ROXY MUSIC - "IF THERE IS SOMETHING" (reaction)
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I cried at the end of "flashbacks of a fool". Don't judge me.
🥺 no judgment here!
Life
It's hard not to! But I'm trying!
So did I, still get goosebumps when I hear this song.
The farm scene when she reads the unsigned 💌🎶 after ck, Ruth $ bf Family. He seems a changed man on way home, a weight of what if, guilt lifted, He gave even with career in the drunken coke tank👍 Daniel Craig is a Tom Cruise stunt style Bond&Fav✌️
If you're venturing down the Roxy Music rabbithole, start right at the start! Re-make Re-Model is the first track on their first album and it's a statement of what "Roxy Music" music is (ars poetica is the poetry term for this). The ending sounds like an... I'll leave you to figure it out!
Intriguing!
roxy music
CPL593H! If I was forced to pick one song out of all songs I would probably go for Remake/Remodel.
really an awesome album all around.
Tore a hole in the cosmos…
I did not realized how good this song is until I saw the movie Flashbacks of a Fool, I highly recommend you to see this movie. This song is now one of my favorites.
I adore early Roxy Music, especially the first two albums. Thanks for reacting to this!
Glad you enjoyed Frank!
I agree but there are some great tracks on "Stranded"; "Just Like You", "Song For Europe", Mother of Pearl, etc.
@@whattiler5102 No Psalm?
@@marioarguello6989 That comes under "etc"
The influence of eno.
Felicity Jones made her entrance into cinema with the 2nd half of this song in Flashbacks of a Fool and she is stunning!!!
Sweet pick from a famed debut. Starts as an ironic pastiche, ends up surprisingly poignant. Sonically retro-futurist before the term was even applied to rock, Roxy tapped into a nostalgia for something that hadnt yet been invented and created this very something in the process. Hum.
They did the "ironic pastiche" better than anyone. I loved them from the moment when I first heard them.
"tapped into a nostalgia" you nailed it. I love the first two albums and there is something in this piece starting with 5min mark that culminates at 5:45 when the far drums come close, and the vocals start that makes me almost cry every time. My favorite piece is The Bogus Man...
"Retro-futurist" is exactly (if not the term) how I first described them in 1973. I would ask people, "Do you remember that flying rockabilly band in The Jetsons cartoon? That's Roxy Music."
Roxy Music !! Such an interesting band, and great musicians. The live album Viva !! Is a real gem. Out of The Blue, Both Ends Burning and Love Is The Drug are monster tracks. Your musical journey has been fun to watch so far. Keep up the great choices.
I was about to bring up Viva! -- particularly that live version of this song, with Eddie Jobson's violin on that middle section....
Ah yes... "Both Ends Burning"; a classic track that even to this day still elicits from the title, visions of the end result for some guy sitting in an Indian restaurant demanding to have the "hottest curry you've got", then actually getting it.
Eddie Jobson's electric violin solo that finishes "Out Of The Blue" has been a lifelong (to date) sonic highlight along with Paul Thompson's deceptively simple rhythmic patterns.
As an art student; when I first heard Roxy Music in the early 70's, their music truly struck a chord - so to speak!! Music that's painting with sounds, seemed - to me at least; to come so easily and naturally for them.
@@stephencrisdale9693 Big Jobson violin contribution on "In Every Dream Home, a Heartache" too, iirc -- which also iirc makes a necessary segue and pairing iwth "Both Ends Burning". Basically a lot of Jobson on that record ;-)
We agree!
Thanks for watching Domenic!
Check out the BBC TOTP show featuring the band playing Virginia Plain, which was their first major appearance on tv...they also did The Old Grey Whistle Test show
Thanks Dex!
Mother of Pearl, In Every Home a Heartache - contemporaries of Bowie
One of the many great songs of Roxy. Love the old albums
The second section is fantastic and my favourite Roxy moment. Used to good effect in the Daniel Craig movie Flashbacks of a Fool. Lament for lost love, regret, memories, etc. Love it.
