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Avalon by: Roxy Music List Price: £13.99 CD-Charts Price: £4.98 You Save: £9.01 (64%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724384746025 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Virgin Manufacturer: Virgin Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Virgin Release Date: November 01, 1999 Studio: Virgin Sales Rank: 2588 MPN: 47460 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Hipper students of 1980s pop might like to pretend that Joy Division and The Smiths had a monopoly on melancholia, but for the older, more suave miserabilist, nothing could match the stylised desolation of Roxy Music's last album. Avalon was recorded in the wake of the band's first number one hit--a version of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy"--and although that song isn't on here, its tortured shadow looms large over "While My Heart Is Still Beating", the title track, and the unlikely Balearic anthem "More Than This". If time has been kind to Bryan Ferry's crumpled Armani chic, it hasn't exactly been vicious to his back catalogue: Avalon sounds even more sumptuous now that the CD age has caught up with Rhett Davis' pristine production. --Peter Paphides Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Smooth.....nice.....a very fine swansong for a great band.....Rating: 7.5/10 Best tracks: "More Than This", "Avalon", "True to Life", "Take a Chance with Me". Roxy Music began life as a raucous, impossible-to-pin-down, rough, ready, post-modern and decidedly futuristic proposition; by the time of their last album, they'd become an entirely different band. Super-smooth, mature, elegant, streamlined and without a single note in the wrong place. I can imagine there may be some people who loved "Ladytron", "Editions of You" or "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" who refuse to have the time of day for Avalon, and vice versa. Roxy Music were certainly building their way towards this album's peerless perfection the moment they made their comeback in 1979 with their sleek, more chart-friendly ... Read More: Rating:  - Avalon Roxy MusicBryan Ferry, what a guy, what a group. More than this, The main thing, Avalon, India, while my heart is still beating, all great tracks. This is not the best album of Roxy Music, that is Streetlife, but worth investing in. Rating: - The eighth studio Roxy album�By the time the eighth and so far final studio album from the lasting remaining 3 core members of the band Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera was released in May of 1982 tensions where running high between the band members, possibly why this collection is such a ground breaker in style and execution. With the use of atmospheric keyboards and percussion this album set a standard that Mr Ferry has been trying to repeat since the release of this album, the first solo release from him �Boys and Girls� was like a sequel to this recording. The opening track �More than this� was the first single to be released from this album and got to number 6 in the single chart. The main theme of the song is picked out on the ... Read More: Rating: - Avalon is a dreamy shangri-la of rock.I think this is Brian Ferry's finest album. The tunes are magical fantasies of mystic Britishness, set in a netherworld of Arthurian legend and the beaches of old Zanzibar for exotic effect. More than this, the melodies and harmonies are instantly memorable, in a soft focus sort of way. Ferry was at the height of his popularity , when people had the patience to follow an artist's career and philosophy. This is a lounge lizard world of afternoon cocktails and leisurely overseas sojourns, yet the songs live up to the billing. Half are up tempo numbers, the rest dreamy ballads. The Main Thing and Take a Chance With Me were released as singles, the first two tracks; More than This and The Space Between are faster percussive pieces followed by slower ... Read More: Rating: - 37 minutes 21 seconds of perfection.Every nuance is cared for in this superbly produced (but not over-produced) album. Frankly, words could not spell out the score, but I'll give it a go. It is wonderfully lush, romantic, incisive. It is also a remarkably cohesive album. Although there is variation between tracks, particularly rhythmically, the overall musical feel and the lyrical feel are both quite lucid and they are perfectly matched. The album begins with 'More Than This' which lays down the very high standard of the album, with no instrument dominating but marvellous little sequences coming in at just the right time, most notably from the guitar and the keyboards. The vocals are also used cleverly, as more than a voice - as an instrument in itself with peaks ... Read More: |
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