Side A
Artist	Song
Roxy Music	Re-Make/Re-Model
Roxy Music	Street Life
Roxy Music	Ladytron
Roxy Music	While My Heart Is Still Beating
Roxy Music	Out Of The Blue
Roxy Music	A Song For Europe
Roxy Music	My Only Love
Roxy Music	Oh Yeah
Roxy Music	Both Ends Burning
Roxy Music	In Every Dreamhome A Heartache
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Roxy Music	Tara
Roxy Music	Mother Of Pearl
Roxy Music	Jealous Guy
Roxy Music	Editions Of You
Roxy Music	Virginia Plain
Roxy Music	Love Is The Drug
Roxy Music	To Turn You On
Bryan Ferry	Sympathy For The Devil
Andy Mackay	Ride Of The Valkyries
Phil Manzanera	Big Day

Comment:

What is Roxy Music? It could be a number of things: the glam-era madness of the British group's first albums, recorded with one Brian Eno wreaking havok on then-new sythesizers and tape machines; the artful, deconstructed love songs delivered by singer Bryan Ferry; the farewell windswept synthpop with too much meloncholy panache to be considered a sell-out; or maybe it is just the keen fashion sense and scantily clad models splayed across their album covers. In an age when so much alleged cutting edge music veers between re-creation and self-conscious theatrics, the overflowing, double fisted cocktails of Roxy's first albums (Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure)sounded strange in its day and still sound quite strange now. Musique conrete, doo-wop, cabaret, crooner pop and The Velvet Underground are treated as equals. Eno left( or was pushed out)after the second album constrained by the role as sideman. Ferry made himself over from glam-rock greaser to tuxedo clad charmer. His halting, gulping vibrato gave his musings on unrequited love an electric shock. He was being campy and sincere. He did it all with style. By the time of the groups last album, Avalon, the irony had vanished. " Re-Make/Re-Model" derived it's edge from ambiguity: was the song about a girl or a car? There is no question regarding Avalon's "To Turn You On". Every now and then, someone prominent will come out as a complete raving Roxy Music-ite (most recently Moby and Air). Arguably, any band trying on the "noise-pop" suit owes a huge debt to the band even if they are not aware of it. Aside from Roxy selctions, the tape features solo effort works of the three core members. F.Y.I. Eno is featured in both Mackay and Manzanera's solo tracks.

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