Roxy Music - The Thrill Of It All [1995] (4 X CD's)

ROXY MUSIC

Roxy Music - The Thrill Of It All [1995] (4 X CD's)

Album-rock artists like Roxy Music always make a difficult subject for comprehensive, multi-disc box sets. Frequently, their albums were designed as a cohesive whole and the idea of individual singles never really entered the picture at all. Roxy Music was slightly different than the average art/prog-rock band -- not only did they make albums, they also made singles. And that is one of the reasons why the four-disc set The Thrill of It All is successful. Roxy's songs stand as individual works, and they make sense outside of their original context, even if they make more sense within their original context. Thankfully, the majority of each of their major albums are reproduced on the first three discs of this collection, leaving the fourth disc for non-LP singles, remixes, and B-sides. Most of this material has not been available on CD before, making The Thrill of it All essential for collectors. Nevertheless, it's a helpful guide to Roxy's career for casual fans -- it contains all of the essential songs and shows why the group was one of the seminal bands of the '70s. (AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

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Track Lists

CD1

01.     Re-Make/Re-Model     5:12    
02.     Ladytron     4:20    
03.     If There Is Something     6:30    
04.     2hb     4:27    
05.     Change Meetings     2:55    
06.     Sea Breezes     7:02    
07.     Do The Strand     4:00    
08.     Beauty Queen     4:36    
09.     Strictly Confidential     3:44    
10.     Editions Of You     3:45    
11.     In Every Dream Home A Heartache     5:23    
12.     The Bogus Man     9:19    
13.     For Your Pleasure     6:53    
14.     Street Life     3:28    
15.     Just Like You     3:32    
16.     Amazona     4:14    

CD 2

01.     A Song For Europe     5:43    
02.     Mother Of Pearl     6:52    
03.     Sunset     6:01    
04.     The Thrill Of It All     6:22    
05.     Three And Nine     4:01    
06.     All I Want Is You     2:58    
07.     Out Of The Blue     4:43    
08.     Bitter-Sweet     4:49    
09.     Casanova     3:23    
10.     A Really Good Time     3:43    
11.     Prairie Rose     5:07    
12.     Love Is The Drug     4:05    
13.     Sentimental Fool     6:12    
14.     Could It Happen To Me?     3:33    
15.     Both Ends Burning     5:14    
16.     Just Another High     6:06    

CD 3

01.     Manifesto     5:30    
02.     Trash     2:13    
03.     Angel Eyes     3:32    
04.     Stronger Through The Years     6:13    
05.     Ain't That So     5:39    
06.     Dance Away     4:18    
07.     Oh Yeah     4:51    
08.     Same Old Scene     3:57    
09.     Flesh And Blood     3:08    
10.     My Only Love     5:16    
11.     Over You     3:27    
12.     No Strange Delight     4:44    
13.     More Than This     4:30    
14.     Avalon     4:17    
15.     While My Heart Is Still Beating     3:25    
16.     Take A Chance With Me     4:42    
17.     To Turn You On     4:15    
18.     Tara     1:32    

CD 4

01    Virginia Plain (A-Side 1972)    2:56
02    The Numberer (B-Side To 'Virginia Plain')    3:39
03    Pyjamarama (A-Side 1973)    2:59
04    The Pride And The Pain (B-Side To 'Pyjamarama')    4:13
05    Manifesto (Remake) (1980 Re-recording, B-Side To 'Over You')    4:00
06    Hula Kula (B-Side To 'Street Life', 1973)    2:36
07    Trash 2 (B-Side To 'Trash', 1979)    3:07
08    Your Application's Failed (B-Side To 'The Thrill Of It All', 1974)    4:44
09    Lover (B-Side To 'Same Old Scene', 1980)    4:26
10    Sultanesque (B-Side To 'Love Is The Drug', 1975)    5:19
11    Dance Away (Extended Remix) (12" A-Side, Canada, 1979)    6:29
12    South Downs (B Side To 'Oh Yeah', 1980)    5:09
13    Angel Eyes (Extended Remix) (12" A-Side, 1979)    6:37
14    Always Unknowing (B-Side To 'Avalon' & 'More Than This')    5:21
15    The Main Thing (Extended Remix) (B-Side To 12" 'Take A Chance With Me', 1982)    7:40
16    India (B-Side To 'More Than This', 1982)    1:45
17    Jealous Guy (A-Side, 1981)    6:11
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