Both great songs and deserved hit singles. It is interesting pairing them together because they showcase the range of styles Roxy Music had. This is a great start to the week, as you promised. You said it would be early, but it still caught me off-guard!
Yes, big jump in years and styles! I mean this type of earliness for a Retro Reactions video was insane LOL! Did I mention you will probably be happy again tomorrow haha....
Amazing band. I actually chatted to a man a few months back who knows Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson! I did the impossible, he got all 3 to sign my vinyl sleeve of The Atlantic Years! Dance Away is a beautiful moody song. ~ C
Roxy Music and Brian Ferry for a smooth(yet theatrical and interesting)start of the day?! Absolutely. Ahead of their time per usual, you'd swear these were from the 1980s if you didn't know who it was
Mott the Hoople does the song "All The Young Dudes" David Bowie sings back up on that song. That's really the only song i do know by them. 😃 I just got those vibes. From the first song.
Two absolute classics! Another nice pair would be Love Is the Drug and Avalon - totally different kind of songs but both great in their own way. Don't know if you did them already.
Great reaction to two very different but equally excellent songs, Phil Manzanera is an underrated guitarist by a lot of the general public but loved by other guitarists, he's played on albums by David Gilmour and Joh Cale. His guitar solo on Roxy Music's In Every Dream Home a Heartache is stunning and makes it my favourite Roxy Music song you should definitely check it out.
Two brilliant songs from a standout band that passed through many phases. All just perfect. Brian Eno on synths on the first song ❤ David Gilmour has worked with Bryan and Phil Mandanera extensively. Gilmour played lead guitar with Bryan Ferry at Live Aid. Phil has been Gilmour’s second guitarist for years on tour ❤
What fun! I first saw these gents back in the '70s when Brian Eno was with them, wearing a lizard costume, and basically striking a very strange chord. Their destinies would be apart. Eno did an album with Robert Fripp of King Crimson, called "No Pussyfooting" which apparently cost a dozen dollars only to make. It never failed to flow my mind though, and often was the time that I would leave Warren's house feeling entirely disoriented. Ah the '70s! My faves from Roxy are probably "To Turn You On", "Avalon", "Don't Stop the Dance" and "Kiss and Tell", roughly in that order. The first one is a good one for wooing the ladies. Very smooth, seductive and sultry.
@@79BlackRose Thanks, I forgot. I remember it being featured in "Bright Lights, Big City". Next to Bowie, Bryan Ferry may have been the coolest, suave thing going.
People bought the LPs on the theme of the Album covers I am convinced of it. Always used to be flipped to the front of the racks in the shops i noticed :)
Wow…nice and early today. I know you’re aware that I didn’t listen to a lot of Roxy Music, but I’m very familiar with “Dance Away”. “Virginia Plain” was a first for me….I found it a pretty catchy tune.
You’ve got me very intrigued as to what you have in store for tomorrow?? You commented yesterday that I’d like everyday this week, and I noticed TUESDAY in caps? Now my brain has to think hard about this one! Lol
Great songs, takes me back, especially VP, I remember watching Roxy do this on TOTP as a kid. Bryan has still got it, witness this live performance of Let's Stick Together from 2013: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8rer40VI9Zc.html
Two of my favorite Roxy Music songs! "Virginia Plain" is the swan song of early Roxy Music, still with Mr. Brian Peter George Saint John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (yes, that's his full name!), who went on to become the most important name in music in the last decades that most people never heard about. Well, they may not have heard of him, but very, very few people can claim to have totally shaped contemporary music as we know it as Eno did, in his roles as a musician influencing other musicians and as a producer. The concept for "Virginia Plain" may have been Ferry's, but the execution has a heavy touch of Eno. Of course, the band was too small for two genius Brians, one of them had to go, and it was Eno. The band lost, but the world gained. Among other things, we wouldn't have sampling and ambient music with its pervasive influence on all genres (at least not in the form we know them today), not to mention masterpieces like U2's "The Joshua Tree" and David Bowie's "Heroes" (both produced by Eno), without the clash of the Brians and Eno leaving. Eno is a sacred monster of contemporary music, and his influence and legacy can't be overstated. "Manifesto" was released at the peak of disco, and the influence from it can definitely be felt. I love the title track, which is slow-paced but makes you want to dance at the same time. Then it segues to "Trash", which is the polar opposite, a raw, fast-tempo rock. You heard "Dance Away", but my favorite is "Angel Eyes", which is Roxy Music's take at disco in full throttle. But if you listen closely, you notice a subtle criticism undertone, as if Brian was saying, "look, disco is OK, but you're underusing its possibilities". Although the album sold well, critics didn't like it much. I think the underlying message was too subtle for them to get it, but it's brilliant. They did have a point in that the rest of the album is irregular, though. And the cover art is also brilliant, one of the best I've seen (don't forget that all Roxy Music members were alumni from fine-arts schools). A scene from a party made only with store dummies wearing typical disco attire. Not only is the end result beautiful, it perfectly catches the spirit of disco, partying through the end of the world while at the same time seeking and getting some depersonalization on the dance floor, dissolving oneself into the music and the beat.
