From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #1004 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, November 30 2015 Volume 15 : Number 1004 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Christmas cheer? [Heather Propes ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:52:20 -0500 From: Heather Propes Subject: Re: [AVALON] Christmas cheer? Hi guys, I'm a member from way back in the early 2000s. I have not posted lately and I don't understand the true context of the discussion, but I wanted to chime in anyway. I have not bought anything by Bryan since Taxi, so I'm not qualified to speak about the last few. But Bryan has given us so many musical gifts that even if this last phase of his career is weak, we should just "give him this one" and overlook it. I mean, Bryan, like David Bowie, and Eno, is the one who brought style back into music in the early 70s when it was all hippies and brown flares, and started experimenting with the new artsy electronic sounds that led to new wave. He pulled us out of the hippie dark ages and for that I am immensely grateful to him. And for me, a devoted fan of those stylish English bands of the 80s, whose inspiration drew from soul and classic movies and art and technology, such as ABC, and Human League and New Order and Talking Heads, Bryan was in the lead. ABC copied Roxy Music, Duran Duran copied Japan and Roxy Music. But Roxy Music was at the beginning of everything. And just think of their golden years (which to me are the albums up to Flesh and Blood), the glamour, the spectacle, the shiny clothes, the sheer thrill of it all. It was like nothing else. And then it quieted down to the poetry of Avalon, a subdued and elegant swansong for the end of that great period. And then Bryan did some nice solo work for a while, which, for me, ended with Mamouma. What I am saying is that, although Bryan's recent output might not be up to the quality of his earlier years, his legacy is a gift. The world, at least my world, would not be the same without it. Thank god for Bryan. And if you won't take it from me, then take it from he great Noel Fielding. Anyone like the Mighty Boosh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt8-m79-Lw0 joyeux noel (I'm sure Byran would say that) Heather On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Thomas Wallace wrote: > From: Chris Turner [mailto:roxyrama@yahoo.co.uk] > Sent: 29 November 2015 03:03 > To: Thomas Wallace; 'Avalon Avalon' > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Christmas cheer? > > > > From: Thomas Wallace > To: 'Chris Turner' ; 'Avalon Avalon' < > avalon@smoe.org> > Sent: Sunday, 29 November 2015, 0:43 > Subject: RE: [AVALON] Christmas cheer? > > > > > > I feel something far worse than bitterness, Tom. Disappointment. The guy > who > has always delivered has fired four blanks in a row. For more than ten > years I > have staunchly believed that he had one last great album left in him. I > don't > believe that any more. For me, creatively, he's done. > > > > Chris > > So youb ve got it wrong, boo freekinb whoo get over it lifeb s too short. > Ib m sure he didnb t do it just to get at you. Btw, Ferry never always > delivered listen to side two of Manifesto thereb s some real stiffs on > there. > Even the Bride wasnb t perfect though it was probably his most interesting > solo album. Ib ve never seen his solo career as being on the same level as > Roxy, so yes to me the creative heights were never fully reached after > Country > Life so what, there were some good albums after b 74 and I do feel sad that > he probably never fully reached his potential. Paul McCartney hasnb t done > an > album I fully liked since Venus and Mars and Ib ve been listening to him > since b 62, but I donb t go on a hissy fit about it. > > If there are folk out there who genuinely like what Ferry has done over the > last 15 years great Ib m glad, if folk are using the remixes in clubs even > better it might just make somebody go and by a copy of one of the early > Roxy > albums and hopefully theyb ll experience some of the buzz I got when I > first > heard them. You could say Ib ve gone one way in my musical tastes and > Ferryb s later material has fitted in less and less with that, too bad. > There > are plenty of other artists over the years who I feel the same way about. > Am I > disappointed, not really as we get older our tastes change and as the > artists > get older their inspiration and styles change. If the worst comes to the > worst > I can always pick up a guitar or switch on a keyboard and doodle about for > myself, what I wonb t do is get bitter about it. > > Tom. > > > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #1004 ****************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest