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Roxy Music Discography3/25/2021
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Server time: 25 Aug 2020 10:54:25 CET. And to that I always suggest to listeners that they should save the songs that ride best in their own back pockets and create their a personal compilation. The cover shows Bryan Ferry s then girlfriend and 1973 Playmate of the Year, Marilyn Cole. It was the first Roxy Music album on which Ferry was not the sole songwriter as multi-instrumentalist Andy Mackay and guitarist Phil Manzanera also contributed to the album. Though it was also the first without Brian Eno, who had left the group after For Your Pleasure, Eno nonetheless later rated it as Roxy Musics finest record. Despite this praise, the album only reached number 186 in the Top Pop Albums charts in the US. The track Street Life was released as a single and reached number 9 on the UK charts. The gatefold cover photograph was taken by Karl Stoecker and styled by Antony Price. A German version (87 369 IT) has a lyric sleeve with white lettering on black. First, the colours in ROXY MUSIC on the front are reversed - red on yellow instead of yellow on red. ![]() An Italian version (ILPS 19252) has a lyric sleeve with black lettering on white. ![]() Eddie Jobson comes in and fills the gap left by Eno and makes a really good fist of things. Eno himself has gone on record to declare this his favourite Roxy album even though hes not on it. Interestingly Johnny Gustafson on bass fails to make the pictures of the individual band members on the inner cover; conspiracy theory, or what. Roxy Music has been unable to cross the Atlantic so far, but that should change with this album. Stranded is one of the most exciting and entertaining British LPs of the Seventies. At this same time, another magazine said, Andy MacKay, whose searing sax made Mott the Hooples All The Way From Memphis an American favorite, has written the tune for A Song For Europe, the most impressive track on the album, an awesome example of self-disciplined hard rock. Yet it was unconventional songs like this that the rags would later cite at too arty, too progressive, cumbersome, and failing in their nature to define a cohesive album. And that just about sums up where the world at large stood with Roxy Music loving the accessible material and hating the experimental more heavy, nearly instrumental aspects. It was 1973, the woman on the cover of Stranded was Brian Ferrys girlfriend Marilyn Cole, playmate model of the year, with this being the first Roxy album where Ferry was not the solo creator of all of the material. Yet even without the presence of Mr. Eno, this was a solid body of work, a change in style certainly, yet still, all of the members seem assured of themselves and their tasks, creating another dialectic album infused with juxtapositions, with Brian Eno saying that Stranded was his personal favorite Roxy album, even if hed not taken part. Take the bouncy innovative sound of Street Life, smack that up against the risk taking soundscape of the epic A Song For Europe, and while perhaps self-deprecating, the material certainly creates a sensuous emotional atmosphere laced around those pop singles. The album does embrace the completeness of a street-life, at the time, Brian Ferry was at the height of his game, an unsettling lounge lizard crooner, while Phil Manzanera is nothing short of a magical creative genius with his solo and riffing, Paul Thompsons drumming is resolved and powerful, and Andy MacKay, while on sax or oboe could do no wrong, sounding plaintive haunting and specularly wonderful, and then theres the lushness the new recruit Eddie Jobson brings to the mix where together they created what can only be described as a dense British version of Phil Spectors wall of sound. Seriously, I fully realize that most Roxy Music albums can be challenging at some point as they spin out on your turntable, though Roxy have always bent the rules, sliding somewhere between great rock songs and progressive music.
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