Clip of the film: ua-cam.com/video/iaiKfgm4bbk/v-deo.html
early Roxy Music is so Good ..Great review.
Thanks so much!
In their early days no other band looked or sounded like them. For a recommendation try "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" from the "For Your Pleasure" album or "2HB" or "Ladytron"from the first album. Incidentally Brian Eno played synthesisers on these earlier albums. In particular the VCS 3 which was a portable analogue synthesiser which came with a joystick rather than a keyboard, although a keyboard could be and was added.
Thanks for the info Steve!
Don't forget "A Song For Europe" and "Just Like You"; I know they were post-Eno but I love them both!
O.K. I should become a patreon, instead of throwing out songs in comment section. I would suggest people should hear Roxy's Mother of Pearl. It's my favorite song of theirs & I'd definitely put it in the top 100 of the 70's. Musically an excellent groove, and the lyrics are among the most amazingly interesting I can recall from that era. Though I lack the education to understand it all.
We’re ready when you are Chris!
Also a classic..
I'm not a Roxy Music fan but this is a great song. Far more complex than any of the glam rock around at the time.
One of my favourite albums ever. Excellent choice, this song rocks.
First reaction that I have seen for "If There Is Something" by Roxy Music. Very cool. Thanks so much!
By the late 1970s, Brian Ferry's singing had become less quirky and more smooth-crooner in style. But even with his vocalizing strangeness, the band's music was always brilliant.
Very astute observations, especially about drummer Paul Thompson. I loved watching her reactive smile when Ferry's vibrato kicks in for the first time. I've been a fan of Roxy Music since seeing them on their first U.S. tour in December 1972 and happy to see their music being rediscovered.
Thank you, and I am now subscribed because you chose this tune.
Appreciate you!
Every Dream Home a Heartache my favorite Roxy Music song.
One of my favourite song titles for sure.
Brooklyn NY ? Thanks for listening to fantastic song I would listen to at full blast when I was young.
Thanks for watching Jason!
Eno played (manipulated) synthesizers with Roxy Music. I saw an early live clip where Manzanera's guitar was somehow plugged into Eno's DEVICES and when Manzanera played lead, Eno would alter the sound, change pitch, slow it down, speed it up, or some such shit. It's an AWESOME video!!!
The backing vocals that repeat towards the end 'when you were young' are also all him.
Sounds awesome!
Roxy Music All The Time, Any Time!!!
A line from the movie "Flashbacks Of A Fool" "How Fantastic Is This Song! How can you choose between Bryan Ferry and David Bowie? They're Gods!"
My late husband Rodney introduced me to Roxy Music on November 8, 1975, I was already a Bowie Fan.
It was the first time I heard "If There Is Something"
My eyes teared up with this scene, as we used to do a similar act to the song "If There Is Something" ❤
There are so many Roxy Music songs to suggest. You've got a taste of their sound. Try "Oh Yeah" another song from "Flesh and Blood"
The country style morphed so elegantly to have a duet between the two brilliant saxes n Bryan’s vibrato shrilling desperations about sowing potatoes as a sign of absolute love devotion. Great drumming to meld it all together in this divine three part foray. Loved watching you two groovers too!
Thanks for watching Geoff!
US country style, not UK.
Okay allegedly Brian Eno and Bryan Ferry disagreed which way the band should go so Eno departed after the second album . Bryan did great leading the band and he wrote one masterpiece after the other until they called it a day in 1980 . Check out “ Amazona “ ( studio version ) on the STRANDED album and hear the Red Hot Chili Peppers . . For a surprise do “ Sentimental Fool “ on Siren . For sustained melodic punch do “ Just Another High “ on Siren . For innovation do “Manifesto “ and let it segue into “ Trash “ on the LP Manifesto . Bryan still innovated long after Eno left Roxy Music but since you chose to do this masterpiece from the masterpiece when Eno was present do “ Virginia Plain “ and get your mind blown . Still we are fragmenting into individual tracks . All the Roxy Music Albums were brilliant
Great info!
