The tape hiss and chemtrails of piano on "Ladytron," the synths tumbling down the stairs in the breaks on "Virginia Plain," and detuned everything on "For Your Pleasure" all bear Eno's signature.
Not since Roxy Music credited their costume designer ahead of their producer on For Your Pleasure in 1973 had a band so consciously set out to turn pop into art.
He prefers themes; this season his muse was Amanda Lear, the disco queen, who appeared on the cover of "For Your Pleasure" by Roxy Music.
Subsequently she was also linked with Bryan Ferry, having appeared as the cover girl on Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure album For a brief period in the early Seventies, the glam-rock years, sexual ambiguity was highly fashionable.
Whatever fresh new horrors this year may have visited upon us, the bedroom remains one place where you can switch the lights off (or leave them on, whatever you're into) and focus on yourself and your pleasure (and your partner's, if they're there too).
Rejecting others' standards for what you should be feeling can help you focus on your own pleasure and what you and your partner (if you have/want one) enjoy.
But to each his (or her) own, because there's plenty for everyone on the internet, whatever your pleasure.
A senior bishop would gladly serve on such a board on our behalf and at your pleasure.
KORNGOLD VIOLIN CONCERTO You've probably heard the quip "more corn than gold," but if you're disposed to lush Romanticism and singing violin lines, this work deserves, at the very least, a place on your guilty pleasures list.
Know that I am on your side; I feel your pleasure and your pain!
