Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life: 20 Great Hits (1989)

I absolutely love the 1982 Roxy Music album, Avalon, but I've never really ventured into the band's back catalog. A few years back, I found this compilation for $1 and couldn't pass it up. What this CD taught me is that I prefer the band's later stuff to their earlier stuff. That's not to say the early stuff is bad - the modified Bo Diddley beat of Pyjamarama is irresistible, for example - but I dig the smoother tunes that followed. And I should probably find copies of the Manifesto and Flesh + Blood albums.

Compilation released 1986 in the UK, 1989 in the US.

Smash Hits magazine

Album chart peaks:

• US Billboard Top 200: #100
• Billboard Top CDs: #23
• Rolling Stone: #48

Tracks:

Song	Artist	Year	UK	US
Virginia Plain	RM	1972	4	-
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall	BF	1973	10	-
Pyjamarama	RM	1973	10	-
Do The Strand	RM	1973	-	-
These Foolish Things	BF	1973	-	-
Street Life	RM	1973	9	-
Let's Stick Together	BF	1976	4	-
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes	BF	1974	17	-
Love Is The Drug	RM	1975	2	30
Sign Of The Times	BF	1978	37	-
Dance Away	RM	1979	2	44
Angel Eyes	RM	1979	4	-
Oh Yeah	RM	1980	5	102
Over You	RM	1980	5	80
Same Old Scene	RM	1980	12	-
In The Midnight Hour	RM	1980	-	106
More Than This	RM	1982	6	102
Avalon	RM	1982	13	-
Slave To Love	BF	1985	10	109
Jealous Guy	RM	1981	1	-

While I like Pyjamarama and Street Life, I usually just start this CD on either track 9 or 11.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None

Previously revisited for the blog:
Avalon (1982)