Roxy Music

Roxy Music | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002LJI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,032 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Re-Make/Re-Model

2. Ladytron

3. If There Is Something

4. Virginia Plain [*]

5. 2HB

6. The Bob (Medley)

7. Chance Meeting

8. Would You Believe?

9. Sea Breezes

10. Bitters End

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I put this at the head of my desert island disc choices..., July 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Roxy Music (Audio CD)

because ever since I read its over-the-top gushing review in the late great PHONOGRAPH RECORD MAGAZINE circa 1972 & bought it, the damn thing's held up year after year! The majority of these reviews are well-put & dead-on accurate: THIS is the band's best, most original, wild & crazy, fun, chance-taking, 'hungry' album... with a timeless Duchampian/Warholian/alienated-genius/sci fi/girl-gettin'/cinematic/all stops out! ambience... After which, gradually the commercialising conservatising effects of 'success' & slickness increasingly took their toll...The 2* geeks have major personality disorders & will not get into heaven...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Weird & The Wonderful, February 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Roxy Music (Audio CD)

Nothing before or since sounds like Roxy's debut effort. It lurches all over the map, including bits of loud rock, odd tape samples, heavily ironic takes on pop music, 50's rock-n-roll & some stuff you can't even identify. Some times, all in the same song. Roxy Music probably paid a heavy commercial price the rest of their career for this album, since it indelibly tagged them as weirdos long after their sound changed completely. Nonetheless, it is terrific on its own merits. Anyone with a taste for the unusual (but not atonal) should consider this a must-have.

For those whose image of Roxy is the Siren-to-Avalon dreamy mood, this does not even resemble that band. Eno's influence was at its zenith on the debut. Not the ambient Eno, but the madcap cut-&-paste pop pastiche Eno. Plenty of guitar & greasy sax to leaven the mayhem. All in all, lots of fun interspersed with a serious dose of "what in the world was that?"

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliance mascarading as mediocrity, September 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Roxy Music (Audio CD)

This put-on is deadly serious, which makes it all the funnier. The twisted pop noir sensibility borrowed from the Beatles and the Velvets, and introduced the world to a superbly twisted Brian Eno on synthesizer. Underestimate this album at your peril. It contains many crafty ideas that later became de rigeur: chaotic harmonics, sweeping ambient synth, repetitive hypnotic rhythms and supremely British psyche-gnashing romanticism.