Roxy Music — Love is the Drug
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T'ain't no big thing
To wait for the bell to ring
T'ain't no big thing
The toll of the bell
Aggravated, spare for days
I troll downtown the red light place
Jump up bubble up, what's in store
Love is the drug and I need to score
Showing out, showing out, hit and run
Boy meets girl where the beat goes on
Stitched up tight, can't shake free
Love is the drug, got a hook on me
Oh oh catch that buzz
Love is the drug I'm thinking of
Oh oh can't you see
Love is the drug for me
Late that night I park my car
Stake my place in the singles bar
Face to face, toe to toe
Heart to heart as we hit the floor
Lumber up, limbo down
The locked embrace, the stumble round
I say go, she say yes
Dim the lights, you can guess the rest
Oh oh catch that buzz
Love is the drug I'm thinking of
Oh oh can't you see
Love is the drug, got a hook in me
Oh oh catch that buzz
Love is the drug I'm thinking of
Oh oh can't you see
Love is the drug for me
To wait for the bell to ring
T'ain't no big thing
The toll of the bell
Aggravated, spare for days
I troll downtown the red light place
Jump up bubble up, what's in store
Love is the drug and I need to score
Showing out, showing out, hit and run
Boy meets girl where the beat goes on
Stitched up tight, can't shake free
Love is the drug, got a hook on me
Oh oh catch that buzz
Love is the drug I'm thinking of
Oh oh can't you see
Love is the drug for me
Late that night I park my car
Stake my place in the singles bar
Face to face, toe to toe
Heart to heart as we hit the floor
Lumber up, limbo down
The locked embrace, the stumble round
I say go, she say yes
Dim the lights, you can guess the rest
Oh oh catch that buzz
Love is the drug I'm thinking of
Oh oh can't you see
Love is the drug, got a hook in me
Oh oh catch that buzz
Love is the drug I'm thinking of
Oh oh can't you see
Love is the drug for me
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So '70s but still so danceable.
reminds me of the clash
We do be dancing..
joejennings wrote:
56 yrs old here, think 'Avalon' was their best but happy to agree to disagree :)
IMO, there's lots of good to be found in Ferry's solo albums 'Bete Noire' and 'Boys and Girls' also!
I'm 67yrfs old & started listening to them when "For Your Pleasure" was released. in 1973. My 2 favorite tunes were : "Do The Strand" & "Editions of You"! The entire album was and still is GREAT!!
IMO, there's lots of good to be found in Ferry's solo albums 'Bete Noire' and 'Boys and Girls' also!
I'm 67yrs old & started listening to them when "For Your Pleasure" was released. in 1973. My 2 favorite tunes were : "Do The Strand" & "Editions of You"! The entire album was and still is GREAT!!
Hard to believe this song is almost 50 years old. What does that say about today's (2022) music?
siqbal wrote:
A little late to the party since these guys were recognized as groundbreaking in the 20th century. You might be surprised that a number of artists want no part of the "honor". It's the recording industry giving you a lifetime achievement award often before the artist is dead as if the artist was determined to be at end of their career.
So happy they were finally inducted into the Hall of Fame last year.
A little late to the party since these guys were recognized as groundbreaking in the 20th century. You might be surprised that a number of artists want no part of the "honor". It's the recording industry giving you a lifetime achievement award often before the artist is dead as if the artist was determined to be at end of their career.
annds wrote:
Awww...maybe rest yourself. Don't overdo it. It's rough listening to music you don't have to choose yourself. Hang in there.
Tired of this song.
Awww...maybe rest yourself. Don't overdo it. It's rough listening to music you don't have to choose yourself. Hang in there.
unclehud wrote:
"Love is a state of insanity, marriage is the promise to stay that way." -GBS
Love is indeed a drug. A habit-forming narcotic. Human beings will do very strange things to keep it flowing.
(I am getting married again next month, after ten years of being single. Love is an intoxicating, deeply addictive drug.)
"Love is a state of insanity, marriage is the promise to stay that way." -GBS
Love this song gave it a 10
The very first time that I heard this song, I was very young. I couldn't 'guess the rest.'
annds wrote:
Tired of this song.
bahalana wrote:
How nice. Families are reuniting right here on Radio Paradise.
Tired of this song.
bahalana wrote:
I got tired of your mom.
