The postmodern look back -. Reinterpretations Vol 1

Bryan Ferry's first solo album was recorded in 1973 shortly after the recording of the second Roxy Music album "For Your Pleasure", after which Brian Eno left the band. Ferry knew his first solo album as a "vacation" from his main job with Roxy Music and was preparing to interpret personal favorites even. One should bear in mind that this represented a highly unusual move for an art-rock musicians at that time because it was in the early 70s to the "good tone" to be an interpreter of his own songs. Ferry, however, was based on its own maxim "Re-make / Re-model" (for a title of the first Roxy album) and provided his reinterpretations some with quite radical changes (for example, Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall") as he moved closer to other songs on the original - which certainly came to bear the Pop Art influences the artist studied. Partly zuckersüß ("I Love How You Love Me", "Do not Ever Change"), at other times with ironic refractions and exaggerations (mentioned Dylan song or "It's My Party"), are Bryan Ferry's idiosyncratic and unique voice song classics an interesting look. Certainly, not each of its versions is an absolute hit in this first collection of reinterpretations, but overall it is a very cheap have album that, in my opinion, his grand finale takes place in the very touching version of the title track.