RoxyMania! Re-Turned/Re-Tuned

Back in January 2010, Alfred Soto and I embarked on a multi-part, many-hours discussion of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music. Well, three years and two Bryan Ferry projects later, we’re back at it, this time joined by fellow music writer (and Roxy/Ferry enthusiast) Ned Raggett. The three of us spend most of the following 85-minute podcast (spliced into three sections) chatting about The Jazz Age, the newly released CD containing Roxy and Ferry covers, performed not by Bryan Ferry (who appears to be but a spectral presence overlooking the entire thing) but rather, by an entity called The Bryan Ferry Orchestra. As well, we take a couple brief detours into Ferry’s 2010 solo album, Olympia. Unremarkably, we lack not for banter.

Thanks, Alfred and Ned–I’m sure we’ll meet again.

PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

Continue after the jump for supplemental reading and listening materials.

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Reading Material

• Ned’s Pitchfork review of The Jazz Age
• Bryan Ferry’s website, contains Richard Williams’s liner notes and Paul Colin’s artwork for The Jazz Age
• Collection of reviews of The Jazz Age at MetaCritic
• Interviews with Ferry at The Interrobang and New York Times

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Selected Tracks (Grooveshark)

• “The Bogus Man” (Roxy Music, 1973)
• “The Bogus Man” (Ferry Orchestra, 2013)
• “Just Like You” (Roxy, 1973)
• “Just Like You” (Ferry Orchestra, 2013)
• “Avalon” (Ferry Orchestra, 2013) (I failed to mention in the podcast that this is my favourite re-working from The Jazz Age)
• “This Island Earth” (Ferry Orchestra, 2013)
• “This Island Earth” (Bryan Ferry, 1978)
• “Reason or Rhyme” (Bryan Ferry, 2010)
• “Reason or Rhyme” (Ferry Orchestra, 2013)
• “Bete Noire” (Bryan Ferry, 1987)
• “Rockin’ in Rhythm” (Duke Ellington, 1927)
• “The Mooche” (Duke Ellington, 1928)
• “West End Blues” (Louis Armstrong, 1928)
• “Basin Street Blues” (Louis Armstrong, 1926)
• “Sex and the Church” (David Bowie, 1993)
• “Back 2 the Lotus” (Prince, 2009)

Full Grooveshark RoxyMania! Re-Turned/Re-Tuned playlist

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Selected Clips (YouTube)

• As Time Goes By (full LP)

• Marcel Duchamp & the Ready Made (not to be confused with ’50s doowup outfit, Marcel & the Readymades)

• Paul McCartney, track from unreleased LP, Thrillington

• Doop, “Doop” (1994)

• Sparks, “Calm Before the Storm” (2000)

• Celtic Frost, “This Island Earth” (1999)

• Joni Mitchell, “Both Sides Now” (2000)