When this song came out I was driving down the Kings Road in Chelsea, London with this playing, window down. Not kidding now, opposite me as I stopped in traffic was Bryan Ferry (in a red Alfa Romeo 6, the car I really wanted at the time), with his window down, shades on and cig hanging from the side of his mouth. He smiled and gave us a thumbs up. Too cool for real life.
Bryan Ferry is the Godfather of new romantic music, serial influences of Duran Duran, Blondie, Spandu Ballet, Visage enabled them all to be part of the 80's music revolution and be part of the same old scene, in Roxy Music we were blessed.
This is an especially clear indicator of how much influence they had on bands like Duran Duran and the whole new romantic scene. Roxy Music is a heavyweight champion amongst the many.
They influenced: punk (first Ultravox, Buzzcocks...), new wave (Japan, ABC, Psychedelic Furs, etc...) and ALL the 80s (Duran, Spandau, Icehouse and... the sax in EVERY songs of that decade!). Immense group!
@@ashleysmith4681 You don't need to have been there - music - good music is timeless. A time machine of sorts : ) Just keep exploring & enjoying & sharing. Take care, friend.
I'm an American and had never heard of Roxy Music before, then I heard this as the opening theme song to the movie "Times Square." It just knocked me out and I thought....I've gotta find out who these guys are! Still loving this song, and Roxy Music, 40+ years later.
I came here to see if anyone else discovered this song through that movie. I watched it on video with a player we hired from the store. Omg, the excitement! I still love that movie. And this song.
@@blackwingvalleylover Great to see Gary Tibbs miming to Alan Spenner's bass part. Gary Tibbs was a fantastic live player for Roxy in 1979-1981. Listen to him on "Manchester Manifesto" from 1979 and be amazed. He was only 21. Alan Spenner and Gary Tibbs two of my favourite players.
@@johnwoods2736 Thanks yes-just listened to it-Tibbs is great too. I'm a big Alan Spenner fan in all the Roxy tracks and it's such a shame he passed away so young. So glad I grew up in an era of such amazing musicianship!
I can barely describe what this song is to me, it’s goosebumps, it’s melancholy…it’s just… 1980 was an incredible year for music and songs like this is why!
Synths, saxophone and of course the dulcet tones of Brian Ferry makes this the early Eighties encapsulated in one song for me. Brilliant song by one of my favourite performers.
Phil Lynott was and is still is a Legend, I wonder could He have melded into Roxys Avant Garde sound! He worked Wonders with other Artists like Moore and Knopfler! 🤔
Headphones on...full blast volume, awesome intro; just listen to that bass...then along comes Mr Andy Mackay on the sax... One of my favourites, never get tired of listening to it....pure genius!!!
+Paul Mcdonough Hi...It's off the album 'Flesh & Blood', in my humble opinion one of their best along with the album 'Avalon'.. check them out...Bryan is touring this year. I'm off to see him at Burghley House, open air concert June 11th. Could be his last big tour as he's 71 this Sept! but my goodness he's still got it!! and does a great gig!! Have followed Roxy & Bryan from the beginning.. yea and I'm only ** now! Ha ha...Peace & Love x
Was listening to Absolute 80s this afternoon, about to go out and get some beers in for this evening. And the DJ (Richie Firth maybe?) said "Coming up in the next quarter of an hour we have.......blah blah blah, Roxy Music's Same Old Scene, blah blah blah......." The beers had to wait....
I always thought that Mark Hollis (RIP) of Talk Talk styled himself on Bryan Ferry. The way he squinted his eyes singing, close up to the mic. Wonderful times, I saw Roxy Music at Wembley Arena and climbed over all the seats to get the roady to pass me Bryan's towel. I slept with it that night 👏🙏
It most probably is Roxy's finest hour - sheer musical perfection only surpassed possibly by More Than This. The way Ferry just fucks off at the end cooly sucking a cigarette...that's class you just can't teach.
+Steve Chase This is one of a number of songs that stopped me in my tracks when I first heard it. Another was Joe Jackson Steppin Out. Another was NRBQ A little bit of bad. [how's that for eclectic?]
+wanda vel Timeless classics always have that ability, don't they. Still has that effect on me well over 30 years later. And, Joe Jackson Stepping Out: Now that's what I call an introduction...
Steve Chase re: the introduction....that's for damn sure. re: Ferry...I finally saw him do it live about 6-7 yrs ago here in Boston. He "sounded like the record". Amazing.
