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

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
"Slave to Love" – 4:26 8
"Don't Stop the Dance" (Ferry, Rhett Davies) – 4:19 5
"Sensation" – 5:07 1
"Windswept" – 4:31 1
"Boys and Girls" – 5:25 1
"A Waste Land" – 1:02 0
"The Chosen One" – 4:51 0
"Valentine" – 3:47 0
"Stone Woman" – 4:56 0


raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 October 2010 15:19 (fifteen years ago)

Slave to Love is so epic

crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 October 2010 15:22 (fifteen years ago)

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.

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 October 2010 15:23 (fifteen years ago)

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

_Rudipherous_, Friday, 8 October 2010 15:29 (fifteen years ago)

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

Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 8 October 2010 15:32 (fifteen years ago)

no contest

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 8 October 2010 15:40 (fifteen years ago)

He nails this sound but so what?

lol is that not enough for you

crude interloper of a once august profession (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 October 2010 16:10 (fifteen years ago)

I adored this album when it came out.

A Reclaimer Hewn With (Michael White), Friday, 8 October 2010 16:22 (fifteen years ago)

Windswept

iago g., Saturday, 9 October 2010 00:22 (fifteen years ago)

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

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 October 2010 00:25 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Saturday, 9 October 2010 02:19 (fifteen years ago)

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.

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 October 2010 02:21 (fifteen years ago)

^ 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.

nerve_pylon, Saturday, 9 October 2010 06:25 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 October 2010 12:26 (fifteen years ago)

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

aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 9 October 2010 12:32 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 October 2010 12:38 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

Even has Eno on backing vox!

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 9 October 2010 13:16 (fifteen years ago)

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

Mark G, Saturday, 9 October 2010 13:25 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 15 October 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Euler, Friday, 15 October 2010 23:08 (fifteen years ago)

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

raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 October 2010 23:11 (fifteen years ago)

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.

prettylikealaindelon, Friday, 15 October 2010 23:14 (fifteen years ago)

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

System, Saturday, 16 October 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

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…"

iago g., Saturday, 16 October 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

Me on B&G.

Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:03 (eleven years ago)

was waiting for this one

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:08 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

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

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 June 2016 17:00 (nine years ago)

la la

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 June 2016 12:06 (nine years ago)

eight years pass...

'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

Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Monday, 28 October 2024 15:23 (one year ago)

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

Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 7 November 2024 03:09 (one year ago)


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