Roxy Music - Ladytron (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972) 

in gold gloves, no less.

Even though I am over 50, I had missed early Roxy. But luckily I found them in 2012. So now I'm sold too.

Absolutely, brilliantly expressed! Thank you!

You have just defined it

A brilliant description, and i know what you mean. It's exactly how i feel when i listen to Soft Cell. Yes, different music, a different time, but after listening to Soft Cell, i feel dirty. I can't explain. Listen to Sex Dwarf. Punchy, dirty, and seedy. Total brilliance.

@@tilerman Yes. Filthy. Seedy. The song that really gets me is a Marc Almons solo track that I originally knew from the Some Bizarre comp, If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul. It's called Love Amongst The Ruined. I believe it was a collaboration with Jim Thirwell (Foetus) Amazing song. Makes me want a shower.

Perfect description!

I wish I was there ❤ I was born in 2003 ❤

I was one of that crew, an amazing time. Going to the Blue Bell and then to the Crazy Daisy - brilliant

@@pauladamson8684 OMG! That's amazing..I must have seen you! And yeah the Blue Bell..! You would definitely know my mates! ..Last saw Brian at the City Hall not too long ago but couldn't make the Roxy tour at Manchester..last year I think it was.

yeah dood but I grew up way later and saw all those pictures and believed you! All the style and attitude is fun and pictures of the kids that got to be there are the most!

@@CoffinBanger You would have been buzzing! I wouldn't change time for anything..the inspiration of Roxy led me into Fashion art & music.. I lived that life & still do! You just keep looking at Roxy & they WILL inspire you.sending ☮️💓🇬🇧

Bowie anything with mick Ronson, Avalon album by Roxy music.

forget queen thats a collection of novelty songs

I saw them in Hamburg when i was 16 and they blew my mind. Now i am 58 and still a fan.

Velvet Goldmine was also my introduction to Roxy Music! Though probably a good decade earlier

I was 15 when Killer Queen charted and it blew my mind. Another great song from that year was Tell Him by Hello.

Roxy Music - Ladytron (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972) 8.10.23 0558am these guys are gettin' on... and not one of their grand kids or nephews and nieces has the balls to tell them to eff of grandad it's someone else's turn as they did in the mid 80's...when music came to a sudden halt cos the post punks offended the sensibilities of light entertainment which all this b.s stems from anyway.... medieval is how i see ferry end eno. which is odd.... probably stuck in a Bruegel painting.

Even better ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uVeKIroLwQE.html

Instruments mimed.

I like a lot of Roxy, not this song. The melody is good but too much mellotron and flute. Not into electronica. I guess Art Prog or more experimental stuff is not my thing so much. My favs are Love is the Drug, Virginia Plain, Avalon, More than this, Dance Away, Out of the Blue, All I want is You. And don't savage me but Brian Eno is not my thing at least on this song. Wondering if Peter Gabriel is going to pop out of Genesis and help out with some prancing around.

@@oppothumbs1 Its definitely better to view live than listen to on vinyl may have passed this up if not for the performance art aspect - like those fly eye shades in the guitar player, lol. Wow.

@@oppothumbs1 no Mother of Pearl on that list of yours.....

LoL

True! Great sense of style and unique sound. They were fresh and still feel like that.

Musical alchemy!

I've heard nothing like it before or since. Roxy were totally in their own zone.

8 years later he would play for Prince Barron in Flash Gordon.

Andy MacKay is so important to Roxy .

Yes the oboe is rarely used in popular/rock music..... When it appears, it always sounds extra special.....

@@martinobrien7110 He's a good writer too, I've got his book on Electronic Music, a great history of the genre.

..and that green outfit to boot!

Roxy will always be ahead of their time, even in a million years they'll still be marveling at this unique band.

@@astrophonix no they were totally of and in their own time, unfortunately, time has moved on and what is regurgitated as 'music' nowadays is soulless, derivative shit.

It was always Eno for me. Don't get me wrong, love Bryan, LOVE HIM... but Eno. Yeah.

OBOE la grande classe

@@richardroyle9123 Nah, you're just really lazy. Your parents would be proud of you, you've become them. ;)

And can you believe how much great stuff the BBC wiped in their infinite wisdom? Bastards!

