Roxy Music appreciation thread or summat like that

[dontpaintyourteeth]

This doesn't really warrant a new thread: been listening to Ferry's solo albums. These Foolish Things is not only better than Pinups, it shagged its significant other and stole its car. His version of Sympathy for the Devil is hilarious. Maybe the whole record is just too arch for most people. I dunno. I like it. The ones where he actually writes new songs are good and all. Fight me.

[Sebastian Cobb]

yeah it's incredible

[fuzzyste]

stonking great Peel Session version of If There Is Something really brings out the influence of the Abbey Road medley on it, and inc fabled industrial bit that does indeed sound like a bit like Faust

no idea what my top ten would be maybe..

If There Is Something
Virginia Plain
Pyjamarama (original version)
2HB
Ladytron
Remake Remodel
Chance Meeting/Both Ends Burning (off Viva)
Grey Lagoons
Beauty Queen
Mother of Pearl
For Your Pleasure

impossible, no Praire Rose, Love is the Drug, Song for Europe, Out of the Blue...

Was gonna post that peel version because its just looooovely.

[Luornu]

I like their music but I hate their objectifying sexist album covers. The 'country life' cover is just straight up pornographic and trashy. (cue legions of middle aged men who remembered life before the internet thinking that album cover made me a man etc). I could never have brought that album home, my mum would have killed me.

Then again, I was molested by a porn addict older brother who the moment I started puberty and started sprouting kununkernockers like his porn ladies decided he would 'chance his arm' as it were. So I'm kinda biased about this sort of thing.

Yeah guys you're heterosexual men and you like looking at bazonkadonkas. I'm not fucking interested. No one wants to know what you get off to in your hotel room on tour Bryan fucking Ferry

Oh and fuck his priviledged public school oaf son who thinks murdering foxes for fun is great and it's a human rights abuse if he doesn't get to do it. Fuck him in particular.

They were only good when Eno was with them anyway.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

I could never have brought that album home, my mum would have killed me.

why is she on it?

[Cleveland Steamer]

Early Roxy is brilliant. Although oddly my favourite song of theirs is probably More Than This, which was when they were well into their airbrushed falconry stage. So many great songs - Mother of Pearl, Out of the Blue, If There Is Something, pretty much all of For Your Pleasure, god Virginia Plain is such a perfect pop song too.

One of the few things I agreed with my mother on (along with the fact that I was a mistake) was that Roxy was great.  Bryan Ferry's solo stuff gets excrementally worse as he goes on, to the point where he's now a sort of parchmented, whispery old twiglet that can only hoarsely croak about immigration policy across a marshland dotted with deckchair-bound sloe gin spinsters as a player piano chimes through Cole Porter's shitgaze Fabric set behind him.

[DrumsAndWires]

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They were only good when Eno was with them anyway.

true, they peaked with For Your Pleasure

having said that, i always thought Stranded, 3rd roxy album, was rather impressive given the lack of eno. it somehow manages to sound like an eno-rich album without the great man himself...and eno was even modest enough to cite it as his favourite roxy album

[Oosp]

Counterpoint to all the late-Ferry hate: what I consider to be the best cover of all time - Todd Terje + Bryan Ferry's version of Robert Palmer's Johnny and Mary...

Stone. Cold. Fucking. Masterpiece.

[Aleister Growley]

I have got a soft spot for his 1930s/40s covers album As Time Goes By , it feels very sincere and genuinely tear inspiring at times.

In a similar vein, also this

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzuBSJy00rY

Bry doing Noel Coward, just as it should be.