Reviews (page 7 of 8)
- Already had Country Life on the generator - Preferred this one to that - All-round decent album - Big fan of long songs, so liked The Bogus Man most - Fav songs: The Bogus Man, Do the Strand, Editions of You
Like a more no wave Talking Heads
Phenomenal sleaze.
Ylläpito.. tullu paskaa.. jokanen albumu 10 albumia takaperin ois ykköstä voinu liatttaa.. hankala esittää positiividta rnää.. kun ylläpito haluaa et lopetan sivustln käyttämisen.. niin basic bitch ass 1001 albumi täss että HOOHHOIJAAA.. heh..
Great energy but could do with less stoner jam outro
It was OK - I didn't know any of the songs but enjoyed it enough to work through the whole album, but probably wouldn't listen again
There are a lot of interesting ideas hear. I love the way the lead singer uses their voice as an instrument. I also love the way each song has movements and phases.
I just want more from Eno and Petty together.
Does the Roxy Music job. None of it sticks with me but flows by nicely.
Pretty fun lots of cool grooves
Not my cup of tea
Some of the songs could've kind of worked for me, but I feel like everything is dragged down by the singer. I really don't like how he sings or how he sounds. It's not too far away from how David Byrne does it in Talking Heads, but there it just fits the music somehow, and is executed better. Here it's just dissonant somehow. Not a big fan.
I generally like Roxy Music but I listened to this album 2-3 times and the only time i found myself paying attention was during "In Every Dream Home A Heartbrake" which is one weird song. Thought it was only weird first but I have grown to like it. Nothing else really left any impression, maybe the other songs would go the way of "In Every Dream Home A Heartbrake" but for now it gets a two. Killer album artwork though.
Thought this was pretty shit and I don’t usually mind a bit of Roxy Music.
Can't stand Bryan Ferry's vocals, the music itself is ok.
Poxy Music
Too avant garde for what I anticipated. Some very weird choices, drawn out.
Production is great, but the sounds that they produce are fine. Most of the time, they’re fun to listen to, but nothing special. Unique, but boring. Almost got excited in a few parts. 3/5
The more I listen to Roxy Music, the more I don't like them
I think it's definitely their best album. Deeply weird. Every House really uses Brian Ferry's crooner instincts to make something that's almost Nick Cave dark. Such a shame he turned out to be a bit boring. Do The Strand is a tune as well.
I feel like I’ve heard of the band, but never peeped the music. I read up on their bio and cool to see Brian Eno was a member. I only know his solo career. Dude is a producer legend. I can’t say I like this band tho. I like his albums Here come the warm jets and Taking tiger mountain. Peep if you’re down for some weird trippy sounds.
This wasn’t terrible.
Don't really get it. Surprised to read Brian Eno was in the band as I liked a lot of stuff he'd produced. First couple of tracks were grating, got a bit better in the middle and some bits at the end. Singer was a bit crap. One to forget about.
Like the other two Roxy Music albums we've had, I quite enjoyed it. It sounds pretty cool and the saxophone and synths definitely helped in making this an interesting album. The Bogus Man was a bit hard to listen to all the way, due to the combination of dissonance and the length of the track.
As much as I try I can't get beyond the zaniness. It sounds like a parody of Rocky Horror Picture show to me, which I acknowledge is Rocky Horror Picture Show's fault because it came after this album. I wonder if there is a direct connection or if that sound was just kind of in the air in the early to mid 70's. In any case, I keep hoping that Roxy Music will grow on me, but no luck so far.
The last Roxy Music with Eno, but after listening to "Bogus Man," I think maybe it was best they parted ways. Some great songs here, but as an album it doesn't hold together as well as their others.
Some moments of greatness but overall I think I like other Roxy a bit more. 3.5 to 3. Farewell Eno!
Bad
Monsieur Eno pas toujours dans des bons coups
c'est un peu raté
Album so lala
Favorite Track: "Editions Of You"/ "In Every Dream Home A Heartache" Unfortunately, the rest of the album is not convincing. Nevertheless, Bryan Ferry's voice is great, but I prefer the 80's Roxy Music.
Roxy music onnistuu olemaan yhtä aikaa seksikäs ja viileä, jotenkin tämän maailman tavoittamattomissa ja kuitenkin täysin tunteella musiikissa mukana. Ei yhtä hyvä kuin eka levy, eikä yhtä hyvä kuin Brian Enon ekat soololevyt, mutta silti, oi.
Ei oo koskaan auennut tämä bändi mulle, eikä auennut vieläkään. 2/5
Noh kaipa tässä sen verran oli jotain, että välttää ykkösen.
Meh ei tääkään kovinkaan paljoa iskenyt. Laulajalla kiinnostava ääni ja muutama ok biisi, muuten tasapaksua laarikamaa. 2/5
I do not think art rock is a genre for me. It was difficult to enjoy or appreciate this album. What baffles me is how this topped the charts when it did come out and the stunning praise for it
Not good
A certain darkness to the sound, but a compelling listen. The epic The Bogus Man strides on and on and the drumming across the album is pretty interesting.
One of these bands that are cool to love but I just can't get into
iznenađujuče dobar album. Editions of You je superb.
Roxy music is such a bizarre situation for me. I don't care for Bryan Ferry at all (nothing wrong with the guy, I just don't like his music), but I fucking love Brian Eno. On their albums, it seems like I half enjoy a lot of the songs, and this album is a great example of that. Unfortunately, this makes for a dull listening experience. I really thought I was going to like this album, but at least I can comfort myself with everything Brian Eno did after this 3/5
Brian Eno and proto-Dresden/post-Doors sonicism in a blender with 80s new wave come in a decade early.
Fun and different!
Not bad, nothing memorable.
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.
Was expecting something else. This was quite jarring. Yes it's arty. Yes it's influential. Yes the musicianship is sound. But I couldn't get into it. Was kind of disappointed overall.
Once again I hate the sax sound, but these songs at least fare better than their other album I listened to.
It is Roxy Music's last album with Brian Eno on it. I really liked this experimental/art-rock album, especially the second half. There were some very interesting music on it. At first listen I liked their debut album a bit better but this is also a strong 4 for me.
