Track Listing

1. Do the Strand
2. Beauty Queen
3. Strictly Confidential
4. Editions of You
5. In Every Dream Home a Heartache
6. The Bogus Man
7. Grey Lagoons
8. For Your Pleasure

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11168 in Music
• Released on: 2000-03-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

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Customer Reviews

On my "My Fifteen Favorite Albums Ever" list
The second, and best, Roxy album, and the last before Eno left the group. For me, this choice is the most rooted in personal nostalgia. While I do think it stands worthy in a top 10 list, its presence here is admittedly partly because Roxy Music was pivotal for me, and this album more than any other. As an early teen, I was blindsided by this lush, complex, and defiantly sexy sound. Half from Brian Ferry's James Bondish presence, half from the experimental rock backing him, I was changed. I would lay in my room at night with headphones on listening to Roxy Music for hours. In Every Dreamhome A Heartache is simultaneously beautiful, silly, sexy, absurd, epic. It just dares you to not smile, and swoon.

Simply amazing
Roxy Music's second album, and last with Eno, is quite possibly their greatest achievement. The entire album is wrought with tension and angst. Sonically its fantastic, with Eno treating the various instruments electronically, which leads to a very alienated feeling by the listener. This CD has no filler, 8 tracks 8 classics, but 8 very very different songs. Blue Lagoons is the closest thing to upbeat this album has to offer, and even that has its weird moments. However, songs like Do The Strand, Editions of You, In Every Dreamhome a Heartache and Bogus Man each show a VERY different side to Roxy Music, each very dark and deliberate in their delivery. The piece de resistance though is the closer/title track, which devolves from a sad song to a cacophony of delay feedback and warped piano tones.
Along with Country Music, this album defines what Roxy Music was about, what they could do, and why they continue to inspire musicians today.

Why Oh Why Did Eno Have To Leave?
"For Your Pleasure" marked an early peak for Roxy Music which they never matched again. The rough and ready style of the first album was honed to an alien elegance for this sophomore effort; every track is essential enough for analysis here: "Do The Strand" is a potboiler about an instant dance craze that is entirely fiction (but don't you wish it was real); "Beauty Queen" is a strong and almost straightforward ballad; "Strictly Confidential" slowly builds a harrowing Edwardian diary entry to a psych frenzy; "Editions Of You" offers five-and-dime philosophy advice to a rollicking beat and wild synths; "In Every Dream Home A Heartache" uses surprise humor to expose the indulgence of the upper classes; "The Bogus Man" adds overdub upon overdub to create a seething electronic soundscape that is at once hot and mellow; "Grey Lagoons" returns to the rock'n'rolling 50s and features a great harmonica solo; and finally, the title track blasts the listener into outer space using nothing more than a cryptic lyric and some Enossified reverb. These guys knew what they were doing and they did it with extreme taste *and* tastelessness, which made it all sound great somehow. Some people carp about the slow, lengthy instrumental portions which take up "The Bogus Man" and "For Your Pleasure" but the album wouldn't be the same without them; these two exquisite examples of aural candy are the mystical yin to the yang of the first side. For your pleasure, indeed.