Roxy Music (Album)
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June 16, 1972 |
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March 14-29 March 1972 |
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LP |
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9 (original album) |
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42:12 minutes |
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Command Studios, London |
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Roxy Music is the first studio album by the English glam rock band Roxy Music of the same name . It was released on June 16, 1972. The album made it to number ten on the UK music charts after its release .
music
The opening track Re-Make / Re-Model was described as a postmodern pastiche , in which the “solos” of the individual band members reflect various Western musical epochs, including Day Tripper by the Beatles , Duane Eddy's version of Peter Gunn and Wagner's Ritt der Valkyries . The esoteric title CPL593H was reportedly the license plate number of a car Ferry saw outside the studio with a beautiful woman. For the title Ladytron , Brian Eno produced what he said was a "pretty crazy noise" with his synthesizer and tape recorders . Bryan Ferry asked him for a sound for this song: "... like on the moon".
Some of the tracks on the album were linked to movie themes. The title 2HB as a play on words was Ferry's homage to Humphrey Bogart and quoted the line “Here's looking at you, kid” from the film Casablanca (1942). Chance Meeting was inspired by David Lean's 1945 film Brief Encounter . The Bob got its title from the 1968 film Battle of Britain and has a passage reminiscent of the sound of gunfire. If There Is Something was covered by David Bowie's band Tin Machine and was later used as the main score in the British film Flashbacks of a Fool by director Baillie Walsh .
Andy Mackay (saxophone) later said of the music on the album : "We certainly didn't invent electricity, but we have shown and proven that you can use it to record anything in rock 'n' roll - well, really."
Production and album cover
Roxy Music had rehearsed for a few months and reworked the songs until they finally found a studio to record. The entire album was recorded in a single week at Command Studios in London . Since there was no record deal yet, the band had to finance the recording with 5,000 pounds themselves. The album was produced by King Crimson's lyricist Peter Sinfield . In May 1972, a few weeks after the studio recordings, a contract was signed with Island Records . In June 1972 the album was released.
The band's penchant for glamor was evident in both the lyrics and the 1950s-style album cover. Photographer Karl Stoecker photographed the cover with model Kari-Ann Muller, who later married Chris Jagger, Mick Jagger's brother (a stylized portrait of Kari-Ann Muller also graces the cover of Mott the Hoople's 1974 album The Hoople ). The Roxy Music album was dedicated to “Susie,” a drummer who auditioned for Roxy Music in the early days.
publication
The Roxy Music album , especially the LP version, has been released in various versions over the years. The album's original cover, released by Island Records in the UK in 1972, contained a folding sleeve depicting the band (including original bass guitarist Graham Simpson) in the stage attire designed by fashion designer Antony Price . This version was published without the title Virginia Plain .
In July 1972, a few weeks after signing the contract, Roxy Music recorded two more songs, Virginia Plain and The Numberer , which have now been released as a single. They reached number four in the UK singles charts and increased sales of the album, which has now also reached number ten on the charts. The title Virginia Plain was now included in most of the later reissues of the album, including the CD versions .
The 1972 US release of the album by Warner Bros. Entertainment included the song Virginia Plain , which had previously only been released as a single in the UK. This release of the LP also contained a fold-out cover, but Simpson's photo was replaced by that of Rik Kenton, who played bass on the song Virginia Plain after Simpson's departure from Roxy Music .
The US distribution of Roxy Music was transferred from Reprise Records to Atco Records (a sister company of Atlantic Records ) in 1976 and again to Reprise Records in the mid-1980s. The LP editions that were pressed during this period no longer contained a folding cover or band photos, but only the title and artist information on the back cover of the album.
A version of all nine tracks on the British album were recorded by the BBC for the John Peel Sessions on January 4 and May 23, 1972, with David O'List as a guest musician on guitar.