Interesting to listen to this. Obviously I know who Roxy Music are and I know some of the hits - and can remember Jealous Guy being everywhere when I was a teenager... From this I think I only knew Do The Strand - and that would only be because there's a clip from, I presume, The Old Grey Whistle Test which seems to appear on BBC 4 quite regularly. It was an exploration then, which was nice - and generally I enjoyed it. You can see where it's laying some of the ground for what's to come with punk and post-punk electronica, all of which I enjoyed. Editions of You in particular. Some of the rest I was less keen on, and maybe it's just a little bit too cool for me. Better than Jealous Guy though... It's a 3.5, but I'm trying to be a bit more selective with my 4s as I get toward 50 albums, so it'll be a 3.
a solid 3. Interesting stuff and def a good sound. The vocal performance is a bit weird and not really my thing but overall this is a good record. The opening track Do The Strand was really impressive.
Very good, but not their best: Stranded its much better.
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.
A difficult third album. I like Roxy Music but this recording is not them at their creative best.
If I put this on endless replay will this grow on me?! Can I then join the cool cats club? Maybe. Do I have the energy? No. Do I feel I'm missing something? Very much.
Light 8/10
Bryan Ferry's voice lends itself much better to Roxy Musics later material - here it is just wasted talent. The cover photo is outstanding, but that's about it. Productionwise, everything is alright, but the one important thing missing are some good songs. You could play Where's Waldo with the memorable hooks you wish were there. 2/5
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Going 4.5, wonderfully weird pop
Easy enough to listen to.
holy fuck this is shite. every dream home a heartache is annoying me quite a bit. strictly confidential was fairly good. okay second half of every dream home a heartache is good. my maths wasn't going great I apologise everyone. the bogus man is a cool jazz-esque song this album has redeemed itself. I must say I am not a big fan of the singers timbre. I like summa the Roxy music songs otherwise though they got some tunes. you know what this album from second half of edhah onwards is actually really good. I think the condition of the first half means the album only warrants 3 stars sorry Roxy and music. im actually annoyed. because the second half of this album is actually amazing. but the first half is so painfully mediocre. the second half would certainly get a 4 if the first half was up to par or even just a bit below, but it's not. so I am gonna have to give this a 3 despite it not being reflective of the whole album despite being reflective of the album as a whole.
Roxy Music's second album. From England. Genre : Art rock, glam rock, art pop Single: Do the Strand (#23 NL, #43 GER) Notable Songs: Do the Strand, In Every Dream Home is a Heartache 3/5
Some songs were nice. Others not.
It's okay
Doesn't quite resonate with me
I hear the foundations of some of my fave artist in this scene on these tracks. But really hated this album at the same time. One good track as far as I’m concerned in Grey Lagoons Only get 2 stars because it influenced some others to make good albums later
Sounded ahead of it’s time.
Wasn't bad, but somehow for me it lacks sth.
One of my all time favourite albums
A bit tame to start with but the whole of the album was bright and quite good.
Some great, some forgettable. Fun record in places. ‘Editions of you’ was a toe tapper and ‘In every house…’ was a great gothic sounding track. Whole album got more experimental as it went on.
Album très intéressant, me semblait très avant-gardiste par le mix de tous les genres qu'on y retrouve. Je pense que c'est le genre d'album qui prend beaucoup plus qu'une écoute pour se faire une bonne idée de sa qualité car il y a tellement de chose qui se passent si on est distrait. Je ne pourrais pas dire que j'ai été captivé, mais clairement il y a un immense soucis de détail. Pour l'instant d'un point de vue objectif je donnerais un 8/10.
Nice guitar sound but dull vocals
As a glam rock album, I think this is as refined as the genre can get. The melodies doesn't immediately jump at you, you have to let them sink in with repeated listens to fully appreciate the intricate Eno atmospheres and of course Bryan Ferry's eccentric and suave vocals. This is really good, you can hear how influential this band was for the post-Smiths UK rock.
Great imaginative glam/art rock. This one really surprised me!
Classic 70 UK glam rock. The roots of a lot of music I still listen really often.
Early 70s glam is something I always find difficult to listen and to appreciate, but this one did it! Great job! Innovative and sensitive. With Brian Eno behind the synth, it's rarely a miss, always a hit!
A pretty terribly named album if you ask me. This album was in the bad to okay range. I was able to listen to some of it without issues but there were a few songs that I loathed. The definition of music often varies when it comes to albums like this where the worst singing and guitar noises come to life. Remove a couple songs and this album is tolerable but overall not for my pleasure. 4.3/10
While I am not that familiar with Roxy Music's catalog, I've dabbled, and always liked what I've heard. This is another great art rock album. Their last with Brian Eno, as I've read, it's a good listen. Not much to add beyond that.
Not Dull, but not exciting. Not plain, but not weird. 3* through and through.
Not my thing
Ehhh… there are some cool moments but it feels a bit try-hard to me. Also the lead singer’s voice is a bit annoying. The album shines in its instrumentals/production.
I found this to be a really fun album, and I love the album cover. It’s got some quirky tunes but I feel like the strange elements of it really elevate it. It doesn’t feel early 70s to me, it feels a lot more modern. Fav tracks: Do The Strand, Strictly Confidential, In Every Dream Home A Heartache Least fav: For Your Pleasure, Grey Lagoons 3.5 stars rounded up to 4
Started good but tails off towards the end, couple of bad and long songs
Watched the documentary; didn’t get it. Listened to first few songs; didn’t get it. Deeper into album it started to groove. Pulled it up from a 2 to a 3.
First heard The Strand on Westworld. Great song. The Bogus Man was great too. The rest were all pretty damn good. Maybe 1 or 2 that were just meh. His vibrato is a little much sometimes, but when he isn't doing that I love his voice with this music. 8/10
What an amazing album, and such a unique sound. Very happy to have discovered this.
4.2 - "The Strand" always turned me away - a twisted and demented pseudo-dance craze, interesting only as a concept. Get past that Rocky Horror shell, and dig into the gooey insides of this record! On "Beauty Queen" Bryan Perry plays the adoring crooner, waxing poetic about "swimming pool eyes" and "coconut tears heavy-lidded they shed." Some songs turn into playgrounds for Brian Eno's ecstatic instrumentals, particularly on "Editions of You" with its stratospheric guitar/synth solo. "For Your Pleasure" trails off with descending piano lines warped and transmogrified to create sounds equally delicate, vulgar and terror-stricken.
