Roxy Music "Complete Studio Recordings" 10 CD Box *

I like the High Resolution Audio on DVD, but IMHO, disappointing extras. I thought there would be more outtakes. What do you think?

ROXY MUSIC DEBUT 40TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR
WITH ‘THE COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS 1972-1982
RELEASED 2 APRIL

Roxy Music will release a deluxe box-set entitled ‘Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982’ on Monday 2 April, celebrating 40 years since the release of the band’s eponymous debut album in 1972. The release is the first of a major reissue campaign with Virgin Records.

‘Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982’, an 8 CD + 4 DVD deluxe box set will feature all eight Roxy Music studio albums - Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure, Stranded, Country Life, Siren, Manifesto, Flesh And Blood, Avalon.

In addition, a selection of non-album singles, B-sides and remixes, some of which are available on CD for the first time ever will also be included. Each album will be represented on DVD format as high-resolution audio, transferred digitally from the original analogue masters, making this release an absolute 'must have' for Roxy Music fans and collectors.

Roxy Music – Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera, Paul Thompson and Graham Simpson – landed in 1971, seemingly from far beyond Planet Earth, to part bewilderment part rapture…. an intoxicating cocktail of fashion, romance, nostalgia and futurism with songs that were almost cinematic, set to soundscapes that stunned and perplexed.

Roxy Music’s debut album, the self titled Roxy Music, was released in 1972 to critical acclaim and exemplified the band’s penchant for glamour, both in the lyrics and with the album cover of model Kari-Ann Muller, kickstarting a tradition of iconic album covers featuring female models. Single ‘Virginia Plain’ – not featured on the original album release - reached No.4 in the UK singles chart.

For Your Pleasure, released the following March and including the classic Roxy tracks ‘Do The Strand’, ‘In Every Dream A Heartache’ and ‘Editions Of You’, was the last album to feature Brian Eno in the recording line up, and displayed a more elaborate production treatment with a variety of fade ins / outs and tape loops. Non-album single ‘Pyjamarama’ is included on ‘The Complete Studio Recordings’, as the original Island label remix and a 1977 remix, plus its B-Side ‘The Pride and the Pain’.

November 1973 saw the release of Stranded, which reached No. 1 in the UK Album Chart, producing the Top Ten single ‘Street Life’,and featuring 1973 Playmate of the Year (and Bryan Ferry’s then girlfriend) Marilyn Cole on the cover. A year later, Roxy Music released Country Life, this time featuring two models on the album cover (Constanze Karoli and Eveline Grunwald) and producing the single ‘All I Want Is You’.

Siren, released in 1975 and featuring Jerry Hall as the cover girl, includes arguably Roxy Music’s best-known song ‘Love Is The Drug’, which charted at No. 2 upon release, and a second single ‘Both Ends Burning’. A four year gap preceded the release of Manifesto in March 1979, which reached No. 7 in the UK charts and featured an eye catching album cover of mannequins conceptualised by Bryan Ferry and long time designer and Roxy Music collaborator Antony Price, this time producing three singles including the No. 2 hit ‘Dance Away’ and ‘Angel Eyes’.

The No. 1 album Flesh And Blood was released in 1980, Roxy Music at this point was Ferry, Mackay and Manzanera due to the departure of drummer Thompson. Roxy Music’s cover of the John Lennon song ‘Jealous Guy’, was released as a single in 1981 and included the B-Side ‘To Turn You On’. The most commercially successful Roxy Music album, Avalon, was released in 1982, charting at No. 1, and staying in the UK album charts for over a year, with three single releases including the Top 5 song ‘More Than This’.

‘Roxy Music: The Complete Studio Recordings 1972-1982’ brings together all of Roxy Music’s albums with a plethora of tracks previously never released before on CD, including the USA 7” mixes of ‘Do The Strand’ ‘Love Is The Drug’ and ‘Take A Chance With Me’, two edits of Country Life opening track ‘The Thrill Of It All’, plus its B-Side ‘Your Application’s Failed’ (the only track to date written by Thompson), 7” and the 7” single versions of ‘Oh Yeah’ (from Flesh And Blood) and ‘Avalon’.

Further reissues are planned for 2012 with details to be announced at a later date.


TRACKLISTING

CD1: Roxy Music
1. Re-make/Re-model
2. Ladytron
3. If There Is Something
4. 2HB
5. The Bob (Medley)
6. Chance Meeting
7. Would You Believe?
8. Sea Breezes
9. Bitters End
Bonus Tracks:
10. Virginia Plain
11. The Numberer

CD2: For Your Pleasure
1. Do The Strand
2. Beauty Queen
3. Strictly Confidential
4. Editions Of You
5. In Every Dream Home A Heartache
6. The Bogus Man
7. Grey Lagoons
8. For Your Pleasure
Bonus Tracks:
9. Pyjamarama (Island Mix)
10. Pyjamarama (Polydor Mix)
11. The Pride And The Pain
12. Do The Strand (USA 7” Mix 3:19) **never been available on CD before**

CD3: Stranded
1. Street Life
2. Just Like You
3. Amazona
4. Psalm
5. Serenade
6. A Song For Europe
7. Mother Of Pearl
8. Sunset
Bonus Track:
9. Hula Kula

CD4: Country Life
1. The Thrill Of It All
2. Three And Nine
3. All I Want Is You
4. Out Of The Blue
5. If It Takes All Night
6. Bitter Sweet
7. Triptych
8. Casanova
9. A Really Good Time
10. Prairie Rose
Bonus Tracks:
11. The Thrill Of It All – 1977 Greatest Hits Edit (4’20) ) **never been available on CD before**
12. Your Application’s Failed
13. The Thrill Of It All (USA 7” Mix 3:20) **never been available on CD before**

CD5: Siren
1. Love Is The Drug
2. End Of The Line
3. Sentimental Fool
4. Whirlwind
5. She Sells
6. Could It Happen To Me?
7. Both Ends Burning
8. Nightingale
9. Just Another High
Bonus Tracks:
10. Love Is The Drug (USA 7” Mix 3:00) **never been available on CD before**
11. Sultanesque
12. Both Ends Burning (7” Mix 3:58) **never been available on CD before**
13. For Your Pleasure – Live **never been available on CD before**

CD6: Manifesto
1. Manifesto
2. Trash
3. Angel Eyes (***rock version***)
4. Still Falls The Rain
5. Stronger Through The Years
6. Ain’t That So
7. My Little Girl
8. Dance Away (***ballad Version***)
9. Cry, Cry, Cry
10. Spin Me Round
Bonus Tracks:
11. Trash 2
12. Dance Away (Single Version)
13. Dance Away (Canadian Extended 12” Mix)
14. Angel Eyes (Single Version)
15. Angel Eyes (12” Single Version)

CD7: Flesh And Blood
1. The Midnight Hour
2. Oh Yeah
3. Same Old Scene
4. Flesh And Blood
5. My Only Love
6. Over You
7. Eight Miles High
8. Rain Rain Rain
9. No Strange Delight
10. Running Wild
Bonus Tracks:
11. Oh Yeah (7” Version) **never been available on CD before**
12. Manifesto (Remake)
13. South Downs
14. Lover
15. Jealous Guy
16. To Turn On You (1981 B-Side Version) **never been available on CD before**

CD8: Avalon
1. More Than This
2. The Space Between
3. Avalon
4. India
5. While My Heart Is Still Beating
6. The Main Thing
7. Take A Chance With Me
8. To Turn You On
9. True To Life
10. Tara
Bonus Tracks:
11. Avalon (7” Single Version) **never been available on CD before**
12. Always Unknowing
13. Take A Chance With Me (7” Single Version) **never been available on CD before**
14. Take A Chance With Me (USA 7” Mix) **never been available on CD before**
15. The Main Thing (12” Single Version)
16. The Main Thing – Remix **never been available on CD before**

 

Sounds like a very nice set! Thanks for the heads up!

 

I'm curious about the hi-rez angle. Will this be 5.1 then? The bonus material is pretty meager, so I'm not sure if I'm inclined to shell out for all of these albums yet again.

 

on my list... if it sounds better.

