pls rate bryan ferry's solo records

I will say that of the later albums, Bete Noire is my favorite.

See: TS: Roxy Music songs vs. Bryan Ferry covers of RM songs

Let's Stick Together
These Foolish Things
In Your Mind
The Bride Stripped Bare
Another Time, Another Place
Boys & Girls
Taxi
Frantic
As Time Goes By
Mamouma

Not a stinker in the bunch, really.

Frantic would probably rank as the third best.

Of the post-Avalon makeout stuff I give Taxi and Mamouna the edge over Boys & Girls and Bete Noir, the latter of which is basically a retread of BAG with weaker songs and Madonna production.

The rest is for fans only.

I've always loved In Your Mind, esp the title cut, but never completely warmed to Bride. And from there mostly downhill for me. I pretty much can't distinguish between Boys, Bete and Mamouna, registered a faint "meh" for a couple of the covers on Taxi and then stopped buying them entirely. If Frantic is well-regarded, I'll seek it out then.

Don't know the rest well enough to say.

An OP10 for Ferry would be fun.

OTM, though I'd argue that the total sincerity of the performance, rather than its insincerity, is what ultimately puts it over the top. To hear Ferry warble, "There are people on reservations and out in the ghettos" is something else indeed.

Not at all surprised by any of the antipathy toward As Time Goes By but despite what an obvious, and almost vapid, idea it is on the surface (an entire album of pre-rock standards by Bryan Ferry, oh boy!), his singing on that record is absolutely amazing...a totally high-pitched glittery quiver, the most glammed-up he's sounded since the first Roxy album.

I forgot to praise the self-penned title track to Another Time, Another Place. Love the first time we hear the chorus.

Do continue, Marcello. I've never heard that myself...

Curious concept notwithstanding (half covers, half Roxy re-makes/re-models), Let's Stick Together has earned the most plays for me over the years. The rearrangements of the Roxy songs are generally outstanding ("2HB", the hushed "Casanova" in partic.), mostly with swimmy Eddie Jobson keyboards.

It's also the last album of his where the covers are uniformly inspired — in addition to the title track, there's "The Price of Love" (replete with Spedding's 60's Peter Gunn-stylue guitar riff and spanish-tinged cornet flourishes), and the menacing blues of "Shame, Shame, Shame". And like "Just Another High" on Siren, "Heart on My Sleeve" ends things on a startlingly sincere note.

Also, there's a pretty elegant video of "You Go To My Head" on YouTube...

1. Mamouna
2. Bete Noire
3. Boys & Girls
4. Taxi