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Topic: Roxy Music by Proxy: 6th Album

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Roxy Music by Proxy: 6th Album
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 01:03

The sixth of eight Proxy Music polls, with Brian Eno predicted to take off and win this time around. Wink

1979: Roxy Music - Manifesto - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKwonOBMh_hV3bvFdRLvyPQ" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_TaS3ukydpKwoNOBMh_hV3bvFdRLvyPQ

1978: Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mfRTetqFB_MtRhjeOxR5tp0uVfK1YH-Sw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mfRTetqFB_MtRhjeOxR5tp0uVfK1YH-Sw

1985: Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mVWav95z_I_qidgqhNAyi7rkvOGnUaTH0" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mVWav95z_I_qidgqhNAyi7rkvOGnUaTH0

1988: Phil Manzanera & Nowomowa - The Wasted Lands - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LyzFbAIwqY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LyzFbAIwqY

2019: Manzanera & Mackay - Roxymphony - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kUT8_u8ES5Q4afNk7iGSItbLLZjSEAclk" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kUT8_u8ES5Q4afNk7iGSItbLLZjSEAclk

2000: John Wetton - Sinister (Welcome to Heaven) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTCHZJbJm7G0giNHCMU-i4jybCmH9_gQM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTCHZJbJm7G0giNHCMU-i4jybCmH9_gQM

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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 03:19

Roxy Music - Manifesto

Bryan Ferry - Boys And Girls

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports

Phil Manzanera & Nowomowa - The Wasted Lands

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 03:26

1. Manzanera & Mackay - Roxymphony

2. Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls

3. John Wetton - Sinister (Welcome to Heaven)

4. Roxy Music - Manifesto

Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 03:50

I was very underwhelmed when I bought the Manifesto album back in 1979 after Roxy Musics 'hiatus' and thought the comeback single 'Trash' was a poor choice of single at the time.

Over the years I have grown to love it though, especially the title track. Smile

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 04:01

Octopus II wrote:

I was very underwhelmed when I bought the Manifesto album back in 1979 after Roxy Musics 'hiatus' and thought the comeback single 'Trash' was a poor choice of single at the time.

Over the years I have grown to love it though, especially the title track. Smile

Manifesto was my favourite Roxy Music album up to that point in time and far more interesting than the later Labour Party Manifesto which was labelled "The longest suicide note in history." Tongue

Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 05:54

I voted for John Wetton. Roxy Music comes second, but not by much.

Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 07:27

Luther Vandross was a backing singer on the 'Manifesto' album. Smile

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 07:54

Octopus II wrote:

Luther Vandross was a backing singer on the 'Manifesto' album. Smile

You can Never have Too Much of Luther. Hard to believe it's nearly twenty years now since he ascended to that great gospel choir in the sky. Broken Heart

By the way, I used to have a ghetto blaster just like the one featured at the start of the above video. Smile

Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 09:41

There is a 'Manifesto' picture disc on e-bay which I have got my eye on, as I am a bit of a Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry completist. I wish I had bought it back in the day. Smile

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 10:25

Octopus II wrote:

There is a 'Manifesto' picture disc on e-bay which I have got my eye on, as I am a bit of a Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry completist. I wish I had bought it back in the day. Smile

This is my complete Proxy Music collection on CD as it stands at the moment. Only time will tell if I ever have More Than This. Smile

1973: Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mVfodTKC9wQ4J5P5pEZd14jsNA_UfkQWM" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mVfodTKC9wQ4J5P5pEZd14jsNA_UfkQWM

1980: Roxy Music - Flesh and Blood - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nHwwzXMknTXeuik_Cd5AnNwuDbpsL3B18" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nHwwzXMknTXeuik_Cd5AnNwuDbpsL3B18

1982: Roxy Music - Avalon - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lDfrGf2fZKK7Qwr8f8uCXj8uYbtF07yZY" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lDfrGf2fZKK7Qwr8f8uCXj8uYbtF07yZY

1988: Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music - The Ultimate Collection - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mT2eDeI5cY_z9mZ0rrhfor0pquApOYl3c" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mT2eDeI5cY_z9mZ0rrhfor0pquApOYl3c

1995: Bryan Ferry + Roxy Music - More Than This: The Best of - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mUmOIt-JWNM1QMjz9NCBcvwLoRkWeAzfA" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mUmOIt-JWNM1QMjz9NCBcvwLoRkWeAzfA

1994: Bryan Ferry - Mamouna - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lQBrJGjBG0_M5D2aDgU93sRnEqNF4JpkQ" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lQBrJGjBG0_M5D2aDgU93sRnEqNF4JpkQ

2000: Bryan Ferry - Slave to Love: Best of the Ballads

2007: Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mw53Rup-atp5nwuN90oqconfz9_EQFGDo" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mw53Rup-atp5nwuN90oqcoNfz9_EQFGDo

2010: Bryan Ferry - Olympia - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mj9O_7G8j9WmQ1G5z3_yY5obKNS3FrSlg" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mj9O_7G8j9WmQ1G5z3_yY5obKNS3FrSlg

2014: Bryan Ferry - Avonmore - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mGz6jouMo23Vbl5O1MIp2mjsNQcI7jKDU" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mGz6jouMo23Vbl5O1MIp2mjsNQcI7jKDU

Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 10:36

I wonder if Bryan Ferry will release any new music (he is 79 this year).

His last release was a 4-track digital only EP 'Love Letters' a couple of years ago, and his voice sounded very frail.

He has produced a fantastic legacy of work, particularly those Roxy Music albums. Smile

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 01 2024 at 10:52

Octopus II wrote:

I wonder if Bryan Ferry will release any new music (he is 79 this year).

His last release was a 4-track digital only EP 'Love Letters' a couple of years ago, and his voice sounded very frail.

He has produced a fantastic legacy of work, particularly those Roxy Music albums. Smile

It's probably best that he hangs up his white tuxedo for good if he's now sounding very frail, and as you say, Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music have left us with such a fantastic legacy of work to Dance Away to that we couldn't ask for More than This. Clap

Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 02 2024 at 00:56

Over the years I have grown to love it though, especially the title track. Smile

Based on already owning (and loving) some of their classics, I bought a cheap copy of it without having heard any of the songs sometime in the 1990's. I dismissed it as boring and bland after listening through it once. Since then I've grown to love the albums two hits (Angel Eyes and Dance Away) which hardly registered as anything out of the ordinary on that one - or maybe it was two album listens. Guess I wanted more Art Rock and not "Sophisti-Pop". I relistened to it yesterday, for the first time in decades, because of this poll. As expected, I enjoyed it more. I actually loved 2/3rds of it. I might even enjoy it more than Ferry himself:

"Maybe the Manifesto album isn’t as strong as the others" "Trash, My Little Girl, Cry Cry Cry – that I wouldn’t listen to now" -Bryan Ferry 2022

-as I think Trash is a great track, although I agree it's a poor choice as the first single. I still think Flesh + Blood which has a similar reputation is the stronger of the two. I'll give that an 8/10 while Manifesto feel like a 7/10.