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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
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― 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
xxpost:
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.
I'm on the akm train. Bete Noir is my least favorite of his smoothie session cat records. Also, Bride Stripped Bare has some incredible stuff ("Sign of the Times," "When She Walks In the Room," "This Island Earth") and some blech stuff (mostly the soul stuff: "Hold On I'm Comin'," "Take Me to the River"). I'd swap it with In Your Mind, which has "Tokyo Joe" and "This Is Tomorrow Calling," among other things. And as noted up-thread, Let's Stick Together probably has more tracks I love on it than any other Ferry album, notwithstanding its grab bag nature.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 10 October 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
Agree that Stranded is the best one.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
i used to think stranded was my favorite, and tho the highs are probably the highest, song for europe and sunset weigh it down a bit. as amazing as they are, avalon is the only truly filler-free roxy music album imo. maybe siren.
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
"Song For Europe" is a slight slog, but "Sunset" is one of the most perfect album endings by anyone, ever.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
and "filler" isn't even a problem for a band like roxy, which so emphasized mood-creation and experimentation that there are bound to be two or three weird cuts per record. i'm glad that they're there.
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
There's some missteps but I don't they ever went in for filler, as such.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:20 AM (eighteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
sunset is a nice comedown from mother of pearl, and definitely works in the context of the album, but i've never had the urge to listen to it by itself.
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:21 AM (twenty seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah, that's why i qualified--failed experiments aren't the same as filler.
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
F+B's got the filler.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:41 (four 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