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Some of the music was ok but I can’t get past that guys voice. It was so annoying.
If someone told me this was an unreleased, experimental album by The Talking Heads I would fully believe it. I can see how this album fueled the punk movement, but I didn’t enjoy this enough to want to listen to it again.
I shouldn’t like this but there is something catchy on the first side of the album, an energy lurking under all that artifice that reminisces Bowie or Talking Heads or maybe even Queen? It’s interesting, it’s not good enough to hold my ear, but it drew me in.
Interesting and entertaining. This is one of those albums that needed a second listen, and I like it even more as a result. Most times experimental music turns out to be nonsense sounds strung together in ridiculous ways. Not the case here, this is experimental and different, but Roxy Music actually found something new and good. I may jump in for another listen, or more likely will hold off for more Roxy Music albums in the future, but definately looking forward for more.
I listened to this in 2018 because it was on Q Magazine's "40 Cosmic Rock Albums" list from 2005, and back then I was mostly a proghead so I didn't quite get it. Coming back to it nearly eight and a half years (!) later, I find myself understanding why this was on that list. This thing is really ahead of its time - it's broadly glam, but there are so many bizarre touches and sounds woven in that it sounds like a presaging of new wave 10 years early, and I mean the good, weird shit kind of new wave too. Admittedly it does fall off a bit in the B-side, but not enough to decrease my rating below 8/10, and if the quality kept up across the whole album I might even put this as a 9 or 10.
After listening to this album, I’m not entirely convinced that whoever they chose to be the singer can actually sing. That said, the album was mostly instrumentals, and those were often super cool, so it made me forget about the singing. I’m not likely to ever listen again.
I didn't know they made new wave this old! In-between the slightly off-putting vocals are some legitimately kickass instrumental passages. The whole time I was finding myself petty to disregard the music because of that admittedly small factor, but it bothered me enough that, if I'm being honest, I only enjoyed one song in its entirety. Standout: 2HB
I let this marinade for two weeks because I genuinely had no idea what to do with it. I like Roxy Music. I like the first half of this album a lot. Ladytron into If There is Something into Virginia Plain is insane. However, in the entire second half I felt like it became aimless and weird but not in a good way. I guess I'll go right down the middle.
Not sure about this one. Has some great songs. ‘If there is something’ I knew from David Bowie (Tin Machine). And also the later added Virginia Plain is a great song and ‘Would you believe’ has a great Rock n Roll / David Bowie vibe. But I cannot really make something of the Bob (Medley) and the chaotic Sea Breezes as an example. It’s just not it for me. As an album it is very incoherent and it goes nowhere. I guess I am not a big Brian Eno guy and this album is not something I will easily come back to. 2 stars
This was interesting. I enjoyed the sounds but I don't think it's "good".
Like Roxy Music but not this album.
dunno, wild stuff
This reminds me of so many different bands, that I like it.
This one is just a little toooo out-there/rollicking for me....I prefer Avalon much more. I did like Sea Breezes and all the oboe on the album. That dang Brian Eno.
aburrido
This was a solid find for me. Unique. I enjoyed every track
I like Roxy, and enjoyed the album but it’s just not hard enough to be a four for me my…but I wanna give it a four
I’ve been looking forward to this since, like many Americans, I’ve never heard them. I quite liked it. Sort of in between Bowie and Talking Heads with some classic rock elements. Nice one.
I just don't like anything Brian Eno is involved in
4.5
4.5
Debut albums often have an element of audition about them: look, we can do this. Roxy Music says: we will not. For forty-odd minutes the band seem determined not to sound correct. Ferry pushes notes sharp under pressure. Rhythms stumble when they ought to march. Instruments are mixed in proportions that feel faintly wrong. Genres appear, get worried at, and mutate before they have properly settled. Even the big endings are allowed to grate against themselves. It is like a beautifully cut suit with the tailor’s pins still in. It's uncomfortable, but try to take them out and the suit falls apart. That is what makes this album so difficult to describe as merely “eclectic”. Lots of records contain several styles. Roxy Music behaves as though styles are things to be interfered with. “If There Is Something” begins as countrified comedy, Ferry hovering uncertainly between crooner and parody, then somehow changes state until the joke has disappeared and he is pushing urgently sharp through “I would do anything for you”, the whole thing becoming lonely, synthetic and strange. Yet it never feels as though another song has begun. It simply mutates under you. That distinction matters because there are other kinds of transformation here. “2HB” does not mutate so much as evaporate. Ferry gives one of his most restrained performances while a nagging electric piano worries away underneath him and the band lurch around almost comically, as though they have been assembled from the wrong parts. Eventually the saxophones blur everything into dream and the song just disappears. “The Bob (Medley)” behaves differently again. It cuts. Here the hand of Peter Sinfield and the King Crimson world is most obvious: Roxy are less interested in presenting a song than in being cinematic. Muffled battle sounds, distant music, abrupt scene changes, something resembling an advertising jingle with an air-raid siren behind it, apocalyptic verses, then a timpani-laden ending. It feels like walking down a dark corridor into a cinema where something has already started. Bryan Ferry studied under Richard Hamilton, and that relationship feels useful here because this album often thinks like collage. Not “a mixture of influences”, but familiar cultural objects placed beside one another with the joins left visible. Hamilton’s Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? puts consumer images next to one another until the act of juxtaposition becomes the point. Roxy do something similar with musical history. And history is everywhere. Country, doo-wop, Bogart, Coward, early rock’n’roll, wartime cinema, cabaret. But nothing is allowed to become comforting nostalgia. “Chance Meeting” gives us Brief Encounter: railway stations, romantic manners, the whole old-film apparatus. Then the memory is decorated by keening guitar feedback, like watching the film on a television that refuses to behave. Modernity keeps breaking through the signal. Eventually the guitar sounds almost industrial, like scraping girders, as though a new world is physically being constructed over the nostalgia. That is why I resist the easy story that Eno is the strange one while Ferry supplies the conventional material. Ferry himself has a profoundly odd relationship with the past. His later covers album These Foolish Things makes that obvious: Dylan, girl-group pop, Motown, old rock’n’roll, standards, all re-staged until familiar songs become slightly peculiar objects. He does not preserve the past. He makes the past strange. “Ladytron” may be the purest early example. Ferry is not vulnerable here; he is playing the character, and the arrangement gives that character room to breathe. The lyric belongs to a romantic matinee hero while the band march into the future underneath him. The crooner meets Metropolis. Ferry remains the crooner. The scenery changes. There is also much more comedy on this record than accounts of Important Art Rock