0187. Roxy Music
Roxy Music
The debut album (surprisingly it's also eponymous) by the band that gave eclecticism a rock-face while giving nods to their predecessors via borrowed bits of music peeking through their own material here and there in the songs.
I also like the small pieces of medieval-sound Andy Macay edges in via his oboe, Brian Enos lunar-sounds and general experimentation - and Bryan Ferry's vocal stylings is spot on.
Parts of Ladytron almost makes me laugh, though, as Bryan Ferry's got a very non-English pronunciation of words for a while - "lädy, are you looking for a lövur" and the vocal weirdness continues in I There Is Something where he attaches an insane tremolo. Not that it's bad, it's just a bit bewildering and quite fun.
Roxy Music is an album that feels kind of new. I think that if I'd been born in time to buy this album on it's release it probably would have been one of the GotToGets, but now I'll just pun it out and say that number 187 on the list is a killer of an album!
