Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music - Streetlife

Growing up in the 80's afforded me access to some of what I consider the best music ever created.  I am especially fond of music from The Romantics Period of which Bryan Ferry & Roxy music fall within.  I loved Bryan Ferry's mix of styles with his music, sometimes, bobby pop, sometimes slow romance, other times, unusual alternative and while other times, harking back to the musical styles of the 20's and 30's.
My first car had a cool cassette player in it with stereo speakers in the back (yeah, I know that sounds lame now but it was cool back then!) and so I had to have the best 'Best Of' for Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music and I found it in 'Streetlife'.  This cassette got played over and over and at times was the soundtrack to events in my life.  It's been a long time since I have had a working cassette player, so on a whim I looked up the album in iTunes and it was on special at the time so I quickly snapped it up and I was so surprised when I found I remembered so many words for songs I had not heard for more than twenty years!  But why am I prattling on about this obscure Best Of album on my blog?  Because many of these songs have been used in films.  I found a wonderful list on roxyrama.com and I want to acknowledge and thank them for compiling this list.  While Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music have had a lot of music in films, I will only list those off Streetlife.

• The quirky 'Virginia Plain' shows up in both "The Velvet Goldmine" and "The Filth and The Fury";
• 'Do The Strand' from "Maybe Baby";
• 'Let's Stick Together' from "Mickey Blue Eyes";
• 'Love Is The Drug' is in "The Stud", "Casino" and "Solitaire For Two";
• The wonderful 'Same Old Scene' was in "Times Square";
• 'In The Midnight Hour' was in "Indecent Proposal";
• 'More Than This' is in "200 Cigarettes";
• and lastly 'Slave To Love' which has shown up in a massive five films, "9 1/2 Weeks", "Fire With Fire", "Malice", "Exit To Eden" and "Bitter Moon".

Some of my all time favourite songs also show up on this album, including 'These Foolish Things',  'Dance Away', 'Over You', and 'Avalon'.  A great Best Of Album and I fully recommend it.