Music Review: For Your Pleasure

Album: For Your Pleasure (remastered reissue)
Music: Roxy Music
Composers: VirginPolydor
Ratings: ****
Rock/Pop: Roxy Music was a British glam-rock band whose most notable members were Brian Ferry (who would later have a successful solo career) and Brian Eno, a brilliant producer and sound engineer who has worked with the biggest names in music. This album was the second and last one with Eno.So, the musical styles in here are eclectic and for a first-time listener, somewhat lush and exotic too in terms of vocals and the electronic work on all the tracks. Do The Strand is definitely avant garde in style, with some jagged saxophone soloing and textured work on the VCS3 analogue synthesiser (the same synth first used by Pink Floyd on Dark Side… and by the Beatles on Abbey Road). Beauty Queen is about Ferry’s then-girlfriend who was, incidentally, a beauty queen.
The title track has Eno’s presence stamped strongly throughout with bold synth swathes and, quirkily enough, a much younger Judi Dench saying a few random phrases at the fade-out.In Every Dream Home A Heartache is a song that will always resonate with those who lead emotionally bankrupt lives within a comfortable cocoon they call home. But before you think it’s a heavy ‘message’ song, it forays into tongue-in-cheek territory lyrically with references being made to inflatable dolls. In Every… was also one of Roxy Music’s most popular cuts. Bogus Man clocks in at a little over nine minutes and is an instrumental. In most tracks, Ferry’s suave delivery and tricky lyrics make for an interesting match.
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