For Your Pleasure

That cover deserves a better album

A reviewer described Bryan Ferry's voice as an "elegant, seductive croon." Umm... agree to disagree on that one.

Never heard of this band or album, but apparently Brian Eno was a member so I'm intrigued. We're back across the pond now, but this one's quite cool, innit? There's a strange urgency to the singer's voice that I really like, and the instrumentals are the dog's bollocks (that's a good thing). I'd honestly put this over both Bowie albums we've heard so far. It sounds surprisingly modern--if someone told me this was made in this century, I might have believed that. As I'm writing this, I just hit the "but you blew my mind" transition of "In Every Dream Home a Heartache." My god. I'm interested to hear more from this band. Given that they're British, I think this list will grant my wish. Favorite tracks: Beauty Queen, In Every Dream Home a Heartache, Grey Lagoons. Album art: Never seen this before, but I liked it straight away. The combination of photography and drawing is absolutely mental. The woman is real, but for how long? And the panther on a leash is a wild sight. I'm having a hard time looking away. I must note that seeing a woman on the cover, paired with the name Roxy Music, I thought we'd finally have an album by a female artist or female-led band. Alas, not yet. 4/5

What a striking album cover. An all-black white woman with a panther on a leash as if she can control one of the kings of the jungle. I like the album cover but I’m nervous about this album. It’s 70’s rock I haven’t heard of and it’s only 8 songs at 42 minutes so these will be longer songs it looks like. I already don’t like the first song. The band is called Roxy Music, I’m trying to see if they are British, as they certainly sound like it. “Oi Gov, we’re puttin out a’notha album?” “Yeh Mate, collin it for ya pleasha! The ladies will be drippin. A real saucy experience. Trus me.” “Right but..deres hundreds a rock bands out there…will anyone even listen to us?” “Camon mate, even a drop in the bucket gone cause ripples, innit?” “Oh sha tup, Brian, I’m sick o dis band. I bet we end up on some list where American pricks are saying how shite we are.” “Nah mate, were goin down in istory!” I imagine the conversation kind of went like that before recording this album. And despite that conversation being very silly, I still enjoyed writing it more than I did listening to this album. I’ll just highlight the Bogus Man and suggest they’d call this album the Bogus Album.

When I was about 15 I started collecting records, spurred on by my mate Lewis and my LP hoarding uncle. My dad, however, thought records were crap and belonged in the past where they'd been left. That's obviously changed seeing as he now has a Garrard and about 7 Kallax cubes. But there was a point right around the start when he saw the albums I was listening to and must have realised that I was just as impressionable as he was at 15... and it came to my 16th, (I think! Maybe I was younger...) where he gave me two albums, AM by the Arctic Monkeys and For Your Pleasure. Those who know my dad know he is quiet, outspoken, hard-working, but if you truly find something to share and talk about, you would be surprisingly endeared. I remember talking to dad about AM, why my uncle refused to listen to it, and I truly got the impression my dad thought it to be one of the great British Rock albums - like it truly defines a place and an attitude. He didn't exactly say that, mind you, the conversation was much more curt and pointed... but his quiet conviction made me believe that's how he really felt. I was really pleased to get the Arctic Monkeys. I fucking hated For Your Pleasure. I'm sure I told my dad I liked it, but I really wasn't for the SQUEEK SQUUUANK SQUORK that Brian Eno felt like he had to apply to the most basic harmonica, and Bryan Ferry's warbling, death bird cry. It's not an easy album apart from maybe a few songs, but I think how truly different it was made me want to understand it at some point, whether that was then or now. Now, I truly love it. When I was younger, I would tell myself I didn't like Rap, I didn't like Country, this, that... it's so easy to define things as being out of your wheelhouse if you're convinced they truly are bad. If I'd given For Your Pleasure even five minutes on Spotify when I was 15, I probably wouldn't be listening to Roxy now, but instead I had the LP and had to sit through every second of The Bogus Man. Fucking hell, I'm paying good money to hopefully see them play The Bogus Man in Glasgow tonight. These two LPs represent great change. Both bands created a mammoth of an album, and both bands had to change because it was the peak of what they could achieve in that form. For each group, a magnum opus, and in reality they had to fall apart and reform otherwise they would fail to reach the same great heights. To the same extent, I have changed and learned to appreciate more deeply things that sound bad... to the extent they become beautiful. I wouldn't have that if it weren't for my dad, and probably this album too. I love both, they are dear to my heart.

Some interesting production from ENO but man is Brian Ferry’s voice annoying

My favorite Roxy Music album and Brian Eno's last album with band. Opening with "Do the Strand", the band launch into a crazy dance song (sure to replace the mambo) with and driving instrumental break in the middle. The second track "Beauty Queen" is a slower ballad but still contains an exciting instrumental break between the verses that features Eno and Manzanera. The third track "Strictly Confidential" is an easy one to overlook but after a few careful listens the desperation and guilt in the lyrics come through and show just how brilliant the song is. "Editions of You" is the rocking 4th track. This features a siren solo by Eno during the instrumental break which comes right before the lyric that references sirens. The end of side one and fifth track is one Roxy Music's greatest tracks: "In Every Dream Home A Heartache." A song about a man's love for his blow-up doll, it depressingly depicts a lonely twisted man that appears to live in a paradise but with a deep dark secret. Side two starts with "The Bogus Man", another often overlooked track on the album (mainly due to its length). The song seems to depict the point of view of a serial killer and the instrumental breaks in the song just add to the insanity of it. "Grey Lagoons", the second track on side 2 is probably the weakest track on the album but it's still a great track. Just a fun rocker between two serious and dark tracks. It's placement on the album helps keep the mood shifting and not remaining too dark for long. The final track on the album is the epic title track "For Your Pleasure." The lyrics to me talk of leaving your old life behind, perhaps with a bit of regret, hence the final lyric on the album "Ta-Ra" repeating over and over again as it fades until the Judy Dench voice at the end saying "You don't ask. You don't ask why." Roxy Music found themselves on this album and it is by far their most experimental. The risks paid off however.

Falls into the same trap as S/T before it - several stunners on here, but buried in between overlong ballads or operatic tracks that well overstay their welcome. Still manages to be much more entertaining overall than its predecessor, though

Really interesting album. I never listened to this album before even though I'm familiar with some Roxy Music songs (e.g., Virginia Plain). I found it amusing that the 1001 Albums book describes In Every Dream Home a Heartache as "plain ponderous." I really enjoyed that track! Other standouts were The Bogus Man and For Your Pleasure. The sounds used in the latter track make me think a lot of Eno's solo work. Do the Strand and Beauty Queen have that classic glam sound. Love Phil Manzanera's guitar solos in Editions of You and Grey Lagoons. Bryan Ferry is a great and unique singer and I see he's credited with writing all the songs. There isn't a weak track in the bunch.

Big fan of the early Roxy Music output. They were a brilliant band up until Eno left them, at which point they transformed into almost unlistenable.

Am I just a sucker for raunchy saxophones and sinister sounding music?

Used to think this was the worst Roxy album, sagging under the dumb bloat of Bogus Man and infantilism of Every Dream Home. While those two are still on the wrong side of prog, they're actually closer in quality to the rest of the songs than I remembered, which ocassionally reach very good but mostly coast around just-good. I get the sense Roxy sublimated their fun qualities to whatever they were trying to achieve here. Sadly, that means Ferry's voice isn't as bonkers as on the debut, Eno's weirdo effects play second fiddle to stolid rhythms, and the lyrics veer into absurdist settimentality just a few times, mostly on Beauty Queen, e.g. "Deep in the night / Flying very strange cargo / Our soul-ships pass by / Solo trips to the stars... in the sky". Maybe this should be a two, but I gave that to Tubular Bells which, to be honest, was totally whack and definitely much worse than this. So I'm gonna go three and get back to protecting my two stars from here on out.

