Stranded [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Roxy Music | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 14, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1973
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B0000256KM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,382 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My initiation to Roxy, March 16, 2005

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B. Kemper "Buzz" (Madison, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stranded (Audio CD)

Back in the day, I was working the graveyard shift at a radio station in Minneapolis. Waaaaaay in the back of the record library was a dusty stack of LPs never meant to see the light of day. Most of it was junk, but this record caught my attention (the photo of the beautiful woman in the torn dress is an attention-getter), and I put it on the turntable. I could not believe such creative musicians existed (other than King Crimson, but I digress). The ultimate irony is that, right next to this disc was the first Foreigner album. So there they were, the record that represented everything I hated about commercial pop music (Foreigner), and this Roxy album which was like finding a starlit path to heaven. I immediately became addicted and started buying recordings by Roxy, Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, etc. etc.....everything I could get my hands on. This is talent. This is music. Ten zillion Foreigner albums are not worth the ink on the record label of this disc. Buy it. It is a mind-bending, fully original classic.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jet Black Magic, January 8, 2006

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(KKC) M. S. Artaxerxes Dionysus (Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stranded (Audio CD)

Roxy Music is one of those groups, where everybody has their own opinion of which album is the best, because they never made a record not worth buying ('Flesh + Blood' is vastly underrated). But this is my personal favourite, because every track here is simply perfect, & it ties the group together, both with the experimental group they were before Eno's departure just before this album. And at the same time, it has most of what makes the later 'Country Life' and 'Siren' such classic albums. And then it has 'Street Life'...

'Street Life', that opens the album, is simply Roxy's greatest song ever (some of the romantic ballads are as good, but you can't compare them). This song is pure joy from start to end, with Ferry manically unleashing some of his strongest lyrics ever. The music is a feverish, ecstatic festival for youth & life. It is a party anthem that never gets dumb, old or clichéed, because the imagery here is nothing short of sorcery! Romantic sorcerer, that is what Ferry is here. Or drunken god... but what's the difference? This song is worth the world alone...

'Just Like You' is a tender ballad of the kind that Ferry does a million of, without it getting repetitive. 'Amazona' is an alltime classic, with almost psychedelic lyrics & riff so magical that it sweeps away your feet. 'Psalm' is just that, with traces of gospel, though that's what it's not. 'Serenade' is utter joy, a rolling rocker that somehow retains the romanticism of the earlier songs, while seeing it through the eyes of rock'n'roll.
'A Song For Europe' is a haunting, dark track, reminiscent of Lou Reed's 'Berlin' epic, released the same year, but still not, as it retains Ferry's romanticism.
'Mother Of Pearl' starts out as a fantastic rocker, but after a minute & something, it is cut off, & becomes the gentlest & most beautiful of Ferry's love songs before 'Spin Me Round' from 'Manifesto' and the romantic longings of the 1982 album 'Avalon'.
With 'Sunset' the album ends in a climax that further solidifies this album as the most romantic ever, until the aforementioned 'Avalon', also by Roxy.

'Stranded', as said, reigns above the other Roxy albums for me, but other of their albums, like 'Manifesto', could be said to have a higher general quality of songs. I freely admit, that 'Street Life' alone ended the election, before I even looked at the rest of 'Stranded', but especially 'Amazona', 'Mother Of Pearl' and 'Serenade' rank among the band's best ever, & even the worst tracks aren't far behind, so I urge anybody who'd ever consider buying a popular music album, to get this as soon as possible.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Adrift without Eno Roxy makes it to shore on 3rd album, March 14, 2000

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This review is from: Stranded (Audio CD)

Stranded shows a more melodic but still ambitious Roxy Music trying on musicial styles. While they don't all fit perfectly, the look is dazzling nonetheless. Stranded is the band's first true collaborative effort from start to finish. The first album was primarily written before the final line up was assembled. The second clearly had much input (although a dimished role for him) from Eno. Stranded features Ferry to the fore and clearly the front man while still very much a collaborative effort.

The surprising Mother of Pearl (the first Ferry song where he improvised the lyrics while listening to the playback for the very first time), wistful A Song for Europe and reverent Psalm all capture Roxy's topsy turvy world in transition. While Stranded isn't as odd as For YOur Pleasure or rock as hard as COuntry Life, the melodic sheen of these well crafted songs stand out in comparison to those efforts.

Eno's favorite Roxy album is Stranded.