HEY GOOD LOOKING BOYS, GATHER AROUND: ITS THE "STRANDED" POLL

Street Life

This is rrreally tough. Cover is necessary though, can't have a blue question mark (or a red cross):

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/190/512439399_55c993d95d_o.jpg

I was gonna say "Street Life" too, but I gotta go with "Amazona," not just for defining the album, but for Manzanera's gloriously cracked solo. Which also defines the album.

Amazona.

Mother of Pearl. I remember being really frustrated that it didn't appear on the "best of" that I used to have.

"Mother of Pearl" forever, but sometimes lately "Amazona" pushes it close. But jeez, "Mother of Pearl", people.

Mother of Pearl. One of my favorite lyrics ever.

"Serenade" is my absolute favorite Roxy album track: total boilerplate, but, like the Stones' "Summer Romance" or Prince's "Play in the Sunshine," boilerplate that reduces the group's appeal to essentials.

Mother Of Pearl, the mother of all Roxy Music songs.

all great tracks but it's "sunset" for me, a perfect ending.

So fucking torn between "Street Life" and "A Song For Europe" here. The former has HEY GOOD LOOKING BOYS but the latter has Ferry self-consciously lapsing into French with no warning at all.

"Street Life" (in my top 10 of all-time favorite songs), followed closely by "Mother of Pearl."

mother of pearl, but poll reminds me i have to download some of these songs, i only ever owned a cassette back in the day

I wouldn't trade you for another song

i thought this would be about this:

http://www.saintsmusic.com/saintshomejpeg/stranded_shad.jpg

That's another poll

"And the Bridge... it sigh" - it's all about Song For Europe.

I'm sacking my typist.

it's a tie between "amazona", "psalm" and "mother of pearl". "mother of pearl" wins on lyrics, the vocal on "psalm" is just utterly ridiculous - it's songs like this that make ferry so fascinating to me, there's a real masculinity to the way he sings that's thuggish and real, he sounds both broken and invincible - but then "amazona" has that really cool out of phase bit that sounds like the record is warped. "amazona" it is!

For research purposes:

Street Life (live): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prlt_3v5G84

Just Like You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kFSjW-58Ew

Amazona (live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQQvw3l2vJs

Psalm (live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SN4aqXCE0Y

Serenade (no luck with this one)

A Song for Europe (slightly bad quality live version): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8Sa2HDxcc

Mother of Pearl live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4J6Uyv0JDY

Sunset (no luck here either)

M.O.P. ftw

^agreed

"Just Like You" is so lovely and melancholy.

really, all these songs are top drawer.

This album is all about Manzanera for me, so I'm going with Amazona.

I gave it to "Just Like You"

intensely difficult poll. Going with Serenade for right now but I'm happy with every single track

streetlife is my jam.

WTF people. Mother Of Pearl or /ilm

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i also thought it was about the saints..

WELL I'VE BEEN UP ALL NIGHT... (AGAIN?)

PARTY TIME WASTING

Mother of Pearl, but the live performance of Psalm on the DVD almost pushed it to 1

"A Song For Europe".

"Amazona" had a great riff though (And I believe Ice-T thought so too)

I think this was the second album I ever bought (aged 11). It still has to be "Street Life", though - my favourite Roxy track, and one of my favourite singles ever ever ever.

MOP

Mother Of Pearl.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Someone here doesn't actually love music =(

Seriously.

WTF!!! I was one Amazona voter. Who was the other?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H14b3yFoBQ

crazy "psalm" got no votes