Loving your reactions to the Roxy Music tracks. Picking up on other comments their first 5 studio albums released from 1972 to 1975 are in my opinion their best with the classic line up of Ferry, Mackay, Thompson, Manzanera and Eno/Jobson. Not forgetting John Gustafson who played bass on the albums Stranded, Country Life and Siren. So many stand out tracks from these 5 albums and for me Ferry’s lyrics were second to none taking you on so many emotional journeys. The live album released in 1976 is also a fantastic album. They were always a popular band here in the UK and made a big impression on an 11 year old watching them on TV back in 1973 in London. 48 years later I am still playing their albums and have introduced my children to the wonders of early Roxy Music. Once The Great Paul Thompson (TGPT) left I felt they had lost that pulsating rhythm that he brought to their music. Keep on enjoying their music and I look forward to watching your next Roxy review. Great stuff. 👍🏽
Roxy Music has been one of those gifts that keep giving for us so far. just haven't heard a bad song yet. Crossing my fingers that doesn't happen, as there will be more Roxy reactions to come. - Greg
As far as I'm concerned John Gustafson was an official member of Roxy Music,and should have been inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame along with the rest of the guys. And it's great that you acknowledged his and Paul Thompson's contributions. I remember reading somewhere that one of the reasons Paul said he left was that he felt that Roxy Music were beginning to play it too safe musically.
If memory serves this was written for a German movie in which an extremely rich guy can't get a relationship with a women and falls in love with his inflatable doll and he gets so depressed he ends up trying to drown himself and his beloved inflatable doll in the swimming pool of one of his homes, he of course drowns but his breath was inside her. That's the story that came out about the the same time the song did, almost 50 years ago and I never did see the movie but I never was much of a European movie fan being English I stuck to British and some American films.
Probably the best from this LP for a first listen would be Beauty Queen. It’s about love that never really takes off, with the girl (Valerie) being base loosely on Valerie Leon, Marilyn Monroe and the girl next door. It brings together the sounds of the future and mixes it with very traditional rock and roll. It’s still sounds like it is coming from the future.
This is building towards something 🤣 the understatement of all time. This song is uniquely crafted with the most eerie, tense and tragic lyrics Ferry came up with. That sonic crescendo of noise , the fade out and fade back is so good
I burst onto my sisters bedroom when i was 13yrs old and i shouted what the fuck is this.... it was IF THERE IS SOMETHING by Roxy she said it's a new group Roxy Music fella called Bryan Ferry... I've still got that album. I've been listening them and him ever since. Roxy Music fan fuckin tactic, a great band and Bryan Ferry, the coolest man in music. So if you have just discovered them and him, get on the ride you've discovered a great British band.
Roxy Music was truly an artist’s band. The landscapes and images they invoke to the listener is high art. Totally underrated in the US. But I’m thankful the person who exposed me to Roxy about 15 years ago. I fell in love from that moment on. Class band!
Great stuff guys! But you really do need to start at the ROXY ' beginning ', with RE-MAKE, RE-MODEL from the very first album. It sets the scene for what this unique and amazing band were all about.... 'till commercialism reared it's ugly head, '79 onwards ;-)
Bryan Ferry was taught art at university by Richard Hamilton, a famous British pop artist. Ferry’s idea with Roxy artistically was to transfer the visual art form of a collage to music. Each aspect of the first 4 LP’s can be seen in this manner. That being, the phases and tempo changes of the songs, individual songs themselves within an LP, what seem like throwaway lyrics, the look of the band, the LP covers are all just pieces or fragments of collage material put together to make something new.
This is not the kind of song most people react to, but certainly one of my favorites from Roxy. Ferry can be serious and ridiculously ironic at the same time. How 'bout "Do the Strand"
If you do live music google Roxy Music Musikladen, it’s a German music TV show. Roxy were on 3 times, done about a dozen songs in all. All played live, simply fantastic performances. Re-make/ Re-model, pyjamarama, Amazona, Psalm and Out of the Blue are top notch. (Mother of Pearl may be the best one)
This song to me tells of no matter how rich or poor you are the same things that are wrong or right goes on in every house, and how they are perfect outwardly but behind closed doors no one is as perfect as they try to be,a plastic celluloid surface but are really just a show...
After thinking about it, I wonder if Peter Gabriel was influenced by this song for “Intruder”. It starts extremely eerie and builds to a crazy crescendo.