 

5.1 high resolution on standard DVD-Video is not possible so my bet is on stereo only.

 

I wouldn't expect any outtakes from Roxy since they seemed to struggle enough to come up with some of those filler B' sides suggesting there was nothing else of any real quality to use anyway. Given how bad some of those B sides are, I shudder at the thought of tracks they considered "not good enough" to use!

However... what does surprise and disappoint me is the lack of live material. I recall reading an interview with Chris Thomas where he said they recorded shows on virtually every tour, even Bryan's earliest solo shows, citing a Royal Albert Hall gig as an example. But to his credit, Thomas also admitted he felt they were never really that great a live band, consistently failing to match the quality of their records.

It is also disappointing they seem to have overlooked - yet again - the 1972 BBC sessions. There's some interesting stuff in there, notably the Davy O'List recordings. Long long overdue for some kind of official release so a bit feeble they seem to be missing here.

 

It's called "The Complete STUDIO Recordings."

Perhaps a live box of sorts is next, as albums like Viva! and Heart Still Beating aren't included here.

 

Never realized there were two different mixes of ''Pyjamarama'' , anyone know what the differences are ? Also good to see ''Virginia Plain'' tagged on as a bonus instead of being shoved into the original running order. Manifesto is back to the original track list too, just hope the mastering is going to be good

 

I could understand seperate 4DVD and 8CD sets but, considering we've already bought these albums multiple times, I fail to see why we need even more duplication. Unless this thing is priced as cheaply as the Simple Minds box, I can't see even considering it. Between the HDCDs I already have and the 'Thrill Of It All' 4CD box, the only significant (and I use the word lightly) thing on here I don't already have (on CD) is the live 'For Your Pleasure', which belongs as a bonus track on the 'Viva!' album anyway.

 

This sounds like a gift from heaven if it is mastered properly!

 

Disappointing. If they are referring to "To Turn You On" (not "To Turn On You" which I'VE never heard of but the former was a single b-side that did end up on "Avalon"), that has been available on CD before unless (and I no longer have the single so can't confirm this) if the song was remixed.

I agree with 93curr--"For Your Pleasure" SHOULD be on "Viva!"

Almost everything on this set has been on the 4 CD boxed set.

I know some folks would like will want the 7 inch versions of some of the singles but, really, I could care less at this stage.

 

The '72 BBC sessions and the '71 demo should definitely be released. What harm could they do?

 

I'll buy Manifesto when the box is unbundled. I'd like a reasonably priced option for 'Trash 2'

 

I might be willing to pay for the hi-rez editions separately, but paying to replace all of the regular CD's I already have is a waste. Maybe we'll see separate expanded editions of some of these down the road so that we can cherry pick our favorites?

I would also welcome more live stuff from their original incarnation. Viva! is great but it's too short.

 

Agreed. Like the OP, my collection includes all HDCD but with the SACD of Avalon. The amoung of bonus material does look reasonable though.

 

I'll have to get it

 

I'd be interested in certain albums or good live material, but I have absolutely no interest in re-buying IMO feeble albums like Manifesto, Flesh & Bood. A lot of Ferry's 70s solo material is better than those.

 

One of my favorite bands. Even with the duplication of what I already have, I'll have to have it...

 

no video content?
5.1 would have been nice

 

They're probably being saved for the deluxe box set of the debut album.

 

Along with BBC TV material I hope, Ladytron on Whistle Test is AMAZING, and the weird Remake Remodel/Would You Believe/For Your Pleasure early TV spot,
a little bit of FYP from that was on a VHS years ago, it was edited/dubbed though. It's a very ragged but fascinating TV appearance.

 

looks good..how much ? has a price watch started yet?

 

If this means 5.1 and very good sound quality on the hi-res DVDs I might pick this up. The bonus material does cover most of the officially released rarities, but I guess nothing previously unreleased? I guess none of those CDs are full. A bit of a missed opportunity.

 

A great set and the way The Thrill Of It All should have been to start with. I hope South Downs is the right way round this time.

It would also be nice if they did one for Bryan Ferry's solo albums as he has a lot of non-album tracks that haven't been collected.