For Your Pleasure I thought this would be good, Do the Strand is great, but I wasn’t expecting it to be such a fantastic album from start to end. I suppose it’s the band in a nutshell but I love the dynamic tension of Ferry’s croons and yelps, Manzanera’s guitar, the pre-new wave dancey rhythms and bass, the 50s sax and Eno’s synth atmospheres and textures, all wrapped up with an Art School spirit and wonky glamour. All the factions seem to be constantly pulling at each other and with Ferry trying to write catchy pop songs and Eno trying to make them weird it gives every track a really interesting energy and exciting quality. Do The Strand feels like a continuation of Virginia Plain in some ways, and is a banger with classic Ferry Lyrics. Great bass too. The shimmery keyboard and overdriven slide on Beauty Queen is a fantastic embellishment to a brilliant track that exemplifies the push and pull of the different strands of the band. I love the keys on Strictly Confidential with the oboe before the guitar comes in and before the oboe goes very high. It’s got a bit of Bowie to it, like something from Heroes, which this predates of course. I like the 50s rock’n’roll feel of Strictly Confidential, it’s a nice bit of uptempo energy between the songs either side of it. In Every Dream Home a Heartache is absolutely superb, slightly weird with a sinister edge and the theme of poking around behind closed doors and what weirdness happens under the surface is great, something Damon Albarn does a lot. The Bogus Man is a bit of a grower, but after a few listens I started to love it’s uneasiness and shifting feel, it’s got a groove, but with a bit of hesitancy that builds into something hypnotic, while the sax and synths and guitars swirl and stab and melody moves in a slightly unsettling way. It definitely has some Talking Heads vibes to it and is another great track. Grey Lagoons has some excellent piano and guitar and I really like the vocal melody and again is a great bit of uptempo 50s influenced rock’n’roll before the fantastic For Your Pleasure. I love the reverby twang on the guitar and those weird synthy noises and rumbling tom tom fills, again theres a an off kilter feeling that really makes the song I’ve never really considered what a great guitarist Phil Manzanera is, there’s loads of great fills, licks and textures and he seems to play for the song brilliantly, there’s nothing extraneous or overtly showy, everything is in service to the mood of the songs. And the drums and bass are great too, there's a slipperiness and grooviness that gives everything a great sense of movement and momentum. I loved this and I wish I’d given this and more of RM other than the best of a go earlier. There are so many obvious influences on many bands I love and the whole thing feels about 10 years ahead of its time, it would have fitted right in around Blondie and Talking Heads and all those new wave bands in the early 80s. Fantastic stuff. 5. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 Playlist submission: For Your Pleasure PS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88am-ZnQ5Yc&ab_channel=2007TGD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BonWfTW7jKc&ab_channel=BryanFerry

Roxyyy. They always manage to pull off "cool" in my book. There's something about their quirk that seems authentic. Or like you can't really fake their level of weirdness. And they manage to avoid any scent of art school. And this might be superficial, but me being American, I really like the unfamiliar international lyrical references and influences. Seems more intelligent than folks like Lou Reed. Roxy is another group that seemed to carve out their own sound. Like you can hear just a snippet of any song and it oozes Roxy.

I had the first album yesterday. What the fuck! Amazing. This is better ! 6 stars !!!

This is definitely one of Roxy Music’s best albums. They were really ahead of their time, especially in how they mixed the experimental nature of their music with pop elements. This was also the last album to feature Brian Eno before he left to pursue his solo career.

This has lurked in my library for a couple of decades, never finding my right mood. Without looking anything up, I bet making this was a fractious experience, as it’s one of those records that sounds like it was a jolly cabaret, but there’s a clear tension between the components: fun to listen to, maybe hell to make. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone punched someone else face over “The Bogus Man”. My money’s on Eno’s fist and Ferry’s face. I should’ve listened to this properly years ago: this has the eclecticism and dare of most great records of the early to mid-70s, and some of the instrumental parts are demented, even on the more Hobbitty tracks.

What an extraordinary album - an inspiration to many from Bowie to LL Cool J. Probably Roxy's best (although not my favorite, as is typical), the inter-Bri(y)an tension serving up a weird eclectic mix of bangers that sound futuristic even today; every song is fabulous and fascinating in its own way. Mark Radcliffe described "Grey Lagoons" as if aliens had heard a distant transmission of '50s R'n'R and attempted to recreate it using a strange technology. I can't improve on that! More of this please. I see from the reviews that RM do not find much favor with the Yanks; hey, keep your Eagles, I'll go with the art school posers any day.

Another classic album featuring Brian Eno, but you can kind of tell he was heading towards another plane of sonic existence than the one Roxy Music was occupying and would soon leave the band. Some of the experiments and production treatments here are out of this world, especially when contrasted with the types of songs they are in, but somehow it all works together pretty perfectly. Interestingly, you can hear a lot of hallmarks of Eno’s later production work on the songs here. The layered and looped guitars that you know from an album like Bowie’s “Heroes” or the phased synths of his ambient experimentations are in no short supply here. …and man, does he give that VCS3 synth of his a workout on “Editions of You”. What a face-melter. Sorry to make this all about Brian Eno, I’ve got a problem. The whole band is great here and there are few, if any, real missteps. It’s just that it is yet another classic record that Brian Eno was involved with and at some point, you can’t deny that this guy is a genius and has the magic touch. Again, no disrespect to the rest of Roxy Music or any intent to minimize their efforts, but I think it’s the sonic makeup and atmospherics of this record that really bring it to life and…well…that’s Eno.

