Roxy Music is in! R & R Hall of Fame
It happened!

Roxy Music was inducted into the Rocking Roll Hall Of Fame!!!!

Amazona
Mother of Pearl

It was on one of the "alphabet soup" channels. I saw it and they were given a passing mention, some high praise but little time.

Streelife


Back to nature, boys
bicycles too.

HA this is one of those songs where I got the lyric wrong and kept it, happily, until I discovered that the line is "Vassar girls too!" And I lived walking distance from that campus for 4 years. (I saw Fishbone there. Best mosh-pit ever.)

Yeah, well, if you like lounge music...

Roxy Music didn't start out that way, though. Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera made sure of that - until Brian Ferry's influence drowned them out.

This is one of my favourite Roxy Music tracks:

Well, it's about time. Brian Eno is in a class by himself, of course. Manzanera's sole work showed Roxy Music did not utilize him well. Brian's still one of the finest vocalists in popular music.

I like the live version better, off Viva, Roxy Music but the live version was the first version I heard of "Bogus Man"

I do like lounge music, but you've got that mixed up with something else.

You must listen to all the way through to get full appreciation.

This is lounge music Alone again, Naturally

And this is lounge music: You've got a friend

scherado wrote:I do like lounge music, but you've got that mixed up with something else.

Your notion of lounge music is excessively restricted. To me it encompasses more than what used to be known as muzak or elevator music. Anything I can imagine coming from the pen of someone like Burt Bacharach is lounge music to me. Example. For crying out loud, the entire band is dressed up like lounge lizards, tuxedoes and all.

As ever, the R&R Hall of Shame remains more notable for its snubs than who gets let in there.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/12/ ... ame-snubs/

Hermit wrote:

scherado wrote:I do like lounge music, but you've got that mixed up with something else.

Your notion of lounge music is excessively restricted. To me it encompasses more than what used to be known as muzak or elevator music. Anything I can imagine coming from the pen of someone like Burt Bacharach is lounge music to me. Example. For crying out loud, the entire band is dressed up like lounge lizards, tuxedoes and all.

Whoa, I think I'm suffering an lsd flashback to that video.

God, he irritates me...

Fallible wrote:God, he irritates me...

Brian Ferry?

Hermit wrote:... Anything I can imagine coming from the pen of someone like Burt Bacharach is lounge music to me. Example. ...

Well, I do agree about Bacharach, but I've never considered Roxy Music as lounge music and it's the music, not the outfits, that determines the classification. No? Yes. I do agree that they have superficial elements of lounge: the girls on the album covers, albums one through five. Look at the album covers of late 50s - 60s - early 70s Peter Nero, Roger Williams, What I call "schlock-meisters," put girls on the covers of albums that were all cover tunes, "so-and-so plays the hits!" 101 Strings Orchestra, Ferrante & Teicher, Guitars Galore, Brazil '66, there are others. I used to make compilation tapes with themes, "Schlock Wars", "Stop & Schlock (grocery store music)", "Schlock Fight: Lennon vs. McCartney -- here's clue for you all ... the schlock was ____" (Ex, The Carpenters, Ticket To Ride; "One Schlock Pony" (Simon & Garfunkle covers; Peter Nero, Scarborough Fair/Canticle), "Schlock of Ages (modern treatments of classical piecesRoger Williams, Also Sprach Zarathustra). But my masterpiece I call "Schlock Therapy." If you listen to it all the way through, you will NOT think of your troubles anymore!

Here's a sample: Peter Nero, Never My Love