POX - Roxy Music

Editions Of You
Virginia Plain
Mother Of Pearl
Just Another High
If There Was Something
All I Want Is You
Do The Strand
Both Ends Burning
Manifesto
Re-Make/Re-Model

And you unashamedly love Limp Bizkit. Why do you insist on Mama Celeste's frozen pizza when you could be spending your time with imported prosciutto? ;-)

anyway, just look at the rolling stones pox thread and copy and paste my hilarious bit of foolishness to this thread

I WILL HAVE MY SAY. Oh wait I did.

Like Dave Q, I recognize this being an impossible task, so I will not attempt it unless I go full hog.

i agree with dave: this particular pox is an impossible task

A very 1979-82 dominated list this (and also a very singles dominated one, as they knew how to pick the best tracks for single release)

1. “Just Another High”
2. “2HB” (Let’s Stick Together Version)
3. “Mother of Pearl”
4. “Amazona”
5. “Casanova” (Let’s Stick version)
6. “If There is Something” (Viva! version)
7. “Prairie Rose”
8. “Avalon”
9. “Manifesto” (12-inch version)
10. “Street Life”

Siren, like Flesh + Blood = seriously underrated.

And list is impossible, but "End of the Line/Sentimental Fool" = same thing.

His answer: "Roxy Music."

My further inquiry, "Wow, this sounds a lot different than the stuff my girlfriend plays. Did they change a lot?"

His further answer: "Not really."

I asked no more, but the stuff he had on in the store sounded like wonderful, watery stoner rock from the 70s, but not over-the-top with psyche feedbacky noise. I probably would really like RM if I knew what to buy.

One school says Siren is the beginning of the end, and I see where they're coming from--enter the masseuse--but it's still a great album, and viewed another way their best (most crystallized, least self-indulgent, the Ferry persona in sharpest focus, etc). Most days I'd probably be boring and vote for one of the first three, but even then Siren'd be right on its heels.

There's certainly a dropoff after; post-Siren is indeed about a bunch of singles--or being otherwise, uh, occupied and not really caring about the highly listenable filler in the 'space between' (sorry)--but there are a lot of good ones. Flesh + Blood is actually choked with 'hits,' and then there's "Angel Eyes," "Dance Away," "More Than This," "The Main Thing," "My Only Love," "Jealous Guy" ... then "Still Falls the Rain," "Ain't That So," "While My Heart is Still Beating" ...

Sigh. It is completely impossible. I'm just getting to the b-list. Even their lamest stuff is pretty good.

JUST ONE SONG. JUST ONE ROXY MUSIC SONG OUT OF THE HUGE PILE THEY RECORDED THROUGHOUT THEIR EXISTENCE.

Oh my God, and don't even get me started on Bryan Ferry. I would never be able to recover.

Five-way tie for last. (Or POXIV.)

Re-make/Re-model
For Your Pleasure
Ladytron
Virginia Plain
Editions of You
Out of the Blue
Both Ends Burning (Viva! version of course)
Mother of Pearl
Avalon
Do The Strand

but yeah, Siren is extraodinary (but then everything else is too, right through to "Same Old Scene" (Flesh + Blood, the last good record of their's for me).

i think "Love is the Drug" is un-characteristic and chart-oriented, so i'm unsuprised at its lack of inclusion. "Do the Strand" has always had me bored as a tune too. "Out of the Blue" + Siren (excluding that first track), is that X ?

Ten favorite Roxy songs?

1) Mother of Pearl
2) Casanova
3) Just Like You
4) Space Between
5) Editions of You
6) To Turn You On
7) The Main Thing
8) Love is the Drug
9) The Thrill Of It All
10) Streetlife

"Ladytron"
"If There Is Something"
"2HB"
"Virginia Plain"
"Editions Of You"
"In Every Dream Home A Heartache"
"For Your Pleasure"
"Mother Of Pearl"
"Love Is The Drug"
"More Than This"

(I will buy the Dave Q Roxy song-by-song breakdown, if he ever writes it!)

Songs I like: These Foolish Things, Dance Away the Heartache, Virginia Plain, Angel Eyes. Well, I kinda think I could get into them but as I say, I'm pretty new to them despite the fact I was exposed to them a lot as a kid.

Remake/Remodel
Pyjamarama
Editions of You
The Thrill Of It All
Virginia Plain
Ladytron
Same Old Scene
Jealous Guy cover from live EP
More Than This
Out of the Blue