usually allow. The closing quotation section of “Re-Make/Re-Model” is sophisticated collage, yes, but it is also the band formally introducing themselves by bursting into bits of other people’s music. It is funny. There is something of Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall in the willingness to rummage through musical history and put things together in deliberately inappropriate ways. Artists clown. They just tend to disguise the fact by the time someone writes the catalogue notes. “Would You Believe” is almost the perfect example. The lyric is a remarkably plain love song. The band collide into it like clowns: sax-heavy 1950s rock, doo-wop, Little Richard, while Ferry attempts to maintain his dignity as a crooner who has somehow wandered into the wrong genre. Slapback and reverb leave his vocal lurking behind the band, and even when everyone starts trying to integrate, the sound remains rude and mismatched. That deadly serious clowning reminds me of Phyllida Barlow’s huge dock installation at Tate Britain: mad construction, apparently unstable, pieces absurdly out of proportion, the feeling that the whole thing might collapse. The instability is not a defect. It is the engineering. “Sea Breezes” takes that refusal of correctness somewhere else again. Taken straight, it could be a magnificent forlorn ballad. Roxy will not take it straight. Ferry’s tremolo makes the opening feel like a haunted chamber piece; then the song seems to wander into Berlin around 1927, a chamber song meeting the Bauhaus. The drums attempt something martial and stumble over themselves. There is almost an “Alabama Song” trying to emerge from inside it. As a drama student I found Brecht very easy to get into, and listening again I wonder whether Roxy had already taught eight-year-old me some of that grammar: visible joins, abrupt changes of register, comedy sitting beside dread, the performer displaying the character rather than disappearing inside it, art constantly reminding you that it has been constructed. The final joke is “Bitters End”, an archly Coward-esque little curtain call with something slightly gothic in the wallpaper. It is funny, although explaining precisely what is funny about it is difficult because the proportions themselves seem to be the joke. Then the band withdraw entirely and leave Ferry with the final words a cappella: “should make the cognoscenti think”. After spending an album exposing the machinery, they remove the scenery altogether. I am including “Virginia Plain”, despite it not appearing on the first UK pressing, because it entered the album’s history quickly enough that for many listeners it simply is track four. It is also the compressed version of the whole proposition. The rest of the album suddenly sounds almost prog beside it: long structures, instrumental conversations, songs wandering into other states. “Virginia Plain” packs the same appetite into three minutes and detonates it. I first heard it when I was eight. Ours was a household obsessed with music, so everything stopped for Top of the Pops. I remember wondering why Ferry was singing like that, pushing against the pitch in a way I had never heard before. I did not want him to stop. Eno looked like an alien in a feather boa apparently manufacturing noises, but the music itself never sounded alien to me. It sounded welcoming. I understood enough of its language to know that I had absolutely no idea what they were going to do next. That remains the thrill of Roxy Music. It is funny without being comedy, accomplished while refusing to behave properly, nostalgic while constantly sabotaging nostalgia. Most debut albums tell you what a band can do. Roxy Music already knew. They were much more interested in what they could refuse to do.
Roxy Music is a weird one for me. I like the quirky sound and general vibe, but I don’t really care for the actual music.
I liked the 70s sound, but nothing made this album stand out.
I think they’re lowkey the weirdest band on this list so far. Really loved the opening track, the pacing of the rest of the album was so strange.
Much better than the other Roxy Music we got
I had high hopes based on the first few tracks, but I lost considerable interest before the end.
I like their next album a little bit better, and I'll just kinda leave it there.
Love brian eno but roxy music never did it for me. It's like the band equivalent of a friend who's dating someone that you know they can do better than.
Me gustó, debería escucharlo más, pero me sorprendió con respecto a la tapa, esperaba algo más glam.
This is an indispensable album for this list even as imbalanced as it is. Side A is one of the greatest albums of all time (even if you remove Virgina Plain like the UK version), while side B is so slow and wondering that it loses all the momentum built by the begining, you barely make it to the end.
Overall it’s alright, no big stand outs, just a bit weird, and I like weird, this is just alright
4.5/10 = catching up, can tell this was more experimental for the 70s but didn't really do it for me honestly, i'd rather listen to david byrne w that kind of voice
Absolutely love this album
The glam thing always feels like a little too much for me, but this is still great!
Feels like this needs a free more listens to properly judge. I liked bits of it but not all
Cool listen, just not sure if Roxy Music is for me
bizarre but bursting with bangers
Weirder and more experimental than you'd expect, glam rock and proto-punk a la Bowie
Nothing more than ok
I like some Roxy music but none of it was on this album , it wasn’t the worst just not for me
I wasn't sure about this one at first but I enjoyed it.
Þetta er alveg fínasta band miðað við það sem ég kannast við frá þeim en þetta var hryllilega leiðinleg plata með þeim. Ég gat varla beðið eftir því að hún kláraðist.
Interesting…a bit too theatrical. I think the songs that leaned more punk were actually more listenable. Never thought I’d see the day I’d say that.
Every time he sings I just imagine him hitting his throat Tom Kenny style to sound like SpongeBob laughing
Pretty good album. It features tenor sax, guitars running free, a singer with a different style/tone. I don't recall any one song that I really enjoyed. There were parts of some songs such as Sea Breezes which had a solid vibe.
Solo dos o tres canciones me gustaron las demás, malas
Like a puzzle slowly falling apart, this album seems to deconstruct itself further with every song. Starting off with upbeat rock and roll with some weird edges, more and more avant-garde elements and structures are gradually introduced until, in the second half, the very idea of 'rock music' is challenged almost beyond recognisability. Oh, and did I mention that this is secretly also just a very catchy album? You might have to work for it, but once these lines (vocal lines, woodwind lines, synth... lines?) hit, you will find that they have been engraved into the very creases of your grey matter.
I really deeply loved most of this, but there are just a couple of tracks that haven’t clicked with me yet. Very possibly could come back and change this one.
This is so bad it's actually laughable.
# Album Name: Roxy Music # Artist: Roxy Music # Rating: 5/5 # Comments: A cracker from the roxies. The first half is definitely the strongest side. Brilliant stuff. It slows down after track 6. At first the songs didnt hit. But as ive had it on repeat, i actually like them more and more. It did take some time though. Very good listen # Top Tunes: re-make remodel / ladytron / there is something / virginia plain / 2HB # Would I listen to it again? Yes
Re-Make/Re-Model, If There Is Something, 2 H.B., Would You Believe?, Bitters End 3.5
i had high hopes for this and i was actually disappointed….. i just didn’t enjoy it
I'm familiar with Bryan ferry & Roxy Music, but not too deeply. This album was fine and interesting, but this is definitely more for the ardent fan than the casual listener.
