ROXY MUSIC "COUNTRY LIFE" 1974 ATCO NM-/EX OOP MONARCH 1st.PRESS +INNER SLEEVE

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ARTISTS: ROXY MUSIC

TITLE: “COUNTRY LIFE”

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

The Thrill Of It All

6:23

A2

Three And Nine

4:01

A3

All I Want Is You

3:08

A4

Out Of The Blue

4:26

A5

If It Takes All Night

3:09

B1

Bitter-Sweet

4:57

B2

Triptych

3:09

B3

Casanova

3:23

B4

A Really Good Time

3:44

B5

Prairie Rose

5:13

Companies, etc.

• Produced For – E.G. Records (2)

• Manufactured By – Atlantic Recording Corporation

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Atlantic Recording Corporation

• Copyright (c) – Atlantic Recording Corporation

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Atlantic

• Copyright (c) – E.G. Music Ltd.

• Published By – Tro Inc.

• Published By – Cheshire Music, Inc.

• Recorded At – Air Studios

• Mastered At – Atlantic Studios

• Pressed By – Monarch Record Mfg. Co. – ?19605

Credits

• Engineer – John Punter

• Lyrics By – Bryan Ferry

• Mastered By – GP* (tracks: A1 to A5)

• Producer – John Punter, Roxy Music

Notes

©Copyright 1974 E.G. Music Ltd., London, England
All songs published by TRO-Cheshire, BMI

Comes with custom inner sleeve with lyrics.

Uncensored cover

Label variant of Monarch Record Mfg. Co. pressing with no Warner logo / "A Warner Communications Company"

Mastered At, Mastered By and Pressed By uncredited, identified by runout stamps and etchings.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A label): ST-C-743255-MO

• Matrix / Runout (Side B label): ST-C-743256-MO

• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched, "PR" upside down relative to other text): ST-C-743255 BB ATGP ?19605(2) PR

• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched, "PR" upside down relative to other text): ST-C-743256-AA AT ?19605-X(2) PR

• Matrix / Runout (Side A and B runouts, stamped): MR

• Rights Society: BMI
  

LABEL: ATCO/ATLANTIC RECORDS

CAT. #: SD 36-106

YEAR: 1974

RECORD CONDITION:THE RECORD IS IN NM/NM- CONDITION. NO VISIBLE WEAR,SCRATCHES, LINES ETC. NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. THE LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. LIGHT BACKGROUND AUDIO BETWEEN THE TRACKS. THE SONGS SOUND & PLAY SUPER CLEAN.

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN EX/EX- CONDITION. STRAIGHT EDGES, NO TEARS, WRINKLES, NO WRITING OR MARKS, OR SEAM SPLITS, ETC.ETC...THERE'S SOME VERY VERY LIGHT EDGE WEAR LOWER BOTTOM RIGHT SIDE.

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Roxy Music were an English rock band that were formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry–who became the band's lead singer and main songwriter–and bass guitarist Graham Simpson. Alongside Ferry, the other longtime members were Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe), and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion). Other members included Brian Eno (synthesizer and "treatments"), Eddie Jobson (synthesizer and violin), and John Gustafson (bass). Although the band took a break from group activities in 1976 and again in 1983, they reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and toured together intermittently between that time and their break-up in 2011. Ferry frequently enlisted members of Roxy Music as session musicians for his solo releases.

Roxy Music became a successful act in Europe and Australia during the 1970s. This success began with their self-titled debut album, Roxy Music (1972).The band pioneered more musically sophisticated elements of glam rock while significantly influencing early English punk music,and provided a model for many new wave acts while innovating elements of electronic composition. The group also distinguished their visual and musical sophistication through a preoccupation with glamorous fashions. Ferry and co-founding member Eno have had influential solo careers. The latter became one of Britain's most significant record producers of the late 20th century. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Roxy Music No. 98 on its "The Immortals – 100 The Greatest Artists of All Time" list, though it dropped the group from its updated list in 2011.

The band's final studio album was Avalon (1982), which became platinum-certified in the United States.In 2005 the band began recording a new studio album, which would have been their ninth, and would have been their first record since 1973 with Brian Eno, who wrote two songs for it and also played keyboards.However, Bryan Ferry eventually confirmed that material from these sessions would be released as a Ferry solo album, with Eno playing on "a couple of tracks",[and that he does not think they will ever record as Roxy Music again.The album ultimately became Ferry's 2010 solo album Olympia, which featured contributions from Eno, Manzanera and Mackay (amongst many other session players.)

Roxy Music played a series of 40th anniversary shows in 2011, but has since become inactive as a performing entity.In 2019, Roxy Music were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Country Life is the fourth album by the English rock band Roxy Music, released in 1974 and reaching No. 3 in the UK charts. It also made No. 37 in the United States, their first record to crack the Top 40 there. The album is considered by many critics to be among the band's most sophisticated and consistent. Jim Miller in his review for Rolling Stone wrote "Stranded and Country Life together mark the zenith of contemporary British art rock." Band leader Bryan Ferry took the album's title from the British rural lifestyle magazine Country Life.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 387 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It was one of four Roxy Music albums that made the list (For Your Pleasure, Siren and Avalon being the others).

Style and themes

The opening track, "The Thrill of It All", was an up-tempo rocker that further developed the style of songs like "Virginia Plain" (1972) and "Do the Strand" (1973); it included a quote from Dorothy Parker's poem "Resume": "You might as well live". Eddie Jobson's violin dominated the heavily-flanged production of "Out of the Blue", which became a live favourite. Esoteric musical influences were betrayed by the German oom-pah band passages in "Bitter-Sweet", the Elizabethan flavour of "Triptych" and the lighthearted, boogie-blues, Southern rock edge to "If It Takes All Night".

"Casanova" was singled out for praise by a number of critics as a more cynical and hard-rocking number than the usual Roxy Music fare. Like the earlier "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" (1973), it was seen as a critique of the hollowness of the contemporary jet set, and contained further instances of Bryan Ferry's idiosyncratic word association ("Now you're nothing but / Second hand in glove / With second rate"). A re-recorded version, more mellow than the original, appeared on Ferry's 1976 solo album Let's Stick Together.

The final track, "Prairie Rose", was an ode to Texas and is sometimes mistakenly thought as a reference to Jerry Hall. However, Ferry would not meet Hall until 1975.

Country Life included Roxy Music's fourth single, "All I Want Is You" b/w "Your Application's Failed", which reached No. 12 in the UK charts. An edited version of "The Thrill of It All", with the same B-side, was released in the United States. The album was released on Atco Records, a division of Atlantic Records.

Cover art

Shot by Eric Boman, the cover features two scantily-clad models, Constanze Karoli (sister of Can's Michael Karoli and Eveline Grunwald (who was also Michael Karoli's girlfriend). Bryan Ferry met them in Portugal and persuaded them to do the photo shoot as well as to help him with the words to the song "Bitter-Sweet". Although not credited for appearing on the cover, they are credited on the lyric sheet for their German translation work.

The cover image was controversial in some countries such as the United States, Spain, and the Netherlands, where it was censored for release. As a result, early releases in the US were packaged in opaque shrink wrap; a later American LP release of Country Life (available during the years 1975–80) featured a different cover shot. Instead of Karoli and Grunwald posed in front of some trees, the reissue used a photo from the album's back cover that featured only the trees. Author Michael Ochs has described the result as the "most complete cover-up in rock history".

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