The Friday Canon: ROXY MUSIC/BRYAN FERRY
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In no way is the canon choice this week due to me purchasing their Best Of yesterday! First half Roxy, second half Bryan-solo, ELEVEN ticks to dish out overall. What's her name? Virginia Plain?
[Poll #1020657]
Donna Summer: (link)
1. I Feel Love
2. Hot Stuff
3. Love To Love You Baby
4. Bad Girls
5. Macarthur Park
6. She Works Hard For The Money
7. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) [ft Barbra Streisand]
8. On The Radio
9. State Of Independence
10. This Time I Know It's For Real
Frank Sinatra: (link)
1. Strangers In The Night
2. Witchcraft
=3. High Hopes
=3. Somethin' Stupid [w/ our Nancy]
5. Three Coins In The Fountain
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Date: 2007-07-13 11:37 am (UTC)Best single here - "Street Life" maybe? Love how it keeps finding a second (third, fourth) wind just when you think it's winding down, much like a good night out indeed.
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Date: 2007-07-13 12:51 pm (UTC)The wiki page for "Psycho Killer" does however note that it was covered by a band named Moxy Früvous.
Which um sounds a bit like Roxy Music...
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Date: 2007-07-13 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 12:52 pm (UTC)Obv you are still CLEARLY WRONG, but there's an excuse for you!
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Date: 2007-07-13 11:43 am (UTC)Kiss and Tell
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Date: 2007-07-13 11:54 am (UTC)viz
Do the Strand
Out of the Blue
Editions of You
Mother of Pearl
A Song for Europe
The Thrill of It All
also TRIPTYCH is awesome awesome awesome it is ferry's MEL GIBSON MOMENT
"mother of pearl"
"song for europe"
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Date: 2007-07-13 12:15 pm (UTC)(a good indicator of this: compare the cover gurlz on stranded and country life to the ditto on flesh and blood)
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Date: 2007-07-13 12:19 pm (UTC)Interesting thing about Roxy, especially in the early years, was their double life as a singles band and an albums act. "Virginia Plain" and "Pyjamarama" were (Factory records style) not included on an album until their first Greatest Hits package (which also = their best LP, shockah). And even the later singles that were culled from LPs aren't really very representative of those LPs.
I also liked that Ferry would compete commercially with himself by regularlly releasing solo LPs throughout the time that Roxy were going.
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Date: 2007-07-13 12:24 pm (UTC)(i also really like manifesto, which is rawther underregarded)
Manifesto
Date: 2007-07-13 12:32 pm (UTC)I do however have the 12" single of the super-awesome "Angel Eyes" which song has distressingly few ticks so far plz to remedy poptimists kthxbye
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Date: 2007-07-13 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 12:30 pm (UTC)I had NO IDEA prior to buying this yesterday that 'Dance Away' was by Roxy Music, or even that it was called 'Dance Away', despite knowing the song very well!
I didn't even know Bryan had been in another band when I first heard 'Let's Stick Together' (I assume the remix, as it was on 1988's Now 13 - I don't think I've ever heard the original if it is markedly different), and I used to get him mixed up with Robert Palmer. And then I would get Roxy Music mixed up with Sparks.
However, 'Love Is The Drug' has such an awesome bass riff/guitar combo that I mostly played it on repeat 234987 times yesterday instead of listening to the rest of the compilation...
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Date: 2007-07-13 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 12:59 pm (UTC)'Virginia Plain' though - I knew that Roxy Music had done a song called that, but I didn't know that it was THAT ONE that had been on that car advert...
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Date: 2007-07-13 03:48 pm (UTC)Sadly, my fave Roxy song is prob "Ladytron" and, of course, it ain't on there. Still, yeah, 11 ticks was v difficult.
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Date: 2007-07-13 12:53 pm (UTC)[and then you realize you're half naked on a bed with silk sheets]
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Date: 2007-07-13 02:03 pm (UTC){strange_powers begins his Ferry impression}
Now the party's over, I'm so tired
And I see you walk in out of nowhere
Much communication in a motion
Without conversation or a notion
Ooooh-mmmm
Avalon
Romantic, n'est-ce-pas?
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Date: 2007-07-13 02:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-07-13 03:16 pm (UTC)Because it was just a sequential run of 11 tacks on the very top. Roxy Music to Manifesto, inclusive with surrounding singles -- and adding "More Than This", were all top notch.
The Things That Pass Me By
Date: 2007-07-13 04:18 pm (UTC)When is there going to be a Manic Street Preachers poll?
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Date: 2007-07-13 05:06 pm (UTC)Re: The Things That Pass Me By
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