@@SightAfterDark Essentially, I think Eno never had a great drive to be a stage performer, I think he was happier in a studio with a lot of electronic kit. I seem to recall that he actually said that the album after he left, "Stranded", was their best album.
Certainly I think the first three albums were the hallmark ones.
@@whattiler5102 You know you are probably right . I think there are other musicians like that . The late Harry Nilsson made only a few television appearances and rarely performed live . He said “ I consider it a different occupation.”
This was conceived and performed by guys who were under 25 years old - IN 1972! Your enjoyment was obvious, and you got the vibe straightaway. Timeless music. Thank you.
Thanks for being here!
One of my real favorites since the film "Flashbacks of a fool" from 2008 with Daniel Craig (i.e., James Bond)
It's got all the kinds of music, country and western.
Simple love Roxy Music , especially when they play live. The album Viva is absolutely outstanding.
On "Viva" this song seamlessly adds Eddie Jobson's (Eno's replacement) violin into the mix.
never mind all the clever (?)analysis this is the greatest love sing bar none
Still, a big part of the charm is how the song got there….has there ever been a more intriguing journey? I don’t think so.
Everything on the 'For Your Pleasure' album, but the tune 'In Every dream Home A Heartache' is pretty striking.
Best song ever soundtrack from flash back from a fool
This was there first album , i saw them on a music program called the old grey whistle test then bought the album and saw them live Eno was still with them on a crazy synth machine it was a huge big box with dials and knobs Brian Ferry on vocals as well as piano think the sax player was Andy Mc Cay he would play a soprano sax miked up and go through peddles this was all so new at the time Brian Ferry said he wanted to mix the 50s and 60s with rock and spacey sounds and pop and mix all the genres up
Great info!
Right, Eno. Andy Mackay the sax/oboe player had bought a VCS 3 synthesizer as you do, but didn't know how to play it so when Eno joined ( he was originally hired to mix the sound as he was already something of an 'electronic wiz' and had been messing around with tape recorders for years prior) it was down to him to see what it could be used for. So Eno quickly learned to master the VCS 3 and treated Andy's Sax and Phil Manzanera's guitar through it, together with the provision of the aforementioned tapes. As an example of the latter Ferry asked Eno to create a 'moonscape' intro to Ladytron (originally called Lady). Eno also did a similar intro on the BOB medley - Battle of Britain - if you didn't know (a battle fought between British spitfires fighter planes and German messersmitz fighter planes over the south of England in 1940 which was a key battle in the eventual outcome of the 2nd world war.) Who else could write a love song in three parts about such a subject. Roxy were years and years and years ahead of their time, if you don't get them well never mind I guess it doesn't really matter now 52 years on. Footnote....if you are ever in the midlands of England visit RAF Cosford where you can see some of the few remaining Spitfires and Messersmitz in the flesh together with much, much more, a truly mind-blowing museum which is free to enter.
Thanks for all the info!
Love it. Especially after mark 2:15. "Virginia Plain" (On this album) & "Do The Strand" are my favorites by them.
This song is a beast
Wow! Good shoutout to Little Feat! Unexpected for sure!
I love their version of Like a Hurricane and Every Dream Home Is a Heartache. Glad you guys got to see KC!!!
Thanks for watching!
You should check out more from the first 3 Roxy albums.
Country Life as well !
My favourite roxy music album along with for your pleasure.
Should have started with the live version on 'Viva Roxy Music'. Even better.
Nice job,no interruptions . Great tune & album. Check the live version on “ viva”.
Thanks for the tip and thanks for watching Bill!
Far better songs from their debut album are 'Remake/Remodel,' '2HB,' 'Ladytron,' or 'Chance Meeting.' From their second album, 'For Your Pleasure,' the songs 'Do the Strand,' 'Beauty Queen,' 'In Every Dream Home a Heartache,' 'Editions of You,' and 'The Bogus Man' are also great. Brian Eno era Roxy Music! :)
...and oh, silly me! I forgot to mention the most famous song from the first album, 'Virginia Plain,' also a must-hear...though you've probably already heard it!
