Delight no 2 - Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure.

Uncle Harry

Uncle Harry

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Following seeing delight no 1 Temenos I went to Sound it Out Records (Delight no 3?) and bought a nice New vinyl copy of For Your Pleasure.

Every sound on that album from “There’s a new sensation “ through to Judy Dench whispering “you don’t ask why” is perfect

Nearly every album has a duff track on. Not this one
 
I was in my last year at Hustler school just after my exams (1974). We were given a room where we could go and listen to music have coffee etc if you still wanted to come in.
We were mainly listening to chart stuff when a girl called Michelle brought in For your pleasure. It was a wow moment in my music education. Still listen to it every now and then.
 
Bought their debut album when released in 72.
Still plays - without a penny on the stylus(y)

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Something else......
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Saw them at the Redcar Jazz Club before the first album came out. Amazingly they were support to a film. Jimi Hendrix Live At Berkley was the main part of the night. Roxy blew me away I had not heard of them before that night and they were astonishing. That was June 4th 1972 possibly about 75 people there. They came back on 12th November and the place was packed out possibly sold out.
 
asredastheycome said:
Saw them at the Redcar Jazz Club before the first album came out. Amazingly they were support to a film. Jimi Hendrix Live At Berkley was the main part of the night. Roxy blew me away I had not heard of them before that night and they were astonishing. That was June 4th 1972 possibly about 75 people there. They came back on 12th November and the place was packed out possibly sold out.
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You lucky b@stard!
 
For a band that was all about style Ferry wrote some weirdly unmusical
Lyrics “rhododendron is a nice flowah” and “growing potatoes by the score”. Much more interesting than their later more polished malarkey
 
Uncle Harry said:
For a band that was all about style Ferry wrote some weirdly unmusical
Lyrics “rhododendron is a nice flowah” and “growing potatoes by the score”. Much more interesting than their later more polished malarkey
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'Badgers couldn't compensate at twice the price'
 
I never knew that was “badgers” surely not many other songs mention brer badger. I thought it was “that just” but now you say it plus the previously mentioned potatoes etc of course it’s “badgers”
 
I think I'm a tiny bit younger than most of the posters on this thread, but as my uncle had (has) a massive vinyl collection he let me borrow the first few Roxy albums when I was about 17 so I got into their early stuff just as they were churning out Avalon et al.
 
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