Goytá!!! Missed ya buddy. Hopefully you saw that I finally did Karn Evil 😀 Glad I picked some of your favorite Roxy here. Sadly I am one who always heard the name Brian Eno but didn't learn till this channel a bit more about him, and how many other greats he worked with. Thank you as always for the mini music history lesson. I added your votes for Manifesto and Angel Eyes. Will go check out the album cover now. Thanks for dropping by!
@@retroreactions...., the classic, seminal album by Eno as a musician is "Music for Airports", which defined and inaugurated the ambient music genre, but by its own characteristics (you have to read the short but very important liner note by Eno to understand the context of what he proposed to do, in order to truly understand the album) I don't think it's appropriate for a public reaction - your viewers may find it too repetitive and boring, which it's actually purposely *meant* to be (I love it, but I know how to listen to it, and yes, with that album there is a "how"). But I suggest the amazing album he made with Harold Budd, "The Plateaux of Mirror" (sic, I think that's ungrammatical, but that's the title), a more accessible work of ambient music that's delightful to listen to. And not to be missed is "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts", which Eno made with David Byrne from Talking Heads (a band that Eno sponsored and launched to world acclaim, even though they already had an excellent album released before Eno, "77", and were already a cult band in New York City's small-concert circuit). That album is simply credited with introducing sampling to the world, no less! Now, Eno and Byrne both acknowledge that they didn't invent sampling, there had been experiments before (Pink Floyd, of course, comes to mind, among many others), but it was the first time that sampling was brought to the mainstream as a form of making music in its own right, and I don't have to tell you how impactful and influential that was in the long term. The album is both brilliant and delightful. It's all based on very diverse samples (including radio talk shows, Lebanese and Gullah folk singers, a flamboyant pastor's sermon, and even an exorcist busy taking a devil out of a possessed person!), which they worked upon and remade into something different. "Amazing" doesn't even begin to describe it! And yes, I saw that you finally braved "Karn Evil 9", but I'm still having audio problems in my PC, I refuse to watch RU-vid on the phone (I'm not a masochist and don't like to be submitted to cruel and inhumane torture!), and I have a long backlog list of your videos to watch. I will, however, rest assured.
Pretty sure I've heard the title "Music for Airports" somewhere before. Thanks for the Eno 101 lesson 🙂 So then Depeche Mode definitely owed some gratitude to Eno and Byrne, as they were heavy on sampling, especially in the early days... Thanks so much in advance for your future backlog binge. Great to see ya here!
@@retroreactions...., I wrote a very detailed post about "Music for Airports" and Eno on a friend's blog many years ago. Like most blogs, it's nearly dead now, but still online. But fear not: instead, my friend Lito now has a RU-vid channel about aviation - he used to be a plane mechanic and later graduated in Aeronautical Engineering - where he has a "mere" *2.8 million* subscribers as of today, who love his simple and understandable explanations of complex aviation things for common people. Blog and channel are both called "Aviões e Músicas" (Portuguese for "Airplanes and Songs") because Lito also happens to be a music buff (he even has a tape cassette tattooed on his arm to remind him of those heroic days). I used to write about both things on his blog. Since it was a Brazilian blog, my post is in Portuguese, but maybe Google Translator does a decent job of making it readable in English (I've tried it, and I think it did). If you'd like to try reading it, it's at avioesemusicas.com/music-for-airports.html . Then you'll see that it's a REALLY long list of bands and artists that owe a lot to Eno.
Sure, I will translate and check it out as soon as possible! Things are even busier now with Patreon just starting up, but I can fit it in during some of my down time...Thanks
As I have already posted in the comments, glam rock, art rock (an expression unfortunately often used in Europe to talk about prog rock; even though the musical difference is as obvious as day and night. It would perhaps be better to to say "art pop") and new wave are really not part of my favorite musical genres. Unfortunately, the band ROXY MUSIC and the two songs today will not have contributed more to a reconciliation. However, I must be honest to the end and admit that there is an album, in the ROXY MUSIC discography, for which I have a certain esteem: 'Siren' (1975). And the reason is not the presence of the hit "Love Is A Drug"; but undoubtedly the much less presence of "synth sound" (therefore, a warmer... or less cold sound) and a more adventurous creativity (in composition and arrangements, less locked into the "déjà-entendu"). On this album, I particularly like two songs: "End Of The Line" and "She Sells". For fans of these musical genres and fans of ROXY MUSIC, I would like to point out that this is only my personal opinion and that it has no claim to absolute truth. Thanks.
Makes sense, very original and maybe sometimes quirky. That's how I see Zappa as well with my limited experience with his music. Thanks for dropping by Graham!
