Slave to POLL: Bryan Ferry - "Boys and Girls"

Slave to Love is so epic

This album frustrates me so much. I relistened to this last night and was, as usual, underwhelmed. He nails this sound but so what?

I do like "Don't Stop the Dance" a lot more now than I did in the early nineties though.

I'm going with "Sensation" but I like all of the first three tracks.

"Don't Stop The Dance". This works better as a full album though, just floating away in a typically delicate 80s way.

no contest

He nails this sound but so what?

lol is that not enough for you

I adored this album when it came out.

Windswept

"The Chosen One" is the worst thing: plodding electrobeat, non sequiturs, and Ferry singing from the top of his nostrils.

First three tracks are ok, the rest actually horrifies me. It is the aural equivalent of finding myself in a cruddy emergency room on some January night with what I thought was a sinus infection, slowly losing consciousness under the ghastly fluorescent lights, eventually realizing that the doctor is never coming and I will die there alone.

sw00ds and I tried to make sense of Ferry sophisti-pop era in our long interview here, but there's moments -- like last night -- when it's impossible to care one way or the other.

^ just listened to that interview; fascinating. i remember when Bete Noir came out, there was some hubbub about him choosing Madonna's producer--forget his name--i'm curious what you make of that. any influence is swept up in grandiose 'design' of it all (like the phalanx of musicians) so you have to wonder why he bothered. anyway, thanks for the link.

Patrick Leonard. Here's the best of the quasi-Madonna songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHRTs_Vsn5Y

I'd love to vote for something other than "slave to love" but it really is one of the all-time jams in my opinion. "the storm is breaking/or so it seems/we're too young to reason/too grown-up to dream" -- gedouddahere, that is straight make-you-cry-because-it's-always-already-too-late stuff, gets me every time

The only performer at Live Aid to emerge with any kind of sartorial dignity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIUrLpvE3Rk&feature=related

One of the best Bryan Ferry solo songs, by Icehouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUHttUgQAu0

Even has Eno on backing vox!

Forgot how much Icehouse sounded like Ferry. ("Hey Little Girl" specifically)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

listened to this a few times since the poll, went with "Slave To Love" but enjoyed getting lost in the fuzziness, even though I didn't see anything distinctly.

"Don't Stop The Dance" is the sad heart of the thing.

I love the title track, lush production. can't beat a bit of reverb on every single fucking instrument in the mix can you?

windswept, stone woman and slave to love are awesome too.

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

Timely, surprising reference to B&G here

Destroyer, the wordy, glammed-up project led by New Pornographer Dan Bejar, will release their ninth album, Kaputt, on January 25 via Merge.

In a press release, Bejar lists off 22 things we might want to know about the album. That oblique list is below, as is the album's tracklist.

Bejar: "Kaputt by Malaparte, which Bejar has never read… Kara Walker, specifically the lyrics she contributed to the song 'Suicide Demo for Kara Walker'… Chinatown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… Baby blue eyes… 80s Miles Davis… 90s Gil Evans… Last Tango in Paris… Nic Bragg, who played lead guitar on every song, again… Fretless bass… The hopelessness of the future of music… The pointlessness of writing songs for today… V-Drums… The superiority of poetry and plays… And what's to become of film?… The Cocaine Addict… American Communism… Downtown, the neighborhood bordering on Bejar's… The LinnDrum… Avalon and, more specifically, Boys and Girls… The devastated mind of JC/DC, who recorded, produced and mixed this record from fall of 2008 to spring of 2010… The back-up vocals of certain Roy Ayers and Long John Baldry tours… Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence…"

Me on B&G.

was waiting for this one

How many men in a world of their own
There is no end to great unknown

la la

'I wanted a hit!' Bryan Ferry on recording 'Slave to Love' in Bette Midler’s house

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/oct/28/bryan-ferry-slave-to-love-live-aid-bette-midler

Another poster hepped me to that article. I wanted more!