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[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Roxy's second album. Don't know of a bad one. In the glam period here with Eno's last appearance with the group.
Inside the fold pic of him is as glam as it gets. Ferry's delivery is superb throughout and the sax is the same.
Love three of the eight tracks, making it just hit the love mark. Do The Strand is my fav and was released as a
single, but only in the US at the time. The nine minute The Bogus Man takes some growing but the bass line will
finally sweep you away. In Every Dream Home A Heartache is just spooky. Nothing I don't like but the title track
seems the weakest for me. Roxy were a trend setter and opened a lot of doors for the avant-garde ideas in rock
music. This album barely cracked the charts here at a #193, but the still the trend setter in the UK saw it
different, pushing it to #4.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - For Your Pleasure

Best Track - Do The Strand

There's a new sensation
A fabulous creation
A danceable solution
To teenage revolution
Do the Strand love
When you feel love
It's the new way
That's why we say
Do the Strand
Do it on the tables
Quaglino's place or Mabel's
Slow and gentle
Sentimental

All styles served here
Louis Seize he prefer
Laissez-faire Le Strand
Tired of the tango
Fed up with fandango
Dance on moonbeams
Slide on rainbows
In furs or blue jeans
You know what I mean
Do the Strand

Had your fill of Quadrilles
The Madison and cheap thrills
Bored with the Beguine
The samba isn't your scene
They're playing our tune
By the pale moon
We're incognito

Down the Lido
And we like the Strand
Arabs at oasis
Eskimos and Chinese
If you feel blue
Look through Who's Who
See La Goulue
And Nijinsky
Do the Strandsky
Weary of the Waltz
And mashed potato schmaltz
Rhododendron

Is a nice flower
Evergreen
It lasts forever
But it can't beat Strand power
The Sphynx and Mona Lisa
Lolita and Guernica
Did the Strand

1) Do The Strand ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2yGudJ_BQ0
2) Beauty Queen **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIkjmdw2gk
3) Strictly Confidential **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li7UHVCjnTI
4) Editions Of You ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMYeALWBL0
5) In Every Dream Home A Heartache **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPmMveU0dmc
6) The Bogus Man ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-J1tCQwvg
7) Grey Lagoons **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Uu_XSXDDc
8) For Your Pleasure **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R150fk5oJL8

3's - 3
2's - 5
1's - 0

Grade - 2.4

so many albums, so little time