How nice. Families are reuniting right here on Radio Paradise.
annds wrote:
I got tired of your mom.
Tired of this song.
I got tired of your mom.
meanderer wrote:
Quite a regular segue from the comments section... Couple of truly awesome bass lines
Gotta Love RP
Look after the king of R n R please
Quite a regular segue from the comments section... Couple of truly awesome bass lines
Gotta Love RP
Look after the king of R n R please
mjgrisaffi wrote:
Quite a regular segue from the comments section... Couple of truly awesome bass lines
Gotta Love RP
Incredible segue between this song and Cake’s “Love You Madly.” Thank you, RP!
Quite a regular segue from the comments section... Couple of truly awesome bass lines
Gotta Love RP
I thought the line was "I say coke, she says yes" for all these years!
For decades I thought this song was sung by The Clash, as it sounds like a distant cousin of Rock the Casbah
So happy they were finally inducted into the Hall of Fame last year.
Based on the album cover model's current husband (Rupert Murdoch), I would say "money is the drug" is more true... or maybe Jerry Hall is just an awful human being.
unclehud wrote:
So you're only 10 years old?
Love is indeed a drug. A habit-forming narcotic. Human beings will do very strange things to keep it flowing.
(I am getting married again next month, after ten years of being single. Love is an intoxicating, deeply addictive drug.)
(I am getting married again next month, after ten years of being single. Love is an intoxicating, deeply addictive drug.)
So you're only 10 years old?
This song always reminds me of The Monks - Nice Legs Shame About Her Face
In today's world, he would be singing "Sex is the Drug" and we would see this song in a different light, perhaps 6,000K?
Just the first note identifies this song, and gets me hitting PSD. Ferry's yuprock and fascist chic has always repelled me, going back to the 80s.
Tired of this song.
Incredible segue between this song and Cake’s “Love You Madly.” Thank you, RP!
Proclivities wrote:
It must be a very slow-growing moss; this song came out over forty years ago.
Must be that dmcanany meant lichen vs. moss; that stuff takes much longer to grow!
It must be a very slow-growing moss; this song came out over forty years ago.
Must be that dmcanany meant lichen vs. moss; that stuff takes much longer to grow!
dmcanany wrote:
It must be a very slow-growing moss; this song came out over forty years ago.
Slowly growing on me. Like moss. But, you know, I kinda like moss.
It must be a very slow-growing moss; this song came out over forty years ago.
Slowly growing on me. Like moss. But, you know, I kinda like moss.
welcome to the rock n roll hall of fame !Going to see Mr. Ferry solo this August...can’t wait
Long Live RP
To me a STRONG 8 - Most Excellent
To me a STRONG 8 - Most Excellent rokanje
Good article in the Wall Street Journal this week about the origin of this song. Definitely ahead of its time.
Roxy Music is The Drug !!!
I'm a sucker for a good bass line brought forward in the mix.
That's the second time today that song comes to me! I <3 it. Earlier today I listened to the version by The Rats (From album "Turn Ons") in Spotify. I guess I'll be playing Grace Jones's version right after Roxy Music. Third time's the charm. :-)
Another song I never hear on the radio
Sophisticated, intelligent pop! A quality that is dwindling away from today's pop scene.
zesty ! would love to hear " both ends burning" from same album very zesty as well haresfur wrote:
This was the last album of theirs that I really liked.
Roxy Music - Brian Eno ≤ mediocrity
ETA: Ok, Mother of Pearl is brilliant
This was the last album of theirs that I really liked.
The song is quite good, but the segue from Cake is MOST excellent. Bows to the master DJ.
Roxy Music - Brian Eno ≤ mediocrity
ETA: Ok, Mother of Pearl is brilliant
musikluvr wrote:
Everybody in my hotel room loves this splendiferous classic song more than zesty pussy pickles, which you can find in every corner of the planet Earth, musikluvr... we be dancing like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... hope life is grand for you these days, musikluvr... love Radio Paradise...
No, thank YOU. And where can I get some of these pickles of which you speak?
Everybody in my hotel room loves this splendiferous classic song more than zesty pussy pickles, which you can find in every corner of the planet Earth, musikluvr... we be dancing like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... hope life is grand for you these days, musikluvr... love Radio Paradise...
