Search: Jane Suck's Sounds 5 Nov 77 review of the first Roxy compilation. "You can't even take the cover of 'this' to the bathroom — a photograph of a gold record and Jerry Hall's eyebrow. Big thrill!!... What I'm getting at is you just cannot take Roxy Music songs out of context. The albums themselves were like walking a tightrope. 'Greatest Hits' is just one Godalmighty safety net. My advice, dear, buy the re-released 'Virginia Plain/Pyjamarama', hock your tuxedo and get the collected works." I don't know if Jane Jackman's even still alive, but in those days she was wrong about nothing.
Paul Thompson is my favourite mid-70s drummer, even (just) ahead of Slade's Don Powell and the Meters' Zig Modeliste.
Search also: Bryan's solo single 1978 "Sign of the Times"...
― mark s, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
i started out with the greatest hits cd, which i didn't feel AT ALL. so then i tried albums, because i saw that many called c.l. the best roxy album and none of the tracks on it had made the g.h. it's one of the few albums i bought twice (and, indeed, it kept me from buying tigermilk for fear of looking like a perv - - should i be grateful?) and from there i bought all of the "classic" albums. i love all of the incarnations, even the smooch-pop of avalon (how cool is "to turn you on"? very.) oh, but you do need the greatest hits because where else will you get their cover of "jealous guy," which gives the song the balls it should've, could've had, if yoko didn't have lennon's in her pocket.
so, yeah, classic. but not classic enough for me to spend $75 for nosebleed seats at the reunion show. no band or deity is that classic.
― fred solinger, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Kim, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― the real life of sebastian knight, Tuesday, 5 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mike Hanley, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Stevo, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― duane zarakov, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I don't have this
― Dr. C, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
That said, I still am not going to see them in concert this summer. I would have paid that kind of money to see the 70's version of Roxy Music, but now? Eh.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Kim, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― matthew james, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Also, I saw them at Radio City Music Hall at age 13, and am thrilled to have 8th row tickets to see them this summer!
― Sean, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Speaking of which - Fred? You still there? What do I think about Amnesiac? You see that last paragraph in the thread? That was me, that was.
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― fred solinger, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
More to the point, I wish I had been 16 when Amnesiac came out. As much as one tries to keep up, the instinct becomes blunted by the overburdened baggage of underused knowledge. These days I just try to be happy.
― Omar, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― david p, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― sadie moore, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Their first proper album is absolutely smashing, but the second ("For Your Pleasure") - Christ, it's still amazing, nearly 30 years on.
Even with Eddie Jobson subbing for Eno, "Stranded" smoked. "Country Life" was very solid, but cracks were beginning to appear in their carefully manicured facade.
Roxy died with "Siren" - it's almost wholly disposable. They bounced back "Viva!," an unexpectedly powerful live compilation. "Manifesto" was quite good, but after that... I just couldn't be bothered.
Download disc five from "The Thrill of It All" - their early B-sides are brilliant...
Happy Holidays,
Laura N.
― Laura N., Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― cbl593h, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
So anyway, I have found the courage to stand up and say "I think Roxy are balderdash" but by the same token, I feel like I'd quite like to like them, even though I think Ferry is a slimy old lounge lizard with about as much style as brownshirt. And Eno is overrated, although I quite like that Music for Airports stuff.
Anyway, I have this nagging feeling that Roxy might be really good but I just can't quite seem to feel it. I had that Greatest Hits package one time and like the guy up there said, it utterly failed to make a dint in my consciousness.
Why do Roxy fans like Roxy when it seems to me that they're clearly not very good? Can anyone help?
― Roger fascist, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― David, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Roger Fascist, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jeff W, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 11 November 2002 00:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio, Monday, 11 November 2002 01:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 11 November 2002 09:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
For Your Pleasure is pretty much my favourite album by anyone, but the first five are all essential. Remake/Remodel, Ladytron, In every Dream Home, Mother of Pearl, Love is the Drug, Both Ends Burning, Virginia Plain, Editions of you. It doesn't get any better than this.
I dislike intensely they way that some people see Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music as synonymous, but I do like a lot of his solo stuff as well. Particularly Bride Stripped Bare.
I'll buy pretty much anything associated with Roxy, no matter how ropey (Rock Follies!), but apart from the obvious Eno stuff, Diamond Head by Phil Manzanera is well worth getting.
― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 11 November 2002 10:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Friday, 26 December 2003 05:17 (twenty years ago) link
― dan (dan), Friday, 26 December 2003 05:24 (twenty years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 26 December 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 27 December 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 27 December 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 27 December 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 27 December 2003 14:53 (twenty years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 28 December 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 13 March 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
That would be "In Every Dream Home A Heartache", off For Your Pleasure. -- Patrick (cal...@...), June 5th, 2001 12:00 AM. (link)
...it's actually about an inflatable doll, but I assume that's the song you're talking about. -- Patrick (cal...@...), June 5th, 2001 12:00 AM. (link)
Great response but I think the song in question is Beauty Queen off For Your Pleasure as well though. It has those great shaky keyboards which are all over that album and the second verse is:
oooh the way you lookmakes my starry eyes shiverthen I look awaytoo much for one day
That album really delivers what its title promises.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually $55 now that I'm checking, but they really suck.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 14:49 (two years ago) link
this is in Turonno
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 14:50 (two years ago) link
DC has $55 nosebleed tickets too
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
I'm going! Tickets at the brand new Moody Center in Austin were $135 + fees for dead center mezzanine level.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
so what y'all are saying is that you wouldn't pay 92.25 for nosebleed tix
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 15:14 (two years ago) link
I got 4 tix for $110 apiece at the TD Garden in Boston in the loge on the side (I purposely ignored how awful the fees were). That felt ... reasonable.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 15:44 (two years ago) link
x-post re nosebleed seats - maybe I would pay that (but decided to splurge for more expensive ones)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link
I'm going to O2 and The Forum lol!
