Roxy Music - Avalon
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2010
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Still listening in 2024 .
Great
Timeless
🙋♂️
one of the best things about 50 years old is the fact that i lived my teenage in the 80's that is priceless and Iam grateful !!!
I turned 50 last week!!
I Love this Music.🥰
Love you
I love all of u my age. The 80s we are connected
@@MrMB040 you count
All of you, the children of the 80s. You who, like me, experienced an extraordinary era. Remember this explosion of music, this carefreeness.. Never again will we experience this, but it remains alive in us... It's our heritage...
There are many beautiful, thoughtful comments here, but your’s hit a chord and brought tears to my eyes. A sense of joy for a life well lived back then, a sense of loss in the now.
You suckers just got old. You were happier because you were younger. Suckers in 2050 will swear the 2020s was the best decade. Etc etc until the end of time.
70s too
Así es... Concuerdo plenamente ✨✨✨
circa 1978 here........
the 80's will never die🤩🥰
The world doesn't make music like this anymore 😢
The world doesn’t deserve…
not from the world....this comes from our owners
This wonderful artist, Bryan Ferry brings me too tears. I just listen too him over and over.
Music is eternal
@@patharrison7102 Oh, fuck that has so much meaning. My best wishes to you xx
I remember standing on my mum's toes and dancing to this song when I was little. Hearing this brings a tear I must admit. Miss you mum.❤
❤
Awwww bless 💖💖
God bless your mum❤
@@K-a-n-d-i-s thanks.🙏🏴
@@nagadorset thanks🙏🏴
The Avalon music video was directed by Ridley Scott and shown on MTV in 1982 less than a year after MTV was launched in August 1981.
This is honestly a perfect song. Bryan Ferry sings about being captivated by a woman at a party and compares her to the mystical island of Avalon in that she's literally like a heavenly island in a sea of people at a party. What a beautiful sentiment.
That’s a nice way of describing the song. Albeit the word ‘literally’ is not needed, that means that she’s not a person but an island.
nope.. thats not the message.... es geht um dinge die menschen nicht verkraften könnten, wenn sie offen angesprochen werden.
Well put
@@hellhappy84 Like many songs (not all) it's sometimes best to let people have their own meanings. It makes the memories stronger. :)
These youngsters love the word "literally"😂
This is the the most beautiful song ever recorded, it's from heaven, and it saved me many times as a young adult from wanting to end it. I'm now 55.
I just cried reading your post. Hope you are winning in life now.
Amazing, it may not be your birthday, but Happy Birthday to you 🎉celebrate every day!!!
Hello,
My Brit pals gave me the first Roxy Music album for my fifteenth B-day. My first encounter with the dazzling force of combined genius that has guided me through many dark times . I'm now 65, Too old to die young, and too young to die! Ha! Ha!
Music. The finest medicine. No prescription needed!
This video set all of the unreasonably high expectations of how 12 year old me thought I'd spend all of my Saturday nights as an adult. I thought there'd be falcons, dancing in castles and Bryan Ferry in a tux. There's only laundry, cat hair and my husband snoring on the sofa in a tshirt.
Melanie Nelson best comment I’ve read to sum up my disillusionment with Saturday nights as an adult
А я рядом - и ничего...
Melanie Nelson One of the best comments ever. Lol.... I was 19 but felt similar. 😂😂😂
Haha come live with me.
I've got a pigeon with a broken wing. I live in a dilapidated shed.
Bring me a tux, we can dance 😂
Hang in there Melanie. Life is still good.
Beautiful music, only people who listen to music like this understand music.
The production on this can’t be overlooked, it’s perfection
It really is @TheNarcropolis , it really is♥
emo psybient samba
A masterpiece album.I was 19 when it dropped.Turned my friends on to it.Beautiful melodies and textures.
Roxy Music特有の１つの世界観がある。
こんなに粋でオシャレなアーティストは他にいない。
Bob Clearmountain
A voice as smooth as molten chocolate. This song never gets old.
The whole album is a masterpiece from start to finish. Some of the music from this era is unsurpassed and today's offerings pale in comparison.
Ah, - the perfect music for the initiation of a night with special someone, where the chemical connections of both participants are burning bright; or, for driving the faded streets of your younger days, with everything seen and felt in a nostalgic, comforting glow; or, for a warm embrace on a high rise balcony with a view of millions of twinkling lights below and beyond; or -- just for a lazy cozy Sunday morning at home… This is music for all those moments in a life that are beautiful, majestic, romantic, exquisite. Timeless.