+wanda vel Never did get to see Bryan live....but I did have the honour of having to give up a table at a pub in rural England back in 2008 to accommodate the god that is Mr Ferry. I then proceeded to do my best impression of cool and nodded in subtle acknowledgement as I breezed past him with his x2 young female companions. I think they were impressed.
I spent 8 years trying to find the name of this song (pre-internet days), finally heard it in work on the factory radio and asked a friend what the title was. Bought the cassette the next day and played it nearly every day on my Walkman. Those were the days!
Brian Ferry, David Bowie, Sting , Peter Gabriel the list goes on these guys are legends they cannot be emulated these days , music isn't gonna get as good as this
My sister is a huge Roxy Music fan and she had this on 7 inch and I would sneak into her bedroom to play it...that was when I was six years old..and 48 years old I still absolutely love it.It's one of their finest songs.
When everything with the band is just style, outfits, songwriting, vocals and instrumentation... There surely was a band playing on my radio back in the day... and I said 'Oh Yeah'...
This brings back '80s memories ... dancing in NYC's clubs all night long, and going home as the sky was getting light. The best of times, for those of us in the right place at the right time.
Hardly. The beginning of the song is very derivative of "Heart of Glass" which was two years older. We'd had "I Feel Love" in 1977 which set the pace. 1980 was the era of synth. Gary Numan. Human League, to name just a few. "Same Old Scene" is of its time, not ahead of it.
Ironic that I had to withstand a 12 second ad for Niki minaj to listen to the greatest avante garde rock voice of the 70s and 80s. Oh Bryan, I wish it was still the same old music scene
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@@malandro2023 No, she is just absolutely REPULSIVE, so there's a difference between not liking a nasty human being versus the style of music through the decades.
When music was fun and danceable: urbane; sexy; multi-textured, with a hypnotic pulse. A fantastic, ground-breaking album from the thickening mists of time
@@DaveAndBeth1978 @No One Driving ...because your use of stereotypical "black Americanisms" ...enable you, to come across as an absolute cretin. What does "killer" actually mean? Used out of context, it means absolutely nothing.
@@markemsworth4235 - the irony, a cretin who spouts as much meaningless nonsense as you do, calling me a cretin and my words meaningless... Who do you want to be today, Mark - the pot or the kettle?
Played this song every day for years. Music doesn't get any better than Roxy Music. Did most of my courting of the ladies back in the day to Bryan and Roxy's Albums. Always found as soon as I played Roxy in my car with a romantic view from the window in a secluded spot, it was the automatic underwear release button for those beautiful femme fatales of my youth. Thank you so much Roxy Music, you made a difference in so many young couples lives and nowadays, older couples too. 'Young Loving Baby, So Extreme'. We can't discover the 'Same Old Scene' but the memories, well they're very intact and current. I felt like James Bond and Bryan Ferry rolled into one back in the late 70's to early 80's in my Italian Lancia Flavia, beautiful car, beautiful lady on my arm, beautiful music, young love and things were never better. Wouldn't change a thing.
As a teenager I had a roxy music album and always skipped past this song. Then one day on a long car journey it played on the radio and I listened the whole way through. Blew me away! Can’t believe ever I skipped past it
Ashes to Ashes reminded me of this track......memories of family holidays in the car with dad's music. Roxy Music, 10cc, Dire Straits, Phil Collins... This song's always stuck as being a favourite. 35 years on, nothings changed.
Incredible to think that this song was released almost 42 years ago, I was 14 ffs!…I still return to this periodically just to remind me how great the 80’s were from a musical perspective, my favourite Roxy Music song without a doubt…Outstanding!
'Flesh + Blood' and 'Avalo'n will will stand out even for decades to come... Evereting is so stylish and perfect that you just can't think of anything to be changed... I can't say that about many of the other music...
Music is my biggest passion. My biggest love. My own religion. After my own health music is 2nd on my long time priority list. And songs like this as well as bands like this one strengthen my love to music. I love such atmospheric tunes like this one. My love to music will be unbroken for all time. It will even survive my own death. Music is timeless. Especially tunes like "Same old scene".
Alan Spenner's bass was simply sublime and he was the engine room in this exciting song. When he died at the young age of 43, he left a void in the world of music, not to mention intricate memorable bass licks. I tried for years to mimic this bass line but it's just too good, and should be left alone. Fab.
Bass player was Gary Tibbs here. Spenner was good but he joined when Tibbs left to join Adam & the Ants in 1981. Bad move for Tibbs in my opinion as Adam & the Ants became a dated fad very quickly.
