WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME "SIREN" WAS SO DAMN GOOD?

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Roxy Music I love you

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

like many things, this is Scorsese's fault. (me watching Casino: "ah, 'Love is the Drug'. That is one quality choon right there. Wonder if the rest of the album is as good.")

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Both ends burning, baby.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, no doubt. melismania!!

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

BEST DUB INTRO EVER -> BEST SYNTH LINE EVER -> BEST ELECTRIC PIANO EVER*

*maybe not ever but oh man that is niiiiice

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you know what it means to me
To delight in your company
Could it happen to me

Do you know what i´m certain of?
I would love to fall in love
Could it happened to me?

Hey won´t you look at me
Now I’m cracked wide open I can’t conceal
My all-over trembling, I’m acting strange
And while you’re out of reach, I never change

God knows I’m beside myself
If a tear’s a crime, then I must confess
My guilty secret, I’m not ashamed
Take me as I am, an average man

Oh boy is it getting rough
When my old world charm isn’t quite enough
I’d throw you cantos, I’d jazz ’em up
When I lay me down, you don’t pick up

What’s more, it’s a crying shame
Only this time no one but myself to blame
All I touch turns to dust
It’s right there in my cards, I ought to cut

Let us sing of the tortured heart
And a lonely soul in this world apart
As he plays a fear, takes a little pain
And move our separate ways again

Is it easy to say ’i do’?
At this moment I love you
See beyond me, it’s true

Now that evening is closing in
Should I light that fire again?
Could it happen to me?
Did it happen to you?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I really really love "The End of the Line"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Agreed
I only discovered it at Christmas, hearing it in a friends car going down to Brighton, have been listening to it regularly since.

― actionjackson, Thursday, 4 March 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

One of many goodies I discovered in me mum's records collection when I was young. Thanks mom!

Were the similarities between the "Love is the Drug" intro and Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" intentional?

― willem (willem), Thursday, 4 March 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sentimental Fool" is wonderful.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought "Love is the Drug," however wonderful, was the weakest song on the album, since the album is grrr-eat. The song is so unlike the rest of the disc that it felt like one of those reissues where the hit single was just tacked onto the next album, though late addition "Virginia Plain" sounds perfectly at home on the first Roxy album.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought "Virginia Plain" would sound more at home on the second album, it's too polished for the first one.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Never been to keen on "Love Is The Drug", but discovered "Siren" being a great album still.

I prefer their later material (plus Ferry's even later solo material) nevertheless, but "Siren", to me, is the greatest thing they had ever done at the time.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Both Ends Burning" yeah!

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite Roxy full-length, though its got some filler. I need to listen to Just Another High again soon. I like that the Greatest Hits comp from 77 I have only has one song from Siren so that it can focus on the hits off of albums I don't like in their entirety.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

god, they peaked so many times. "for your pleasure," "siren" and "avalon" are the three that pretty much define them for me.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I honestly think those harmonies on "The End of the Line" are one of the most gorgeous sounds I've ever heard!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I got this album a few months ago in a cheap two-fer thing w/ Country Life and I too was SHOCKED SHOCKED SHOCKED that no one told me of its brilliance. I've hardly listened to Country Life at all, but Siren struck me immediately as a masterpiece. ...I still think I prefer the first album, though, as their best work

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 4 March 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Favorite band of all-time ever

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Country Life is actually my favorite of the two but Siren is unquestionably great and as I hinted at above "Both Ends Burning" is unimpeachable.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Siren" had a bad reputation for a long time, critics were aghast at Roxy doing the "pop" thing and turning their back on the skronky avant-garde stuff. Of course now, compared to "Avalon" it sounds positively rocking.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this is probably my favorite RM, though I don't own it.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Manifesto lots too...it's a good middle ground between the elegant bachelor phase and the artsy phase (more bachelor though)...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I like "Whirlwind" best, but that doesn't seem to get much love.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I picked up "Manifesto" on CD the other week and it wasn't quite as great as I remembered it, though the title track is one of my fave Roxy tracks ever. I'm very happy they restored the original version of "Angel Eyes" to the album, for years you could only buy it with the disco version.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll stand up for "Whirlwind" - it's the one Siren track I kept in my listening pile, but Country Life is still my fave album by far.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 5 March 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the only track I really dig on Manifesto is "Manifesto," the only track I really dig on Flesh & Blood is "Over You" and the only track I dig on Avalon is "More Than This."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 5 March 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Thirding the love for "Manifesto" the song here -- so amazingly weird and obsessive, it was like the drone/repetition element of "The Bogus Man" got stripped down, cleaned up and became this slow, mean build.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Country Life" has one of the best first sides I've ever heard, and "The Thrill of it All" is a wallop of a way to start a record. Maybe unmatched until the first side of ABC's "The Lexicon of Love"

I went to see Eleventh Dream Day one night, and on the way there I was listening to "Country Life." And what song did the band encore with? "Thrill of it All"!!!

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Beautiful. :-)

Not enough people cover "Out of the Blue." Argh, is that a start to a song or what? I always thought that that invented Pulp to a large extent, at least in Russell Senior violin-era mode.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, Siren. "Love Is The Drug" is DEFINITELY the weakest song off that album, even though it's a quite good song in its own right. "Sentimental Fool" and "Could It Happen To Me?" are my favorites off that album, and I also adore "Just Another High" and "Both Ends Burning". Ooh, and "Nightingale" too! I haven't listened to this album in God knows how long. I need to listen to it.

I also need to listen to Roxy Music's self-titled album. Desperately. Any album that would start with two absolutely gorgeous songs that I adore is truly amazing. "Re-Make/Re-Model" AND "Ladytron"? Be still my heart! And I also truly love "Chance Meeting" and "2.H.B.".

OMG. Need to listen to Roxy Music STAT!

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 6 March 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Whirlwind" is my fave track--espcially the intro.

― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Saturday, 6 March 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

You know I just knew that was a Nate thread before I clicked the link -- few people do the vehemence thing like he does.

Only one person has mentioned "Nightingale" so far and that track has driven me to tears.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok is there any song on the album that doesn't have at least one person here doing a backflip? I'm still shocked I'm the only one whose name-checked "Just Another High."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 7 March 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I DJ'd last night and I always bring Siren because Love is the Drug is a definate floor filler, but I also often end the evening, during those depressing moments when the party's over and people are just drunk and falling over, by playing Could It Happen to Me? The perfect melancholy way to end an evening...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I will expand on my love for Flesh and Blood at some point. A fantastic record.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Sunday, 7 March 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Hahaha, I got this on elpee recently and only my big gooey stupid love for Patti Smith's Horses ("Birdland" + "Gloria" = indelible) is keeping me from declaring this THEE best album of seventy-five. Somehow it feels even greater split up into two sides, and the awareness of how ballsy the track sequence is for Side 1 ("Love is The Drug" into "End of the Line" into omg "Sentimental Fool" into FUCKING "WHIRLWIND" KA-BLAOUW) is super-heightened. Nnnf, damn.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 8 May 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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