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Love Is the Drug – Roxy Music
Tuesday song of the day: Today’s song is about going to a singles bar to get laid.
Roxy Music was always bigger in their native England than they were in the United States. Their art-rock had a devoted following in the States, but they were not big mainstream stars here. Their biggest hit in the US was Love Is the Drug from their 1975 album Siren. Love Is the Drug is more upbeat than most Roxy Music songs, and proved very influential for the New Wave genre that would develop over the next few years. Duran Duran would use a very similar keyboard sound in the early 1980s.
The song itself is about a guy who gets off work and then that night goes to a singles bar to hook up with a woman and take her home. It’s as simple as that. Musically the synthesizer work and the bass line were precursors to New Wave.
Being 1975, music videos would not be a big thing for a few years yet, but Roxy Music did appear on a TV show in September 1975 and the recording of that show serves as a video for the song. Some thought the eyepatch that singer Bryan Ferry wore during the performance was a fashion statement, and the look was widely copied by the New Romantic bands a few years later, but Ferry later told the real story of the eyepatch. “We didn’t shoot a video for Love Is the Drug — MTV was still six years away. But there is a television appearance of us performing the song. I wore a black eye patch in the video, but it wasn’t a piratical fashion thing, as many people thought. The day before our taping, I was sent to the hospital to have my eye looked at. I had walked into a door or something. I remember thinking, ‘Oh, God, we’ve got to do a television show.’ Which we did despite my eye. In the video, if you look carefully, you can actually see a bandage with a dressing underneath. But the black patch looked good.”
Love Is the Drug would peak at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100, the only time Roxy Music would make the Top 40 in the United States. In the UK, they were much more successful, with ten songs placing on the Top 10, including a #1 in 1981.
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TV appearance, 1975
Tomorrow: I go my way
Love Is the Drug – Roxy Music
Tuesday song of the day: Today’s song is about going to a singles bar to get laid.
Roxy Music was always bigger in their native England than they were in the United States. Their art-rock had a devoted following in the States, but they were not big mainstream stars here. Their biggest hit in the US was Love Is the Drug from their 1975 album Siren. Love Is the Drug is more upbeat than most Roxy Music songs, and proved very influential for the New Wave genre that would develop over the next few years. Duran Duran would use a very similar keyboard sound in the early 1980s.
The song itself is about a guy who gets off work and then that night goes to a singles bar to hook up with a woman and take her home. It’s as simple as that. Musically the synthesizer work and the bass line were precursors to New Wave.
Being 1975, music videos would not be a big thing for a few years yet, but Roxy Music did appear on a TV show in September 1975 and the recording of that show serves as a video for the song. Some thought the eyepatch that singer Bryan Ferry wore during the performance was a fashion statement, and the look was widely copied by the New Romantic bands a few years later, but Ferry later told the real story of the eyepatch. “We didn’t shoot a video for Love Is the Drug — MTV was still six years away. But there is a television appearance of us performing the song. I wore a black eye patch in the video, but it wasn’t a piratical fashion thing, as many people thought. The day before our taping, I was sent to the hospital to have my eye looked at. I had walked into a door or something. I remember thinking, ‘Oh, God, we’ve got to do a television show.’ Which we did despite my eye. In the video, if you look carefully, you can actually see a bandage with a dressing underneath. But the black patch looked good.”
Love Is the Drug would peak at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100, the only time Roxy Music would make the Top 40 in the United States. In the UK, they were much more successful, with ten songs placing on the Top 10, including a #1 in 1981.
Audio
TV appearance, 1975
Tomorrow: I go my way
OOOOO he's gonna get so mad that you said that. He's not bad for a kid. He's getting better.
I liked it. I've gotta stop listening to rap music tho, I was watching band of brothers and have been sidetracked.
There is some hip hop that's decent if you enjoy word play. It's what I mainly listen to while working, hence all the posts in here.
I listen to all kinds of music. Not at work tho (well I have the weird radio)
I have a very broad taste in music
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Oh for sure, myself as well. Something about hip hop beats just helps me work better at my job.
