yeah that post sold me on Dragon too. this weekend I got the "Jon and Vangelis" album which to me is so interesting because it's...pretty good? but it's also...deeply weird, and right up against the edge of awful? like I can be completely into it one minute and then repulsed by it the next. I also got L'Apocalypse des animaux which as noted upthread is really forward-looking - I think the melodies early on are pretty poor but the last track on it is spectacular, I was driving to LAX at five in the morning listening to it and it was like...perfect
― undervalued aerosmith tchotchkes sold in bulk, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Dragon is pretty good - it reminds me a lot of the good jazz-fusion Zappa stuff
― ...or fold laundry? (J0n Arbuckle), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
Hey Derek Pringles, I understand what you're saying and I'm sure Lindstrom was aware of this story when he told me about it, but as he's the boss of his own record company, I'm not sure that's the main reason why he brought it up. I'm pretty sure he was suggesting that his record label would find his new album Six Cups Of Rebel (which he was comparing to MMM and Beaubourg), which is a very heavily prog influenced disco record hard to market and that maybe most of his fans would dislike it as well. (This I would say is nonsense as it's fucking great but that's another thing for another thread.)
Sorry for the temporary derail. I too love Aphrodite's Child and Albedo.
― Doran, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
wait I thought Tangerine Dream did the music for that.
shit, yes, that's right
― rob (night house), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
so interesting because it's...pretty good? but it's also...deeply weird, and right up against the edge of awful?
Vangelis in a nutshell
even after surrendering I'm still on guard, but it is love
― milton friendly, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
Come on!Come on!C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon come on!
― milton friendly, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
Hysteria and insomnia Stress, neurosis
Please give a better impression with clever use of cosmetics
I made myself interesting again today
Obviously
― milton friendly, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
& from the song chinavision posted upthread
Where is my place? Where is my home? Where is my place? Where is my friend?
Ha, ha, haa Ha, ha, haa My friend
― milton friendly, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
only one I have is Albedo, gonna look for some of these others. thanks thread!
<3 u milton
― sleeve sandbox, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
aw
my faves: 666 / Earth / L'Apocalypse des animaux (side 2) / Heaven and Hell / Beauborg / See You Later + outtakes / Blade Runner Espers Edition
at least one great track on everything 1970-1985 but also many many horrifying things
― milton friendly, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, maybe i should give dragon another shot--for some reason it didnt click w/ me but if it sounds (even a little) like earth than ill put it on tonight
milton otm about aero being otm about vangelis riding that line between awful and beautiful. wait till you hear the "gangster" skit on friends of mr cairo
― max max max max, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
kinda surprised there isn't like a 3CD "best of vangelis" set, it'd be alot easier to just recommend that than be like, "buy any album from these two decades and youre bound to find 3 or 4 great tracks!!"
― max max max max, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
lol i have a vangelis best of i got for a dollar (i know thats not what you mean but still)
― R.I.P.iest (Hungry4Ban) (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
its also p uneven
it'd just be impossible to do one that would make enough people happy, because the worst breaches in taste of course are the things he's best known for, and the most brilliant things he's done are truly warped -- so everyone's pretty much stuck doing their own trawl
luckily the records are ubiquitous and cheap
I love that Autechre debuted 'Pen Expers' live two years before Confield came out as a mashup with 'Heaven and Hell 4' aka Theme from Cosmos
― milton friendly, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
at least one great track on everything 1970-1985
If you're like me, you never remember the bad tracks cuz you skip them. Meaning these albums are ALL GOOD.
― chinavision, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
And all like a dollar anyway.
― chinavision, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
2nd disc of the ecent "Blade Runner" OST reissue is marvelous. Will rep for all this guy's stuff 4ever. Even though there IS some dreck. But outside of a few geniuses who hasn't made dreck?
― Jay To The Vee Ee Eee, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
this is the only thread I had bookmarked from the great outage
― sleeve sandbox, Saturday, 6 June 2015 05:37 (eight years ago) link