@@MrMartinGross not on the original UK debut album, but released as a single.
@@rogerhennie8939 I'm from Canada, and I bought the CD in Taiwan, so I'm used to thinking of 'Virginia Plain' as on the album. Still, it's good to know the history of the album.
Both Ends Burning still my absolute favourite Roxy track😅
Great reaction 👍 could tell it was a genuine reaction so thank you for your authenticity. I got into Roxy Music a couple of years ago. They have some great tracks. I would suggest ‘Every Dream-home a Heartache’ and ‘The Bogus Man’
..and I was was young when I first was intensely move by this experience played the album in1974 and still am now....Listen to it on Viva ..moved by the oboe..ps This is was BRITISH innovation...America wadnt interested in 1973
A few Roxy numbers are like Brian de Palma films - they start in one genre and end in another.
I've long felt like this song is the music equivalent of the 1996 Tarantino film "From Dusk Till Dawn": it starts off in one kind of scenario/"space", then methodically transitions, until it's someplace very different - but with a continuity (Paul Thompson's "pocket", here) underlaying it.
Roxy. Now that I think about it, Bowie Tin Machine did a live cover of this song at LAX. Playing outside on the tarmac. Jets coming and going in background of video.
"Takes me right back..."
Eno did synthesizers and treatments.
In the first two albums (this is from the first) Ferry played piano and Eno played moog syntheziser
Well, let's say, Ferry TRIED to play piano ;-), although: charming in a way
It's all about the blend
And yet another Zappa connection. Eddie Jobson (playing violin and keyboards), went on to join Frank’s band for a couple of years.
Eddie came into Roxy after Eno left, his first Roxy album was Stranded
Here is the early line up of Roxy Music, with Brian Eno, performing 'Ladytron' on the groundbreaking BBC program The Old Grey Whistle Test (OGWT), many thanks to David Attenborough. 'Ladyton' was track two on their debut album which was simply titled 'Roxy Music' and track three was 'If There Is Something' - Enjoy. ua-cam.com/video/XCzhAeukF1A/v-deo.html
Hi guys - Brian Eno was the “electronic” part of the band. Whereas Bryan Ferry was also keyboards Eno loved to experiment & in my opinion the first two albums were the best - he left after that, but there was a lot of good stuff after his departure as well. Very astute take on David Byrne - sure they were an influence!
Thanks for the info and thanks for sharing Richard!
First time here because I LOOVE early Roxy.
But I love this woman's face even more.
Her expression & retisence is funny (not in a bad way at all) and then you see her start to pick up the complexity & greatness.
The way she looked at him (it looked like she was thinking; you have to be kidding!) at the drama in Bryan's voice when he said "I would crawl all the ocean floor."
I literally cracked up.
So great.
Good on you two for listening to stuff that's ALWAYS been underrated.
The way she's trying not to laugh at the unbelievably dramatic vocal stylings.
But please do know that they did have a sense of humor about the camp (the REAL camp, not this corny, status fashion bullshit of today.)
Starts off Americana, ends dark Euro.
Glad you liked this song. It’s a real toe-tapper and head-bobber, while trippy and dreamy at the same time. Amazing stuff. Other folks are recommending other early Roxy Music from the first two albums, and indeed you for sure need to listen to those songs too. In Every Dream-home a Heartache has perhaps THE BEST guitar break to a solo of all time. You’ll know what I mean when you hear it - it will blow your mind. Cheers!
Cheers James! Thanks for watching!
Cheers James! Thanks for watching!
5:35 the moment he realises
Eno i thnk is comipg in by electronically treatimg Andy Mckays clarinett. He is more apparent on other tracks.
I guess Ferry was into Americana coz he had an old 1958 Studebaker Golden Hawk when he lived in Jesmond, Newcastle.
they were class live in 73, but that was the year the music died, dark ages
She could be a terrific poker player; gives nothing away during the listening.
Forgotten how good this album was.
