Best Roxy Music Album?

For Your Pleasure certainly has some high points, but Siren sustains its brilliance for both sides (actually my least favorite track is Love is the Drug).

Mark Lipton - my vote is for Red.
 
Okay, I guess the answer is The High Road, just for being a brilliant moment in time capturing a band in performance on one of their better nights.

And Red, for sure.
 
originally posted by David M. Bueker:
For Your Pleasure certainly has some high points, but Siren sustains its brilliance for both sides (actually my least favorite track is Love is the Drug).

Mark Lipton - my vote is for Red.
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Well, For Your Pleasure has "Editions of You," a protopunk classic, and that apotheosis of camp, "In Every Dream Home a Heartbreak." And, yes, Red also gets my vote, fan of dissonance that I am. I can't think of it, though, without also thinking of John Sayles's famous putdown: "Heavy metal goes to college."

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
Well, For Your Pleasure has "Editions of You," a protopunk classic, and that apotheosis of camp, "In Every Dream Home a Heartbreak."
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Great fucking songs.

The first record has what are probably my favorite RM songs, Ladytron and If There Is Something. But I think For Your Pleasure and Country Life are more consistently strong. I also prefer their sophisticated, more subtle sonics to some of the straight-up raunchy rock-n-noll tracks of the first record.
 
originally posted by slaton:
I also prefer their sophisticated, more subtle sonics to some of the straight-up raunchy rock-n-noll tracks of the first record.
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Which is precisely why I voted for Siren. I think it was the album that took the concept as far as it should have gone. Manifesto pushed just a bit too far over the edge, and Flesh & Blood died under the weight of its own polish.

I've gone back and listened to the entire back catalog of Roxy over the weekend, and have to give a nod to True to Life on Avalon. I'll also note that Avalon was the final wedding dance for Laura and me way back in 1989.
 
Hey, there are throw-away tracks on all 3 studio albums from that era. Wearing out side B ("Fracture" and the title track) back in the vinyl days is why. Some nice stuff on side A, too.
 
originally posted by Larry Stein:
Hey, there are throw-away tracks on all 3 studio albums from that era. Wearing out side B ("Fracture" and the title track) back in the vinyl days is why. Some nice stuff on side A, too.
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For me, "The Great Deceiver" is the standout track (along with the title track) on that album. Many's the day when I find myself humming "Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary" for no discernable reason.

Mark Lipton
 
If you find yourself singing "Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary" people will look at you funny.

Had a weird thing happen in the Amsterdam airport on a trip a few months ago. I was walking past some reproductions of Dutch master paintings when The Night Watch came on my iPod in shuffle play. Strange.
 
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