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
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)
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
http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-the-object-before-us-to-begin-with-material-production-karl-marx-251016.jpg
― 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
And he was inexplicably in Concrete Blonde for a while, c. "Joey."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 May 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
Avalon and Boys and Girls are like a lost double album to me. Together they are extremely strong; stronger than either one on it's own.
― akm, Monday, 8 May 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
This remix is perfect summer fodder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic4xAuIkoFE
― Paisley Window Pane (Ross), Friday, 14 July 2017 02:06 (six years ago) link
Belatedly joining in with ranking their albums..
1. Stranded2. Roxy Music3. Avalon4. For Your Pleasure5. Siren 6. Country Life 7. Manifesto
8. Flesh & Blood
― kitchen person, Friday, 14 July 2017 03:19 (six years ago) link
1. Stranded2. Roxy Music3. Country Life4. For Your Pleasure5. Avalon6. Siren7. Manifesto8. Flesh & Blood
― Paisley Window Pane (Ross), Friday, 14 July 2017 03:29 (six years ago) link
This will always be Avalon ...
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Friday, 14 July 2017 13:07 (six years ago) link
waht Flesh & Blood is great! "Same Old Scene" is up there with their very best tracks
― André Ryu (Neil S), Friday, 14 July 2017 13:11 (six years ago) link
I agree, it's also a better album than Manifesto ...
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Friday, 14 July 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link
The Glimmers did a great remix of Same Old Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YdfyD8U_Fw
― André Ryu (Neil S), Friday, 14 July 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
― akm, Monday, 8 May 2017 22:18 (two months ago) Permalink
This is very, very true.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 14 July 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
I disagree, I think Avalon is very much the superior record and doesn't need any propping up.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Friday, 14 July 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
This is your opinion. I'm siding with akm as I've always felt these are two very compatible albums that are almost cut from the same cloth.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 14 July 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
I love the warmth of Manifesto's fusion of L.A. studio rock, disco, and European frostiness, especially on deep cuts like "Ain't That So" and "Still Falls the Rain." "Spin Me Round" is the great lost forlorn Ferry ballad.
Flesh + Blood is by far my least favorite Roxy, but it's so damn top heavy it's hard to notice.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 July 2017 13:43 (six years ago) link
Roxy Music's worst album is better than most bands best.
― dan selzer, Friday, 14 July 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
Obviously.
StrandedCountry LifeAvalonSirenFor Your PleasureRoxy MusicManifestoFlesh & Blood
pretty fuckin nuts that an album as good as FYP is only 5th
― voodoo chili, Friday, 14 July 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
This is your opinion.
Person in "expressing an opinion on music board" shocker! Of course it's my opinion!
(Of course, I won't have to look far for others that share it, but still...)
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Friday, 14 July 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
StrandedCountry LifeSirenRoxy MusicAvalonFor Your PleasureManifestoFlesh + Blood
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 July 2017 14:34 (six years ago) link
Yeah, Roxy Music up to Siren is an incredible run of music regardless of the order in which the albums are ranked... and Avalon was the best possible note to end things on. I'm glad they continued long enough to make it!
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Friday, 14 July 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
The proper order imo.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 October 2019 11:26 (four years ago) link
Had no idea For Your Pleasure was so highly regarded
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 10 October 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
I agree with that grouping. For me FYP is still the best one. I actually have grown to really like both Flesh and Blood and Manifesto; partly because I ignored them for so long that I never really gave them their fair due, and now I'm much less familiar with them.
― akm, Thursday, 10 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
I'd probably move Mamouna from "solid" to "great" and move Bete Noir down to "solid" myself.