Loved his music since I was 14... and now I'm 60 and not tired of listen all these masterpieces Roxy Music gave to us.. Happy Birthday Mr Brian Ferry!!
Roxy Music, the only band I would listen to who sang "relationship songs." There is just something about their presentation that (in my opinion) rises above sleaze and even above innuendo and makes seeking, desiring, and even losing seem so sweet. I don't know if they'll be one of the bands I pass on to my children (my daughter loves most of my other 70s/80s innovator bands), but they will always feel timeless to me.
I remember the first time I heard this song it was on a soundtrack to a film starring Trini Alvarado and some punk rock chick I was like 13 and I have loved Roxy Music ever since.
Hi there, yes that film was "Times Square" which I was too young to watch when it came out - but as a teenager I got the soundtrack on vinyl. Still have it, some great music on there:)
i can't believe that! many times when i listen that song i imagine a girl walking on the street, and said to myself that this song's perfect for an opening song of a movie. and it's in the movie!
I love the piano and synths in the chorus. And the lyrics are some of Ferry’s finest. And how one can sound so skeptical yet so sexy is a mystery Ferry will ever only know the answer to..
Yes, that's also how I got to know the song. I already knew and liked some other songs from Roxy Music, like Avalon, Dance Away etc. But before watching this series, I had never heard this one. When it started to play, I immediately recognized it as a Roxy Music song and couldn't believe how great it was. I was hooked immediately!
Back when you could smoke on TV I remember in 1980 when i first heard this song. and it still sounds great. Brian Ferry with his cig is too cool. So is the rest of the band!
How Avalon is favored over this is beyond me. This is the kind of song I want to last forever! I was 10 when it came out and it was in the movie "Times Square". Very first song I downloaded on Napster
What a absolutely fantastic song my dad used to listen to roxy music all the time when I used to go in his truck with him 30 years later I'm listening to this song and it fookin rocks especially when Bryan gets up from the keyboard and sods off with his cigarette what a absolute legend
Remember sitting on the beach in Corfu in 86 and they had just released a greatest hits album. Someone was playing it on their ghetto blaster and this track came on. It seemed to fit in with all that was going on, paragliding, water skiing etc. One of those moments you just nod your head and appreciate life.
This guy, his hair,the clothes he wore (and how he wore them).Along with the look he created.Last but not least the songs he wrote.Made this man a sheer personification of style.Many have copied.Many have failed !
When this song came out I was driving down the Kings Road in Chelsea, London with this playing, window down. Not kidding now, opposite me as I stopped in traffic was Bryan Ferry (in a red Alfa Romeo 6, the car I really wanted at the time), with his window down, shades on and cig hanging from the side of his mouth. He smiled and gave us a thumbs up. Too cool for real life.
That is the best story I've heard since Covid-19 started! Love it. So cool. Cheers mate, you cheered me up
@@oldmanc2 Glad to hear that Manc. Only wish we had cell phones back in the day to have taken a pic LOL.
Oh yeah...too cool...
Thanks for sharing a wonderful memory
lucky bugger
Bryan Ferry is the Godfather of new romantic music, serial influences of Duran Duran, Blondie, Spandu Ballet, Visage enabled them all to be part of the 80's music revolution and be part of the same old scene, in Roxy Music we were blessed.
Please do not forget JAPAN...specialy this song...
Don't forget Bowie. People seem to forget that Ashes To Ashes with Steve Strange in the video is a starting point for the New Romantic.
Brian was going early 70s and the 80s
Great authors, today are all bad
The 70s Big epoch
This man really was the soundtrack of the 80's.Every song was timeless.
UTTER QUALITY AND STYLE. NO OTHERS GOT CLOSE.
And the second half of the decade before too......
Damn right !
Not 'a man' it's a band
This song really captures a certain mood. Roxy Music were always three steps ahead, exuding glamor and class.
This is an especially clear indicator of how much influence they had on bands like Duran Duran and the whole new romantic scene. Roxy Music is a heavyweight champion amongst the many.
So true. This is a masterclass 😊
They influenced: punk (first Ultravox, Buzzcocks...), new wave (Japan, ABC, Psychedelic Furs, etc...) and ALL the 80s (Duran, Spandau, Icehouse and... the sax in EVERY songs of that decade!). Immense group!
Just imagine if Nile Rogers had got his teeth into Roxy Music!!
This is the entire Duran Duran catalog in a single song, and way better.
Superheavyweight brother.
