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I agree Twig with all you wrote.

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''I can see why the first album is your favorite. I used to think of it as the laboratory where the elements of For Your Pleasure were created, but now I see it as a special album on its own too.''



Twig, here you really found the good words to describe the first album. Btw, you could easily find the ''energetic, missing song'' of FYP's second half right on the eponymous album ;)

Both first albums don't have the same nature. Like you said, the first album is tinged of madness and has rough edges, it's also optimistic and it has a festive mood. Overall, it's an innovative rock 'n roll album that paved the way to all their solid art rock albums to come. And what a debut...

And you're right, Brian Eno was pretty much in the center of their soundscape. I've read somewhere that Ferry fired him. Maybe Eno asked too much money, or maybe Ferry thought he's taken too much room and so it entered in conflict with Ferry's creativity...

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Yes--I couldn't say for sure, but I always assumed it was a conflict with Ferry that made Eno leave the band.

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''...In 1971, he became a member of the seminal rock band ROXY MUSIC. Eno joined them because he knew how to operate a certain synthesizer that none of the other members could. Some rock fans thought that he was gay because he wore makeup and women's clothing. His unusual appearance was offstaging the ROXY MUSIC frontman Bryan Ferry, who began to grow agitated as a result. After several fights with Ferry, Eno quit ROXY MUSIC to record some albums of his own sound...''



Taken from Eno's biography, Prog Archives.

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Thanks for the information, Jethro. I didn't knew that. It's a very interesting and curious explanation about Eno's depart from Roxy. Moreover, especially because it was told by his own mouth.

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You're welcome bro. It's no surprising that it happened that way, given that Roxy Music was the Ferry's band after all. Eno was about to become the attraction number 1, and Ferry wasn't opened with the idea to play the second violins for obvious reasons...

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Yeah, obviously. But it was a pity, indeed.

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I used to think Roxy Music was a cooperative like Yes, but I now see that it wasn't. It was Ferry's playground. He finally got complete control in the 80s when he went out on his own. I always had mixed feelings about that. (Stealing the Roxy sound, so basically killing the band).