5/5. This is a pretty full and diverse album. No song feels out of place though and it just feels complete, each song is weird and artsy. Sure it can seem pretentious, but these are just well-written songs in general so hard to see how it matters. The riffs are great and the vocals are not something to write home about but they fit the vibe of the music. Kind reminds me of some progressive rock as well. I wouldn't say it's perfect since the last song can drag on a bit and it's not an always listen kind of album, but it's still dang good that I think it gets a 5. Best Song: Do The Strand, Strictly Confidential, The Bogus Man

What an amazing album this is. As several reviews have pointed out, the three-way tussle between Ferry’s croon, Eno’s electronic textures and Manzanera’s rocking out gives RM a drive and tension most bands could only dream of. How much more interesting bands are (Beatles, Radiohead) when they’re not dominated by one musical genius with some backing musicians he/she are mates with, or four clones. The first five six tracks are awe-inspiring. Do The Strand opens by repeating the Virginia Plain stop-start rhythm to equally great effect. Editions of You is a real band wig-out. Everything appears to lead up to album centrepiece In Every Dream Home A Heartache, the title a homage to British popart icon Richard Hamilton. Over a subdued cyclical melody Ferry describes how his dream home, with every modern convenience, is empty - until he found true love with a blow-up sex doll. I blew up your body, but you blew my mind. Cue instrumental freak-out. One of the greatest drops in modern music and a song that’s beautiful, sordid, political, funny and lots more all at once. If the last couple of tracks can’t keep the impossibly high level up, they would be highlights of nearly every other Roxy album. A lot of hand-wringing appears about how fake Roxy Music were. As if being ‘genuine’ was any guarantee of interesting music. In fact the later career of Roxy demonstrates this exactly. The more ‘genuine’ a MOR FM pop band they became on Flesh and Blood and Avalon, the less exciting they became. Ferry’s faux-crooner persona in the dinner jacket had become so all embracing he forgot it was just that, a persona. Think about it this way: RM were genuinely futuristic in the early seventies. Not futuristic in the sense of singing about rocket ships, but in the sense of a sound that sounded like it came from the future. You can imagine Roxy performing in the space hotel in 2001 while Dave makes a video call home, or in some neon-soaked dive bar in Bladerunner.

This is a fantastic album. I can't believe I wrote it off when I first listened to it 10-15 years ago. I think I was put off by the first 2 songs. I still find those two a little dull, but from "Strictly Confidential" on, this album is almost perfect. Some really interesting sounds and melodies on here, inventive use of the synth and horns as well. I can see now why they were so influential; several of these songs sound almost 10 years before their time. From what I know of Roxy Music's singles, they did get a bit less interesting after Brian Eno left, but I'll definitely be giving their earlier stuff a second chance now.

A must have!

This is a fantastic album, every track is a winner, though standouts include 'Do The Strand' and 'In Every Home...' Sadly this was the last Roxy Music album with the great Brian Eno.

This project has made me a Roxy Music fan and this album is one of the best I’ve listened to from them so far! There’s some great quirkiness in the songs and lyrics that really appealed to me from the opening new dance craze “Do The Strand” to that very weird ending “For Your Pleasure” featuring Judy Dench (!!!). The Amanda Lear cover totally seals the deal for me. Fantastic!

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Roxy Music have plastered a massive dopey grin on my mouth, stuck on with sleaze and grease. I'm not sure when I'll be able to wipe it off. I'm not sure I'll ever want to.

Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno made this Roxy Music a masterpiece of an album.

the album is masterpiece

Five stars just for "In Every Dream Home A Heartache". No, wait - five stars just for Bryan Ferry's pronunciation of the word "deluxe" from "In Every Dream Home A Heartache"! 😆 This really hits the weirdness sweet spot for me - plenty to come back to and enjoy again and again. Fave track - well, as well as "In Every Dream Home A Heartache", I really dug the psychedelic outro of the title track!

