Producers include: Peter Sinfield, Bryan Ferry, Chris Thomas, John Porter, John Punter.

1995 anthology released in connection with the four-disc "Thrill Of It All" box set. 20 tracks total.

In November 1980, Roxy Music scored their 13th straight UK hit with "The Same Old Scene". Who could have guessed that, less than 20 years on, there would be an entire sub-category of Roxy/Bryan Ferry albums that might easily be lumped beneath a similar banner?

Fact - between 1972 and 1995, Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music placed 42 singles on the British chart. Fact - between 1977 and 2001, the same team was graced with over a dozen compilation albums. Choose carefully, and all the hits can be gathered together, with the minimum of duplication. Buy sloppily, and you'll be listening to "Avalon" over and over for the rest of the year. More Than This (as in, presumably, "surely there is...") falls into the latter category, a poorly conceived, thinly compiled gathering of the same old scene - the same old songs. If you only need one Roxy Music collection, this is as good as any. If you already have one, however, there's plenty better to choose from. ~ Dave Thompson

The idea of titling a Bryan Ferry best-of CD after what must be one of his least-enjoyable hit records is a strange one -- even at the time, "Tokyo Joe" sounded a pale contrivance when compared to the majesty of earlier Ferry compositions, and time has not altered that dour scenario. (Nor, incidentally, should the compilation's Japanese origin.) Such mundanity is, however, par for the course, as Tokyo Joe: Best of Bryan Ferry pointedly refuses to open out into anything especially noteworthy. Skimming through both Ferry's solo career, and his years with Roxy Music, twenty songs essentially duplicate every other Ferry retrospective out there, to become less a "greatest hits" than one more "same old bits." Unless, of course, there's someone left out there who doesn't already own all the songs already. A hermit in the Himalayas, perhaps? ~ Dave Thompson

It may seem that the same Best of Roxy Music & Bryan Ferry keeps being reissued under different names, first Street Life in 1986 and then More Than This in 1999, because in a way it is. More Than This shares no less than 15 tracks with the 20-track Street Life. Instead of giving time to the great, arty side of Roxy Music, it concentrates on Bryan Ferry the crooner, which means "Pyjamarama" and "Do the Strand" are no longer here, but such latter-day solo cuts as "Don't Stop the Dance," "Kiss and Tell," and "I Put a Spell on You" (all not on Street Life) are, along with "I'm in the Mood for Love," a "preview" of his standards album As Time Goes By, which was released just a week after More Than This. All this track shuffling doesn't result in a radically different collection, though it is one that is slightly worse than its predecessor, since it doesn't really do Roxy justice. If it had been assembled as a collection of Ferry's solo material, it might have been a little more useful (then again, the casual fan who would buy a collection of Ferry hits would probably want the latter-day Roxy singles, since Ferry just didn't have that many hits on his own), but as it stands, More Than This is just an acceptable, entertaining sampler. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Almost since the first Roxy Music album in 1973, frontman Bryan Ferry had had a concurrent solo career that morphed from almost campy lounge into ultimately-suave decadence--while the band arrived there after starting as glam-rockers. Shortly after these two evolutions met, Roxy Music disbanded and Ferry continued on. Heavily skewed toward this later period in Ferry's career, MORE THAN THIS examines the highly polished, slick sophistication that he perfected on the AVALON album.

The band's brilliant first single "Virginia Plain," the frankly rather wacky version of Dylan's "A Hard Rains a-Gonna Fall," and the solid grooves of the story-song "Love Is the Drug" are all from the early years, but the focus here is really on the diamond-hard, funky jazz-rock that became the Ferry's true forte--tracks like "Dance Away" and "Angel Eyes." Though the two songs from AVALON--"More Than This" and the title track--included here eclipse most of Ferry's other work, "Slave to Love," "Oh Yeah," and "Same Old Scene" are all certifiable masterpieces. After AVALON, Ferry's solo recordings, including "Kiss and Tell" (from BETE NOIRE) and his cover version of "I'm in the Mood for Love" (from AS TIME GOES BY), have successfully refined ideas from those tracks.