Roxy Music And Other Schizophrenic Groups
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Topic: Roxy Music And Other Schizophrenic Groups
Posted By: Textbook
Subject: Roxy Music And Other Schizophrenic Groups
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 20:29
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I've just started listening to Roxy Music and while I'm really enjoying myself (not sold on Ferry's singing but his songwriting is very good as are the band performances) I really find some of the stylistic leaps they make from song to song extremely jarring, even as a progressive listener. For example on For Your Pleasure we have Editions Of You followed by In Every Dream Home A Heartache. Listen to them one after the other and see how you feel.
They're from different planets and you'd never believe someone had intentionally sequenced them together.
This isn't an isolated incident though, RM frequently follow tracks with other tracks that don't even faintly flow together well. Clearly they do it on purpose and seem to find it amusing, though I will admit that following the long, intense, morose Sea Breezes with the facetious Bitters End on the debut album is pretty funny.
What other bands do you find alarming or unpredictable in this way?
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Posted By: catfood03
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 22:04
| I, for one, love this aspect of Roxy Music's, erm... music. The band collected and re-presented music styles the way Warhol did with found images. This makes for some intriguing juxtapositions, which were (unfortunately) smoothed out with each successive release. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 06:42
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Yep, early Roxy Music were incredibly adventurous and the abrupt changes between successive album tracks can be something of a jolt (but in a good way IMO) BTW I always thought that In Every Dream Home a Heartache pre-empted Joy Division/The Cure/Banshees etc? ------------- 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 06:44
We can now talk about them in the Prog Lounges as they were moved from Related to Crossover 
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 06:51
Huuuuraaaay 
that was one good news this late 2010, soon 10cc will follow their brother (removed by birth)  -------------  
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 13:54
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Roxy Music are great in how they can be hilarious one moment and frightening the next. I wish I'd discovered them sooner. Are they worth seeing live these days? I've heard they're coming to my neighbourhood soon...
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 15:00
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What other bands do you find alarming or unpredictable in this way? [/QUOTE]
I will always recomend 10cc and Supertramp which are always nearby while discussing Roxy, maybe also Sparks, also 80s band Tears for Fears have a artsy and unpredictable side
Woman in Chains with Phil Collins on drums
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 01:32
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aginor wrote:Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 04:52
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Just on the off-chance that anyone's interested, I'd like to recommend the first few albums by Split Enz. It's the forerunner of Crowded House (not a recommendation , I know) and had the Finn brothers as founding members. Their songs have the same off-the-wall feel to them, at least I see a lot of similarities to RM, although others may not? The first three albums are definite winners. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 05:16
on a side note: listen to the similarity of the chord structure between "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" and this: the songs are even in the same key. both albums are from 1975, so it is probably a coincidence -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 10:32
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@ BaldJean: That picture looks as if you're doing an advert for battered women.  |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 13:30
| NPJ: Being a New Zealander I'm very familiar with Split Enz and I do see similarities to Roxy Music, particularly the pioneering use of sarcasm and irony, and mixing joyous pop tunes with sinister experimental moments. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 18:26
this album is also schizoid or bipolar or something insane in the membrane
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 19:26
With panko? ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: December 30 2010 at 23:13
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^ Women are best served in breadcrumbs
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Posted By: Harold-The-Barrel
Date Posted: January 05 2011 at 07:06
Frankly I can't see the problem, two great songs back to back
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