"There are many things that I could say to try and comfort you, but I know the words you like to hear are simply, 'I love you'."
Roxy Music's fourth album (second post-Eno) just might be their artistic peak and sits in their discography as the last of their shape-shifting art-glam masterpieces. After Country Life, Roxy Music, despite some indisputable high points, would always seem more like a Bryan Ferry solo project than anything else. Like all of Roxy Music's best work, Country Life teeters on the edge of several creatively fertile contradictions. Chief among these is the lyrical tension between appearance and essence, glam facade and singer-songwriter introspection. This is even apparent in the infamous album cover, featuring two scantily-clad German models peering seductively into the camera while ironically covering various body parts in mock-modesty. This image can be read as a metaphor for the "upside down" introspection of songs like "Out of the Blue," which, on the surface, can seem like an ode to the transformative nature of love, but soon the song deconstructs this romantic notion, ironically stating, "throwaway lines often ring true." Roxy Music's initial run of albums are vastly underrated and contain some of the most ambitious popular music committed to tape during an era, the early seventies, rife with great music.
Country Life (2000 HDCD Remastered Edition)
1. The Thrill of It All (6:24)
2. Three and Nine (4:04)
3. All I Want Is You (2:53)
4. Out of the Blue (4:46)
5. If It Takes All Night (3:12)
6. Bitter Sweet (4:50)
7. Triptych (3:09)
8. Casanova (3:27)
9. A Really Good Time (3:45)
10. Prairie Rose (5:12)
Ohh Yeaa! W0OT! It is like flac christmas today. The drive is filling up have to send some stuff to flash drive or another machine. The Roxy Music I had was incomplete missing more than half the album. Thanks a bunch for these and S.M. album! If the magic flac fairy feels generous see if Electric Wizard-Let Us Prey is in the magic bag.
ReplyDeleteyou're welcome. Please hit the "follow" button at the top of the righthand column and I'll take a look around for Electric Wizard. I'll post the selftitled Bunnymen remaster in a few days.
ReplyDeleteCool! Eye don't have any google or yahoo accounts, not sure if you need those to follow. A while back found Echo & The Bunnies-Heaven up Here and Nick Drake-Pink Moon in the dollar bin at the bookstore grabbed those up and made em into free lossless audio codecs! It is 6 degrees out and half a foot of snow, great flac weather.
ReplyDeleteI think it does require a Google, Yahoo, Twitter, or some other account to follow. Anyway, I found the Electric Wizard FLAC and will provide the link in these comments tomorrow. I'm in Southern California (US), so it's more like 75 degrees outside (well, it's night now, so it's colder, but nothing like what you enduring). Cheers
ReplyDeleteAnother must have post!
ReplyDeleteJo (gimme some flac jack) Bangles, here's your Electric Wizard link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GJB1HQJ4 PW: killingmoonmusic
ReplyDeleteThanks for the E.W. it is my fave album of theirs besides Dopethrone and the last with the original powertrio line up. May the musik always smile upon you.
ReplyDeletethanks Jo Jo, The Bunnymen should be up in a day or two
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