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- Artist: Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music
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- Release Date: August 24, 2004
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Rock
Review
Along with Queen, Roxy Music started life as a glam band with a heavy prog rock edge before embarking on a long and successful career that saw a variety of musical styles touched upon. And while quite a few single-disc Roxy Music compilations have been released over the years (the best probably being the 1986 collection, Street Life: 20 Greatest Hits), most die-hard Roxy fans would argue that there were far too many highlights that fell through the cracks due to the limitation of a single disc. Hence, the 2004, triple-disc set The Platinum Collection. In conjunction with his Roxy work, singer Bryan Ferry also issued solo albums (which were quite stylistically similar to one another), and both are included in hefty portions here. Although never the superstars in the U.S. that they were in the U.K., Roxy Music and Ferry certainly had the tunes -- the early classics "Virginia Plain," "Do the Strand," and "Love Is the Drug" -- while latter day tracks as "More Than This," "Avalon," and a cover of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" (the latter of which was a U.K. chart-topper) showed the group eventually mature into a more mainstream band. The Platinum Collection bridges the gap between the countless single-disc Roxy compilations, and the exhaustive Thrill of It All box set. ~ Greg Prato, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Virginia Plain (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Roxy Music | (2:59) |
| Pyjamarama (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Roxy Music | (2:52) |
| Do the Strand (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Roxy Music | (4:02) |
| A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall | Bob Dylan | Bryan Ferry | (5:20) |
| Street Life (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Roxy Music | (3:29) |
| All I Want Is You (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Roxy Music | (2:53) |
| The "In" Crowd | Bryan Ferry, Davy O'List | (4:34) | |
| Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Lyrics) | Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach | Bryan Ferry | (2:54) |
| You Go to My Head (Lyrics) | J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie | Bryan Ferry | (2:43) |
| Love Is the Drug (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay | Roxy Music | (4:09) |
| Both Ends Burning (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Roxy Music | (5:15) |
| Let's Stick Together (Lyrics) | Wilbert Harrison | Bryan Ferry | (3:01) |
| The Price of Love | Don Everly, Phil Everly | Eddie Jobson, Bryan Ferry, |
(3:27) |
| This Is Tomorrow (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | (3:40) |
| Tokyo Joe (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | (6:27) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Sign of the Times (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | (2:28) |
| What Goes On | Lou Reed | Bryan Ferry | (4:11) |
| Carrickfergus | Traditional | Bryan Ferry | (3:48) |
| Trash (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera | Roxy Music | (2:13) |
| Dance Away (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Roxy Music | (3:47) |
| Angel Eyes (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay | Roxy Music | (2:52) |
| Over You | Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera | Roxy Music | (3:28) |
| Oh Yeah! | Bryan Ferry | Paul Carrack, Roxy Music | (4:51) |
| Same Old Scene (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Roxy Music | (3:59) |
| Jealous Guy [Edit] | John Lennon | Roxy Music | (4:58) |
| More Than This (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Roxy Music | (4:30) |
| Avalon | Bryan Ferry | (4:17) | |
| Take a Chance with Me (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera | Roxy Music | (4:43) |
| Don't Stop the Dance (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry, Rhett Davies | Bryan Ferry | (4:21) |
| Windswept (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry, Mark Knopfler | (7:08) |
CD 3
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Slave to Love (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | (4:27) |
| Is Your Love Strong Enough? (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry, David Gilmour | (4:53) |
| The Right Stuff | Bryan Ferry, Johnny Marr | Bryan Ferry | (4:23) |
| Kiss and Tell | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | (4:54) |
| Limbo | Bryan Ferry, Patrick Leonard | Bryan Ferry | (5:00) |
| He'll Have to Go (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | (4:04) | |
| I Put a Spell on You (Lyrics) | Screamin' Jay Hawkins | Bryan Ferry | (5:27) |
| Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Lyrics) | Carole King, Gerry Goffin | Bryan Ferry | (4:19) |
| Girl of My Best Friend | Jerry Ross, |
Bryan Ferry | (3:26) |
| Your Painted Smile (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | (3:14) |
| Mamouna (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | (5:11) |
| As Time Goes By | Bryan Ferry | (2:35) | |
| Goddess of Love (Lyrics) | Bryan Ferry, Dave Stewart | Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno | (3:33) |
| It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Lyrics) | Bob Dylan | Bryan Ferry | (4:06) |
| A Fool for Love | Bryan Ferry | Bryan Ferry | (7:14) |
