From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #125 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, June 27 2011 Volume 15 : Number 125 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Antony Price ["A. van Lammeren" ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:38:16 +0200 From: "A. van Lammeren" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Antony Price Hi Avalonia, Thanks KB, I'll try to check that link out... And Larry: I think some of us (many?) agree totally. For now: reread Ivors brilliant post from earlier this year. Anyone planning to go to Brugge? Good summer everyone. Tara, Anton. - -- We're still flying... Larry wrote last week: > i know we are all here to discuss new Ferry. But nothing can compare > to the first 5 Roxy albums for the complexity and multi layered > approach to the music and the songwriting was out of this world! I > want it back! Larry :) Ivor Canning wrote, Feb 4th 2011: > Alan, > > Great idea for a thread ! However, I wasn't originally going to > respond because I'm useless at these 'Top Ten' lists - I can never > settle on a choice for more than about ten minutes at a time. > > Then just now, something happened which, frankly, surprised even me. > Looking for another song entirely, I accidentally clicked on a track > I haven't listened to for ooh, probably years. It's never going to > feature in anyone's Top Ten - indeed, it's one of the least regarded > of all Roxy tracks. > > It was (to my own consternation) 'Sultanesque' (cue the sound of > women gasping, men fainting and dray horses getting a fit a of the > vapours ...) > > Yet even in this unlovely, bap-faced, ugly little runt of a piece, I > found a moment of beauty. Just when that gong crescendo peaks, > giving way to the distorted guitars, I felt the hairs on the back of > my neck stand up. At that point I realised that, for me anyway, > there is at least one 'Roxy moment' on each and every track - at > least, of those first five studio albums (Roxy's own 'Mighty > Handful'), the accompanying singles/B-sides and 'Viva !' > > Yup, every single one. > > Regards, > > Ivor > > n.p. 'Your Application's Failed' - oh, that guitar work at the end > ... > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan Heaton" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 5:56 PM > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Just to relive one minute > > >> That would actually make a potentially interesting thread: "What >> portion of a Roxy song" most exemplifies Roxy Music for you?" That >> segment from "Sentimental Fool" sets the bar pretty high. I'd have >> to give that some thought... :) >> >> Cheers, Alan ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #125 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest