Roxy Music - Avalon (1 Viewer)

[jivafox]

I know this probably veers a bit too close to OLD FART music these days, but I have an unabashed love for this and its ultra 80s video (directed by Ridley Scott post-Alien no less)

 

[big ron]

My Dad had a few Roxy Music albums when I was a kid. I remember him making a personal best of tape for the car and there are half a dozen or so songs I adore from them, this being one of them.

 

[straightorbroken]

The song, a 10. The album, less.

 

[Shirley]

OLD FART music

WELL HELLO
Naturally I love it

 

[disneyteletubby]

Enya's a fan of this one [mentioned here]



I really like Avalon by Roxy Music too, though Dance Away is more likely to get stuck in my head.
The late Yanick Étienne singing in the background, she was amazing ♡

 

[octophone]

By this time Roxy Music was The Bryan Ferry Show and was the worse for it. Unlike a few, I don't think they crashed and burned after Eno left/was fired but he did produce by far the more interesting music for the rest of the 70s. But Ferry was smart and ambitious and thus, their post-Eno catalogue is strewn with great singles, like Love Is The Drug (which was a massive influence on countless post-punk bands) and Dance Away. Avalon is a bit too smooth and stylised for me but I suspect that's exactly what Ferry was reaching for.