Roxy Music
For Your Pleasure (LP)
LabelVirgin, UMCGenrePsychedelia & Kraut
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Half Speed Master Edition On Roxy Music's debut, the tensions between Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry propelled their music to great, unexpected heights, and for most of the group's second album, For Your Pleasure, the band equals, if not surpasses, those expectations. However, there are a handful of moments where those tensions become unbearable, as when Eno wants to move toward texture and Ferry wants to stay in more conventional rock territory; the nine-minute "The Bogus Man" captures such creative tensions perfectly, and it's easy to see why Eno left the group after the album was completed. Still, those differences result in yet another extraordinary record from Roxy Music, one that demonstrates even more clearly than the debut how avant-garde ideas can flourish in a pop setting. This is especially evident in the driving singles "Do the Strand" and "Editions of You," which pulsate with raw energy and jarring melodic structures. Roxy also illuminate the slower numbers, such as the eerie "In Every Dream Home a Heartache," with atonal, shimmering synthesizers, textures that were unexpected and innovative at the time of its release. Similarly, all of For Your Pleasure walks the tightrope between the experimental and the accessible, creating a new vocabulary for rock bands, and one that was exploited heavily in the ensuing decade.
Format
Gatefold sleeve with poly-lined die-cut black paper inner and lyric inner sleeve.
Original shrink-wrap features a rectangular hype sticker to the front which reads "180g heavy weight vinyl Remastered and cut Half-Speed from the original 1/4" tapes at Abbey Road Studios, London", and a rectangular barcode sticker to the rear, which reads “180g heavy weight vinyl mastered and cut Half-Speed at Abbey Road Studios, London”.
Catalogue number appears as RMLP 2 on lyric inner sleeve and barcode sticker but RMLP2 elsewhere.
Rear sticker: Made in Germany
An UMC/Virgin release. ℗ 1973 Virgin Records Limited. © 2022 Virgin Records Limited.
Made in the EU. Universal International Music B.V. 'S-Gravelandseweg 80, 1217 Ew Hilversum, Netherlands.
Recorded at AIR Studios London, February 1973
Runouts are etched. In runouts, all Optimal plating symbols may be inverted (e.g., “⊥” vs “T”) and/or mirrored (e.g., “1△” vs “△↾”).
Release notes
Gatefold sleeve with poly-lined die-cut black paper inner and lyric inner sleeve. Original shrink-wrap features a rectangular hype sticker to the front which reads "180g heavy weight vinyl Remastered and cut Half-Speed from the original 1/4" tapes at Abbey Road Studios, London", and a rectangular barcode sticker to the rear, which reads “180g heavy weight vinyl mastered and cut Half-Speed at Abbey Road Studios, London”. Catalogue number appears as RMLP 2 on lyric inner sleeve and barcode…
| A1 | Do The Strand | 4:00 | |
| A2 | Beauty Queen | 4:35 | |
| A3 | Strictly Confidential | 3:42 | |
| A4 | Editions Of You | 3:40 | |
| A5 | In Every Dream Home A Heartache | 4:25 | |
| B1 | The Bogus Man | 9:22 | |
| B2 | Grey Lagoons | 4:11 | |
| B3 | For Your Pleasure | 6:58 |
- Roxy Music
- Arranged By, Producer
- Nicholas de Ville
- Art Direction
- C.C.S.
- Artwork
- John Porter
- Bass, Guest [Guest Artiste]
- Hart
- Crew
- Jennings
- Crew
- Paul Thompson
- Drums
- John Middleton
- Engineer
- John Punter
- Engineer
- Phil Manzanera
- Guitar
- Smile
- Hair [Roxy Hair]
- Miles
- Lacquer Cut By, Remastered By
- Amanda
- Model
- Andrew Mackay
- Oboe, Saxophone
- John Anthony
- Other [Special Thanks]
- Karl Stoecker
- Photography By
- Chris Thomas
- Producer
- Anthony Price
- Stylist [Amanda's Clothes], Hair [Amanda's Hair], Make-Up [Amanda's Make-Up]
- Eno
- Synthesizer, Tape
- Bryan Ferry
- Voice, Keyboards, Words By, Music By