I'm glad you waited until the end, for the 'encore'....a lot of people would have probably missed that 😅as well as knowing the whole song was a 'build up' - you are very perceptive. 😅 That 'knowing smile'. Ferry was so innovative in so many ways...surprises round almost every corner. I hope you will do a review of the title track - For your pleasure. Paul Thompson (drums) holds so many of these tracks together, with his 'restrained, urgent drumming' (I stole that reference from a well-respected music publication from some 40 years ago, because it holds true. Ferry was an incredibly clever songwriter - especially in the early Roxy years, the first 5 albums....and a lot of his strength, in my opinion, was due to his ability to write lyrics that didn't 'rhyme', like so many 'pop' songs of today feel the need to do. Loving your channel btw
Great reaction guys, I’ve been waiting for this one! One of their best songs, Roxy could be arty, psychedelic, demented and revolutionary all in one song! Keep up the great work, I would recommend Both Ends burning, pajamarama, editions of you, The thrill of it all, for a few more. I would say that both of you need to check out Brian Eno’ s Here Comes the Warm jets, not a bad song on it, but Baby’s on Fire is the masterpiece to discover. Robert Fripp, tears it up, maybe his best guitar solo ever!
Modern life brings about an emotional detachment and this is about how humans can fail to connect. The song focusses on the heartache of getting any emotional response from the doll even going as far to say it's ungrateful. He longs for the company of a woman, he has everything in terms of luxury but emotionally he's reduced to screwing a blow-up vinyl doll......desperate stuff! I heard it first on a reel-to-reel tape when I was still a schoolkid in the mid '70s - blew my mind (just like in the lyrics).....!
Another possible video from Roxy Music, there's a 1974 performance of Pajamarama that has appeared on TH-cam - I think it's better than the studio version and the band at their early best :)
Try 'Here comes Bob' from Sparks 'A Woofer in Tweeters Clothing' though most tracks on there are worth a listen - but I'd be intersted in your views :)
Don’t want to be ‘that guy’ but I heard this on the film ‘The Gentleman’ and I don’t think I’ve ever been hit so hard with amazement at a record, VERY powerful. If anyone reading this could point me in the right directions to tracks similar then please do throw me some suggestions, thanks.
The genius of this deeply disturbing masterpiece is the lyrics are so ambiguous they can mean whatever you want them to mean depending on how mentally stable you are
Funny you ask this. I guess you know they're touring around here soon? I just saw a commercial for it the other day. I would love to if I can. Kids going to college first year in fall. Amazing how much of my time already booked.
You know guys love your reactions and I love Roxy Music.. BUT that one never hit me at all, I never liked it at all even knowing its a Prog Masterpiece... All credits to Roxy, but I will always prefer Seabreezes...and I never get it why People think the whole Avalon Album is considered as Easy listening... I will never agree to that
Thank you! Appreciate your perspective. Yeah, this one I can see not being for everyone's taste, including some Roxy fans. But I love their creativity. Love also Ferry's inflections, which he does so well again here. Putting the song Avalon to the side, which Chris and I know all too well, give us a song from that album that you feel is a must listen, and we'll look into doing it down the road. Thanks. - Greg
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Pure Roxy decadence. Gorgeous simmering pleasure.
My favorite roxy music song
I wish Eno and Roxy did more together
The phrase "my breath is inside you" is so intense.
I heard this on Mindhunter, ended up enjoying the whole album.
Loving your reactions to the Roxy Music tracks. Picking up on other comments their first 5 studio albums released from 1972 to 1975 are in my opinion their best with the classic line up of Ferry, Mackay, Thompson, Manzanera and Eno/Jobson. Not forgetting John Gustafson who played bass on the albums Stranded, Country Life and Siren. So many stand out tracks from these 5 albums and for me Ferry’s lyrics were second to none taking you on so many emotional journeys. The live album released in 1976 is also a fantastic album. They were always a popular band here in the UK and made a big impression on an 11 year old watching them on TV back in 1973 in London. 48 years later I am still playing their albums and have introduced my children to the wonders of early Roxy Music. Once The Great Paul Thompson (TGPT) left I felt they had lost that pulsating rhythm that he brought to their music. Keep on enjoying their music and I look forward to watching your next Roxy review. Great stuff. 👍🏽
Roxy Music has been one of those gifts that keep giving for us so far. just haven't heard a bad song yet. Crossing my fingers that doesn't happen, as there will be more Roxy reactions to come. - Greg
As far as I'm concerned John Gustafson was an official member of Roxy Music,and should have been inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame along with the rest of the guys. And it's great that you acknowledged his and Paul Thompson's contributions. I remember reading somewhere that one of the reasons Paul said he left was that he felt that Roxy Music were beginning to play it too safe musically.
