Taking Rock's Future By Artifice
Women, on Roxy Music covers, are like plants: lush vegetation, only more so. Unlike the reclining femme fatale on the cover of Stranded, who I've met many a lonely moonlit night (I call her "Amazona," as she drops her sarong) these ladies in Penthouse masturbatory pose dare one to fantasize — perhaps it's the red lipstick but they seem to come from the National Lampoon productions of "Chained Women" or "Big Bad Mama."
RECORDS
Taking Rock's Future By Artifice
Wayne Robins
by
ROXY MUSIC Country Life (Atlantic)
ENO Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Island) (Import)
Women, on Roxy Music covers, are like plants: lush vegetation, only more so. Unlike the reclining femme fatale on the cover of Stranded, who I've met many a lonely moonlit night (I call her "Amazona," as she drops her sarong) these ladies in Penthouse rnasturbatory pose dare one to fantasize — perhaps it's the red lipstick but they seem to come from the National Lampoon productions of "Chained Women" or "Big Bad Mama." You know, sex is a joke.
Roxy Music is about lifestyle. Stranded might have been titled after its most emphatic song: "Street Life," invoking London pinball energy and son-of-Lou Reed desperado stance. Though more urbane than specifically urban, the album was probably incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't spent the last five years in a major American city or European capital. The title of the new album is something of a joke too. Country Life, indeed. Do you like eating lobster in bed?\
When compared to Stranded's cool, clean lines of sound, Country Life is cluttered.