BLISS! (Time for another donation.) ;-)
rocklandlove wrote:
Same segue today! I love it!
EXCELLENT segue out of Cake, Bill! In honor of it, I just pledged again!
Thanks for the daily delight.
Thanks for the daily delight.
Same segue today! I love it!
awesome song still : )
(congratulations unclehud hope you have a 10 year Honeymoon!)
(congratulations unclehud hope you have a 10 year Honeymoon!)
unclehud wrote:
Congrats, unclehud!
Love is indeed a drug. A habit-forming narcotic. Human beings will do very strange things to keep it flowing.
(I am getting married again next month, after ten years of being single. Love is an intoxicating, deeply addictive drug.)
(I am getting married again next month, after ten years of being single. Love is an intoxicating, deeply addictive drug.)
Congrats, unclehud!
Love is indeed a drug. A habit-forming narcotic. Human beings will do very strange things to keep it flowing.
(I am getting married again next month, after ten years of being single. Love is an intoxicating, deeply addictive drug.)
(I am getting married again next month, after ten years of being single. Love is an intoxicating, deeply addictive drug.)
The groundwork of this band definitely helped lay the foundations for the cool quirkiness of B-52s, Devo, Talking Heads, The Cars, etc!
Bill - you guys are really making me happy today. More messages from the Great Beyond. <3
1975 this was a Scandal! 
Lazarus wrote:
Ha, ha , ha!
Very good!
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all across the holy moly world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners and B.F. Skinner... we love this splendiferous classic song more than zesty pussy pickles... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll... thank you...
Ha, ha , ha!
Very good!
Never heared this before! Very good song!
Big influence on Talking Heads right here.
love this song : ) wow Lazarus, "pussy pickles"
I'm listening to Roxy Music from the beginning... 😵👍🏼🙃
Yeaaaaaaaaaaah !
Bryan is awesome, Thanks Bill and Becky!
EXCELLENT segue out of Cake, Bill! In honor of it, I just pledged again!
Thanks for the daily delight.
Thanks for the daily delight.
YES! 
Lazarus wrote:
No, thank YOU. And where can I get some of these pickles of which you speak?
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all across the holy moly world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners and B.F. Skinner... we love this splendiferous classic song more than zesty pussy pickles... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll... thank you...
No, thank YOU. And where can I get some of these pickles of which you speak?
very aggressive bass
unclehud wrote:
Nearly, just nearly...!
Love IS a drug. As powerful and addictive as any narcotic.
Nearly, just nearly...!
INCREDIBLY GOOD!
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all across the holy moly world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners and B.F. Skinner... we love this splendiferous classic song more than zesty pussy pickles... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll... thank you...
Glad I'm not alone in Vancouver with that sentiment.
Krispian wrote:
Yes, it was very impressive!
Krispian wrote:
Yes, it was very impressive!
alux wrote:
Very true
This tune is worth it just for the album cover.
Very true
Bryan Ferry RULES!
thank you soooooooooooooooooooo much!
thank you soooooooooooooooooooo much!
Love IS a drug. As powerful and addictive as any narcotic.
Krispian wrote:
Yes, it was very impressive!
Still works! Well done, Bill.
Yes, it was very impressive!
Still works! Well done, Bill.
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One of my favorite seggies in the library.
Aud wrote:
Yes, it was very impressive!
Ooooo, crossfade from Cake-Love You Madly to THIS!! Bravo!
Yes, it was very impressive!
TheMagus wrote:
Brain Eno had left the group a couple of years before this song was recorded; he's only on their first two albums. This is still a great tune.
Lets remember it was all down to the great Brian Eno
Brain Eno had left the group a couple of years before this song was recorded; he's only on their first two albums. This is still a great tune.
This is just great stuff! Gonna party with Romeotuma now!
"If I had to choose between the two Brians, and I really would hate to do so. I would have to err on the side of Eno."
Tony Reason
Supa dupaa! I'm jumpin' up - bubblin' up, cunt ja see?
Ok, time to pour myself a drink.
meinthecorner wrote:
I second that ovation!
Ran in from the car to post, just to see I'm thirding( if that's a word...)
edit....actually fourthing
I second that ovation!
Ran in from the car to post, just to see I'm thirding( if that's a word...)
edit....actually fourthing
meinthecorner wrote:
I second that ovation!
