Roxy Music

My grandpa used to sing songs in, as he described it, "a wavery voice" to try and make us laugh. Little did I realise at the time, this was actually a pretty accurate Bryan Ferry impression. This was not for me. I listened to the first track three times, not because I liked it, but because I kept trying to listen to the album and struggling to get past track two. Virginia Plain was the only song I knew before going into this, and its probably the highlight of this album, yet I would still categorise it as "fine, I guess". Irritating but not completely unlistenable, so by rights I should be giving this a 2/5 based on my self imposed scoring system, but I realised that when it ended, I was actively pleased it had stopped, so: 1/5

I did not need to listen to ts before I die 💀

Track 1 was ok, not really my thing, but listenable. Track 2 was dogshit, the unmistakable stench of Eno was all over it. A quick check on wikipedia confirmed it, it's an Eno job! Fast forward to track 3, a little bit better. Then it went tits up again.

Noiosa

I didn’t enjoy this one. Art rock usually isn’t my thing and this album reiterates that. Also, I find that projects associated with Brian Eno aren’t really my cup of tea. To each his own, but I’ll be happy to skip past any more Roxy Music albums.

Um, not my favorite. I listened to it through my computer while working and during one of the songs I spend two minutes trying to find out where the construction (or something my recognized as a construction site) noises were coming from. I thought I had some other Firefox tab autoplaying a YT video or something, I was hunting for a few minutes until I realized it was just part of the song -- after I paused it. No thanks.

не

Terrible music

Sorry, boring

This is the 43rd album I’m rating. I’ve heard of Roxy Music and I still can’t believe there isn’t a woman in the band. I’ve never listened to the music though. Adding to my Playlist - Would You Believe? and Bitters End. Not Adding to my Playlist - Re-Make/Re-Model, Ladytron, If There is Something, Virginia Plain, 2HB, The Bob (Medley), Chance Meeting, and Sea Breezes. Virginia Plain - I wonder if I should rate this because this is on the US version? All in all I liked 2/10 songs. Wow. This really wasn’t that good. It wasn’t even that interesting either but maybe that is just because the band was really influential.

Apart from "Virginia Plain", definitely not to my taste at all!

Weird and out there in a way I don’t vibe with

Not great. Felt a bit lost through this trying to keep track of the multiple styles in each song

Like the B-52s had an unholy love child with a worse arctic monkeys and there were no plans or song structures and the singer was a budget Bob Dylan. I will not be listening to this again. Sea Breezes was one of the worst songs I've ever heard.

Really didn’t speak to me

1. remake - 1 2. ladytron - 1 3. zomething - 1.5 4. virginia - 0 5. 2hb - 1 6. the bob - 1 7. chance - 1 8. believe - 0 9. zea - 1 10. end - 0

Brian Eno's band, I'm guessing he's the most represented person in this project between Roxy Music, his solo efforts and the albums he produced. He has the famous quote about the Velvet Underground and there are moments where you can hear the influence. A lot of bands loved Roxy Music and I simply do not understand it. David Bowie, yes. The Sex Pistols, no. The Bob (Medley) revisits a theme from If There Is Something and expands on how terrible it is. Art rock is generally not a good genre. The album gets worse as it goes on. What happened to bands in the late 60s that made them think that an album with random guitar distortion in the background was appealing? Drugs?

It's another band I have zero experience listening to, but let's give it a whirl. I listened through this album and really couldn't tell you anything I remember about it. It blends with some bands from the time period, but other than that. To the pit of Misery.

My testicles are smaller having listened to this.

Didn't find anything for me here on this album, overall boring and... not very good. Singer reminds me of a worse version of David Byrnes as well. I'd say this borders between weak 2 and strong 1, but haven't had a 1 in a long time so I feel adventurous to explore other ratings as well. The reason it tips the scale towards 1 was that it was so uninteresting, and actually sounded a bit bad a times.

The singer sounds like a part time high school drama teacher who just got off a 12 hour flight, drunk, ears clogged, and the airline lost his suitcase where he packed his inhibition and sense of melody.

Album cover doesn’t match voice of singer.

70’s

Tää menee jo rasauttavan puolelle. Ei oo mun bändi.

Not for me. Tried too hard. Bad singing.

This is pretty weak shit. Sea Breezes is in a class of its own by how much I hate it. The singer has the absolute worst tone on that track.

I think it started well

no.

Not my taste

get away, had roxy before and rated 1star

I may be in the top 0.1% of Brian Eno listeners on Spotify... But I don't got time for this shit today.

girl this album is unlistenable

Ugh. Bryan Ferry's wittering, warbling voice. The music is average, nothing special - except Brian Eno's synth flourishes, which show what he would go on to be capable of. Really not a fan of this album though, and I struggled to get through it. I guess it was musically quite whacky and different at the time. It's personal, though. I just can't bear the singing style, which grates on me. Not so bad when the singer stops singing. (The album cover is pretty basic.)

Weird but ultimately not interesting.

1/10 it's shit

Didn’t enjoy

I know that 1 album may not be indicative of their overall sound, but if you were looking for the early 70s version of Nickleback, you found it. I take that back, these guys are worse.

Trash, didn’t like it

Nothing here worth committing to memory at all

Too artsy and pretentious for me. I found Bryan Ferry's vocals especially annoying with that vibrato thing he does. I guess I am just not appreciative of the "avant-garde"

Weird. Every song almost felt like a different genre. Wouldn’t go out of way to listen again

His voice is so annoying. F**k me!

You know when you meet someone and you know it’s not going to go well and then as the conversation progresses, it gets worse and worse. That’s what listening to this album was like.

Not great. As influential as RM is, I never seem to appreciate them at all. 1.5/5

Not the sexy music implied on the cover

I can honestly say that if I heard any single one of these songs in any random streaming app I would get out my phone, open the app, and press skip.

The very last song was kinda fun. Probably just added last minute. Otherwise I didn't enjoy this album at all. Don't know why this is regarded as any good.

Nothing stuck with me from this album other than: that was weird.

No bueno

Okay what the hell.

Maybe it’s a style over substance thing, but I’ve never understood the appeal of Roxy Music. Compared to their peers: I like Hunky Dory, I like Transformer, I like 10cc but this just sounds like unpleasant noise to me.

First time listening: 3/9 songs liked Eh. I don't think glam rock sits with me well. The Theatrics are cool and all, but not something I would listen to on Sunday mornings out of the blue. Very interesting musical ideas from each song though. No song saved

What a borefest

Considered turning it off during the first track; turned it off during the fourth.

Thanks, but NO.

Not that into it

I get that this is supposed to be progressive rock, but this didn’t connect with me at all. The voices were grating and music was ok at times (horns!), but at others was awful noise. It’s just mostly bad, in an uninteresting way. 1 extra star for effort/ concept. I listened to some of their 80s stuff after the album and liked it a bit better

Don't know Caetano Veloso at all... Top track: Soy Loco Por Tí, América