Sinister, seedy, campy, eerie. One of the best art rock albums ever. Beauty Queen is probably the best song Bryan Ferry ever wrote. This album sounds like nothing else, it’s truly an original.

Darker then I expected this record to be. But it’s so great that it does not matter.

On this album the band was finding their sound just a bit more. Do The Strand being the main and only single here. The rest of the album feels a bit more experimental and the sounds get weird! That being said, the songs are very cohesive and work extremely well. Brilliant band. 8,5 out of 10

I LOVE THIS ALBUM.

Love the overall sound

Pretty fun lots of cool grooves

Brian Eno and proto-Dresden/post-Doors sonicism in a blender with 80s new wave come in a decade early.

Have been putting off reviewing this and have listened to it a few times to try and make sense of it. It's campy and a bit punk and I very interesting.

What a great album and a joy to listen to. Clever music, very rocky and with lyrics that actually made me laugh.

Art school music done right. Very right.

One of my all time favourite albums

This was an album whose ideas formed two tribes, Brian Eno with experiments and synthesisers and Bryan Ferry’s glam rock direction and almost crooner-like style of vocal delivery. These two tribes fight with each other yearning for a split that was ultimately delivered after this album. These two distinct styles both did and did not work well together and that’s what makes this album incredible. The general unease of it all regarding subject matter, themes and instrumentation makes for a fascinating and unique listen that must be undertaken by anyone who considers themselves “into their music” at least once in their respective lives.

From '72-'75 Roxy Music recorded five classic albums; this is album number 2. Its widely known, so not much to say other that than it is yet another iconic pop album from the seventies, like practically every 70s album on this list. (From some reason, after 200+ albums, the generator is still feeding twice as many albums from the seventies than literally every other decade, and all these albums are way better than the average 21st century album on the list.)

1973 was a good year, wasn't it?

This was an unexpected delight. In many ways, it sounds like a seedy alternative to Dark Side Of The Moon. There's some decent songwriting, plenty of analogue electronic sounds with some complex arrangements and plenty of experimentation. It's albums like this that remind us why Prog-Rock was so popular in the early to mid 1970s.

- this is good - yes - damn, cool !! - I listened to this 3 times in a row. Every time I found a new song to be my favorite. -another time the next day

I always see this band pop up in interviews with some of my favorite bands when they discuss their influences, and I never quite got it. I've only heard a handful of Roxy Music songs and a couple of Brian Ferry's solo tracks and never really connected with them. They seemed to be pretty generic and cheesy 80s songs. I still don't love them after listening to this album, but I can finally see why they're influential. The Eno years of this band are just different, and I'm assuming a lot of the praise comes from his mark on the songs. This album sounds very ahead of its time. I would've expected this to have come out in the early 80s, not 1973! It definitely sounds influenced by Velvet Underground and Bowie, but it also sounds much more modern than something I would have expected from the time. I can absolutely hear how this influenced Talking Heads, The Cure, Peter Gabriel, and other huge bands from the late 70s and 80s. That said, the album itself was interesting, but a lot of it isn't really my cup of tea. The first half is okay, but it's too musical theater-ish for me. A lot of it sounds like it could be from Rocky Horror Picture Show — not bad, just not necessarily something I want to listen to all the time. I'm not a huge fan of Brian Ferry's style of singing. The second half was way more interesting to me. Starting with "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" (the best track on the album, in my opinion), it gets darker and more experimental. The mentioned track is almost proto-goth, which makes sense given the Lou Reed influence. The lyrics are like a darker, more sinister version of The Clash's "Lost in the Supermarket" and then it ends on a crazy psychedelic journey a la Hendrix. From there, the album continues on the darker path and also throws in some cool instrumental pieces. I'm tempted to give it a 3.5 because it's not my favorite, but I'll bump it to a 4 because the experimentation is cool and they really do deserve points for innovation. 4/5

This teeters upon the edge of a three and a step up for me, but I think I'm going to give it to the latter purely because of how much of a step up from the debut this is for me. It isn't as predictable, nor as safe, as their self-titled LP, and because of that the final escapade that is the B-side doesn't totally work for me, going for something more ethereal that Eno would do better in his own work over the course of the rest of the decade, but the A-side features some fascinating moments in rock history, with ominous build up and freaky delusions poured into a glam coating, which admittedly feels like an alternate reality Jello Biafra, but it works, and makes nearly every track there at least somewhat worth the listen. I still think Roxy Music comes off as a B-list glam act, but this album did at least pull through and give something that leaves a better taste in my mouth after the disappointing debut.

