ROXY MUSIC VERY RARE SEALED LP AVALON 1982 USA 1stPRESS OUT OF PRINT NOT180g
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EXTREMELY RARE USA VINTAGE ORIGINAL PRESSING OF "AVALON" BY BRYAN FERRY & ROXY MUSIC ON WARNER BROTHERS RECORDS (23686-1)1982 USA FIRST PRESSING-FULL GLOSSY TIGHT SHRINK (BREATHER HOLES ON SHRINK-NO RIPS OR TEARS)-NO CUTOUTS,-NO CLUB-ALBUM IN TOP CONDITION---RECORD WILL BE SHIPPED IN A CUSTOM 13 X 13 X 2" BOX W/BUBBLEWRAP & CARDBOARD STIFFENERS-NO CHEAP MAILERS USED HERE -I DO SHIP OVERSEAS -$21.50 flat fee, $15.00 TO CANADA--THIS IS A VINTAGE OUT OF PRINT ALBUM-
Critical reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [7] Pitchfork Media 8.0/10[8] Rolling Stone [9] The Rolling Stone Album Guide [10] Smash Hits 8/10[11] The Village Voice A?[12]In 1989, the album was ranked No. 31 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "The 100 Greatest Albums of the 1980s". In 1993, Entertainment Weekly included the CD as No. 25 in their 100 Greatest CDs A Love-It-Or-Loathe-It Guide to the Essential Disc Library.[13] In 2003, the album was ranked number 307 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Avalon is the highest entry of four Roxy Music albums that made the list (Siren, For Your Pleasure and Country Life being the others). In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at No. 45 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s".[14] In the 1982 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll done by the Village Voice, Avalon was voted the 11th best album of 1982.[15]
The album has consistently been praised by critics. Reviewing the album in Rolling Stone, Kurt Loder wrote "Avalon takes a long time to kick in, but it finally does, and it's a good one. Bryan Ferry stars as a remarkably expressive keyboard player and singer whose familiar mannerisms are subsumed in a rich, benevolent self-assurance. And reed man Andy Mackay shines in a series of cameos (his oboe meditation on Ferry's "Tara" is particularly lovely). Ten years after its debut, Roxy Music has mellowed: the occasional stark piano chords in "While My Heart Is Still Beating," for example, recall the stately mood of "A Song for Europe," but the sound is softer, dreamier and less determinedly dramatic now. Ferry's songwriting, however, has seldom seemed stronger."[9]
Mark Coleman in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide gave the record 4 and half stars out of 5 and wrote; "this austere, beautiful set of songs represents a mature peak. The controlled chaotic edge of the early albums is completely gone, and cofounders Manzanera and Mackay provide only skeletal guitar and sax lines. Ferry fills in the details, creating layered synth landscapes around his tragic scenarios and melodic ruminations. Avalon's pervasive influence on the British pop scene of the '80s can't be overstated. Roxy Music's stature is even further enhanced by the absence of a latter-day comeback album. So far, anyway."[16] Spin Alternative Record Guide rated Avalon nine out of ten: "1982's Avalon remains one of the all-time great makeout infernos, a synthesized version of Al Green's Call Me, Van Morrison's Moondance, and João Gilberto's Amoroso."[17]
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