A third motion from me. Nice segue from one to the other. Love this song and Roxy Music! Ultimate CLASS ROCK!
I second that ovation!
A third motion from me. Nice segue from one to the other. Love this song and Roxy Music! Ultimate CLASS ROCK!
Aud wrote:
I second that ovation!
Ooooo, crossfade from Cake-Love You Madly to THIS!! Bravo!
I second that ovation!
Ooooo, crossfade from Cake-Love You Madly to THIS!! Bravo!
This tune is worth it just for the album cover.
Some more great Roxy Music!
TheMagus wrote:
He left after album number 2. Siren is the band's fifth album.
Lets remember it was all down to the great Brian Eno
He left after album number 2. Siren is the band's fifth album.
Lets remember it was all down to the great Brian Eno
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine is the drug I'm thinking of....no it was probably a good substitution
My cowbell detector just went crazy
stevano wrote:
Neat-O viddy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEalg62F8Zg
Hey Bill. How about playing "Virginia Plain" from Roxy?
It's not such an earworm, less-known to US listeners – and I think, much more RP.
BTW: You and Rebecca have made RP into the best radio station / music resource / music community, that I've ever found, bar-none. Keep up the brilliant work!
It's not such an earworm, less-known to US listeners – and I think, much more RP.
BTW: You and Rebecca have made RP into the best radio station / music resource / music community, that I've ever found, bar-none. Keep up the brilliant work!
Neat-O viddy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEalg62F8Zg
More early Roxy please!
Hey Bill. How about playing "Virginia Plain" from Roxy?
It's not such an earworm, less-known to US listeners – and I think, much more RP.
BTW: You and Rebecca have made RP into the best radio station / music resource / music community, that I've ever found, bar-none. Keep up the brilliant work!
It's not such an earworm, less-known to US listeners – and I think, much more RP.
BTW: You and Rebecca have made RP into the best radio station / music resource / music community, that I've ever found, bar-none. Keep up the brilliant work!
Ag3nt0rang3 wrote:
Me, I think this is one of the sexiest songs every recorded (as dumb as it is). I think it has to do with a combination of the bass with the irresponsible lyrics. Mmmmm.
Meh. Not as insipid as Avalon, but still not doing it for me.
Edit: that ending was terrible. 3—>2
Edit: that ending was terrible. 3—>2
Me, I think this is one of the sexiest songs every recorded (as dumb as it is). I think it has to do with a combination of the bass with the irresponsible lyrics. Mmmmm.
stevesaw wrote:
Hmm - that cover looks more Gollum than Siren.....
You must have been looking at a different picture - that's a prime Jerri Hall.
Hmm - that cover looks more Gollum than Siren.....
You must have been looking at a different picture - that's a prime Jerri Hall.
Fun segue from My Moon My Man where Feist runs out and gets into a car.
Ag3nt0rang3 wrote:
Meh to your meh....
Meh. Not as insipid as Avalon, but still not doing it for me.
Edit: that ending was terrible. 3—>2
Edit: that ending was terrible. 3—>2
Meh to your meh....
Young Duran Duran claimed Roxy Music as their biggest influence. I really hear it here.
Meh. Not as insipid as Avalon, but still not doing it for me.
Edit: that ending was terrible. 3—>2
Edit: that ending was terrible. 3—>2
Awlsum song!!
isn't this the coolest song about love ——ever?
Love the "My Moon My Man" to "Love is the Drug" segue - walk out to car, car starts, car takes off.
Hmm - that cover looks more Gollum than Siren.....
Hmm - that cover looks more Gollum than Siren.....
Bowie's Life on Mars and now this.... I'm in Heaven.
peter_james_bond wrote:
That version of Eight Miles High is on Flesh and Blood. I bought the vinyl album when it came out in 1980, that's 29 years ago - so it has had a long rest. This song is from the Siren album that came out in 1975. The first 5 Roxy albums, including Siren, are pretty cool art rock albums. There is a small component of Cheese in their work ( I'm sure it's courtesy of the crooner himself, Mr Ferry) but then again, cheese can sometimes be pretty tasty.
The "fromage a trois" ... smelly but it tastes good.
