"More Than This" by Roxy Music

This is probably a bit past their prime, but it's undeniable, despite the guitar playing being a little too 80s elevator at the end. It doesn't matter, because Ferry was a great songwriter, and as much as I love Brian Eno, Roxy Music was really about Bryan Ferry trying to pin someone down that he could love for a long time. It doesn't matter if he was obsessed with models, he was ultimately trying to find the one. Just check out the way the video meshes religion and sex. Pretty obvious. Siren is my favorite, but this song is my pick.

The tune here is so pristine that you almost enjoy that feeling of loss as you sit next to him while he remembers the past. At least he's mature enough to accept that it's over. Listen to the way the vocal melody in the verse starts out tight and then relaxes--he's trying to show you how a relationship plays out, beginning with intensity and then growing slack. He's playing with time. He should know. And him singing "It was fun for a while," while he dances in a fire? Music video has so much potential and no one wants to realize it. It is the new film, if you choose to accept it, essentially making dreams into a concrete art form. Really brilliant stuff. Good work. This is one of those songs I've played on repeat endlessly while driving, wanting to cry and feel something amazing and cathartic, except I'm, you know, going to the grocery store or something. But that's all part of the beauty.