Reviews
In his 1973 review for US music magazine Creem , Robert Christgau wrote : “From the drag queen on the cover to the beau in the center fold, to the polished deformation of the music, this celebrates the kind of artistry that is so unhealthy acts like the sheen on a piece of rotten meat. However, the LP is decorated with such weird songs that it still gets an 'A' grade for side one. Page two is dominated a little too much by the synthesizer (played by a bald, long-haired eunuch doppelganger named Eno) without the saving grace of drums and bassline. "In the special edition of the English Q-magazine" Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock " The album took number 31 in the list of the best 40 cosmic rock albums.
Brian Ferry was quoted around the time of their third album, Stranded, as saying that he did not like the strange production method of the first album and so re-recorded the titles Re-Make / Re-Model , 2HB , Chance Meeting and Sea Breezes for them between 1973 and 1976 to republish as B-sides to some of his solo singles. In 1976 these titles appeared on his solo album Let's Stick Together .
In 1994, Roxy Music was listed at number 57 on Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 albums. He described it as "totally original with a touch of bizarre air". The album puts Bryan Ferry and Eno "at the forefront of the art rock movement". In 2003 Rolling Stone voted the album at number 62 on its list of the best debut albums of all time and declared; “In England in the early 1970s, there was nerdy art rock and sexy glam rock , and they rarely met. Until this album, that is. ”While Uncut magazine ranked the album ninth in their 2015 best debut list.
Super Deluxe Edition CD, DVD, book
In March 2018 a Super Deluxe 3CD + 1DVD + book edition of the debut album Roxy Music was released. It contains original demos from 1971, the original album, alternative takes, a BBC recording ( John Peel Session ) and a DVD with rare video material, as well as a 5.1 surround mix of Steven Wilson's album . Published in a sturdy slipcase with a hardback book (136 pages) with an essay by Richard Williams with rare and unpublished band photos.
Playlists
Original UK LP release
| A side | title | length |
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| 1 | Re-make / re-model | 5:10 |
| 2 | Ladytron | 4:21 |
| 3 | If there is something | 6:33 |
| 4th | 2HB | 4:34 |
| B side | ||
| 1 | The Bob (Medley) | 5:48 |
| 2 | Chance meeting | 3:00 |
| 3 | Would you believe? | 3:47 |
| 4th | Sea breezes | 7:00 |
| 5 | Bitters end | 2:02 |
Original US LP release
| A side | title | length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Re-make / re-model | 5:14 |
| 2 | Ladytron | 4:28 |
| 3 | If there is something | 6:34 |
| 4th | 2HB | 4:31 |
| B side | ||
| 1 | The Bob (Medley) | 5:49 |
| 2 | Chance meeting | 3:10 |
| 3 | Would you believe? | 3:53 |
| 4th | Sea breezes | 7:03 |
| 5 | Bitters end | 2:03 |
Title list Super Deluxe Edition, CD, DVD
| The original album, Roxy Music | ||
| CD1-1 | Re-make / re-model | 5:14 |
| CD1-2 | Ladytron | 4:28 |
| CD1-3 | If there is something | 6:34 |
| CD1-4 | Virginia Plain | 2:57 |
| CD1-5 | 2 HB | 4:31 |
| CD1-6 | The Bob (Medley) | 5:49 |
| CD1-7 | Chance meeting | 3:10 |
| CD1-8 | Would you believe? | 4:03 |
| CD1-9 | Sea breezes | 7:04 |
| CD1-10 | Bitters end | 2:08 |
| Demos & Outtakes, (Demos May 1971) | ||
| CD2-1 | Ladytron | 5:21 |
| CD2-2 | 2 HB | 7:14 |
| CD2-3 | Chance meeting | 4:22 |
