Roxy Music- Grey Lagoons (REACTION & REVIEW)

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[@1967PONTIACGTO]

one of my favourite Roxy Music tracks... kind of sums up everything I love about the first two albums... it's rooted in rock and roll, but it manages to be both retro and futuristic at the same time

[@zappa1952]

Wow. Me again 😁 Saw them around 76 or so. Hollywood Paladium. Ferry was easily the coolest person in the room.

[@jfergs.3302]

This's a great track. A veritable cornucopia, sometimes soulful, bluesy, then good ol' rock 'n' rolly, and all given that inimitable Roxy twist. A top tune, with no bad elements, and I particularly liked the harmonica. Crackin' stuff.

[@markharris1125]

Haven't got time to listen right now (plus my work version of Chrome won't play KZbin sound at the moment), but just want to say I saw Roxy Music at the O2 in London last Friday and it was a fabulous concert!

[@Caligulita]

I’m absolutely obsessed with you at this point

[@markallen2984]

Absolutely love this track. It's one of my favorites on this album which is probably my favorite Roxy Music album. Aside from the great music at the various solo exchanges between multiple instruments I think the lyrics are so evocative. They are romantic but hint at tragedy. They are elevated but acknowledge the mundane. They celebrate spontaneity but look back to reality and consequences. It's like daring to dream of a life of exploration and adventure but keeping in mind you've got responsibilities. Plus, musically it kicks ass. I really think you should check out the Bryan ferry solo track *"When She Walks in the Room".* It's very passionate. Full of longing and admiration and struggle and loss. Musically it's all piano and violins

[@markbee9767]

Great description of the duality of 'Grey Lagoons' lyrics 👌 and I agree, 'When she walks in the room' is one of the most beautiful dark love songs ever 🖤

[@tszirmay]

Amazing track , lots going on and shifting speeds and moods. Each player gets to shine .

[@LucyOLastic]

As a result I became a multi-instrumentalist, because I wanted to be almost everyone in this band as a kid. I was that impressed with the sound of this record.

[@jerkedevries]

It just sounds great from the acapella to the end

[@caucasianbulldog6057]

Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music were very much steeped in rock inspired by art and its movements. Others of the time who were similarly inspired, that I can think of, were David Bowie and Bill Nelson of Be Bop Deluxe fame. They were all producing unique and unusual music.

[@sammelis6777]

You should continue the self titled album. "If there is something" is one of their best songs.

[@CthulhuWaitsDreaming]

Yes it is but the live version of it on their album Viva! is the best version of it.

[@kenl2091]

Not the best 'song' that Roxy ever did, but I agree - all the stuff going on (unexpected harmonica, random guitar breaks, Enossification) is what makes this track more than listenable.

[@garybennett7835]

Finally a music reviewer who wears a very decent set of headphones !

[@George-rn6up]

How they're called? Saw them before, many times, but still forget)

[@garybennett7835]

@@George-rn6up they are Meze 99 classics

[@TheCornishCockney]

Those first two albums were constantly on my turntable back in ‘73/‘74. Bit disappointed after that (by comparison) Stranded was a good album but already began turning more “poppy”,but those first two? Masterpieces.

[@lemming9984]

Yeah, tend to agree, though I do like everything up to Siren. After that it was just Ferry's ego with backing band.

[@daveking9393]

now this I can get into for sure. thanks. new to me. appreciate the introduction

[@JustJP]

Happily Dave! Ty

[@rdumontdebeque]

An unexpected, but welcome, Roxy Music song choice. More please!

[@deanweston]

It was originally entitled The Bogus Man Pt 2

[@LucyOLastic]

When they were hard up for a title, which probably came at the last minute of recording the album as Ferry was refining the lyrics. He always had the music arranged first before the words. It's great to hear an early version of For Your Pleasure too, in a state as I described, not quite finished. Glad that Phil's solo was brought down an octave and played like Duane Eddy. I liked Rik Kenton's rising bass line in the extended coda. what on Earth went on in the recording studio to achieve what they did? They advanced so much.

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

Pre-conditions to opening the door to a melodic madman? Or taking the Ferry to crazytown? It sounds good no matter which Lagoon you row upon. Peace.

[@gaiaeternal5131]

Hi JP. Dave from misty, murky London, but I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine, when you're playing tracks like this. My favourite Roxy Music album, and this second side is just perfect. You say Bryan is more reserved, but he's also on piano and harmonica - and yes, of course he's so suave. So much great musicianship in this sophisticated song. P.S. my song ref I Don't Care... is by Elvis.

[@gaiaeternal5131]

@@Katehowe3010 Different song, Christian, but no, I can't place yours. Mine is one of the first Sun Records releases by Elvis.

[@gaiaeternal5131]

@@Katehowe3010 I've now found it - Jugband Blues by Syd Barrett.

[@LucyOLastic]

Get a listen to the cover by Dr. Mix and the Remix, offshoot of French punks Metal Urbain from the album "Wall of Noise." It captures the futuristic sci-fi element of this song with its heavily synthesised sound. As if Eno had produced the music himself. Definitely one of Roxy's best songs with funny "moon in June" lyrics. Ferry as a witty compere at a nightclub on the Moon, terraformed into Las Vegas, complete with plastic palm trees. Ferry was great at imagining these far out destinations.