Avalon and Flesh & Blood are both masterpieces IMO. Beautiful albums
You're exactly right
I remember when this came out , pure magic ! Those times were real artist ,with originality ! Music today sucks , I hate these times !
@@MrShepardDog You could write songs
This was the very first song I heard by Roxy Music in 1983, that was great year for music.
1983/84 was a great time to be young...❤
Brian Ferry: One of the handsomest men in rock.
I'm 26 but the 80's songs are something out of this world!! Amazing 😍
Everyone born after the 80s also knew the 80s. Either some were here alive and left or in spirit. Spirits have access to all music.....the first message I got from my mother was she was enjoying all the music.....the second message I got was when she comes to visit she's just floating around.....my little house is a storage unit for when I can build a large house on my property.
Ha, dig deeper kid..lol. it wasn't all this good.
@@jasonkimber9392 ya it was
duh!!!
No autotune in the 80’s, no effects (unless a smooth reverb) the singers used to sing with real and pure voice in studio !.
A 40 year old song that sounds so damn good. It's unique and fresh.
A LOT FROM SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES.
THERES A LOT OF LESSOR KNOWN GROUPS AS WELL.
The way all the parts go together. It's hypnotic, a great piece of music
Indeed.
Yes is the best time for muziek
The muziek kept me alive
This song has one of the most tasteful guitar tracks ever recorded.
The whole song is perfection.
Class meets decadence, laziness meets brilliance. The sax and the the female backing vocal are just mesmerizing. One of the ultimate 3 am last glass of whisky songs I know.
Perfect. 3am last glass of whiskey song.
I've been searching for that phrase to describe the feeling of this song, especially the outro. Thanks, I'm stealing that!
single malt I hope?
@@ppilot41 Single Matt, single malt. Always.
@@mattgilbert7347 Me too!
A fabulous piece of Music. Yes, mesmerizing. Even this vid does not do it Justice.
It’s amazing how hearing a song can take you back to when everything felt right with the world !
I'm betting that if you were asked 'back then', the world may not have seemed quite so 'right'...
Fantastic song either way though.
Tunes are the pins that transfix the butterflies of our nostalgic memories.
Absolutely melissa, we had the best music EVER. I want to go back and stay there forever.
😆
well its shite now in the UK 2022
Bryan Ferry was the smoothest cat of the 80's .Very underated , was the 80's AMAZING or what? Never be another Decade with such diversity.
M'MMM UNLIKE THE TODAYS ENFORCED ,SO-CALLED ''DIVERSITY'' THIS WAS CREATIVE FROM A NATURAL FLOW OF IDEAS.
Actually I think the 80s was one of the less creative decades Roxy Music was cool in there way and this video proves how very 80s they were. However I could go through a string of bands from the 60s will say the Sonic's and Stooges on one end to say Jefferson Airplane. And the first jam band the 70s gave us everything from Black Flag tell Linda Ronstadt the 90s had the popularization of punk. With everything from Alanis Morissette to Nirvana and mudhoney. The 2000s kind of sucked but you get the highly overrated but influential White Stripes. Is The Strokes in The Killers. I'm just scratching the surface of each decade to show that it has more to do with Nostalgia and where you may have been when you heard a certain song then one decade being necessarily more important to the than the other. Not my favorite Brian Eno project but definitely set the tone for a lot of what came in the 80s .
Same age as you Brother... In my opinion the 80s was a sublime decade... every teenager should have a wonderful story to tell their Children and Grandchildren about growing up in their time, if I had a chance to travel back in time , it'll be to the 80s most definitely.
That rare moment in musical time when all of the planets align for a perfectly constructed and performed song that captures the era, nails the vocals and takes the listener to a place few have visited but wished existed in their world. Just sublime.
I was brainwashed into Roxy and Bowie when I was able to listen to music by my dad. Such memories when I was young when my dad use to sit me down and play his vinyls every Saturday afternoon. I'm 42 now and how the music has shaped who I am today. Thank you Ferry, Bowie, Eno, Lou, Iggy and the rest. You help form a bond with my dad.
You seem like a good person. Wish you and everyone who reads this health and happiness and peace of mind!
Wow. I could have written this. Thankful for the great, great memories.