One of the best songs ever. Absolute masterpiece from an unforgettable time
one of the best things about 50 years old,is the fact that i lived my teenage years in the 80's that is priceless and i am grateful !!!
Me 2, no other decade as opulent and exciting
Tooche arsenic lupin. Those were the years.
I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could.
Yes... I'll never forget it was the best!
@@ashleysmith4681 You don't need to have been there - music - good music is timeless. A time machine of sorts : ) Just keep exploring & enjoying & sharing. Take care, friend.
I'm an American and had never heard of Roxy Music before, then I heard this as the opening theme song to the movie "Times Square." It just knocked me out and I thought....I've gotta find out who these guys are! Still loving this song, and Roxy Music, 40+ years later.
It's never too late to discover great things.. Best wishes from Germany
That is a blast from the past. As a teenager, I watched that movie in the cinema.
I came here to see if anyone else discovered this song through that movie.
I watched it on video with a player we hired from the store.
Omg, the excitement!
I still love that movie.
And this song.
Love how at the end Bryan takes a drag on his cigarette and just saunters off as the rest of the band are still in full swing. Way beyond cool.
In a league of his own.
Smoking isn't cool kids.
I love that part also..gets me all the time
Like in a Film Noir 👍👍
@@sratus you’re absolutely right - except when Ferry does it. 😂
Best Roxy Music track ever.
Too many,you know that my friend.
One of Roxy Music's best songs. Full banger!
One of Roxy Music's best songs. Flawless production, great bass and hugely influential.
Agreed. It’s brilliant and classic
It's practically supernatural, this translation of music to tangible emotion and vice versa.
Can see why John Taylor of Duran Duran gravitated to bass guitar after hearing them
Why this only got to Number 12 I’ll never know
Thank you Roxy Music for inspiring
Duran Duran catapaulting them into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Just graduated school and in my first adult job in Germany. Just bought a new stereo system and this was one of my first albums. So awesome!
The bass line ......This is one of the best Pop records ever made
By the COOLEST man EVER.
The bass drives this, 100%. Lovely nuances
Alan Spenner 💜💜
It's stunningly good
@@chrissolbe5752 Yes it's a shame he's no longer with us. He passed away in 1991 of a heart attack. Very gifted guy.
@@blackwingvalleylover Great to see Gary Tibbs miming to Alan Spenner's bass part. Gary Tibbs was a fantastic live player for Roxy in 1979-1981. Listen to him on "Manchester Manifesto" from 1979 and be amazed. He was only 21. Alan Spenner and Gary Tibbs two of my favourite players.
@@johnwoods2736 Thanks yes-just listened to it-Tibbs is great too. I'm a big Alan Spenner fan in all the Roxy tracks and it's such a shame he passed away so young. So glad I grew up in an era of such amazing musicianship!
An absolute masterpiece, it shall never grow old.
GREAT DAYS GREAT MUSIC GREAT BANDS, I WANT TO GO BACK, NOW.
@@andymatthews7617 Take me with you please.
@@rw8733 no problem, will let u know when time machine is finished.😆
It's the same for me
@@andymatthews7617 I would go back to the nederlands
This song still give me goosebumps the same as when I first heard it in the 80s
WHAT A BAND❤
Same here…sublime
same !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me too….👍
EVOCATIVE OF THE ERA! 🪩 🎶
I can barely describe what this song is to me, it’s goosebumps, it’s melancholy…it’s just…
1980 was an incredible year for music and songs like this is why!
You're absolutely right!
@@wombat2775 not really
1980 was pops greatest year and this is the best pop single ever
you are so right
Without a doubt
Synths, saxophone and of course the dulcet tones of Brian Ferry makes this the early Eighties encapsulated in one song for me. Brilliant song by one of my favourite performers.
Wow! The bassist has a Phil Lynott styled P-Bass Fender. Hats off! Fantastic bassline. Brilliant song!
Gary Tibbs but its not him playing on the track.
Phil Lynott was and is still is a Legend, I wonder could He have melded into Roxys Avant Garde sound! He worked Wonders with other Artists like Moore and Knopfler! 🤔
I remember seeing Bryan Ferry on TV as a child and thinking he was the suavest, handsomest, movie star-looks gentleman, ever! ❤
Still is.
Sums it up for me. And my mum.
Timeless classic, the bouncing reverb lead over the bass it’s a masterpiece
Still maturing better with age
Awesome bass line.
Utterly flawless. The definition of cool.