| CD2-4 | The Bob (Medley) | 5:59 |
| Album outtakes (March 1972) | ||
| CD2-5 | Instrumental | 0:32 |
| CD2-6 | Re-make / re-model | 8:13 |
| CD2-7 | Ladytron | 5:16 |
| CD2-8 | If there is something | 7:06 |
| CD2-9 | 2 HB | 4:43 |
| CD2-10 | The Bob (Medley) | 7:19 |
| CD2-11 | Chance meeting | 3:05 |
| CD2-12 | Would you believe? | 5:30 |
| CD2-13 | Sea breezes | 2:38 |
| CD2-14 | Bitters end | 6:04 |
| CD2-15 | Virginia Plain | 3:35 |
| The BBC Sessions | ||
| The Peel Sessions January 4, 1972 | ||
| CD3-1 | If there is something | 6:38 |
| CD3-2 | The Bob (Medley) | 5:50 |
| CD3-3 | Would you believe? | 3:49 |
| CD3-4 | Sea breezes | 8:18 |
| CD3-5 | Re-make / re-model | 4:58 |
| The Peel Sessions May 23, 1972 | ||
| CD3-6 | 2 HB | 3:46 |
| CD3-7 | Ladytron | 6:14 |
| CD3-8 | Chance meeting | 3:00 |
| The Peel Sessions July 18, 1972 | ||
| CD3-9 | Virginia Plain | 4:03 |
| BBC In Concert, August 3, 1972 | ||
| CD3-10 | The Bob (Medley) | 5:51 |
| CD3-11 | Sea breezes | 7:11 |
| CD3-12 | Virginia Plain | 3:27 |
| CD3-13 | Chance meeting | 5:31 |
| CD3-14 | Re-make / re-model | 6:28 |
| DVDs | ||
| Royal College of Art, June 1972 | ||
| DVD-1 | Re-make / re-model | |
| BBC Old Gray Whistle Test, June 20, 1972 | ||
| DVD-2 | Ladytron | |
| Top of the Pops , August 24, 1972 | ||
| DVD-3 | Virginia Plain | |
| Full House , November 25, 1972 | ||
| DVD-4 | Re-make / re-model | |
| DVD-5 | Ladytron | |
| TV recording (Paris, Bataclan ), November 26, 1972 | ||
| DVD-6 | Would you believe? | |
| DVD-7 | If there is something | |
| DVD-8 | Sea breezes | |
| DVD-9 | Virginia Plain | |
| Audio DVD, 5.1 DTS 96/24 | ||
| Dolby AC3 Mix (Steven Wilson) | ||
| DVD-10 | Re-make / re-model | |
| DVD-11 | Ladytron | |
| DVD-12 | If there is something | |
| DVD-13 | 2 HB | |
| DVD-14 | The bob | |
| DVD-15 | Chance meeting | |
| DVD-16 | Would you believe | |
| DVD-17 | Sea breezes | |
| DVD-18 | Bitters end | |
| DVD-19 | Virginia Plain | |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Roxy Music: VivaRoxyMusic. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (English).
- ^ Richard Havers: Virgin: The Electric 80s. In: udiscovermusic. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Discogs: The Hoople. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
- ^ Roxy Music: Susie. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Kari Ann ( English ) imdb.com. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
- ^ Paul Stump: Unknown Pleasures: A Cultural Biography of Roxy Music . Quartet (UK) / Thunder's Mouth (US), 1998, ISBN 1-56025-212-X , p. 48 .
- ↑ Virginia Plain. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
- ^ John Peel, Ken Garner: In Session Tonight: The Complete Radio 1 Recordings . BBC Consumer Publishing, 1993, ISBN 978-0-563-36452-8 , pp. 320 .
- ^ Robert Christgau: The Christgau Consumer Guide. In: Creem . March 1973, accessed April 24, 2020 .
- ^ Q Magazine (Classic): Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock . Ed .: [1] . July 2005.
- ↑ Colin Larkin : Guinness Book of Top 1000 Albums . Ed .: Gullane Children's Books. 1st edition. 1994, ISBN 978-0-85112-786-6 , pp. 26 .
- ↑ Rolling Stone: 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time. October 13, 2013, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
- ↑ UNCUT: Uncut's 100 best debut albums. May 8, 2015, accessed May 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Classic Rock: Review: Roxy Music - ROXY MUSIC SUPER DELUXE. February 10, 2018, accessed May 24, 2020 .