not too strange to dance that soon, nor out of the room.

[vitoriyelow]

Resulta imposible no acordarse de la pelicula Billy Elliot.Preciosa.

[RubyMayable]

I danced myself out of the womb......

[boogieelaine]

its just a kool tune by thee best singer eva x

[rockchickemogirlxx]

i never want this song to end

[LibbyOwen]

Billy Elliot also awesome :)

[TheAdvancedCassette]

I love my electric warrior t-shirt

[3232groundhog]

Is it wrong to understand, the fear that dwells inside a man?

Truly beautiful and poetically lovely.

But to me, the beauty in reminiscing... is exactly that.

It reminds me of my youth and a "better" time.

I absolutely adore Marc Bolan. But that's not all. Do you know who you are, You are what you is. You is what you am, a cow don't make ham. You ain't what you're not, so see what you got, you are what you is and that's all it is. Someone name that track...

Better than Led Zeppelin? Zappa? Nah.

[jonnyburgo]

@3232groundhog you are what you is.

[spaced0ubt]

@3232groundhog perhaps a foolish young man from a middle class family who started singing the blues because he thought it was manly might be able to name that track for you.

[ejtringham]

You forget just how good this record is sometimes, and then hear it when comes on shuffle and you're instantly transported away. Joyous. Up there with Raw Ramp and Hot Love as his best work. Wonderful

[jeannotcamel]

even alliens will dance to this lol

[MussyHillbilly]

@gullsrus Yeah it gets better with every passing year like a fine vintage wine. There's not many who can make records like this anymore.

[MussyHillbilly]

Quite possibly Marc's greatest song. What can you say? He had it all and his music just gets better as time goes on. In '71 and '72 no-one could touch him and I mean no-one, no Zeppelin, no Stones, no Bowie, no-one, period. Electric Warrior was the first album I bought and is still my favourite album of all time.

[gullsrus]

@MussyHillbilly I very much agree with this coment,ive loved electric warrior since the day i got it way back when .

[L00kng]

Just saw Billy Elliott for the first time. Big smiles! Truly wonderful.

[nancivenuk09]

mood aura feel no need for candles or dimin the lights this band brings it ! there on my deserted island list # 

[ghostinshell100]

a song by agents of oblivion is identical to this one. The tune is same the lyrics are different

[ghostinshell100]

@ghostinshell100 i am sorry they covered the song. Foolish me!

[playgirlc]

you can't assume that just because sum1 is young that they automatically don't have 'taste'. those that don't just haven't discovered the good stuff yet. sure, some are young, & brainwashed by the media, but not all of 'em. me, i'm a young 42, and whilst old enough to remember marc well, too "young" to be part of that same generation really that would have really been into him (i was 8 when he died near where i lived then, & remember that as well!).

[waltonk1212]

i love this song :D:D

[vespasianlegx11]

the genious of bolan haunting and beutiful

[reekashade]

Epic album.

[lankyj91]

I'm 20, in my top 5 favourites ever. Fuck anyone that calls youths ignorant towards music.

[bencrea1]

@lankyj91 but the youth are ignorant bro? lady gaga? justin bieber? soulja boy? you might have good taste but the majority dont,

[NappyHeadedHorse]

Tony Visconti is an unsung hero in all this. Don't get me wrong, Marc Bolan was a genius and monumental human being, but I feel like I never hear people acknowledging how much Visconti's productions and arrangements had to do with the success of Electric Warrior/Slider/etc. Don't forget, Visconti produced a lot of Bowie's albums too, though ironically, not Ziggy Stardust (though he did do The Man Who Sold the World)

[serrc1]

@NappyHeadedHorse I think if Visconti was responsible for the string arrangements in this song, a lot of credit must go to him!

[NappyHeadedHorse]

@serrc1 All T.Rex string arrangements until Zinc Alloy were Visconti's. It was his idea to include strings and horns in the mix in the first place

[br0mbie]

Haha it's not "I was dancing when I was ahh", it's I was dancing when I was OUT"

[jeffreybiderpdee]

Look at that sick mutherfucking cover!