Magical track for the Roxy die hards🙋♀️
my absolute favorite Roxy track
If memory serves this was written for a German movie in which an extremely rich guy can't get a relationship with a women and falls in love with his inflatable doll and he gets so depressed he ends up trying to drown himself and his beloved inflatable doll in the swimming pool of one of his homes, he of course drowns but his breath was inside her. That's the story that came out about the the same time the song did, almost 50 years ago and I never did see the movie but I never was much of a European movie fan being English I stuck to British and some American films.
Beauty Queen is beautiful!!
Saw them perform this live in 1973, when they were on their For Your Pleasure tour - totally amazing!
A dystopian love song to a sex doll floating in a high rise building pool
Probably the best from this LP for a first listen would be Beauty Queen. It’s about love that never really takes off, with the girl (Valerie) being base loosely on Valerie Leon, Marilyn Monroe and the girl next door. It brings together the sounds of the future and mixes it with very traditional rock and roll. It’s still sounds like it is coming from the future.
This is building towards something 🤣 the understatement of all time. This song is uniquely crafted with the most eerie, tense and tragic lyrics Ferry came up with. That sonic crescendo of noise , the fade out and fade back is so good
I burst onto my sisters bedroom when i was 13yrs old and i shouted what the fuck is this.... it was IF THERE IS SOMETHING by Roxy she said it's a new group Roxy Music fella called Bryan Ferry... I've still got that album. I've been listening them and him ever since. Roxy Music fan fuckin tactic, a great band and Bryan Ferry, the coolest man in music. So if you have just discovered them and him, get on the ride you've discovered a great British band.
Roxy Music was truly an artist’s band. The landscapes and images they invoke to the listener is high art.
Totally underrated in the US. But I’m thankful the person who exposed me to Roxy about 15 years ago. I fell in love from that moment on.
Class band!
Thanks, Danelle!
Great stuff guys! But you really do need to start at the ROXY ' beginning ', with RE-MAKE, RE-MODEL from the very first album. It sets the scene for what this unique and amazing band were all about.... 'till commercialism reared it's ugly head, '79 onwards ;-)
Bryan Ferry was taught art at university by Richard Hamilton, a famous British pop artist. Ferry’s idea with Roxy artistically was to transfer the visual art form of a collage to music. Each aspect of the first 4 LP’s can be seen in this manner. That being, the phases and tempo changes of the songs, individual songs themselves within an LP, what seem like throwaway lyrics, the look of the band, the LP covers are all just pieces or fragments of collage material put together to make something new.
Hamilton was way ahead of his time and way ahead of Warhol.
This is not the kind of song most people react to, but certainly one of my favorites from Roxy. Ferry can be serious and ridiculously ironic at the same time. How 'bout "Do the Strand"
It was FERRY'S baby, It was a great band, but Bryans a genius, liswten to Spin Me Round, where he tells you how it feels to be a juke box : )
Thanks to reacting to a suggestion of mine 👌 loving the channel
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Absolutely love your ~Roxy reviews. Do more. Great channel. Subscribed
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I have their debut album signed by original drummer Paul Thompson! pretty scarce.
C.P.
If you do live music google Roxy Music Musikladen, it’s a German music TV show. Roxy were on 3 times, done about a dozen songs in all. All played live, simply fantastic performances. Re-make/ Re-model, pyjamarama, Amazona, Psalm and Out of the Blue are top notch. (Mother of Pearl may be the best one)
This song as well as the Doors, Iggy Pop and a few others was instrumental in the development of Goth Rock.
Bryan Ferry instructed the band to play a psychedelic part for the ending.
This song to me tells of no matter how rich or poor you are the same things that are wrong or right goes on in every house, and how they are perfect outwardly but behind closed doors no one is as perfect as they try to be,a plastic celluloid surface but are really just a show...
Do The Thrill Of It All--Roxy Music next please.
