For Your Pleasure

For Your Pleasure

Infobox Album
Name = For Your Pleasure
Type = studio
Artist = Roxy Music


Released = start date|1973|3|24|df=yes
Recorded = start date|1973|3 at AIR Studios, London
Genre = Glam rock, art rock
Length = 42:16
Label = Island, Polydor (UK)
Warner Bros., Atco, Reprise (U.S.) cite book |title=The Essential Rock Discography |last=Strong |first=Martin C. |year=2006 |publisher=Canongate |location=Edinburgh |isbn=1841958603 |pages=p. 930 ]
Producer = Chris Thomas, John Anthony, Roxy Music
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5c8j1vfjzzua link]
* Robert Christgau (B) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=roxy+music link]
*"Rolling Stone" [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/roxymusic/albums/album/240322/review/5943487/for_your_pleasure link]
Last album = "Roxy Music"
(1972)
This album = "For Your Pleasure"
(1973)
Next album = "Stranded"
(1973)
Misc = Singles
Name = For Your Pleasure
Type = studio
Single 1 = Do the Strand
Single 1 date = start date|1973|7

"For Your Pleasure" is a 1973 album by the British glam and art rock group Roxy Music, released by Island Records (see 1973 in music). The band's second album, it was also their last to feature synthesizer and sound specialist Brian Eno, who would later gain acclaim as a solo artist and producer.

The group were able to spend more studio time on this album than on their debut, combining strong song material by Bryan Ferry with more elaborate production treatments. For example, the song "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" (Ferry's sinister ode to a blow-up doll) fades out in its closing section, only to fade back in again with all the instruments subjected to a pronounced phasing treatment. The title track fades out in an elaborate blend of tape loop effects. Eno remarked that the eerie "Bogus Man" displayed similarities with contemporary material by the krautrock group Can. [Stump, Paul (1998). "Unknown Pleasures: A Cultural Biography of Roxy Music", Quartet (UK)/Thunder's Mouth (U.S.), ISBN 1-56025-212-X, p. 82.]

Of the more upbeat numbers on the album, "Do the Strand" and "Editions of You" were both based around insistent rhythms in the tradition of the band's first single "Virginia Plain". "Do the Strand" has been called the archetypal Roxy Music anthem, whilst "Editions of You" was notable for a series of ear-catching solos by Andy Mackay (sax), Eno (VCS3), and Phil Manzanera (guitar).

As with the debut Roxy Music album, no UK singles were lifted from "For Your Pleasure" upon its initial release. A single-only release, "Pyjamarama" b/w "The Pride and the Pain", was used to promote the album in Britain, making #10. "Do the Strand" b/w "Editions of You" was released as a single in the US and Europe; it was finally issued as a UK single in 1978 to promote Roxy's "Greatest Hits" album, released in December the previous year.

The cover photo, taken by Karl Stoecker, featured Bryan Ferry's girlfriend at the time, singer and model Amanda Lear. Original pressings of the album (by Island Records in the U.K., and Warner Bros. Records in the U.S.), featured a gatefold sleeve picturing all five band members wearing their Antony Price-designed stage costumes and posing with guitars.

"For Your Pleasure" made #4 in UK charts in 1973. In 2000 "Q" magazine placed it at number 33 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. RS500|394 It was one of four by the group that made the list ("Country Life", "Siren" and "Avalon" being the others).

Track listing

All songs written by Bryan Ferry.

# "Do the Strand" – 4:04
# "Beauty Queen" – 4:41
# "Strictly Confidential" – 3:48
# "Editions of You" – 3:51
# "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" – 5:29 (LP editions of the album incorrectly listed the song's timing as 4:25, due to its "false fade" referenced above)
# "The Bogus Man" – 9:20
# "Grey Lagoons" – 4:13
# "For Your Pleasure" – 6:51

Personnel

*Bryan Ferry – vocals, piano, Hohner Pianet, Mellotron
*Brian EnoVCS3 synthesizer, backing vocals
*Andrew Mackayoboe, saxophone, Farfisa electronic organ
*Phil Manzaneraelectric guitar
*John Porterbass guitar
*Paul Thompsondrums

Notes

External links

* [http://moo.vivaroxymusic.com/roxy/album_list?who=RM Viva Roxy Music]
* [http://www.roxyrama.com/classic/releases/index-frameset.html Roxyrama]
* [http://www.manzanera.com/RoxyArchive/foryourpleasure.htm Phil Manzanera's Roxy Music Archive]


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