And that's just Brian Ferry.
perfectly said !
Reminiscent of the quality years of music... the bass, the ambience, the vocals... timeless. Never old.
It was a great time to be alive.
What? You don't like the mumbling noise that is music today?
"Nothing last forever ..." Brian Ferry`s & Roxy Music`s music will last forever.
Headphones on...full blast volume, awesome intro; just listen to that bass...then along comes Mr Andy Mackay on the sax... One of my favourites, never get tired of listening to it....pure genius!!!
+Carol-Anne Jackson I agree that`s how i listen to it
+Paul Mcdonough Hi...It's off the album 'Flesh & Blood', in my humble opinion one of their best along with the album 'Avalon'.. check them out...Bryan is touring this year. I'm off to see him at Burghley House, open air concert June 11th. Could be his last big tour as he's 71 this Sept! but my goodness he's still got it!! and does a great gig!! Have followed Roxy & Bryan from the beginning.. yea and I'm only ** now! Ha ha...Peace & Love x
Carol-Anne Jackson you are my type!
Carol Anne Jackson ROCKS.
i completely agree . It's great with the volume turned up
There were a lot of brilliant records back then that one can use today to evoke 1980.
This one IS 1980, in every glorious way possible.
Yes - spot on! Another is OMD 'Enola Gay'.
Was listening to Absolute 80s this afternoon, about to go out and get some beers in for this evening. And the DJ (Richie Firth maybe?) said "Coming up in the next quarter of an hour we have.......blah blah blah, Roxy Music's Same Old Scene, blah blah blah......."
The beers had to wait....
My favourite Roxy Music single. Dark, elegant and beautiful.
Brian Ferry: The 007 of pop music.
?
Yawn
This song gives me chills and memories. He is a master. So happy he and Roxy Music are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
About time!!
Just read your message Margaret Hall of fameong overdue a unique voice and a fantastic band
And Rush too
So cool, so 80’s.
Too right
The bass is unbelievable...
I believe it was Alan Spenner.
@@ibbjos08 Yes it was R.I.P.
What agreat bass player he was,just listened to delta lady,great bass on that track
@@ibbjos08 i believed John Wetton at first, but after a Look on the Album... Alan Spenner
Out of devilment Im gonna mention Gary Tibbs 😏🐜
I always thought that Mark Hollis (RIP) of Talk Talk styled himself on Bryan Ferry. The way he squinted his eyes singing, close up to the mic. Wonderful times, I saw Roxy Music at Wembley Arena and climbed over all the seats to get the roady to pass me Bryan's towel. I slept with it that night 👏🙏
It most probably is Roxy's finest hour - sheer musical perfection only surpassed possibly by More Than This. The way Ferry just fucks off at the end cooly sucking a cigarette...that's class you just can't teach.
+Steve Chase This is one of a number of songs that stopped me in my tracks when I first heard it. Another was Joe Jackson Steppin Out. Another was NRBQ A little bit of bad. [how's that for eclectic?]
+wanda vel Timeless classics always have that ability, don't they. Still has that effect on me well over 30 years later. And, Joe Jackson Stepping Out: Now that's what I call an introduction...
Steve Chase re: the introduction....that's for damn sure. re: Ferry...I finally saw him do it live about 6-7 yrs ago here in Boston. He "sounded like the record". Amazing.
+wanda vel Never did get to see Bryan live....but I did have the honour of having to give up a table at a pub in rural England back in 2008 to accommodate the god that is Mr Ferry. I then proceeded to do my best impression of cool and nodded in subtle acknowledgement as I breezed past him with his x2 young female companions. I think they were impressed.
Steve Chase I really like you.
this is not only music, this is artwork.... still great in 2024
I spent 8 years trying to find the name of this song (pre-internet days), finally heard it in work on the factory radio and asked a friend what the title was. Bought the cassette the next day and played it nearly every day on my Walkman. Those were the days!
FANTASTIC MEMORIES, WISH I COULD GO BACK.
After watching Ashes To Ashes, I have seriously fallen in love with this song and many other 80s songs!
Errm? Sorry to curb your enthusiasm but this was a late 60s song!
Err this came out in 1980 Zig Zag!
@@SFCakeCo Lol! Yea I know, I don't know why I typed my earlier post, I can't remember doing it, must have had a few sherbets too many!
@@CountvonCount33 Haha! Yeah been there :D
Just tracked it down myself after hearing it a few times on the repeat of Ashes to Ashes. Great series with the best soundtrack!
