Roxy Music

I still think Avalon is a really nice album no matter how you'd categorize it.

Edited by Slartibartfast - February 21 2010 at 09:53

harmonium.ro wrote: I've only heard their first two albums, and I'm surprised they are on PA only as prog-related. Great stuff.

It seems there is no way to get them moved. Micky and Dean tried several times, but the Admins won't let them out of PR.

I actually saw them live a long time ago - I believe it was 1980 or so, when they played a date in Rome in the moat of Castel Sant'Angelo. At the time, I was still rather inexperienced about music, but I remember enjoying the gig (and Bryan Ferry) very much. Obviously, it would have been even better to have seen them with John Wetton and Eddie Jobson, but you can't always get what you want.

Anyway, both Micky and I are big fans of the band, and have all their studio albums up to Siren, and then three live albums - Viva! (a masterpiece), Heart Still Beating, and a bootlegg-y thing we found in a store in downtown DC, called The Pride and the Pain, recorded in 1973. Poor sound quality, but great setlist! I am familiar with their later albums too, which make excellent listening even if they are 'pop-rock', and will get them as soon as possible.

Slartibartfast wrote: The album that hooked me was Viva.  Never saw them live.  Also a huge fan of Phil Manzanera's solo stuff, which isn't as much appreciated around here as it should be.  Roxy certainly isn't one of the easier ones to get into.  Bryan's earlier vocal style in particular probably puts a lot of people off.  He got a lot smoother over the years.  I find them to be a bit of an acquired taste, but one well worth developing. It's a shame that the retrospective video, Total Recall, isn't available on DVD.  I have an old VHS tape that I transferred to DVD to preserve.  "I tried but I could not find a way..."

I love Manzanera's album Diamond Head. And the related 801 Live project is good fun.

His voice might be a bit strange in the beginning, yes, but it's so important to that early sound. Sleazy, crooning, over-the-top vibrato. I guess it's a bit love-or-hate 

I'm not sure which Roxy Music album this track is on but I was plain vanilla flabbergasted when I heard In Every Dream Home a Heartache for the first time a few years ago. I never thought Roxy were capable of something like that (it almost pre-empted the Cure in places to my ears)

Is it true that Davy O'List from the Nice joined an early Roxy line up for a while ? (and if so did he play on any albums ?)

Tried the search function, found some dusty and locked threads from yesteryear.

So here's a new thread for discussing and appreciating this lovely band that's quite a new discovery for me. Perhaps not of interest to all proggers, but definitely for fans of quirky, idiosyncratic rock.

I love the first three albums, which are the ones I've really been giving time. Graceful, intricate, strange, larger-than-life, powerful and...you know...great stuff!

I'd love to have seen this band live. If you have live experiences, please share.

Detractors - KEEP OUT...or I'll send the dogs after you.