Roxy Music

Love is the Drug

Roxy Music – Love is the Drug

I was looking for a video of the album version of this song and the first one that comes up is a canned performance on some tv program. It’s amusing, but at least a minute of the song is missing. There were a couple of live versions too but I wanted the footsteps you hear before the song really kicks in.

I am not 100% sure that we had the LP of Siren or if we just had a tape one of my siblings made from a friend. You would think I’d remember Jerry Hall on the rocks, but I’ve seen it so many times over the years that I don’t really know. We definitely had a number of Roxy Music albums but I think my introduction to them all started with this song.

The whole album just seems like quintessential Roxy to me. I know Brian Eno isn’t on this album and it’s not as glam rock as the earlier albums, but Brian Ferry is in fine form. That voice is unlike any other and even though I was too young to really understand all the lyrics, I was captivated by the sound. One of the comments on the video from the tv program video said, “Don’t turn your back, that bassline’s gonna steal your girlfriend.” 😏

Love is the Drug might be the most well known song on the album but the rest of the songs are just as smooth and sexy. It sounds like a sophisticated party that I had managed to sneak into when no one was paying attention. It feels like if I just stayed quiet and out of sight, I would be able to stay up well past my bedtime and see things I was probably not supposed to see.

I didn’t always appreciate having so many older siblings but I definitely learned a lot by being in the room when they were teenagers.

Same Old Scene

Roxy Music – Same Old Scene

Much like the rest of 2020, this month has defied any sense of normal time for me. The election was this month? The interminable wait for the results of the election was this month? My daughter’s only been home for just over a week? NaBloPoMo is often a struggle to get through because it’s day after day of the same thing, at least the way I do it. But in this pandemic life in the dwindling days of the Cheeto administration, hasn’t every day been like that for months now? I can’t tell the days apart at all anymore. If I didn’t have a calendar on my phone, I’d be lost.

Thanks for following along these past 30 days of Marchtober. Here’s hoping next year’s NaBloPoMo is more like Novembers of year’s past.

Editions of You

Roxy Music – Editions of You

I love this video. What a piece of gold. Bryan Ferry doing his one-armed piano playing/dancing. Brian Eno in his feathered finery, for that alone this is well worth watching. I can’t remember which of my siblings was the first to bring home Roxy Music, it just seemed to always be there. I don’t think I knew they looked like that though.

In case you missed it, this blog began on tumblr, where I’m still posting, but a number of my friends feel out of place there so I decided to have a WordPress edition too. If you are on tumblr, I also reblog stuff I find interesting there but I don’t carry it over here as the formatting gets screwy. Thanks for reading, watching, and listening in either case!