Ultimately really liked this
Vaya ...
I just found this album outright weird. The vocals from Ferry are so theatrical to the point where it distracts from anything else going on
Yea, after listening to fIREHOSE and to get this, well shit. I remember Roxy Music from the real MTV days, but couldn't recall any song by name. Now I know why. I just listened to the album and still can't recall any of the songs. This stuff just not for me. I didn't find anything good about this album and really have no desire to go back to relisten. It was music, so I'll give it a very strong .5 and rate a 1. 1
I remember hearing someone say that what made The Smiths so interesting was because you couldn't tell who they were listening to. They didn't hold their influences on their sleeves like a lot of bands. I don't remember who said it or in what documentary -- probably Sonic Highways but I digress. To that person in that documentary I feel I can safely say that The Smiths were listening to Roxy Music. Lyrically pretty different but all I could think of when hearing Bryan Ferry's wibbly operatic voice was Morrissey. Anyway this album was surprisingly interesting for me. As always I have to shout out the saxophone. Lovely inclusion. Fun and peppy as well as mysterious and spooky. I don't know if I'll listen to it very often but I had a nice time this time. 4
2 I haven’t listened to much Roxy Music, but in listening to this album, right off the bat I can tell you that Talking Heads owe a lot to these guys - for better or for worse. Like Talking Heads, this album has its moments, but other times it comes off feeling like pretentious art pop with an unbearably annoying singer. Editions of You was a fun rockout song, but In Every Dream Home a Heartache was a lot of overdramatic bullshit, and the funk bassline on The Bogus Man isn’t quite catchy enough for the song to be anywhere near as half as long as it is, especially when compounded with the wailing vocals. Speaking of In Every Dream Home a Heartache, I saw a few people putting their nose up at it for being a love song about a blow-up doll. I don’t mind that aspect of it conceptually, but I gotta say The Police did it a lot better on Be My Girl - Sally from their debut (Did that album make the list?? It better have, it’s better than this). Supposedly Morrissey called this the only “truly great British album”, and as is the case with most other of his opinions, I’m going to have to disagree with that here too.
An interesting album with a lot to like, some stuff to dislike. Ultimately an enjoyable listen. In Every Dream Home a Heartache was fantastic
pretentious
Not my cup of tea, lads. Love Eno’s production work with Talking Heads, James etc. not keen on Roxy Music. I also think BF is a bellend but that may be a coincidence.
Really liked it, maybe just in a good mood today, no one track is really that outstanding, but just a fun listen from start to finish.
I liked some of the instrumentals a lot, I’m a sucker for wind instruments in rock music and this has both brass and woodwork (I think?) I absolutely despised the singer though, such an annoying voice and way of singing. He kinda ruined the whole album for me and I noticed that the only parts that I liked where parts where he’d shut up (the drop at In Every Dream Home A Heartache, for example)
That is another classic. Roxy Music, rockig, gutes Sax, interessante Songs, manchmal auch ein bisschen nervig, aber immer noch ein Klassiker.
This is more or less the inverse of the first Roxy album - one side of energetic proto-new wave rock sounds, another side of quasi-krautrock divergences under the leadership of Brian Eno. While I preferred the more esoteric work on their first record, here it’s a bit of a drag. Conversely, the first side has a couple of genuinely revolutionary rock music. It’s tasteful and bombastic all at once, but perhaps lacking in the chorus section to really worm its way to my heart. On the whole, it’s not quite as good as the first record but I can definitely appreciate Roxy Music’s valuable contribution to the canon of popular music a lot more for having listened to this record.
Aldrig hört en låt från denna men den var helt okej.
I had to double-check to make sure Spotify didn't make a mistake. So different from the self-titled album. Best track: Grey Lagoons
I don't like Roxy Music. That was at least the thought I had when I saw this album yesterday. I still don't really like Roxy Music, but this is a step in the right direction. Standouts: Do The Strand, Grey Lagoon
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Do the strand, In every dream home a heartache, The bogus man
exactly what you expect from roxy music, some good stuff and some arty farty mad stuff. can't complain
A cucumber stuffed right up to your mother's stomach. She is screaming like a cat in the wind.
Yeah, it was some music.
4.75
Rock
This was pleasurable, thank you Roxy. It manages to be experimental and strange without ever veering into unlistenable territory. Reminded me of Mansun a little bit.
Ikke helt min greie. Slitsom stemme
Really interesting. Sort of "progressive light" sound, innovative. A good listen.
This was like listening to dreamy music in an otherwise empty sensory deprivation tank.
cool sound - brian eno. 3 stars
Judging the album just from the cover I thought I would hate it but I was pleasantly surprised that this album was actually decent. 6.5/10
C'est spéciale, mais il y a beaucoup de chanson que j'ai vraiment aimé le vibe. Cependant d'autres que je comprennais pas trop. J'ai quand même aimé la musicalité du band et leur style. 3J'allais mettre 3.85, mais je n'avais pas fini l'écoute. Every Dream home a heartache a fait monté la note à 4 au moins.
That's really interesting, I've absolutely loved some tracks, but some others were quite boring. To be honest the one about an inflatable doll weirded me out a little bit, but I guess I'll have to be more focused on the lyrics next time. So, mixed feelings.
Meh? I barely remember listening to this album
It was kind of meh. Didn't feel like a lot of substance here
A fine album full of great songs - Do the strand, In every dream home..., For your pleasure etc. Never heard Bogus Man before, what a revelation. Guessing this was the last album featuring Eno, and there are signs of the more mainstream direction that Roxy would travel in e.g. Beauty queen. Classy, eclectic, unique
Art pop en tot el seu significat. Aquí encara en plena lluita pel lideratge entre Brian Eno i Brian Ferry. Malgrat tot, un xic sobrevalorat, com la banda en general, però s'ha de reconèixer l'elegància i alta capacitat artística dels quatre integrants a l'hora de donar llum a un disc que sobresurt més pel seu so i arranjaments que per les seves cançons
Pretty good
Hmm
Pretty good, decent music that I didn’t mind listening too, will I come back to it? Hard to say
I was pleased
2.5
2/8, 25%
I liked some of this, but Cheezus, too much saxamaphone. Really liked In Every Dream Home A Heartache.
