From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V3 #3 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, January 4 1998 Volume 03 : Number 003 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] The Trouser Press [Bahi Para ] Re: [AVALON] The Trouser Press [Waltznblak ] Re: [AVALON] The Trouser Press [Bahi Para ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 12:45:41 +0000 From: Bahi Para Subject: [AVALON] The Trouser Press The Trouser Press carries a long article on Ferry and Roxy albums up to and including Bete Noire. If you rate the the last few Ferry albums (of originals) as highly as the first few by Roxy, you'll be annoyed by the contradictions and slop found in the descriptions of everything after Country Life. Still, it's a long and fairly interesting article and certainly worth a visit. The URL follows; if there's anyone out there without Web access, I can mail the text to you. http://www.trouserpress.com/bandpages/ROXY_MUSIC.html - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 15:41:09 EST From: Waltznblak Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Trouser Press Ira Robbins' article may have been well written, but all it did was infuriate me. He comes across as narrow minded and confused about how he feels about Roxy and Bryan... as if Bryan weren't allowed to expand his sound and give his fans the full spectrum of his talent! Spare me. I was listening to that "adult" sound since I was 13 or 14 years old and it has always been high on my list of favorites. If he was a true Roxy fan he would love, or at least appreciate everything Bryan creates. ~:o) michele - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 23:03:38 +0000 From: Bahi Para Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Trouser Press Michele wrote: >Ira Robbins [...] comes across as narrow minded and confused [...] >all it did was infuriate me. Likewise. Robbins expects playful, high-energy irony from Ferry. Perhaps, to music writers who get sent maybe tens of albums a month, the later Roxy stuff and every Ferry release from "Boys & Girls" onward has taken too long to get to like. Each one needs to share speaker-time with albums on which emotion is expressed in more obvious ways. On the other hand, if Bryan's sound, songs, and attitude had barely altered since the 70s, journalists would have castigated him for that too. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V3 #3 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to avalon-digest-owner@smoe.org