 Genius Meanings
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Roxy Music – Virginia Plain
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In 1964 when Bryan Ferry was an art student he painted a picture titled “Virginia Plain”. It was reportedly of a packet of cigarettes and a woman on a plain (landscape feature
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Roxy Music – Pyjamarama
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[Verse 1] / Couldn't sleep a wink last night / Oh how I'd love to hold you tight / They say you have a secret life / Made sacrifice your key to paradise / [Verse 2] / Never mind
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Bryan Ferry – Is Your Love Strong Enough
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Just one step at a time / And closer to destiny / I knew at a glance / There'd always be a chance for me / With someone I could live for / Nowhere I would rather be / Is your love
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Roxy Music – Ladytron
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The second track from Roxy Music’s self-titled debut, this song was written by Brian Ferry and features a typically Roxy juxtaposition of odd sounding instrumentation over a pretty
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Roxy Music – 2 H.B.
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Written as a tribute to Humphrey Bogart (2HB being an acronym for “To Humphrey Bogart”) and particularly his movie Casablanca.
The mid song sax solo by Andy MacKay – although
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Roxy Music – The Thrill of It All
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The sky is dark / The wind is cold / The night is young / Before it's old and grey / We will know / The thrill of it all / The time has come / It's getting late / It's now or never
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Roxy Music – If There Is Something
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If there is something that I might find / Look around corners / Try to find peace of mind I say / Where would you go if you were me / Try to keep a straight course not easy
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Roxy Music – Bitters End
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At last the crimson chord cascades / To shower dry cordials within / Too late to leap the chocolate gate / Pale fountains fizzing forth pink gin / While destiny prepares to fly
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Roxy Music – Jealous Guy
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I was dreaming of the past / And my heart was beating fast / I began to lose control / I began to lose control / I didn't mean to hurt you / I'm sorry that I made you cry / I didn'
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Roxy Music – Re-Make/Re-Model
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First track from self-titled debut album. Written by Bryan Ferry, who is also lead singer.
The song opens the record presenting Roxy Music with grandiloquence: it features Eno’s
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Roxy Music – Mother of Pearl
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Stranded was a change of direction for Roxy Music. Brian Eno had left, and their sound became more “rock group”.
Ferry’s lyrical complexity endured.
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Roxy Music – Do the Strand
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Lead singer Bryan Ferry has described his idea for ‘Do The Strand’ as:
[…] being that of the ‘dance of life’ – thus bringing to mind earlier dance phenomena, such as the avant
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Roxy Music – Chance Meeting
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I never thought I'd see you again / Where have you been until now? / Well how are you how have you been / It's a long time since we last met / It seems like yesterday when I first
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Roxy Music – Sea Breezes
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I've been thinking now for a long time / How to go my own separate way / It's a shame to think about yesterday / It's a shame, a shame, it's a shame / (Chorus) / We've been running
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Roxy Music – A Song for Europe
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Here as I sit / At this empty cafe / Thinking of you / I remember / All those moments / Lost in wonder / That we'll never / Find again / Though the world / Is my oyster / It's only
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Roxy Music – Love Is the Drug
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[Intro] / T'ain't no big thing / To wait for the bell to ring / T'ain't no big thing / The toll of the bell / [Verse 1] / Aggravated / I spare for days / I troll downtown / The red
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Roxy Music – The Bob (Medley)
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I dreamed last night about your face / Your star shone all night / Over the moon it shone brighter / Star shining so bright / You were so pure not for this world / So gentle and
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Lil Durk (Ft. Gunna) – What Happened To Virgil
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In “What Happened To Virgil,” Lil Durk recruits the Atlanta native, Gunna for a commemorating song inspired by the unfortunate passing of the American fashion designer and
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Roxy Music – Would You Believe?
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Would you believe in what I do / When the things that I make are all for you? / And in a while I'll come to you / Showing showing why what I think will all come true / Well I'm
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Frank Black – Remake/Remodel
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Well I tried but I could not find a way / Looking back all I did was look away / Next time is the best time we all know / But if there is no next time where to go / She's the
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Roxy Music – All I Want Is You
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Somebody told me just the other day / That you're leaving me, we're through / Well if you knew how it hurt me so / Then you'd change your mind, I'm sure / Don't want to hear what's
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Roxy Music – Editions of You
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Well, I'm here looking through an old picture frame / Just waiting for the perfect view / I hope something special will step in to my life / Another fine edition of you / A pin-up
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Roxy Music – Out of the Blue
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All your cares / Now they seem / Oh so far away / All your fears / I fear I once shared / Now I know / There's a future / For all of us / Not so long ago / I was so scared / You
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The Venus in Furs – 2HB
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[Verse 1] / Oh, I was moved by your screen dream / Celluloid pictures living / Your death could not kill my love for you / Take two people romancing / Smoky nightclub situation
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The Bryan Ferry Orchestra – Love Is the Drug
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This Bryan Ferry Orchestra song from the soundtrack to the 2013 Great Gatsby film weds the lyrics of Bryan Ferry’s original hit song, “Love is a Drug” with Roxy Music, to his
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