Roxy Music - She Sells

[lyonslaforet]

Roxy Music were one of the best British bands in the history of rock!

[ramonanos80]

@lyonslaforet I agree!! Roxy is one of my favorits bands!

[MegaAndreNo]

World class

[yuccalina]

I love this song better than LOVE IS THE DRUG!

[mrake1000]

I think this tune is written by Eddie Jobson together with Ferry.

[801liveable]

A VERY ELCTRONIC SONG..FROM A VERY ELCTRONIC ALBUM..

[TheLourdes2009]

The best song on Siren by far! I love it!

[BIGINSF]

Brilliant as is most of RM. Been listening to them since I was about 15 in 1982. Atlantic years and Avalon were my first 2 LPs. What an era for great music!!

[alexmortland]

This is the tightest Roxy joint on record.

[Silvcr]

カッコよすぎ　むかし　この人に憧れてたのを覚えてる　しかし　この歌は凄いは…

[TheHiroshib]

Greatest intro. First 5-seconds brings me to the highest tension. Vocal, strings and chorus keep me inside this song.

[0TangerineD]

Undoubtedly, this is one of RM's best songs. I simply adore the 'slowdown' at 2:20.

[queenminority]

my fave roxy album

[leonakita]

lol @ ELO VERSUS ROXY.....Roxy wins that 10 times over!..get real

[AubergeLeveque]

One of my faves.

[jjpeterson1]

Ive never done cocaine, but if I ever HAD to try, I would choose Roxy Musics Siren for the honors....as background music.

[suicidehonda]

I love this !!!

[adric137]

hyperspace cool!

[Jolllyjean]

great song!

[eyaddarras]

This song is so fucking good.

[tonkali]

@eyaddarras

One of my favs.

[2HB2HB]

@eyaddarras

ELO are OK, but they are not Roxy Music, the greatest band ever.

[Ginandor]

@2HB2HB I love both bands in equal measure, but you can't compare them. It's like trying to compare apples and oranges, both delicious, but very different.

[wotererio]

Thanks :) I'm going to make a playlist, with all the songs of siren in it :D

[ClassicRockSovereign]

This song reminds me a little bit of ELO. Of course, Roxy Music is much better than ELO (as is this song), but still. Great music, one of THE best bands ever.

[kiloelo]

@ClassicRockSovereign Roxy Music cant touch ELO musically and lyrically electric is so much more advanced

[tonkali]

@kiloelo you are entitled to your opinion but you are *so* wrong!

[srrecords]

@kiloelo : ELO is talented qua songwriting but their songs tend to be very similar, as if they can't stop pretending to be a faux Beatles. Roxy at least mixes styles, and does it quite well, often within the same song (this one, for example).

[JeffELOLynne]

@srrecords I think ELO explored more different styles and were more complex in terms of songwriting then RM. Lynne's vocals are also much more diverse. But this is indeed a very good song, no question about that.

[801liveable]

@JeffELOLynne I don't know about that. To me ELO always sounds like The Beatles. Roxy Music sounds like Roxy Music. Don't get me wrong I like ELO but no one was more complex when it came to songwriting as Bryan Ferry. In the mid 70's he had to be Brittains greatest modern music songwriter. In terms of music styles listen to Roxy's 'Virginia Plain' 1972, 'Sentimental Fool' 1975, 'Manifesto' 1978, then 'Avalon' 1982. Pretty diverse stuff just like ELO. It's a matter of ones' taste.

[JeffELOLynne]

@801liveable Ferry's writing isn't complex at all. Roxy Music's first 2 albums derive alot from rock n' roll music(such as most glamrock artists, including David Bowie) and their mid-period albums also use a minimal amount of different chords, often displaying a very minimal and repetitive sort of music( such as minimalism in classical music). Lynne's compositions were more baroque and had alot of common with the progrock movement(at least his earlier works).

[JeffELOLynne]

@JeffELOLynne @801liveable To me, I see a much bigger evolution in ELO's music than in Roxy's. They moved from complicated yet romantic artrock to orchestrated pop/rock to disco and in the eighties they updated their sound as well. Sometimes it's difficult to believe all that comes from the same band. Roxy Music has a more unique sound indeed, but alot of that had to do with the simplism of their work that set them apart from other groups(they were a "popart" band).

[JeffELOLynne]

@JeffELOLynne @801liveable What made them artrock as well were their intelligent arrangements and, most of all, their experimentalism. The latter doesn't make there compositions more complex or "clever", but adds a strange effect to their music which would be otherwise rather simple pop/rock music. Just take a look at a lead sheet from ELO's early days and one from Roxy Music's early days: you'll notice the difference right away;)

[801liveable]

@JeffELOLynne I'm specifically inclined to the lyrics side of things right now. Go over some of Ferry's.Nothing like it then or now.In terms of music first check out the 3rd stanza of 'Both Ends Burning", Siren album. A few groups, Duran Duran one, based their whole musical persona on that. Listen to 'Same Old Scene" Flesh and Blood album. Like I said I'm not knocking ELO. I like them. Roxy Music is a new wave/progressive/glam band. It's all ones's taste/perception. You see?

[JeffELOLynne]

@801liveable I agree 500 procent with lyrics comment. Alot of ELO's lyrics were pretty lame, I'm the first one to admit that. I see that your a 801 fan, these guys rock!!! If I may recommend an artist: Duncan Browne. Plz check some of his songs, Im sure you'll like it;)

[801liveable]

@JeffELOLynne Yeah, I do like 801..Hey, thanks for the Duncan Browne tip. I'll get on it. One more thing. I like communicating with someone who knows what they speak of. Take care friend.

[JeffELOLynne]

@801liveable Sorry mate, it'll be my bad English, but was that last comment a compliment or a blame? 

[801liveable]

@JeffELOLynne Compliment..Someone with your knowledge and perception deserves only a compliment..Take it easy..Maybe will talk again, down the road..

[WindPilgrim]

@ClassicRockSovereign

Bryan Ferry and Jeff Lynne are two brilliant men with different musical intentions, and I wouldn't dream of comparing them!

[OU812Eddie]

@ClassicRockSovereign ...stay off the crack...