COUNTRY LIFE POLL

such a solid album. doesn't quite touch the peaks of the first three records at any point,

Disagree, especially when "All I Want is You" is playing.

sw00ds and I discuss Country Life (and Another Time and Place) here:

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/audiovisual/soto-woods-roxy-ferry-006.mp3

sometimes my second fave roxy (which is saying ALOT), never less than fourth

gonna listen to this when I get home, thanks ILM!

One way I think about how to rate the first five Roxy albums is to think about "The Bob" vs. "The Bogus Man" vs. "A Song For Europe" vs. "Triptych" vs. "She Sells", e.g. side 2 tracks that veer on being filler. fwiw I rate them "Triptych" > "A Song For Europe" >> "The Bogus Man" > "She Sells" >>>>>> "The Bob".

actually I think most of side 2 of the first Roxy album is filler-ish---is that a challop?

Nope -- their most boring side.

As many stunning moments as the first two albums boast, the post-Eno albums are the most exciting.

absolutely agree

Side 2 of For Your Pleasure is better than side 2 of the debut but it pales in comparison to side 2 on the next three albums.

i should play this for the second time tonight because of this revival.

So I wrote a thing.

http://thequietus.com/articles/16514-roxy-music-country-life-anniversary-review

"Our man from the Orange County, Ned Raggett casts his American eye over another British classic"

Would be hilarious if you walked around dropping Orange County the way Robert Plant drops Black Country. "As a lad in the Orange County, I will always have one foot on the land and a toe in the ocean," said Raggett, wistfully eyeing the surf as he draws on a frothy mug of beer at his favorite beachside dive."

A more unlikely combination of words describing my past and current situation I could not begin to imagine.

I'm sure someone else will happily be a combination of Doc Sportello and Jonathan Franzen, though.

Astounding to me that the Roxy camp tends to underrate this album out of the original five. Eno (diplomatically) likes "Stranded" best. Ferry likes "For Your Pleasure." "Siren" obviously had the big US hit. The first was important. But "Country Life" they never talk about, despite it being front to back awesome.

I know the title references the staid magazine, but I always thought there was some Shakespearian naughty wordplay going on there, same as Eno invoking "country joys" in "Seven Deadly Finns." "Oh, the French girls with their strings of pearls/Think it's such a burning shame /That the local boys with their country joys/Never make them daisy chains."

it really is "Out Of The Blue" but this whole album is so awesome.

Casanova too low.

Scott otm

YOU THE HERO

People would have to invent a thousand bands and multiple sub-genres just to deal with what was going on in any one song on this album. The whole second side is just.....yeesh. I probably love "A Really Good Time" and "Prairie Rose" as much as OOTB but OOTB's insane deep dub phasing Mahavishnu rock is some sorta landmark in invention.

I stand by my comments of 8 (geez, time flies) years ago.

Prairie Rose 4EVA

A Really Good Time is way too low

I can't believe 'Casanova' only got one vote... it's one of my favourite tracks on here!

Would have voted 'Out of the Blue', though.

Yes, "Casanova" is great, I remember almost voting for it, fat lot of good that did.