Virginia Plain is the standout amongst this collection of Eno tinged nonsense.
It's a fun album. They have that discovered in a basement bar in New York feel to them. Like your never sure if they are going to just go for it or tone it down. Makes for an interesting listen. They are really good at the moody atmosphere. It feels like the 70's, it feels like there was pain when making it. It will get weird at times but if you aren't here for that just hang out the next track could be your favorite. I like their stuff overall. That said they have too many entries on the list, much like Bowie I love their stuff but damn list maker, pare it down so we can get some other acts on this.
Краще ніж минулий альбом цієї групи, який мені попався. Не сказати, що він прям розйобний, але мені сподобалося. Оцінка: низька-середня 6
Pasó sin pena ni gloria. Arrancó normal, terminó más o menos.
I don't know how I feel about this. It was well written music but I feel like I couldn't latch onto it.
Brian Eno & your shitty production style, we meet again. I like being a sensible, educated, well-rounded hater, so I’ve been desperately searching for anything of yours that I halfway like. I did not find it on this album. This music sucks. Just like the other Eno produced albums on this list I’ve heard so far. The streets say ambient music is where you shine. I hope to find refuge there one day. Until then, I will continue to sift through this dumpster you call a catalog.
This album is fine, I guess, though it's quite underwhelming, especially compared to what Roxy Music would go on to do.
Mightve accidentally listened to the deluxe, felt more bloated than it probably was
better than expected!
I have liked Virginia Plain for years but never really known what its about (still none the wiser) or listened to much other Roxy Music albums. Its a hard album to pigeon hole as there is alot going on. Ive listened about 5 times today and its really starting to work its magic on me. Brian Ferry's singing is an acquired taste. I tend to up score debuts as think extra credit is due for the first time.
Roxy Music The US release is the only one on streaming, which is fine as I love Virginia Plain, so I listened to that. I love Re-Make/Re-Model’s references, a bit of Day Tripper, a bit of Peter Gunn and it’s a great opener. Ladytron continues the excellent start, lots of Eno oddities and a great groove and roll to it, the sort of melodramatic track Roxy Music excel at. If There Is Something is also superb, starting off with a little bit of a 50s rock’n’roll feel, before heading off into the heightened last couple of minutes, again creating a brilliantly dramatic song. You can see why Bowie covered it. 2HB completes an excellent first side, I love the pianet in tandem with the bass. The 2nd side is less strong than the first, the songs aren’t quite as good as the first side, and the overall sound feels more inconsistent. And there is a sense of them feeling their way around what was great about the first side and what they would go on to do more successfully on For Your Pleasure. Sea Breezes is a real highlight though, brilliantly atmospheric and slightly odd (and oddly mixed, it seems very loud in the middle). Bitters End and Chance Meeting I’m not really very keen on at all, but Would You Believe and The Bob are decent enough. I think it comes up short of a 5. The first side is almost flawless, but the second side pales in comparison, so overall it’s definitely a step below For Your Pleasure. 4. 👗👗👗👗 Playlist submission: It's Virginia Plain really, but in a nod to the original release I’ll go If There Was Something
Astounding for 1972, it sounds like post-punk/new wave. The snarly vocal seems like it inspired the Lyndon drawl; the sax is like X Ray Spex. The influence reaches far and wide. Bowie was a fan and 'Re-Make/Re-Model' may have influenced elements of Bowie's mid-70s output (esp Station to Station). There's so much going on through the album. 'Sea Breezes' is particularly bonkers, going from desolate track, with a tangled guitar solo vs calm clarinet, to off-kilter military beat. 'The Bob (Medley)' is eletronica, prog rock, glam. There's a lot of ideas here and across the album. Impressive for a debut yet undoubtedly rougher round the edges than the driving perfection of 'For Your Pleasure'.
1. 3.5 2. 4 3. 4.5 4. 3 1. 4 2. 3.5 3. 4 4. 4.5 5. 3.5
3/5
A very solid debut from the artsiest of the British glam rock groups. It's still a little rough around the edges but there's a lot of really interesting choices being made. For one, Bryan Ferry hasn't found his Bizarro-World crooner style yet so he's kind of doing whatever feels right on each song. Brian Eno is really the one filling out the gaps with the several bizarre noises and fills he puts in: just check the crazed opener "Re-Make/Re-Model" for proof of all of the above. The other glaring item on this album is that incredibly loud sax that hovers all over everything, which makes this album part free jazz, part glam rock, part ambient electronics. Needless to say, this is a very interesting mix of elements going on here, mostly brought by the eternal frenemies Bry(i)ans Ferry and Eno. This album is one that's very hard to forget, though not every song will hit. It's also quite progressive: just look at "Ladytron," which gets 3 distinct movements in and out of the listener's view in 4 and 1/2 minutes. If you can't stomach the whole thing for all of its wild directions, I would suggest going for the A-side on its own. The B-side veers a little too heavily into the progressive electronic krautrock kind of thing that kind of detracts from the degraded-glam atmosphere Roxy was so great at creating. The band would refine the many elements found here on later releases, but they never again displayed them all at once in full force as they did here. Key Tracks: Re-Make/Re-Model, Ladytron, Virginia Plain, Chance Meeting
Trashy, glammy good fun.
Kjennskap: 0% Det svinger! Mye bedre enn forventet.
Start to finish this album is a bop. Highly recommend giving it a few listens, it gets better with each one.
This album deserves it's flowers for what it is. I really enjoy the sound and style of the songs on here, but I found it hard to get through some of the vocals.
I liked this one more than the other album of theirs that came up.
A classic. It's Roxy Music, it's Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno... it's great! Had a wonderful time enjoying this! <3
Big big fan
This record was better than the previous ones
Meh, got bored of it pretty quick.
Ok
un 7/10? el disco tuvo buenos momentos igual. no me convencen las vocals.
Great Songs: If There Is Something, Would You Believe?, Sea Breezes Good Songs: Re-Make/Re-Model, Ladytron, Virginia Plain, 2 H.B., The Bob (Medley), Bitters End Mid Songs: Chance Meeting Bad Songs:
This is watch glam rock was originally. Hair metal is different.
I was sure I knew what this was going to sound like and that I wouldn’t like it based on the cover. Wrong on both counts!
Suenan bien, pero no me gustó como el otro
Previously unknown. I mostly didn't like it, but there were moments where I could understand why people do.
