I know this strand is a steal on Windswept's Ferry's Finest lyric and may have been done before , but I always thought BF pays great attention to openers and closers on any Roxy/Ferry album.

Some of the best songs mentioned in the lyrics strand are opening/closing tracks - Manifesto, Prairie Rose, Just Another High, Spin me Round, I Thought.

I really like all of those, plus Sunset, Another Time, Another Place, Running Wild, Bete Noire, Chain Reaction, Tender is the Night.

Generally, he kicks off an album on a high tempo then winds it down at the end. Not hugely original perhaps, but he does it so well.

BF: Don`t want to know / Bête noir
RM: More than this / Running wild

Any chances of more European dates in the autumn?

Remake remodel/ bitters end
Do the strand/for your pleasure
Manifesto/ spin me round
Street life/ sunset
All good in any order!

Elegantly Ageing Hipsters & Philosophical Philanderers,

avalon_eyes a pose une question interresante mais difficile!

W2 has felt obliged to add it to his work for his Roxology Doctorate.

Assuming that the question relates to a specific album, he feels obliged to divide his response between the Roxy and solo canons.

D'abord Roxy:
After much consternation, FYP gets it.
'Do The Strand' is just such a clever opener that fills dance floors quicker than W2's son can pick up a spare fiver and the lyrics are just fabulous; " Do it on the tables, Quaglino's place or Mabel's, Slow and gentle sentimental, All styles served here, Louis Seize he prefer Laissez faire strand."
And the closing title track is just a perfect finale to the album with the band presenting themselves after great entertainment; "For your pleasure in our present state. Part true part false like anything. We present ourselves." W2 also loves the Geordie "Tara" ending. Marvellous stuff and Roxy at their finest.

Deuxiemement BF:
This was really difficult. W2 adores 'Limbo' and the title track closer on 'Bete Noire' and was tempted to nominate them but finally his selection goes to 'These Foolish Things'.
' A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' is just the finest interpretation of Dylan and every time W2 hears those immortal words; "Oh where have you been my blue eyed son?", his timbers are shivered.
Then after the LP runs the most eclectic gambit of tracks, to close with the best ever interpretation of that Marvell/Strachey/Link classic is just pure genius; "Oh, how the ghost of you clings. These foolish things.Remind me of you."
W2 owes so much to that album. It reminds him of great times and broadened his musical taste enormously.

Salutations,
W2

Agree with W2 re Do The Strand but never so keen on FYP until they started ending the live shows with it. I will therefore enter The Thrill of it All and Prairie Rose from the marvellous Country Life.

I hadn't really expected selections from the same album but I'm going to throw my hat into the ring and nominate

Limbo/Bete Noire from the Ferry canon.

And Street Life/Sunset from the first Roxy Music album that I ever bought.

Manifesto/Spin Me Round from the Roxy canon for me.

This Is Tomorrow/In Your Mind from the Ferry one. High time both got a live airing again. This Is Tomorrow was a sizeable UK hit single, after all.

Bien entendu, avalon-eyes, at least I understood your intention.
Mais, alors, should we talk about albums:

BF: Don`t want to know/ Chain reaction (Just to mention something else than Limbo/Bête noir. Limbo is, by the way, a great live song)

RM: More than this/True to life (Tara is more a mood than a song)

Cher True2Life,

What brilliant choices!

Salutations a tous,

W2

Couldn't agree more re This is Tomorrow and In Your Mind. Two of his best solo self penned offerings in my ever so humble.