Enjoyed it. Great vibe. Standout songs: Editions of you Grey Lagoons

I feel like Scott Walker should have been in this band. It wasn't really what I expected, and I didn't hate it.

The Good: 2 Bryans. The Bad: different spellings of the name, resulting in different styles. The Ugly: different styles are preventing the listener to get into a flow. Though the above seems negative, I find the album pretty enjoyable to listen to over and over. But it remains difficult to shake off the feeling that, instead of embracing the Glam they eventually would, here they are trying to be too many things at the same time... Do The Strand is classic RM, In Every Dream Home A Heartache is classic LZ IMHO... Would give it 4*...

who gave will wood an album and then made it rocky horror picture themed and then made all the songs 7 minutes long. There is one really good song on this album and it’s In Every Dream Home A Heartache and other than that this album is just okay

I have to say this - never been a big fan of Bryan Ferry's vocals. I'm not sure why they are so off-putting to me, maybe because they are a cross between a crooner and Peter Hammill's. But I have never liked them. The instrumentation is unique, and I liked how the sax blends with the other instruments, but Ferry's vocals just turn me off to the rest. I don't know why, it just does. So 2.5 rounding up to...

Roxy Music never really resonated with me for some reason, although I can appreciate the talent, the uniqueness, and the production. I think it's Bryan Ferry's voice that bugs me. This is a good album though, definitely interesting. 3 stars.

It’s just too Rocky Horror. Even ENO can’t save it.

Unhinged Dracula core. 4/10

Reminds me of the Talking Heads. Kind of meh for me. Not compelled to listen to more.

Huh, kind of weird. It veered between pretty cool and pretty annoying. I was going to reserve judgement and go with 2.5 rounded up, but the scales were tilted more toward annoyance by the end of it.

I listened to this twice. But I feel like I haven't. Generally like early Roxy Music and this was fine, 'Do the Strand' and 'Editions of You' I knew already, not much esle jumped out... ok maybe some weird Eno synth noises jumped out, probably not in a good way. Probably better than it sounded after 2 listens but not that engaging for me.

Some of these tracks got a little wild, but in general I don't "get" Roxy Music. I don't "get" how it fits into the larger scene of the era, and I don't "get" why they are constantly referenced among the greats.

Two Roxy Music albums within one week are just too much for me. The first one was OK, this second one feels a bit overwhelming already. Didn't feel like listening to it completely.

Insipid

nothing, just empty

It keeps getting more and more indulgent as the album progresses.

The first few albums by Roxy Music are so outstanding. The his one included.

If I didn’t know Brian Eno was involved, I would have said it was majorly influenced by him Truly a great record, this shows the incredible Brian/bryan synergy that was early Roxy Music

In the old days, when you weren't familiar with a band, you had to judge an album by it's cover, trying to decide if it was going to be a cool album or a dud. This one, I'd have snatched up fast. The cover is seductive and elegant and cool as hell. After listening to the album, I think young me would have decided that this was a cool album. Older me agrees.

Absolutely brilliant.

The album combines the right amount of glam, rock, indie, disco and ambient elements. It feels like it was ahead of disco and punk. And doing new-wave before new-wave was invented. I struggled for a while to get to top marks with it - but after about the twentieth listen I feel it must be so influential, that to deny it the big one would spiteful. The title track is sublime.

