I saw them perform this on their 50th anniversary tour in 2022. Ferry's vocal abilities in his mid-70s are much more modest and there was a large supporting cast of musicians and singers. But the track is epic and Manzanera still kills it on guitar.
Any love song for a blow up doll is alright by me lol. Their first 5 albums are some of the greatest music ever put to vinyl. Not a big fan of Ferry's solol stuff but LOVE Enos first few albums that were still in a rock band context. And I believe I own just about everything Phil Manzanera has been involved with. One of these months we have to hear the 801 live album. Pure virtuosic genius from the stellar cast of great players involved. Always loved the Great Paul Thompson's drum work with Roxy and Concrete Blond afterwards. This is one bad ass song!
@@chazblitz haha. Sent Matteo "Fat Lady of Limbourg" to listen to the other week. Made me listen to the album a few times again. When you consider the band only had a few days to get it all together, it's a great album
Love this song and their first few albums. Sort of a mix of pop, glam rock, rock, prog, all with a bit of edge with the vocals. Some pretty damn good musicians too, not least Phil Manzanera on guitar. I went off them more and more though as Ferry turned them into basically a pop singles band. Ferry auditioned for King Crimson but failed but Fripp liked him and help him and the band get a record deal.
Ah... Roxy Music. I was in art school when Roxy began to be taken notice of here in Australia, though it wasn't until their fourth album "Country Life" that they garnered wider attention than just amongst art school trendoids like ourselves. By that time Brian Eno was heading out the door and Ferry was dabbling in solo project stuff... 'In Every Dream Home A Heartache' resonated for some of us who - while in art school, had been approached about earning money as 'escorts' for the lonely partners of those jet-setting international executives who'd be on their own in ritzy mansions, pining for some 'attention'; and the lyric theme of the individual who purportedly "has it all", except for the thing that those who look with envy at such a life of wealth and luxury probably have (and don't realise they have it!) in the relationship/s with people they share their life with that aren't literally superficial, had that little bit more relevance and impact, as we could see the emptiness of some of the lives that other's looking from the outside in, just dismissed as "not possible for those who've got everything"... Interesting times indeed!! A friend and myself even organised a "happening" as our end of year project for 'art history' that had Roxy Music songs featured, along with a Moog synthesizer I'd set up to provide 'Tangerine Dream' style intermezzos between each track... Even the college Dean attended; after dropping his wife and kids off at their home, then zooming back to partake of the frivolities that included a trio of female student colleagues wearing stillettos and maids costumes handing out masks and offering joints from silver trays to guests as they arrived to one of the classrooms we'd decked out with porn lined walls and an early 'computer' driven light show that pulsed and changed with changes in the pre-recorded (apart from the Moog I'd 'programmed'/patched) soundtrack. Took many weeks to bring the whole thing from idea to fruition; and surprisingly earned us a really good mark for our art history component!! I feel kinda sorry that the art students of today won't ever get to experience what it was like to be in art school back then; when we could indeed organise such an event as something to be assessed, and everybody; from students in other years, office staff, teaching staff and college executive, turned up in order to experience it. It's gone so "stick in the mud" these days... conformity and accepting "known facts" is the go these days, even with a subject that is supposedly all about "creativity"!!! "Them's" as they say; "the breaks" I guess. Thanks for the reaction Sifa and Dan and for bringing back memories of those crazy times.
@@SightAfterDark If only there was time travel, you could experience not just seeing it, but also hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling a performance event that was designed to be shared. You know; as artists yourselves, that sharing is what artists enjoy doing, even if not everyone 'gets' what you're sharing with them!! Have fun and keep on sharing here on RU-vid!!
Your mention of Country Life made me laugh thinking of that album. I now own it on CD as well but my vinyl album is without its cover. My mother, RIP, saw fit to throw it into the fucking woodstove when I was at school one day claiming it was pornography she found in my bedroom. The album itself was on my turntable. The year before that, she came in and smashed Rick Derringer's All American Boy album due to my repetitive playing of Rock n Roll Hootchie Coo trying to learn the riff on my guitar. Country Life vinyl was put into the Derringer cover around 1975 and is still residing there down in the basement today. Silly story. Sorry.
Thanks for this, a very unique and unusual song ...it was an album track on an album (51 years ago) with no single releases at the time, some of the songs on For Your Pleasure are much longer, Roxy didn't abide by any rules back then, they created them. The lyrics tell a complete story which without some of them would be incomplete. Truly inventive and ground-breaking band who never got the true recognition they deserved mainly because they were so avant-garde. It's a shame you didn't talk about the meaning of the actual song.... yes the ending is mind-blowing but the way the song is crafted and builds demands analysis - a very dystopian and dark prophecy that is being fulfilled in our day.
SO, his heart aches & he makes us ache with each thought that it emits until the rippin crescendo classic Roxy, but I believe I might`ve been listening to something of a Sight After numberish type action if an old cowpuncher were to gallop on into Brooklyn some sunnyday but until then Keep on Rockin & giddyup SightAfterDark
The pause on your end was interesting. Thought it was me; no sound. Ohh, they're not moving...then you resumed. Yay. Love this song, this band. Enjoyed the Itchykoo Bold as Love tack-on, thought the cold reintro could have been more interestingly done. 😅🤷🏽
To get an idea of how groundbreaking this masterpiece is the pop charts were full of instantly forgettable drivel like Donny Osmond. Showaddywaddy and David Essex
