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Track Listings
| 1. More Than This |
| 2. The Space Between |
| 3. Avalon |
| 4. India |
| 5. While My Heart Is Still Beating |
| 6. The Main Thing |
| 7. Take A Chance With Me |
| 8. To Turn You On |
| 9. True To Life |
| 10. Tara |
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Hipper students of 1980s pop might like to pretend that Joy Division and The Smiths had a monopoly on melancholia, but for the older, more suave miserabilist, nothing could match the stylised desolation of Roxy Music's last album. Avalon was recorded in the wake of the band's first number one hit--a version of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy"--and although that song isn't on here, its tortured shadow looms large over "While My Heart Is Still Beating", the title track, and the unlikely Balearic anthem "More Than This". If time has been kind to Bryan Ferry's crumpled Armani chic, it hasn't exactly been vicious to his back catalogue: Avalon sounds even more sumptuous now that the CD age has caught up with Rhett Davis' pristine production. --Peter Paphides
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Hipper students of 1980s pop might pretend that Joy Division and the Smiths had a monopoly on melancholia, but for the older, more suave brooders, nothing could match the stylized desolation of Roxy Music's last album. Avalon was recorded in the wake of the band's hit version of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy." Although that song isn't on Avalon, its tortured shadow looms large over "While My Heart Is Still Beating," the title track, and the unlikely Balearic anthem "More Than This." If time has been kind to Bryan Ferry's crumpled Armani chic, it hasn't exactly been vicious to his back catalog: Avalon sounds even more sumptuous now that the CD age has caught up with Rhett Davis's pristine production. --Peter Paphides
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Avalon by Roxy music,
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This review is from: Avalon (Audio CD)
This cd is well worth the purchase price if you are a true blue Roxy music fan.....becomes more timeless as time goes on and well worth a listen with your purchase from amazon.ca/marketplace.......
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5.0 out of 5 stars
pure art,
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This review is from: Avalon (Audio CD)
everything about this album is pure art in simplicity.i have owned this album in various forms since it's original release & never tire of these tracks. it is an excellent collection of tunes, & sounds particularly good either in-car or for chilling out to. all the music is sterling, & the style such that it does not sound out of date today, as has been adopted as "ambient". the cover artwork is stunning also. fave tracks include: Tara/India/The Main Thing & True to Life, but all the tracks are excellent drift-away tunes.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Is it raining in New York on Fifth Avenue?,
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This review is from: Avalon (Audio CD)
Using the legend of King Arthur's final, dying voyage to Avalon for its name and cover art, Roxy Music bid its fans farewell with this hopelessly romantic, completely beautiful album. There's no point on trying to embellish on what most of the other reviewers have already mentioned about AVALON but I'm compelled to say that while I have been a Roxy Music fan for a long, long time, I have not been much of a fan of the heavily produced, synthesizer ladened songs that proliferated in the early 80s (read Flock of Sea Gulls, Human League, etc.). But AVALON was much different. Some of the songs here are textured and layered, but not bogged down. There's an airiness to other tunes but they don't become insubstantial or gossamer. Overall, it's the intelligence of the lyrics that really separated AVALON from just about everything else back then. The twin themes of mortality and desire pervade most of the tunes on the first half of the album. But Bryan Ferry doesn't wallow in self-pity for long. Just when the songs start to appear to be downers, along comes "To Turn You On", an incredibly upbeat, love ballad. While its theme of salvation through passion is not new, its sincerity and romance is. I'm glad that Ferry made room for some of the positive aspects of life. And I'm glad that the music world of the early 1980s made room for AVALON.
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