Description

This definately isn’t the essential Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry compilation since it’s missing some key songs such as More Than This and Remake/Remodel. Instead The Ultimate Collection feels more like a compilation of tracks that slipped between the cracks, when they put together the 1986 Street Life compilation. This album further emphasis placed on Ferry’s solo work. A heartpounding remix of Lets Stick Together, 1977’s curiously rockabilly-like This Is Tomorrow, and the riff-laden revision of The In Crowd all leap out, alongside a stray Roxy hit omitted from Street Life, the churning All I Want Is You. One newly recorded song, He’ll Have to Go, and a lovely collaboration with Nile Rodgers, Help Me, is the real rarity here as it was only released in Usa. It was originally the theme song to the 1986 movie The Fly. Why they have added track such as Love Is The Drug, Slave To Love, Jealous Guy and so forth. And again, one wonders what the point was. Fans of the hits would have picked them up last time, fans of the odder stuff wouldn’t have wanted them in any form. Or so one would presume. But Ultimate Collection reached number six in the U.K., proving that you can sell anything to anyone if you make them think it’s worthwhile.

Track list:
1. Bryan Ferry -Lets Stick Together-88 remix
2. Bryan Ferry -The In Crowd
3. Roxy Music -Dance Away
4. Roxy Music -Angel Eyes
5. Bryan Ferry -Hell Have To Go
6. Bryan Ferry -Tokyo Joe
7. Roxy Music -All I Want Is You
8. Roxy Music -Jealous Guy
9. Bryan Ferry -The Price Of Love
10. Bryan Ferry -Don’t Stop The Dance
11. Roxy Music -Love Is The Drug
12. Bryan Ferry -This Is Tomorrow
13. Bryan Ferry -Slave To Love
14. Bryan Ferry -Help Me
15. Roxy Music -Avalon