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For Your Pleasure is the second studio album by Roxy Music, released in 1973 through Island Records in the UK and Warner (Bros.) Records in the US. It is their second and last album made while Brian Eno was a member, after which he was dismissed by leader Bryan Ferry due to clashing egos and/or the One-Steve Limit. The band's already eccentric approach to pop/rock song formats became even more experimental, and somewhat darker. |
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Darker and Edgier |
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Darker and Edgier: A number of the songs work for - and achieve - a more claustrophobic effect than the band had shown before. Symbolized by the contrast in covers between their self titled debut and this one. On the earlier cover, the sexy model wears pastel lingerie on a white background. Here both the model's costume and the background are sleek black, and she's accompanied by a snarling panther on a leash. |
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Dance Sensation |
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Dance Sensation/Dancing Is Serious Business: "Do the Strand": |
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Dead Man Writing |
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Dead Man Writing: "Strictly Confidential" begins "Before I die I write this letter..." |
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Special Guest |
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Special Guest: Amanda Lear (then a supermodel, later a singer and actress) is the woman on the cover. Young Shakespearean actress Judi Dench speaks the final words on the album. |
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City Mouse |
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City Mouse: Ferry, of course, as seen in "Editions of You": |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out |
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The Fake-Out Fade-Out from "In Every Dream Home a Heartache". |
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Panthera Awesome |
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Panthera Awesome: The roaring black panther Amanda Lear has on a leash on the cover. |
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Epic Rocking |
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Epic Rocking: "The Bogus Man" is over nine minutes, and the Title Track is almost seven minutes. |
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Cool Car |
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Cool Car: The back cover shows Bryan Ferry admiring the woman and her panther while seated in a black Cadillac Eldorado convertible. |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change: "Beauty Queen" speeds up for an unhinged instrumental vamp before slowing down again for the final verse. |
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Lyrical Cold Open |
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Lyrical Cold Open: On "Do the Strand", Bryan Ferry gets to the end of his first line before the music starts with his own piano and Andy's saxophone. This was deliberately done as a stark contrast to the lengthy instrumental introductions to many of the songs on Roxy Music, which had garnered a good amount of criticism by the start of 1973. |
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One-Man Song |
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One-Man Song: "The Bogus Man". |
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Last Note Nightmare |
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Last Note Nightmare: The Fake-Out Fade-Out from "In Every Dream Home a Heartache". The music degenerating into a maelstrom while not-yet Dame Judi Dench says "Don't ask why" on "For Your Pleasure". |
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One-Woman Song: "Beauty Queen". |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" is an answer to Richard Hamilton's famed collage "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" Hamilton had been one of Ferry's teachers in art school. "Do the Strand" mentions dancers Nijinsky (ballet) and La Goulue (can-can). Scissor Sisters copied the style of the liner note band photo for their own debut album. |
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Cover Version: "Do the Strand" has been covered by Alphaville and Scissor Sisters. |
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Amazing Technicolor Wildlife |
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Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: "Grey Lagoons", beyond the title, mentions "blue sunsets" and "silver starfish". |
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In the Style of |
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In the Style of: "The Bogus Man" is in the style of Can. |
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Cardboard Pal |
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Cardboard Pal: "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" plays the trope for drama, as a lonely suburbanite creepily bonds with an inflatable sex doll: |
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Fanservice Cover |
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Fanservice Cover: Roxy Music's albums had these more often than not. This one is relatively demure, but sexy/sinister. |
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