sounds like late period Roxy Music

Some of Thomas Leers stuff, a bit of the Contradictions stuff but even more the material on The Scale of Ten. Also a bit of his later stuff with Act.

Probably obvious, but ABC and Heaven 17 both aimed for the penthouse and pavement, so to speak.

I'll probably think of more when I get home.

david sylvian - brilliant trees

If you extend this to Ferry's solo stuff circa Boys and Girls, then I'm thinking you could look for things which David Gilmour has played guest guitar.

i was definitely thinking sylvian was sorta like this. i love Boys and Girls and Bete Noir. any of his other albums like this? i picked up an earlier one and it was more art/glam-rockin.

what to suggest for Gilmore stuff?

The first two Blue Nile albums. Go, go now and get them!!!

Robyn Hitchcock has been really obsessed with Avalon for ages. He frequently covers multiple songs from it in a single concert. I think Perspex Island was his attempt to explore that sound, but the folk-jangle DNA is too strong in him and it sounds nothing like it.

Duran Duran maybe? At least somewhat. And Japan. Definitely Japan.

i love Blue Nile

not enough music sounds like that

who wants to start a band?

also, my suggestion is to check out coloma

specifically their "dovetail" album

I'll play sensitively processed electric guitar, but we'll need a fuckin' crooner.

Drums? Linn, natch.

nah acoustic drums but with a syndrum pad for claps. also, fretless bass.

Sade 'Love Deluxe'

who wants to start a band?

oh dude i do!

Are you Pino Palladino, Mick Karn, or Mo Foster?

yellow magic orchestra - service, esp. "chinese whispers" and "you've got to help yourself"

nah fraid not

some of the yukihiro takahashi solo records maybe

masami tsuchiya - rice music

Icehouse

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZP2GNZC8L._SS500_.jpg

sandi & the sunsetz - immigrants

abba - "voulez vous"

Talk Talk

1. Dig out your 45 of 'The Name of the Game' by Abba.http://members.lycos.nl/abbadfs/hpbimg/ABBA%20-%20The%20Name%20Of%20The%20Game%20(1977).jpg
2. Play it at 33 1/3 RPM.
3. Tell me it doesn't sound exactly like a lost track from 'Manifesto.'

black - wonderful life

Virginia Astley's <i>Hope In A Darkened Heart</i>, produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto. (Some of these songs are on <i>From Gardens Where We Feel Secure</i> on iTunes.

Michael Franks - "Your Secret's Safe With Me" (also avail. on iTunes). Very similar to "Woman Of The World".

The Notting Hillbillies - "Your Own Sweet Way"

Dire Straits - "Your Latest Trick"

David Bowie - "Absolute Beginners"

Everything But The Girl <i>Idlewild</i> has this sound but isn't so good. The non-digital EBTG <i>Everything But The Girl</i>/</i>Eden</i> is much better -- but then we're getting into early 80s Brit jazz pop: Carmel, <i>My Ever Changing Moods</i>, Sade, etc.

This is all the shit I loved in 11th grade.

(bad tagging there sorry)

Oh!

And:
"This Is Not America" - David Bowie
"This Big Hush" - Shriekback
<i>1984</i> - Eurythmics (a little more electro, but still)

Video for Michael Franks - "Your Secret's Safe With Me":
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IytymyhQxLk

the eno/cale record - wrong way up (a few songs anyway, sorta)

thanks. lots of great suggestions. w/o seeing this thread, i just bought 2 michael franks records today. love that guy. thanks scott seward. also, that bowie "america" song is epic.

The Juan Maclean - Tito's Way (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas remix) has got a really nice Avalon-feel to it.

i was gonna say how Michael Franks stuff was more like Steely Dan than Roxy Music, but then i just watched that video. pretty great.

Leonard Cohen's live stuff from the 80s on 90s (collected on Cohen Live and bootlegs) has this sound, as does The Future. At the same time, it doesn't have the same detached voyeurism of Ferry and Franks. With those guys you get the sense that "getting laid" for them means standing in a linen suit behind two-way glass watching a couple have sex.

No wonder you like Michael Mann so much.

Jaxon, I tried emailing you but it bounced. Seriously, Thomas Leer, No. 1 on a Scale of Ten, etc.

Late period Luna records.

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/73/967973.jpg

Another Bowie: "Loving The Alien"

i grabbed the Orange Juice album the other day. definitely along these lines, but i kinda didn't really like a lot of it. i dug maybe 3 songs. actually pretty surprised that book was named after one of the songs when it doesn't really seem post punky to me at all (i havent read the book, maybe there's a reason)

i also downloaded Joni Mitchell's "Dog Eat Dog". kinda interesting, but i deleted it after the first listen

Sade vote seconded, strongly.

really? what orange juice album? all the orange juice stuff i've heard sounds like straight indie pop. i picked up girls & boys today, there was like 8 copies in the bargain basement of mve, it is definitely along the lines of this thread. i was also listening to avalon last night and thought about how some stevie nicks songs like sara & dreams remind me of the kinda smooth, coked out dreamy repetition of late roxy, obviously avalon is streamlined of all the hippy poeticism but they share a similar bohemian uh "vibe"

also some of the feargal sharkey solo stuff i've heard has this sound

the orange juice album i got was Rip It Up. the title track and one or two others i liked and had that white boy sophisticated funk sound. the rest musta been too, as you say "indie rock", because i deleted those songs.

was about to find the Laid Back thread and ask how a group could make such a great song but have such a terrible album, but then i just listened to it again and Walking in the Sunshine is just great. fits in this thread

er, Fly Away, whatever it's called

http://plaidmusic.blogspot.com/2010/02/lost-weekend-mix.html

^ this mix.