Sounds still very fashionable and fresh, with some very strong songs.
Great album, though there are a couple of weirder ones towards the end that keep it from being perfect.
Classic, but not touching.
Heel aparte muziek. Het is veel zweveriger dan pop. Ik vind dat matig. Ook de zang is niet helemaal leuk. **
I’m kinda sick of giving out average of 3 and hearing a little less than mediocre music but that’s what this album was. Some songs were thought provoking but that’s a stretch for the rest.
Second Roxy Music album. Roxy are a great example of why this 1001 album exercise is a blast - I had almost completely bypassed all of Roxy's work until this past year. Highly varied and interesting British rock. Such a dull and lame description but how else do you describe this band? They rock out right at the start with "Do The Strand" then they tap a bit into glam on "Beauty Queen" - and what the hell even is "Strictly Confidential" - almost a touch of early Genesis in there...? "Editions of You" adds a touch of (not shitty) punk into the glam... and this all in the first half of the album. All along the way topped by Bryan Ferry's adaptable vocal styles...In recalling "Country Life" I believe I thought of Bryan Ferry as "a better Bowie" - odd inflections in his vocal stylings that - forced or not - works way way better for me than anything Bowie ever did. Also this music is far superior (ending the Bowie comparisons right now) - this was a band in the truest sense i.e. it was not the Ferry Show by any means: individual performances from each of keys/sax/guitar/drums all stand out. On the negative side... this album is difficult to really dig into - it is a bit weird-weird. i.e. It's tough to latch onto many hooks or memorable phrasing, especially in the second half / side. But I'll turn that around and say it's a feature not a bug - actually it almost pains me to say that this is not that much unlike Velvet Underground ... only the biggest difference is that this band doesn't suck ass. So in the end - I don't think I like this as much as "Country Life" even though that one took a few listens to really start to catch me. I could see this being another slow burn but I'm going to round down here due to songwriting that's just not quite there yet. Weird fun art rock but lacking just a bit of lure that emerges on other Roxy records. 6/10 3 stars.
The first half was kind of lame but the second half was actually really cool with more varied tracks
PLEASE NO MORE ENGLISH GARBAGE. 2/5.
Such an atmospheric and theatric record which sounds as fresh now as in 1973. Bryan Ferry's voice is instantly recognizable and truly gets to shine on the wailing and dramatic 'Strictly Confidential'. 'The Bogus Man' is a very early prototype for The Cure's more gothic phases, and the bombastic 'In Every Dream Home A Heartache' is the true highlight for me. This is also where Brian Eno really sets his mark on the record with background vocals and excessive phasing.
Roxy Music have always been hovering around in the outskirts of my musical interest. I have a couple of their records but I never truly made a deep dive into their discography; and I don’t think I ever heard this album in it’s entirety before.. But being a child of geniuses, Ferry and Eno, I’m a fool for not have done it earlier. Ferry’s vocal is absolutely breathtaking throughout the entire album; especially on the haunting and stunningly beautiful “In Every Dream Home a Heartache”. But even with a vocalist as strong and unique as Ferry every other aspect of the group has plenty of time to stand out. The presence of Eno is obvious throughout, while Mackay’s saxophone and Manzanera’s guitar never misses the mark. “The Bogus Man” is obviously way too long and “The Beauty Queen” does nothing for me, but with songs like “Strictly Confidential”, “Editions of You” and the title track I really don’t care that much.
Do the strand- mostly just nonsense and not even particularly catchy Beauty queen- showed a lot more promise than it had Strictly confidential- This was quite dull Editions of you- Bit more upbeat/enjoyable, lyrics seem like afterthought at points👍 In every dream home a heartache- this was pretty funny ngl 👍 The bogus man- V long instrumental outro that doesn’t add much Grey lagoon- Fun track, saxophones a bit unsubtle👍 For your pleasure- Again another unnecessary drawn out instrumental Am I too picky?? This didn’t do much for me, just seemed overdrawn and bloated in length for some songs 2/5
Roxy Music at their best. One criticism, I'm not sure the first 6 minutes of the bogus man have enough going on to justify the length.
Nope
Liked this one, will give it another listen at some point, different
If this list is going to supply music I don’t especially care for, this is a good way to do it- this CD is at least interesting and different, if not particularly good. This CD has some nice aspects. It’s certainly creative, and Roxy has sort of a unique sound. It has also had a good diversity of sound- a lot of brass, lots of keys, strong rhythm section, nice mix of moods. And it’s generally upbeat and it sounds like the band is having fun. The problem is that I mostly just find it abrasive to listen to. Their singer kinda sucks, and they don’t do a good job backing him up- there’s a fairly strong emphasis on other melodic voices instrumentally, but almost no emphasis on harmony. Which means the singer is mostly just left alone out there. On the instrumental melodic bits, Roxy has a bad habit for playing some awful dissonant shit. “Editions of You” is probably the strongest track on the CD, certainly the catchiest, but the solos are awful, they just ruin it for me. And I think their singer’s strength is supposed to be his weird nonsensical lyrics (certainly not his range or timbre), but I really do not care about that- so to me he just sounds like a goober with an abrasive voice. Then their songwriting can be kind of dull. They go for more of a groove style, which I find gets really old really fast if you’re not good at it. On the 2nd half, “Every Dream Home…” and “Bogus Man” especially, they have whole songs that are 4-minute repetitions of the same 3-second phrase. Unless you’re brilliant at that, it just doesn’t work, and this CD really starts to sag around then.
Very cool new album experience. Very Bowie-esque glam rock with some cool longer form stuff in there
18/10/2022 - 01/02/2023
-"In Every Dream Home A Heartache" starts with a creepy vibe and then suddenly becomes a hard rock jam -Other songs are perfectly plain rock songs, not much notable
+ very fun and interesting art/glam rock! + bit theatrical - too long songs for my taste - repetitive + fun experience tho
Very Bowie sounding, love that Eno’s on the synthesizer.
