NewFee wrote: 

same run tonite...interesting

 htowncoog wrote: 

I didn't call anybody any names.  The last time I remember that happening, it was recess.  I was about 12.

 keller1 wrote: 
Name calling? Seriously....  Those two bands are not similar...Roxy Music influenced a generation of songwriters and musicians. Who sounds like a 12 year old?

 htowncoog wrote: 

Fred is one of the most literate and insightful commenters on these boards.

And if you're going to comment, lay off the namecalling.  When you do that, your own credibility is called into question because you look like a twelve year old.

 fredriley -
Just the fact you compared Spandau Ballet with Roxy Music strips any and all credibility you had. Clueless....absolutely clueless.

 rp1125 wrote: 
Yanick Etienne is credited with background vocals - http://www.yanicketienne.com/

Roxy Music - Avalon
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Lover's Touch
The Beatles - We Can Work It Out
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe

My, that's a fine run. Very old school...

Roxy Music by ~JSaurer
©2008-2010 ~JSaurer

"for your pleasure" these crazy guys from Britain were playing the most exciting music in the seventies, in front we have Brian Eno (left) and Bryan Ferry (on the right side).
for the background I was using all their great cover girls.

airbrush, water colours, coloured pencils, collage, 1999

In the sping of '82 I was learning to be a military pilot and I heard this song... I loved it's melancholic romantic sound, it fit perfectly with the new wave period, in fact was one of the outstanding exemplars of the movement. This is a great album of songs which have lasted, surely a sign of quality.

fredriley wrote: Archetypal Yuppie music from the 80s - just hearing RM, or similar Yup bands like Spandau Ballet, evokes images of stripey shirts, red braces, loud barrowboys, flat-top hairstyles, mobile phones like housebricks, Docklands Light Railway, Porsches, and all the other attributes of unbridled Thatcherite redistribution of public assets to private pockets at quite astonishing profit margins. An era long gone, and gladly so, yet the damage caused by these power-dressing 'ok, yah' and 'loadsamoney' types will last for generations. I can't hear RM or Spandau Ballet or Heaven 17 without thinking of gated apartments in the London Docklands and Class War activists giving the yups gyp on the street. An accursed time.

fredriley,

My, but you are articulate  . Didn't I see you at Canary Warf with your Vertu Mobile clamped to the side of your head, enjoying Fascist Groove Thang blasting out of your Carrera's speakers? "Bruthas... Sistas..."

very sexy album/cd...

'tis nice to listen to this song far away from "your mundane & 80s local radio station" where it gets played ALL the time—-
i think radio paradise helps me to listen to this song in a completely new way—-  like: played to me 10000 times...but never really caught my musical attention...
(i really start liking the softness of this song...)

thanks for that RP!

Maybe this song is age-specific or something but it just feels a little too easy listening for me.

who is that woman?

I just love the chorus, this is my favorite Roxy song!

 catnip wrote: 
Catnip, you ought to be a reviewer - "sinews of sound", very nice ;)

I take your points, and those of other posters defending RM on here, and I guess that, without my local and temporal associations with Thatcherite yuppiedom, yer man Ferry could be seen as quite an innovator and accomplished musician. Unfortunately, as one of the many millions who suffered grievously under Thatcherism in the 80s, I just can't remove the indelible association of RM (and Spandau Ballet and others) with the stripey-shirt brigade. My loss, I guess.

I know someone who just named his newborn daughter Avalon

It gives me the same feeling as an ice cream headache.

 HazzeSwede wrote: 
Indeed! Most excellent vibe

Avalon (probably from the Welsh word afal, meaning apple; see Etymology below) is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend, famous for its beautiful apples. It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 pseudohistorical account Historia Regum Britanniae ("The History of the Kings of Britain") as the place where King Arthur's sword Caliburn (Excalibur) was forged and later where Arthur is taken to recover from his wounds after the Battle of Camlann. As an "Isle of the Blessed" Avalon has parallels elsewhere in Indo-European mythology, in particular the Irish Tír na nÓg and the Greek Hesperides, also noted for its apples. Avalon was associated from an early date with immortal beings such as Morgan le Fay.

.....Love to dance with my hubby to this one!

I used to listen to this album over and over again. I know it isn't deep or amazing or anything, but I still like it : )

But what news of my best friend?



Jahooli...the leopard

 fredriley wrote: 
Y'know, Fred, sometimes you just gotta chill. We keep this one in the CD player on the nightstand.

 fredriley wrote:  I am a big fan of your posts Fred,you're smart,witty,with good tastes in music,but(and there is always a but)I strongly disgree with your music profiling here.
A poor boy in the states with a decent pair of headphones fell in love with this band.I know the band "portrayed" the rich,suave,"loadsamoney" types in the UK but I didn't care.They were original,smart,with great lyrics,great musicianship,and an unbelievable stage presence(Mr Ferry of course).We can agree to disagree.I didn't see it from your "local" perspective.

Thank god the 80s are over.

  Avalon,,dreamy place,,so is this song,,dreamy !

 shutter wrote: 
Thanks for this blast. God, how many listens.

FWIW (sans raptor),

I'm a sucker for all those memories. A solid 11!

The stick, the stick! The whip, the whip!

Throw him in the lake!
 rtrudeau wrote: