Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[Todd]

The Car, by Arctic Monkeys (aka, the British version of The Black Keys)

[George]

[71 dB]

Roxy Music - Flesh And Blood
Roxy Music - Manifesto

Exploring Roxy Music backwards from Avalon. These two albums pale in comparison to Avalon. The difference in quality is dramatic. Flesh And Blood has got one good song "Oh Yeah!" and "Stronger Through The Years" from Manifesto is nicely funky, but that's it for me... 

[George]

[George]

This one goes out to my man Andy D! 

[71 dB]

Roxy Music - Siren
Roxy Music - Country Life

Siren is really good! It has also the best (least bad) cover art of the studio albums. Country Life isn't as much to my liking. My current ranking of the last 5 studio albums of Roxy Music:

1. Avalon
2. Siren
3. Manifesto
4. Country Life
5. Flesh And Blood

So far Roxy Music has been much less glam rock-y than I expected. Maybe it is the first three albums then?

[Leo K.]

Marvelous and love the new mix. A real winner box set.

[Todd]

A female Nick Drake.  That is meant in a positive way.

[71 dB]

Roxy Music - Stranded
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

Stranded was quite good, especially "side B" meaning the last 4 tracks. I really like "A Song for Europe" for its emotional pathos. For Your Pleasure wasn't as good, but it has one really great track "In Every Dream Home a Heartache", by far the highlight of the album.

Ranking of the albums:

1. Avalon
2. Siren
3. Stranded
4. Manifesto
5. For Your Pleasure
6. Country Life
7. Flesh And Blood

[j winter]

Marvelous and love the new mix. A real winner box set.

Overall I agree it's good, but I'm still on the fence.  Remixing Paperback Writer and deciding that it needs *less* of George's guitar seems a bit questionable, for example.  But it's one of my top five favorite albums of all time, and at this point I've imprinted so strongly on the original mixes that it's hard to hear it with fresh ears.  All the differences stick out to me now; it will take multiple listens for things to settle out a bit. 

[71 dB]

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

The debut was weak in my opinion. Very raw and undevelopped. It felt the most "electronic" and synth-like, but I still didn't care much about it. Roxy Music turned out to be different group than I expected. It is wild to think they are in the Hall of Fame of Rock and Roll. Most of their songs are pretty boring and lacking of musical greatness, but they have moments when they shine too. Very uneven music. My final ranking of the studio albums:

1. Avalon
2. Siren
3. Stranded
4. Manifesto
5. For Your Pleasure
6. Country Life
7. Roxy Music
8. Flesh And Blood

I have just ordered Avalon CD. If that is not enough Roxy Music for me, I might be crazy enough to buy Siren and even Stranded too, but we'll see... ...some people say they only care about the early stuff with Brian Eno, but I didn't feel it that way. Brian Eno is perhaps a visionary, but his music just isn't that interesting in my opinion. He is more about how music is made rather than actually making it. He is a F1 mechanic. He knows the car inside out, but should let real F1 drivers drive.

[Todd]

[Todd]

The Boss sings soul standards.  So bad.

[George]

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Perlas Cubanas. Cuarteto d'Aida.

[Todd]

Ofenbach, I

[Todd]

[George]

[KevinP]

Nobody's favourite album, but listening to this, geez, you realise how good it could have been. The outtakes are amazing, with real bass and real drums. I never realised just how much the production had ruined it.

[SimonNZ]

Reacquired on cd after having long owned the 3lp set