Product Description

With FOR YOUR PLEASURE, the second Roxy Music album, the band began to explore a little more of the "dark side" of the glamorous world that had become their lyrical and musical playground. Even the cover art suggests this division: a preposterously posed women walking a snarling panther is watched by singer Bryan Ferry, decked out in chauffeur's livery and removed from the action, merely observing. Musically, this decay is examined most clearly in "In Every Dream Home a Heartache", a disturbing tale about an inflatable sex doll that,at times, suggests some of the creepier moments from the Doors catalogue--"The End" in particular.
Opening with the spectacular debauch of "Do the Strand", the album pulls no punches--"It burns your blue jeans, you know what I mean" indeed! Together with "Editions of You", it shows the band moving through the similar territory inhabited by "Virginia Plain" (from ROXY MUSIC), quasi-rock shot through with squallingsaxophones. The nine-minute slow burn of "The Bogus Man" displays Paul Thompson's solid drumming to great effect, whilethe rest of the band fleshes things out with a not exactly scary, but decidedly "off" atmosphere. Another classic.

Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2191 in Music
• Released on: 1999-09-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

The pleasure principle
In the midst of reading the Eno biography "On Some Faraway Beach" -about page 120 if you are pedantic - i came to the section where the narrative deals with Roxy Music,s 1973 album For Your Pleasure. Described as a "gruelling and disquieting experience|" by Charles Shaar Murray on its release ( that was a compliment) Roxy,s second album is easily the best of their career melding Bryan Ferry,s art rock styling's with Brian Eno,s sonic sculptures and dissonant tweaks.
The Roxy line up at that time had the classic elements of Ferry , Andrew Mackay and Phil Manzanera along with the soon to depart Eno , bassist John Porter-who would soon depart also, Roxy going through bassist ,s like Spinal Tap through drummers and Paul Thompson on drums. The band were able to revel in the extra studio time they could spend on this album, certainly compared to the rush in which they recorded their first, .and were aided greatly by producer Chris Thomas who knew his way round a studio.
Opening track on the album "Do The Strand" is an urgent vociferous song in the vein of "Virginia Plain" but was curiously never released as a single in the UK, even though it saw the light of day in Europe and the U.S. ( It was eventually released as a single in 1978 to promote their best of album) The song features Mackay,s trademark squealing sax and rapid fire piano notes. The other more up-tempo track-"Editions of You" showcases attention grabbing interludes by Mackay, Eno and Manzanera.
It,s actually on the more sedate tracks that the true soniferous delights of this album emerge to tittilate the ears."In Every Dream Home A Heartache" - Ferry,s creepy ode to a blow up doll- fades out , then back in again with peculiar phasing effects on all the instruments, like the songs beamed back in from another dimension. "Bogus Man" is acknowledged by Eno as having similarities to material by Can and it does furrow a Kraut -rock like groove although in a more sibilant manner. "Grey Lagoons" and the title track are sinister ballads , so much so that they have you looking over your shoulder for something that exists only in the imagination the music has given you.
Eno left soon after the making of this album and Roxy Music were never the same band after his departure ( some will feel they improved while others like myself will deduce otherwise) Eno went on to even greater things but while he was in Roxy Music , even though the urbane Ferry wrote the material his contribution was vital to their sleazy galmour. Never better illustrated than on "For Your Pleasure".

A Work of Art
Every once in a while an album comes along so wonderfully unique and bizarre, that it becomes an instant classic - this is one of them.

I came across this amazing record more than a decade after its original release, partly due to my age and also the fact that at the time Roxy Music had deteriorated into a mainstream band putting out slick sounding but largely irrelevant music.

When first listening to "For Your Pleasure" I was blown away and until this very day it hasn't lost any of its original fascination for me - it's rich and psychedelic. I often wondered, what might have become of them, had Brian Eno not left the band.

Anyway, if you're going to buy only one Roxy Music album, you should seriously consider this one.

The best album of the 70's
This album still sounds original, even after 34 years. The first time i heard this album i could not believe how unique and technically brilliant Roxy Music were. Even the album cover is, i believe, one of the iconic images of the early 70's. Every track is a gem but we are introduced to this album with 'Do the Strand', which is still arguably the band's greatest song. Go buy this album, its wonderful!