Marc Bolan & T. Rex - The Final Cuts (2006)

"With seven of the twelve songs on this CD unreleased during Bolan's lifetime, for the first time, we are able to enjoy and understand more fully in context the direction in which Marc Bolan's music may have been heading as he approached his thirties, before tragedy struck in September 1977."
These "Final Cuts" are an odds-and-sods collection of music Marc Bolan had been working on -- and it's in various stages of completion -- before he was killed in 1977. Some of the music here appears on other recordings of late cuts; some are reworkings of tunes or alternate takes of tracks that appeared on Futuristic Dragon or Dandy in the Underworld; some never appeared at all. You have to be a hardcore T. Rex and/or Bolan fan to want this music. There is a weird version of "To Know You Is to Love You" with a vocal by Gloria Jones (the disco star who was Bolan's wife), and the rest has either new tags, or more or less guitars, or reworked melodies. You get the picture. Usually Edsel is spot-on, but this is dodgy. About the only thing you can really compliment the compilation producers for is good-quality sound -- it's top-notch for what it is.