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.
An interesting one for sure, good example of some music from the 70’s as it sounded like a bunch of noises put together. Nothing too memorable and can’t say it’s stood the test of time but you can still respect the album for what it is.
Great and weird, loved the saxophone, I particularly enjoyed "Do The Strand", "The Bogus Man" and "Grey Lagoons" I listened to this twice so yes I would definitely listen again
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.
Art rock with hint of prog. Never amazed me, feels a little like it doesn’t hold up. Still listenable, musically interesting, vocals not so much
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I honestly don't remember much about the last album I got from roxy music other than the album cover so I can't really compare these albums other than to say that I probably won't remember this album either. I really liked the second half of in every dream home a heartbreak but other than that there isn't much here that's likely to stick with me.
This album hasn't changed any of my feelings about Roxy Music, slightly kookie art school cabaret music with wobbly, bleated vocals. Not absolutely awful, but not for me.
It's weird. It's kind of shit. "What if Sparks were Talking Heads", alright, that sounds fucking terrible and also brilliant. Would rather listen to either of those, but this does make sense. Blow-up doll song is stupid as hell. It rules.
Saai.
listened to before didn't love it
Brilliant album. Always listened to Roxy Music and enjoyed their style of music. Really enjoyed this album as well. Some songs weren’t they’re best which let it down a little but there were some brilliant ones in there. If possible I would give 4.75 stars
Enjoyed: No Listens: 2 Just wasn't for me, felt messy at times and I couldn't connect
no
Interestingly
Even more attractive than the self-titled, initially, which had me making favorable comparisons to Bowie. The music's all a bit more low key, which keeps the B side from reaching 100%, barely. I was impressed by Roxy Music before and this listen ensured I won't forget about the band.
If Rocky Horror Picture Show was a documentary instead of absurd fiction. Don’t know what’s going on with the guy’s voice, but I didn’t like it.
Brilliantly weird
Some Classic songs from a classy band, The original line up with Eno is rather special, Love "Do The Strand" "Editions Of You" "In Every Home A Heartache" and the titular "For Your Pleasure" are great. Definitely on my list!
Like very cool
Not my type of music I guess
Classic Roxy - Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera and of course Bryan Ferry vocals. A great band that helped spawn incredible solo careers for all of these guys.
Nope.
Well apart from singles I never managed to dig a Roxy Music record - and probably this is one of the least ‘singles’ record I came across - but it’s definitely a grower - first listen was hmm - but on second a lot of the hidden qualities started to turn up. I think I’ll grow to really like this one over time.
Brian eno ha ba gjort all musik tydligen
Roxy music combines slickness with oddity to great effect
Bankare
Easy to listen. Elegant.
Great band! Super underrated in rock history. Great vocal display as well. I really appreciate how they sound new in the 70s, closer to 90s alternative than to 70s rock.
Decent album that just has a bit too much going on for me. There was something about the combination of the singing and the eclectic, progressive and at times weird sound that just made the album feel very strenuous to listen to
A nice little listen! Lots of variety and quality experimentation. I like the slower, darker cuts over the high energy ones, but nothing too awful anywhere on this thing. 6/10
Enjoyed the listen, would give it another try
Gotta love that Chic sound!
IED
So much more experimental than I was expecting - really love the combo of that and more mainstream rock music
Decent enough, enjoyed a few songs.
A perfect introduction to Roxy Music! "Do The Strand," "Editions of You," "In Every Dreamhome a Heartache," and "The Bogus Man" are my fave tracks.
Not for me. Would not listen again.
3.5
Sleaze, vaudavilluan romp, ferry's voice vibrato can take some getting used to, but not so much I couldn't enjoy the stories. Sounds fantastic.
I listened to their self titled debut and HOLY SHIT I feel like I fucking transcended This album was a little bit different but still incredible and I love it just as much both these amazing albums are a 10/10 I don’t care much for the artwork, it feels like all their albums are just trying to bring in a horny audience and that’s why I went in with low expectations, but Jesus Christ they fucking sounded so much better than I ever could’ve imagined
Roxy Music is on my all time top five bands and this is one of if not their best. This is their second release and last with Eno. It shows the two directions Roxy was pushing. Ferry's more conventional song structures and Eno's more experimental pitch bending. Both to great effect and hugely influential, albeit different directions.
Not really familiar with early Roxy Music work. You can definitely hear the influence that Brian Eno would have on later Talking Heads albums. My favorite song on this record is Grey Lagoons. Great band jam in that one.
Ambitious and impressive, but not at all fun. Listening to this was work and that cuts against its score for me.
detta gillade jag strongly ändå
Bom.
Glam rock. Ni fu ni fa.
Eh, not my style.
I haven’t listened to this one in a while but my first band’s guitarist was obsessed with Roxy Music and this album particularly. Bryan Ferry’s vibrato is legendary! This album is a pleasure for me.
In theory I like glam rock, but an album all in one sitting is too much for me. Give me the greatest hits in small doses.
First track was boss. I find that i do love glam.
Des eightieseries dont on se serait encore une fois bien passé.
Il était normal après une surchauffe totale de la part de Robert de prendre une journée pour se relaxer, à l'ombre du grand chêne de son immense jardin. Cet album moyen en est la représentation.
good stuff here.
Better than expected
Couldn't get into it
Some good stuff, would listen again
I think this is generally regarded by Roxy Music fans as the band's best, but I find the album kind of uneven. It's good, but I prefer the self-titled personally.
Eager anticipation for my first listen of a full Roxy Music studio LP having only previously heard a compilation album and focused on later songs like Oh Yeah. I only knew Strand here and enjoyed Editions equally. The slightly proggy other songs from Heartache onwards are great! A good listen.
