"For Your Pleasure", Roxy Music, 1973
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Brought to you by José Carlos Soares: O segundo dos Roxy Music e o último com o Brian Eno.
The Trouser Press Record Guide – Fourth Edition (Collier Books, 1991): For Your Pleasure, another enduring classic (with the second of Roxy's many bassists), refines and magnifies Roxy's style with equally amazing material: "Do the Strand", "Editions of You" (the album's punchy rock single), "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" and the obsessive nine-minutes-plus "Bogus Man".
The Rolling Stone Album Guide – Third Edition (Random House, 1992): Eno constructs lush, repetitious backgrounds behind Bryan Ferry's crooning fits, lays barrages of taped noise on top of guitarist Phil Manzanera's compact solos, and redirects Andy Mackay's honking sax lines. His sensibility pervades the first two Roxy Music albums, though Ferry provides the group's focus and introspective direction. Eno's "treatments" and Ferry's bleak tone slow the second half of For Your Pleasure down to a crawl. But the album's first half still can leave you breathless. Between its breakneck pace and ironic spin, "Do the Strand" helped introduce the punk sound and stance: "A danceable solution to teenage revolution." And "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" vividly conveys Roxy's double-edged decadence: this deadpan tale of a proto-yuppie bungalow owner and his pneumatic companion is funny, of course, but it's also affecting in some unsettling way. ★★★1/2
AllMusic: Another extraordinary record from Roxy Music, one that demonstrates even more clearly than the debut how avant-garde ideas can flourish in a pop setting. ★★★★★
Pitchfork: For Your Pleasure is a greater testament to Eno's importance: it's hard to imagine an album that better exploits the tension between two fast-diverging creativities. Its best tracks play games with sincerity and emotional tone: the preposterous schmaltz of "Beauty Queen" resolving into real anguish, while "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" lurches from creepiness to hilarity. [10]
PopMatters: This album seems a little off-kilter and yet so progressive and forward-thinking that it sounds a full decade ahead of its time.
Rolling Stone: Give the Strand four minutes of your time and you won't think of doing another dance for at least two weeks.
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