Roxy Music For Your Pleasure CD

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 Editions of You
Discussing ROXY MUSIC is not an easy task, as they define most traditional music boundaries. I'm a bit biased when it comes to "FOR YOUR PLEASURE", as it was my first ROXY album. I was introduced to ROXY via the old Warner Brothers "Loss-Leader" Samplers, which would be an incredible CD re-issue project in itself. To most, ROXY is not much more than "Love Is the Drug", "More Than This", or perhaps even simply Bryan Ferry's old band; but you owe it to yourself to listen carefully to their first five releases, in their entirety. You'll be Pleasantly surprised at the treasures contained therein.
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 Nice remastering
This is a nice remastering CD.
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 Still sounds great
It seems strange to me that we are getting close to 40 years since this album was released. This is great stuff and nobody has come close to the Roxy sound. Still sounds great to this day and Bryan Ferry remains atop of the list of rocks greatest crooners.
Submitted by spang99 (akron, oh)
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 Inside The Pleasure Dome
Roxy Music was a band that polarized many of their audience...nobody could ever really pin down what their exact musical statement was. It took me a while to warm up to their sound during their decade-long tenure as they consistently produced a very compelling, original and at times an irritating melange of styles. "For Your Pleasure" stands as their masterwork, incorporating fierce rockers such as "Do The Strand" and "Editions Of You", torch numbers such as "Strictly Confidential" and "Beauty Queen" and experimental intellectual long cuts such as "The Bogus Man" and the title song, which included an impressive cacophony of voices and "tone wobble". With this effort, Roxy painted a surrealistic world of love, lust, rejection, alienation and emotional pain laced with a sinister decadence. An excellent, underrated work.
Submitted by Will-T (Lawrenceburg IN)
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 This is the future....
When Roxy Music exploded on the scene in 1972 with "Virginia Plain", nobody had heard anything like it. Opinions were polarised immediately. Were they for real or was it just a huge hype ? The astonishing debut stunned everybody who heard it, and established Roxy as a force to be reckoned with. In the Spring of 1973 "For Your Pleasure" was released. The thirty five years has not diminished its' daring innovations, especially on "Do The Strand" and the chilling "Bogus Man". No wonder, they were so revered. When groups name themselves from songs of the original source, you know that they are influential....
Submitted by Rob J (Letchworth, Herts)
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