release date: Nov. 1983
format: vinyl / cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: various
label: EG / Polydor - nationality:
Compilation album by Roxy Music released after Bryan Ferry had dissolved the band earlier that year. The vinyl edition of the album contains ten tracks with a total running time of 41 minutes. The selected tracks may intend to reflect the entire history of the band but it's quite obviously made with the attempt to showcase Roxy Music in the light of its most recent albums, thus putting emphasis on the sophisti-pop branch of the band's later stylistic sound in contrast to its glam rock initial period. Four tracks (tracks #1, #2, "6, and #9) are from Manifesto (1979), four tracks (tracks #3, #5, #7, and #8) stem from Flesh + Blood (1980), and one track (tracks #4 and #10) are originally found on Siren (1975) and For Your Pleasure (1973) respectively.
