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With FOR YOUR PLEASURE, the second Roxy Music album, the band began to explore a little more of the "dark side" of the glamorous world that had become their lyrical and musical playground. Even the cover art suggests this division: a preposterously posed women walking a snarling panther is watched by singer Bryan Ferry, decked out in chauffeur's livery and removed from the action, merely observing. Musically, this decay is examined most clearly in "In Every Dream Home a Heartache," a disturbing tale about an inflatable sex doll that, at times, suggests some of the creepier moments from the Doors catalogue--"The End" in particular.
Opening with the spectacular debauch of "Do the Strand," the album pulls no punches--"It burns your blue jeans, you know what I mean" indeed! Together with "Editions of You," it shows the band moving through the similar territory inhabited by "Virginia Plain" (from ROXY MUSIC), quasi-rock shot through with squalling saxophones. The nine-minute slow burn of "The Bogus Man" displays Paul Thompson's solid drumming to great effect, while the rest of the band fleshes things out with a not exactly scary, but decidedly "off" atmosphere. Another classic.
Roxy Music: Bryan Ferry (vocals, keyboards); Phil Manzanera (guitar); Andy Mackay (oboe, saxophone); Brian Eno (synthesizer, tapes); Paul Thompson (drums).
Additional personnel: John Porter (bass instrument).
Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.107) - Ranked #30 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...Ferry's most pathetic erotic idolatries...it sounds good..."
Q (6/00, p.75) - Ranked #33 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"
Q (9/99, pp.122-3) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...a more consistent, together album, by definition less weird than the first, but Ferry's world of high-class ladies...is always couched in screeching guitar and atmospherics....sophisticated rock songs..."
NME (Magazine) (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #27 among The Greatest Albums Of The '70s.
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure Songs
For Your Pleasure Music Review
Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)    List All 6 Reviews 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.
Submitted by a reviewer (Jacksonville, FL, USA) 
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Nice remastering
This is a nice remastering CD.
Submitted by a reviewer (Tokyo, Japan)
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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)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 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....
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