That version of Eight Miles High is on Flesh and Blood. I bought the vinyl album when it came out in 1980, that's 29 years ago - so it has had a long rest. This song is from the Siren album that came out in 1975. The first 5 Roxy albums, including Siren, are pretty cool art rock albums. There is a small component of Cheese in their work ( I'm sure it's courtesy of the crooner himself, Mr Ferry) but then again, cheese can sometimes be pretty tasty.
The "fromage a trois" ... smelly but it tastes good.
keller1 wrote:
That version of Eight Miles High is on Flesh and Blood. I bought the vinyl album when it came out in 1980, that's 29 years ago - so it has had a long rest. This song is from the Siren album that came out in 1975. The first 5 Roxy albums, including Siren, are pretty cool art rock albums. There is a small component of Cheese in their work ( I'm sure it's courtesy of the crooner himself, Mr Ferry) but then again, cheese can sometimes be pretty tasty.
The "fromage" thing is coming up more and more on Roxy strings —- there's a whole fondue set on the Avalon comments.
My "au gratin" view is that the Roxy stuff needs a long, long rest, especially that gawdawful version of Eight Miles High.
My "au gratin" view is that the Roxy stuff needs a long, long rest, especially that gawdawful version of Eight Miles High.
That version of Eight Miles High is on Flesh and Blood. I bought the vinyl album when it came out in 1980, that's 29 years ago - so it has had a long rest. This song is from the Siren album that came out in 1975. The first 5 Roxy albums, including Siren, are pretty cool art rock albums. There is a small component of Cheese in their work ( I'm sure it's courtesy of the crooner himself, Mr Ferry) but then again, cheese can sometimes be pretty tasty.
Hannio wrote:
The "fromage" thing is coming up more and more on Roxy strings —- there's a whole fondue set on the Avalon comments.
My "au gratin" view is that the Roxy stuff needs a long, long rest, especially that gawdawful version of Eight Miles High.
Quel fromage.
The "fromage" thing is coming up more and more on Roxy strings —- there's a whole fondue set on the Avalon comments.
My "au gratin" view is that the Roxy stuff needs a long, long rest, especially that gawdawful version of Eight Miles High.
Excellent seamless transition from Feist "My Moon My Man"!
I am sitting in my cube writing a training program for Self-administered Specialty Drugs. The word drug is on every page more or less. Then this song comes on and three beats into it I knon it will now be forever linked to this training module.
FOREVER.
D'Oh!
FOREVER.
D'Oh!
Hannio wrote:
Quel fromage.
Hmmm.. this sounds strangely similar to that Anna Ternheim song from about an hour ago. I wonder what they'd sound like back-to-back...
jh483504 wrote:
Yeh, it sounded like Feist walked out of the studio and into Bryan Ferry's sports car. Now that's an odd couple. But the segue works!
outro, Feist's My Moon My Man: clack of heels on hardwood
intro, Roxy's Love is the Drug: walk, walk, car door slams
I just love it when Bill messes with random segues.
intro, Roxy's Love is the Drug: walk, walk, car door slams
I just love it when Bill messes with random segues.
Yeh, it sounded like Feist walked out of the studio and into Bryan Ferry's sports car. Now that's an odd couple.
But the segue works!outro, Feist's My Moon My Man: clack of heels on hardwood
intro, Roxy's Love is the Drug: walk, walk, car door slams
I just love it when Bill messes with random segues.
intro, Roxy's Love is the Drug: walk, walk, car door slams
I just love it when Bill messes with random segues.
Great Transition: Feist "My Moon My Man" to this...
Rumor has it they'll tour later this year!
Clever segue from the Feist song. Thanks Bill.
Bill I weep with gratitude for your genius. I just caught the car connection in the segue from feist.
My style icon guru when I was a lad, Bryan Ferry oozed such sophistication and style ..... and such great music. More Roxy M and Ferry please.
And.... they led me into real musical discoveries via Manzanera, Eno and the whole awesome alternative/world/indie/ambient/basically strange musics they have been into ever since. So not just pop.
And.... they led me into real musical discoveries via Manzanera, Eno and the whole awesome alternative/world/indie/ambient/basically strange musics they have been into ever since. So not just pop.
More_Cowbell wrote:
...before she was Mick Jagger's.
Ferry's first wife on the cover.
...before she was Mick Jagger's.
#5,,