British Band Tournament - Round 2. Roxy Music vs Pink Floyd

[johnsusername]

23 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Easily Roxy for me. Do like Syd though and Eno has to shoulder some responsibility for the popularity of U2. 

Do some people think of Roxy as some 80s new wave easy listening group I wonder. When for the first few albums they were pretty Avant Garde and experimental - just as much as Pink Floyd. 

[cloggypop]

Just now, johnsusername said:

Do some people think of Roxy as some 80s new wave easy listening group I wonder. When for the first few albums they were pretty Avant Garde and experimental - just as much as Pink Floyd. 

Much more interesting to have a smoke to than most of the Floyd output. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

Wow. GF has really gone off on one this time. 

[VladimirIlyich]

2 minutes ago, Nummer Neunzehn said:

Wow. GF has really gone off on one this time. 

I have to agree here.

[YorkshireRed]

Tricky bleeder. I probably should vote for Pink Floyd, they’ll no doubt win this and of course they’re one of the most influential bands of all time. 
 

Roxy Music are no mugs here though and I probably listen to them more. They certainly deserve to go down fighting.

 

I need to think on it.
 

It might come down to Shine On You Crazy Diamond v More Than This. 

[mattyq]

Both outstanding bands that have produced excellent music

The Floyd take it by the skin of their teeth... I listen to them slightly more frequently and that's mainly down to Wish you Were Here

[ZonkoVille77]

If Pink Floyd don't win here there should be riots all over Europe. 

[Bjornebye]

This shouldn't be close at all. Fucking hell 

[Edward.]

1 hour ago, cloggypop said:

Much more interesting to have a smoke to than most of the Floyd output. 

Wow. I’ve been doing it all wrong this whole time.

[Evelyn Tentions]

2 hours ago, A Red said:

The Kop singing YNWA on the album Meddle should see this through

 

[Moo]

This is a bastard of a tie.

[thegreatelephant]

 

Wow, what is this? Tobacco or... Pink Floyd?

 

 

[PestiRed]

I voted Floyd purely because I can’t have the band who beat The Specials knocked out by Bryan fucking Ferry

[Lee909]

Seriously losing faith with this forum with how close this is. 

 

The GF is going to shit

[Captain Howdy]

59 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

Seriously losing faith with this forum with how close this is. 

 

The GF is going to shit

No, most people are seemingly unaware of Roxys’ early work, you think of Roxy Music and you think of Ferrys’ lounge lizard schtick which is to do this band a massive disservice. Their early work with Brian Eno produced 3 albums as good as anything anywhere by anybody. Outstanding band.

[Captain Howdy]

1 hour ago, PestiRed said:

I voted Floyd purely because I can’t have the band who beat The Specials knocked out by Bryan fucking Ferry

Bryan Ferry is one of the best songwriters this country has produced, a massive talent who is criminally underrated.

[VladimirIlyich]

19 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Bryan Ferry is one of the best songwriters his country house has ever produced, a massive twat who is criminally overrated.

 

Spot on.

[Captain Howdy]

Hilarious stuff, side splitting

[Bjornebye]

Bryan Ferry looks like he should have been challenging for Sharons affections on Eastenders years ago. 

 

Good band, I do need to listen to more of them but anyone claiming they are better than Pink Floyd is a bonafide opal fruit. 

[The Golden Eel]

 

[Bjornebye]

Haha just realised I've got an arl white t-shirt with Kate Moss on it and Bryan Ferry written across the bottom. 

[Mook]

42 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

No, most people are seemingly unaware of Roxys’ early work, you think of Roxy Music and you think of Ferrys’ lounge lizard schtick which is to do this band a massive disservice. Their early work with Brian Eno produced 3 albums as good as anything anywhere by anybody. Outstanding band.

I really want to get into Roxy Music but Bryan Ferry is the obstacle for me, just sounds like he's taking the piss. I really like the musicians & what they were doing though.

 

He failed an audition for King Crimson circa 1970, apparently he sang 21st Century Schizoid Man & they still have a tape of it somewhere. Even the thought of it gives me nightmares.

[Tony Moanero]

I’m mostly voting for Roxy Music because Bryan Ferry had a cool moustache.

[Captain Howdy]

2 minutes ago, Mook said:

I really want to get into Roxy Music but Bryan Ferry is the obstacle for me, just sounds like he's taking the piss. I really like the musicians & what they were doing though.

 

He failed an audition for King Crimson circa 1970, apparently he sang 21st Century Schizoid Man & they still have a tape of it somewhere. Even the thought of it gives me nightmares.

Ferry is marmite but in the early years he was magnificent, I’ve no interest in Roxy Musics later work save for the odd track but his early years are a different story altogether, he wrote a track called “Casanova” which he has recorded twice, once in his early art house phase and then again some years later in his lounge lizard schtick. The difference is startling.

[cloggypop]

5 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

I’m mostly voting for Roxy Music because Bryan Ferry had a cool moustache.

Brian Eno's hair at the time was like what you last had your hair long sounds like.