666: Aphrodite's Child

Some prog fans say this is one of the best prog albums ever produced, while others remain puzzled by its acclaim.

It's a strange album. Some really wild ideas on there, but it feels a bit too thrown-together and disjointed to be a classic. Still, everyone here should hear it, it's a cool album without a doubt.

A beauty from Greece. 

Hi,

If I have to list, ever, my top ten, and I doubt I can do that since tomorrow it will have something else, it will always be the band, not an album.

Aphrodite's Child is one of them for sure.

This album has been in my collection, actually at our house, way before the days of "progressive' and even before the FM radio days. Irene Pappas was already well known then, and the group was very well known in Europe and it was the main reason why we had the previous albums of theirs.

This particular album was a blow out, and I really thought for a long time (kinda still do) that if there is a perfect album to describe progressive, with all the far out ideas and concepts and definitions, that this album will blow it all out of perfection, into an area that can not be described by anyone.

Please note the guy that produced it ... he is the father of PROGRESSIVE music, and is just about responsible for this group, Gentle Giant, and Gong, and several other bands who became historic in their own way.

It's just a shame that the media makes America and Brittain the important "progressive" bands, and so many others around the world are left behind, but at least Vangelis will be way better known and remembered than probably all the progressive bands ever! And deservedly so!

Edited by moshkito - December 06 2014 at 16:05

Loud, loud, loud, loud.

Being a Greek, this album is very familiar to me as you can understand. I got it on vinyl, cd and mp3 of course.
I believe it was a rather "extreme" album for its time, starting from the cover, and continuing with the music.
The main idea is brilliant, the musicians who are participating in it are excellent, and I beleive it's an album a bit "ahead" of its time. If I had to make a Top-10 albums list I wouldn't add it, but I believe its an important album, especially for the time it was released.
Favorite track? The four horsemen of course!

HolyMoly wrote: It's a strange album. Some really wild ideas on there, but it feels a bit too thrown-together and disjointed to be a classic. Still, everyone here should hear it, it's a cool album without a doubt.

AllHellosInTheWorld wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: I AM TO COME I WAS... This basically sums up why the album is great. Just listen to the track "*infinity symbol*" on repeat for two hours and you'll have a pretty good feel for the message that young Vangelis was trying to get across.

One of the most brilliantly weird things I've ever heard. Demis Roussos used to be on UK TV a lot in the 70s singing "Forever and Ever" or whatever that God-awful song was, I never imagined he'd been on an album like this.

chopper wrote: One of the most brilliantly weird things I've ever heard. Demis Roussos used to be on UK TV a lot in the 70s singing "Forever and Ever" or whatever that God-awful song was, I never imagined he'd been on an album like this.