Brian Ferry, David Bowie, Sting , Peter Gabriel the list goes on these guys are legends they cannot be emulated these days , music isn't gonna get as good as this
That's a good pantheon of British front men right there . . .
Frazer Rice ..u mean pure British man..
And Ian Anderson, Richard Thompson, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp. Pure class.
music changes.... time to move on ... these classics will survive though
Brian Ferry, David Bowie, Sting and Peter Gabriel??? hahaha - oh man
1980 .
Just wow
Ashes to Ashes. Bowie
Games without frontiers.Peter Gabriel.
And this masterpiece.
How lucky were we ?
Steve Bell. 1980 wasn’t all that great as John Lennon was murdered on 8 December.
Saw Roxy Music last night at the LA Forum…had to hold back tears…their set was slower but they were all so perfect…Roxy Music…timeless
My sister is a huge Roxy Music fan and she had this on 7 inch and I would sneak into her bedroom to play it...that was when I was six years old..and 48 years old I still absolutely love it.It's one of their finest songs.
And mine
Mine too.x
When everything with the band is just style, outfits, songwriting, vocals and instrumentation... There surely was a band playing on my radio back in the day... and I said 'Oh Yeah'...
If only popular music today sounded half this great.
ua-cam.com/users/shortsv1UbmIl2i2g?si=0AXwcom9BYkA5gEt. well this one took a long listen to RM firstly 😊
This brings back '80s memories ... dancing in NYC's clubs all night long, and going home as the sky was getting light. The best of times, for those of us in the right place at the right time.
I WANT TO GO BACK, NOW.
The same here in Milan
And the same here in Rimini.
1980? That's ridiculously ahead of its time
Hardly. The beginning of the song is very derivative of "Heart of Glass" which was two years older. We'd had "I Feel Love" in 1977 which set the pace. 1980 was the era of synth. Gary Numan. Human League, to name just a few. "Same Old Scene" is of its time, not ahead of it.
Possibly one of the greatest songs ever. I can't stop listening to it. ❤❤
Kym O'Driscoll they were a great band kym
Try the Glimmers Remix
Agree...brilliant👍
Amazingly effervescent, light and airy.
La canzone più bella del mondo. La canzone che mi ha fatto innamorare.
Ironic that I had to withstand a 12 second ad for Niki minaj to listen to the greatest avante garde rock voice of the 70s and 80s. Oh Bryan, I wish it was still the same old music scene
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Pay for ad free then. Moaning people. You can't have everything for free or without a bit of inconvenience
Use the app called "adblocker" and ol' Niki will disappear forever. :-)
You don't like her the same way your parents and grandparents wouln't like Roxy Music, fine. Stop moaning and enjoy what you like.
@@malandro2023 No, she is just absolutely REPULSIVE, so there's a difference between not liking a nasty human being versus the style of music through the decades.
Remember this being played at Anfield with my cousins pre match. Loved it ever since.
Love it.Llisening for decades. Still here.2024.
Me too
If you still here in 2024...not long until death. RIP
Same here governor
Andy Newmark - such an inspiring drummer. And that bass player - amazing
That looks more like Allan Swartzberg to me not Andy Newmark ....
Living in California in the 80s introduced to this music. And never forgot the roxy music feeling in my heart.
The quintessential sound of sophistication, sexiness and electric cool...so so cool!!
When music was fun and danceable: urbane; sexy; multi-textured, with a hypnotic pulse. A fantastic, ground-breaking album from the thickening mists of time
Had this tape in 89! I loved it. What a great blast from the past!
The bassline on this song is KILLER!!!
I agree my dear, It'd be in a DD song in a perfect way :)
...."killer"....."awesome"....you sound American.
@@markemsworth4235 - and........?
@@DaveAndBeth1978 @No One Driving ...because your use of stereotypical "black Americanisms" ...enable you, to come across as an absolute cretin.
What does "killer" actually mean? Used out of context, it means absolutely nothing.
@@markemsworth4235 - the irony, a cretin who spouts as much meaningless nonsense as you do, calling me a cretin and my words meaningless... Who do you want to be today, Mark - the pot or the kettle?
This Tune Still Haunts me 40yrs Later the Ultimate Roxy tune!!
Agree 100%.It is absolutely timeless and always great to listen to.Energising and sophisticated whilst having meaningful lyrics.
Fantastic 😊
More than this was a belter too.
Played this song every day for years. Music doesn't get any better than Roxy Music. Did most of my courting of the ladies back in the day to Bryan and Roxy's Albums.
