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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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.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 1, 2025 1:53 PM |
Roxy Music never had a hit single in the US. Happened to a lot of iconic bands.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 2 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 3 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 4 | July 29, 2025 1:04 AM |
I love that song, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 29, 2025 1:17 AM |
Take A Chance On Me
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 29, 2025 1:21 AM |
R9, you’re referencing an ABBA song.
It’s Take a Chance with Me, that you meant to type.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 29, 2025 1:27 AM |
I love Roxy Music. I love “2HB”.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 13 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 14 | July 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 Anonymous | reply 15 | July 29, 2025 1:50 AM |
Roxy Music sounds like New Year’s Eve party music for rich cokeheads in the 70s and 80s.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 29, 2025 2:10 AM |
R16 I can definitely see some of the kids from Less Than Zero liking them
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 30, 2025 3:56 AM |
Love ❤️ Is The Drug
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 1, 2025 2:35 AM |
R10 makes me think of the film Times Square.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 1, 2025 3:22 AM |
R18 I like that song.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 22 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 23 | August 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...
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 1, 2025 7:28 AM |
Roxy Music was a child of the’90s, r24?
I had the album.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 1, 2025 7:40 AM |
75- 85 was their post-Eno Bryan Ferry peak
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 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.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 1, 2025 8:40 AM |
Was let's stick together a hit?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 1, 2025 8:43 AM |
R16 you say that like it’s a bad thing.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 1, 2025 9:20 AM |
avalon is THE makeout album of the 80’s.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 31 | August 1, 2025 9:58 AM |
I think it's their worst actually.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 1, 2025 10:14 AM |
Siren is pretty awful, I'd only put Flesh + Blood below it.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 1, 2025 11:03 AM |
Sensation has to be Ferry's most underrated solo track. Dave Gimour plays guitar.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 1, 2025 12:39 PM |
R16 That was some fun.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 1, 2025 1:04 PM |
Agreed, OP. One of my favorite songs of all time.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 1, 2025 1:47 PM |
There was also a terrible Norah Jones cover.
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