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- “Editions of You” (For Your Pleasure, 1972) There’s a barely suppressed energy simmering in the opening electric piano chords, and when Paul Thompson’s drum roll snowballs in at the 16-second mark, the entire band unleashes the weird and goes for the jugular on one of the most muscular art rock songs of all time.
- “Do the Strand” (For Your Pleasure, 1972) The opening track to For Your Pleasure, the band’s greatest album, wastes no time in announcing itself: before one full second has passed, the piano is furiously clanging and Ferry is off on his carnivalesque sales pitch about “a fabulous creation” that doubles as a “danceable solution to teenage revolution.”
- “Three and Nine” (Country Life, 1974) A lovely, gentle counterpoint to the song it immediately follows on Country Life (the visceral “The Thrill of It All”), “Three and Nine” is a beguiling, mellow rocker with shades of the open prairie (via some country-tinged harmonica support) and a late-night jazz club (thanks to some reflective sax soloing from Mackay).
- “More Than This” (Avalon, 1982) For as weird as Roxy was in the ‘70s, they went full-on mainstream with 1982’s Avalon. But even as they sanded down the rough edges and left the strangeness behind, they didn’t lose an ounce of their sophistication.
- Tom Eames
- 'I Put a Spell on You' Bryan Ferry - I Put A Spell On You [Official] Bryan Ferry covered this enduring Screamin' Jay Hawkins classic for his 1993 album Taxi, which was largely made out of cover versions.
- 'Let's Stick Together' Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together. Originally by Wilbert Harrison and made famous by Canned Heat, Bryan Ferry recorded his own rock version in 1976.
- 'Virginia Plain' Roxy Music - Virginia Plain - Top Of The Pops - 24th August 1972. If you're wanting full-on glam rock Roxy Music, this is the go-to track.
- 'Angel Eyes' Roxy Music - Angel Eyes. From their Manifesto album in 1979, this gave Roxy a number four hit, and was also the first time they recorded a music video for a track.
Roxy Music Song list. (Oh Yeah) On The Radio (1980) 2HB (1972) A Song For Europe (1973) All I Want Is You (1974) Amazona (1973) Angel Eyes (1979) Avalon (1982) Beauty Queen (1973) Bitter Sweet (1974) Bitters End (1972) Both Ends Burning (1975) Chance Meeting (1972) Dance Away (1979) Do The Strand (1973) Editions Of You (1973)
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Roxy Music discography; Studio albums: 8: Live albums: 6: Compilation albums: 10: Video albums: 9: Singles: 26: Box sets: 8
Roxy Music on TopPop in 1973. Left to right: Eddie Jobson, Paul Thompson, Phil Manzanera, Bryan Ferry, Sal Maida, Andy Mackay. Roxy Music are an English rock band formed in 1970 by lead vocalist and principal songwriter Bryan Ferry and bassist Graham Simpson. By the time the band recorded their first album in 1972, Ferry and Simpson were joined ...
- ‘If There Is Something’
- 2 ‘Avalon’
- 3 ‘Mother of Pearl’
- 4 ‘Out of The Blue’
- 5 ‘Ladytron’
- 6 ‘In Every Dream Home A Heartache’
- 7 ‘Re-Make/Re-Model’
- 8 ‘Jealous Guy’
- 9 ‘To Turn You On’
- 10 ‘Editions of You’
Track three of Roxy Music’s self-titled debut from 1972 is as miraculous as any 6-minutes-and-34-second stretch in pop music history, dramatically detailing — in ever-escalating beauty and intensity — the complete storyline of a long-term romantic relationship. The song is broken up into three distinct parts, each boosting a completely different so...
“More Than This” is the best-known cut from 1982’s “Avalon,” the band’s eighth studio effort as well as its most thoroughly transcendent album. Yet, the title track is the one that truly delivers the magic, carrying listeners off to another time and place — one that seems to exist at the intersection of timeless and fleeting — through a mix of synt...
Would there be life after Brian Eno left Roxy Music? This nearly 7-minute cut greatly underscored that the group had the power to be just as imaginative, experimental and, without a doubt, impactful in the post-Eno years. And apparently Eno agreed, given that he’s been quoted as saying that the parent album — 1973’s “Stranded” – was his favorite Ro...
It’s a really solid song for the first three minutes and change, but then prog-rock hero Eddie Jobson steps up and takes this standout cut from 1974’s “Country Life” into the stratosphere with the soaring work on his famed see-through Plexiglas electric violin.
The song is intriguingly cold and distant at the start, yet then changes its stripes and reels the listener in completely. It ends as a showcase for Manzanera, who used this 1972 “Roxy Music” recording to announce to a then-unsuspecting listening world that there was a new guitar hero in London Town.
This would surely top many fans’ lists as the best-ever Roxy Music cut. And it’s easy to understand why, as the number from 1973’s “For Your Pleasure” touches upon so many of the band’s trademarks – it’s exotic, experimental, rich in drama, utilizes wildly ambitious musical arrangements and instrumentation, yet still manages to feel cohesive.
It’s hard to even imagine what it must have been like to originally drop the needle on Track 1 of “Roxy Music” back in 1972 and hear such a whirling cacophony of defiantly avant-garde sounds. It’s also hard to imagine a more appropriate introduction to the band.
Roxy Music scored its sole No. 1 single with this emotional rendition of the John Lennon classic, recorded and released just two months after the Beatle great died.
The B-side to “Jealous Guy” was just as striking, as Ferry delivered some of the most romantic crooning of his career on this track that ended up making it onto “Avalon.”
The band just steps on the gas and goes with this “For Your Pleasure” track, delivering a full-tilt rocker that particularly benefits from Thompson’s mighty drum work and Mackay’s honking saxophone.
- Jim Harrington
The Best of Roxy Music is a greatest hits album by English art rock band Roxy Music, released in 2001. The album includes at least one song from all eight of the band's studio albums and...
