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If its opening number, Re-Make/Re-Model, was, as Melody Maker journalist Richard Williams observed, Roxy Music’s musical manifesto, it was proclaiming that rock’n’roll as we knew it was undergoing a strange and irrevocable transformation. It's a song that would be a closer on any other album, but its encores, interludes and resounding close signalled that on Roxy’s groundbreaking debut it was anything goes. Brian Eno’s experimentalism and atmospherics perfectly suit the novel feel of the songs, and fit their often peculiar construction. Bryan Ferry’s vocals and tangential lyrics add to the ramshackle uniqueness, while snippets of quaint balladeering, old-school rock’n’roll and doo-wop also crop up when least expected.Reaching Number 10 on its release, Roxy Music catapulted the group from being cultish outsiders and into the main ....
With Canadian band Coney Hatch naming themselves after a Victorian asylum in north London (Colney Hatch) you know you’re probably onto a good thing. When you learn that singer-bassist Andy Curran (now a member of Alex Lifeson's new project, Envy Of None) decided to drop the ‘l’ from the name, because “it would confuse the average American”, it's only natural to think you're dealing with professionals.This Toronto band’s 1982 debut sounded electrifying when it was first came out; remastered and re-released by the specialist Rock Candy label in 2006, it still possesses enough volts to jolt. Produced by Kim Mitchell (of quirky fellow Canadians Max Webster) there’s an underlying eccentricity that sets it apart from the early 80s hair metal pack, especially on the jarring and stuttering Stand Up. But Coney Hatch’s unashamed party rock inclinations always shine ....
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Canadian trio Triumph's second album was first released in Canada in 1977. But when the band signed a deal with RCA Records and the album was released in America the following year, it also included tracks from their self-titled debut, which alas served to confuse fans somewhat over the years. On the original, Triumph’s bombastic cover of Joe Walsh’s Rocky Mountain Way gave the band their first big hit, while the emphatic title track remained one of their best-loved songs, and The City: War March / El Duende Agonizante / Minstrel's Lament proved they could almost out-Rush Rush when it came to spectacular, multi-movement prog rock."We were signed to different labels in different countries," bass player and keyboardist Mike Levine told Classic Rock, "and it was so hard to get anyone to commit to putting up the money to bring us over to Britain. We should have come over in ’78 ....