Pure art
Such a great song.. This song was brilliantly used recently in the creepy opening scene of the second season of Mindhunter. Good reaction chaps 👍
David Lynch the director has made a career exploring the themes of this song. None of us really knows what goes on behind the picket fences.
They Actually Performed This On A Show Like Top Of The Pops Once
After thinking about it, I wonder if Peter Gabriel was influenced by this song for “Intruder”. It starts extremely eerie and builds to a crazy crescendo.
I'm glad you waited until the end, for the 'encore'....a lot of people would have probably missed that 😅as well as knowing the whole song was a 'build up' - you are very perceptive. 😅 That 'knowing smile'. Ferry was so innovative in so many ways...surprises round almost every corner. I hope you will do a review of the title track - For your pleasure. Paul Thompson (drums) holds so many of these tracks together, with his 'restrained, urgent drumming' (I stole that reference from a well-respected music publication from some 40 years ago, because it holds true. Ferry was an incredibly clever songwriter - especially in the early Roxy years, the first 5 albums....and a lot of his strength, in my opinion, was due to his ability to write lyrics that didn't 'rhyme', like so many 'pop' songs of today feel the need to do. Loving your channel btw
Great input! And thanks for the compliment. More Roxy Music to come!
Great reaction guys, I’ve been waiting for this one! One of their best songs, Roxy could be arty, psychedelic, demented and revolutionary all in one song! Keep up the great work, I would recommend Both Ends burning, pajamarama, editions of you, The thrill of it all, for a few more. I would say that both of you need to check out Brian Eno’ s Here Comes the Warm jets, not a bad song on it, but Baby’s on Fire is the masterpiece to discover. Robert Fripp, tears it up, maybe his best guitar solo ever!
Modern life brings about an emotional detachment and this is about how humans can fail to connect. The song focusses on the heartache of getting any emotional response from the doll even going as far to say it's ungrateful. He longs for the company of a woman, he has everything in terms of luxury but emotionally he's reduced to screwing a blow-up vinyl doll......desperate stuff! I heard it first on a reel-to-reel tape when I was still a schoolkid in the mid '70s - blew my mind (just like in the lyrics).....!
Can you tell me where I can find that wavy For Your Pleasure background please. Cheers.
Do Amazona next please / cast iron guarantee that you won’t regret it x
True I love Amazona
Another possible video from Roxy Music, there's a 1974 performance of Pajamarama that has appeared on TH-cam - I think it's better than the studio version and the band at their early best :)
Try 'Here comes Bob' from Sparks 'A Woofer in Tweeters Clothing' though most tracks on there are worth a listen - but I'd be intersted in your views :)
Grey Lagoons
Don’t want to be ‘that guy’ but I heard this on the film ‘The Gentleman’ and I don’t think I’ve ever been hit so hard with amazement at a record, VERY powerful. If anyone reading this could point me in the right directions to tracks similar then please do throw me some suggestions, thanks.
I’m Thinking They Better Keep Inflatable Doll Away From Brian Eno’sPaw Paw Blowtorch
The genius of this deeply disturbing masterpiece is the lyrics are so ambiguous they can mean whatever you want them to mean depending on how mentally stable you are
. . . or. . . unstable
It doesn't sound like early 70s stuff at all
Are you going to see Roxy Chaps?
Funny you ask this. I guess you know they're touring around here soon? I just saw a commercial for it the other day. I would love to if I can. Kids going to college first year in fall. Amazing how much of my time already booked.
The first five Roxy albums were great, but they got too cheesy/MOR after Siren for my taste.
Have a look at Avalon by Roxy. Its smoother, slicker but has the most amazing ending.
Name me a better song about a lonely rich guy and his blow-up companion.... I'll wait!
You know guys love your reactions and I love Roxy Music.. BUT that one never hit me at all, I never liked it at all even knowing its a Prog Masterpiece... All credits to Roxy, but I will always prefer Seabreezes...and I never get it why People think the whole Avalon Album is considered as Easy listening... I will never agree to that
Thank you! Appreciate your perspective. Yeah, this one I can see not being for everyone's taste, including some Roxy fans. But I love their creativity. Love also Ferry's inflections, which he does so well again here. Putting the song Avalon to the side, which Chris and I know all too well, give us a song from that album that you feel is a must listen, and we'll look into doing it down the road. Thanks. - Greg
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