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The Best of Roxy Music
Release date: 3 July 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0724381039526 UPC: 766703406272
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“We begin at the end with Bryan Ferry’s transformation into remote, sphinxlike pop icon complete and work backwards through the droll lounge lizard and end with the cracked out, cynical romantic. The Best of Roxy Music admirably stitches together the two disparate phases of their career with more emphasis placed on the wilder, weirder earlier years than the more easily accessible disco-rock of the later. It’s a bit ingenious to be honest, we listen to them transition from sophisticated pop romantics into some asymmetrical art project. It doesn’t hurt that The Best of Roxy Music is the essential one-disc collection of their career. Every album is accounted for, three of the non-album singles are here, and a smattering of smartly chosen album tracks make an appearance. More prevale” read more
500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die! (500 music items)"Stitching together their two careers — ’70s art-rockers, dapper ’80s pop band — this cleverly runs the songs in reverse chronological order: Bryan Ferry and band begin as chart-friendly lounge lizards before slowly and wonderfully weirding out. Standout track: “Virginia Plain”"