I like a girl and her name is Roxy.... oooooh yeah🥵🥵

"For Your Pleasure" is the second album by English rock band Roxy Music. The album expands on the experimental nature of their debut, featuring more elaborate production and experiments with phasing and tape loops. It was the last Roxy Music album that synthesizer and sound specialist Brian Eno appeared on. Art rock is the Wiki-listed genre; that covers a lot and so does this album. Besides Eno, other bandmembers included Bryan Ferry (vocals, keyboards), Andy McKay (sax, oboe), Phil Manzanera (guitar), Paul Thompson (drums) and guest John Porter on bass. It did well commercially in the UK hitting #4 but only #193 in the US. It also had critically positive reviews with some calling it Roxy Music's best album. A fast piano and sax notes open "Do the Strand." Ferry's vocals come in, then the drums and song kicks off. They get a fast-slow-fast dynamic going. A complex mix of guitar, sax and synth. Ferry wanted to emulate Cole Porter and create the "dance of life." I love the line "tired of the waltz and the mashed potato schmaltz." One of their best songs. "Beauty Queen" begins with a wavering/oscillating synth. It's slower. Ferry is singing about parting ways ways with a woman who has swimming pool eyes. The song picks up the pace with that oscillating synth and Manzanera's guitar sounding like a motor. "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" has Ferry talking and dreamily singing about and maybe to a blow-up doll. An eerie synth, organ and bass. The song goes prog when the guitar and drums enter. There's nice synth and/or guitar phasing as the song ends. Speaking of great fade outs. The album closes with "For Your Pleasure." Minimalist piano keys and drums start the song. Guitar and drums come in with Ferry singing and things seem pretty normal. Oh, but no. Ferry ends saying "Tara" which just keeps repeating. Feedback, weird synth oscillations and the drums seemly stuck with the same beat. Eno and producer Chris Thomas were going to work with a blend of tape looping effects. The sounds gets more chaotic until it fades out. This is a brilliant album and a hard one to categorize (hence the art rock descriptor). The songs end nowhere near were they started. There is not a vocal chorus on this album. They fly through a variety of styles - hard rock, blues, gospel, 50's rock, electronica or krautrock, glam, prog and, of course, experimental. There's layers of music and misdirection of where the songs go. Every instrument plays a part. This an album that demands repeated listens. I don't know if this is the best Roxy Music album, since I like most of them, but it's definitely one worth your time.

Smooth, clever, classy, and just the right amount of perfectly funky.

This Actually BLEW MY MIND. The instrumentation is so attractive, makes me thinking it would be better without any vocal. Released in 1973? you say? This sounds so morden and avant grade. OH Wait wait wait and this is the band that once had Brian Eno? I heard of Roxy Music but never listened to them. As far as concerning this album, I love the sound of it, especially the production and arrangements. Whatever is going on beside the main vocal melodie line is cool as hell. I yearn for more. Closely 5/5.

Forgot how good.

If you think of Roxy Music as the sophisticated pop of Avalon or Flesh and Blood, then this will be a bit of a surprise. Roxy Music was much more experimental and edgy in their earlier days and this, their second album, is just that. There are shrieking saxophones and tribal beats overlaid with Bryan Ferry's smooth vocals. Even those "smooth" vocals are more urgent. It's more prog rock than 80s pop. No matter what, it's a great album. The leadoff single along, Do the Strand, may be shocking to later Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry fans, but it's a good kind of shocked. It's the shock that wakes you up.

Perfect album!

Much better than the first album by this band and far better than anything they produced afterwards ( possibly because of the influence of Eno on this one). This certainly deserves a place on this list as, in my opinion, it is one of the most unique albums of the early 1970s.

The apotheosis of Roxy brilliance. Outrageous, experimental, wickedly funny and lyrically cheeky. Out-weirding the first album, it's never topped by the later works. Has to be in everyone's top fifty from the 70s.

4.5

++: Do the Strand, Beauty Queen, Editions of You, In Every Dream Home a Heartache, The Bogus Man, Grey Lagoons +: Strictly Confidential, For Your Pleasure 9,1/10

I loved this album. I really liked the one we already listened to by Roxy Music (even though nobody else did apparently) and I really, really enjoyed this one too. The lyrics were fun, interesting and kinda poked fun at various areas. The random saxophone solos were an unexpected and fun little surprise that I liked. The other instruments sounded really good, the production on this thing was really great. I will admit the last three tracks were probably the weakest on the album but overall very solid album and one I would definitely listen to again. Nice little surprise this one.

Weird and fun and catchy and everything I want from Roxy Music!

EXCELLENT

THIS SHIT FUCKSssss

I know this album and worship the glory that is Eno. Great vibe and love the whole 70's feel.

I enjoyed this wild ride a lot more than I thought I would. It has more coherence than earlier album by Roxy Music and show that Brian Ferry was a wild guy once.

Mér finnst með aldrinum In every dream home a heartache vera síst til hlustunar, þótt það sé flott concept og komi á óvart fyrst þegar maður heyrir það. Allt annað finnst mér geggjað.

A genre all of its own top pleasure.

