Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure [6/24]

Artist:

Roxy Music

See Also:

Manzanera, Phil Kraftwerk Ferry, Bryan Dylan, Bob Eno, Brian Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - More Than This: Best of Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music Various Artists - Roxy Re-Modeled [Digipak]

Description:

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.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Do the Strand
2. Beauty Queen
3. Strictly Confidential
4. Editions of You
5. In Every Dream Home a Heartache
6. Bogus Man
7. Grey Lagoons
8. For Your Pleasure

Album Information

Release Date:

06/24/2008

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Art Rock

Label:

Virgin EG Records

Catalog Number:

VJCP-68822

Original Release Year:

1973

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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