Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

Title: For Your Pleasure Artist: Roxy Music Release Date: 1973 Re-Released On: 10/28/2008 Label: Virgin, Reprise, EMI Music Distribution, Caroline Distribution Duration: 42:16 Album Type(s): lyrics/libretto UPCs: 400000008479, 4988006795723, 4988006857117, 5099921690624, 724384744922, 724384745028, 0724384744953, 075992604024, 075992604048, 077778653424, 724384744953 Genre: Rock Styles: Glam Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Proto-Punk, Album Rock, Art Rock Moods: Dramatic, Literate, Quirky, Bittersweet, Brooding, Campy, Energetic, Melancholy, Nocturnal, Refined/Mannered, Restrained, Rousing, Sexy, Smooth, Theatrical, Warm, Confident, Intimate, Lush, Passionate, Plaintive, Playful, Reflective, Party/Celebratory, Ambitious, Poignant, Romantic, Yearning, Cathartic, Earnest, Exuberant, Freewheeling, Sensual, Wistful, Cerebral, Detached, Elegant, Soothing, Sophisticated, Stylish Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 10 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Do the Strand
2. Beauty Queen
3. Strictly Confidential
4. Editions of You
5. In Every Dream Home a Heartache
6. The Bogus Man
7. Grey Lagoons
8. For Your Pleasure

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Caroline Distribution 16906 2007 CD EMI Music Distribution 68822 2001 CD Virgin 2 2001 CD EMI Music Distribution 65823 2000 CD Virgin 47449 2000 CD Virgin 47449 1989 CD Reprise 26040

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On Roxy Music's debut, the tensions between Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry propelled their music to great, unexpected heights, and for most of the group's second album, For Your Pleasure, the band equals, if not surpasses, those expectations. However, there are a handful of moments where those tensions become unbearable, as when Eno wants to move toward texture and Ferry wants to stay in more conventional rock territory; the nine-minute "The Bogus Man" captures such creative tensions perfectly, and it's easy to see why Eno left the group after the album was completed. Still, those differences result in yet another extraordinary record from Roxy Music, one that demonstrates even more clearly than the debut how avant-garde ideas can flourish in a pop setting. This is especially evident in the driving singles "Do the Strand" and "Editions of You," which pulsate with raw energy and jarring melodic structures. Roxy also illuminate the slower numbers, such as the eerie "In Every Dream Home a Heartache," with atonal, shimmering synthesizers, textures that were unexpected and innovative at the time of its release. Similarly, all of For Your Pleasure walks the tightrope between the experimental and the accessible, creating a new vocabulary for rock bands, and one that was exploited heavily in the ensuing decade. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Name Credits Andy Mackay Oboe, Saxophone Anthony Price Hair Stylist, Make-Up, Clothing/Wardrobe, Wardrobe Antony Price Hair Stylist, Clothing/Wardrobe, Make-Up Bob Ludwig Digital Remastering Brian Eno Synthesizer, Tape, Tapes, Keyboards Bryan Ferry Cover Art Concept, Vocals, Art Direction, Keyboards CCS Artwork Chris E. Thomas Producer Chris Thomas Producer Eno Tapes, Synthesizer Jennings Crew John Anthony Producer John Middleton Engineer John Porter Bass John Punter Engineer Karl Stoecker Photography Nicholas Deville Photography, Art Direction Paul Thompson Drums Phil Manzanera Guitar Roxy Music Producer, Arranger Smile Hair Stylist