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When the first Roxy Music LP came out in 1972 it was almost literally breathtaking. I remember it being played almost constantly in the 6th form common room. They followed it up with For Your Pleasure which was even better, I can remember vividly hearing the the opening track "There's a new sensation..." what compares to that today I don't know. And what an album cover too.
Then Eno left and it was downhill from then on IMHO. And they wanted to break into the US market and to do that involved a more "conventional", dare I say less British, approach.
I always think to be really different a band needs a non-musician in the mix, Roxy had two.
I think they got different rather than worse. You wouldn't even recognise the band that made Flesh + Blood and Avalon as the same one which did the first two albums, apart from Ferry's voice - but they're both masterpieces too. It may be different for me though, because I discovered them at the time of Avalon and then worked backwards.
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OTOH my wife is a lifelong fan, she met Bryan Ferry when she was working in a posh hotel, just after he had teamed up with Jerry Hall. According to Mrs Neill Ferry was a really nice down to earth bloke, what she said about Jerry Hall I wouldn't repeat.
I don't really remember the acoustic stuff, except Alice In Chains' Jar of Flies and Sap (which were brilliant) and the Scorpions' Acoustica (which wasn't really). Oh, and Tesla's Five Man Acoustical Jam, which was pretty good.
I do remember that post-Nirvana period when bands like Trixter, Firehouse and Lillian Axe were rushing out to buy flannel shirts and replacing their day-glo Superstrats with Les Pauls and Jazzmasters...
Neil Young went a bit crap in the 80s and then picked up in the 90s and seems to be a bit crap again for the last decade or so.
Deep Purple mk2 and mk3 were great, but anything after Stormbringer just sounds like every other hard rock band. Not dissing Morse as a player, I just don’t think the material or spark is there.
And Whitesnake... great blues rock band and then that 1987 change of image American junk. Which Mr Coverdale is still peddling to this day. Enough already, period... as they say Stateside.
First three albums were ace, if you like that kind of thing.
It all went mainstream with Our House/4th album, and they became too refined as they lost that “nutty nutty sound”.