Top 5 : Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music Tracks

Wow what an average year for music. I have been so uninspired I just seem to gravitate to the past all the time. So I have turned to Bryan Ferry, both with Roxy Music and in a solo capacity.

Bryan Ferry is easily one of the most dapper gentlemen ever to grace pop music. Brian Eno is probably one of the most influential and insane artists to grace the world of music. With and without Eno, Roxy Music were fantastic. The band continually reinvented themselves, starting off as an experimental beast and eventually becoming a super slick pop machine. When Ferry went solo, the quality kept on coming.

5. Oh Yeah - OK this may raise some eyebrows, but I cannot get enough of this song. Sure, it sounds like a song that the cheaply hired band would have played at a really daggy 1980's wedding. But I don't care. It is as infectious as hell and shows Roxy Music could make a pop song as good as anyone.

4. Remake/Remodel - Roxy Music emerged from the Royal College of Art in London in 1971 as a experimental prog band and created some smoking hot music, and Remake/Remodel is one of these smoking tracks. Eno is demonic on the synth, whilst the rest of the band belt out some incredible improvisation, a far cry from their later, more measured material.

3. More Than This - This is a wonderful song on its own, however after hearing Bill Murray's warbling, fractured version in Lost In Translation this song resonated so much more. It's reflective lyrics echo the distant guitar riff and Ferry's earnest crooning evokes a mood of longing inside of you, even if what you are lusting after doesn't even exist.


2. Ladytron - Brian Eno era Roxy Music material is certainly quite different from their later more pop-oriented work. This prog masterpiece reflects Eno's penchant for the absurd and experimental, with some seriously mental synth noises dueling with mentally-retarded guitars. Too bad you get 'Let's Stick Together' instead of this on classic hits radio.

1. Slave To Love - This may well be the greatest love song ever written. Its so seductive in every way. Those little guitar licks and rim ticks create images of a balmy late afternoon on the beach, Wayfarers on with a California blonde in tow. Bryan Ferry's vocals slide smoothly over the silky rhythm section, which together work to turn the lights down low and set the mood. The shadowy mystery so beautifully crafted by Ferry et al in this song is echoed in the equally dark and seductive video. It's perfect in every way.