Exactly , the British dare ,when no one else does .👍This is one of thousands of reasons , that i am an Anglophile ( but i am sadly born in the wrong country - Denmark ) .

​@@mariadaugbjerg6141Thanks for Legos!

​@@mariadaugbjerg6141Don't feel ashamed of that. You know of their music and that's good enough!

Yep, god bless the old grey whistle test. So many excellent sessions on that prog. We used to watch it late at night. I mean you don't think they would have dared play it prime time ... (:-)))

Undies!!

Manzanera got better and better as time went on! Solo album diamond Head is a classic!

Hi. Your first sentence describes Roxy Music beautifully. Innovators, flamboyant, original and just so darn good.

Yeah like judas priest!

They should dump Jools Holland and bring back something like Whistle Test...!

Several times I saw someone on Whistle Test that I'd never even heard of before and went out and bought the album the next day.

@@agnostic47 John Otway and Wild willy barrett! Lol

David Bowie comes to mind!

Kudos to the bassist for being the only one staying in reality.

I wish I had those fly-eye glasses for Halloween.

zesty and a half, Boreeng Vajay.

Toppy

Absolutely brilliant.Could not have said it better myself.Briliant music great visuals excellent stuff!!!!!!

Bryan is truly in lounge lizard mode here.

He is acting!!!

@@maryli2049 I think sleaziness is his true nature.I don’t think that’s just his stage persona. And if it wasn’t it took over at some point.

Qualudes ....

@@countdracula7235 😂

Ooh thats a wierd coincidence! Our names and being of similar ages and tastes!

@@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws Ha! Yes indeed! Clearly a good era :)

Too bad that whole thing is so hokey, absurdly self-congratulatory, and just lame.

@@jodyvance1554 Can he just enjoy his comment for Gods sake?

Meh....

Stan's Backhand 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Lolololol

Can't! stop! laughing!

😂😂😂

Pacman AND Battleship!

I heard "Out of the Blue" on my local rock station back in 84 maybe. Didn't catch the name at the time, but I did know it was Roxy Music. I had the 45 of "Love is the Drug" from when it came out, but otherwise didn't know Roxy's music. Went to the record store and bought all of Roxy's albums looking for that song. The record store didn't have "Manifesto", or, of course, the album it came from "Country Life". Best thing I did was buy all those albums looking for that song. One of my all time favorite bands. Got to see them when they reunited in 2001. Back to back shows in Atlanta and outside of Detroit. Fantastic. Sorry for the dissertation.

​@@kristopherloviska9042 You are lucky to see them live. I knew of Roxy Music for a long long time but never really listened to there early albums. I can't get over the production on their first album. There is a drum roll on one of the tracks (might be ladytron) and it sounds so real. I have a pretty good system though.

The first three albums are magnificent

@@IanBetteridge The first 4.

'Sea breezes' almost sounds like classical music. These guys took art to another level in the 70s!

Amen

Wow. You must have been a real vixen. Good on you!

Amen. I’m not even British but Eno era Roxy Music was peak, alongside Bowie and Marc Bolan

King Crimson and Van Der Graaf Generator would like a word with you...

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were up there too

@@danw1374 definitely I saw them twice in mid to late 70s

Great observation... I can dig exactly what you’re saying.

You get it!

I like the way you describe it!

yep, thats an art..

Its Roxy Music doncha know +

Ferry was jealous of Eno

@@Dejahthoris22 not exactly jealous, but he wanted to be the only one... and Eno had too much ideas. originality and charisma to be a simple supporting actor

Cheers from Cologne 😀🍷🇩🇪🎉

.. and without him too

We do.

Because Bryan Ferry.

Yep, after that it was Bryan doing his lounge lizard extraordinaire, very fab, but not genius like this.

​@@elinstar6034It's funny when I mention Roxy Music to a lot of people, some even much older than myself, they straight away say 'Oh I love 'Avalon' 'Dance Away' or 'Love is the drug' while completely ignoring all the other amazing songs they've made. I can only imagine nothing existed outside of the charts in their eyes.

Agree, EARLY Roxy Music!

@@nicolagalton9457 yes....agreed. After 1975 probably, they went mainstream and slightly Vegas.

