Roxy Music. Musical visioneers or puffed up prog rockers in mascara?

[Dr. Furface]

Early stuff is top banana, and although Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure are classics, Stranded is the one I tend to play the most for some reason, Song for Europe is class, I just really love that song.

Me too. The first 3 albums are all brilliant, but although Eno had left by the time of Stranded (the third), I think it's their masterpiece. It was the first 'proper' album that I ever bought, which I did mainly because of the single Street Life, and I've never tired of hearing it. Mother of Pearl is one of the greatest songs ever, like two songs welded together - fast aggressive start, then a long slow poem on a piano riff - which is quintessential early Ferry, a perfect combination of louche lyrics and brilliant phrasing. Fantastic.

 

[andy2002]

Here's the bit from Popbitch...

"Roxy Music are back in the studio with Brian Eno,
for the first time since 1973!"

 

[Sunspots]

Did I imagine this or did Popbitch report this week that Roxy and Eno were back in the studio together?

I read it too.

 

[andy2002]

Me too. The first 3 albums are all brilliant, but although Eno had left by the time of Stranded (the third), I think it's their masterpiece.

Shit, I never realised Eno had gone by then. Did he have a hand in any of the songs at all?

 

[Dr. Furface]

Shit, I never realised Eno had gone by then. Did he have a hand in any of the songs at all?

No, I'm pretty sure he didn't.

 

[Flashman]

No it's Eno-free from Stranded onward.

 

[Orang Utan]

Isn't there a Big Train sketch where Chairman Mao starts singing that on his death bed?

(Or did I dream it?)

Yes - that's the funniest sketch in the programme

 

[Termite Man]

With Eno - one of the best bands ever !
Without Eno - shit !

 

[Orang Utan]

I like Ferry's solo stuff
<ducks>

 

[Sunspots]

I like Ferry's solo stuff
<ducks>

That figures, considering you like Phil Collins...

 

[badly drawn cat]

I adore early Roxy Music (first 3 albums). Virginia Plain is the song that me & mr badly drawn cat met to, so it's kind of 'our song'. Roxy Music (the album) blew my socks off at the time and has probably influenced my musical taste to this day. I still wish I had a copy of the US version with Virgina Plain on rather than the UK one.
I was gutted when eno left (but you have to hand it to anyone who can claim to have left a band to 'go and play a recording studio') and the slide into mediocraty started. Still like a lot of Eno's stuff but Roxy Music welll zzzzzzzzzzzz....