I Heard Those Slinky Sirens Wail (Whoo!)

First, some fun with YouTube. Big thanks to Sandy for sending me this fantastic link to Roxy Music doing “All I Want Is You” on German television in the mid-’70s, complete with Bryan Ferry sporting an SS-style uniform. Yow!

Funny how it’s not hard to imagine the lyrics to “All I Want Is You” attached to some smooth Avalon croon, but at this point (it’s from Country Life, right? fourth album?) Roxy still sounds like a hot-shit rock band, some freaky-pretty meld of flesh & chrome.

They sound a little more like that on the first two Eno-fied records, of course, so here’s the great “Editions of You.” As with “All I Want Is You,” it amazes me how streamlined & sleek the band sounds, despite all those disparate elements that you’d think might easily congeal into some kind of prog bog.

• Roxy Music, “Editions of You”

(Check it out quick while you can, and buy For Your Pleasure here.)