Talk:Get It On (T. Rex song)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Songs, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to songs on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

[edit] Musician credits?

Who's playing on the song? I remember reading an interview in Record Collector with a keyboard player (Rick Wakeman?) who was hired to play the minimal keyboard part in the bridge because he was a friend of Tony Visconti and Marc Bolan, they wanted to give him a session every week so he could pay his rent. Flo and Eddie sing backing vocals, sez the Flo and Eddie page. Mickey Finn contributes subliminal percussion, I assume, and Marc Bolan sings lead and plays guitar. Anyone else? Juryen (talk) 03:46, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox PLEASE!!!

Could somebody please provide a cover image from the 45 and infobox for this article? And some real info 'bout the riff wouldn't go amiss around these parts.

Ask and ye shall receive.....someone else will have to hunt up the cover art though. — Catherine\^talk 20:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Wasn't the real reason for the decision to change the name of the track to Bang A Gong in the US, that there was a chart hit called Get It On in the Morning by Chase?

[edit] Imaginative interpretation of lyrics.

Any substantial interpretation of lyrics requies a direct citation. I removed the following tex:

The song is about a woman (possibly June Child, the wife of singer and songwriter Marc Bolan), whom the narrator claims is clad in black and the object of his love. He then goes on to suggest that she succumbs to his sexual prowess and that she's built like a car with "a hubcap diamond-star halo". The narrator also states that he wants to "take a chance on the stage" with the woman, and that she also has a "groove up her shoes".

At the end of the song, he moans "take me" (which was extremely risqué at the time).

It had outrageous lyrics for its time, and many radio stations in America refused to play it. In the UK the BBC strangely had no such qualms and played the song (and its B-side, "Raw Ramp" containing the line "Baby, I'm crazy about your breasts"). Other equally suggestive songs of the period (such as Paul McCartney and Wings' "Hi, Hi, Hi"), were actually banned.

To suggest that the lyrics are in any way "outrageous" for their time (1971) is ridiculous. The lyrics are no more than suggestive in a manner fairly common to the time. Comparing a woman to car is also a common metaphor: "Little Red Corvette," "Jeepster," "Maybeline," etc. Prior to T-Rex their were plenty of much more directly sexual lyrics in mainsteam music. "Shake, Rattle & Roll" (c.1955) is in itself a sexual reference, and the actually outrageous lyric "I'm like a one-eyed cat, peeping in a seafood store" somehow made it past the censor in the Pat Boone cover of the song (though the follow-up line "I can look at you 'till you ain't no child no more" didn't. Years before "Get in on" the Stones were telling us to "spend the night together" and don't forget "Starfucker," which was listed on the album and single as "Star Star."

The line (shouted, not "moaned": "Take Me!" isn't in the main lyric. It is a stage interjection not present in other versions. And "extremely risqué"? Wow. Was the writer around in 1971? I could go on and on.... -- Cecropia