I'll bet more kids were conceived while playing Roxy Music than any other band from that era. As much as I love the early LPs, the later stuff was seduction on vinyl!
I remember reading a brief article about Roxy Music's Avalon album in an unnamed gentleman's magazine (Penthouse - but I only read it for the articles, you know, the ones that started out something like this, "I always thought these stories were made up until...."). Anyhow, that magazine called Avalon the ultimate make-out album.
One of my suite-mates in the dorm was over in our room, and he was sort of a gnarly guy, the sort of person for whom you could quickly and easily determine that personal hygiene was not very high on his list of priorities, but I'd been studying, and Avalon was playing on my stereo. He says something like, "Cool music. Who is this?" So I tell him.
I then make the mistake of sharing with him what Penthouse's view of the album was. Well, a few months later, he finally hooks up with a girl from another university, and he asks me if I'll make a tape of it for him. From then on, every time his girlfriend came up to our school, you'd never see either of them. All you could hear is Avalon playing over and over and over again.
However, I still like the album. I like almost everything Eno does. Especially his collaborations with David Byrne (the best three Talking Heads albums, IMHO, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - waaaaay cool, and, most recently, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today). I also love Eno's ambient music series (all done with tape loops well before computers found their way into the studio), and maybe my fave solo Eno effort, Nerve Net (Ali Click rocks!!!!).
Just a quick update... if you're a David Byrne fan, it looks like he and Fat Boy Slim are about to release a new concept album based on the life of Imelda Marcos. Check it out at his web site (davidbyrne.com). Not affiliated, though it'd be cool if I were.
