Roxy Music: "Both Ends Burning" - the first ever New Romantic track?

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Just wondering, could this be considered the first New Romantic track?

At least I think it was the first one to feature those synthpads in the background that were so typical of bands like Duran Duran, Ultravox and Simple Minds.

Anyone else thought about this?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Yes

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

well, i always reckoned post-Siren Roxy as the beginning of NuRomantic…

"both ends" swings like a motherfukker…if Japan or Duran Duran or ABC were ever 'luenced by it, they fell way short per the drumming…

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I can't think of a contemporaneous track which sounds as odd as "Both Ends Burning": the swirling synth, Mackay's sax, and, yeah, the drumming.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, and Love is the Drug is the first and best disco punk song.

― tronicvlfdflgk, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

The first, maybe, the best is "Sex And Drugs And Rock'n'Roll" by Ian Dury. :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Dude, that song is fuckin' dank....

But some of the shit on Lord Upminster is even danker! Aaaaoooww!!!

― tronicvlfdflgk, Thursday, 20 April 2006 07:52 (twenty years ago)

"Both Ends Burning" is the best track on Syren, also one of the highlights of the career of Roxy Music. This is the proper (and only?) pre-discopunk.

― zeus (zeus), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:03 (twenty years ago)

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