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JOEJOEJOE
JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,821
edited November 2012 in Other Music
What a great band.......anyone also dig them?

Bryan Ferry is the most well known member...Brian Eno was in the band for a few years in the very beginning.

They were "new wave" 7 years before the term was invented!

Great mellow songs as well as some real rockers

Some of their best songs

Virginia Plain
Dance Away
Love is the Drug
More Than This
Do The Strand
Angel Eyes
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  • foodboy
    foodboy Posts: 988
    saw the avalon tour back in the early eighties. great show great band. have seen bryan ferry solo a number of times. very underated . back in maui in 98 at the pearl jam show mud honey was laughing how they were going to do a roxy music cover that no one would know what they were playing.
  • curlygirly9
    curlygirly9 Vancouver, WA Posts: 1,872
    For some reason, (especially since I'm such a huge glam rock fan in general) I never got much into Roxy Music. I do own The Best of Roxy Music, and it is fairly enjoyable, but the only song I've ever really loved is still Love is the Drug. GREAT song.
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  • SD48277
    SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    Yes! I dig them.
    Avalon is such a great album.
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  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    I'm a fan of the crooners. I'd fit Brian Ferry in that category. What songs I've heard from him solo and Roxy Music I've really enjoyed. Thanks for the suggestions. :thumbup:
  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,821
    gabers wrote:
    I'm a fan of the crooners. I'd fit Brian Ferry in that category. What songs I've heard from him solo and Roxy Music I've really enjoyed. Thanks for the suggestions. :thumbup:


    He is one of the few "rock" crooners......I suppose Morrissey, and the singer from the Smoking Popes would also fall into that category.
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Well known for some racy (for the times) covers.....that Ferry has a silky smooth voice...
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  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    Resurrecting this thread, 4+ years later, after Jeff's HOF shirt and speech.
    Roxy Music was such an influential band. I saw Bryan Ferry's show last summer -- seeing "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" live was a bucket list kind of event for me. :-)
    Early Roxy Music is a very different animal from "Avalon"-era Roxy Music (or solo Bryan Ferry). I'm a fan of all of their incarnations, but they were FAR stranger when Brian Eno was in the band.

    In Every Dream Home a Heartache (a love song to an inflatable doll) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G56DaSAeZfM
    Ladytron (with oboe solo) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCXe4ApkUq8
    Just Another High, one of the saddest songs I've ever heard --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQfyeLh17eI
    Both Ends Burning (live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO7cXKULXyo
    My Only Love -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlPJYXVvimQ
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,652
    I looooooove Roxy Music! Seems like so few people have even heard of them, but I find that when I play some for those people, they are immediately into it.
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  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    Great band! I've been a fan for decades. I agree that they don't get nearly the recognition they deserve and thought it was cool that Jeff included them (both Brian Eno and Roxy Music) on his shirt.
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  • bluegrace
    bluegrace Posts: 2,357
    I absolutely love them, have done for decades. Will see Bryan Ferry solo again this summer, can't wait.
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  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,821
    Seeing Bryan Ferry with an orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl this summer.
  • Perry Neum
    Perry Neum Vienna, Austria Posts: 856
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    The intro to More Than This strikes awesome memory chords.

    I used to listen to these guys a ton and seeing this thread reminds me to reconfigure my devices so I can listen to these guys again.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,655
    Cool to see Roxy Music here! Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay, Eddie Jobson, John Gustafson- man, what a band!
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  • nigel
    nigel Posts: 267
    Love Roxy!!! Stranded is my fav album. A dear old friend who has now sadly passed got me into them years ago.

    Bizarrely I met Bryan Ferry on my wedding day - he was staying at the hotel where we got married and was sitting listening to an old guy play the piano in the lounge bar - with a very attractive young lady next to him. Me and my best man went to chat to him a little worse for wear in our full morning suits - at the end of the evening - and he was totally charming.
  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    saw him recently in nola at the nicest theatre i have ever been in(saenger)
    slick show. 10 piece band. the dude is over 70 and he's still got it
    his version of like a hurricane was mind blowing
  • curmudgeoness
    curmudgeoness Brigadoon, foodie capital Posts: 4,130
    After far too long, Roxy Music is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    They were such a big influence on so many bands, it's about time!
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,655
    curmudgeoness said:
    After far too long, Roxy Music is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    They were such a big influence on so many bands, it's about time!
    Fantastic!  I'm not a huge RRHOF fan but this is one to celebrate.  Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno, Eddie Jobson, Paul Thompson, Andy MacKay.  Damn, what a band!
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