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Where to start with Roxy Music
Start with Take A Chance With Me — Avalon, 1982. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 15 Roxy Music tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 15 Roxy Music tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 15 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 10 of the 15 tracks come from Avalon alone.
The years need a caveat: 10 of 15 dated tracks land in the 1980s and come from 1 record, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
The tracks are filed across 4 genres, most often art rock, eclectic and psych rock, so the room does not treat this as a single-shelf artist.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Take A Chance With Me — Avalon, 1982. Of the 15 Roxy Music tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
Tara — Avalon, 1982. The lowest energy reading of any Roxy Music track in the room (39 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
Editions of You — For Your Pleasure, 1973. The highest energy reading here, at 75 out of 100 — a 36-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Roxy Music sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Roxy Music's average coordinates and the range they cover.
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Avalon | 1982 | 10 |
| For Your Pleasure | 1973 | 2 |
| Siren | 1975 | 1 |
| 7“ | 2001 | 1 |
| roxy music | 1972 | 1 |
Every Roxy Music track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| If There Is Something | roxy music | 1972 |
| Editions of You | For Your Pleasure | 1973 |
| For Your Pleasure | For Your Pleasure | 1973 |
| Both Ends Burning | Siren | 1975 |
| Avalon | Avalon | 1982 |
| India | Avalon | 1982 |
| More Than This | Avalon | 1982 |
| Take A Chance With Me | Avalon | 1982 |
| Tara | Avalon | 1982 |
| The Main Thing | Avalon | 1982 |
| The Space Between | Avalon | 1982 |
| To Turn You On | Avalon | 1982 |
| True To Life | Avalon | 1982 |
| While My Heart Is Still Beating | Avalon | 1982 |
| Pyjamarama | 7“ | 2001 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Roxy Music's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with David Bowie — art rock, 21 tracks
- Where to start with The Voidz — art rock, 24 tracks
- Where to start with Radiohead — art rock, 99 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Roxy Music as a group, from London, the United Kingdom and formed in 1971. Its contributors tag the artist glam rock, art rock, pop rock, art pop and sophisti-pop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Roxy Music tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 15, across 5 albums. 15 of them carry a date, running from 1972 to 2001. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 15 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 15 of these 15 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.