Roxy Music - Same Old Scene 

When this song came out I was driving down the Kings Road in Chelsea, London with this playing, window down. Not kidding now, opposite me as I stopped in traffic was Bryan Ferry (in a red Alfa Romeo 6, the car I really wanted at the time), with his window down, shades on and cig hanging from the side of his mouth. He smiled and gave us a thumbs up. Too cool for real life.

This is an especially clear indicator of how much influence they had on bands like Duran Duran and the whole new romantic scene. Roxy Music is a heavyweight champion amongst the many.

Bryan Ferry is the Godfather of new romantic music, serial influences of Duran Duran, Blondie, Spandu Ballet, Visage enabled them all to be part of the 80's music revolution and be part of the same old scene, in Roxy Music we were blessed.

one of the best things about 50 years old,is the fact that i lived my teenage years in the 80's that is priceless and i am grateful !!!

Love it.Llisening for decades. Still here.2024.

Love how at the end Bryan takes a drag on his cigarette and just saunters off as the rest of the band are still in full swing. Way beyond cool.

This man really was the soundtrack of the 80's.Every song was timeless.

Best Roxy Music track ever.

The bass drives this, 100%. Lovely nuances

The way Bryan walks off at the end smoking his cigarette ..... Pure class 😆

I like that Duran Duran based their entire sound around this one song

One of Roxy Music's best songs. Flawless production, great bass and hugely influential.

The bass line ......This is one of the best Pop records ever made

This song really captures a certain mood. Roxy Music were always three steps ahead, exuding glamor and class.

I feel sorry for the people ( plebs) that will never pick up on Roxy Music .

One of the best songs ever. Absolute masterpiece from an unforgettable time

Possibly one of the greatest songs ever. I can't stop listening to it. ❤❤

An absolute masterpiece, it shall never grow old.

I remember seeing Bryan Ferry on TV as a child and thinking he was the suavest, handsomest, movie star-looks gentleman, ever! ❤

Wow! The bassist has a Phil Lynott styled P-Bass Fender. Hats off! Fantastic bassline. Brilliant song!

Still listening to this in 2024 ?

This song still give me goosebumps the same as when I first heard it in the 80s

Synths, saxophone and of course the dulcet tones of Brian Ferry makes this the early Eighties encapsulated in one song for me. Brilliant song by one of my favourite performers.

Bryan Ferry....cooler than the other side of the pillow

Headphones on...full blast volume, awesome intro; just listen to that bass...then along comes Mr Andy Mackay on the sax... One of my favourites, never get tired of listening to it....pure genius!!!

Utterly flawless. The definition of cool.

I can barely describe what this song is to me, it’s goosebumps, it’s melancholy…it’s just… 1980 was an incredible year for music and songs like this is why!

"Nothing last forever ..." Brian Ferry`s & Roxy Music`s music will last forever.

1980? That's ridiculously ahead of its time

Ironic that I had to withstand a 12 second ad for Niki minaj to listen to the greatest avante garde rock voice of the 70s and 80s. Oh Bryan, I wish it was still the same old music scene

Timeless classic, the bouncing reverb lead over the bass it’s a masterpiece Still maturing better with age

The bass is unbelievable...

Reminiscent of the quality years of music... the bass, the ambience, the vocals... timeless. Never old.

There were a lot of brilliant records back then that one can use today to evoke 1980. This one IS 1980, in every glorious way possible.

My sister is a huge Roxy Music fan and she had this on 7 inch and I would sneak into her bedroom to play it...that was when I was six years old..and 48 years old I still absolutely love it.It's one of their finest songs.

1980 . Just wow Ashes to Ashes. Bowie Games without frontiers.Peter Gabriel. And this masterpiece. How lucky were we ?

This song gives me chills and memories. He is a master. So happy he and Roxy Music are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

The bassline on this song is KILLER!!!

Brian Ferry: The 007 of pop music.

