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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 10 2010 at 14:20
Amazona
Ain't That So
The Bogus Man
Out of the Blue
Editions of You
 
Bryan Ferry's voice is one of my all time favorites
Phil Manzanera's guitar work is great
The overall feel of their most of their music
The experimental things that Eno did early on
Their art rock/semi progressive rock sound
 
Instead of answering number 3 here, let me just say that I can't believe Roxy Music was somehow never as big in the US as they were and are in Europe.  Puzzling because their contribution to 70's and 80's music was truly original.
 
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2010 at 08:43
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a. 2HB
b. Re-make / Re-model
c. Do The Strand
d. In Every Dream Home A Heartache
e. Avalon
 
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a. Their original musical approach on the first two albums
b. Their costumes
c. Eno's synths
d. Ferry's original voice
e. The slick sound on the later albums, even though it could become a bit boring from time to time
 
3. I don't have much to say about this, except that I like the original approach they had. I think their influence was high outside prog, to acts like David Bowie and The Simple Minds, but not inside prog.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2010 at 08:31
Anything from the self titled debut
 
 
and thats it
 
tho I like the non prog stuff esp Avalon
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2010 at 19:46
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

1. everything off the first four albums - Country Life has some quite "Canterbury" moments.
2. Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay, Eno and Thompson. Though Jobson, Gustafson and Wetton helped.
3. it was because they were so radically different and excessive, melding Art Rock with glam and prog in equal amounts that looked nostalgically futuristic and futuristiclly nostalgic.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2010 at 08:55
In Every Dream Home A Heartache
The Bogus Man
If There Is Something
While My Heart Is Still Beating

preferably the live versions  Smile


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 17 2010 at 04:22
1. everything off the first four albums - Country Life has some quite "Canterbury" moments.
2. Ferry, Manzanera, Mackay, Eno and Thompson. Though Jobson, Gustafson and Wetton helped.
3. it was because they were so radically different and excessive, melding Art Rock with glam and prog in equal amounts that looked nostalgically futuristic and futuristiclly nostalgic.
What?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2010 at 20:24
1. All of Avalon (fit 2HB in there somewhere)
2. DAT CROON, Eno, Manzanera
3. That's work, no thank you.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2010 at 19:43
Well after Sean's harsh response, I will attempt a kinder response. 
1. Every song on Viva.  That gets me up to 8.  All I Want Is You from Country Life, Tara from Avalon.  For a bonus - The Thrill Of It All.
2. Don't care to go there.  "Great" is just an adjective I don't care to apply to music no matter how much I like it.
3. I'm actually not sure what they as a group of varying musicians contributed to the genre.  I like them, but they are an acquired taste.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2010 at 18:29
1- The two long tracks on For Your Pleasure .... and that's it
 
2. Outside Eno and Manzanera.....NOTHING
 
 
3. None.... I never thought this band was worth the inclusion in PA (it was insistantly demanded by this member and as soon as he got his way, he disppeared from the site) , past the two members' (afore-mentioned) other projects.


Edited by Sean Trane - July 17 2010 at 02:50
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 15 2010 at 18:55
 1. chose youre 5 (or 10) Roxy Music songs,
 
2. also 5 things about what makes Roxy Music great or apeal to you as a fan of music
 
3.  5 general things about art rock/progressive pop as well, and Roxy Music's role/contrebution  in the genre
 
same concept as the 10cc one


Edited by aginor - August 31 2010 at 07:25
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