Stranded

Roxy Music | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002LJK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #151,499 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Street Life

2. Just Like You

3. Amazona

4. Psalm

5. Serenade

6. A Song for Europe

7. Mother of Pearl

8. Sunset

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An underrated masterpiece, April 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Stranded (Audio CD)

Though it is not as strong as SIREN and COUNTRY LIFE, STRANDED works because it is one of the most elegant Roxy albums. There's some strangeness in "Street Life" and "Amazona", as well as the beginning to "Mother of Pearl," but for the most part the album is calmer than early Roxy albums. For that reason, it must have shocked and upset those fans who jumped on board when Eno was in the band, but it doesn't mean it is inferior. Rather, STRANDED's beauty is magnificent. "Psalm" has an uplifting aura to it, spirituality without the dogma. "Song For Europe" has a great middle section, when the violins come crashing in for a near-lead, and the aforemnetioned tracks are all stunning. The others are pretty good too. Get COUNTRY for the rock, SIREN for the funk, and this one for beauty.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Roxy album, August 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Stranded (Audio CD)

This is probably the flip side to SIREN--the most underrated Roxy Music album of the first incarnation of the band. The production by Chris Thomas is stellar and the songwriting superb. While a little monochromatic in the overall "sound", this album would pave the way for the superior COUNTRY LIFE.

The lyrics see Ferry's themes emerge mature for the first time. While the earlier album was recorded by a group playing at being a rock band, this is an album by the rock band itself. Serious themes(religion, love, the crush of civilization)would reappear in various forms on later albums until the band broke up for the first time in 1976.

Some of the songs require repeated listenings to fully appreciate their depth, but are well worth the effort. While the casual fan won't appreciate this album perhaps as much as the hardcore Roxy fan, after giving popping the cover and allowing it to breathe, they'll find like fine wine, STRANDED gets better with every listening.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, But Inconsistent, February 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Stranded (Audio CD)

It's hard to put an accurate star rating on Stranded. The highlights easily rank 5 stars, but there are a couple weak tracks ("Just Like You" & most of "Amazona," although it has a blazing Manzanera guitar solo).

By this point, the hard-rocking numbers were no longer served up as straight-ahead stompers such as "Virginia Plain" or "Editions Of You." Everything on Stranded had odd, edgy elements that assured poor sales in the U.S. Hard to describe musically, but tremendously original creative songs & execution. About half the songs seem to start one place, go someplace completely different along the way, & either reach startling levels of intensity ("Psalm") or come back to where they started ("Amazona" careens out of control, then abruptly returns}. You've never heard anything like it, and you never will. That alone probably makes it essential, along with the devastatingly simple and beautiful coda, "Sunset."