Mixed reaction to this one. At first blush, I really didn't like this. The lead's voice is average and he trills too much. That said, it started to grow on me a bit. I actually quite liked If There Is Something, that was a great track. The rest of the album didn't live up to that high though. Waffling between 2 and 3 stars but I am going with 3, as it's better than some of what I have had recently (it's been a bad last 20 days of albums on this list).
Rocks but not like I like to rock.
Kind of bad. Too much talking-singing. Like a bad musical.
More rock inflected than I expected it to be. Appreciated this more than I liked it. Maybe their later albums will be more my speed.
More interesting than their later albums, but still rather pretentious and I just don't like Ferry's singing.
I thought i was very familiar with Roxy Music but this album surprised me with lots of tracks I don't think I've heard before. It was a very pleasant surprise.
This is one that Dad’s been pushing on me for a while now. I’ve been meaning to listen to it for ages, but I have to admit today was my first listen. I really enjoyed it. Their sound reminded me of something not too dissimilar to Sparks or Bowie. The instrumentation was great, and so were the vocals, lyrics, and songwriting. My only slight criticism would be that the second half felt a little weaker than the first.
Not great apart from Virginia Plain, average
bit ahead of the curve but listening to this 50 years too late makes me.... feel like i can't value it for what it is as much as i do. couple cool moments however
This album is very experimental, which probably made it an interesting listen back in 72', but I'm not sure of the sound nowadays. I think they had their best of the mixture between Eno & Ferry sound later on (in Country Life), but this album shows Eno's experimental mind more than anything. This sound does not connect well with me now.
This is alright. It feels halfway between pop and alternative. Not wowed, but it’s a decent listen
I thought I’d like this but way too much over the top for me.
Oh wow, this is a great album. Their first, and what an introduction (and to the 70s, too--punky, glammy, post-punky, etc.) . Kind of on its own out there. Some Bowie in its individuality, a real pastiche. Keeps changing its feel, even midsong. "Here's looking at you, kid," a Casablancan paean, the synth underlay unique. I'm looking forward to a beautiful friendship.
Another surprise. I have never enjoyed Roxy Music, I guess I never got what they were up to. I can't say I loved this, but I did like it quite a bit, and if nothing else, it made sense to me. Also, perhaps Bryan Ferry hadn't built up the confidence he had in later efforts, but he was interesting and unpredictable and his goat falsetto only appeared a couple of times and actually added to the proceedings. I suppose my backhanded praise is unnecessary — this is good stuff.
I love me some Roxy Music, and the vibes on this one are strong. The compositions, however, aren't quite there yet. Frankly, I prefer post-Eno Roxy. I feel like they came into their own once he left and Bryan Ferry was allowed to go full ... Bryan Ferry. Still, there are a few bangers on here. The first tune, Virginia Plain, 2HB, one or two others. Plus, I love how Paul Thompson's drums are recorded. I was thinking this was a strong 4, but as side two wore on, I feel like I can't go beyond a 3. I wish they had included Stranded and Avalon on this list instead of the first two Roxy's. Oh well.
So fun and energetic and Eno is Eno-ing pretty hard. Re-Make/Re-Model has such a crazy texture. Insane that this is from 1972, but I guess I just think that because it sounds like late 70s Bowie which is also just Eno. I like it less when it slows down (like Sea Breezes) but it's still so interesting. I want whatever drugs they had.
eeeuu muy bueno, las canciones experimentan con cosas muy distintas y creo que todas se pueden disfrutar. banco mil
Not the Roxy music I know (example, Avalon). More experimental? B- for the effort ig
Rate: 7/10.
Roxy Music is kinda all over the place but was cool enough in spurts
3.5 As cool as Brian Ferry was back in the day with his image, Brian Eno was equally uncool, what was he thinking with that salad? This was a fun listen,
me encantó
Meh
I’m surprised Roxy Music wasn’t more popular. They had massive talent, especially Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry. They were essentially forefathers of New Wave.
I guess the glam sound or whatever isn't for me.
Kick ass album. The energy on Re-Make/Re-Model is outta sight and the bassline on 2HB is killer. The lead guitar work by Manzanera is the highlight. Groovy stuff, just weird and arty enough without becoming annoying. Listened through a half dozen times and really dug it.
I felt like I was listening to the in between of latter day Beatles and the Talking Heads.
Not for me
I remember this as being ok, but I also don't remember a single thing about any of it Standouts - 3/5
pretty good! a lot of unique songs on here across a pretty wide range of genres
Some really cool sounds here.
If there is Something, one of the greatest songs ever written. The other songs are solid too.
Muy lindo, muy vintage. Muy diferente la voz de Ferry. Cool
My Friday shift was so slow, I was able to listen to this album on a rare second walk of the day, walking around the park as a change of pace. Seconds into this album, a dizzying collage of horns and guitars took my knees out from under me in the best way possible. I knew very little about Roxy Music going into this album, only really knowing of them via Alex Cameron's homage via album title, Oxy Music. That did nothing to prepare for me the breakneck car crash energy of its instrumentals, separate instruments almost running at completely different times, conflicting with one another yet still managing to collide back together at just the right moments to stay coherent. In combining a seemingly glam rock delivery and aesthetic, incredibly punk sensibilities and tones, & droning electronic distortions and experimentation, Roxy Music has basically found a cheat code to combining together multiple different tentpoles of my music taste into a single project. Unsurprisingly, I absoultely loved every weird second of this album. I also learned that Roxy Music is one of the main bands for which Brian Eno is known! Similar to the band as a whole, I knew of Brian Eno only by reputation, but hearing the ways in which his synth work shapes the sound of this album has shone a light on just how singular of a creative Eno is; I now understand why he is explicitly name-dropped and revered in MGMT's Congratulations. This album reminds me of the rapid energy of Talking Heads with an even busier sound palette, not to mention the handful of absolutely filthy horn sections which forced me to scrunch up my face and shake my head at their sheer funk. Maybe more than any other band so far on this list, I feel the need to listen to more Roxy Music albums after this; if everything else they've made even comes close to this, I might have a new favorite artist on my hands. Highlights: Re-Make/Re-Model, Ladytron, If There Is Something, Virginia Plain, 2HB, The Bob (Medley), Chance Meeting, Would You Believe?, Sea Breezes, Bitters End
This just washed over me and I didn’t listen very closely. I had this band two days ago and this is an earlier album and was more experimental.
I actually kinda liked this, it's like a borderline 3. 2.7
This album is all over the place. I enjoyed several of the tracks. On some the vocals were too grating. It’s very very British.
