Roxy Music | Stranded [1973] Vinyl Review | States & Kingdoms 

A good review. It took about 35 years for this to become my favourite Roxy LP. It definitely rewards repeat listens. The lyrics are so good.

Very grateful for the education I get here. This is another really good record. It's kind of crazy to me that you all know way more about bands/records that I should have known about. All I knew about Roxy Music was what came out in college, Flesh and Blood and Avalon. Better late than never. If this is what you were growing up with, you must have the coolest parents ever.

Mother of pearl is probably one of the most beautiful and epic songs that Bryan ferry and Roxy music had written to that point and also I find the rest of stranded a grower of an album and it really took me a few listens to fully appreciate this album

“Stranded” has become my personal favorite Roxy Music album. It contains a suite of songs that were Roxy’s and Ferry’s absolute artistic apogee. Interestingly it is the first album post Brian Eno and ironically happens to be Eno’s favourite. It’s great to see the younger generation appreciating someone as influential as Ferry. Roxy and Ferry became the sonic blue print for so, so, so, many English bands. You mentioned Duran Duran. They also heavily influenced the much more interesting Japan/David Sylvian. A generation of great British guitarists have guested on Ferry’s post Roxy solo albums. David Gilmour, Johnny Marr, Johnny Greenwood to name just a few. Nile Rogers was living in London for a short while when his British girlfriend decided to take him to a show by a band that he had never heard of. That band was Roxy Music. He was blown away by the music and style of the band and said to his musical collaborator that when he got back to NYC he wanted to start up a band just like Roxy. That band would become Chic. I think for the most part Roxy never became big in the US because their style was too sophisticated and left of centre for the conventional tastes of the time. But yes hugely underrated and under known here.

One of my favourite singles ever is That’s How I’m Livin by Ice-T so the first time I heard this album I freaked when I heard Amazona 😂 the direct lift for the On Rox mix (ok so I get the Rox thing now 😂). But here’s an album that has no Eno and oddly it’s the better for it. I think their best album.

This is my third place Roxy, following Siren and number one: Avalon

Siren is my favorite, but I really like the first 3 post-Eno records more than what came before & after. Maybe less adventurous than the first 2, but I prefer the consistency, comparable to XTC after Barry left in some ways.