Bryan Ferry- Boys and Girls FULL ALBUM REACTION & REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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Few albums can scratch that 80's smooth pop itch like this one does. It's the natural follow-up to Roxy's 'Avalon' -- very similar albums.
Sharing this to my mom - this is one of her favourite albums.
Nice! I hope she enjoys!!
I think Mark Hollis is influenced by Bryan Ferry's vocals. Roxy Music's "Avalon" which is kindred to Ferry's "Boys and Girls" was released in 1982.
I personally can barely hear it, but he certainly had no interest in Ferry's music.
"Boys and Girls" and "Bete Noire" are two albums of one kind, one more superb than the other. But then, there is hardly a Bryan Ferry Album that is not perfect up to the brim. I literally love all of his albums, the old ones and the new ones. However there is one notably album that saw the return of the eno/ferry co-operation, which was Mamouna. Give it a listen, maybe just "Wildcat Days". Cheers!
hi jp!
to answer your question:
so i'm watching this on my phone and enjoying the heck out of it. i haven't heard BOYS AND GIRLS in its entirety in decades but i always loved it and love being thrown back to 1985! my absolute favourite is "slave to love", which kinda sounds out of place in this line-up, for how catchy and evolved-pop-song-y it is in comparison to the other tracks. i know, i know, it's easy to like but i will wear that badge of dishonour.
one other thing: i only now kinda noticed how much "boys and girls" (the song) sounds like a variation or early version of roxy music's "take a chance with me" from AVALON. though so many see BOYS AND GIRLS as basically a continuation/graduation from AVALON so, oh well.
thank you for such a lovely time travel trip to my youth, jp! 😊❤
David Gilmour is on this. He also joined the band for Live-Aid but David had major technical problems and never got to play his solo. You’d think that a crew member would have tested his equipment before he walked on stage. I really felt for him and he was such a class act he just smiled as the other guy played his ass off.
If you like this, you should definitely do a full album reaction of Roxy Music's Avalon.
Great musicians on this LP, one of his best.
Love it, love Bryan, oh how I love him! Great album too.
It made me so happy to see you smile from ear to ear through this whole album. I haven't listened to it all the way through in maybe 20 yrs but I still remembered every single song - and since this video I've had it on A LOT again. I'd describe this album's sound as a full bodied red wine. Funny how obvious to me now it is that Valentine has a reggae foundation,. Bete Noir was recorded in Paris and Nassau in the Bahamas - there's a lot of percussion but the live versions are even better as one listener pointed out on Patreon. THANK YOU for this great reaction of an album so close to my heart.
Ty so much Josie! Really been enjoying listening to this one over and over :D
Happy Valentines - Now you have a romantic album to play for your wife! LOL!!@@JustJP
I had the video playing on my tablet while having lunch.
I preferred the 2nd side over the 1st.
Favourite track: Valentine - unmistakably Knopfler on this one.
On the topic of similarities/influences, I was hearing some Talking Heads in the rhythm tracks.
Am listening whilst laying on my bed, I play this album a lot and my other favourite is Flesh and Blood. It's 4pm here on the East Coast of England, overcast and gloomy. 11 degrees C. My wonderful daughter is making me a cuppa and croissants so it's all good.
It does sound a bit Colour of Spring now that you mention it. I have that album too, will have to relisten,
A couple of years ago I had a vivid dream (and I rarely remember my dreams) that I married Bryan!! Not the type of dream I am given to, either.
BTW…I *ADORE* this album. (I also adore all the Roxy albums-early, middle stage, and late. Like I adore all the Beatles albums.)
Along with Sade this was one of my favorite albums for "Those nights" if you know what I mean Justin !! ☺ 🎶
Kind of reminds me of Barry White, the way Barry set the mood, Ferry was the master....pure smoothness. Did see him in concert years ago, always had killer musicians and the guitar player...sublime.
Indeed, Windswept is a fantastically romantic song. Perhaps one of the sexiest songs of my generation. Great review/reaction JP, keep up the excellent work!