Always found as soon as I played Roxy in my car with a romantic view from the window in a secluded spot, it was the automatic underwear release button for those beautiful femme fatales of my youth. Thank you so much Roxy Music, you made a difference in so many young couples lives and nowadays, older couples too. 'Young Loving Baby, So Extreme'. We can't discover the 'Same Old Scene' but the memories, well they're very intact and current.
I felt like James Bond and Bryan Ferry rolled into one back in the late 70's to early 80's in my Italian Lancia Flavia, beautiful car, beautiful lady on my arm, beautiful music, young love and things were never better. Wouldn't change a thing.
I WANT TO GO BACK AND STAY THERE..
Lucky you governor
@@paperchain1239 I am sure you have had plenty of romantic moments in your life too my friend. Have a great weekend.
As a teenager I had a roxy music album and always skipped past this song. Then one day on a long car journey it played on the radio and I listened the whole way through. Blew me away! Can’t believe ever I skipped past it
It was so different to everything else on the album that it just jarred. Now it is a stand alone classic.
One of Roxy's greatest songs from one of their best albums
A perfect symphony ... created by top level musicians! And with Bryan Ferry's magical touch of class.
What a bassline!
Provided by Gary Tibbs who would later join Adam And The Ants.
Oh absolutely
... Gary Tibbs indeed, excellent knowledge. What a group.
David Leystar really, well well well I didn’t know that
Alan Spenner. Gary Tibbs was just more photogenic for video purposes.
like wine. gets better with the years
whisky
And wine
The keyboards...and bass..perfect!
well said !
Ashes to Ashes reminded me of this track......memories of family holidays in the car with dad's music.
Roxy Music, 10cc, Dire Straits, Phil Collins...
This song's always stuck as being a favourite. 35 years on, nothings changed.
Absolute classic song. I first heard it in my late teens. It gave me goosebumps then and it still does now.
This song has got the lot. Bass. Drums. Sax. Keyboards. Fantastic. that Bass takes some beating.Alan Spenner R.I.P.
so fucking true !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I swear to god i could listen to this song on a constant loop!! How the hell do you write a song that does that? :-)
I do. love it.
The melody kills me. Been listening to it since it first came out when I was a kid-the song never ever ages. Sublime.
The bit at the end where he picks up his drink and his ciggy and leaves the band still playing. My work here is done - super cool ❤️
BRIAN IS MR COOL, NOBODY EVEN CLOSE.
The production on this track is off the scale. Brilliant.
Even 40 years after, I still adore it ! And many other tunes of Roxy of course !
Working all week, the weekend comes, getting dressed up, walking into a disco with this playing, Memories 🥰🏴
Linda Winchcole great days Linda 😉
Great days Linda I did the same in Birmingham days very very sadly missed 😢😢😢
Incredible to think that this song was released almost 42 years ago, I was 14 ffs!…I still return to this periodically just to remind me how great the 80’s were from a musical perspective, my favourite Roxy Music song without a doubt…Outstanding!
The repeating verses towards the end is pure bliss..very sublime.. haunting.
The musical imprint this has in my memory is amazing... I love it
'Flesh + Blood' and 'Avalo'n will will stand out even for decades to come... Evereting is so stylish and perfect that you just can't think of anything to be changed... I can't say that about many of the other music...
Just wonderful. Sounds as good today as it did 40 years ago.
so true , love from Switzerland
agree - no higher praise than that I think....
Best musicians ever. One of the best groups ever.
this song was on the sound track to times square
Love this track so much love the intro genius gud memories
Love this track so much 1980 awsome intro cud listen to it all nite gud memories yeah
I'm still listenning... I'm 49 and it remindd me my dad and my teenage time ... love stories ... 70s 80s are the best
Music is my biggest passion. My biggest love. My own religion. After my own health music is 2nd on my long time priority list. And songs like this as well as bands like this one strengthen my love to music. I love such atmospheric tunes like this one. My love to music will be unbroken for all time. It will even survive my own death. Music is timeless. Especially tunes like "Same old scene".
Alan Spenner's bass was simply sublime and he was the engine room in this exciting song. When he died at the young age of 43, he left a void in the world of music, not to mention intricate memorable bass licks. I tried for years to mimic this bass line but it's just too good, and should be left alone. Fab.
Bass player was Gary Tibbs here. Spenner was good but he joined when Tibbs left to join Adam & the Ants in 1981. Bad move for Tibbs in my opinion as Adam & the Ants became a dated fad very quickly.
