Re: Roxy Romance

[Paul Benjamin <Benjamin%PCO@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA>]

> Date:  Thursday, 15 May 1986 13:22 mst

> Really-From: ll-xn!uwvax!astroatc!gtaylor (oh...*Gregory* Taylor...never mind.)

> >God send my ANYONE who can relate to my "abnormal" daily fix
> >of Roxy Music &/or Bryan Ferry.  Jesus, I listen to Roxy soooo
> >much each and every year I have to replace albums.....Guess a
> >CD would be more practical, huh?

> Yes, I can, though my needs aren't daily. For all our whining about
> how wonderful Kate is, I'd be hard pressed to find any other single
> group of artists who so successfully redefined everything that came
> after them (like Diane Arbus' use of the 2 1/4" square photograph)
> quite apart from specific style (read "emphasis on style" and have
> so singularly changed the face of British popular music. With the
> exception of Paul MacCartney's old band. I guess that one could claim
> that the Sex Pistols fall into that category, but I feel that they're
> indicative of a trend rather than actually the original harbingers of
> it. That's a bad thing to say here in a Kate Bush newsgroup, I guess.

Not at all.

> Anyway, the Roxy CD is all it's cracked up to be, and clocks in at a
> great time. I've only the slightest argument with their concentration
> on "Flesh and Blood" period stuff, and the slightest argument with
> which Brian Ferry covers they chose, but hey. The canon ain't half
> bad, and most of the important work is all there.

What are you talking about?  There are, of course CDs of all of the Roxy
albums.  It sounded like you might have meant "Roxy Music - The Atlantic
Years", a rather confusing import that is mostly stuff from Avalon and
Flesh and Blood, plus Love is the Drug and The Strand, but you mentioned
Bryan Ferry covers.  This is something different.  Details, please.