Great album ! The Chosen one sounds a bit like Shrieckback track to me. I’m listening on my couch with my phone through a Bose Bluetooth speaker.
This was a good suggestion for you. The lush production and top guests for the band. Yep. That sounds like Mark Hollis. Also not sure why but I was reminded that you had listened to some ABC Lexicon of Love. There was moaning on here about it but you seemed to like it. Hope you listen to more. I never cared for another of their albums but that whole album is great.
Watching on my laptop. Love BF`s music
Dont stop the dance, Bete Noire is a worthy next step. Both drop the needle to the end perfection. More Avalon Roxy than earlier post punk Roxy
Hi JP! 😃👍
Hi Ricky!
Bryan started all of this type of music..talk talk and duran duran ..his a genius
This is one of my favorite albums, and I think it is widely acknowledged to be the “sequel” to Avalon.
I would suggest doing a full album listen to Bryan Ferry’s album “The Bride Stripped Bare” . Another absolutely great completely coherent, but very different artistic statement from a great artist. It’s very mid 70s with a hard rock edge but Although it is emblematic of the times it is not cliché at all.
In addition to the 70s rock, the album has a cover of a traditional Irish lament (“ Carrickfergus “) and a very unconventional, but very sincere, love song played predominantly on violin and other string instruments called “When She Walks In The Room”
At this point in Ferry's career, it could be said that his solo work was an extension of the smooth, sophisticated pop he had been doing with Roxy Music since the albums Manifesto, Flesh + Blood and Avalon in particular, so there's nothing new here, but it's still a quality product, despite its somewhat sterile sound.
My favourite song on the album is the moody title-track which foreshadows Ferry's following album, Bête Noire which is on the whole in the same style, but with a darker mood. My other two favourites on Boys and Girls are "Don't Stop the Dance" and the opening track "Sensation" (which reminds me of Nile Rodgers' band Chic).
I usually watch videos on my desktop computer, but sometimes on my phone. i like this album, but I prefer Bete Noire and Mamouna to this one. I saw Ferry solo on the Mamouna tour, and he had Robin Trower on guitar (he is also on the album). It was kind of weird having Trower playing Roxy Music songs but it worked.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this with you as I drank my coffee on a lazy Saturday morning. So... Ambivalence!
For: Velvetier than ever, Mr Debonair effortlessly slides into the plastic mid-80s fever dream he influenced and shaped so much in the first place, polishing even further the late-period Roxy sound (slick, slicker, slickest) with a stellar cast of top musos.
Against: Sickeningly yuppier than any Patrick Bateman faves, this is yet another mid-80s nadir of harmless soup for a once era-defining artist, now reduced to trying to imitate Bowie imitating himself while studio bores lay the perfectly bland soundtrack to his dreamhome heartache, la-lee-da. Another cocktail, anyone?
One of my fave albums of all time❣For me it strikes as both primal and lush ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Incredible production by Bob Clearmountain and Rhett Davies.
You would also like the followup album, "Bete Noire". More upbeat tracks and produced by Patrick Leonard.
David Sanborn is a very famous musician, or so I thought ;-) You would appreciate his short lived show, "Night Music", which aired on NBC in the late '80s. Great live performances.
Varied solo career. "Chicago Song" is one of his popular tunes.
Nile Rodgers you will recognize from the band Chic.
Earlier Bryan Ferry albums vary in quality and are quite different from the '80s polished production. "In Your Mind" is a favorite.
Hey JP, you should do a reaction to the Dead Kennedys album, Plastic Surgery Disasters, or even a song or two off the album. Great reaction as always!
Between Boys and Girls and Bete Noir Ferry put out a single, Is Your Love Strong Enough? From the Legend soundtrack. Beautiful piece, I recommend!
I can’t count the number of bands from the 80’s that name Roxy Music and David Bowie as their influences, so no surprise that this sounds like others. Of course everyone influenced each other and even though Ferry was considered the God by many of them, he had ears too. 👏🏻🙏🏻
Love your necklace.