Played this song every day for years. Music doesn't get any better than Roxy Music. Did most of my courting of the ladies back in the day to Bryan and Roxy's Albums. Always found as soon as I played Roxy in my car with a romantic view from the window in a secluded spot, it was the automatic underwear release button for those beautiful femme fatales of my youth. Thank you so much Roxy Music, you made a difference in so many young couples lives and nowadays, older couples too. 'Young Loving Baby, So Extreme'. We can't discover the 'Same Old Scene' but the memories, well they're very intact and current. I felt like James Bond and Bryan Ferry rolled into one back in the late 70's to early 80's in my Italian Lancia Flavia, beautiful car, beautiful lady on my arm, beautiful music, young love and things were never better. Wouldn't change a thing.

This brings back '80s memories ... dancing in NYC's clubs all night long, and going home as the sky was getting light. The best of times, for those of us in the right place at the right time.

What a bassline!

I spent 8 years trying to find the name of this song (pre-internet days), finally heard it in work on the factory radio and asked a friend what the title was. Bought the cassette the next day and played it nearly every day on my Walkman. Those were the days!

As a teenager I had a roxy music album and always skipped past this song. Then one day on a long car journey it played on the radio and I listened the whole way through. Blew me away! Can’t believe ever I skipped past it

like wine. gets better with the years

Brian Ferry, David Bowie, Sting , Peter Gabriel the list goes on these guys are legends they cannot be emulated these days , music isn't gonna get as good as this

Apparently this is Bryan Ferry’s favourite song.

Okay kids These were f**king musicians.

Andy Newmark - such an inspiring drummer. And that bass player - amazing

Saw Roxy Music last night at the LA Forum…had to hold back tears…their set was slower but they were all so perfect…Roxy Music…timeless

Was listening to Absolute 80s this afternoon, about to go out and get some beers in for this evening. And the DJ (Richie Firth maybe?) said "Coming up in the next quarter of an hour we have.......blah blah blah, Roxy Music's Same Old Scene, blah blah blah......." The beers had to wait....

A perfect symphony ... created by top level musicians! And with Bryan Ferry's magical touch of class.

After watching Ashes To Ashes, I have seriously fallen in love with this song and many other 80s songs!

I swear to god i could listen to this song on a constant loop!! How the hell do you write a song that does that? :-)

The bit at the end where he picks up his drink and his ciggy and leaves the band still playing. My work here is done - super cool ❤️

One of Roxy Music's best songs. Full banger!

Best musicians ever. One of the best groups ever.

The quintessential sound of sophistication, sexiness and electric cool...so so cool!!

This Tune Still Haunts me 40yrs Later the Ultimate Roxy tune!!

Ashes to Ashes reminded me of this track......memories of family holidays in the car with dad's music. Roxy Music, 10cc, Dire Straits, Phil Collins... This song's always stuck as being a favourite. 35 years on, nothings changed.

is anybody listening in 2020 please let me know I hope I'm not the only one 😟

Roxy Music, the only band I would listen to who sang "relationship songs." There is just something about their presentation that (in my opinion) rises above sleaze and even above innuendo and makes seeking, desiring, and even losing seem so sweet. I don't know if they'll be one of the bands I pass on to my children (my daughter loves most of my other 70s/80s innovator bands), but they will always feel timeless to me.

Took an old girlfriend to a Roxy concert .... Ferry had just turned 61.... she came away saying she wanted to sleep with him .... says it all really .... Bryan Ferry has always been effortlessly cool.

Incredible to think that this song was released almost 42 years ago, I was 14 ffs!…I still return to this periodically just to remind me how great the 80’s were from a musical perspective, my favourite Roxy Music song without a doubt…Outstanding!

Bryan Ferry. "The gentleman of music.." there is no one as him nowday

It most probably is Roxy's finest hour - sheer musical perfection only surpassed possibly by More Than This. The way Ferry just fucks off at the end cooly sucking a cigarette...that's class you just can't teach.

I'm a millennial, and a song/band of this quality hasn't been seen in my lifetime.

This song has got the lot. Bass. Drums. Sax. Keyboards. Fantastic. that Bass takes some beating.Alan Spenner R.I.P.

One of Roxy's greatest songs from one of their best albums

Just wonderful. Sounds as good today as it did 40 years ago.

