Roxy Music: Early Years vs. Later Years

[MacDEF]

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Originally posted by Dusty Chalk No, Avalon is perfect from beginning to end.

Agreed! Avalon is an amazing album. And don't shoot me, but I think Flesh & Blood is their 2nd best

 

[DarkAngel]

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Originally posted by markl Right on DA! When you get to "Do the Strand" crank it up as high as you can stand and brace yourself for the instrumental break halfway through the song. Damn, it's amazing!

Yes I see what you mean.........I'M doing the "stranski"

I see a couple more votes trickled in..........but something must be wrong, how in the blue hell can "later stuff" option only have two votes (one of which is me)

 

[spaceman]

Bryan Ferry's version of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes rocks! I have always loved Roxy since I discovered them back in the 80s, and I continue to enjoy Bryan Ferry's music as well, and his Frantic CD is a very nice piece of work.

 

[Tom M]

I like certain songs from the albums: For your pleasure,country life and siren but for the most part roxy is not my cup of tea either. I also like some of brian eno's solo material.

 

[markl]

Another update. appears Avalon is also coming to SACD: http://sacdinfo.com/showtitle.php?ti...d91a98f602553d

 

[30plus]

My favorite cuts are Avalon, and More than this. I was introduced to them by an audiophile in the late 80's. I really like Bryan's voice.

 

[spaceman]

I like avalon as well, a nice mello, trippy song. Can't wait to hear it on SACD!

 

[Dusty Chalk]

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Originally posted by markl Another update. appears Avalon is also coming to SACD: http://sacdinfo.com/showtitle.php?ti...d91a98f602553d

Sweet!

 

[adanac061]

For me, Roxy Music without Eno , is not Roxy Music at all.

I pretty much hate everything after For your pleasure ..except maybe the songs
street life , mother of pearl , love is the drug and same old scene.

 

[DLeeWebb]

"Flesh and Blood," and "Avalon," are definitely my favorite Roxy Music albums and among the favorite albums of my life. (not that I don't like the early stuff, "Love Is The Drug" was one of the first songs that I was fanatical about...) "Avalon" led me to Bryan Ferry's "Boys and Girls" which is a desert island album for me. I also really liked "Bete Noire," and "Mamouna."

 

[milkweg]

I prefer the albums up to and including Siren but like all of their music and some of their solo projects too. I would say my favourite is 'For Your Pleasure'. Bryan Ferry did some very good solo albums and Phil Manzanera's Primitive Guitars is very good. They put out a live album in 1976, which I no longer have, called 'Viva! Roxy Music' and is considered one of the best live albums ever done. Must get a new copy soon.

Roxy Music had a very big impact on the music scene in the UK compared to NA. I first started listening to Roxy in 1974 when my cousin over in England introduced me to them. If I had stayed here in Canada and never gone back to the UK I would probably have never even heard of them until Avalon came out in 1982. I had to make a special order to get 'Viva! Roxy Music' in 1976 in Canada. Roxy Music was almost as highly regarded as Bowie in the UK back in the early '70s. I don't know why but UK has always tended to have a taste for more experimental and avant garde music than over here.

 

[tru blu]

I have most of the early stuff, but I really hooked into Roxy during what you might call the transition toward Avalon, which probably begins with Siren. No one much talks about Manifesto, but besides Avalon and the excellent covers on Flesh + Blood, it's the other record I seem to play from time to time. When I want to hear earlier stuff, I put on that first Greatest Hits thing. Oh, and when I want to hear early Eno, I put on Here Come the Warm Jets and Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy).

 

[catachresis]

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Originally Posted by Dusty Chalk /img/forum/go_quote.gif It's been remastered, on HDCD, no less, but not SACD (yet, anyway).

I'm looking at a Virgin Records DSD-Multi-channel //SACD [7243 S 83871 2 4] that was remastered for Multi-channel SACD in 2003 by Bob Clearmountain and Rhett Davies. It's very good.

To add something to the mix, I highly recommend the Ferry solo effort The Bride Stripped Bare that he created in '78 as he was getting 'dumpted' by Jerry Hall.

 

[DC2]

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Originally Posted by DLeeWebb /img/forum/go_quote.gif "Flesh and Blood," and "Avalon," are definitely my favorite Roxy Music albums and among the favorite albums of my life. (not that I don't like the early stuff, "Love Is The Drug" was one of the first songs that I was fanatical about...) "Avalon" led me to Bryan Ferry's "Boys and Girls" which is a desert island album for me. I also really liked "Bete Noire," and "Mamouna."

I have to agree with everything said here, except that I never cottoned to the much aired Love Is the Drug... being drawn more to-the hardly ever aired-Mother of Pearl. Avalon was my stepping stone to the always captivating Boys and Girls, though I have not heard Bete Noire and Mamouna. One more thing-I prefer Always Unknowing as an ending track to Avalon to Tara.

 

[milkweg]

Never heard Mamouna but Bete' Noir is pretty good, not as good as Boys and Girls though.