Roxy Music "Avalon" Poll

More Than This

the main thing

You know, I've had this album on my hard drive for about 6 months meaning to listen to the whole thing and never have until now. Weird thing is to hear "The Space Between" makes me realize I've actually heard this album before somewhere.

I've always thought the sign of a great album is that your favorite song keeps changing. Right now it's "True to Life."

But "Avalon" is my favorite favorite.

"The way I see it....this relationship ain't right."

Yeah, this stuff is too good for mere computer speakers.

"to turn you on", final chorus is heart-achingly deep

To Turn You On

i was blind, can't you see? (do-do-DO-doooo-do-dooooo)

The introduction of "Take a Chance On Me": synth chords swelling in between sax peals and endless guitar.

I love this album so much but I will vote for "More Than This" anyway.

I just went out and bought the CD of this and some new headphones. Only because my other ones have a bent plug that will no longer fit into my stereo even if they fit into my iPod.

Bill Murray's version will win this poll.

It would, were it an option. It should be an option. (n.1)

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(n.1) Maybe it should be a different thread: T/S on More Than This -- Roxy Music's Original Version or Bill Murray's Lost In Translation Version.

Gosh, "The Main Thing" is almost like Peter Gabriel, isn't it?

like Talking Heads, too. and it's totally balearic! this poll is too hard for me though.

right now it's 'the space between' even though it has a horrible annoying edit in the last second that fucks up the rhythm totally

"Take A Chance With Me" is the only great song on the worst Roxy album. (OK, "More Than This" and the title song are OK, but the rest are paste.)

"To Turn You On" - the greatest Roxy "pop" song that no one's heard.

'The Space Between' and 'To Turn You On" are so very close (followed closer still by 'More Than This'), but it's for the title track that I keep coming back to this album. So clean, so seductive, so uniquely beautiful.

Voted "Avalon", which is Ferry/Roxy Music's best ever moment. But "Take a Chance With Me" is not far behind.

The introduction of "Take a Chance On Me":

If you change your mind (Take a chance, take a chance)
I'm the first in line (Take a chance, take a chance)
Honey I'm still free (Take a chance, take a chance)
Take a chance on me....

;)

The best song on the best Roxy album is "True To Life". Ferry's voice is, more than ever, like a supplementary instrument in, and burping, belching guitar and synth noises have never sounded so sublimely beautiful. Yays too for TTYO, which I played incessantly as the B-side of "Jealous Guy", the second single I ever bought.

"Take a Chance with Me" and "To Turn You On" neck and neck, though I went with the former...

I love Ferry's harmonies in the chorus of TaCwM

This album has some of my very favorite keyboard sounds: warm and plush. I didn't think Ferry was capable of playing (and layering) this subtly.

This album has some of my very favorite keyboard sounds: warm and plush. I didn't think Ferry was capable of playing (and layering) this subtly.

Well, he had done already on "Flesh + Blood" (and then went on to do a lot on his next four solo albums).

I'm stunned at how beautiful and consistent this album is and how well it seemed to fit my mood today. Thanks Alfred.

It makes me want to dig out "Slave To Love", too, and whatever the other Ferry single I used to have was that I can't remember the name of right now.

"Is Your Love Strong Enough", that's it.

"Help Me" is pretty great.

Okay, I'm digging that one up, too. Then I can sit back and ponder it all.

Knew this would be Alfred.

ha. Oh?

"To Turn You On"

Finally playing "Help Me" now. I like the synth/drum sounds.

title track. whole album's unconscionably decadent and perfect.

but they should do an expanded version with the live EP that had "like a hurricane" on it.

even the "avalon" video is unconscionably decadent and perfect.

live EP? *head spins*

this one. don't even know if it's in print. but that version of "like a hurricane" is great. (actually it looks like those tracks were later incorporated into this.)

TRUE TO LIFE TAKES THIS POLL I THINK I AM SO SORRY I KNOW "MORE THAN THIS" IS A CORKER BUT OUCH!!!!

Thanks Mothra, I'll look it up right now. A Neil Young cover! Wow.

This album is insane. I submit. I have officially lost my mind over this album oh my god.

(here's a clip of like a hurricane. i've always thought of it as the lost avalon track.)

Oh yeah, the synthesizers alone...

Yep, that totally flips my lid. I love that song even when Neil Young does it. Christ.

"Help Me" is great! I love the register of his voice for the verses...

Easiest poll so far. More Than This.

I'd do anything... to turn... you...
Must phone me -
You know me -
When things go wrong...
I'd do anything... to turn... you on.

I wonder if it's because "Avalon" and "More Than This" have just become bigger than the record, and maybe even bigger than the band, while "To Turn You On" still feels like something I can hold. If I were hearing it all for the first time, I suspect it would be "Avalon"...

How he sings "Must phone me" is the genius bit.

I'm not trying to be perverse here but I went with "India." I've always felt it summed up the album's lazy travelogue feel best. I love how it mimics the mixing of a DJ or the wizardry of a dub engineer. The opening (what the hell is that instrument?) shudders off in the distance are crushed velvet melodrama at its best. And it makes for perfect mix tape fodder.

Too many feels and bests there which only means he managed to turn me on.

Isn't it a guitar synthesizer?

If it is, it's trying to emulate something non-Western.

How he sings "Must phone me" is the genius bit.

OTM, though he's really got me from "Is it raining in New York" on.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

A respectable Top Five!

I voted "Take a Chance With Me" — it's been my favorite on this for years and there's no reason to change now...

oh goodness I just listened to "Tara" and it has shaken my world; if I could go back now I would vote for it.

I just want to say one more time how much I adore "True To Life". Thanks.

I knew this was you.

i knew this was you bitch.

i knew this was you.

Jagger!

Ooh! Someone called me bitch! Oh honey, I'm flattered!

"True To Life" is just the shit, it really is. God, that song needs moonlight, and a nice nightcap.

And let me take this opportunity to say that the "Avalon" single b-side "Always Unknowing" is as good as anything on the album.

still would pick the main thing but true to life has really been sounding good to me lately

love all the songs on this but

"To Turn You On" – 4:16 12
"While My Heart Is Still Beating" (Ferry, Andy Mackay) – 3:26 0

seems a bit off tbh

I forget what I voted for but it really could have been any of them.

quick ranking w/o much thought

"The Main Thing"
"True to Life"
"Avalon"
"The Space Between"
"While My Heart Is Still Beating"
"More Than This"
"Tara"
"To Turn You On"
"Take a Chance With Me"
"India"

I just want to say one more time how much I adore "True To Life". Thanks.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:59 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

So I turn the pages and tell the story
From town to town
People tell me to be determined
Poor country boy

Too much luck means too much trouble
Much time alone
But arm in arm with my seaside diamond
I'll soon be home

Well the music just came to mind like that

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