Flesh + Blood
by Roxy Music

I can’t understand why Flesh+Blood is rated so low relative to other Roxy albums. It’s one great song after another.

From Jboy56 01/11/2024 15:06 | #301084

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.

From UofTBlues 01/07/2020 19:42 | #246526

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.

From WildHorses 07/16/2018 15:58 | #218336

Highly underrated! First 3 songs are killers!

From O.T. 07/30/2017 22:55 | #195217

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.