Who would Marsha be without Greg? Or better question, who would Alice work for if Mike and Carol never met? Some may consider that Alice would be busy processing Sam's meat. (Sam, of course was the Brady's favorite butcher and had a thing for Alice). And finally, consider that we'll never know the great architect that Mike Brady would've been because he's a schmaltzy, average excuse for a man. And, because of him we are left with Brady Bunch, a campy, mediocre show from the 70's. Another Bunch we need to consider here is The Funky Bunch. What happened to the Funky Bunch? Well, Marky Mark quit, and now there's no more good vibrations. Now, we only have bad vibrations. Now, consider this album, For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music and how terrible it is. After leaving Roxy Music Brian Eno became the great architect that the world was missing. Eno created Ambient 1: Music for Airports and Here Come the Warm Jets, two incredible albums that are off-the-charts influential and groundbreaking. Absolute 5's! Can you imagine how dreadful For Your Pleasure would've been without BE's influence? It would've been like trying to enjoy vibrations by The Funky Bunch. It is apparent that this album is B-A-D, bad. However, it's difficult to fathom how awful it would've been without Eno's involvement, I'm thinking wretched. So, a big thank you to Brian Eno for making something salvageable for us to hate and for that, I've dedicated the second star to you.
A reviewer described Bryan Ferry's voice as an "elegant, seductive croon." Umm... agree to disagree on that one.
A lot of this music is interesting, except the saxophone filled tunes. I very much dislike how the lead singer sings. I think his voice could actually be good, but the way he uses it is very annoying. It almost sounds like he is imitating opera sometimes.
Definitely not my cup of tea, but it almost feels like it should be. I think a big part of this were the vocals which I found passable at its best and cringy at its worst. I think the back half was better than the first ("Grey Lagoons" was my favorite track due to the upbeat drums and awesome harmonica solo), but I just didn't get much out of it as a whole unfortunately. It felt like it was teetering on the edge of being experimental without going all the way, and I didn't find anything overly special about the final recordings. I can see this being a favorite of some, but to me, it was just forgettable. 2.5/5.
Buena voz. Canciones con ritmo para un estilo pop fácilmente escuchable. Pasable, sin más
Roxy Music. Utterly baffling, weirdly listenable, doing everything possible to distract and distance the listener. I can’t review this! I am confounded. I like it, I hate it. I need more time.
5/10 I don’t really see the appeal
7/10. Quite good.
It was alright, but in an interesting way at least. 6/10
All of the tracks on this album were new to me. Hearing Roxy Music has never sparked my curiosity to look for more muisc from the band. For Your Pleasure fits within that same zone of interest. Did I like the album? Not really. Did I dis-like the album? ¿Maybe? The warble in the vocals and some sounds from the horns keep this album from being "okay". No one was harmed in the listening of this album, but I will forget that I heard this album soon enough.
"In every dream ..." really stands out still. Really like the "tension" of this song. The rest of the album is not what i usually listen to, but somehow it works for me. A special album. "..... is there a heaven... i´d like to think so....."
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?
I feel like I could copy-paste my review for Deep Purple here after just swapping a few song titles about. The album sounds pleasant, but is not a stand-out in any meaningfull way, except perhaps for the vocals, which I found very pleasant. 'Strictly Confidantial' is the high point for me. 4/5
Mildly intriguing. I was impressed by innovative sounds as for the release year 1973. The album starts up shy, but as the tracks progress it gets much more interesting. I would also coin in provocative lyrics, delicate vocals as well as splendid saxophone and drums. The result is a solid album - definitely not for every occasion, but worthwhile. Highlight: In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Na pierwszy rzut oka świetna okładka, Roxy Music nie znam, a po tytule i okładce spodziewałem się wokalistki. A dostałem kolejne jęki z muzyką w tle, które z wokalem mają niewiele wspólnego. Ciężko mi było określić gatunek muzyczny tego albumu, ostatecznie dochodzę do wniosku, że to przekrój od folku przez dziwny art pop do rocka, z czego żaden z nich nie jest dobrze wykonany. "In Every Dream Home A Heartache" jest idealnym tego przykładem - po mocnej końcówce "Eidtions of You" pierwsze 3 minuty utworu przegadane, by zagrać minutę całkiem niezłego Rocka, przerwę na chwilę ciszy i wrócić z eksperymentalną minutą w zupełnie innym gatunku. Najfajniejsze z płyty "The Bogus Man", wysoki chóralny wokal gościa akurat tutaj pasował idealnie. Po pumie na okładce spodziewałem się zupełnie innego brzmienia, absolutnie nie w moim guście.
Jak na swoje lata album wydaje się dość nowoczesny. Połączenie rocka popu i muzyki alternatywnej daje czasami ciekawe efekty. Ogólnie album dość specyficzny i nie na każdą okazję.
Ciekawy muzycznie album, zwłaszcza jak na 1973. Bardzo niespójny, z niektórymi piosenkami brzmiącymi jak dowolny nudnawy zespół rockowy, a niektórymi bardziej alternatywnymi i eksperymentalnymi dźwiękowo. Najbardziej mi w pamięć zapadło "In Every Dream Home A Heartache".
Trudne do oceny. Nie znałem zbytnio Roxy Music poza paroma hitami. Mi się wokal podobał, album był na tyle eksperymentalny, że się nie nudził. Jednocześnie nie wiem czy do niego będę wracał często. Idealne byłoby 3.5, tutaj dam 4 bo jak na 1973 bardzo nietypowe.
maybe a 3.7 feels a bit like guys who feel like they're more in the know than most and a bit snobbish about it and music would like this. But I enjoyed listening to the album overall
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.
Was curious to listen to a Roxy album as they have featured in many books I've read over the years. I knew a couple of their songs and there are some really interesting tunes here. A kind of darker underbelly of pop that has intriguing moments.
Some good stuff going on here
It sounded like Nigel got a kick ass backing band! The vocal stylings have a lot of similarities.
I was already pretty sure Roxy Music wasn't for me. This only proved me right, couldn't finish it.
Some pretty inventive stuff here. The musicianship is very strong. The quirky voice works most of the time but can be way off. More than this I can't say.
My issue with ‘For Your Pleasure’ is that it sounds like a band trying to come up with enough material to fill two sides of a vinyl record. ‘Beauty Queen’, ‘Editions Of You’ and ‘Grey Lagoons’ are ace and the best songs on the album. The rest is padding and filler, with ‘Bogus Man’ being the biggest culprit; a song dragged out to 9 minutes that should’ve been cut after 4 tops. ‘Strictly Confidential’ is also meh, as is the title track which fails to inspire. There are better Roxy Music albums than this one in my opinion.
