ROXY MUSIC - FLESH + BLOOD POLL

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Actually I don't know this album except a few songs, but Alfred seemed shy about doing this one himself so this is for him.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
3. Same Old Scene 8
6. Over You 4
4. Flesh & Blood 3
1. In The Midnight Hour 1
5. My Only Love 1
2. Oh Yeah 1
10. Running Wild1
7. Eight Miles High 0
8. Rain, Rain, Rain 0
9. No Strange Delight 0


Bimble, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

I'm shy because it would entail listening to their worst studio album (containing some of their best singles). "My Only Love" is terrible: boring hook, repeated ad nauseam; strained singing that struggles and fails to achieve any intimacy. "Rain, Rain, Rain" and "Eight Miles High" are nullities.

I pick "Same Old Scene" a hair over "Over You."

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

Worse than Manifesto? That album bores the hell out of me. This one is only half-good, but the heights are really high. I picked Oh Yeah, easily one of my top five Roxy songs.

antexit, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

Great songs on Manifesto: the title track, "Angel Eyes," "Still Falls The Rain," "Ain't That So," "Dance Away," "Spin Me 'Round." Hell, the live versions of SFTR and ATS collected on the new DVD smoke.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)

You left out "Trash", Alfred, which is easily the best song on "Manifesto". Here I'm going with "In The Midnight Hour". Sorry, but "Oh Yeah" always seemed to kitschy.

zeus, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

Far from their worst IMO. Several great tracks, but none other of them quite up there with "Same Old Scene".

Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:54 (seventeen years ago)

Over You

iago g., Thursday, 31 July 2008 02:44 (seventeen years ago)

Oh Alfred... :cry:

"My Only Love" has one of Manzanera's tastiest little solos! And it's awesome! And I'll be voting for it! Unless I vote for "Oh Yeah!"... or "Flesh & Blood"... or "Over You"...

I'll be honest, I listen to this one a lot more than Country Life...

rogermexico., Thursday, 31 July 2008 03:57 (seventeen years ago)

Over You, of course

the next grozart, Thursday, 31 July 2008 08:53 (seventeen years ago)

hmm... Andy MacKay's part on "Running Wild" may have something to say about this...

rogermexico., Friday, 1 August 2008 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

I don't mind that one so much, but the chorus is limp.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 August 2008 18:24 (seventeen years ago)

^^ totally agreed re: the chorus... but ooh the sax...

rogermexico., Friday, 1 August 2008 18:47 (seventeen years ago)

Only own this on ancient cassette, need an upgrade. Tend to lump it with Duran's Rio, Cars' Shake It Up and Simple Minds' New Gold Dream, and on those terms I still think it's quite good.

Dan Peterson, Friday, 1 August 2008 21:32 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Monday, 4 August 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

I've been teaching myself the sax and guitar solos off "Running Wild"... the more I play it, the more awesome it gets.

rogermexico., Tuesday, 5 August 2008 02:04 (seventeen years ago)

"Over You" is an incredible song, and gets my vote.

Euler, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 02:07 (seventeen years ago)

Love how the synth on "Over You" tries to soar past the sax into the sax/synthosphere.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

I actually love the nervy title track here. In Both Ends Burning, the author says that there's a live version as performed on TV of it with an energized Manzanera and Mackay that's supposedly outstanding. Haven't been able to track it down on YouTube, tho...

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 13:37 (seventeen years ago)

It's on the live DVD, and is indeed a good version: the intro is stretched out for a couple of minutes, with McKay's sax honking like a foghorn and the bassist and Ferry teasing out minor chords from their respective instruments.

Otherwise, it's a creepy track, and not in a good way. "You'd nail her if you could/But she say, `Love me for my mind'" strikes me as cruel, and I sense no distance from the character in the song and Ferry. It's all in the arrangement: the zealous, burping bass and the icy synth fill (which ABC would borrow wholesale for Beauty Stab). The whole thing sounds anemic.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 13:48 (seventeen years ago)

But those are often my favorite Ferry moments -- where the Lothario gets mean. "Tokyo Joe" is another example.

I need to get that DVD...

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 14:19 (seventeen years ago)

but "Tokyo Joe" is funny-mean!

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 14:34 (seventeen years ago)

Or, some might suggest, racist-mean.

Regardless, I like it when that side of Ferry comes out. It's like McCartney singing "For No One," which Ian MacDonald correctly identified as the coldest song the man ever wrote. And, I'd argue, one of the best.

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

It plays with Japanese tropes, but it's not racist. Ferry's vocal does a lot to mitigate this; he sounds bemused by the woman and scenario.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

Oh yeah? Try throwing it on the next time you're hanging out with an Asian friend. It's a fine line...

Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)

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

ILX System, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Whoops. Never sat the results.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 17 August 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

yeah, def the weakest album but same old scene is fucking righteous, really digging it lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRh0y-I6pSg

buzza, Thursday, 19 January 2012 07:02 (fourteen years ago)

right on. when i saw them play a big arena gig last year the atmosphere was kinda flat until they played that.

jabba hands, Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:04 (fourteen years ago)

The Glimmers remix of that track is p ace too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YdfyD8U_Fw

good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:08 (fourteen years ago)

Eight Miles High has to be one of the worst cover versions of all time, right?

I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Thursday, 19 January 2012 12:30 (fourteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

I'm not so sure: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/roxy-music-flesh-and-blood.html

Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Sunday, 13 January 2013 18:13 (thirteen years ago)

That's a great piece, Marcello. Lots of places where you cut hard against conventional wisdom.

Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 13 January 2013 20:23 (thirteen years ago)

yeah. loved reading that.
(made me dig the album out and give it a spin .. .)
great to see the blog is still in action ..

mark e, Sunday, 13 January 2013 20:30 (thirteen years ago)

I appreciated your defense of Manifesto.

the sw00ds-Soto colloquy on F&B and others: http://rockcriticsarchives.com/audiovisual/index-roxy.html

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 January 2013 21:36 (thirteen years ago)

... the best album Duran Duran never made.

Totally agree.

Sailor-neighbor of Chaucer's wife (Tubby) (Dan Peterson), Monday, 14 January 2013 20:57 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

Would have voted for 'Same Old Scene'.

Sorry folks, but I like this album. In fact, I like all of the post-Siren Roxy LPs.

You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 18:50 (ten years ago)

You're not alone, dude!

Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 20:07 (ten years ago)


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