Flesh + Blood (studio album)
by Roxy Music
Top albums of 1980 (Roxy Music bestography
Flesh + Blood is ranked 7th best out of 19 albums by Roxy Music on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Roxy Music is Avalon which is ranked number 491 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,541.
(N.B. Bestographies do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Flesh + Blood track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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70/100  | 09/03/2025 05:57 | culwin | | 75/100 |
80/100 | 07/13/2025 17:34 | rfowler | | 85/100 |
20/100 | 06/12/2025 01:10 | Proto | | 34/100 |
55/100 | 02/28/2025 08:30 | fabm0 | | 59/100 |
75/100 | 02/01/2025 13:24 |  flamingyesdept | | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 72.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.
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Jboy56 01/11/2024 15:06
Impeccable, style and smoothness is so good and soothing. First-class pop, Ferry has always been so stylish,
This album seems to get a lot of stick, personally I think it's a great album, better than Virginia Plain in my opinion. I love 'The Midnight Hour' and 'Flesh and Blood'. Excellent production, love the cover art, looks particularly striking on vinyl, which quite suitably is red, on the recent re-issue.
A much maligned album by the critics, I would say that tracks #2-6 are at the same majestic level as anything on Avalon and the remainder is subpar.
UofTBlues 01/07/2020 19:42
Critics didn't like it but the fans did. I personally like every track probably because it brings back fond memories as a 17 year old.
WildHorses 07/16/2018 15:58
Highly underrated! First 3 songs are killers!
O.T. 07/30/2017 22:55
That's how modern people felt in 1980. Their music and the music of Grace Jones, Visage and Blondie were the soundtrack. Roxy Music opened the space for the great artificial and passionate pop music to come in the next years. That surely was avant garde in the truest sense of the word. But they crash on Eight miles high, but do better than anyone who tried, from the Live Hippie Rock Byrds themselves to Hüsker Dü.
Nothing especially terrible, but remarkably lame when compared with their first five albums.
The follow up to, manifesto. It's incredible to think this is roughly the same band that made classics such as, for your pleasure, and, country life, but unfortunately, flesh + blood, picks up where, manifesto, left off. Oh yeah, is off course a great latter day Roxy track, but it was obvious they weren't too confident about their new record, considering they had to open up with a cover of Wilson Pickett's, in the midnight hour. They also cover The Byrds' classic, eight miles high, which is okay, but the rest of the album is a bit too dull and safe. Fortunately, Roxy would redeem themselves with their next release, avalon.
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