Roxy Music: More Than This

It’s TV Thursday and I heard the featured song on CNN last week during a commercial for Centennial Wireless. I immediately recognized the tune as “More Than This” from my favorite Roxy Music LP – “Avalon.”

While this 1982 song was a top 10 single in numerous countries, it failed to break the top 100 in the US. Although Rolling Stone considers “Avalon” as #31 of the top albums of the 80s and at #307 on the list of the top 500 LPs of all time, this would be the final studio recording for the British art-rock band.

“More than This” would return to the American charts in 1997 with a cover version done by 10,000 Maniacs that charted at #25. While this faster tempo and more rhythmic version is interesting and I like it; however, the Roxy Music original is still the better version in my book.

10,000 Maniacs “More Than This” 

Lyrics

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

CHORUS
More than this-there is nothing
More than this-tell me one thing
More than this-there is nothing

It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going
No care in the world
Maybe I'm learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

CHORUS