― sw00ds, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
sw00ds and I discuss Roxy and Ferry.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Thinking Siren might be my new fave, some kick-ass jams on that one...
― Neil S, Saturday, 7 August 2010 07:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Siren is indeed a great album, definitely their most underrated. Both Ends Burning, Whirlwind and She Sells would all find a place on my best of Roxy Music.
It's a shame how low Stranded finished, it's my favourite but then the first three albums would all easily make my all time top fifty.
Flesh & Blood is their only weak album, really forgettable apart from Same Old Scene which is a great single.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 7 August 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
It would be a toss-up between Country Life and Avalon, but I'd have to go with Avalon.
― Janet Privacy Control (corey), Saturday, 7 August 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Siren is indeed a great album, definitely their most underrated.
In England, you mean?
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 August 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I always think of Siren as their peak album, even if I don't like it the very best (though sometimes I do), so it's weird to see it place so low here!
― spanikopitcon (Abbott), Saturday, 7 August 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Britishes aren't as fond of it.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 August 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SN4aqXCE0Y
I love this performance. Watch him catch that tambourine near the end!
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 7 August 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, August 7, 2010 6:49 PM (Yesterday)
Yeah I think so. Love is the Drug is one of their biggest hits and one of the songs they are best known for but I think most people here rank the first four and Avalon as the real classics. Personally I think it's a much stronger album than Country Life.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 8 August 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I think Siren and Avalon are my faves, but then I grew up with their greatest hits, then downloaded everything they ever did in one big lump a couple of years ago, which I kinda regret now because it's all been presented to me as one conglomerated bunch of records.
― village idiot (dog latin), Sunday, 8 August 2010 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Siren > Stranded
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
Ranked:
1. Avalon2. Country Life3. Siren4. Stranded5. For Your Pleasure6. Roxy Music7. Flesh + Blood8. Manifesto
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 8 May 2017 04:22 (six years ago) link
lol at 10-year-ago me trying to impress ilm by declaring a bootleg my favorite Roxy record (although it is a GREAT boot.) 2017 answer: Siren.
― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 May 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
I could not imagine ever ranking Avalon number one.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 May 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
it's the only Roxy album i listen to w/ any regularity, but maybe i am not a TRUE FAN.
― circa1916, Monday, 8 May 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
At one point every album except F&B was my favorite.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 May 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson)
honestly, i listen to the bbc session versions of the first album stuff way more than i listen to the first album proper. but my favorite album of theirs is still "country life".
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 8 May 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
xxpost:
I wouldn't lose any sleep over Josh in Chicago's opinion.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 8 May 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
The first LP is pretty much an album of two halves for me - I outright adore the first half, but the second is probably their weakest side of vinyl from 1972-1975 for me. For Your Pleasure is a more consistent record, but ultimately I think they got better after Eno left.
Manifesto and Flesh + Blood are a reunited Roxy Music easing themselves back into it and warming up for Avalon.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 8 May 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
One of my all-time fave bands. My ranking would be:
1. Stranded2. For Your Pleasure3. Flesh + Blood4. Roxy Music5. Avalon6. Country Life7. Manifesto8. Siren
...and I do love Siren, it's just that all of the other ones have more of an impact on me.I am aware that I am in the minority with my high ranking of Flesh+Blood (I named it as well in that recent thread on 'least acclaimed albums you love', someone singled it out as a winning answer). I find the whole mood of that album amazing and could never understand the lack of acclaim for it.