'Ole Audiophile to JP: I'm not quite sure why I drug my feet commenting on this post, probably the fact it's a solo project other than Roxy Music, I live in morbid fear he'll one day leave Roxy Music in the lurch Time did that for us all, it's hardly revelent anymore. Brian started soloing out in the late 70s & everyone wondered then. Brian Ferry & Roxy Music both had a very rich tradition with superb fidelity or at least they did when it became physically possible. Things began to significantly gel superb fidelity wise near the end of their first run, that would be Roxy's fifth studio album Siren. Few give Manifesto it's due because some oonsidered it 'disco' influenced but the band & the artist both jelled right then. Both the band & the artist have enjoyed that perfect sound quality ever since. I am a huge fan. Smoothest sound I've ever heard even in 5.1. Thanx
You are more familiar with Nile Rodgers than you know. As far as the rest of this album's personnel are concerned, Ferry has assembled a team of Musical ringers.
Listening to this makes me feel expensive 😅 Listening Bryan Ferry kinda takes you on a trip to a place made of luxury and comfort.
Haha true! Love that Barbu
Please try also 6pm by Phil Manzanera, you would not be disappointed!
Hey Justin, hope you are well Buddy! Been gone for a bit now in the states, so I see these updates earlier so I might get catch ur ear. This song brings back memories.... thanks, I think. Guaranteed to enjoy a banger from a band ur not to fond of. Girl Goodbye by Toto. I know what you like.... been years of this. lol. Remember I still owe you a knapped knife, and I will be getting with old friends to do some breaking of good rock. If I can get a good blade I will send it to you! Cheers. Try Girl Goodbye, a killa rocker of a song.
Hey there Michael! Thank you so much, and hope you've been doing well :D
I have liked this album since it came out. Just let it flow and ignore the insipid lyrics. Great when you are in the mood for it.
One of the best album from the. 80s❤
All I hear is Talk Talk, coming through my laptop into headphones. "Boys and Girls" come and go, some are young, and some are grown. Just groovin' Saturday away. In this place that's a 'home', but not my home. Peace & Love.
This whole album sounds like an outtake from Roxy Music's _Avalon_ . And like _Avalon_ , there is not a single bad song on _Boys and Girls_ .
Lying on bed wiv phone postpone ING hoover ring
Unfortunately I can't get enthused about this LP
It's just too sterile
Session muso polish
No Grit
Too smooth
Bryan's early albums are fantastic, Another Time Another Place is a favourite.
So not my cup of tea. This 80's Ferry, smooth pop, not even close, so I'll pass. * But re Mr Ferry, I'd recommend The Bryan Ferry Orchestra's album 'The Jazz Age'. It's a great and unusual LP. A sort of 'best of' of Roxy, and other solo stuff of his. It's an instrumental, but the tracks are reworked, rearranged, in the form of authentic 1920's swing jazz. It's a great listen, and interesting hearing familiar tunes played in this style. It's novel without being a novelty. Well worth a spin.
Thanks! I've only just recently been aware of this record and I used to sing jazz - this is my favorite era and I love Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music so I'm set to listen to this one!
@@josiepkat Enjoy 🙂
I love Roxy Music and of course Bryan Ferry...and...your reactions JP...but...hearing you react to 10 sec snippets of music just doesn't do it justice. In my mind it's not worth your effort. After listening to the first song I just had to switch channels. Sorry.
Full reaction is in the description
Let's stick with the edgier, younger Ferry when he impersonated a lounge lizard rather than actually was a lounge lizard. This 80s sound only works in small doses with the right material.
Completely agree. That Avalon-style Ferry is fingernails on blackboard to me. Cannot deal with the smarminess.
I keep on listening to this sexy album, as well as Bête Noire and Mamouna; lots of sublime guitar sounds setting the moods. Please have a listen to Avalon from Roxy Music; a splendid album from start to finish.