[@oddespenjenssen2236]

I don't know exactly who the 10 best bands in history has been, but Roxy Music is certainly one of them.

[@VedranCro]

Please react to "If There Is Something" from Roxy!

[@stevegibbons8941]

Bryan is the Harmonica,

[@zappa1952]

Thanks for reacting to one of my favorite Roxy songs. I'm sure you'll continue. 😁

[@JustJP]

Definitely :)

[@planktonrecords]

Classic Roxy Music! Roxy and Todd Rundgren within a week. You are spoiling us JP

[@robertmcadam2216]

A wall of sound, absolutely the number one band at the time, the harmonica was perfect and Brian Eno irreplaceable - as a young lad I saw them live in Newcastle and they were unique then it stands the test of time, totally innovative. In a concert hall the music cut through you and I always felt they were the best I ever saw. Ferry later lost the edge to his voice it s way too mellow and though I have seen him live several times I its not quite the same as the original slower and softer, the raw quality has gone. It could not work for punk either, it has to be raw.

[@dennismason3740]

Have you covered Avalon yet? Easily the most romantic and melancholy album in the galaxy.

[@blackcatcentralmusic]

I love this album. The production and writing are much better than the debut. I'm probably in the minority for not ranking the debut album as high as subsequent albums. As others have said, the versions on "Viva!" are better. This song doesn't seem to get as much attention as other songs on the album.

[@EdDunkle]

Wow, I'd forgotten how weird this song is!

[@stephentatterton4766]

Blue suns and grey lagoons. Perhaps speaking of highs and lows, dreary grey lagoons. It’s clearly not an over the top optimist happy tune, but is a decent step happier that earlier in the LP and acts as a bridge to For your Pleasure, the next track.

[@lemming9984]

Love it. Great album.

[@maruad7577]

Sounded good but I was distracted by ruminations on the shelf life of selected Asteraceae (context is for the weak). This song deserves more attention than I gave it today... grey lagoons? Is that like blue lagoons for wrinklies (I assume I qualify for the title)?

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

Driving Miss Daisy?

[@maruad7577]

@@jamespaivapaiva4460 Let us not remain on this subject. I promised myself I wouldn't get into certain topics.

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

@@maruad7577 Peace, and have a good day M.✌

[@sicko_the_ew]

Maybe blue Sun, and grey lagoons has something to do with depression? (Just sounds like that fits, that's all). At first I thought it might just have some relation to what the origins of the English word, "sky", imply about overhead conditions in that land. "Sky" apparently comes from a Norse word for "cloud" (and I'm guessing it's the kind of cloud you can touch if you jump up a bit, and covers everything, and keeps you safe from that terrifying, strange blue space that sometimes peeps in from behind the "sky".) An English "lagoon" could perhaps be seen as grey (or a grey shade of green, more likely - green like the sea, but with some more grey in it). Anyway, no need to go too much further into this, since it's probably not at all related to the song. Just like *As Cold As Can Be In An English Sea* doesn't (as Linus might've said, if this was one of his famous segues - and don't worry if that's all Greek to you). kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGa0ipyge8uCl7M

[@sicko_the_ew]

With mainly English lyrics, here's something more like what I think of as "the real thing" (although all music is the real thing, so this is an unreasonable way of putting it) *Simple Things - by Juluka* kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6OxZKuiaNiFftE

[@sicko_the_ew]

Some traditional instruments (some of which have migrated - e.g. the marimba - and some which go right back to the earliest men to walk this Earth - all of us - here, where we all started our journey). Some of the sounds in this go right back to the Khoisan, who were here, first of all ... Well in recent times I mean. Just the last 1000 or 2000 years, really. Go back 100 000 years, and who knows who was here, and how they lived. (I'm keeping the numbers smallish, just to create the impression of being moderate). *African Litany* kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqm1ZGdofr12jrM The wheel has turned a few more times since then, but it still says something. (Sorry, wrong tab. These should be on the Brian Eno song. But never mind. Now you know, so it's all fine.)

[@melvinwomack3717]

Sounds like a part 2 to if there is something 🔥

[@TRANZEURO]

I would say more "Would You Believe' part 2. I like this one better though.

[@ragnarmyhr7238]

Like I coment before, you seldom play the most known songs. Not this time either. Awesome.

[@JustJP]

Ty Ragnar :) Glad you enjoyed!

[@-davidolivares]

It reminds me of Eddie and The Cruisers, but less, minus the guitar and sax solos, good. Of course, Eddie and the guys/girls, were somewhat based on Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and fifties, sixties rock and roll groups. Sorry but the vocals and harmonica mainly didn’t work for me. I mean it’s ok. I wish you would finish Bruce’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town. Ok?

[@maraboo72]

The best thing I know to say about "The Blue Lagoon" is that it is unimportant.

[@a.k.1740]

Ferry's voice puts me off from the start, and musically it doesn't resonate with me.

[@-davidolivares]

It reminds me of Eddie and The Cruisers, but less, minus the guitar and sax solos, good. Of course, Eddie and the guys/girls, were somewhat based on Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and fifties, sixties rock and roll groups. Sorry but the vocals and harmonica mainly didn’t work for me. I mean it’s ok. Ok? I wish you would finish Bruce’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town.