Cool review...I need to check out Little Feat. Others have mentioned the live version on the Viva Roxy Music album. There are also a lot of videos of Roxy and Bryan Ferry w/o Roxy doing this tune that are splendid. David Bowie has a neat cover of it as well that's worth giving a listen to. Thanks again!!!
Thanks for watching Iwan!
Eno doesn’t contribute too much to this track. The sax was fed through his synth, that gives it the ear piercing effect. This whole LP was written by Ferry before he formed Roxy.
Thanks for the info!
I get goose flesh EVERY TIME Ferry starts his deparate vibrato "I would do anything for you...". Listen to the world class drums Paul Thompson and in contrast the amateurish piano playing of Bryan without damping pedals. This is world class to me. This is style! Never achieved again from any band for me...
Ah days of Speed,Roxy Music,...here`s on "Out of the blue",if you like wicked violin playing,yo.Oh to be young again,trapped in a 70yr old body seriously a bad trip. from unsunny UK.
Brian Eno, morph master.
Since this is a British band I don't think the beginning is intended as sounding as Country... 🙂. A great album and very different when it was new. There is a very nice live version on UA-cam of this song also with Bryan Ferry but 39 years later from Lyon, France. A more mature Ferry has kept his vibrato. Great sax solo in the end by a young girl.
It’s intended to sound country. It’s a piss take, it’s also not a piss take. It’s like an out of place piece of a collage looked at in isolation when you need to look at the whole. All of Roxy, the first 4 LPs, the covers, the clothes, the hair should all be seen through the eyes of a collage artist. That was Ferry’s artistic vision for Roxy.
“ If There Is Something “ is as great as those other British band lengthy masterpieces, Bohemian Rhapsody and Stairway to Heaven . I am a Southern Yank and was and still am a huge Roxy Music fan . Bryan Ferry and his band especially when Brian Eno was onboard were true mold breakers , innovators and sad to say , way ahead of their time , or maybe 15 years too early for American audiences .
Thanks for sharing Dag Nabbit!
During the 70's many English bands would thrown in a song the was 'country', although from what country I was never too sure.The songs were always this weird cartoonish version of what they thought country music sounded like. From The Beatles Rockie Raccoon to The Rolling Stones Dead Flowers or Wild Horses to the beginning of this song. There are so many examples of this bizarre interpretation of Americana, I am sure many more can be thought of and mentioned
Start at the beginning. Debut track 1.
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against type? brilliant
try heartbreaker by the band free very powerful song by a band that out grossed the beatles and the rolling stones combined in 1970
Free and Roxy, 2 of the best groups in the world
Eno twiddling their knobs and fliiickinhis long blonde hair. Taking the groupies that Ferry wanted.
Great luve band at that time.
I really enjoyed your reaction to this track from one of my all time favourite bands and inspirations as a musician and artist!! 👍👍
I suspect the country style 'feel' at the beginning of the track was intentional; given how much appreciation Bryan Ferry had for American 'crooners' and the stylishness of Hollywood's 'Golden Age' leading actors. Even the covers of the albums give a clue to the nostalgic reverence (that bordered at times on parody) which underpinned so much of the first batch of albums, whilst subtly hinting at a deeper 'intellectual' core to the band's oeuvre.
You're certainly becoming 'versed' in a broad range of music, even if the broadness demonstrates just how many connections existed across not only the different bands and the musicians, but across oceans and 'cultures'!
Enjoy the never ending smorgasbord buffet... even as you add your own unique 'dishes' to the taste sensations on offer!!
Thanks Steve!
gO rOXXY!
Shake your hair girl with your ponytail.😊
the live version is better more dynamic and powerful
Early Roxy Music weirdness. ;) Everything and the kitchen sink. Phil Manzanera gets to show off his guitar chops. Unfortunately the 1st album's production quality wasn't great. Re-mastering by the right person might have helped. Compare with the 1st King Crimson album which has such rich sonics. Too much on the Roxy album was either buried in the mix or just so thin or flat sounding. I don't know if there's been a recent remastering done to improve things.
