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The Best Of Roxy Music - Roxy Music

A very "interesting" cd - especially for those souls who think of Roxy Music as always being the quintessentially last word in pop elegance. Tracks 1 - 8 summarise this elegant, very slick body of work after they re-formed in 1978 following a two year break. This was commercially their most successful period. Overall the material was fairly gorgeous and tasteful, but for me sometimes a little too eager to please the dinner party set. "Avalon" for me is the standout track from this time. It's detatched beauty was the last word in atmosphere and chic. As the CD continues, we trail through Roxy's (in my opinion) more glorious past. The slick ...

Avalon - Roxy Music

have Andy Warhol to thank for. Ferry decided that he wanted to find a musical art form, where he could ‘paint pictures’ with music. That was certainly what Roxy Music seemed to achieve. Their music was not for the faint hearted, not was if for anyone who preferred very mainstream pop. Their lyrics were far from understandable. The music was somehow off key and perhaps only appreciated by animals who’s ears are set on a certain frequency, yet, there was something very appealing about Roxy Music, and probably the band more than Ferry himself. Either loved or loathed, they were unarguably the fore runner of the smart suited crooners who where an off shoot of the new ...

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

Teenage rebels of the week!! Roxy Music back in 1971 were a very strange group - they had the triumvirate who saw them through all of their guises, Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay, but they also sported the exceedingly odd Mr Brian Eno and produced a very individual noise. They had Graham Simpson on bass here and the reliable Paul Thompson at the skins. Track listing - Re-Make/Re-Model - Ladytron - If There Is Something - Virginia Plain - 2HB - The Bob (Medley) - Chance Meeting - Would You Believe? - Sea Breezes - Bitters End It was a glam rock dream of an album from a band that were undoubtedly different from the norm - harking back to the Forties ...