― Valentijn, Monday, 8 May 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
I love Manifesto's hybrid of L.A. studio rock and disco
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 May 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
Avalon is good, don't get me wrong. But I like a couple of Ferry solo albums as much, for the same reasons. Whereas the first five Roxy albums to me are like nothing else, really, and I've loved them all more or less equally at different times for the same mix of novelty, wit and barely controlled chaos. And muscle, tbh.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 May 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
I personally don't think any of Ferry's solo albums come close to having the level of production that Avalon does.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
i don't understand that post given boys and girls
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:28 (six years ago) link
Yes, even compared to Boys and Girls. Avalon also has the superior material.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
thought we were talking about production
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
We were.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
The production on B+G is immaculate; the material turns diaphonous after a while. Bete Noir is baroque in its dedication to covering slightly unwashed songs in cologne.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
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― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
said Patrick Leonard in November '86.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 May 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
The production on B+G is immaculate; the material turns diaphonous after a while.
ah so you're the person i disagree with about this. every time i listen to b+g i go through the "this is my favorite song. no wait THIS is my favorite song" process
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 8 May 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
"Stranded". Difficult to choose between that and their first, as "If There Is Something" is an all-time classic track
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 8 May 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
i finally got into non-avalon roxy last month and stranded is def my fav pre-avalon
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 8 May 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
Stranded and Country Life are usually my two faves.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 May 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
"Amazona" kicks ass
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 8 May 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
I think Stranded, Country Life and Siren is an excellent run, the peak of their "art rock" years. I'd have considered that run to be their overall peak if they hadn't managed to put together Avalon.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 8 May 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
Stranded is one of my favorite records by anyone, ever (ok, maybe not "A Song For Europe").
Never got into post-hiatus Roxy. Without Paul Thompson, it just doesn't feel like Roxy (and even then, Manifesto was pretty disappointing).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 8 May 2017 20:11 (six years ago) link
I'll be the heretic in this thread and say that I prefer "The Thrill Of It All" box set which weeds out the weak material and adds a mess of great non-lp stuff. Of the handful of worthy songs left off the box, I've got them as BBC sessions or as killer live versions from Musikladen TV.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 8 May 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4qpWbLWcAA5x43.jpg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 8 May 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
i really like manifesto (but i also really like the second side of the first one)
things i did not know abt paul thompson: he played with the angelic upstarts for a while (working with mensi must a be a nice holiday after putting up with ferry) things i did know abt paul thompson: he is a great drummer
― mark s, Monday, 8 May 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
'If There Is Something' and 'Amazona' do indeed kick ass. As do 'Mother of Pearl', 'Street Life', 'The Thrill of it All', 'Both Ends Burning', 'Out of the Blue', loads of others...
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 8 May 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
Another thing you may not have known about Paul Thompson: he auditioned for AC/DC when Phil Rudd left or was fired in the early '80s.
xp
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 8 May 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
I love "Song for Europe" with every cell in my body. When Ferry starts singing in French, man, what a warped, emotionally charged, ridiculous and overflowing with europeanness moment.
I, for one, am glad to see some love for Olympia. I can listen to it from beginning to end without a single skip.
― cpl593H, Thursday, 10 October 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
he starts singing in Latin before he switches to French!
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 October 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
It's such a marvelous mess, all of it.
― cpl593H, Friday, 11 October 2019 10:38 (four years ago) link
Ferry singing in French reminds me of Kenneth Williams singing Crepe Suzette and I still love it.
― 29 facepalms, Friday, 11 October 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
.. only more camp.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Friday, 11 October 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
The Pitchfork Sunday review today is 'For Your Pleasure.' Some intriguing points were made concerning connections between British art schools and British art rock. I don't care. The rating score he gave for the album is 9.5. Everybody knows that this is a 10 album, if there is such a thing as a 10 album. It is perfect in every way and one cannot even conceive of how it could be improved upon. So for the love of God, what sort of logic could lead to a 9.5 score? Do I even want to know?
― Migdalia Amygdala (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 13 October 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
I'd rate FYP an 8 and I love Ferry more than you love your girlfriend.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 October 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
I’m as gay as a unicorn ranch Soto, which reveals the inherent illogic of this discussion so, checkmate Mary!
― Migdalia Amygdala (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Monday, 14 October 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
yeah i don't know, FYP would be a 10 to me. It's one of my favorite albums of all time.
― akm, Monday, 14 October 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link