My younger brother, whom I clash with horribly on politics ( he hates Trump) told his wife that he "needed his older brother." He told me that it was me who shaped his taste in music. Bowie; Roxy Music; Peter Gabriel; Elvis Costello; Iggy Pop and assorted 80's new wave. I was massively flattered. Sadly, I let politics get in the way of our relationship. Gotta' put that away and save the relationship. People matter. Politics come and go.....
@@aaronbeauchamp3312 It is never worth it . They (politicians) always ended up drinking coffee with each other and making alliances. Call your brother and tell him the history of you two is way beyond of whatever politicians are on the run,.YOU LOVE EACH OTHER and do not allow politics break it apart! Call him!
@@danilo3049 I visited him and my family in the Midwest for two weeks in June. Had a good time and enjoyed his company. :)
I used to get chills listening to this song. One of the best albums ever. I'm 62 now and still gets chills. Bryan Ferry still is one of the sexiest men alive. Jerry Hall was an idiot.
im also 62, we had the best music EVER.
Never liked this song but I’ll admit Bryan Ferry is one incredibly handsome man.
She prefers Rupert Murdoch these days...Eww!
Yes, she was an idiot! What a wonderfully handsome man!
I'm 63. Roxy and Ferry made some superb songs and top videos.
Rick Beato interviewing Bob Clearmountain brought me here. This was his best mixed album of his career.... i hear it 👍👍👍🍻🍻🍻
I named my first born Avalon after hearing this song long ago and being incapable of pulling away from it's haunting vibe. She loves her name and her Momma will forever love this song❤
a CLASSY, PROPER NAME .
I LOVE IT
@cherieshea3246 - I have a friend who’s brother was about to become a father and he and his partner decided the baby’s name would be Avalon, whether it be a girl or boy. His son Avalon is now in his early 20s.
Fantastic🤗
Great. Don’t listen to what anyone says. The world has too many intelligent and discerning people in it.
Beautiful name.
Lost my youngest bro last year 55, we were in the army together in the eighties both loved Roxy played this at his funeral, god bless you little bro KARL. Love from tony💖.xx(Avalon).
sorry for your loss Tony, nice choice of music all the best
aww so sad
RIP
Oh man! So sorry to hear of your loss Tony. But what a beautiful, dreamy piece of music to choose!
Tony Higgs sorry for your loss, hope you're doing well ❣️
So so sophisticated and cool. This is an endless song that never gets old.
YOU KNOW IT!!👍👍😮😮
thats a fact jack....
Weak vocals
This is sophisti pop
@@leonardoflorindoa.rodrigue5415 So cool so chic.
Most romantic album ever recorded. Still gleaming more than 40 years later. A gem.
Buy those 1980s sound engineers a beer...! Perfect balances on the mixing desk
I just had my daughter a few hours ago, this is the first song we listened to together. It’s always been my favorite.
Oh how lovely. Congratulations, new Mama! Welcome to the world little angel warrior. We are so glad to have you with us. Blessings for a life well lived and a heart well loved. 💞
💯💯💯
aww, how sweet!! me and my mum used to listen to this when I was a child..she is unwell now and this brings back so many good memories of mum.
Oh wow!!!!! Congrats!!!! This is one of the best songs ever!!!!
How lovely! Many congrats! You should call her Tara after the last track on the album!! Just an idea of course , again many congrats.
My mum was born the year this song came out. She named me Avalon 24 years later! ❤️
Beautiful story... Glad she was not born the year Gladiator came out
Great name!
Nice!
What a beautiful name
WONDERFUL NAME AND STORY..IM 66 AND JUST HEARD THIS SONG. I was under blackout conditions in U.S.Army, M.P. ACADEMY..All 1981 was lost to me.
Loved this song for years. So elegant
When he catches the falcon and they both look at the camera. Perfection.
As a man of 52, every time I listen to the sublime music from the 80's I feel nostalgic, happy and sad all at the same time.....then I wonder where the last 35-45 years have gone! WTAF?! 🥲
This song is another reason why the 80’s is the best decade in music. Congratulations, Roxy Music!
Ese esmoking blanco
I must admit all that intense staring into the camera makes me giggle, but yes it is a beautifully haunting song
1970s the best
80's BEST music decade.
True the português verdade
This has to be what music sounds like in heaven, endless, timeless, smooth, suave, need I say more
Yes it's like a beautiful dream
You must be kidding. Boring and repetitive.
Smooth. And sensual😊
@@lilybond6485 yes it must be difficult since you cant snort coke to it right?
