Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Kinda dog, not my kind of music
In some ways Bryan Ferry’s adoption of various styles and personas is almost a kiss off to Eno for his former sound wizard’s betrayal to the land of Bowie. Unfortunately it’s all style and no substance — the songs don’t have the juice, save a few numbers that sound distinctly Bowiesque anyway. A shame, really.
Ordinarily I quite like Roxy Music, but this album is so very very poor for so many reasons. The drums were the same rhythm through basically every track, and all the rest of the instruments sound as if they were playing different tracks with little to no cohesion, and Bryan Ferry's vocals were less than capable on many tracks, which is unusual as he normally dominates the vocals. The best thing about the album is the cover, they really didn't care about risqué images in the 70s.
An OK album with a couple of good tracks. Nothing stand-out for me.
- Never heard a Roxy Music album before - Didn't really like it that much, but I can appreciate the impact it had on later artists that I do like considering the year it was released - Fav songs: Out of the Blue, Three and Nine
Didn't enjoy this one I'm afraid.
Awful vocals but some of the music in the background is ok
Meh
This was ok, was hoping it would get heavier, I feel like maybe I don’t understand this type of music.
The longer I listened to it, the less I liked it. At times it felt like I was listening to Spinal Tap. Below average.
I understand what they were trying to go for here but this just wasn’t it. It was all over the place and not in a good way
couple of songs were nice original unique kinda mid overall
Well, I thought I would enjoy this. But just 70s crooning, played it twice and forgot it was on both times. No hits and nothing stood out for me.
En ole musiikin yleisilmettä vastaan, ja levyn ensimmäinen biisi on aika pitkälti onnistuminen, mutta levy on kipeästi koukkujen tarpeessa. Ei, niiden pois jättämisestä ei voi vain "päättää".
It kind of reminds me of Ziggy Stardust era Bowie but not nearly as good. Not awful but nothing too special. Let me be the millionth person to acknowledge that the cover art is nice and much more enjoyable than the actual music.
Haha tittie album cover
Disappointed. Not what I was expecting and a bit of a mish-mash.
Not bad but it was boring
eh
Eh
This is just OK. Nothing special about it.
literally the same song over and over. bad mix. 2/10
When I think of old style rock or whatever, this is it, but not necessarily in a good way. I would not listen again.
Well, let me just say that I'm a huge fan of musicians putting tits on the cover of their albums. Except when I'm trying to listen to the album at work. Which I am right now. This is my first opportunity to see what I think of Roxy Music without Brian Eno. I'm a huge fan of his work, whereas I would struggle to name a Brian Ferry song. I know that he's been influential on several artists that I like, but he doesn't really do it for me. Too much of an Elvis ripoff, and this album is interminable 2/5
Meh
Oh Roxy music, you really are crazy aren’t you? At first I thought maybe I won’t hate this as much as your other album, but then I slowly started to. I felt like I was at some off Broadway musical. You know, the kind of melodramatic music with annoying croons that assume you are invested and even further invested in some stupid story because of the dramatic melodies and emotional vocals you were besieged with no Roxy Music, I am not going to buy the soundtrack. In fact I will resent the day that I attended this event for some time. Although I have to admit that last song is pretty spectacular and awesome.
I think this plays out as maybe culturally important and "right place right time" musically. I don't hear anything that wows me, but maybe in the context of 'this band (that is in the collective consciousness at the time) did a great album for them so it gets accolades for it. But devoid of that context it's just an OK album.
Listened Before? N Kind of un-memorable. It was okay. I don't know that I'd ever listen to it intentionally. Also, what's up with the NSFW covers from british bands in the 70s? Weird vibe. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Out of the Blue
Hard to understand that I ever liked this album...
Ferry is a very marmite vocalist. I happen to like marmite in this instance. 'Out of the Blue' is the standout, 'All I Want Is You' is a great stompy opener but there are better Roxy albums out there
Levyn visuaalinen ilme herätti lupauksia! Alkuun biisit oli jopa ihan viihdyttäviä muttei sitäkään iloa kauan kestänyt ja levy oli tylsä tasapaksu tuotos.
