"Roxy Music" vs. "For Your Pleasure"

FYP by a mile

dream home vs if there is something
bogus man vs sea breezes

^^^this is what is sorta comes down to for me

actually wtf am i chatting, of course FYP is better

no shit it ISN'T

but i voted FYP

actually it probably is, but not clear-cut at all

enlightening music discussion

reynolds takes the dullard view that because eno is on them, the first two are best, and because the title track on 'fyp' is kind of eno-y, it's the best song. (because eno is a modernist working in a pop band, he must be a good thing, goes the theory.) obviously they improved after eno left.

anyway, do we weigh 'virginia plain' in the balance? wasn't on the original version of the elpee.

First half of RM beats the first half of FYP, but the second half of FYP beats the second half of RM.

Stranded beats both I think.

FYP all the way.

I've always thought one day I'd have this "A-Ha!" moment about FYP and it still hasn't happened yet.

Preferring "For Your Pleasure". My fave out of the first four (the next four all being better).

Hmmm. I seem to be in the minority. It could be a case of which one you hear first, but RM seems a much more complete, satisfying album. It's more loose and free whereas FYP at its weakest has a certain formulaic flavour to it. What do the FYPophiles view as the source of its superiority?

Can I say draw? No album with "Do The Strand," "Editions of You," "Strictly Confidential," and "In Every Dream Home A Heartache" is a dud, but after 17 years I still have no use for "The Bogus Man" and the title track, and "Grey Lagoons" is filler. I feel the same about "The Bob," "Would You Believe?" and "Sea Breezes."

Yeah I'm having second thoughts now. RM is proggier and more unpredictable, certainly. It has more musical variation and more experimentation. I voted for FYP because...because the sequencing is much, much sounder, I guess, fewer loose ends (i.e. none whatsoever) and because it can be listened to and appreciated as an album far more readily. This is very un-me, but FYP DOES have "in every dream home" and "the bogus man" and "for your pleasure" and "editions of you" to its credit, which sound a little more confident, musically coherent and effective than equivalent tracks on the first record.

As I said on the other thread, "Sea Breezes" is a masterpiece and I will defend it to death. Probably RM's best song.

I prefer the version on Let's Stick Together!

Oh yeh "Strictly Confidential" is brilliant as well

"Sea Breezes" is mentalist brilliance.

"Do The Strand" is of course unimpeachable, but that barely requires saying.

Well, exactly. Even the unremarkable FYP tracks are brilliantly-constructed pop songs.

Really surprised I didn't vote for mentalist brilliance but then the first album betrays a vulnerability FYP doesn't have. I dunno. I listen to FYP more than RM and individual tracks from RM more than individual tracks from FYP.

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I've never warmed to Roxy Music -- yes, we can celebrate the genius that it wrought, but as an album, it's dry, often abrasive and definitively annoying. And honestly, I'm with Al: every version on Let's Stick Together is superior to those on the debut, excepting "Re-make/Re-model."

"Grey Lagoons" may be filler, but it has a fucking BLAZING harp solo.

So...For Your Pleasure

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Fair enough.

Reassured by the narrow margin, but wrongness has still won out.

That sounds like a lyric Eno might have written for Taking Tiger Mountain.

wrongness has won out

Sorta regretting my vote even more now.

Among other things, we're sure.