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| Stranded | 
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| Artist: Roxy Music
Label: Virgin
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 7396
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 47451
UPC: 724384745127
EAN: 0724384745127
ASIN: B0000256KM
Release Date: September 13, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Cover worn but CD plays fine. A truly original album, still ahead of its time delivered to you by return
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| Tracks:
| • | Street Life | | • | Just Like You | | • | Amazona | | • | Psalm | | • | Serenade | | • | Song For Europe | | • | Mother Of Pearl | | • | Sunset |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Beauty and the beastly June 8, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The peaks of this third album soar higher than anything before or since from Roxy: Mother of Pearl,Song for Europe, Sunset, Just for You. But there is no getting away from the weaknesses, and this is the first Roxy album which showed the feet of clay which would stomp so ploddingly on later albums like Manifesto.
It is a crossroads album; Eno had left, and Ferry was now the tuxedo-wearing crooner of "Another Time, Another place".
The beautiful lyrics and perfect playing remained; but the humour and the fun had gone from Roxy. From now on, songs like "Psalm" would re-appear on each album which Ferry produced;as if he had to tackle serious themes to be taken as a serious artist.
The creative tension which existed between the two Bry/ians on the first albums had been removed, but with it had also gone the spark of brilliance. It is as if Eno gave something special to every songwriter he worked with, and Ferry was the first in a long line.
The album is worth having, for the four great tracks; but be prepared to skip through "Amazona", "Street Life" (a poorer verison of the classic "Do the Strand"), Psalm and (perhaps) "Serenade", to get to the gems.
After this, Roxy were strictly a singles band, and Ferry became the Rudolf Valentino of seventies rock; easy on the eye, but little worth listening to.
There's nothing much like this April 27, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Roxy's self-titled first album, although containing some of their strongest songs, is too poorly produced in parts to be considered their classic. ''For Your Pleasure', the follow up, tends to claim this accolade but for me 'Stranded' is the epitome of Roxy Music.
Coming as it did, smack bang in the middle of their glorious early/mid period, it contains songs that could easily belong on any of those records. Included is all the wierdness, exotica, brooding beauty and surprise that you would associate with the band across those first five albums. That's not to say the album is at all diffuse, various would best describe it, with every song sounding very 'Roxy-like' without ever really sounding like the last.
If 'Stranded' is Roxy Music's finest album, then, in 'Mother-of Pearl', it contains their finest song. From it's strange and original uptempo opening to it's delightfully sad/joyous main section this song just screams Roxy Music and never more so than in it's flowing, opaque lyric. I've never heard anything quite like this and that is part of Roxy's brilliance and appeal: they are not really Rock N' Roll at all but at the same time they aren't anything else.
Roxy, for me at least, are one of those few bands you may be lucky enough to hear in your life, whose music, for a time, obssesses you. There's something you love and admire about some bands without quite putting your finger on what it is. You feel really thankful that this band existed and whether you were there or not (In Roxy's case I'm only 32 and first listened to them in my early twenties) you can still feel excited by the fact that they happened; that they did what they did.
A truly underrated band and one of Britain's best kept musical secrets (everyone's heard of Roxy Music but who still plays this stuff?). Start here!
Mother of a Pearl March 27, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This re-mastered CD is phenomenal and easily the best purchase I have ever made (I jest yeah not) and I am in possession of hundreds of CDs, across a broad spectrum of music. The copy I now possess is the 5th copy having worn out 3 LPs (remember those quaint 12" entities) and 2 CDs. Not mentioned in the other reviews of this CD (I apologise if I missed them) are the rhythm section - Johnny Gustafson on bass and the Great Paul Thompson on drums what a combination they are awesome throughout (even better live - those were the days). Eddie Jobson is also amazing and even though I love FYP, for me you can keep Eno and give me Eddie's incredible virtuoso performances any day. Great songs, song writing skills and lyrics and a powerhouse display by all musicians involved and the ending Sunset - is a joy to the ear. I cannot recommend this CD enough, a truly inspirational and extraordinary CD.
Roxy at the top of their game March 27, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Having shed their "art school cult band" status with two ground-breaking albums and a couple of hit singles to boot, it was thought that the departure of Brian Eno marked the beginning of the end for Roxy Music. Not so. The main foursome of Ferry, Mackay, Manzanera and Thompson remained and electric violinist Eddie Jobson was brought in and the loss of the erstwhile tape loop doodler was not as great as many had opined. The sound contained far less "messing about wih strange sounds" such as in the fade out of "For Your Pleasure" and, although we were still treated to some wonderful extended cuts, the weirdness was cut down just a little bit. Neither for better or worse. Just a bit different. The first two albums were so unique they could not possibly be recycled over and over. Something had to change. "Stranded" is an eight track album comprised of eight classics that were ahead of their time in late 1973 and are perfectly timeless today.
"Street Life" is a magnificent lead-off track and a big hit single at the time, equal almost to Virginia Plain as the quintessential perfect three minute Roxy single. When you're fourteen years old, as I was upon this release, and you hear a single like this, it blows you away.
"Just Like You" is one of those falsetto-ish Ferry ballads he delivered so well with almost Shakespearean sonnet-esque lyrics; while "Amazona" is a Manzanera showcase, full of buzzing guitar and backed by Ferry's leering voice and mysterious words. "Psalm" is quasi-religious dirge enlivened by a Welsh Male Voice choir at the end, but has that insistent "In Every Dream Home" tone to the delivery of the verses, one after the other, all thoughtful and intoxicating. "Serenade" is classic Roxy rock in the style of "Street Life" and "Song For Europe" is an evocative masterpiece for anyone who has travelled in Europe. Images of France, Italy and Spain abound, with Ferry singing, at times, in both French and Spanish (incomprehensibly!). Mother Of Pearl" is a magnificent tour de force - a kind of two-parter, moving from breathtakingly fast to slow and mantra-esque, entwined with Andy Mackay's trademark saxophone. "Sunset" closes off the whole affair in a laid back, piano-driven fashion, keyboards twinkling as light upon gentle waters in the dark as Ferry croons us off into the distance.
Personally, I don't think it ever got any better for Roxy. This is their coup de grace.
A song for Europe December 20, 2003
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
Wow. The album - wonderful. A Song For Europe. Where do I begin? I grew up to this track. It brings back memories of Spain. Last holidays with parents. Girls to kiss and swim with. Moonlit beaches and love and romance that will last forever. Or at least until the plane leaves for Manchester Ringway. A song to stay in the mind, bonded with every holiday romance. 'Here as I sit, at this empty cafe, thinking of you...I remember, all those moments, lost in wonder, that I'll never find again......Oh god I found a new way of living with this LP.......
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