Enjoyed it but other albums are better
Frankly, every other Roxy Music album sounds to me like a rehearsal for Avalon. That said, The Bogus Man is a really good track: I'm a sucker for those repetitive, extra unnecessarily long, tunes.
One of my favourite albums ever. I loved the first album, it was so different from all the other artists out there at the time but this took Roxy Music to a higher level. Could not recommend it more. Would give it six stars if possible.
I liked the debut album much better - this is definitely sonically interesting but I didn't really enjoy it. I think they can get a too avant garde for my tastes. My top pick is "In Every Dream Home a Heartache", I enjoyed the instrumentals in the second half.
Life-changing album; thanks to Oscar, you blew my mind.
Another of those bands that I appreciate are really good, really influential etc but never got into beyond the singles. This album is great and I don't recall having listened to it before. Wierd thing is I can hear how Bryan Ferry's voice influenced Nick Cave's vocal styling. A connection I had never made before. Really they are a band I should listen too more
Coming with no expectations, this was the album that introduced me to Roxy Music. It's nothing like their other albums, this one is quite avant-garde, gothic before punk came around, incorporating elements of free jazz and early synths, what I consider to be Eno's first masterpiece. I noticed For Your Pleasure tends to be critics' favorite, but it's not usually the pick by fans. That may go to Siren, Stranded, or even Avalon. However, this is actually my favorite Roxy Music album. I don't think I'm biased for it being my first. I love how chaotic and dark the songs are. The opener "Do the Strand" best exemplifies what I love about the album, from the unexpected and immediate opening line and sax, it grabs your attention out of nowhere. "Beauty Queen" is a great follow-up that reminds me a lot of their Avalon soft rock album. I really like how it feels like his voice has two personalities, a Jekyll and Hyde situation, which is carried on through the entire album. "Editions of You" picks up the pace, reminding us this is a glam rock band, with a sick sax / synth solo engrained in my mind. "In Every Dream a Heartache" is a peculiar highlight, and I'm surprised it's the most-played on Spotify. For three minutes, it's creepy monotonous vocals with atmospheric sounds, not really something to appeal to people compared to other tracks, but I guess by that 3 minute mark it just explodes into a spectacle, dies down, then the instrumental randomly picks up again. According to the Wikipedia, it's been covered a ton of times and featured in Mindhunters so that must be why. Deserves its place as one of their best songs, but still 8 million plays is unusually high. My favorite track is for sure "The Bogus Man." It's haunting and a bit claustrophobic. Love everything from the one-ear sax to the creepy echoey vocals that surround me to the exotic synth effects. It's my favorite blend of rock and free jazz. And it goes for nearly 10 minutes. Last highlight for me is the closing title track with the combination of the extended instrumental. It's a solid album, with no filler, appropriate track order, coherent theme, and an intriguing yet non-excessive experimentation.
The first song rocks, but the rest of the album is just normal. The last song looks like something that could be happened here, but then the album ends.
4/5. Favorite Roxy Music, Eno goes off. Ferry’s vocals are irritating still
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This one of those albums where they are exactly in between so many genres that I’m not quite sure who it’s for. Not me I don’t think
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.
Nice album, easy to listen to songs. Bit short, but that's the norm for that time period.
2.5/5. This was fine, kind of annoying if I'm being honest. I just don't really like the arty/glammy type of rock.
I liked the synth and textures/layers of the music for the most part. The singer's vocal style is so big/dramatic that it's more comical than enjoyable.
Beastie Boys. Rick Rubin. Blah blah changed the world. Would not choose to listen to where it all started, if this is it.
Kolejny albumik od roxy music, durgi w dyskografii zespolu, nagrywany tym samym skladem co debiutancki krazek, wiec pan eno znowu zrobil robote, tak jak poprzedni przypomina troche kompozycje bowiego z okresu alladinowego, bo przeciez obie plyty wyszly w 73, ale na tej plycie o wiele bardziej slychac wokale, ktore jak dla mnie tylko zawadzaja w porownaniu do pierwszej plyty, pan ferry zadnym bowim nie bedzie i spiewa zwyczajnie nudno, wiec pan eno moze kombinowac z kompozycjami, ktore sa oparte przedewszystkim na synthowym brzmieniu i mocnym elektryku, ale jednak plyta w 42 minuty potrafi zanudzic, dosc nietypowo jest podzielona plyta, bo strona pierwsza zawiera 5 kawalkow, druga natomiast tylko 3, ktore brzmia o wiele bardziej eksperymentalnie i nie opieraja sie na wokalu az tak bardzo jak pierwsza czesc, ale na plejke leci jednak otwierajacy trak do the strand, wiec bardzo taneczny song, ktory jednak najbardziej zostaje w glowie po przesluchaniu calego albumu
Mannered, clever, pop art!
Left me cold
Good enough that I bought it
I listened to it but didn’t really find anything too notable
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I expected more from this. It didn’t give me any feels.
progressive, but not sure I would listen again
6/10
Some of it got a little out there for me but overall I really like this. It is a long way between this and Avalon but you can hear the seeds of that sound in here just a bit. Cool to hear.
It was fine. Nothing much to say. It started off better than it ended I think, but due to road noise, I heard the end a lot less clearly.
Nope
I get how some folks enjoy it, but the style is not for me.
3/5
Ho avuto una sensazione simile a quando ascolto musica anni '80 (pur non essendo di quel periodo), ma solo per i primi secondi! Alla fine si è rivelato un album bomba, un sax che qua per esempio non si accolla, ma comunque in generale l'uso di tutti gli strumenti, voce inclusa, mi è sembrato interessante. A tratti mi hanno ricordato i Queens of the Stone Age.
