Re-Make/Re-Model

Re-Make/Re-Model

Infobox Song
Name = Re-Make/Re-Model
Artist = Roxy Music
Album = Roxy Music
Released= June 1972


track_no = 1
Recorded = 27-29 March 1972 at Command Studios, London
Genre = Art/Glam-rock
Length = 5:14
Writer = Bryan Ferry
Label = E.G. Records
Producer = Peter Sinfield
prev = (start of album)
next = Ladytron
next_no = 2

"Re-Make/Re-Model" is a song written by Bryan Ferry that appears as the opening track on Roxy Music's eponymous debut album.

The recording starts with a musique concrete introduction, a short collage of cocktail party noise, before launching into a stereotypical 1950's song structure. Whilst the basic backing track of guitar, acoustic piano, bass guitar, tenor saxophone and drums is relatively straightforward and traditional in form, other elements of the arrangement are quite bizarre and futuristic: Eno plays continual squalls of atonal oscillator noise from his EMS VCS3 synthesizer, whilst Ferry's lead vocal style is strikingly distraught and anguished in tone. The lead guitar and saxophone solos in the middle of the song also tend to cacophony. At the end of the song, each instrument is allowed a short solo break in turn; the bass guitar solo mimics the riff from the Beatles song "Day Tripper".

The lyrics describe a man that likes the looks of a woman, but is afraid to approach her. Ferry explained in an interview that Eno and MacKay's backing vocal chorus of "CPL 593H" was the licence plate number of the car in which the woman is riding. [Ian MacDonald. "Party fun from an old poseur", "NME", 8 September 1973]

Ferry reworked "Remake/Remodel" on his Let's Stick Together album (1976). The song was covered by Frank Black on his "Oddballs" collection of B-sides and rarities and he performed it live while touring with The Catholics.

Personnel

*Bryan Ferry: piano, lead vocals
*Brian Eno: VCS3, backing vocals
*Andy MacKay: tenor saxophone, backing vocals
*Graham Simpson: bass guitar
*Phil Manzanera: electric guitar
*Paul Thompson: drums

External links

* [http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/roxy+music/remakeremodel_20118922.html Lyrics]

References


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