Kansikuva oli huomiotaherättävä, siihen se sit jäiki
pasable
It was an okay album. I felt that it was enjoyable to listen to but none of the songs felt that impressive. It seems to me that many of these albums on this list don’t seem to last the rest of time but are important enough to make the list. I feel this album encompasses that. 5.5/10
I understand that Roxy Music is beloved and hugely influential... but I just can't get behind avant garde art rock. It was ok but not really something I'm interested in
I tried really hard to like this one. I love the theatrical sound, it shares so much with Bowie at the time. Unfortunately it just doesn’t really connect with me. There are some highlights though, particularly, Bitter Sweet, Casanova, and Prairie Rose.
kjedelig - for objektifiserande album cover
Was enjoyable but nothing to get excited about. Loses points for sexist cover.
Somehow the art school prog-pop vibe plagued this ablum, there are better Roxy Music albums out there
I was really not bothered. I listened to it two days ago and it made no impression at all.
All I Want Is You 5/10 Overall 5/10
The least memorable of the Roxy albums - oddball genre attempts and a lack of melodic/thematic consistency means this one falls in the bland, standard-issue Britpop pile.
This is English rock band Roxy Music's fourth album and it is considered by many to be the band's best. The art rock album has sophisticated tracks of good music and lyrics that would accompany a relaxing evening nicely. I liked some of the songs, but other ones didn't fancy me as much. The cover art was controversial - obviously - and was covered, or even changed in some countries. All together this was an interesting album and I'm glad I listened to it.
The music was largely unremarkable. It wasn't that long of an album which was helpful. There were some songs that were a little weird. No need to revisit the album.
Bit of a mixed bag this album, with only some tracks, e.g. Thrill Of It All and Out Of The Blue, hitting the feeling of corrupted glamour I was expecting. Most of the rest of the album was less interesting and missed something to temper the baroque excess.
I enjoyed the last Roxy album but this one I did not. This was an interesting week of second albums for bands from this list and most didn't hit the mark as much as the first. I'm not sure what they were going for and their songs felt a little all over the place.
Eh. Not really a fan of this.
Esperava mais pela capa.
not for me
Not great
I was never a fan of Roxy Music
Weird piano stuff
Not for me thanks
Not terrible but not my thing
Meh. Not particularly interesting and featuring just one, distinctly average, single.
2/5 nothing memorable
Eeeeeeh.....
Dit ging een beetje aan mij voorbij. Ook iets te weird naar mijn smaak.
matig, niks van onthouden
Didn’t like it
This album cover, which I couldn't leave on my screen at work while listening to this, caused quite the reaction from prude Americans in 1974. We weren't alone - Spain and the Netherlands censored the cover too. America is a country of violence, while doing all we can to shield innocent eyes from nipples and other things that are far more shocking than murders on the evening news. We gotta keep the kids from thinking about sex. That's why we have the lowest teen pregnancy rate in the developed world. What's that you say? That's not true? So it would've been ok to let people see these models' nipples without going on some kind of sexual assault bender? Oh... we have unusually high rates of assault anyway. Ah, f*$% it. I should listen to this album again so I can effectively review the songs I listened to yesterday, but I don't want to.
Some of this album is fine. I really enjoyed If It Takes All Night. And then there is Bitter Sweet, which is borderline unlistenable especially so during the German verses. In general, the album just feels like there is an attempt to be too artsy with too many influences.
thought I'd like this more than I did. Bit weird and all over the place.
Didn't blow me away. Listenable, I suppose.
His voice sucks but good instrumentals
meh
not bad, not my favorite thing; at times, it sounds like nickelback could be the ones doing it, and i don't like that. no track feels truly remarkable for me, some guitar solos are cool and at times it gets bluesy and interesting; again, it's not bad, and i would've loved it if i had heard it earlier in my life when i listened to a lot of Bowie, but now i personally still very much prefer roxy's sound in the 80s.