NicKey: Is that what YOU do ? Illegal drugs ?
Bryan Ferry's Singing Style is Unique. I love it 🥰
Hello! How are you doing today, please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you’re a fan ? Have a great day..Stay Safe!
I used Avalon as my wedding waltz in 1985 and still love it.Its the only album I've got where I love every track still together 37 years later Bryan Ferry still going
❤.
That must`ve been so beautiful..........................there couldn`t have been a dry eye in that room.............❤
I used to DJ a lot of weddings. This was always my closing song.
@@johnkristof8395 It might just be................ " The Perfect Song ". With it`s underlying nostalgic beauty it could be played at weddings, Funerals, and everything inbetween. The fact that you picked it, as your " Closing Song "......shows what kind of DJ you are.......a Great One.........telling people to....." F-Off ".........in the most beautiful way possible.............❤
Damn, you are a mind reader!
From what Bryan said, they were finishing recording in New York with Rhett Davies, and Ferry heard a girl singing in the corridor.
The girl was Yannick Etienne from Haiti, and he was so impressed he asked her to sing the final part without the band knowing about it.
Turned out pretty good I think.
Back in the day when bands could play!
The 70s and 80s music can't be beaten. Young people now have no idea what they missed.
"now have no idea what they missed."
But SOME of them are beginning to !
That's because we were young people then. I think every generation thinks the same about the music of their youth.
so true my frend
but I'm 20 yers old
i love this song.....
some of them don't find this beautiful, my gf does not ='(
In a blink of an eye, the young lady would now be the elderly ladies sitting at the table. Live your life well, and don't wait to live it. Roxy Music made the most beautiful atmospheric songs, with Eurythmics a close second.
Still seems like yesterday 41 years later.
One of the most beautiful songs ever.
@Geert Van den ☆ I thank you for sharing this comment with all of 'Mother Earth'. It will always be remembered, and never forgotten. Thank you Mate. Take Care and Be Well Always My Friend:🇬🇧🇺🇸 ®️.
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I am agree with you .
With " woman in chains " of Tears for fears, and " entangled " of Genesis.
@@jeff-bg2fn ☆First I Thank you for agreeing with me. For 'Women In Chains' ~ by 'Tears For Fears' . Also, your other selection by; 'Entangle' of Genesis. Two of my favorites, I have to say your selections, are nothing short of Superb. I say to you Jean in closing. Take Care and Be Well My Dear Friend:🇬🇧🇺🇸 ®️.
@@growingupwithfloyd2184 thank you.
Be well too.
If you suppose that i like Pink floyd too, you are perfectly right.
Of course .
Thank you from France.
This song has lots of layers and textures that blend together beautifully. If you listen to it with a good set of headphones you can really here the space between all the instruments. Roxy Music knew what they were doing.
Absolutely! I feel that way with many of Roxy's songs. You took the words out of my mouth, haha.
You're right, probably some Bob Clearmountain reverb and delays ✌️
Indeed, headphone listening is a must. You get all of the nuance right in your ears.
Definately. You can hear more
The sound the instruments in the background
A song that would always be on my Desert Island discs. Bryan Ferry was coolness personified.
Hacia años que no la oía, con 66 años y aún me emociona la música de los 80, jamás habrá otra como esa época....por cantidad y por calidad.
bryan ferry was ahead of his time
+Paul Mcgrath He certainly was
+Paul Mcgrath Still is.......
Well ahead
+Paul Mcgrath completely agree... I think "More than This" is one of the most hauntingly well-crafted songs ever written.
Well said!
The female vocals are perfection to wonderful point. Exquisite.
Yannick Etienne
@@courtneykirk478 is that the name of the singer?
@@timothygrayson The actual singer was from Haiti, and her name was Yannick Etienne.
@Courtney Kirk very beautiful vocal work and thanks for the info.
@@courtneykirk478 I think they heard her singing in an adjoining studio where they were recording (the Bahamas?) and just basically went and asked her if she was free and the rest, as they say, is history
This song reflects all of the good things from the 80s and it was so good. To be savored like a fine wine.
Can I go back there. I was there in the 80's. It was such a great time. Such class, beauty and high aspirations for the future and that shining city on the hill...sadly today, not so much.
