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At last - the definitive collection
I know what some people are thinking - we've had plenty of compilations of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music as well as re-issues of the original albums. However, the single CD compilations always missed out some hits because there were too many to include them all. This British compilation, covering Bryan's career to date, contains all their UK hits (including their minor hits)...
Three CD set.....not all are great,....sorry!
I gave this Set three stars since out of three CDs included in this set, really, only one Cd is fantastic.
Basically, of the three Cds included in this Set , I still prefer the ROXY MUSIC Cd the best. Why?? Because some of Brian Ferry's songs are just plain too weird for me.
This is just my opinion: .... but if you love Roxy Music, as I do,...
I know what some people are thinking - we've had plenty of compilations of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music as well as re-issues of the original albums. However, the single CD compilations always missed out some hits because there were too many to include them all. This British compilation, covering Bryan's career to date, contains all their UK hits (including their minor hits) except for a re-mix of Let's stick together. You also get a nice selection of their other tracks.
Bryan Ferry, either solo or as lead singer with Roxy music, made the top ten of the British charts in the seventies and eighties with fifteen singles, all included here, and an extended play EP, the first track of which - a cover of Price of love, the Everly Brothers classic from 1965 - is included here.
Bryan wrote a lot of his own material but he also recorded some distinctive covers including Smoke gets in your eyes, These foolish things, The in crowd, He'll have to go, Will you love me tomorrow, As time goes by, Jealous guy (which provided Bryan with his only UK number one hit), and A hard rain's a gonna fall.
All of the essentials are here including all the songs already mentioned plus Let's stick together, Virginia plain, Love is the drug, Dance away, Angel eyes, Oh yeah and More than this.
If you enjoy the best of British rock from the seventies, you will be pleased that you can finally get all Bryan's hits in one handy package.
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This 3-disc collection of Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry hits, "The Platinum Collection," focuses on Ferry's unerring pop sense. The set is heavy on Ferry's solo work, from his caberet-style cover songs to his dance hall originals, and is by far the best collection of his solo work yet released. The core Roxy hits provide context for the lead singer's career, but this is really not the place to be introduced to Roxy. That box set is called "The Thrill of It All," and, at 4 discs, is recommended ahead of this collection. After all, the early contributions of a young keyboardist named Brian Eno are an essential part of this band's story. "The Platinum Collection" would have served us best as 2-disc solo Ferry set, as his hits have previously only been available as part of skimpy Roxy Music best-ofs. "The Platinum Collection" does manage to present the least experimental, most accessible side of Ferry's catalog(s), which might be appropriate for the uninitiated. This collection might be too much for the casual listener, while those who really wish to delve into Roxy should seek out "The Thrill of It All," or purchase the individual albums. In spite of considerable overlap, I chose to add "The Platinum Collection" to a CD collection which already contains "The Thrill of It All."
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I love the early Roxy Stuff, and the Later Bryan Ferry Stuff. It hardly seems like the same perosn when you hear the full progression of Ferry from Glam rockin Eno-Ite to the mellow crooner he has become. I will say he is still cool and fun to listen to in any era of his music. The only oddity is the glaring ommision of "Out of the Blue" and "In Every Dream Home a Heartache". Oh well, I have those in other form as well. It's a great Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music starter kit.
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Bryan Ferry sings some of the best music in rock/pop history. This collection gives fans a great collection of everything he's done over the years, and also a good variety of music within the timespan of his early career to the most recent recordings. He is truly an innovator, a gifted singer and composer.
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This collection is farily expensive if you buy it new, but I got it used. It spans the whole career of Roxy Music and Brian Ferry until the mid 90's. If you like their music, you will like this collection. The one glaring omission was "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"-one of Brian's best covers.
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Just a really fine tri disk compilation of his good fast/slow work. I got turned on to Ferry from the Ridley Scott film Legend featuring Is your love strong Enough? at the end of the film. Just love his pop sensibilities and instrument timing on his work. Highly recommended for lite fans and more. 5 stars.
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I was a fan of Roxy Music since I first heard Avalon and More Than This. They have always been a band that people can relate to. Roxy Music is a Progressive Rock band that wore drag, with Brian Eno beginning in this Band as its Keyboardist, and the fact that with Sax and great Rock and Roll guitar as well as drum and bass, that makes Roxy Music into a true anthem band of British Rock fron the 1970s.
Bryan Ferry is a great Crooner, and he even in drag is a Glam Rock Sinatra, when David Bowie has no one ever who can stand at his level from before or after, as a performer, as they BROKE THE MOLD when he was created as a performer. Bryan and Roxy Music are definatly Bowie types in performing, with the use of Keyboards and Moorg Synth sounds as well as Sax and Rock Guitar, giving them such a classic style of the time that could rival Bowie, but of course no one could top Bowie.
My favorate songs from the time from 1972 to 1975 are Street Life and Pajamarama as well as Love is The Drug plus Virginia Plain and Both Ends Burning from Roxy itself as a Band, when Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and The In Crowd by Bryan solo are amazing, but his version of Dylan's Hard Rains Gonna Fall is the top favorate for me from that period for Bryan, when my least favorate from that era in anything is Do The Strand. Lets Stick Together was released in 1975, and I totally recomend the whole album and not just the selections on this Collection. In dealing with 1975 to 1985 I recomend Dance Away and Angel Eyes as well as Sign of the Times from Bryan's Bride Stripped Bare album. Avalon is a true classic but Flesh + Blood has songs that are not too clamorous for me, so the songs from that album on the Collection exept Same old Sceene I do not recomend. Avalon and Boys and Girls are classics in full status, while Is Your Love Strong Enough is a song that should have been on Boys and Girls reissued or Bete Noire which was as amazing.
In closing this is a true classic in a Collection.
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I gave this Set three stars since out of three CDs included in this set, really, only one Cd is fantastic.
Basically, of the three Cds included in this Set , I still prefer the ROXY MUSIC Cd the best. Why?? Because some of Brian Ferry's songs are just plain too weird for me.
This is just my opinion: .... but if you love Roxy Music, as I do, then it's probably better to buy "The BEST of ROXY MUSIC"...period! I found that some of Brian's songs to be just plain boring, so why buy a 3 Cd set?
In my opinion, I think that Brian Ferry was at his best when he was with ROXY MUSIC (rather than as a single singer).
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