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
If I was sitting in the nosebleeds, I would go for $55 because you're really not gaining ANYTHING from the distance achieved at the $92.25 level. To put it in perspective, I saw Elton John at the cheapest seats, and I don't think it was any different than the low level seats I passed to get to mine because in both cases, Elton was tiny and the screen behind him (what I basically stared at the whole time) was enormous.
So it's either cheapest possible for nosebleeds or a decent but much more expensive seat in the lower tiers or floor.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link
Like Naive Teen Idol said, for less than $20 more, you can get a whole lot closer than nosebleeds, but for half the price, you probably can't tell much of a difference when you're already that far up.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
Or rather based on the numbers he gave for the seats he got.
I paid an extra $40 per ticket for the Phil Manzanera VR experience, you stand in the concourse and see a video feed of the entire show through his sunglasses.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
lol
― peace, man, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:29 (two years ago) link
irl lol f. hazel
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
fuck it, just coughed up $150
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
Only going to go to this if Paul Thompson is on drums.
― The Central Rockaliser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:12 (two years ago) link
it is
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:24 (two years ago) link
It's basically the classic line-up, but not the first iteration with Brian Eno. I didn't think Eno would join, but Jesus I would've splurged for the $300 seats if he did...
― birdistheword, Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:28 (two years ago) link
i suppose it's possible he might pop into a London show but I wouldn't count on it (more likely, he may go to the show and not perform, ala Gabriel at the last Genesis gig)
― akm, Thursday, 31 March 2022 13:32 (two years ago) link
the 2001 Roxy show I saw is by far the best “reformed band plays back catalogue” show i have seen - and i have probably seen too many - they were so good! i went as a casual listener and left a devoted fan
saw Ferry a few years back and found it a bit disappointing - he was cool but i found his band a bit underwhelming, i was hoping for a hyper-drilled unit of young guns recreating the studio sheen of his best solo stuff - but it just felt a bit tired and session-y
I remember at the 2011 (?) Roxy shows there was meant to be a bit of tension re Bryan wanting to fold his solo hits into the setlist, and the band resisting - i think they played Let’s Stick Together as a compromise - i certainly would have been outraged if the show i saw had ended with that instead of For Your Pleasure, it was a perfect way to close out a show
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 31 March 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link
Wonder if that was the tour I saw in the little theater at MSG with Rufus Wainwright opening.
― Never Mind the ILX, Here's the Blecch Pistols (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 March 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
If you mean 2001, yes.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 31 March 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
when was the last time eno was even on stage performing for a crowd?
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 31 March 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
Singing with Stephen Colbert and Michael Stipe in 2011?
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 31 March 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
I did not know this existed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_72UC9npjg
― birdistheword, Thursday, 31 March 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
xxp I guess in 2016?
https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/brian-eno-3bd6a03c.html
― birdistheword, Thursday, 31 March 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
i saw Eno perform live in 2009 - it was an event called Pure Scenius, a live semi-improvised collaboration with Karl Hyde, Jon Hopkins, The Necks, Leo Abrahams maybe some other people i've forgotten about! there were three concerts in one evening, with Eno directing the course of each improvisation from a little control station onstage (and very occasionally singing and playing a bit of keyboard). if it wasn't quite as good as it could have been, there were definite highlights and felt like a legitimate way to "see Eno live" - ambitious and interesting, rather than just a trad live show.
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 31 March 2022 23:14 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDs70rPj36A
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 31 March 2022 23:28 (two years ago) link
Well, went for tickets for SF so bring on the stately chaos, if you will.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 April 2022 17:06 (two years ago) link
I believe Eno did something live with his brother in the past six months in Athens.
― akm, Monday, 4 April 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
Yes, at the Acropolis last August:https://vk.com/video/@brianeno
― doug watson, Monday, 4 April 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
Just noticed that the link works on my desktop but not my phone, where I'm prompted to register.
― doug watson, Monday, 4 April 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
youtube-dl works on that link if anyone wants to d/l for later.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 4 April 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
I briefly thought that Eno Bros at the Acropolis concert was for this summer and contemplated taking my family to Greece. I’m glad I checked. 😬
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 14 April 2022 12:08 (two years ago) link
hell....yes
https://i.imgur.com/zqHLGph.jpeg
― frogbs, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:58 (five months ago) link
The Brie Of It All
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 19 April 2024 19:03 (five months ago) link