|
|
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(): Failed opening '/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php5ext/php/') in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
Music CD - Roxy Music: Siren
|
Music CD: Siren
Artist: Roxy Music
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $7.00
Your Save: $ 4.98 ( 42% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
|
Average Customer Rating:  
|
|
Tracks:
|
1. Love Is The Drug
2. End Of The Line
3. Sentimental Fool
4. Whirlwind
5. She Sells
6. Could It Happen To Me?
7. Both Ends Burning
8. Nightingale
9. Just Another High
|
|
|
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(): Failed opening '/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php5ext/php/') in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724384745523
Format: Original recording reissued
Label: Virgin Records Us
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Virgin Records Us
Release Date: 2000-03-14
Studio: Virgin Records Us
|
|
|
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(): Failed opening '/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php5ext/php/') in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
|
|
|
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(): Failed opening '/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php5ext/php/') in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: Another great Roxy album
Comment: This is probably the most accessible of the first five must-have Roxy Music albums (6 must-haves, if you count Viva!). It has fewer sharp edges than Country Life and little of the experimental weirdness of the two Eno albums (Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure). However, the songs are all excellent and the music is beautiful.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Every album has it's fans and I'm not one of this ones
Comment: I've not played this album in a while, I haven't wanted or cared to. I did play it about fifteen times when I first bought and basically came away feeling indifferent to it's charms with the exception of "Love is the Drug" and "Both Ends Burning", which I can hear on almost any compliation that has ever been issued.
I don't hate this album but it never seems to catch fire and it didn't particularly reward actively giving it my undivided attention with the above noted exceptions. It was quite a let down after "Country Life".
I wish I had seen the review by Ira Robbins in The Trouser Press first before buying it on spec. He thought it was "disappointingly dull", which I basicly agree.
It is probably the last Roxy Music album I would buy a CD copy of.
Well, maybe before "Viva!" which is a more dynamic set of performances ruined by shrill, loud female backup singers.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Actually quite good
Comment: I was hesitant to get this album because I knew that it was the beginning of Roxy's less interesting years - which it is. It's no Country Life by any stretch of the imagination but it's still a really great, solid album. If the very same release had any other band's name on it I would probably rate it higher, which says more about their previous albums than this one.
Alright, so it's fairly lightweight as far as artistic achievement goes but that shouldn't take away from the fact that the album is very, very good.
Besides it being a little more on the easy listening side, other changes that stand out are the production. Ferry's voice is doubled very often with a tight harmony that, along with his crazy vibrato, make for a sound that is somewhat addictive. There's also more room to breathe in the instrumentals, even though there are more actual instruments being played. It sounds like Phil Manzanera learned to be a part of the show, rather than a nuclear weapon. Whether that's good or bad is up to the individual listener. I love his freakout solos but it's nice to hear him calm down a little bit.
I guess the point here is that if you are like I was and are being somewhat scared away by the mixed reviews, don't be. It gets mixed reviews for very good reasons but if you like Roxy Music you'll most likely enjoy this album. It's just a different direction, not a bad one.
Now on to give Manifesto a try...
Customer Rating:
Summary: "Siren" is still alluring!
Comment: "Siren," the fifth Roxy Music album is my personal favorite. Although not thought of fondly, in retrospect, my many of the band's members, "Siren" offers ten excellent songs- all of them worth listening to.
"Country Life," a personal favorite of many Roxy fans, left me slightly dissatified. I always thought "Bittersweet" was a less than succesful effort to rewrite "A Song for Europe," from the thrid album, "Stranded." Also, the kitschy ending song, "Prairie Rose," ended the album on a slightly goofy note. "Siren," on the other hand, maintains a cohesive thread all the way through. Of the first five Roxy Music albums it is the most like a "concept" album. "Love is the Drug," the opener illustrates the theme of the album- love IS a drug... addictive and capable of producing euphoria or intense pain. Ferry, whose vocals are wonderful throughout the album, sings of his addiction to love, the giddiness and excitement of finding it, and the unhappiness and disillusionment of losing it.
"Just Another High," the closer, sums up Ferry's dilemma succinctly. He's left seeking the thrill of it all... and yet is hoping to find someone new who might love him as much as he loved the woman he lost.
"Siren" is an underrated masterpiece. I would suggest this album as a great place to begin your Roxy Music collection. It features everything that is great about the band.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Excellent Siren Album
Comment: I am very pleased that I decided to buy this album. Amazing to think that it came out in 1975 and yet the music is ageless. It remains an outstanding work by Roxy Music, for me I think maybe their best.
|
|
|
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(): Failed opening '/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php5ext/php/') in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
Editorial Reviews:
|
Released before Roxy Music became a de facto Bryan Ferry project, but after their Brian Eno-influenced art-rock stage, Siren is a snapshot of a band in flux, and loving it. There's little of the boundary-pushing primitivism that marked their self-titled debut. Still, Ferry's youthful edge and the band's rough-hewn melodicism will shock those expecting to hear the adult-contemporary silkiness found on 1982's massive-selling Avalon. Both camps should nevertheless admire this record for so recklessly and beautifully straddling that massive stylistic gap. Featuring their first modest hit in the U.S., "Love Is the Drug," the record overflows with choruses that reveal their hooks slowly while drawing on sunny, spare instrumentation and Ferry's loopy, still-developing croon. As the band wrestles between glam-pop, sleek dance tunes, and shiny, Moody Blues-esque rock & roll, they don't sound at all like a band running from its past. Ferry and his cohorts are just taking back the reins, revealing the brisk melodies and strong songwriting that were the one constant in Roxy Music's lifespan. --Matthew Cooke
|
|
|
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(): Failed opening '/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php5ext/php/') in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
|
|
|
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
Warning: Q_TEMPLATE::include(): Failed opening '/hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/colimansy/linksblock_cd-store.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/hsphere/shared/apache/libexec/php5ext/php/') in /hsphere/local/home/pandas/pandastereo.com/script/class.template.php on line 82
|
|
|
