Roxy Music/Brian Ferry

[Gail Simone]

Just bought the Platinum Collection from this group/guy, three discs, and man, alive is it nice. I have most of this stuff on CD but just hadn't listened to it for ages. My favorite Ferry song, Rock of Ages, is unfortunately not included, but otherwise, you could hardly ask for a sleeker, sexier collection.

Brian got right what bands like Spandau Ballet got so, so wrong. I love the early, more experimental stuff, but I think his songwriting matured into something very special as time went on.

There should be more Brian Ferrys and fewer Britney Spearseses!

Gail

[Cam63]

Agreed.
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[Weetomuncher]

Britney Spears is just a cheap slut and she sounds horrible! :eek:

I like half decent music and I don't care how often she jiggles her butt if the tune sounds like a cat with it's tail stuck under a log!

My iPod has been stuffed with loads of Queen, System Of A Down, Garbage, My Chemical Romance, Rammstein and Nightwish as well as a liberal sprinkling of Motorhead!

(I prefer Christina jiggling her butt anyway!) ;)

[Adam Crocker]

Personally I prefer early Roxy when Brian Eno was the keyboardist and infecting Ferry's soul-driven, Beatlesque pop structures with deconstructionist ideas from Silver Apples and the Velvet Underground. It was a marriage that produced some of the finest weirdo pop ever made.

[Gail Simone]

Don't get me wrong, I love Eno. But I like the quiet work Ferry did later, more.

I have almost all of Eno's solo work...great stuff.

Gail

[Spackling Compound]

Personally I prefer early Roxy when Brian Eno was the keyboardist and infecting Ferry's soul-driven, Beatlesque pop structures with deconstructionist ideas from Silver Apples and the Velvet Underground. It was a marriage that produced some of the finest weirdo pop ever made.
Yeah, agreed there.
However, there was something intoxicating (and maybe too comfortable, too) about the album "Avalon". One of my play over and over tapes back in the day. Topped with a playing of Ferry's "Boys and Girls" and a bottle of Midori...puurrrfect.

[ElvisGuy]

HUGE!!..I mean HUGE Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music fan here !! Roxy Music's Avalon is one of my all time favorite albums !! The first time I ever made love (thats made love..not just sex people) was to that album ! I've seen Bryan five times live, the first was the "Limbo" tour in the 80s, and I also saw The Roxy Music reunion tour a few years back. If you ever wanna bring a mood of sensuality to a date with that special someone.. just play some Bryan Ferry and Rhett Davies produced Roxy Music..it will work wonders..trust me ! :D

[berk]

I read somewehere that Ferry has a part in the new Neil Jordan movie, Breakfast on Pluto. Should be interesting - always thought he had the looks and presence to make an effective actor.

[Night Swordsman]

I'm a big Roxy Music/Ferry Fan(my favorite song(EVER)was done by him, was the theme to Legend,Is your heart strong enough?).

I can also recommend Heart Still Beating,A live album recorded in Frejus,France in 1982. Great music there.


Just when your ready to write Gail off as some silly writer,she goes ahead and shows great taste! AHH! She spites me! =P