Almost worth it just for Virginia Plain alone but there's a lot more in here.
There’s enough other glam rock from this time that I actually enjoy quite a bit but Roxy Music feels like it’s just slightly beyond that. I can appreciate it and enjoy it somewhat, but there’s just other bands I prefer
This is like if you put 70's mainstream rock music through a blender and created an uncanny valley version of it. It is very much an approximation of regular Glam Rock, but it just sounds a bit off. Some weird vocals here, strange guitar passage there, unusual keyboard work all over, but you can't quite put your finger on what it is. It's Brian and Bryan, mostly. That's what it is. Key tracks: Re-Make/Re-Model If There Is Something Virginia Plain (non-album single, but present in most subsquent editions)
Charges out the gate in such a bombastic fashion. Didn't know Roxy Music had it in them with Re-Make/Re-Model. Rest of the album doesn't quite reach those heights, but screw it I'm sold.
stop giving these albums they're so fucking boring
Love me some Roxy Music. A wonderfully quirky album. It wouldn't be made today.
Love the fact that there's sax in this rock album!!!!
La verdad le re gusto, el disco es medio un loco siento q los temas entresi no tienen tanto que ver, pero me gustaron muchos temas
This was bland to me, just another British rock album. It was kind of weird at times, but it didn't feature any sort of sound to draw me in.
Album #132, Roxy Music, Roxy Music ⭐⭐⭐ I love the feel of Roxy Music. They strike me as such a chaotic band. Take Re-Make/Re-Model. There is so much going on. It sounds like a huge band in a room throwing the kitchen sink at each other. It’s a cracker of an opening song, one of the best I can think of. And what a band of pure talent. Phil Manzanera is such an underrated guitarist, in my opinion. His manic guitar breaks are incredible. Brian Eno, on the other hand, is properly rated, and rightfully so. His fingerprints are all over these first two albums. There’s a colourful ambient current running underneath a lot of these tracks that’s unmistakably his. So it’s a cracking opening to one of the most front-loaded albums I can think of. I remember the first time I heard this and being absolutely blown away by it. It goes from strength to strength in the first half, culminating in the absolutely beautiful 2 H.B., probably my favourite Roxy Music song. Gorgeous textured keyboards, beautiful snare flams, I just love it. But it’s an album of two halves, and the second half seriously lacks memorable moments. Outside of Chance Meeting, I struggle to remember many of the songs at all. So it’s a three-star album for me. I feel like I’ll catch a bit of flak for that, including from my future self when I inevitably come back to it. When I need my Roxy Music fix, I always reach for For Your Pleasure. That’s the band’s peak for me.
A big nope from me!
Sir, a second Talking Heads has hit the Random Album Generator. Seriously now, bafflingly impressed, give me more. Unexpected 5 stars for you Roxy x
May not be as high art as some other albums on this list, but this sure is a lot of fun
A good first album, but Roxy Music sound a little too much like other glam bands from the era. It's as if they had yet to find their identity.
29/06/2026 I do not really have much to do with Roxy, and they haven't really done anything exceptional in my opinion. But the album is okay. Spotify listeners: 3 million
Can’t categorize this but the cover doesn’t match the sound
Strong 3
As far as Serious Art Rock albums go, this one is really fun. The styles vary all over the place, but that seems to be a strength of this record rather than a weakness. I don't see how this will connect with a ton of people under the age of 40 (there's a song dedicated to Humphrey Bogart for God's sake) but it was a great listen all the same. FOUR STARS
One of the all-time greatest debut albums. They got better as performers, and a few rough edges disappeared from the compositions, but they never again had the originality and drive they showed here and on For Your Pleasure. The feeling of hearing this for the first time was wonderful.
Really not my thing. Why am I not shocked Brian Eno is involved.
No, I don't like it very much.
No me gustó 💜
painful
Glam and Prog, beautifully rolled into one!
I liked the first song, because it reminded me of the Talking Heads, but after that nothing really did much for me and I was just waiting for the album to be over. Mid 3.
Unc music, of course I really liked it.
This is very well-made pastiche; the downside of that being that the band doesn't have much of an identity of its own. Some of it works (jazz is always a good companion to rock) and some of it doesn't (the hawaiian instruments feel overused and out-of-place). It did get me thinking, though, about what makes the difference between musical pastiche and a band that uses an obvious assemblage of influences to create something truly additive. A band like Animal Collective is what I'm thinking of here, which uses a lot of the same historical material as Roxy Music, down to the '50s doo-wap. I don't have the answer yet, it's just a thought. What a surprise, though, to hear Brian Eno's synthesizer in the music of a band I've never even heard of! Easily my favorite part of the record, especially on the fun and irreverent "Ladytron"(a standout for me).
Like many of the artists in this project, I had heard a lot ABOUT Roxy Music for a long time but based on the descriptions I had read, I had never bothered to explore their music. And that was a mistake! I enjoyed this album! I understand why so many musicians I love are big fans and were influenced by this! A lot of it sounded very similar to Talking Heads, especially the vocals, so of course it makes sense (start making sense?) that Byrne is/was a big fan. The vocals also sounded at times like they probably influenced what Lydon did with PiL. I will need to check out more Roxy Music, because I like this. Tough call between 3 or 4 stars. I am going to give it a 4 because I think I would only like it more with more listens. I did definitely like side 1 more than side 2 though.
I mean, holy fucking damn!! Is there a second weak NOTE on this album? This was 1972!?! I mean, just wow, just wow!
This gets properly fucked up at points, and it's those bouts of off-kilter experimentation which caught my intrigue and have me keen to revisit. Although a glam rock album at its core, it also brings an inventive fusion of avant-electronics, art school camp and 50s rock and roll, in a manner which surely was unique to it at the time. Brian Eno's blueprint is all over this, thanks to the bizarre, abrasive textures and unpredictable noises he concocts with his synthesisers, whilst Bryan Ferry's quivering vocals add a further layer of unease to proceedings. The album does occasionally feel somewhat disjointed, which is perhaps to be expected from a debut album, but I can absolutely buy into the argument that this is an essential listen.
Unique but nothing too special
It was ok. Some good parts. Some weird parts.
Bit of mixed feeling about this album, Roxy Musics' first. I enjoyed some of the non serious type music and lyrics but nothing here really elevated above. I know Roxy Music for their later more commercially successful stuff but 1982's Avalon (More than this, Avalon) is not on the list nor are the Albums with "Jealous Guy" and "Love is the Drug". The first three Roxy Music albums are on the list. The first two albums are with Brian Eno. Maybe his influence is here in the oddities. Well I liked it better than his solo album at least. Would not come back.