The "Real" James Bond of Music - so classy , so timeless, so wonderful
А я добавила бы к Брайану ещё Роберта Палмера. Мне кажется,он тоже "Джеймс Бонд рока"😉
True words
Congratulations to Roxy Music for being inducted into the Class of 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
FINALLY they added some CLASS to that joint :)
That's what brought me here. ClaSSy Avant Gard . ThiS iS Aestetic . Like you'd play thiS in the company of your lover only to be ridiculed, maybe ,maybe not. The chick wailin' is great. Just wonder if the girl at the Hall of Fame induction performance is same person as the original and is that the same girl as Pink Floyd ,Great Gig in the Sky" ? That is some Siren sweetly singing. I need the lyrics because I can't hear a thing Bryan is Saying other than the title. This is what you get to listen to after a long day in the Life. Just wonder what they're takin' ...
Whats the go with that!? Why did it take so long.. Art rock not exactly the RRHF's cup of tea??
How it took this long I'll never know, but yes congrats!
What took them so long?
One of the best Roxy Music song,so powerful.
Roxy Music had a lot of cool songs, but this one is hauntingly beautiful and stands the test of time. The long fade-out is superb... the lilting female vocal in the left channel and the sweet saxophone in the right channel almost in a duel and feeding off each other.
Nicely put
Bryan Ferry for me was the James Bond of music, he always had the best clothes and had all the beautiful women on his arm and just oozed charisma and sophistication. Roxy Music were the personaification of coolness and made some of the best music during the 70s and early 80s
Mr Ferry and Roxy aremy favorite all time band and your coment is spot on
Great comparison
Totally agree
Scene in 3:20 is epic. I want to touch myself
Yes, but more the Roger Moore Bond, not the Sean Connery or Daniel Craig's type.
1982. A great year for music. I dont think knew how much we'd appreciate how good this was in 2022.
Probably the *best* year for music, in *so* many genres - it was like a musical evolutionary explosion which even outdid the '60s and will never be beaten. (But never say never...😼)
@@scotmark God I hope you are right
Love this song. It's not just Ferry, Phil Manzanera's style is so subtle yet distinctive.
Now the party's over
I'm so tired
Then I see you coming
Out of nowhere
Much communication
In a motion
Without conversation
Or a notion
Avalon
When the samba takes you
Out of nowhere
And the background's fading
Out of focus
Yes, the picture's changing
Every moment
And your destination
You don't know it
Avalon
(Dancing, dancing)
(Dancing, dancing)
When you bossa nova
There's no holding
Would you have me dancing
Out of nowhere
Avalon
Avalon
Avalon
Avalon
Avalon
Avalon
Avalon
Avalon
Avalon
Avalon
Avalon
Avalon...................
Road tripped from Newport to Mexico in 83 with a buddy and our GFs, this was the only cassette in the car, the radio didn't work but the tape deck did. Listened to this entire album non stop, repeatedly, all the way there. Should have been sick of it. Not. While they all slept on the trip back I listened to it again, and again as I drove, and Avalon became not only in my top 5 songs ever but thee defining soundtrack to my memory of that trip. It's a place I think back to often.
I remember running, literally, to the record store the day that Avalon was released. I ran upstairs, pulled the paper sleeve out of the cover and while studying the front cover artwork I remember dropping the stylus onto the fresh clean vinyl and hearing "more than this" erupting in my bedroom... I can still remember sitting on the edge of my bed transfixed by the beauty, the perfection and the ambiance they had created... the perfectly produced and arranged audio honey coming from my wharfedales and when it got to track three, Avalon I was in heaven
There are only a handful of albums I can sit all the way through and then play again immediately front to back... This is one of them
A perfect album from beginning to end!!
TheComputec spot on
More Than This, Avalon, Is Your Love Strong Enough, are three of my favorites sung by Bryan Ferry
what a beautiful memory. thanks for sharing
Through the Wharfedales, it does not get better, thanks for sharing the memory. All love
Such a hypnotic and deep-heart song. Some songs defy description as to why they affect you so much, but this is one!
This song haunts me. My parents seperated in 1982 and although I dont remember the break up as such, I do remember the music being played in the house at that time, and this song was up there. Funny how music evokes things from long ago. Even though it was a bad time I still listen to this song with joy. Great track.
First time a heard this song I had an supernatural experience. Driving through the mountainous southern Swedish highlands I saw the morning fog flowing down the hills. The fairies danced over the meadows, like we say in Sweden. It felt like something out of this world. Since then I always get goosebumps when I hear this song.