I was 15 when I first heard them it was in Glasgow during the power cuts...VIVA..

I like it , too :D

Are you serious..about your age?

Ferrys hair is not very long .How can u tell he is stoned? ... Do u work in fashion?

MacKay IS the alien vampire😁

Agreed this is space rock, definitely got a Space Ritual vibe.

Hawkwind by god!

@@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws Yeah, specially after Phil comes in with that heavy Rif, alien specs and Eno's imaginings, ace spacerock!

Funny how we experience these things differently. To me the start shows me a scene of a beautiful dressed lady outside in a field, somehwere hot and very sunny. Gentle hills with just weat almost everywhere. It is noon, a windy day. And then the wind strengthens and it comes in from slightly different angles. Looking over the field with her clothes gracefully moving in he wind she sees how the wind seems to approach her, almost blowing through her. On that wind, ever so slightly, is this changing melody (of Eno and Mackay). And even though it is invisible, she know this is a man, she feels it, that is trying to approach her and he is trying different frequencies to get in sync with hers....He is not desperate, he is calm and selfassured....he is finding some way of connection....She wantsto know him, he provokes her curiousity, but for now she can only feel he is trying. But she is also aware of something sinister that makes her not completely at ease....

He's actually fighting the warm jets that came for him

Atomic blasters armed!

@@Serenoj69 It's all perspective my friend... the question is does anything truly exist? Lol.

@@frankgross135 “General Kala, Brian Eno approaching “- “What do you mean ‘Brian Eno APPROACHING ??”

The rest of the band was headed for the transporter room right after this song...

🖖

'Warp speed Mr. Sulu'

Ha! Actually EMS VCS3 Analog Synthesizer.

It's life jim, but not as we know it..

Crazy is the word. No question about that part....

I agree!!!

I was there too - what a great show. All still amazing. And on Bryan Ferry's birthday, too.

@@lidsvillebrown Did they play this music?

I was there too. Just a great night. And everyone raved about my outfit.

Andy McKay is very beautiful,not Bryan Ferry

masterpiece, taking tiger mountain by strategy, and the other three Eno's vocal solo LP's

@@aprendizdebrujo100 indeed👽

@@aprendizdebrujo100 Yes, they and all of his albums are great (just about). Taking Tiger Mountain is on acid! Manzaneras albums are fantastic too.

The general public doesn't want this anyhow.

We’re living it. Only difference now is we can choose what and where to broadcast material for ourselves.

How wonderful that each of of us choses our own readily available entertainment.

FlashBastard1964 Yes, because the general public do not deserve such genius....they are not worthy.

it was - I remember this on the TV from the the early 70s, it was not outrageous at the time; just yet another piece of original, experimental music - try that description now with any 'new' music; it's all derivative, talentless shit.

Dharm Khalsa yes ,it would be in very bad taste not to.A fashion faux pas.🧤

Every VCS 3 player ought to.

Of course. it doesn't oscillate half as well in bare hands

Keyboards should always be played with gloves, as also seen in the Virginia Plain video.

Piiiiigs iiiiiin SPAAAAAACE!

So very true....but i feel i have to mention....The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.....

@@brianwoods2395 you are right! A great band, too!

@@brianwoods2395 thanks for mentioning sahb !!!!! buff bar blues . framed .next. isabel goudy? Rock drill and so many more

@@roberthill4652 ...You sir have impeccable taste...Still remember buying the "Framed" LP as a teenager....Blew me away, and the following albums, never disappointed....A few years back managed to purchase " Alex Harvey- The new band ...The Mafia Stole my Guitar "....In my opinion Alex still at his very best.....

Thank you Brian I will look for that album I have been collecting albums since I was 11 years old I have 1,200 albums my grandkids destroyed my turntable two years ago and my family for Christmas got me a set of studio monitors and a brand-new turntable I went to put on Rock drill and the album was warped when I bought it but it still sounds good a lot of good people came out of sahb clemmensen and i believe there was a mikennon sorry for spelling all very talented

I also love David Sylvian' voice. So much alike.

It’s exquisite

It sounds terrifying when you say 'Half a century' which i am now merely a year from being!