These songs reminds me of Roxy Music, tell me yours

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"Signal and sign" Maximo Park
"(Get a) Grip (On Yourself)" The Stranglers
"Pink Glove" and "Lipgloss" Pulp
"Rockwrok", "Hiroshima Mon Amour","Frozen Ones", "Just for a Moment" Ultravox (They were almost a Roxy tribute band)
"Baby Lightning" Viva L'american Death Ray Music
"Forever Old" T.S.O.L
"Non-alignment pact" Pere Ubu
"All of my heart" ABC
"Play it safe" Iggy Pop
"Boys keep swinging" David Bowie
"Ghost" Japan
"Fade Away and Radiate" Blondie
"We're going to life for a very long time" Heaven 17 (Ok, it's more Brian Enesque than Roxy-alike but...)
"I am the law" Human League
"Careering" Public Image Ltd.
"Rhythm of Cruelty" Magazine
"The Nasty Show" Pink Grease

I'd love to talk about all these songs but I can't speak english fluently...

― Jean Tully de Molinaire (Jean Tully de Molinaire), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

"Glass of Champagne" by oh hang on the phone's ringing...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

No Duran Duran songs?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Sailor's "Glass of Champagne". One friend told me about this song and I couldn't believe it first time I heard it...

Ned, I know Duran Duran is a Roxy Music influenced band, but I can't find any song in particular that reminds me of them. It was something that happened to me with Japan and ABC too. If there's a Duran Duran song that remind you of Roxy, please, tell me. I'm trying to make a compilation...

― Jean Tully de Molinaire (Jean Tully de Molinaire), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

"Careering" Public Image Ltd.

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― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Garbage-"Bad Boyfriend"

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

"Archangel" - Walker Brothers

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Mark, I know that's something strange but I always think about John Lydon as some kind of grotesque and demented version of Bryan Ferry. In this particular song, with that kind of kraut rhythm section, I always hear echoes of Roxy Music's earlier stuff.

― Jean Tully de Molinaire (Jean Tully de Molinaire), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

A couple of spanish songs:

"Enamorado de la moda juvenil" Radio Futura
"Aquella canción de Roxy" La Mode

― Jean Tully de Molinaire (Jean Tully de Molinaire), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 15:38 (twenty years ago)

"Sweet Dreams" and "The Psychomodo" by Cockney Rebel!

― Jean Tully de Molinaire (Jean Tully de Molinaire), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Butthole Surfers "Negro Observer"

― Brian G (Maltodextrin), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Butthole Surfers? Well, if a P.I.L song is Roxy-esque for me, everything is permitted!

― Jean Tully de Molinaire (Jean Tully de Molinaire), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

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It really sounds like Gibby is doing a Bryan Ferry impersonation on that song. It has a saxophone and everything. Hilarious. It doesn't sound like anything else on that album.

― Brian G (Maltodextrin), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Most of Simple Minds' first album "Life In A Day"

― musicjohn73 (musicjohn73), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

as a whole:

kate bush "the kick inside"
sparks "kimono my house"

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

XTC - "Rocket In A Bottle"

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Brian G, you're right. I've heard "Negro Observer" this morning and it's a fab Roxy tribute/parody.

Of course, Sparks and Kate Bush are two of my favourites artist of all time and both records are, as a whole, very Roxy Music kindrer.

I'm going to hear "Life in a Day" and XTC "Black Sea" to find more Roxy-alike stuff.

Thanks a lot!

― Jean Tully de Molinaire (Jean Tully de Molinaire), Thursday, 11 May 2006 05:26 (twenty years ago)

Try Manishevitz, especially 'Baretta'.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 05:36 (twenty years ago)

For Avalon-era Roxy Musics, give "Tito's Way" (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas remix) by The Juan Maclean a listen.

― willem -- (willem), Thursday, 11 May 2006 05:58 (twenty years ago)

There's a couple of songs on Debris' amazing Static Disposal that strike me as kinda Roxy-ish, just because they share a similarly mannered Bryan Ferry-ish vocal delivery.

I'm curious, Jean: Since English isn't your native language, are you able to tell the difference between different English-language accents? Like, would an Australian accent and an Irish accent sound different to you, or would it all sound the same? Because that would certainly determine which songs sound like Roxy to me, but not to you.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 11 May 2006 06:23 (twenty years ago)

There's a couple of songs on Debris' amazing Static Disposal that strike me as kinda Roxy-ish, just because they share a similarly mannered Bryan Ferry-ish vocal delivery...

...and to me, Bryan Ferry IS Roxy Music. It's mostly his singing that makes Roxy sound like Roxy.

[As I meant to say.]

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 11 May 2006 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Yes! That Debris album totally makes me think of Roxy.

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Thursday, 11 May 2006 06:32 (twenty years ago)

Myonga, what a fantastic album Static Disposal is, thank you very much!

I agree with you, Bryan Ferry's singing style is the most outstanding quality in Roxy Music. I'm able to tell the difference between some english-language accents and I can understand why that aspect is so determining for you. Even so, I think there are more qualities that can make a song Roxy-ish.

(Excuse me, my english is terrible)

― Jean Tully de Molinaire (Jean Tully de Molinaire), Thursday, 11 May 2006 07:18 (twenty years ago)

Yr eng is ruddy graet!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 May 2006 07:29 (twenty years ago)

Mute Witness by Morrissey?

Ferry's singing style has always puzzled me: it is so downright odd. I've sometimes thought maybe he was trying to sound like Dylan & it just came out like that. Edwyn Collin's voice in early Orange Juice stuff has a similar sound.

― bham (bham), Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:29 (twenty years ago)

oh, and Television. Friction always reminds me of Roxy. Wasn't BF spotted at some of their early gigs? (or is that just wishful thinking on my part?)

― bham (bham), Thursday, 11 May 2006 08:33 (twenty years ago)

All I know about Television and Roxy Music is that Brian Eno produced their early demos. So, there's a real connection there...

― Jean Tully de Molinaire (Jean Tully de Molinaire), Thursday, 11 May 2006 09:11 (twenty years ago)

Grey day by Madness sounds very similar to Bogus Man.

― Ant, Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:17 (twenty years ago)

so .. no one said "It's My Life" - huh.

I just heard Money by Pink Floyd and this thread came to mind.

Cuyahoga Creeping Bent (Tin Huey) would be my answer if anyone had ever heard that song.

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Coming into the lab earlier today I heard the last minute or so of "Hey Little Girl" by Icehouse and I could totally hear Bryan Ferry singing this.

― willem -- (willem), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Early School Roxy: Talking Heads: Psycho Killer

Late School Roxy: Fiction Factory: Feel Like Heaven

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Icehouse - "No Promises"

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Ah, this thread finally gives me the opportunity to mention Blur's "Movin' On!" Now "M.O.R." is often cited as Blur's principal homage (ref. Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging"), but how about "Movin' On?" With its descending chord progression and synth solo, it strongly recalls "Editions of You."

(Please ignore me if the "Movin' On"/"Editions of You" connection has already been made.)

― D. Bachyrycz, Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Now "M.O.R." is often cited as Blur's principal homage (ref. Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging"),

Blur's principal Bowie Berlin era homage is "Entertain Me" though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 12 May 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Call me crazy but Joey Ramone often reminds me of Brian Ferry.

― JB Young (JB Young), Friday, 12 May 2006 01:09 (twenty years ago)

In case I wasn't clear, I meant that "M.O.R." is the principal homage of Blur the album, not Blur the band.

I don't really see any particular connection between "Entertain Me" and Berlin era Bowie though. Please explain, Geir.

― D. Bachyrycz, Friday, 12 May 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

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