More Than This: The Best of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music

by Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music

Overview

It may seem that the same Best of Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry keeps being reissued under different names, first Street Life in 1986 and then More Than This in 1999, because in a way it is. More Than This shares no less than 15 tracks with the 20-track Street Life. Instead of giving time to the great, arty side of Roxy Music, it concentrates on Bryan Ferry the crooner, which means "Pyjamarama" and "Do the Strand" are no longer here, but such latter-day solo cuts as "Don't Stop the Dance," "Kiss and Tell," and "I Put a Spell on You" (all not on Street Life) are, along with "I'm in the Mood for Love," a "preview" of his standards album As Time Goes By, which was released just a week after More Than This. All this track shuffling doesn't result in a radically different collection, though it is one that is slightly worse than its predecessor, since it doesn't really do Roxy justice. If it had been assembled as a collection of Ferry's solo material, it might have been a little more useful (then again, the casual fan who would buy a collection of Ferry hits would probably want the latter-day Roxy singles, since Ferry just didn't have that many hits on his own), but as it stands, More Than This is just an acceptable, entertaining sampler. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	06/30/1998
Label:	Msi Music Distribution / Emi Music Distribution
UPC:	0724384095123

Tracks

1. Virginia Plain
2. A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fal
3. Street Life
4. These Foolish Things
5. Love Is the Drug
6. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
7. Dance Away
8. Let's Stick Together
9. Angel Eyes
10. Slave to Love
11. Oh Yeah
12. Don't Stop the Dance
13. Same Old Scene
14. Is Your Love Strong Enoug
15. Jealous Guy
16. Kiss and Tell
17. More Than This
18. I Put a Spell on You
19. Avalon
20. Your Painted Smile

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Roxy Music   Primary Artist
Bryan Ferry   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Bo Diddley   Composer
Bob Dylan   Composer
Jack Strachey   Composer
Wilbert Harrison   Composer
John Lennon   Composer
Screamin' Jay Hawkins   Composer
Matt Dennis   Composer
Otto Harbach   Composer
Bryan Ferry   Composer
Al Jolson   Composer
Buddy DeSylva   Composer
Harry Link   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Dorothy Fields   Composer
Eric Maschwitz   Composer
Vincent Rose   Composer
Holt Marvell   Composer
Rhett Davies   Composer
J Hawkins   Composer
Walter Harrison   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Andy Mackay   Composer