Bit all over the place
Good first song.... downhill after that.....
Done.
Ok
Okay... not for repeating.
Apparently I find roxy music a bit dull. Second 2 for them
This was okay actually. Nothing was brilliant. But perfectly fine.
First of all hugely confusing but great cover! Need to try and rate this on its own merit, rather than against the glory that was purple rain. It has its moments (couple of decent rock songs and "if it takes all night" is great) but then goes off in german at which point i began to struggle. Brought it back a bit with "a really good time" & "Praire rose". But more that i don't like then i do here. 2/5
Not particularly interesting, except for the German bit.
This did not really speak to me in any way. It was fine from beginning to end. I know Brian Ferry and David Bowie get compared a lot, and I just don't hear it.
Eh. Cover art to the album was the best part of it.
Kind of a random mix. I enjoyed the once over, but not something I'd listen to again. Felt folk/punkish
Ummmm, disjointed, boring... first album I couldn’t finish.
Not terrible, nothing special?
A bit too pompous and not many standout songs.
This was disappointing. I was hoping it would be a good rock album, but it was boring and timeless and amelodic. I would actively avoid listening to this again. The album cover is the best part.
Goofy
This is far from the worst album on here but I started losing interest in it before the end of track 2. I’m actually struggling to remember much about it, it was definitely an album I listened to.
‘70s rock, this should’ve been right up my alley, but sadly I didn’t like a single song.
Nah man lmao
This was not what I was expecting. I didn't care for it.
Not for me. Great musicians I can tell, but too weird for me
na un asco de album
Nothing new here
Art rock and glam-tinged pop built from sharp guitars, sleek bass lines, icy keyboards, and stylized vocals feels like walking through a high-fashion magazine shoot staged in a decaying aristocratic manor—seductive at first glance, taking a closer look overly controlled, artitical and in its repetition alien. The sound is meticulously arranged yet emotionally damp, constantly balancing elegance with underlying tension. Its polished surface fascinates at first while the whole thing keeps the listener at a deliberate distance.
not my favourite.
Nothing special
What in the easy listening hell was this? I cannot stand Brian Eno, and I, clearly incorrectly, thought I might like a Roxy Music album he has nothing to do with, but somehow this was worse. This has been described as their most “consistent” album, and I guess that means consistently boring. At least other Roxy Music stuff I’ve heard is different, even if I didn’t like it. But this was plain. Music like this has been done better by countless different artists. The vocals were lifeless and the instrumentation was bland. “A Really Good Time” was the only decent song on the album, but when I listened to it again I couldn’t remember what made it stick out to me in the first place. An absolute waste of an album.
Beer, rednecks, MAGA, and pigshit? No thanks.
Snoozefest. Three and Nine song is interesting, sounds like a chill spring day, but i wouldnt listen to this album again. Nothing is really memorable for me.
The first song sounded like Car Seat Headrest it really threw me off. Not my kind of music, tbh. Fav song is ‘If It Takes All Night’.
I just can’t get into them. I think the vocal and musical delivery are too similar or something, I find it boring, nothing hooks me.
Torn. On one hand that album cover should mean it gets a 10. But then I listened to the music and it deserves a 1. Decisions, decisions...
Genuinely was bored the whole time. It’s not my thing. It simultaneously sounded too theatrical but also too unoriginal.
"Oh dear, this album is not very good, is it? Better put some tits on the cover to boost sales."
So many of the artists I like from my youth list Roxy Music as a great influence so I was interested to hear this one. It was just Meh.
Wow that was annoying. I tried to like it but really struggled. There was only one track that grabbed my attention.. for a while, then it immediately went full circus/cabaret mode (who likes that?). Then I went on to check the notes and sure enough, its Brian Eno. I have no idea why but the fact that his albums are so revered and I really can't find any enjoyment in them baffles me.
