For Your Pleasure

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Template:Album infobox 2 For Your Pleasure is a 1973 album by the British glam and art rock group Roxy Music. The group's second album, it was also their last to feature synthesizer & sound specialist Brian Eno, who would later go on to great success and acclaim as a solo artist and producer.

The group were able to spend more studio time on this album than on their debut, combining strong song material by Ferry with more elaborate production treatments. For example, the song "In Every Dream Home A Heartache" fades out in its closing section, only to fade back in again, but with all the instruments subjected to a pronounced phasing treatment, whilst the title track fades out in an elaborate blend of tape loop effects. Eno remarked that the eerie "Bogus Man" displayed similarities with contemporary material by the krautrock group Can.

Two hit singles were lifted from the album, "Do the Strand" and "Editions of You".

For Your Pleasure was ranked #394 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, one of four by the group that made the list (Siren, Country Life and Avalon being the others).

Tracks

  1. "Do the Strand" – 4:04
  2. "Beauty Queen" – 4:41
  3. "Strictly Confidential" – 3:48
  4. "Editions of You" – 3:51
  5. "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" – 5:29
  6. "Bogus Man" – 9:20
  7. "Grey Lagoons" – 4:13
  8. "For Your Pleasure" – 6:51

Musicians

  • Bryan Ferry - vocals, piano, Hohner pianet, mellotron
  • Brian Eno - VCS3 synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Andy Mackay - oboe, saxophone
  • Phil Manzanera - electric guitar
  • John Porter - bass guitar
  • Paul Thompson - drums
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