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Poll Question: Which is your favourite Vangelis album?
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Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

1. Heaven and Hell
2. Opera Sauvage
3. China
4. L'apocalypse
5. Spiral
6. Albedo
Amazingly, I would place my Top 6 albums from this poll in the same order. Thumbs Up
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L'apocalypse of de Animaux. A journey into sweet oblivion. Don't hold back...let it flow, you know.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Progosopher Progosopher wrote:

1. Heaven and Hell
2. Opera Sauvage
3. China
4. L'apocalypse
5. Spiral
6. Albedo
Amazingly, I would place my Top 6 albums from this poll in the same order. Thumbs Up

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Originally posted by bertolino bertolino wrote:

Earth is the missing link between Aphrodite's Child and his solo career and must be the most proggy one in the "litteral" classical sense. Yet i doubt many had a listen to it as it is not marketed as well as the Albedo's, Beaubourg  and heaven's of this world...

fair point although The Dragon might also fit the bill.

This is a tremendous and diverse list of albums that shows what an incredible musician Vangelis is , and he's still going strong.

Heaven and Hell is maybe his best 'prog' album.
Beauborg his best experimental album?
L'Apocalypse Des Animaux is best ambient perhaps
Opera Sauvage perhaps his best 'New Age'

I went for China. It has a bit of everything!
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I'd have to say Heaven and Hell, though Albedo comes really close.  There are a lot of great Vangelis albums in this period.

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Odes - Irene Papas is simply the best vocalist Vangelis ever worked with.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

This is a tremendous and diverse list of albums that shows what an incredible musician Vangelis is , and he's still going strong.

Hear! Hear! Rosetta and From Juno to Jupiter show the Van man still has it.

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Heaven and Hell is maybe his best 'prog' album.

Albedo 0.39 has to be it. "Pulsar" is straight-up keyboard prog. Any musician worth his or her salt would love to come up with something as cool as "Nucleogenesis."

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Beauborg his best experimental album?

Possibly. It qualifies. The time it takes to listen to it was about as long as he took to improvise and record it, I hear. Wink

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

L'Apocalypse Des Animaux is best ambient perhaps

That, or Soil Festivities. Both are sublime.

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Opera Sauvage perhaps his best 'New Age'

Could be. Another good one is The City. As Direct was a callback to his '70s prog, The City feels peripherally like a hybrid of Opera Sauvage and Blade Runner. 

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

I went for China. It has a bit of everything!

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Spiral is my favourite.
I was however tempted to throw in a "protest vote" for Beaubourg or Hypothesis because I think they're underappreciated
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Earth no doubt
Heaven/Hell and Albedo are ok
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Heaven and Hell for me, although there's plenty of good stuff to choose from in his 70s output. It's good to L'Apocalypse des Animaux getting some love.
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Heaven And Hell
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Originally posted by Progishness Progishness wrote:

Odes - Irene Papas is simply the best vocalist Vangelis ever worked with.
Yes indeed. I came a little late to that one, but most definitely top three for me. A stunning masterpiece.
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My vote goes to Spiral, just bought it on vinyl a few days ago. I can truly say that this album saved me.


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I don't know so much Vangelis as perhaps I should. But are there more songs like Pulsar and the credits theme of Blade Runner? I mean, similar and just about as good.
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