Just ordered an electric warrior shirt and im so stoked!

[AshtonArcher]

@jeffreybiderpdee And it's not even the real cover; the real on is GOLD not that putrid yellow!

[jeffreybiderpdee]

i@AshtonArcher youre totally right! When my shirt came it sparkled gold!!!!

[lankyj91]

Why does everything need a definition like meaning?! I believe all art should be left to personal perception.

[pyrrho314]

btw mr marc bolan... if it's strange... it's teh awesome

[pyrrho314]

trex are a god

[MarcoZucchi81]

Loverly drumming...

[apokalipsftd]

The pop music of today could use some Marc Bolan ! For me Marc will live forever !

[yuppigup]

lol its a dude

[dianebozo]

I always loved his voice, no one has sang like him since

[hamdelsun]

Lola by the Kinks sounds suspiciously similar....imitation is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery.....and i know,  this song came first;)

[allergic2pretense]

@hamdelsun

If so, seeing as how the Kinks predated TRex, I think you make a point contrary to your intent!

But Bowie and so many of the glam period definitely owe Bolan a tip of the hat - if not more.

[hamdelsun]

@allergic2pretense

oops!  thanks for the correction...

[pyrrho314]

@allergic2pretense : the kinks were probably cool enough to get some upstream influence from mighty t.rex, but again, I agree, kinks again are an influence, and upstream of trex, bowie and the future.

[waverunner713]

@hamdelsun Lola was released in June 70 and this came out in September 71. Bolan and Davies had similar vocal stylings, but obviously the Kinks came long before T. Rex.

[hamdelsun]

@waverunner713

thanks for the info...bolan's lyrical style is so confusable with bowie......yes, i know confusable, is not a word,,,,,but now it is......

[TheHero4hire]

their music sounds like it was inspired by david bowie, but i can definitely say not only do they have great harmony but i also admire the music surrounding the voices.

[allergic2pretense]

@TheHero4hire "their music sounds like it was inspired by david bowie, "

If anything, Bowie's sound was in large measure inspired by Bolan!

[pyrrho314]

@allergic2pretense : no shit, bowie loved trex, and was influenced strongly by them and references them! throuh bowie trex invented glam rock.

[JOCandyBlingL4L]

Velvet Goldmine brought me here! : D

[NappyHeadedHorse]

@JOCandyBlingL4L the film?

[JOCandyBlingL4L]

@NappyHeadedHorse Yeah : )

[yusaku0000002]

ＧＯＯＤ！！

[imogenpaton]

Long live the music greats

[MRstarman9999]

Loved al he's works, so sad he's not with us any moor

[tatia641]

Great song, gives me goosebumps.

[lucesitalqs]

Existen canciones hermosas y èsta! <3

[victorallardlymulis]

There are no limits, I could do anything after listening to this song!

[perseas0]

billy ELIOT



[RuBbErRoOmChAoS]

is it strange to dance so soon?

[FREDDIEMERCURYHOT79]

I actually got to liking Marc Bolan and T. Rex because of an English lad, whom I'am mates with. He did, because of me being a fan of Freddie Mercury and Queen, he did. I have loved Marc Bolan and this music since.

[brianmccaig007]

I was lucky enough to meet Marc's close friend and god parent to his son many years ago He showed me many of their letters of correspondence - I felt vary privileged. Marc played a very influential role in my teenage years, along with Bowie. Still brings great but emotional memories. RIP-

[pyrrho314]

@brianmccaig007 : thanks for sharing... that's awesome.

[aidenconnolly1]

i first danced at wigen casino when i wos only 15 years old......oh what a ace life..ktf.

[545454bigboy]

im english and my english is not good either lol thank god 4 music

[usuck329]

Why have I never heard this song on the radio?

[kickback4me]

@usuck329 Because radio rarely plays music this good :)

[James90050]

@usuck329 listen to planet rock they play this pretty much everyday and a lot of other classics

[timbleuher]

This is rock

[youssafi]

Super génial !