{"id":1635,"date":"2008-08-16T18:38:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T22:38:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-16T18:38:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T18:38:41","slug":"will-the-real-angel-eyes-please-stand-up-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/will-the-real-angel-eyes-please-stand-up-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Real &#8220;Angel Eyes&#8221; Please Stand Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Roxy-Music-Angel-Eyes-98746.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"364\" \/><\/div>\n<p>BigSteve wrote me offlist regarding the little discussion around Roxy Music&#8217;s &#8220;Angel Eyes&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here is the disco version of <strong>&#8220;Angel Eyes&#8221;<\/strong>, if you want to post it to the blog.  It&#8217;s amusing enough in its own way, but it can&#8217;t hold a candle to what I think of as the &#8220;real&#8221; version of the song.  And I think it destroys the momentum of the first side of <em>Manifesto<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the version he speaks of, the one that&#8217;s now the standard version on all CD versions of this album:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roxy Music, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/AngelEyes_single.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Angel Eyes (&#8216;UK disco version&#8217;)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/moo.vivaroxymusic.com\/758\">These Vintage Years<\/a><\/strong> site, the original version has the rocking feel that BigSteve speaks of; this &#8220;disco&#8221; version was released as the single. There was also an extended dance mix of the song that was released and and unofficial 8-minute-plus version that is out there somewhere. <\/p>\n<p>You can here the original version of the song, as well as a rare alternate mix of &#8220;Virginia Plain&#8221;, at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/planetmondo.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/b-side-babies-pt-2-roxy-music-angel.html\">Planet Mondo<\/a><\/strong>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BigSteve wrote me offlist regarding the little discussion around Roxy Music&#8217;s &#8220;Angel Eyes&#8221;: Here is the disco version of &#8220;Angel Eyes&#8221;, if you want to post it to the blog. It&#8217;s amusing enough in its own way, but it can&#8217;t hold a candle to what I think of as the &#8220;real&#8221; version of the song. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/will-the-real-angel-eyes-please-stand-up-1\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}