Wow this was really toe tapping wasn’t it?? I try to judge the album itself and not the legacy the band has. I acknowledge that Roxy Music influenced a lot of better bands but there’s a reason why Roxy Music isn’t all over the radio. It’s just not good at all. Lyrics are gibberish, melodies are nonexistent, song structure is all over the place. Just terrible.
I’d never heard this and I enjoyed it.
Some interesting songs on it but as a album it doesn't impress me 3/5
Nothing spectacular
I must confess that I only know them through the Velvet Goldmine score. And it fits so well the movie that they deserve half a star just for this memory. It will be 4 because I'm rounding up. Favorite Songs: 2 H.B. ;
Outstanding first album that immediately establishes Roxy Music's esthetic.
It was interesting if nothing else
Blind album and artist. Honestly this album flip flopped on me but somehow landed on a surprising 4? Maybe it was the glam style as the album closed. Loved the saxaphone and other instruments.
loved the beat but the voices make me not like it, they sound kind off like the Beatles.
Mediocre like the last album.
1/2
Tegu on väga ausa rokialbumiga, isegi nii väga, et ma olen üllatunud, et ma bändi varem ei tundnud. Oli erinevate stiilidega rokkmuusikat, aga kõige rohkem jäi mulle siiski kõrva albumi kõige esimene laul, "Re-Make/Re-Model", mis alsutas albumit nii hea energiaga, et mu ootused ülejäänule olid tegelikult kõrgemad kui lõpptulemus. Kahju, et ei saanud suurema süvenemisega kuulata.
ive har a few roxy music albums now and i still cant warm to Bryan Ferrys voice. Thete are some ok pop tracks here, but its a bit of a dirge.
Didn’t recognise much of this and it didn’t really stand out to the honest. Faced away into nothing in the second half.
Very good
I think if I got this early on in my journey I would have enjoyed it a lot more. But as album #800, it was fun but not a standout.
Bien.
Having never really listened to Roxy Music before, they were not what I was expecting! I thought they were 80s pop! Loved this - great album and I will definitely be exploring more by then.
Re-Make/Re-Model
There were a few moments in the album that I liked, such as "If There Is Something". The rest of the songs were sort of directionless and languid. I didn't like it as an album, but really it just wasn't for me.
irgendwie alter kram, alte geschichten mit ferry/eno und definitiv nichts was bleibt.
Ein Erstlingswerk halt. Gibt es viel besseres.
Was thinking about giving it a 4. Very avant-garde. Must have been refreshing at the time. Just not very memorable for me.
Roxy continues to be rocky for me
Brian Ferry is like if David Byrne sang slightly better, but wrote worse songs.
Top shit
POP! ART! Sometimes I forget what a marvellous din they make, and how fabulous Phil Manzanera's guitar playing is.
Feels very pop-prog, like bass line on 2HB, again not biggest fan of vocals, definitely some more obscure elements in album (~2 min on the Bob), overall fun album
Bryan Ferry
I thiiiiink I can see what they're going for here, but when the singer starts yodel singing it really crashes the whole thing. Points for some of the innovative spacy sounds and trying to push the envelope on the instrument side, but far too experimental and a slog
Surprisingly disappointing.Virginia Plain the highlight but the rest a mixed bag .
If every track was like Virginia Plain then it would be an instant 5. Unfortunately...
A surprise. I enjoyed this more than expected. More rocky than I thought. Was fun
Unique yet uneven played by insanely great musicans. It reminds me of the Talking Heads, Devo & the Police. The singer has a weird lounge singer vibe to him that works well often. Other times, not so much. It sometimes seems like two bands fighting with some of the more atmospheric vibes & sounds. Better than I thought it would be. 3
Two in a row of the ehh records. Its fine and maybe even kinda cool in some aspects. Just no singular song really comes together for me. Good parts but never a good whole. And I learned this is eno and I see it. Very artsy for sure. Just not something id ever come back to. It will gor sure get someone else but for me its pretty forgettable
If I ignored the vocals on this album, it would be an easy 5 stars. Those vocals though...
Didn't enjoy this as much as their later music. Favorite song: Virginia Plain
This album was weird but fucking great. Then it just got weird. Cut a couple of those last songs out and this may be a 5
The second side might be a drop off but I don't think it's that it's as bad as some do---the first side is just that good. This is the best album we've gotten that I haven't previously listened to since the Cocteau Twins graced us with their presence. The first side really caught the better impulses of King Crimson, the weirder tendencies of Led Zeppelin, and probably other English bands at the time that I'm unaware of. Great fun. Shoutout to the Day Tripper bass lick immediately followed by Wagnerian Valkyries.
The A-side came out as a haymaker, the B-side landed like a gentle toot (no surprise that's the Eno side ...). I was going to give this a 4, but the B-side and horrible British warbly vocals knock it .5 (3.5)
First time I listened to this I did not like it but the second time.. mmmmmm
Favorite Song: If There Is Something
Sigue siendo innovador hoy en día. Durillo, es Brian Eno. Luego fueron mucho más accesibles.
Perfectly alright with a couple of cool jazzier tunes
rock raro de los 70, tipicamente americano, bastante melodico, muy meh en general igualmente
I had a tough time deciding if this is a 3 or a 4. When Mackay comes in hard with the sax or oboe, it's fantastic. The second half of the album gets a little more experimental and it doesn't always land. For a band I've never heard or listened to before though, it was a pleasant surprise. I'll put it among the high 3s.
The good songs on this album fucking rip (and most of the album is good). But the 4 experimental songs (The Bob, Chance Meeting, Sea Breezes, Bitters End) really don’t work for me. Probably a 3.5 star but I’ll round up to four on the strength of the good songs.
Une ambiance expérimentale avec des éléments de rock que j'aime. Des passages de guitare très sympas et du sound design cool aussi. Quelques morceaux pas à mon gout mais bonne expérience générale. Des fois du mal avec les voix. 1) Sea breezes 2) If there is something 3) 2 H.B
Très surprenant je m'attendais pas à ça, on reste sur un album qui porte le nom de l'artiste.
Some great moments if not their best album.
Fun and riffy and unexpectedly good. Chill experimental grooves and driving zeppelen-esque riffs and jazz sax. Really similar to the rocky horror picture show soundtrack. Would definitely put this into regular rotation!
