Bryan Ferry - Boys And Girls [SACD - DTS 5.1]

Super Audio CD (SACD)
The Super Audio CD (SACD) features two disc layers. One layer contains a standard version of the album that works on any CD player. The other layer includes high-resolution stereo and a 5.1 surround version of the recording that works on SACD-compatible DVD players and home theater systems. Both layers employ SACD's Direct Stream Digital (DSD) encoding process that samples the music 64 times faster than CD for unprecedented fidelity. A hybrid SACD is an SACD disc that can be played on regular CD players. The sound quality in that case will, in principle, not be better than that of a regular CD (though the CD-compatible layer is usually derived from the high resolution signal with SBM for better sound ... or similar words). The obvious benefit of a hybrid disc is that you don't need to replace all your CD players by SACD players at once. In fact you could even start collecting SACDs before you own an SACD player. Hybrid SACD works in a different way. Both the CD layer and the high-density layer are 'read' from the same side. The other side has a printed label, so it is easy to recognize the disc and place it correctly in the tray of the CD player. How it works? The high-density layer is partly reflective, partly transparent. At the wavelength used by regular CD layers (780 nm) the SACD layer is invisible so a CD player will just 'see' the CD layer. At the wavelength used for DVD and SACD (650 nm), the SACD layer is reflective.

Album Notes
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Having at last laid Roxy to bed with its final, intoxicatingly elegant albums, Ferry continued its end-days spirit with his own return to solo work. Dedicated to Ferry's father, Boys and Girls is deservedly most famous for its smash single "Slave to Love." With a gentle samba-derived rhythm leading into the steadier rock pace of the song, it's '80s Ferry at his finest, easy listening without being hopelessly soporific. As a whole, Boys and Girls fully established the clean, cool vision of Ferry on his own to the general public. Instead of ragged rock explosions, emotional extremes, and all that made his '70s work so compelling in and out of Roxy, Ferry here is the suave, debonair if secretly moody and melancholic lover, with music to match. Co-producer Rhett Davies, continuing his role from the latter Roxy albums, picks up where Avalon left off right from the slinky opening grooves of "Sensation." The range of people on the album is an intriguing mix, from latterday Roxy members like Andy Newmark and Alan Spenner to avid Roxy disciples like Chic's Nile Rodgers. Everyone is subordinated to Ferry's overall vision, and as a result there's not as much full variety on Boys and Girls as might be thought or hoped. The album's biggest flaw is indeed that it's almost too smooth, with not even the hint of threat or edge that Ferry once readily made his own. As something that's a high cut above the usual mid-'80s yuppie smarm music, though, Boys and Girls remains an enjoyable keeper that has aged well.---allmusic.com Boys and Girls is Bryan Ferry's the sixth solo album, released in 1985, by E'G (see 1985 in music). It was Ferry's only #1 album in the UK, and contains two charting singles as well. The album was remastered in 2000, and was released in SACD in 2005.

Tracklisting:

01. Sensation
02. Slave to Love
03. Don't Stop the Dance
04. A Waste Land
05. Windswept
06. The Chosen One
07. Valentine
08. Stone Woman
09. Boys and Girls

Total Time: 00:38:33

Personnel
* Bryan Ferry - vocals
* Guy Fletcher - keyboards
* David Gilmour - guitar
* Omar Hakim - drums

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