🙅♂️
Fuck
1. thrill - 1.5 2. nine - 1 3. uuant - 1 4. Blue - 1.5 5. Night - 1.5 6. Sweet -2 7. Trip -1.5 8. Casanova - 0 9. Good - 1 10. Rose - 0
Not for me. It's for someone tho
Always thought they were overrated, and neither the sexploitation cover or the music changed my mind. The 7os was definitely the Decade Taste Forgot.
Rating: 0.7 I think anyone who makes “sophisti-pop” or uses that term should be strung up by their toes and pelted with rocks.
This was unremarkable. Truly wasn’t worth the listen. I found myself wondering why I was listening to it, and I had only made it a quarter way through.
Absolute dog shit. Fuck you for making me listen to this.
Not for me. 1/5
Not a fan
Besides the album cover, there's nothing going for this album
British rock is either some of the best music there is or this. And this is a really hard listen
It's fine. 2 stars.
My interest in this band is stark. Only thing that kept me going was the mention of Brian Eno, who has already left the band by this point. Probably for the best.
He visto la portada mil veces, pero no lo he escuchado nunca. Conozco dos canciones de Roxy Music y creo que no es lo mío. Puta mierda. No entiendo esta música. En serio, suena, suena bien, pero no entiendo el sentido de las canciones, no llevan a nada ni aportan nada más allá de los cinco primeros segundos. No puedo decir que nada es una mierda, simplemente no hay nada bueno.
I understand the impact, as far as it being something I would listen to ever... No.
Completely unknown band for me. Like the cover, the music not so much.
1/6
At best this album was boring and just about listenable. A few songs were awful, and really not a fan of the vocals.
This record is famous for its cover. Nothing to see here...
⭐️
This feels like an unfair one.....and yet I never want to hear this again.
I didn't really like this one
It's like a bad Bowie impression. Didn't enjoy it and promptly forgot it.
No, not my favorite genre. That Zappa/Bowie/Who vibe has never appealed to me. Too screechy and contrived.
Just more bland British Rock music. I'm beginning to think the majority of these thousand albums are gonna be this kinda milquetoast sleepy stuff.
I don't like this. It doesn't sound like music.
this wasnt hitting
Bad
Pathetic album cover. Couldn't support the absolute exploitation of the female body.
Not that good.
3 albums of this band is way too much for the list.
argh go away
Tried, couldnt.
The cover is off-putting. Not going to listen.
Meh
Definitely 70s and not good at all
Brit rock pop. Meh.
I feel like i could really read a magazine to this music in the office of some less-travelled doctor, like a podiatrist. This album seems unexceptional in every way. I think someone on the panel must be a huge Brian Eno fan. 1.1
This one didn’t do it for me. Not really my sound. There were a few songs that had some decent parts, but not enough for me to want to download them.
Not my style
Weird not not characterful enough to pull it off
Not necessarily to my liking.
did not like it.
I dont know and i dont care.
En mä nyt aivan täysin ymmärrä tätä. Tällaista showmusiikkia. En oikein jaksanut kuunnella loppuun.
Not for me. Nothing really clicked.
I dunno man. It's of an era. Made it through 7 of 10 tracks and wanted to break my stereo. Did not jive.
Nah. 3 songs in knew it wasn’t my thing.
Bro it just sounds like lame rock to me
Not really a fan of this one. Most of the 70s rock I enjoy is on the heavier side. I thought the lead vocalist was interesting, but the musical side of it wasn't very appealing to me.
1 I don’t like how he sings.
Still, nope. It's as if Dracula wanted to try his hand at a rock'n'roll album.
Didn’t really care for it
Cabaret music with a ponderous singer. Maybe you had to be there.
Midddd
Strange and Old 70s music.
nah
Didn’t like
Nothing special . I’m sure in the 70’s it sold only due to the album cover. Gods marketing nothing special in musical enrichment
Couldn’t do it.
Arty farty rock
So boring I don’t remember anything but the album cover.
Boring
такое
Blé
Just boring nonsense. 2/10.
Meh