For Your Pleasure
by Roxy Music

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Glam-art-rockers were up and coming, full of talent, and sure of it. FYP feels a little too self-consciously charismatic to provide the effortlessly classy pop they became known for, but is interesting enough to fool around with from time to time.

For your pleasure, is another quirky masterpiece from Roxy Music. This would be the last record the band would make with Brian Eno which is a shame because it would have been interesting to see where it went, but as Bryan Ferry said, there's only room for one non musician in this band. Do the strand, kicks proceedings off in superb fashion, another odd little rock-a-roller. Elsewhere, the blow up doll fetish of, in every dream home a heartache, is a highlight, as is the funky groove of, the bogus man. Other standouts are, beauty queen, and, editions of you. It's a stunning LP, but unfortunately Roxy would never be quite so quirky again. Still, there was more greatness to come.

Roxy Music's second album "For Your Pleasure" has by many been appointed to the group's best and most important. And, yes, there are several fine songs to be found on the album. "Do the Strand" is real early Roxy Music style - very ala "Virginia Plain" - a great piano-driven rocker.

"Beauty Queen" is a fine melodic ballad - perhaps the album's most enduring song.

"Grey Lagoons" also belongs among the best numbers on the album.

The title track could have been the highlight of the album, but the great melody and the fine guitar theme gradually disappears into oblivion as the track evolves into an instrumental marathon where the original melody gradually is abandoned - too bad.

"Editions of You" is an accomplished rocker.

The rest of the tracks are for my taste either too sketchy or prolonged or downright boring.

Not a bad album, but in my opinion far from their best. The three subsequent albums "Stranded," "Country Life" and "Siren" are along with "Avalon" far more well-rounded albums. Personally I have always thought that "Siren" is somewhat underestimated.

The best Roxy Music album ever in terms of inventiveness, clarity and execution. Eno shines his production magic, particularly brilliant on "The Bogus Man". (Edited)

The second of Roxy Music's opening trilogy of masterpieces sounds as original and fresh as it did on its release in 1972. The album comprises experimental elements of their debut combined with a refined futuristic funk and primal dissonance similar in technique to Can and Beefheart respectively (eg 'Bogus Man'). There also exists an added sense of urgency and vitality (eg 'Do The Strand'/'Edition's Of You') allied to Peter Hammill-like cosmic despair ('In Every Dream Home'). The significance of the band is that their merging of avantgarde, pathos, jazz-rock and electronic elements, revolutionized prog-rock. Essentially this was the album where the band linked it to both the punk/new wave movements of the late 1970s and the post-punk/synth-pop of the 1980s. Roxy Music remain one of the best and most influential of British bands and this is arguably their greatest achievement.