@juanpablojones it's Alan Spenner playing on the recording. That's what you're listening to when you watch this video.
Loved his music since I was 14... and now I'm 60 and not tired of listen all these masterpieces Roxy Music gave to us.. Happy Birthday Mr Brian Ferry!!
I'm 64, I totally agree, Roxy were a brilliant band, GREAT MEMORIES.
One of the U.K.'s best ever bands I think.Timeless
One of those tunes that somehow manages to capture a specific times vibration embedded between the drums, words & the rest. Greatness.
I'm a millennial, and a song/band of this quality hasn't been seen in my lifetime.
What is a millennial ?
@@MerseysiderfulI think it's the generation born in the 80, and early nineties.
I was around in the best musical years ever, feel very privileged.
If you’re a millennial that was born in the 80s, then they were around then...
Roxy Music, the only band I would listen to who sang "relationship songs." There is just something about their presentation that (in my opinion) rises above sleaze and even above innuendo and makes seeking, desiring, and even losing seem so sweet. I don't know if they'll be one of the bands I pass on to my children (my daughter loves most of my other 70s/80s innovator bands), but they will always feel timeless to me.
DO PASS IT ON. THEY'LL THANK YOU FOR IT! STILL SUCH FRESH, FINLEY CRAFTED SOUNDS. X
Bryan Ferry. "The gentleman of music.." there is no one as him nowday
Me.
And sooo very gorgeous too
Love the man's music but can't accept his stance on the badger cull. Shame on you.
he's still alive
I agree mama he was in a league of his own
Timeless classic.
I remember the first time I heard this song it was on a soundtrack to a film starring Trini Alvarado and some punk rock chick I was like 13 and I have loved Roxy Music ever since.
Hi there, yes that film was "Times Square" which I was too young to watch when it came out - but as a teenager I got the soundtrack on vinyl. Still have it, some great music on there:)
i can't believe that! many times when i listen that song i imagine a girl walking on the street, and said to myself that this song's perfect for an opening song of a movie. and it's in the movie!
The film was Times Square. Yes it had a great soundtrack. Most people never saw the film...good call!
David Macdonald Thanks for the info! I am going to look for the film.
richard herbst Yes, thanks! That was many moons ago and yeah, the soundtrack is great, I think it had Lou Reed on there, I am going to look for it..
This is absolutely high pop art. Among their top 5.. no doubt.
So many great songs from Roxy Music, but this one keeps me coming back.
I love the piano and synths in the chorus. And the lyrics are some of Ferry’s finest. And how one can sound so skeptical yet so sexy is a mystery Ferry will ever only know the answer to..
Just a brilliant track bought back to me by watching Ashes To Ashes. This has it all, including some haunting synthesizers!
Yes, that's also how I got to know the song. I already knew and liked some other songs from Roxy Music, like Avalon, Dance Away etc. But before watching this series, I had never heard this one. When it started to play, I immediately recognized it as a Roxy Music song and couldn't believe how great it was. I was hooked immediately!
Back when you could smoke on TV I remember in 1980 when i first heard this song. and it still sounds great. Brian Ferry with his cig is too cool. So is the rest of the band!
How Avalon is favored over this is beyond me. This is the kind of song I want to last forever!
I was 10 when it came out and it was in the movie "Times Square". Very first song I downloaded on Napster
What a absolutely fantastic song my dad used to listen to roxy music all the time when I used to go in his truck with him 30 years later I'm listening to this song and it fookin rocks especially when Bryan gets up from the keyboard and sods off with his cigarette what a absolute legend
Yes!
Cool as ice.
One of the great pop tracks ever!!! fantastic production, great arangement, wonderful voice
Doesn't get any better.
Remember sitting on the beach in Corfu in 86 and they had just released a greatest hits album. Someone was playing it on their ghetto blaster and this track came on. It seemed to fit in with all that was going on, paragliding, water skiing etc. One of those moments you just nod your head and appreciate life.
One of my all time favourite bass riffs - effortlessly slinky and cool - stylish, sad song...
This guy, his hair,the clothes he wore (and how he wore them).Along with the look he created.Last but not least the songs he wrote.Made this man a sheer personification of style.Many have copied.Many have failed !
I agree
I second that.
He basically invented cool. Often imitated never bettered
Timeless classic! Beautiful song, production and clip that captures well the cool creative mood of Bryan Ferry and the whole band in 1980.
Thank you for the gift of living at this time to experience the 80s music scene.