Devo essere onesto questo è un altro di quei casi in cui ero partito abbastanza prevenuto. Non conosco il gruppo, forse solo di nome, però la copertina mi aveva subito suggerito un qualcosa di Glam un po' cringe, l'unica speranza era l'anno 1973 (invece che ottanta). Devo dire invece di essere rimasto positivamente sorpreso e di essermi divertito molto con questo album. Ho lasciato un po' di tempo prima del voto perché non ero sicuro ma anche riascoltando un po' di pezzi sparsi l'idea che mi sono fatto è di un album Glam come si deve, auto-ironico ma anche punk, non il Glam che non si capisce se si prenda sul serio e finisce per essere cringe (i Judas Priest secondo me, anche se ufficialmente non Glam, rientrano in questa categoria). Anche gli assoli di chitarra su questo album sono fatti bene riuscendo dove molti gruppi più pretenziosi finora hanno fallito. Per me è un 3.6 che promuovo a 4 per la simpatia e l'originalità.
Very glam. 6/10
Интересно звучит, но не более.
Very... British? Or something. Kind of reminds me of the Ramones but without the annoying voice. 0RS
Saugut weil nicht greifbar. Saugut weil quasi unfassbar, vor allem wie das 1973 stattgefunden haben soll… Was will das eigentlich genau sein? Vor allem zu Anfang steht hier nix fest; Anhobi/Anthony Hegarty muss sich bei „Strictly Confidential“ das kehlige abgehorcht haben. Sonst viel Glanzrock, aber ohne komplett auf Glitzer auszurutschen. Ab „Bogus Man“ krautet man irre um sich, dann schmatzt es mal wieder hedonistisch durch die „Grey Lagoons“, ehe diese sich durch die Rockgeschichte jammen. Finale: Just etwas for my pleasure?! Indeed !! Blew up my mind 4.1
Ich mag - schon wieder - das krautig treibende in Beauty Queen, genauso und aus aus selbem Grund natürlich The Bogus Man. Es geht voran! Und ganz zum Schluss, in "For Your Pleasure" hört man dann ja schon sehr deutlich raus, wo Eno eigentlich hin wollte und was er konsequenterweise dann auch wenig später ohne Brian Ferry, aber mit z.B. Bowie oder Byrne/den Talking Heads fortführt. Was Ferry angeht, wird mir bewusst dass ich bei aller grundsätzlichen Sympathie halt doch zu wenig Fan von Glamrock und weniger noch von Theatralik bin um das in seiner Gesamtheit so richtig super zu finden; Strictly Confidential z.B. kriegt mich gar nicht so, und eigentlich nicht mal Do The Strand. Falsche Jugend gehabt vielleicht, ich weiß es nicht. Trotzdem; verkehrt ist das alles nicht, ich kann dem auf jeden Fall 2,8 geben.
114 days and albums of this have made me realize that I don't particularly care for Roxy Music. Or rather, maybe it's Bryan Ferry who I don't like. I should have known right away when I learned how he spelled his first name. Never trust a Brian who insists on that Y instead of an I. They always make things more difficult. Bryan Ferry's vocal delivery really annoyed the shit out of me from the first song on here. On some songs, he almost sounds like he's imitating the Count from Sesame Street. Other times he's trying to find out if he can do an entire song with marbles in his mouth. You'd think having a Brian with standard spelling in Brian Eno would help balance things out. For years, I've always heard about how Roxy Music will get me laid, and the band needs to be in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. One of those things eventually happened. Now that I've had something of a deep dive on Roxy Music, I'm genuinely unimpressed. Possibly one of the most overrated bands of my lifetime. This is a band that has great album covers, but even those can't cover up what's inside. My favorite song was a song from their "Flesh and Blood" album that Spotify played after this album ended. The lesson is Roxy Music has some bangers, but those deep cuts are ROUGH to listen to. Not for nothing, but worth mentioning: Morrissey loves this album.
I've always been a fan of Do the Strand. It's a killer song. Editions of You is also quite good. I have no clue what instrument does the first solo after the second verse. When in doubt, attribute it to the synth? The rest of side 1 doesn't work that well for me. I include in this group In Every Dream Home a Heartache. Perhaps one needs to have the British sense of humour to enjoy songs about blow-up dolls. I like the instrumentation just before the fake fade but overall I don't think this song has aged well. On the other hand, the avant garde feel to The Bogus Man remains really cool. It's interesting that the lyrics are done less than half way through this 9:20 min song. I guess they were having fun and kept jamming. The sax, harmonica and guitar solos in Grey Lagoon are excellent. Another good jam. Side 2 ends with another avant garde song but this one didn't age so well. Interesting note on the cover picture being BF's gf. I recall Roxy Music's album covers having eye candy but I didn't know they were girlfriends.
The combination of Andy McKay on sax and Brian Eno on synthesizers gave them a different sound than most of the other bands kicking around at the time. Do the Strand and Editions of You are classics, and I remember them from back in the day. In Every Dream Home a Heart Ache is dark and eclectic, but I especially like the last 3 minutes of For Your Pleasure which gets quite experimental yet melodic.
Ahh classic Roxy with Eno and Manzanera before they sold out and started playing elevator music. The guitar solo after “but you blew my mind” In Every home a heartache and then the fade out/ reprise is a highlight for me. This was Roxy near its best, if this album had my fav track Both Ends Burning I would have given it a 5
Nothing super special, the jam on the last song was the best part
This was pretty good
Meh
better than I thought.
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.
Normal
Wonderful, reminds me Zappa. Oboe didn't quite fit my taste in the sound, but I really appreciated the ensamble.
Sick album. Ferry is a genius. Great lyrics and a musical tour de force. I think this will only grow in my estimation.
First listen
The cadence and tone of this singers voice removed any possible enjoyment from this.
1/5 - Nope.
Wel oke maar niet wauw
3,2 Nog wel tof, laat je wel wat bewegen. En ik beweeg soms nog wel graag
Oke dit moet op me groeien maar 'in every dream home a heartache' is heel cool
Not terrible. I enjoyed the piano and horns on the tracks. 3.4
I really liked this album, very nice variation in songs yet very cohesive. Iconic.
It was interesting. Experimental pop rock. Not my thing though
aight med några bajslåtar
I have never heard of this band before. A little eccentric but not bad.
A few okay songs, but largely a forgettable album. Some sound heavily influenced by The Doors, which is why this album does not need to be revisited.
3.5.... but I think it's the first one in awhile to tip upwards on the scale. I just don't feel good about only a 3. It has that funky vocal style that's not too grating or in your face, good tunes behind it, really good album.
Such an eclectic mix of punk and psychedelic tracks.