Get It On (Live)

Its budget price notwithstanding, there's little here to alert the keen Bolan completist — no hidden gems or unreleased jewels, no hitherto unknown off-microphone splutter. Just one more peculiar rampage through the catalog, drawing at one extreme from the pre-fame Beginning of Doves era, and on the other from the already over-documented 1972-1977 catalog. The result, surprisingly, is not as discordant as one might fear — the inclusion of a handful of acoustic takes and the gorgeous simplicity that hallmarked much of Bolan's output allow the likes of "Eastern Spell" and "Pictures of Purple People" to blend happily in alongside "Mellow Love" and "Over the Flats." Still, it's difficult to recommend this album to any but the most casual of listeners — and what would they want with a bunch of demos in the first place?