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“More Than This” (1982) by Roxy Music is an underrated GEM of a song that should have been a #1 hit

Idk how this classic song peaked at #102 on the Billboard Hot 100.

wtf.

This is easily their best song and most iconic song years later.

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by Anonymousreply 39August 1, 2025 1:53 PM

Roxy Music never had a hit single in the US. Happened to a lot of iconic bands.

by Anonymousreply 1July 29, 2025 12:36 AM

It's hard to say it's underrated. It may not have soared on the pop charts after its immediate release, but it's been a beloved cult classic for decades among anyone who has even a modicum of musical taste. It was basically a hipster staple right from the jump.

by Anonymousreply 2July 29, 2025 12:36 AM

I just feel their sound was a lot more mature and sophisticated and “older” than what most were listening to at the time, outside of some adults.

Listen to “Avalon” or many of their singles. It wasn’t music for young people, which was what dominated by 1982.

by Anonymousreply 3July 29, 2025 12:53 AM

It’s such a lush and melancholic song. It moves me every time I hear it.

Too bad Ferry is a rightwing shitstain.

by Anonymousreply 4July 29, 2025 1:04 AM

No their best song is this

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by Anonymousreply 5July 29, 2025 1:06 AM

Re Roxy, ‘Avalon’ era, lovely version of ‘Tara’

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by Anonymousreply 6July 29, 2025 1:09 AM

I love that song, OP.

by Anonymousreply 7July 29, 2025 1:17 AM

This one.

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by Anonymousreply 8July 29, 2025 1:19 AM

Take A Chance On Me

by Anonymousreply 9July 29, 2025 1:21 AM

I'm also partial to this one:

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by Anonymousreply 10July 29, 2025 1:25 AM

R9, you’re referencing an ABBA song.

It’s Take a Chance with Me, that you meant to type.

by Anonymousreply 11July 29, 2025 1:27 AM

I love Roxy Music. I love “2HB”.

by Anonymousreply 12July 29, 2025 1:30 AM

From what I remember it got a decent amount of rotation on MTV. Normally that helped a song do well on the charts.

by Anonymousreply 13July 29, 2025 1:40 AM

That cover by 10,000 Maniacs, albeit being inferior, sparked a renewed interest in the original. I also recall it being popular again when it was used in the karaoke scene in "Lost In Translation."

by Anonymousreply 14July 29, 2025 1:46 AM

More Than This got a little airplay on the Boston stations and I was into it. So lush and mesmerizing. I bought the (vinyl) album in ‘82 and later the CD.

Adding to what R2 wrote... Avalon “flopped” at the outset here in the US, only reaching #53 on the album chart. But then it just kept on being popular for years and years and years. Eventually, Avalon became the band’s only album to reach Platinum status (1M copies sold) in the US.

by Anonymousreply 15July 29, 2025 1:50 AM

Roxy Music sounds like New Year’s Eve party music for rich cokeheads in the 70s and 80s.

by Anonymousreply 16July 29, 2025 2:10 AM

R16 I can definitely see some of the kids from Less Than Zero liking them

by Anonymousreply 17July 30, 2025 3:56 AM

Love ❤️ Is The Drug

by Anonymousreply 18August 1, 2025 2:35 AM

Slave

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by Anonymousreply 19August 1, 2025 2:58 AM

R10 makes me think of the film Times Square.

by Anonymousreply 20August 1, 2025 3:22 AM

R18 I like that song.

by Anonymousreply 21August 1, 2025 3:30 AM

Avalon is still among my favorite Top 10 albums. In 1982 I was a sophomore in college and had just gotten my own studio apartment and bought a stereo at a garage sale with a cassette deck. I'd hang out at a Tower Records store when I had time because I loved browsing and later on realized that I loved the music playing and the the handsome "man" (like, in his mid-20s) was always there when the music playing appealed to me. I eventually learned his work schedule. He'd let me borrow tapes that he was playing and if I liked the whole record, I'd buy them. Avalon melted my heart as a hopeless romantic. And it was sexy. Others were bands I'd never heard before -- The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Thomas Dolby. He once asked me if I'd like to hang out together, at my place, because he lived with his parents. That wasn't unusual for this notoriously expensive city. It only occurred to me years later that he might have wanted to date.

Avalon became my go-to fuck album.

Am sad to learn here that Bryan Ferry turned out to be a "Right-wing shitstain".

by Anonymousreply 22August 1, 2025 5:36 AM

OP, are you my favorite brother Mikey? That is where this song takes me - somebody busy with his own interests who is kind to weird kids like me.

by Anonymousreply 23August 1, 2025 6:10 AM

As a child of the 90s, Roxy Music were a little before my time and, somehow, I never knew of them when I was younger. I just stay that because, when I was a kid, there was a ton of cross over of 80s music and music videos still getting a ton of airplay. I only 'discovered' them as an adult. And, I agree, OP, More Than This is gorgeous.

I also love that dark song of theirs that was featured prominently in Mindhunter on Netflix. It's kind of spellbinding. I feel like the fabulous Nick Cave almost directly inherited this sound...

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by Anonymousreply 24August 1, 2025 7:28 AM

Roxy Music was a child of the’90s, r24?

I had the album.

by Anonymousreply 25August 1, 2025 7:40 AM

75- 85 was their post-Eno Bryan Ferry peak

by Anonymousreply 26August 1, 2025 8:38 AM

The best Roxy Music is mark I with Eno.

The second album For Your Pleasure is fantastic from beginning to end.

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by Anonymousreply 27August 1, 2025 8:40 AM

Was let's stick together a hit?

by Anonymousreply 28August 1, 2025 8:43 AM

R16 you say that like it’s a bad thing.

by Anonymousreply 29August 1, 2025 9:20 AM

avalon is THE makeout album of the 80’s.

by Anonymousreply 30August 1, 2025 9:25 AM

Siren, Country Life, and For Your Pleasure are all way better than Avalon. Which says a lot about Roxy Music - because Avalon is fantastic.

by Anonymousreply 31August 1, 2025 9:58 AM

I think it's their worst actually.

by Anonymousreply 32August 1, 2025 10:14 AM

Siren is pretty awful, I'd only put Flesh + Blood below it.

by Anonymousreply 33August 1, 2025 11:03 AM

This is their best IMO.

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by Anonymousreply 34August 1, 2025 11:15 AM

This one is underrated. Both Ends Burning.

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by Anonymousreply 35August 1, 2025 12:36 PM

Sensation has to be Ferry's most underrated solo track. Dave Gimour plays guitar.

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by Anonymousreply 36August 1, 2025 12:39 PM

R16 That was some fun.

by Anonymousreply 37August 1, 2025 1:04 PM

Agreed, OP. One of my favorite songs of all time.

by Anonymousreply 38August 1, 2025 1:47 PM

There was also a terrible Norah Jones cover.

by Anonymousreply 39August 1, 2025 1:53 PM
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