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Blow+Monkeys/_/Wildflower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMZZ1XeOHTQ

^ not their strongest song, but very much in a Blue Nile vein

i know this is sounds like late period roxy thread, but i want to share my favourite late period roxy song with you all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPegZQo5dnc

it's like everything that i love about avalon compressed into one song - woozy synths, mysterious chord changes, ethnic percussion and hand claps, phil manzanera absolutely killing it on his guitar solo, bryan hazy and ambiguous - all draped in a thick mist of reverb

jordan: the comeback by prefab sprout often reaches this sound, it's definitely in the same lineage as the blue nile. produced by thomas dolby, who's second album also reaches for this vibe. not as suave as roxy obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKHrIzJgNaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yNUFESEBrA

OMG this is EXACTLY what I want to shoot for in music. Can't click on the youtube link since I'm at work... is it The Main Thing by any chance? Cuz that is def. my pick.
Also trying to learn how to channel Trevor Horn/PSBs/fretless bass heros like Japan & "I Assasin" Numan.

dolphin brothers (steve and richard from japan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rBi12tuXg

xp nah it's the bside from the "avalon" single, "always unknowing"

i guess the dolphin brothers is a bit too scritti politti for this thread, but some cuts from the rest of the album are more late night roxy esque

ok gonna throw on 'always unknowing' when I get home... can't remember how it goes.

this one fits better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk5CwF4qtYA

fucking sick

oh yeah that mix jaxon posted reminded me about paul haig's 80s stuff. so cool. "heaven sent" is a secret weapon

someone should do a thread of post punk dudes who got a fairlight and went dance pop in the 80s

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=bvV8WlX0XxA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvV8WlX0XxA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeEXP717T0

Holy crap, jaxon, that mix has Furniture's "I Love Your Shoes," my pick as the most criminally ignored 45 of whatever year it came out. What a fantastic song. Nick's youtubage of "Brilliant Mind" is great too. Love that group.

oh right 'always unknowing' is maybe *actually* my favorite Avalon related track. Sooooooo cool.

Has "Always Unknowing" ever shown up on CD besides in the box set? My 7" is getting awfully scratchy and I'd love to replace it.

I made a comp like this a while back. It had:

The Cure - Lullabye (Extended Mix)
David Sylvian - Taking The Veil
Kate Bush - The Fog
Genesis - Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
Fleetwood Mac - Caroline
Roxy Music - The Space Between
Double - Rangoon Moon
Flash & The Pan - Walking In The Rain
Phil Manzanera - Criollo
Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
The Teardrop Explodes - Soft Enough For You
Bel Canto - A Shoulder To The Wheel
Talking Heads - Listening Wind
Womack & Womack - Missing Person's Bureau (Folk Version)
Simple Minds - The King Is White & In The Crowd

ysi?

always unknowing is pretty damn good. so happy that this thread exists

Paul Quinn & The Independent Group - Will I Ever Be Inside Of You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JMqDqDRUec

Nine-and-a-half glorious minutes,yup.

Marianne Faithful - Trouble In Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4W0jTamgUg

also from that soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S_L9wfg1Ww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc0SXW1fd6U

Nice call on The Gist, I'd forgotten that one.

Here's the opening melancholic shimmer from Perry Blake's California:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRXtnWrw3ug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6l71b6YYxg

re: The Dolphin Brothers...

I've passed over that album in bargain bins more times than i can remember and never knew who it was...

Will pick it up next time i see i, that "catch the fall" sounds fucking great.

"Allergies", Paul Simon

been playing Bête Noire a lot recently. such a great album. realizing that the backing track for "The Right Stuff" is "Money Changes Everything" by the Smiths, I decided to hunt out some more Johnny Marr stuff from around this period and came upon this balearic stealth bomb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9JHeKyCoTw

it's the og demo version of Kirsty MaColl's "Walking Down Madison", unreleased afaik but so so sick. it's a shame he didn't make more stuff like this. love the fleeting vocal sample

i love Boys and Girls and Bete Noir. any of his other albums like this?

Doesn't seem like this has been replied, but "Mamouna" was surely a lot like those two. "Taxi" is a covers album, but the covers are nothing like Bryan Ferry's 70s albums, instead they are very much in the late Roxy Music/early Ferry solo vein.

this is great. produced by klaus schulze and Manuel Goettsching on guitar. pretty crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuM61rg8sw

man, go ahead and laugh or whatever but "purple kisses" by The-Dream totally has that slow luscious humid tropic thing of "avalon" (the song).