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}} 〕 |rev2 = Pitchfork Media |rev2score = (9.4/10)〔http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16810-roxy-music-the-complete-studio-recordings-1972-1982/〕 |rev3 = ''Rolling Stone'' |rev3score = 〔Brackett, Nathan. "Roxy Music". ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide''. November 2004. pg. 705, cited 17 March 2010〕 |rev4 = Robert Christgau |rev4Score = B+ }} ''Country Life'' is the fourth album by the English rock band Roxy Music, released in 1974 and reaching No. 3 in the UK charts. It also made No. 37 in the United States, their first record to crack the Top 40 there. The album is considered by many critics to be among the band's most sophisticated and consistent. Jim Miller in his review for ''Rolling Stone'' wrote "''Stranded'' and ''Country Life'' together mark the zenith of contemporary British art rock."〔http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/country-life-19750227〕 Band leader Bryan Ferry took the album's title from the British rural lifestyle magazine ''Country Life''. In 2003, the album was ranked number 387 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It was one of four Roxy Music albums that made the list (''For Your Pleasure'', ''Siren'' and ''Avalon'' being the others).〔(The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time : Rolling Stone )〕 == Style and themes == The opening track, "The Thrill of It All", was an up-tempo rocker that further developed the style of songs like "Virginia Plain" (1972) and "Do the Strand" (1973); it included a quote from Dorothy Parker's poem "Resume": "You might as well live". Edwin Jobson's violin dominated the heavily-flanged production of "Out of the Blue", which became a live favourite. Esoteric musical influences were betrayed by the German oom-pah band passages in "Bitter-Sweet", the Elizabethan flavour of "Triptych" and the lighthearted, boogie-blues, Southern rock edge to "If It Takes All Night". "Casanova" was singled out for praise by a number of critics as a more cynical and hard-rocking number than the usual Roxy Music fare. Like the earlier "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" (1973), it was seen as a critique of the hollowness of the contemporary jet set, and contained further instances of Bryan Ferry's idiosyncratic word association ("Now you're nothing but / Second hand in glove / With second rate"). A re-recorded version, more mellow than the original, appeared on Ferry's 1976 solo album ''Let's Stick Together''. The final track, "Prairie Rose", was an ode to Texas and one of its daughters, Jerry Hall,〔http://www.style.com/culture/people/2015/jerry-hall-birthday-tall-tales-memoir〕 who was soon to appear on the cover of Roxy Music's fifth album, ''Siren'' (1975), and later in the video to Ferry's hit single "Let's Stick Together". ''Country Life'' included Roxy Music's fourth single, "All I Want Is You" b/w "Your Application's Failed", which reached No. 12 in the UK charts. An edited version of "The Thrill of It All", with the same B-side, was released in the United States. The album was released on Atco Records, a division of Atlantic Records. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Country Life (Roxy Music album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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