I have a 90s cd release and it sounds phenomenal, I don't know what you're talking about
@@JulioLeonFandinho On the 2nd album the sound does improve, and I think "Stranded" sounds even better. Production for the 1st album was done by Peter Sinfield, the lyricist for King Crimson. He had some experience mixing with King Crimson, but was he a decent producer? I can tell you that the sound on the vinyl album didn't do them any justice. Too much of the treble range sounded tinny, but the drums (and sometimes the bass) sounded so remote to me - like they were recorded underwater. I happen to like the nuances of drums and percussion - if I can't hear any details then it's not for me. To me, Paul Thompson was not well recorded on many of these Roxy albums - he should be much higher in the mix and recorded with more clarity. But to each his own.
I found this quote you:
'The sonic properties of Roxy Music [the 1st album] still polarise opinion. Ferry has said that he didn’t care for the sound of the vocals. But Manzanera is philosophical about the album’s production values. “On the first one we always said we were inspired amateurs learning how to make a record, so I listen with nostalgia and fondness rather than a critical eye. It was a moment in time captured and I’m very happy to have been part of it. Pete Sinfield did the best job he could really. But obviously, once you get to For Your Pleasure and Chris Thomas - who’d trained with George Martin - it’s in a different league.”'
Good lord, I forgot how annoying music snobs are...
look, I don't care how the hell the treble range is mixed in the album, overall it sounds everything clear and well balanced except if you're going to be very picky and annoying.
And by the way, this was the album that made me appreciate Paul Thompson's drumming
It's not how it sounds, It's not the freaking mix, It's nothing of that crap, it's the actual playing 🤦♂️ It's the musicians way of play
@@An_Cat_Dubh First albums probably don't get the love they deserve in production, perhaps this was made on 16-track and some quality was lost to the bounce,
or a dozen other (glorious) vagaries of AAA reproduction. Stylistically also, people were striving for 'the sound' of the moment, things sometimes got a little silly heh.
In the main I would not favour a remaster just on principle, would Andy Warhol be improved by touching up the rough spots? But agree with you sonically we are left with some diappointing pressings around. Appreciate your informative post, cheers from UK.
I would have to agree with charcolew here, for first time listeners of Roxy Music, this is kind of a poor representation of what I would think of as their best material. Songs like Rain Rain Rain or any song off of the cd Avalon or even something off of Bete Noire, Brian Ferry , the singer's cd, would have been a better choice . Of course this is just my opinion.
We respect your opinion, Kurt this is just more of a reason for us to dig deeper. That’s great, thanks!
Psalm
We played "Psalm" at our wedding 3-5-1977❤ JLM+RDM
Her ion addicts both of you , reaction too slow ,,,,, nah , nah , I know !
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Compared to the Viva! Roxy Music version of this, this is absolute swill, as good as it might be. Please do a reaction to the Viva! live version.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, Man.
My opinion too
@@BobKontak Yeah, well, you know, you are, you know, uh, right there Bob. Uh, Man. And uh, you know, well, my opinion is the only one, you know Man, to me, that counts. Uh, Man.
@@welshgruff You have excellent taste Alice.
@@petefumberger5225 Nice, Pete. You and Alice ganging up on me again.
Wrong version. Listen to live. Album is Viva' Roxy Music. Puts all others to shame
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The live version of this song from "Viva! Roxy Music" is a scorcher.
Like the studio version better
british music was the beat
Such a brilliant song. The only bad thing about this album is the production, i.e. the drum sound. He was a great drummer though so he powers through. On his singing style, I would argue that Bryan Ferry influenced Bowie's voice, certainly many of the 80's new wave/new romantics/electro 80s artists especially David Sylvian of Japan.
On Eno's part, I believe that the other instruments such as the clarinet in this song, were plugged in through Eno's equipment. You can hear the clarinet warbling in parts of this song. And backing vocals. The rest of the time I'm not sure. Bryan Ferry is credited as playing the mellotron in this song - that lovely dreamy orchestral violin sound that fills out the song at the end.
Early Roxy Music is still one of the weirdest bands ever.