Roxy Music - Avalon - Warner Bros LP 1-23686 (1982) 16-bit/44.1kHz Vinyl Rip
Roxy Music - Avalon
Warner Bros Records 1-23686
Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig @ Masterdisk
Vinyl rip in 16-bit/44.1kHz | FLAC | md5 | Artwork | 225 mb
5% recovery | RS & MU | Pop Rock, Synth Pop | 1982
Allmusic.com rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Avalon, released in 1982, is Roxy Music's final studio album. Recorded in 1981-82 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, it is generally regarded as the culmination of the smoother, more adult-oriented sound of the band's later work. Album was ranked #31 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "The 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s".
Long awaited LP version of epic album…
Roxy Music's Avalon takes a long time to kick in, but it finally does, and it's a good one. Bryan Ferry stars as a remarkably expressive keyboard player and singer whose familiar mannerisms are subsumed in a rich, benevolent self-assurance. And reed man Andy Mackay shines in a series of cameos (his oboe meditation on Ferry's "Tara" is particularly lovely). Ten years after its debut, Roxy Music has mellowed: the occasional stark piano chords in "While My Heart Is Still Beating," for example, recall the stately mood of "A Song for Europe," but the sound is softer, dreamier and less determinedly dramatic now. Ferry's songwriting, however, has seldom seemed stronger. Among the possible hits: the title track, with its charming, prereggae lilt; "Take a Chance with Me," with its extended pointillistic intro that opens into an airy, yearning romance; and "More Than This," a memorable melody graced with one of Ferry's most affecting vocal performances.
- rollingstone.com
Roxy Music - Avalon - Warner Bros LP 1-23686 (1982) 16-bit/44.1kHz Vinyl Rip
Track listing
Side One
1. "More Than This" – 4:30
2. "The Space Between" – 4:30
3. "Avalon" – 4:16
4. "India"(Instrumental) – 1:44
5. "While My Heart Is Still Beating" (Ferry, Andy Mackay) – 3:26
Side Two
6. "The Main Thing" – 3:54
7. "Take a Chance with Me" (Ferry, Phil Manzanera) – 4:42
8. "To Turn You On" – 4:16
9. "True to Life" – 4:25
10. "Tara"(Instrumental) (Ferry, Mackay) – 1:43
Personnel
Bryan Ferry - vocals, keyboards, guitar synth
Andy Mackay - saxophone
Phil Manzanera - guitar
Neil Hubbard - guitar
Alan Spenner - bass on tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10
Andy Newmark - drums on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9
Jimmy Maelen - percussion on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9
Additional personnel
Neil Jason - bass on tracks 2, 6, 7 & 9
Yanick Etienne - vocals on track 3
Paul Carrack - piano on track 8
Rick Marotta - drums on track 8
Kermit Moore - cello on track 8
Fonzi Thornton - vocals on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9
Michael Boddy - tape archivist
Barry Bongiovi - assistant producer
Bob Clearmountain - engineer, mixing
Robert C. Ludwig - mastering
Colin Good - assistant producer
Ian Little - assistant producer
Peter Revill - assistant producer
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