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MOSHKITO! Come back!
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2011 at 13:30
Shame Moshkito left...he loved this album.
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Points: 26133 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2011 at 13:28
I like the album a lot, but I don't LOVE it.  And I'm certainly not IN LOVE with it.  The album and I have never had intimate relations.  OK?

A good chunk of it is excellent.  Several spots are a little lyrically awkward (no doubt due to English as a second language).  Overall it seems a bit fragmented - side one especially sounds like a bunch of separate recordings by different bands.

I know that I'm being overly critical of what is quite a cool album, and one I am more than proud to own.  But overall, after months of hand-wringing and sleepless nights, I vote "No".
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2011 at 11:36
Originally posted by Gandalff Gandalff wrote:

Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Gandalff Gandalff wrote:

Mediocre album from an average band. Unfortunately. I´m sorry.
 
nothing ''average'' about this band even if the music is not to your taste Thanks Richard
Theoretically yes, well, this is Symphonic, but comparing with greatest Prog Giants, I must to admit Aphrodite´s Child aren´t in their level at all.
just your personnal point of view Gandalf and in this case not quiet objective
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Points: 4214 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2011 at 11:30
Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Gandalff Gandalff wrote:

Mediocre album from an average band. Unfortunately. I´m sorry.
 
nothing ''average'' about this band even if the music is not to your taste Thanks Richard
Theoretically yes, well, this is Symphonic, but comparing with greatest Prog Giants, I must to admit Aphrodite´s Child aren´t in their level at all.
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2011 at 10:29
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Gandalff Gandalff wrote:

Mediocre album from an average band. Unfortunately. I´m sorry.
 
nothing ''average'' about this band even if the music is not to your taste Thanks Richard
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Points: 26397 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2011 at 15:24
Originally posted by Gandalff Gandalff wrote:

Mediocre album from an average band. Unfortunately. I´m sorry.
 
nothing ''average'' about this band even if the music is not to your taste
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Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Oh! so she plays the guitar? maybe you got an old stray cats album in your collection?
Naw she doesn't play guitar but likes to sing along.LOL
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Mediocre album from an average band. Unfortunately. I´m sorry.
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Oh! so she plays the guitar? maybe you got an old stray cats album in your collection?
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Points: 29625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2011 at 11:24
Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Who can find the beast? She comes she goes, Who ever knows? Who can find the beast? she's wicked and she's sad, 
I have found the beast and she is my cat Squeaky. Tongue  Squeaky say rare to you all. Big smile   does she mean rare steak? 
Oh no rare rare rare rare rare.  You might be right, maybe she just wants some raw or slightly cooked steak.  Confused Tongue
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Maybe she just wants to play the guitar?

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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Who can find the beast? She comes she goes, Who ever knows? Who can find the beast? she's wicked and she's sad, 
I have found the beast and she is my cat Squeaky. Tongue  Squeaky say rare to you all. Big smile   does she mean rare steak? 
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Points: 29625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2011 at 11:13
Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Who can find the beast? She comes she goes, Who ever knows? Who can find the beast? she's wicked and she's sad, 
I have found the beast and she is my cat Squeaky. Tongue  Squeaky say rare to you all. Big smile
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Who can find the beast? She comes she goes, Who ever knows? Who can find the beast? she's wicked and she's sad, 
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Originally posted by Barking Weasel Barking Weasel wrote:

Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Originally posted by cannon cannon wrote:

Unbearable. A blasphemy and a abomination. I bought it 25 years ago and after one listen I couldn't get it back to the store fast enough to return it. I lied and said it skipped. I felt my hands were rinsed of blood.
ConfusedConfusedConfusedConfusedConfusedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryUnhappyUnhappyUnhappyUnhappy What's the problem with you?one spin is enough to say you don't like an album?i'm not even sure you're joking when you talk about blood on your hands, i prefer not imagine what's on your mind

I'd be interested in knowing why he thought it was blasphemous. I haven't bothered yet to check out the lyrics so...but i idid feel that maybe they weren't taking the subject matter too seriously which some would consider irreverent. I don't have a problem with that but some would i guess.


I think that Vangelis was mostly portraying in the lyrics a literal description of events from Revelations, with a few irreverent compositional elements thrown into the record.  Perhaps the album title scares people away, but I don't really see that the content of the music was blasphemous to religion or spirituality in any real sense.  The song "Aegian Sea" is quite spiritual in a very positive way, to my ears.  Also, the vocals by Irene Papas on "Infinity" do not specifically say anything that could be construed as blasphemy.  I think it is just the unusual repetitive vocal sound that scares some people away from the track, not as a result of the actual content of the lyrics.
 
The devil works in many different ways but mostly in the mind.LOL
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2011 at 19:52
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

If he played it at 78rpm he could have listened to the whole thing in 33 minutes 20 seconds... that's still not that quick.
  LOL sorry for my bad english, i see what you mean
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Points: 2585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2011 at 19:51
Costa Ferris was the lyricist but it's so close to the apocalypse
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2011 at 19:43
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Vangelis wasn't the lyricist. Geek


Then replace the word "lyrics" with "concept," since it was his idea in the first place.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2011 at 19:40
Vangelis wasn't the lyricist. Geek
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2011 at 19:32
Originally posted by Mellotron Storm Mellotron Storm wrote:

Originally posted by jean-marie jean-marie wrote:

Originally posted by cannon cannon wrote:

Unbearable. A blasphemy and a abomination. I bought it 25 years ago and after one listen I couldn't get it back to the store fast enough to return it. I lied and said it skipped. I felt my hands were rinsed of blood.
ConfusedConfusedConfusedConfusedConfusedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedShockedAngryAngryAngryAngryAngryUnhappyUnhappyUnhappyUnhappy What's the problem with you?one spin is enough to say you don't like an album?i'm not even sure you're joking when you talk about blood on your hands, i prefer not imagine what's on your mind

I'd be interested in knowing why he thought it was blasphemous. I haven't bothered yet to check out the lyrics so...but i idid feel that maybe they weren't taking the subject matter too seriously which some would consider irreverent. I don't have a problem with that but some would i guess.


I think that Vangelis was mostly portraying in the lyrics a literal description of events from Revelations, with a few irreverent compositional elements thrown into the record.  Perhaps the album title scares people away, but I don't really see that the content of the music was blasphemous to religion or spirituality in any real sense.  The song "Aegian Sea" is quite spiritual in a very positive way, to my ears.  Also, the vocals by Irene Papas on "Infinity" do not specifically say anything that could be construed as blasphemy.  I think it is just the unusual repetitive vocal sound that scares some people away from the track, not as a result of the actual content of the lyrics.
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