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The Best Of Roxy Music
by Roxy Music
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Avalon (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:16£0.69
Listen  2. More Than This (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:18£0.69
Listen  3. Jealous Guy 4:57£0.69
Listen  4. Over You (1999 Digital Remaster) 3:27£0.69
Listen  5. Same Old Scene (1999 Digital Remaster) 3:58£0.69
Listen  6. Oh Yeah! (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:52£0.69
Listen  7. Angel Eyes (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:51£0.69
Listen  8. Dance Away (1999 Digital Remaster) 3:46£0.69
Listen  9. Both Ends Burning (1999 Digital Remaster) 5:15£0.69
Listen10. Love Is The Drug (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:08£0.89
Listen11. Out Of The Blue (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:44£0.69
Listen12. All I Want Is You (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:53£0.69
Listen13. Mother Of Pearl (1999 Digital Remaster) 6:34£0.69
Listen14. Street Life (1999 Digital Remaster) 3:29£0.69
Listen15. Do The Strand (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:02£0.69
Listen16. Pyjamarama (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:52£0.69
Listen17. Virginia Plain (1999 Digital Remaster) 2:57£0.69
Listen18. Re-Make/Re-Model (1999 Digital Remaster) 4:52£0.89

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Tale of Two Roxy's !!, 11 Jun 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: The Best of Roxy Music (Audio CD)
A very "interesting" cd - especially for those souls who think of Roxy Music as always being the quintessentially last word in pop elegance.

Tracks 1 - 8 summarise this elegant, very slick body of work after they re-formed in 1978 following a two year break. This was commercially their most successful period. Overall the material was fairly gorgeous and tasteful, but for me sometimes a little too eager to please the dinner party set. "Avalon" for me is the standout track from this time. It's detatched beauty was the last word in atmosphere and chic.

As the CD continues, we trail through Roxy's (in my opinion) more glorious past. The slick stuff was also edgy and weird ("Mother of Pearl"). Some classic pop-rock was offered ("All I want is You", "Street Life" - yeah, Roxy could be very noisy in their young days). The perfectly-formed art-pop-kitsch of "Virginia Plain" has been copied to an extent by the likes of Air today. And as for the anarchic "Remake/Remodel" - well that should show you that our Bryan didn't start out by crooning alone !

If you only know Roxy's more (relatively) recent offerings and you're prepared to have your perception of them changed for ever - this CD is a steal !

"Make me a deal and make it straight..."

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An intrigiung & successful retrospective..., 8 Jan 2004
By nicjaytee (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Roxy Music (Audio CD)
Compiling a one CD “Best of Roxy Music” is a tough task. Why?... well, not only did the group re-invent itself in personnel & style on at least three occasions during its 10 year life but, the strength of its most effective albums (in particular “For Your Pleasure”, “Country Life”, “Flesh + Blood” and “Avalon”) lies in their cohesion, making the selection of individual tracks out of context extremely difficult. So… better to forget any pretensions to a “Best of…” title and to consider this compilation for what it actually is: an intriguing and successful retrospective.

Intriguing because it’s sequenced “back to front”, starting off with the “radio friendly”, beautifully crafted tracks produced at the end of their career and then progressing backwards (in time at least!) to the distinctly less “easy listening” and far more radical outings from the beginning of their career. Compare this album’s first track (“Avalon”, from their last studio recording) to its last track (“Re-Make/Re-Model”, from their first record) to witness the scale of the change involved. Successful, because it gradually takes the listener from the familiar to the “strange” and, in so doing, pretty effectively maps out the group’s career while providing, on the way, an excellent “sampler” of what’s to be found on their individual albums. A job well done but, “The Best of…”: unlikely/impossible!

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a glorious history, 6 July 2001
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This review is from: The Best of Roxy Music (Audio CD)
Get out your glitter, your platform shoes, those little pillbox hats with veils - whatever it was you wore to those Roxy concerts in the 70s - and prepare to enjoy yourself. I'd forgotten how much good music Roxy had made over the years.

I put this CD on and not one bad track. It's a real jaunt down memory lane and a great testimonial to one of the most original groups ever. To quote Mr. Ferry "It's a new sensation, a fabulous creation" ......!

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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure excellence!
It does what it says on the cover and delivers the very best of Roxy Music's gems. Well worth a listen.
Published 10 days ago by Delia M. Wilson

4.0 out of 5 stars Yes this is a HDCD release
Just received this CD and despite not having the HDCD logo anywhere on the cover, booklet or CD itself I can confirm that this, like the album re-releases of 1999 is recorded in... Read more
Published 12 days ago by Andy

5.0 out of 5 stars The best "Best of"
From the smooth classics "Avalon" and "More than This" through to the stunning, groundbreaking "Virginia Plain" and "Re-make/Re-model", every track sounds great (there are 18 in... Read more
Published 14 days ago by Mr. S. Harris

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Class
'The Best Of Roxy Music' does exactly what it says on the tin, it just concentrates on classic Roxy Music material. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Richard

4.0 out of 5 stars Timeless classics.
I was never a Roxy fan,I was only a kid during the 70`s and only knew of them because my oldest sister was in love with Ferry,I heard some of the early Roxy songs and never... Read more
Published 17 months ago by S. Williamson

2.0 out of 5 stars A Review by someone who isn't a Roxy Music Fan
Browsing through the many offers and ratings for different albums, I found this best of Roxy Music cd, highly rated at 4.5 and only £5. Read more
Published 21 months ago by MR I T HARRIS

5.0 out of 5 stars Five-star Roxy
The sound quality on this release is outstanding. Some people may bemoan the lack of multi-channel but the stereo sound is terrific - we should all be thankful these songs are... Read more
Published on 12 July 2007 by A. L. Sharples

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent compilation
As someone who's always liked Roxy, but never really rated their albums, this is an ideal compilation of their best known songs from every phase of their career. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2006 by Xepha

5.0 out of 5 stars re the "missing song" in jez1153's note
Slave to Love is "missing" becasue it's not a Roxy track.

This is a well-judged single disk Roxy compilation. Bit pricey though.

Published on 1 Aug 2005

4.0 out of 5 stars A good collection of music (with one song missing).
This is an album with some great songs on it, but where is possibly their most famous song, Slave To Love? Read more
Published on 5 July 2005 by J. P. G. Anderson

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