Roxy Music - "Roxy music"
Quasi cacofonici e zappiani tanto erano all'avanguardia, che definirli un gruppo glam è riduttivo. I Roxy Music mostrano una sensibilità diversa già con il loro omonimo album di debutto del 1972 che dopo il successone Virginia Plain li porta nella Top 5 britannica.
Roxy Music sembra derivi dall'unione delle parole rock e sexy, e sono così raffinati che sembrano un gruppo progressive che fa rock'n roll. Brian Ferry - vero workin class hero, di origini contadine ma innato dandy, vero eh- fà il verso a Presley e scrive tutto il materiale, e Brian Eno è il genio non musicista dei sinth e dei nastri magnetici.
Phil Manzanera è il loro raffinato guitar man e Andy Mackay sassofonista e oboista. Ma tutti i componenti della band sono dei gran virtuosi e volutamente straniscono la classica forma canzone del pop in arditi avanguardismi, free jazz, limonata san pellegrino dancing, finto elettro pop, martini lounge music per party sbobbosi con modelle ignude.
Questo è il loro primo album, prodotto da Pete Sinfield, già paroliere e produttore dei King Crimson, una delle band di riferimento di Ferry e i Roxy hanno subito un gran successo, seminale, pure troppo per diversi gruppi di pronipoti new-wave. Tra i brani spiccano Re-make Re-model, un rock'n roll tecnologico che apre le danze, Lady Tron, una bellissima e stralunata ballad elettronica. Affascinanti pure i tanti coretti stonati ad arte in Bitters End. Spiccano inoltre la mini suite The Bob e le arie glaciali di Eno in Chance Meeting. Il disco è troppo sborone pure per loro che l'hanno scritto, è bellissimo ma stracarico e infatti dopo il succcessivo 'For your pleasure' Eno se ne va. Roxy music è' un disco pesante e preponderante, che ha avuto una fortuna e un fascino lento ma costante, farà proseliti pure da noi, soprattutto il canto glottologico ruminatorio onomatopeico di Ferry dei primi due dischi-vedi sotto voce m.- Eno ne rimase cosi impressionato che progettò una laringe musicale meccanica - vero eh chissà che fine ha fatto.
Ferry inizierà da qui la serie delle donnine procaci sulle copertine pur di vendere dischi, ed è un chiaro segno di profondità intellettuale e di impegno politico: nei Roxy si sentono già quelle atmosfere decadenti che faranno la fortuna di Ferry senza Eno. E di Eno senza Ferry.
E di tanta new-wave al di là da venire. E pure di parecchia merda (Faust'O, Franco Battiato, Jo Squillo, Zero, Claudio Baglioni, Camerini, Guccini, Ferro, Fiorello, Carboni, e chi piu ne ha piu ne metta).
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01 Re-Make/Re-Model (05:10)
(Ferry)
I tried but I could not find a way
Looking back all I did was look away
Next time is the best time we all know
But if there is no next time where to go?
She's the sweetest queen I've ever seen (CPL593H)
See here she comes see what I mean? (CPL593H)
I could talk talk talk talk talk myself to death
But I believe I would only waste my breath
Ooh show me
02 Ladytron (04:21)
(Ferry)
You've got me girl on the run around run around
You've got me all around town
You've got me girl on the run around
And it's getting me down, getting me down
Lady if you want to find a lover
Then you look no further
For I'm gonna be your only
Searching at the start of the season
And my only reason
Is that I´ll get to you
I´ll find some way of connection
Hiding my intention
Then I´ll move up close to you
I´ll use you and I´ll confuse you
And the I´ll lose you
Still you won't suspect me
03 If There Is Something (06:33)
(Ferry)
If there is something that I might find
Look around corners
Try to find peace of mind I say
Where would you go if you were me
Try to keep a straight course not easy
Somebody special looking at me
A certain reaction we find
What should it try to be I mean
If there are many
Meaning the same
Be specific just a game
I would do anything for you
I would climb mountains
I would swim all the oceans blue
I would walk a thousand miles
Reveal my secrets
More than enough for me to share
I would put roses round our door
Sit in the garden
Growing potatoes by the score
Shake your hair girl with your ponytail
Takes me right back (when you were young)
Throw your precious gifts into the air
Watch them fall down (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
You used to walk upon (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The hills were higher (when we were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The trees were taller (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The grass was greener (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
You used to walk upon (when you were young)
04 2 H.B. (04:34)
(Ferry)
Oh I was moved by your screen dream
Celluloid pictures of living
Your death could not kill our love for you
Take two people - romantic
Smoky nightclub situation
Your cigarette traces a ladder
Here's looking at you kid
Celebrate years
Here's looking at you kid
Wipe away tears
Long time, since we're together
Now I hope it's forever
Ideal love flies away now
White jacket, mmmn, black tie wings too
You gave her away to the hero
Words don't express my meaning
Notes could not spell out the score
But finding not keeping's the lesson
Here's looking at you kid
Hard to forget
Here's looking at you kid
At least not yet
Your memory stays
It lingers ever
Will fade away never
05 The Bob (Medley) (05:48)
(Ferry)
I dreamed last night about your face
Your star shone all night
Over the moon it shone brighter
Star shining so bright
You were so pure not for this world
So gentle and light
How could I hear their stories?
They told me not right
Too many times beautiful
Too many times sad
Too many times wonderful
Too bad
Spoken: "But when the party was over, and all was quiet and still,
We walked together in moonlight and looked down over the calm lake,
Hand in hand, the stars in our eyes."
So in my dream you still loved me
Gave time reason last night
But this was only life's story
Made simple that's right
07 Would You Believe? (03:47)
(Ferry)
Would you believe in what I do
When the things that I make are all for you?
And in a while I'll come to you
Showing showing why what I think will all come true
Well I'm sure I'll love you all my life
And in the morning too
Everything you have is out of sight
But baby I can see through you
And in a while I'll come to you
Showing showing why what I think will all come true
Would, would you believe in what I do
When the things that I make are all for you?
08 Sea Breezes (07:00)
(Ferry)
I've been thinking now for a long time
How to go my own separate way
It's a shame to think about yesterday a shame
We've been running round in our present state
Hoping help will come from above
But even angels there make the same mistakes in love
Now that we are lonely
Life seems to get hard
Alone what a word lonely
Alone it makes me cry
Thought-train set in motion
Wheels in and around
Express our emotion
Tracks up then it cracks down
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