The Right Stuff - Bryan Ferry

[link] With Roxy Music, Ferry got through the 70s sort of in parallel with punk and disco and emerged in the late 80s with this incredible album Bete Noire, which spanned the pop and alternative genres.  These songs really hold up. He inspired a lot of post punk, but going forward, I think his later stuff has the potential to be revisited.  It's influenced by funk and soul but really has a lot of originality, resulting in a sound that no one that I've heard has replicated.