Album · T. Rex
Tanx by T. Rex
Tanx is an album by T. Rex, released in 1973. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 17 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “20th Century Boy”, on 14 lists with a best position of #83.
Tanx, released by EMI in March 1973, is T. Rex's eighth studio album and their fourth since Marc Bolan trimmed the name, and it catches him just as he was getting restless. There's still plenty of the strutting boogie that powered The Slider, but Bolan was listening to soul, funk and gospel now, and he let it all seep in: female backing singers turn up on a few tracks, and producer Tony Visconti lays mellotron over the grooves, thickening the sound into something lusher and stranger.
Steve Currie holds down the bass and Bill Legend the drums, and Bolan sounds like a man having a ball stretching his corkscrew rock toward the dance floor. It didn't need a single to sell: none was pulled from it, and it still climbed to number 4 in the UK, 3 in Germany and 5 in Norway.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Tanx on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20th Century Boy | 14 | #83 | – | 2001–2022 | |
| 2 | Children of the Revolution | 2 | #329 | – | 2005–2006 | |
| 3 | Life Is Strange | 1 | #1136 | – | 2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.