Track Listing 1. Virginia Plain - Roxy Music 2. Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall 3. Street Life - Roxy Music 4. These Foolish Things 5. Love Is The Drug - Roxy Music 6. Dance Away - Roxy Music 7. Let's Stick Together 8. Angel Eyes - Roxy Music 9. Slave To Love 10. Oh Yeah - Roxy Music 11. Don't Stop The Dance 12. Same Old Scene - Roxy Music 13. Is Your Love Strong Enough 14. Jealous Guy - Roxy Music 15. Kiss And Tell 16. More Than This - Roxy Music 17. I Put A Spell On You 18. Avalon - Roxy Music 19. Your Painted Smile 20. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Contributing Artists: | Ferry, Bryan & Roxy Music | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Personnel: Bryan Ferry (vocals).Producers include: Peter Sinfield, Bryan Ferry, Chris Thomas, John Porter, John Punter.1995 anthology released in connection with the four-disc "Thrill Of It All" box set. 20 tracks total.Almost since the first Roxy Music album in 1973, frontman Bryan Ferry had had a concurrent solo career that morphed from almost campy lounge into ultimately-suave decadence--while the band arrived there after starting as glam-rockers. Shortly after these two evolutions met, Roxy Music disbanded and Ferry continued on. Heavily skewed toward this later period in Ferry's career, MORE THAN THIS examines the highly polished, slick sophistication that he perfected on the AVALON album.The band's brilliant first single "Virginia Plain," the frankly rather wacky version of Dylan's "A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall," and the solid grooves of the story-song "Love Is the Drug" are all from the early years, but the focus here is really on the diamond-hard, funky jazz-rock that became the Ferry's true forte--tracks like "Dance Away" and "Angel Eyes." Though the two songs from AVALON--"More Than This" and the title track--included here eclipse most of Ferry's other work, "Slave to Love," "Oh Yeah," and "Same Old Scene" are all certifiable masterpieces. After AVALON, Ferry's solo recordings, including "Kiss and Tell" (from BETE NOIRE) and his cover version of "I'm in the Mood for Love" (from AS TIME GOES BY), have successfully refined ideas from those tracks.
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