This is canon, in the civilized world.
i am a massive roxy music fan so this was always going to get a high rating. it's kind of funny though because i really dislike virginia plain, i think the rest of the album is much better. ladytron and 2HB have some gorgeous keyboard work going on, i think my favourite on here is if there is something, i absolutely love the sax. great album, i am surprised avalon isn't in this list...
I prefer most of the pre-first-breakup runs of their albums to this one, but those first three songs are completely undeniable and the second half has lots of fascinating Eno stuff. For Your Pleasure is still somehow an unbelievable level up despite the fact that this is incredible stuff by one of the best bands of all time.
Not bad, but nothing outstanding.
I knew Brian Ferry and Roxy Music by their later works in the '80s. On this list, there are only their older works from the '70s. Those are much closer to David Byrne and The Talking Heads, David Bowie, and the like. I suspect that this stems from the influence of Brian Eno, who was part of the band till 1973. While I'm no particular fan of Eno and his work, he made this record something special. Not all tracks hit, but some will stay with you. For me, it's If There is Something and Bitters End.
Roxy Music are a bit difficult to pin down. They have just enough grit to balance out their avante garde tendencies, and the horns add a necessary lounge-lizard-like levity to keep them from sounding like just another hard rock group. It’s a formula that doesn’t always work, but when it does it’s surprisingly moving. I most enjoyed their swampy imitations of Little Feat on “If There Is Something” and the you-don’t-have-to-go-home-but-you-can’t-stay-here energy of “Would You Believe.” Maybe I’m just relieved to be hearing this after listening to Einstürzende Neubauten, but I’ll give it 3.5 stars rounded up.
My first full listen of a Roxy Music album and I can't really complain. I didn't really know what I was in for and assumed it would be a silly 80s album. And then I realized it was released in 72. For some reason that makes it all less trite. There are certainly some silly moments and some moments that seemed to come out of left field but it wasn't overpowering. Musically it was really enjoyable and the band came together to turn what could've been an annoying listen into something more impactful 3.5
After Country Life, I was vaguely excited to listen to this one. Unfortunately, this one is just plain boring
Didn't get much from this, mediocre, but it is from the 70s.
Another essential listen.
Listening session: may 17th, while getting ready in the morning Listened to before: no Thoughts: my second Roxy Music album on this project and I’m always misled by the campy album covers, as the music itself doesn’t really interest me Favourite tracks: Ladytron & Virginia Plain
Don't get it.
⭐⭐ Jag har svårt för Roxy music, tycker dock bättre om detta albumet som också känns mindre pretentiöst än Country life. Detta albumet är också lite mer uptempo. Hämtar också från fler genres. Det är inte dåligt men för mig flyger det inte och kommer inte lyssna på det igen så det blir en 2a. Låter ibland lite som en sämre version av David Bowie. Bäst är Virginia plain.
Es wirkt heute wie ein seltsames Artefakt aus einer Zukunft, die nie ganz eingetreten ist. Damals war dieses Debüt ein kleiner Schock: glamourös, schräg, artifiziell – ein Sound, der seiner Zeit voraus war und gleichzeitig völlig aus ihr herausfiel. Doch genau dieser Mut zur Exzentrik lässt das Album heute fast wie ein vergessenes Experiment wirken, das nur noch Eingeweihte kennen.
It's just odd, not for me
Ugh, this was another rough one. Some of the songs on here started well enough, but then something would happen that would completely derail the experience. If There is Something sounded great at the beginning, but at one point the singer started using this wild fake vibrato. My daughter was in the car during this song and commented that the singing sounded like a bird having a seizure. And he uses this voice often! Later in the same song the soprano sax suddenly starts inexplicably squealing. One year I had a sixth grade band in which a few kids would come into rehearsal and just start wailing as loud as they could on their instruments. This sound brought me right back to those classes. I'm left scratching my head at all of the decisions that were made in creating this album, and the folks who willingly paid money to hear this in their homes...
Some weird, inventive stuff on the first half but struggled to keep my interest all the way through. Definitely some forward-thinking instrumentation but I didn’t enjoy much of the vocals. 1 listen Favorite Tracks: If There Is Something, Re-Make/Re-Model
Expectation: -> I don't know this band. After listening: "-> There are definite moments when I think this is good. These moments are not frequent and are scattered among a lot of songs that do not appeal to me. Enjoyed ""If There Is Something"" much more than the rest. Enjoyed the saxophone and other odd instruments/sounds scattered throughout. I applaud the creativity. " Track ranking: Something Bob Bitters Re-Make Ladytron VA Believe 2HB Chance Sea
This one was decent enough. More stuff I just won't seek out to listen to again
They have some songs I love, but I didn't care for this.
ok
Ok
Really dug the first half of this one. Second half sagged a little for me.
My boyfriend claims Roxy music has better albums. I won’t be finding out for myself. This album was … not compelling
Like their later stuff better, but that were exceptional here too.
I wanted to like this, but I just really didn't. Some of the instrumentation was inventive and enjoyable to listen to, but the vocals often ruined the songs. Some of it was just harmonically jarring and unpleasant. Overall not a great experience. Two stars.
What the heck did I just listen to
Stranded and Country Life are great Roxy Music records and neither are on this list. Confused.
I actually enjoy hearing music from their glam years. Two of these tracks were used/covered in the film Velvet Goldmine, which I love, and at the time I first saw it I didn't realize they were originally by Roxy Music.
Weird and wonderful
Dober
Instrumentation is good but his voice is pretty grating.
Little weird. Not bad
I’m so sick as shit like this. Sad thing is I’m sure there’s another one in here. People love this garbage.
Liked the last song
Gewoon een solid album. Niet iets wat erg gaat blijven hangen, maar niet slecht 6.5/10
Interesting debut, filled with style, but in the end I didn't really loved it. The singing was weird and most of the songs were too similar to eachother.
Uma surpresa positiva. Melhor do que eu esperava.
I've always heard of the band, but not their work. Very enjoyable post-VU Bowie 70s glam rock with a fine element of sleaze. Listened to it twice yesterday, and I'll continue to listen.
Good listen. Sounds like a lot of bands across multiple decades. I hear a little of The Who, Pink Floyd, and Talking Heads while also a bit of the Hollies. So there's a bit of 60s, 70s, and even 80s sound in the album.
The birth of not only new wave but also Glam. Seriously solid album.
