October 1999

As Time Goes By 🏵
Bryan Ferry

  1. As Time Goes By
  2. The Way You Look Tonight
  3. Easy Living
  4. I'm In The Mood For Love
  5. Where Or When
  6. When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful
  7. Sweet And Lovely
  8. Miss Otis Regrets
  9. Time On My Hands
  10. Lover Come Back To Me
  11. Falling In Love Again
  12. Love Me Or Leave Me
  13. You Do Something To Me
  14. Just One Of Those Things
  15. September Song
As Time Goes By is the tenth solo album by the British singer Bryan Ferry. Fifteen jazz standards, in an instrumentation representative for café-dansants of the thirties, sung by one of the best crooners in the pop/rock business. It could have been an absolute snore fest, it actually is one of my all-time favourite albums (just under top ten). As one critic put it: "the results are both predictable and thrilling, musically tasteful but as emotionally raw as good manners will allow." All songs are great, but some are even greater than others, such as As Time Goes ByMiss Otis RegretsSeptember Song, and especially the gorgeous I'm In The Mood For Love and Where Or When (two of my all-time favourite songs). An exquisite album.

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