I remember like it was yesterday hearing this song for the first time in 1982, the year I turned 16 and left High School. I loved this song then, I love it more now. The 80's.
Smooth and sexy. Brian Ferry doesn't need to be like anyone else, Brian Ferry is in a class of his own. The masters of crooners, today and forever. Brian Ferry, the man with depth and charm. ♥️ xxxxooo
I saw the last Roxy Music concert in the US the other night at the Forum in LA it marked the end of an era. Thank you Bryan for 50 years of incredible music and showmanship.
I just saw them in London, I totally agree, fantastic 👏
Seen them in Manchester last month, what a great show, something I will never forget....
How lucky are you.
I love roxy music. Their greatest hits cd is in my car at this moment.❤
Ferry painted canvases with his music. Sublime.
Timeless, catchy, seductive, what a masterpiece!
One of the best, he and Roxy class acts, glad I was there when it was new music.
The scene where Bryan Ferry and the bird both look at the camera....sublime 🥰
2022 and I still love this song, timeless, amazing, wonderfull!!!!
I just saw them the other night in Madison Square Garden. Packed house, they were amazing. And of course, this was in their set.
Absolutely
11/22 and still here
At least 40 of those views are from me THIS year alone. Today is 12/23/22
2023 !!!! :)
R.I.P. Yanick Etienne. This album is magnificent, with every tune a masterpiece.
Damn, the female singer in this song died?? Sorry to hear that!
RIP 🙏
Her vocals on the outro are the reason I fell in love with this song. I can't think of any other vocal performace so beautiful and moving.
This whole album is great.
There's a certain other worldliness to this that I like
Gorgeous song. Bryan's voice is at his peak in my opinion.
You're quite right. His voice peaked 40 years ago. Totally shot now.
Back then Brian Ferry was the coolest dude in town, and for me he always will be. He made it look effortless, the sign of a true master of his craft. Such a great band and, as others have noted, a timeless album. So fortunate to have been in my late teens/early twenties when Roxy Music were at their peak.
when i was 18 ,..back when this came out, i wasnt too impressed with ferry and his tuxes.. now, at 60 i see the wisdom of his style. there will never be another cool cat like THIS guy
Well Said mate, I think they're one of the best bands that's ever made records, let alone in the eighties.Real class.
There's also the fact that this guy could ANY woman he wanted---and no doubt he bedded quite a few! Basically the opposite of my love life (or lack thereof). *sigh*
Somehow my 77 year old brain keeps replaying this timeless masterpiece. But today was the first time I searched for it online. I had always thought the song celebrated dancing in the famous Avalon Ballroom on the island of Catalina in California! Now I know there is much more to the story. The song is so beautiful I only wish it could have been 4 times longer.
This song defines an entire musical genre. Chill wave, new wave, progressive, very hard to define it. Uniquely Bryan Ferry... an elegant genius.
This song takes me back instantly to my golden youth. Everything was easy and romantic and glittery. Those things are gone now, as the years are too, but this masterpiece song. Different times, different music…
This track is magical. It transports you.
Back in the 80s I tried to be as cool as Bryan Ferry. I figured if I got only a small way there I was going to be doing great.
Muito honrado, como brasileiro, de ver o samba e a bossa nova inspirando um pouquinho dessa música maravilhosa!
Very proud, as Brazilian, to see samba and bossa nova inspiring this wonderful song!
I've been a songwriter for over 20 years and Roxy Music was one of the groups that kept burrowing into my brain during sessions. You won't hear anything like this today and it's sad. The haunting melody of this song has stuck with me since the first time I heard it. I wish we were celebrating this today and modern musicians (at least the ones who get on the air) could go back and just do what works.
Good music (with a few exceptions) died in the early 1990's
@@alfie8472 Very true, few good songs did exist in late 90s as well but then good music did indeed die
Great soundtracks an they could play gr8 on the old grey whistle test too
What's really sad is your inability to accept change. Great music is made every day and if you don't like it then the problem is you. If you can't look at the column on the right and find great music then why are you here? As the Doobie Brothers sang, "Listen to the music.
@@mustafashaban: Bullshit. Your ability to appreciate it has gone away. Every year half the music sucks while the rest rocks on.
There is something hypnotic about this tune.
Very true, and sung by MR COOL, none better.
I don't think I'll ever rank as cool, but a few critics have called my music "hypnotic" as well. If you like singer-songwriters, check out my music on UA-cam. Thanks and take care.