Not as good as I expected, reminded me on Bowie several times. Some songs feel a little random, without a good idea. And then there is this Sax…well. Fav: If there is something
4.5/5 great debut art rock killer guit n sax good melody
Another artist I’ve heard about but never listened to their albums. I was expecting something experimental and am not disappointed at all. It might be that there is so much going on here I don’t know what to think about where this music is came from. It’s not like anything that came before it, and it seems to have influenced many other artists. At first listen, David Bowie comes to mind, but he had a sensibility about him; his music was more accessible to a newcomer to experimental pop music. Roxy Music drags you along for a wild journey through lots of disparate sounds ranging from rock and roll to what can only be described as noise. I think maybe I could get into this with further listening. 3.5 stars
it was pretty good
Roxy exploded onto the music scene with this album and never looked back. Ferry's voice on the early lps takes some getting used to, with vibrato like Marc Bolan, but I love them both.
love the vibes
Drivel
had some tunes but a bit too pompous in parts
I can't believe this is 1972, it sounds so much more recent all their album covers are so creepy
I've tried 3 times to listen to this album and I just can't get through it, sorry. I'm not sure what it is, but I just can't.
A bit all over the place, but I see what they were getting at.
3/5
Already know its peak
Often when I heard about a band I either like them or not. Roxy music is so forgettable I know the name, that Brian Eno got his start here but I can't remember one song by them. The singer is very annoying, at some times he sounds like a goat. like a kid who just found vibrato and can't stop using it.
Goofy singing style that's reminiscent of Bob Dylan. Instrumentals were interesting at times. My favorite track was "Sea Breezes".
Instrumentals are pretty nice, but Bryan Ferry has one of the worst voices ever. Completely unlistenable and it ruins the entire album kinda like Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground.
Didn't enjoy. Bryan Ferry's heavy vibrato is horrible to listen to. Ahead of it's time? - maybe. A bridge between glam rock and punk? - maybe but yeah whatever.
its okay
I think for 1972, this album genuinely might have some of the most inventive and creative sounding instrumentation of this decade but the biggest thing that weighs this album down for me is I don’t like the singing at all. I think the vocals are honestly way too over the top and annoying but the instrumentation and production are so damn good it’s hard to not really enjoy theses songs. I honestly think this had the potential of being a near perfect album but the vocals hurt my enjoyment of this album so much for me personally as well as a couple of slow tracks.
So you're telling me this isn't the Talking Heads guy with more saxophone and piano making cool but sometimes unnecessarily long songs?
What an absolute classic album . Being born in 1972 I’m very much an after the fact Roxy music and Brian ferry concert. I love and appreciate all the phases. Virginia plain rightfully remains a stone cold classic . Other favourites of mine on the album are re make / re model , Ladytron , If there is something , HB and chance meeting which more than hints at the future breadth to come 5 stars
Un gros album un peu brouillon. La voix casse, la guitare gosse, mais les tounes sont au rdv.
Ces gars-là ont mis la table pour ben du monde qui sont arrivés plus tard. 3.5 étoiles parce que le côté B est intéressant mais un peu lourd.
This list, man. It makes you wade through miles of shit and, just when you're about to give up, gives you such a pleasant surprise that it almost makes you forget you had to listen to three Kraftwerk albums to get here.
Definitely needs several more listens to get my head around this one.
Weird, but not bad-weird. You've got this guy that sounds opera trained singing pop(?) music, but leaning HARD into the vibrato on every song. LIke... dud, just a little less. It's like Christopher Lee singing death metal. Very extra. Then you've got a guy just honking away on that sax. And then you've got Brian Eno, doing what he does best with electronic music, but also throwing in random samples and gunfire and all kinds of weird stuff. It all comes together pretty nicely, giving you a few songs to bop along to, but still being very different. It’s messy, theatrical, and occasionally ridiculous, but it’s also strangely compelling. My Rating: 4/5
Wanted to like this... did not. 4/10
Pretty great music, the vocals are not my fav
Interesting and I can see where it’s influenced future work but god I am bored of how many rockish albums this list gives - 2.8?
I appreciate what they were trying to do but Bowie did it 100 times better.
Interesting album. I can hear elements of the sound RM became known for, but this debut album is a bit edgier with more punk elements.
They do some interesting mix, pretty cool. I enjoyed everyone, but seems not so memorable. 4.25/5
Every good song was offset by a song that was just a little too weird.
Into it. The cover gave me different expectations so was pleasantly surprised. Vocals remind me of David Byrne. First song was my fav.
aged absolutely horribly 😅
Some very good, but also some very odd with an very annoying singing voice that I don't get on with.
Love the synths on this album. Very dystopian. Obviously the first track is a banger but loved the vibe of the rest of the album.
I hate the dudes falsetto or whatever it's called where you unnecessarily ring out notes in your voice, it is annoying as fuck. This thing was honestly just bizarre. Half the songs on here sound like they'd belong in the credit roll of a horror film just due to how weird they are. Not the biggest fan of this one, too much variety between songs and I couldn't pick up a commonality between any of them except for oldmate's annoying voice.
I really liked this album to begin with but the wheels kind of fell off just after Virginia Plain. It really turned into some weird Willy Wonka shit. But still, it's a lot better than For Your Pleasure, so this gets a positive review because I wasn't googling the number for lifeline while listening to this, Highlights: Ladytron, If There Is Something
Had me in the first half
Solid rock album, Television started playing after on Spotify and got me to listen to their entire disco, so that was very nice.
Immediatly want to listen to it again. Some absolute bangers
Все хотів послухати, бо там грав Іно. Таки зайшло))) А в дитинстві ні)
niet het
I liked 2HB, but the rest lacked for me
Loved the music in “Is there something?” and the album in general was a nice surprise.
3,5
Roxy Music
Would have been a 3 if not for the second to last track. That was no good.
2 stars because of the drummer and guitarist. They both sounded amazing, only to be bizarrely interrupted and marginalized by an odd sounding meandering nonsensical wind instrument(sax?) and vocalist. Another example on this list of a promising, but unfinished project
Bryan Ferry's voice reminds me of Paul Smith from Maxïmo Park.
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this album. The only Roxy Music songs I knew were later period ones, mainly Love is the Drug and the Avalon record (which I love). I was aware of their earlier very different sound, especially with knowing that Brian Eno was once in the band. I assumed this would be musically much weirder than what I’ve known of them. This turned out to be quite true, but not in a bad way. I quite enjoyed the music, as it was quite varied and quite unexpectedly so. There were fun solos and interesting tempo changes. If I have a quibble, it’s that I found the first half of the album to be significantly better than the latter. It began to drag on a bit for me, not to a point where I stopped liking it, but the fun wore off a bit. Standouts were Re-Make/Re-Model, If There is Something, and 2HB.
Lovely wee album - interesting throughout. Favourite track: Virginia Plain