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Roxy Music Anyone here like Roxy Music? I just got into them about a month ago and they're freaking AWESOME! I mean damn... I can't find one album of theirs I don't like. Not one song I hate, and they were WAY ahead of their time!
I love Stranded the most, but it is just too hard to choose one album to be my favorite.
Purple Music is my drug and I'm jonesin!!!!! | |
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I don't have everything, but I love the Flesh And Blood album. That and Avalon are both classics of their time.
Same Old Scene is one of the songs I became obsessed by just as I was getting into music (and Prince). I remember getting 'Bete Noir', Bryan Ferry's 1988 solo album on tape format for my Christmas.
One of my favourite tracks from anyone is also 'Windswept' from his Girls And Boys album.
So..yeah (or oh yeah!), I really do respect their best work. "I'm much too hot to be cool" | |
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I bought their first five albums a few years ago based on all the praise they get and I was honestly a little disappointed. The singles are fantastic so the best of collection is an awesome listen, but the albums were not as great as I expected them to be.
Of the first five, I liked For Your Pleasure the most. | |
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" I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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It's basically the most underrated GREAT/BIG band of the 70s, for many reasons:
excellent album tracks but weird singles (at least until 1975, when they released the radio-friendly "Love is the Drug"), controversial-censored front covers, a modern sound 10 years ahead of its time, too many stylistic changes (first futuristic art-rock, then glam, then hard-rock, then disco, then adult contemporary) which meant that they never truly had a loyal & huge fanbase, etc
and perhaps, nowadays, people remember Ferry's solo career better than Roxy Music...
when it comes to 70s British music, everybody talks about Elton John, Bowie, Queen, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Supertramp, etc, too bad that they always forget Roxy; without Roxy Music, 80s British music would have been COMPLETELY different
one of my all time fav acts; 8 studio albums of pure gold, they never released a bad song, the group that spawned Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry or Phil Manzanera CAN'T BE BAD  | |
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