What's your favourite Roxy Music album ?

Torn Curtain · 10.26.2007, 09:21 AM

Mine is Stranded.

What's yours ?

SuperCreep · 10.26.2007, 10:04 AM

For Your Pleasure is the apex of their career, IMO. The clash between Ferry and Eno's egos on that album is brilliant.

therealglenstyler · 10.26.2007, 10:16 AM

pleasure

gmku · 10.26.2007, 11:10 AM

Well, seein' as how's I only have two, and they're both real good, I can only say that I like Country Life and Stranded about equally. I really need to get those first two albums at least, plus Siren.

Country Life probably gets the nod because of the awesome cover.

cryptowonderdruginvogue · 10.26.2007, 11:10 AM

Avalon

PAULYBEE2656 · 10.26.2007, 01:24 PM

i dont like roxy music i think their covers are degrading to women......

and byron ferrari isnt a great singer either.......( if u get that you show your ahge!)

MellySingsDoom · 10.26.2007, 01:28 PM

I likey the first one.

PAULYBEE2656 · 10.26.2007, 01:31 PM

i mean look at the size of yer ones lips on the right....

pole dancers / spear chuckers....

advocating the practice of throwing women off cliffs, it was a popular sport in olden days...

and this is just plan wrong!!!!!!

sorry byron but yknow, im a decent man............

!@#$%! · 10.26.2007, 01:33 PM

while i find the earlier albums very interesting, nothing beats "more than this" for me, so avalon ftw.

gmku · 10.26.2007, 02:16 PM

I do hear much praise for Avalon.

gmku · 10.26.2007, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656

i dont like roxy music i think their covers are degrading to women......

and byron ferrari isnt a great singer either.......( if u get that you show your ahge!)

I think they portray womens rather nicely.

Savage Clone · 10.26.2007, 06:37 PM

The first one and For Your Pleasure are pretty much the only ones I like, and that is fairly recent. I definitely enjoy those two albums, though. Bryan Ferry's vocal style bugs me a lot of the time. Cannot stand Avalon at all.
I have always preferred Japan, even though they were obviously taking a lot of cues from Ferry and Co.

Dead-Air · 10.26.2007, 11:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperCreep

For Your Pleasure is the apex of their career, IMO. The clash between Ferry and Eno's egos on that album is brilliant.

Exactly. I agree 100%.

Dead-Air · 10.26.2007, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

I think they portray womens rather nicely.

Me too. They certainly "objectify" women, but in the tradition of fine art going back thousands of years, with a modern twist that is actually somewhat satirical of that objectification at the same time. After all, the covers show the women as beautiful in an expressionist manner that's almost surreal plastic, and meanwhile the singer sings about making love to a blow-up doll. Glam often toyed around with these types of images and ideas at the time, but Roxy was much more aware of it and using it as a statement about fashion and "culture".

I don't actually know any women who find those covers sexist, and I lived in the Riot Grrl homeland for ten years.

Everyneurotic · 10.26.2007, 11:33 PM

i can't stand bryan ferry but should give them a chance...everything i heard from them has been überboring, though.

Cantankerous · 10.27.2007, 12:21 AM

jerry hall is on the cover of siren cause she was bryan ferry's girlfriend
ew

for your pleasure is awesome but i also love the s/t

their album covers were awesome though, especially for your pleasure but country life too. i like that the girls have bush.

Torn Curtain · 10.27.2007, 07:51 AM

I can't see how the Roxy Music of the early 70s is boring, that's a weird point of view to me.

Torn Curtain · 10.27.2007, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by swa(y)

Mine is Stranded.

What's yours ?

What ?

Cantankerous · 10.27.2007, 10:50 AM

i forgot that virginia plain is on the 1st album. i might change my mind.

Torn Curtain · 11.01.2007, 05:23 AM

View Poll Results: What's your favourite Roxy Music album ?
S/T	3	18.75%
For your pleasure	8	50.00%
Stranded	2	12.50%
Country life	1	6.25%
Siren	0	0%
Manifesto	0	0%
Flesh + blood	0	0%
Avalon	2	12.50%
Voters: 16. You may not vote on this poll

10.26.2007, 09:21 AM	#1
Torn Curtain invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: France Posts: 7,997	Mine is Stranded. What's yours ?
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10.26.2007, 10:04 AM	#2
SuperCreep expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: brooklyn Posts: 2,281	For Your Pleasure is the apex of their career, IMO. The clash between Ferry and Eno's egos on that album is brilliant.
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10.26.2007, 10:16 AM	#3
therealglenstyler stalker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London Posts: 430	pleasure
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10.26.2007, 11:10 AM	#4
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Well, seein' as how's I only have two, and they're both real good, I can only say that I like Country Life and Stranded about equally. I really need to get those first two albums at least, plus Siren. Country Life probably gets the nod because of the awesome cover. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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10.26.2007, 11:10 AM	#5
cryptowonderdruginvogue invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the party Posts: 10,281	Avalon
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10.26.2007, 01:24 PM	#6
PAULYBEE2656 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: wexford, rep of ireland Posts: 6,930	i dont like roxy music i think their covers are degrading to women...... and byron ferrari isnt a great singer either.......( if u get that you show your ahge!) __________________ myspace facebook *twitter*
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MellySingsDoom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,662	I likey the first one. __________________ Snow on Easter Sunday - Jesus Christ in reverse.
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10.26.2007, 01:31 PM	#8
PAULYBEE2656 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: wexford, rep of ireland Posts: 6,930	i mean look at the size of yer ones lips on the right.... pole dancers / spear chuckers.... advocating the practice of throwing women off cliffs, it was a popular sport in olden days... and this is just plan wrong!!!!!! sorry byron but yknow, im a decent man............ __________________ myspace facebook *twitter*
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10.26.2007, 01:33 PM	#9
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,584	while i find the earlier albums very interesting, nothing beats "more than this" for me, so avalon ftw.
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10.26.2007, 02:16 PM	#10
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	I do hear much praise for Avalon. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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10.26.2007, 06:37 PM	#12
Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,290	The first one and For Your Pleasure are pretty much the only ones I like, and that is fairly recent. I definitely enjoy those two albums, though. Bryan Ferry's vocal style bugs me a lot of the time. Cannot stand Avalon at all. I have always preferred Japan, even though they were obviously taking a lot of cues from Ferry and Co.
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Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	i can't stand bryan ferry but should give them a chance...everything i heard from them has been überboring, though. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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10.27.2007, 12:21 AM	#16
Cantankerous invito al cielo Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A RETIREMENT HOME Posts: 18,499	jerry hall is on the cover of siren cause she was bryan ferry's girlfriend ew for your pleasure is awesome but i also love the s/t their album covers were awesome though, especially for your pleasure but country life too. i like that the girls have bush.
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10.27.2007, 07:51 AM	#17
Torn Curtain invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: France Posts: 7,997	I can't see how the Roxy Music of the early 70s is boring, that's a weird point of view to me.
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10.27.2007, 10:50 AM	#19
Cantankerous invito al cielo Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: A RETIREMENT HOME Posts: 18,499	i forgot that virginia plain is on the 1st album. i might change my mind.
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11.01.2007, 05:23 AM	#20
Torn Curtain invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: France Posts: 7,997	Bump
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