The repeating verses towards the end is pure bliss..very sublime.. haunting.

Working all week, the weekend comes, getting dressed up, walking into a disco with this playing, Memories 🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Absolute classic song. I first heard it in my late teens. It gave me goosebumps then and it still does now.

When music was fun and danceable: urbane; sexy; multi-textured, with a hypnotic pulse. A fantastic, ground-breaking album from the thickening mists of time

Even 40 years after, I still adore it ! And many other tunes of Roxy of course !

One of those tunes that somehow manages to capture a specific times vibration embedded between the drums, words & the rest. Greatness.

Loved his music since I was 14... and now I'm 60 and not tired of listen all these masterpieces Roxy Music gave to us.. Happy Birthday Mr Brian Ferry!!

'Flesh + Blood' and 'Avalo'n will will stand out even for decades to come... Evereting is so stylish and perfect that you just can't think of anything to be changed... I can't say that about many of the other music...

I love the piano and synths in the chorus. And the lyrics are some of Ferry’s finest. And how one can sound so skeptical yet so sexy is a mystery Ferry will ever only know the answer to..

If I was forced to choose this would be my fave Roxy number.

Without Roxy music theres no Duran duran , depeche mode , a-ha , spandu ballet and many more ..legends

The bass is in this song is somewhat badass !! Just love it !!

Timeless classic! Beautiful song, production and clip that captures well the cool creative mood of Bryan Ferry and the whole band in 1980.

Alan Spenner's bass was simply sublime and he was the engine room in this exciting song. When he died at the young age of 43, he left a void in the world of music, not to mention intricate memorable bass licks. I tried for years to mimic this bass line but it's just too good, and should be left alone. Fab.

Music is my biggest passion. My biggest love. My own religion. After my own health music is 2nd on my long time priority list. And songs like this as well as bands like this one strengthen my love to music. I love such atmospheric tunes like this one. My love to music will be unbroken for all time. It will even survive my own death. Music is timeless. Especially tunes like "Same old scene".

What a absolutely fantastic song my dad used to listen to roxy music all the time when I used to go in his truck with him 30 years later I'm listening to this song and it fookin rocks especially when Bryan gets up from the keyboard and sods off with his cigarette what a absolute legend

Great song, maybe the best of Roxy Music. The atmosphere of melancholy, the fantastic bass, saxophone solo and let's not forget, an insane production! That is still the case after 44 years. Conclusion: this is an all time classic!

Cream always rises to the top and that is the case here, anybody agree.

Tune! ❤❤❤❤ Oh the memories 😢 A timeless classic 👏👏🥰🥰

Roxy Music one of the coolest bands by far.... Turned on to them in 84 by Duran Duran and fell in love with RM right then and there. Got to see Bryan in concert a few years ago and it was amazing. Timeless.

Nothing lasts forever that I'm sure, except for this timeless great song 👌☮️❤️🇺🇸

I remember the first time I heard this song it was on a soundtrack to a film starring Trini Alvarado and some punk rock chick I was like 13 and I have loved Roxy Music ever since.

What a song , brilliant

bassist is a beast

This songs means So much to me Reminds me of my beautiful unique brother just such great times his favourite band He was my hero miss you love you forever Nothing lasts forever cherish the moment 💔I will cherish the memories Time is precious 💕

Still listening in 2019!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE ROXY!

When everything with the band is just style, outfits, songwriting, vocals and instrumentation... There surely was a band playing on my radio back in the day... and I said 'Oh Yeah'...

I’m 3 again, sat in the back of my dads Ford Capri. Listening to the boys and girls album. I’m 40 now 😢

That bass....FFS it’s just sublime.

Nothings last forever Of that I'm sure Now you've made an offer I'll take some more Young loving may be Oh so mean Will I still survive The same old scene? In our lighter moments precious few It's all that heavy weather We're going through When I turn the corner I can't believe It's still the same old movie That's haunting me Young loving may be Oh so mean Trying to revive The same old scene Young loving may be So extreme Maybe we should try The same old scene Nothings last forever Of that I'm sure Now you've made an offer I'll take some more