Yep Gwyn, it calls on your guts for romance and a good f...ck. Boys and gals.
Sensuous and emotionally captivating. No one is making music of this calibre any more.
This song is a timeless masterpiece
Back in the early 1990's my parents gave me a walkman for my birthday. I woke up that morning and opened the present before anyone else was up. There was a tape in the Walkman: Roxy Music's greatest hits. I grew up listening to them. I can still remember the positive feeling this song gave me, listening to it as a little kid. I love this band and always will.
From someone who was born in the late 90s and had never heard this song until this year, this is one of the most beautiful songs ever.
アルバム全曲 素晴らしいですよ！
When I was studying at university, I danced with my girlfriend, whom I still remember fondly, with "Avalon" in the living room of my house. What good days they were. Good luck Roxy Music.
Avalon (probably derived from the Celtic word abal which means “apple”), is the legendary island mentioned in the legend of King Arthur and famous with apples.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones' painting named Arthur's Last Sleep (1898)
Avalon first appears in the so-called Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), written in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, as the place where King Arthur was taken to heal the wounds he received in his last battle at Camlann. According to geoffrey, Arthur's sword Ekskaliburn (Excalibur) was also produced in Avalon.
A time when the videos were as good as the music. The 80's were amazing, it's been downhill ever since.
This is magical and the perfect date night song. The Sax solo makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
This is priceless I'm 52yrs I love this song from when I was 10yrs old
A day has never gone by without me listening to this track since 2012 (through some video game). Don't blame me, I am just 24yrs old 🙈
I actually listen to the whole album, but this track is my favourite. And there's also Slave to Love, which I found out about while watching Kingsman The Secret Service.
I'm 62 , we had the best music EVER.
This song embodies why the 80s are the greatest era in music
Try putting this one on a loop ,on low volume and going to sleep with it playing softly in the background, and then tell me you didn’t get a restful sleep….ooooh ooooh ooh ooh …❤
More understated and subtle guitar playing from Phil Manzanera - one of the most underappreciated guitarists in rock/pop history.
I could not agree more!!!!
I'm a huge Led Zeppelin fan - don't care too much about the presentation, how cool Ferry looks, fashion etc, but - Roxy Music - the music is often superb, great musicianship, great writing, arranging, timing beautiful songs! Definitely one of the major influences in rock/pop music
Very Andy Summerish..another underappreciated talent!
Yes,indeed.
Definitely a brilliant guitarist. Knows what to play...and what not to. His work with David Gilmour is excellent.
The song of a semi-paranoid man in love at first sight with an effortlessly beautiful woman. The zoom in close ups of the band adding to his worry that she might be too good to be true, and we as the listeners will never know if she was.
This song is an 80s gem classic 👍
As Brits it would at least have been legal... Though Sophie Ward is 17 here and Bryan is 38!
Sexting between them (if it had been possible in 1982) would have got Bryan in jail, though...
It's a mad world. 🙀
...... ВСЕ МУЖЧИНЫ ВЛЮБЛЯЮТСЯ ,
ПО - НАСТОЯЩЕМУ !
ИМЕННО С ПЕРВОГО ВЗГЛЯДА .....
ЭТО СОВЕРШЕННО ИНТУИНТИВНОЕ ОЧАРОВАНИЕ
---- МОЖЕТ ПАМЯТЬ С ПАРАЛЛЕЛЬНОГО МИРА ......
НО ! А СО ВТОРОГО ВЗГЛЯДА МОГУТ И РАЗЛЮБИТЬ.....))))
I named my cat Roxy because of this song.
She was born during the Spring on 2020 and this song meant a lot to me then.
It took me somewhere above and beyond the terror I felt in the Springtime.
She’s still with us but back in September she was know where to be found for a good two days. We found her curled up in a ball and instantly noticed she couldn’t walk anymore.
We were very scared but after an X-Ray we discovered that a tiny part (bone) on her left side of inner hip hadn’t developed properly.
We were relived to know she wasn’t going to die and soon enough she was able to walk again.
I named my bird Avalon
This has got too be one of best songs ever written. I’ve been a fan of Roxy Music since the mid-1970’s and, I’m still listening to this one every other day. 👏
This song just gets better everytime I hear it. Nearly 40 years.
DO you know the name of it?
@@novaforge5832 Avalon
@@novaforge5832 Its in the title of the video...lmao
@@geovanesilva7077 Not sure why i asked that, sorry.