I have yet to be disappointed by any release I have bought by him and today's purchase is no exception — Mamouna from 1994. Rather than trying to keep up with the times and throw a bunch of techno beats into his songs, he sticks to his own thing with excellent results. This is the first album I have bought from him post 1985's classic Boys and Girls. Anybody familiar with his material up to the present? Anything stand out?
Bęte noire from 1987 is very good.
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I bought the Roxy box this summer and like all the albums except for the really bad one . . . Um, the one before Avalon. Where should I start with the solo stuff?
I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
I'm not sure if there is a wrong place to start in his '70s and '80s catalog. If you like Avalon then Boys and Girls should be a no brainer for his '80s material. For the '70s, you might want to start with In Your Mind. Another Time, Another Place might be my favorite from the '70s, but it's a covers album — covers that sound very different from the originals, very Ferry.Originally Posted by polmico
The Bride Stripped Bare is outstanding.
And as one of PE's resident Dylan fanatics I have to say that IMO Bryan is a superb interpreter of Bob's material. He's never a slave to the original and always brings his own touch to the songs. In other words, don't dismiss the covers albums: Bryan, like Bowie and only a couple of others, makes covers his own.
I'm eagerly awaiting the new trad jazz album.
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?
Lots of great stuff, but In your mind and Bete noire are my favorites. Also, there's a show on Wolfgang's from the In your mind period, with one of the best bands ever. ( Manzanera, Spedding, Wetton, Thompson, Collins, etc)
I'll have to pick that up next.
You have Gilmour playing a lot of the solos, as a bonus.
Actually, the BF album I go to most often is Taxi, a covers album that just really works.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
I've always loved BF, and once wrote that I thought he was "the best lounge singer on acid in the history of music".
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