An album I've owned for quite some time. I love it. Roxy Music sound like art rock beamed down from another planet - hipper, slicker, weirder and frankly more sexy than the plodders around them. The music takes unexpected turns, oboes absolutely belong in rock music, and Eno's squalls of electronic dissonance rule. And then you've got Bryan Ferry. Oddly, whenever he's mentioned to me, the abiding memory of Ferry I have is his sweaty face in a newspaper, caught on camera during some hullabaloo on a flight over Africa. But here, he's the king of the demimonde, a louche adventurer of dark lounge bars and discrete side doors. And on For Your Pleasure, he sounds like a particularly dissolute iguana. Lovely stuff!

Farewell to Brian Eno, the mastermind behind Roxy Music and a legend of the industry. At the top of British albums.

If this is what all glam rock sounded like, it would still be at the forefront of the music scene. Brilliant stiff. A

Not sure why I bought this album instead of Roxy Music's first album back in the day, but I'm so glad that I did. From the opening "Do the Strand", to "In Every Dream Home a Heartache", "The Bogus Man", and the closing title track "For Your Pleasure", this still remains one of my all time favourite albums.

Over the grey lagoons, the Bogus Man and I had a conversation. Escaping from every dream home where there is heartache, we explored all the directions to where we could go next. I cannot tell you much about that, for it was strictly confidential. I will say this, though: a beauty queen strode by towards the end of our talk; another fine edition of you. She stopped by to tell us to Do the Strand. "For Your Pleasure" she said.

Great album. Loved listening to it. I like the clarinet in background and unexpected sound

Elegant and strange, alluringly sleazy, mildly challenging, effortlessly cool. Toeing the line between prog and soulful pop, inventing a whole new sound in the process. Fave Songs (All songs, from most to least favorite): Editions of You, Beauty Queen, Do the Strand, In Every Dream Home a Heartache, For Your Pleasure, The Bogus Man, Grey Lagoons, Strictly Confidential

Art rock / glam rock classic, with songs about undefinable dances, blow-up dolls and weird stalkers. Bryan Ferry's histrionic vocals are an acquired taste, but once you *do* acquire it, it becomes easy to see its merits. And the same goes for some goofy chord successions here and there and the intricate instrumentation everywhere (with quie a lot of saxophone!). "Do The Strand", " Edition Of You", "Grey Lagoons" slap in their own idiosyncratic ways--leaving some classic glam rock moments in their trail--but it's when Roxy Music fully embrace their art-rock DNA that they make this record the "legend" that is is (eerie "In Every Dream Home A Heartache", Krautrock-adjacent "The Bogus Man", "For Your Pleasure" and its proto-"ambient" conclusion). Those track probably owe a lot to synth whizz Brian Eno, about to leave for a stellar solo career, here foretold in many salient points of those "experimental" tracks. For our pleasure indeed. Number of albums left to review: less than 300, approximately (I've temporarily lost count here) Number of albums I'll include in my own list: half so far, approximately (including this one) Number of albums I *might*  include: a quarter, approximately. Number of albums I'll never include: another quarter (many others are more important to me)

This is great. So weird. Vampires playing Jesus Christ Superstar.

Das sind natürlich ganz klar 5 Punkte für mich. Und das, obwohl ich das erste und das dritte Album von Roxy Music noch besser finde.

I love this first phase of Roxy Music (with and without Eno). Art rock that actually rocks. Everything is just a bit weird and sideways, without being completely off the wall. I have checked my collection, and I don't own a copy of this record, which is strange because I am really familiar with the record (especially side 1). I don't remember where I came across it; did a friend recommend it to me? Did a flatmate play it incessantly? Was it a favorite of an ex-girlfriend? Was it playing at some pivotal life moment? Not that I can think of, but I _know_ this record somehow. It's a mystery... This album fits right into the pocket for me. It's amusingly weird without losing sight of the need to actually rock and have a few tunes you can sing along with. The band is pretty powerful, and they can rock along in an unpredictable way without getting too clever-clogs. It's a got enough Eno in it to be surprising, without having completely disappeared up its own backside. It's a smart record you can dance to, and it's hard to ask for more than that. For some reason, side 2 felt like I hadn't heard it so much, and I enjoyed the krautrock-lite stretching out of Bogus Man. This is going on my "to buy" list. I don't understand why I don't already own this record...

Greatest song ever written about a blow-up doll.