Manifesto
by Roxy Music
Roxy Music bestography
Manifesto is ranked 8th best out of 20 albums by Roxy Music on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Roxy Music is Avalon which is ranked number 495 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,457.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Manifesto track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 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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| 03/15/2026 09:52 |  Sandrof1969 | 2,706 | 68/100 | |
| 03/11/2026 09:16 |  Tamthebam | 22,950 | 69/100 | |
| 01/20/2026 19:09 | Exist-en-ciel | 8,164 | 70/100 | |
| 01/19/2026 07:11 | brent13 | 1,919 | 68/100 | |
| 12/24/2025 09:35 | lanadeleswift | 3,587 | 86/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.5/100, a mean average of 71.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.
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OldToad 10/27/2023 00:05 | #299647
"...the production is downright awful..." I mean...who are some of these people? It's a decent Roxy record with so-so songwriting and nice passages here and there, but it's obviously a great recording.
If you only like early Roxy (Siren and before) then chances are you will slay this record. If you like Roxy of the 80's (Flesh+Blood, Avalon) then you will likely enjoy this one too. If like me, you enjoy all the evolution of Roxy Music (and as individuals, Eno, Ferry, Manzanera) then you will realise this is also a great, fun, listenable album (well produced and engineered). Many songs danceable, some great solos and sound blends, bass hooks and typical Ferry angst vocals. Perhaps overlooked a lot, only as the Roxy Music albums are all so strong.
O.T. 07/30/2017 22:50 | #195216
The best way to come back. Very provocative. Reading Vogue was one of the most exciting things around 1979 and the left being pretentious to Eno who had been choosing this path recently. But their new cold sensitivity was a sound unheard before.
This is the first disappointing Roxy Music album. Manifesto, came three years after, siren, and gone is the quirky avant-garde art rock sound, and replaced with a more slick r'n'b pop sheen. Trash, is a good song, and, dance away, is a lovely pop song, albeit nothing Roxy would have done on earlier albums, but the rest is all a bit dull and safe. This really should have been a Bryan Ferry solo album, Roxy should have called it a day after, siren, but having said that we would then miss out on, avalon.
One of my least favorite Roxy Music records. It's got way to much of everything, the songs are not well crafted and the production is downright awful. A once great band on their inevitable down hill slide.
A decent record.
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