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BRYAN FERRY Bete Noire (1999 UK 9-track remastered CD album; Shortly after the release of their 1982 masterpiece AVALON Roxy Music went their separate ways. Singer Bryan Ferry who had already released a handful of excellent solo recordings during his time with the band put out a flurry of first-rate pop albums. First came 1985s BOYS AND GIRLS followed by 1987s more rhythmically complex BETE NOIRE. Includes Limbo and Zamba picture sleeve)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Bryan Ferry's second best solo album of the 1980s. Carrying on from where 'Boys & Girls' left off, Bryan Ferry continues to offer his stock in trade: immaculately produced pop/rock love songs wrapped in smokey atmospheric tracks like 'New Town' and 'Zamba' or creamy up-tempo numbers like 'The Right Stuff', 'Limbo' and 'Day for Night'. This is more dance-orientated but did not produce a chart hit unlike 'Slave to Love' from the Boys & Girls' album. It was rumoured at the time that the song 'Kiss & Tell' was written in response to Jerry Hall's autobiography which had come out not long before. All the usual Ferry trademarks are here: eye-catching artwork, clever lyrics, and slick production values provided by Ferry's faithful team including Patrick Leonard, Bob Ludwig and Simon Puxley and another impressive roster of session and guest musicians including Guy Pratt, Dave Gilmour, Andy Newmark, and 80s hot boys Johnny Marr and Courtney Pine. You can't go wrong with Bryan Ferry, whether it's a solo offering or anything in the Roxy Music cannon. 'Bete Noire' is intelligent elegant dance music to which you can tap your toe while dreaming of romancing beautiful women in Parisien nightclubs before returning at dawn to the Georges V to make 5 star love between crisp cotton Egyptian bedsheets.That's the sort of world 'Bete Noire' transports the listener to, dancing all the way.
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Something of a 'forgotten' work in the Ferry canon, Bete Noir repays seeking out if it passed you by. Its a dense, moody recording, with Ferry' songwriting in good form and his voice sounding good against the swirling mix. My personal favourite is the delicately swirling Zomba with its plaintive vocal but the opening track Down In Limbo run it a close second.
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As a kind've converted fan to Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry back in the 1980's, for some reason I never brought this album upon it's original release! Maybe I thought Bryan couldn't maintain the standard after his Boys and Girls album, but more fool me and how WRONG I was! Only now in 2010 have I listened to it, and just like Flesh and Blood, Avalon and Boys and Girls does music from the 20th Century still SOOOOOO hold up in the 21st! The man's a marvel! So much so, that I've just sent all 4 of these mentioned albums to an Iranian friend as a birthday present! So why delve into anything hyper analytical...? In today's music of glossy mag - knicker singers - and cynical Simon Cowell karoke, I think the brillance of yesteryear about sez it all don't you??? Ha.
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The right stuff
Along with some other bands, Bryan Ferry & Roxymusic are one of the few which I completely collect. Kiss and tell and The right stuff are the two singles which appear on this... Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. G. Herdes
Bryan Ferry at the top of his game.
'Bete Noire', along with 'Boys and Girls', is Bryan Ferry at his creative peak, and
so well recorded too,so that Hi-Fi buffs will also be impressed,even if they
are not... Read more
so well recorded too,so that Hi-Fi buffs will also be impressed,even if they
are not... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Michael J. Lawley
Vastly underrated album
No more to say really than vastly underrated album which really captured the moment of the mid-late 80's greed/glamour/nightlife era. Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2009 by G. ASLETT
The right stuff!
Bryan Ferry spent most of the 80s wallowing in the sound that he had created on Roxy's Manifesto LP. Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2008 by P. Gibson
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