Roxy Music - Siren - White Hot Stamper

Roxy Music - Siren - White Hot StamperSiren is one of our favorite Roxy albums, right up there with the first album and well ahead of the commercially appealing Avalon. After reading a rave review in Rolling Stone of the album back in 1975, I took the plunge, bought a copy at my local Tower Records and instantly fell in love with it. As is my wont, I then proceeded to work my way through their earlier catalog, which was quite an adventure. It takes scores of plays to understand where the

It takes a monster system to even begin to play this record right and that’s the kind of stereo I’ve always been drawn to

shocked even

The "Three Worlds Of Gulliver Suite" takes up all of side two

You may not believe it

have here produced a real steamroller of an album in English Settlement

overall clarity and freedom from smear

unbeknownst to me as it was playing of course

Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in 1971

there's some real richness and body to the vocals and

They're front and center where any recording engineer worth his salt -- Roy DuNann in this case

and we have the We Was Wrong entries to prove it

This is a recording that should be part of any serious rock collection