Which Vangelis era do you prefer?

 

I'll give JJ the benefit of the doubt for now. It's a movie I'm not even sure should be made, but I'll definitely be at the theater.

 

I've enjoyed the film since the '80s, and I certainly can't imagine it existing without Vangelis' magnificent score.

 

*Rogue One ...!

When Blade Runner came out in the theater in 1982, I was 14 and pestered my parents to take my brother and I. (I should add that I was a huge Pink Floyd fan since discovering them in 1978 as a pre-teen.) When the film began and those thunderous booms and magnificent synths began, I was transfixed. I was absolutely positive as the film progressed that it was Pink Floyd who had done the music - from the bluesy, Shine On-like "Blade Runner Blues" to the eerie opening theme and creepy "Memories of Green" (that 9th note over a minor chord - how Floydian!), to the lush sax on the Love Theme. No one else but Pink Floyd was making music like this (not that I knew of), no one else combined spacey synths with bluesy soulfulness. I remember I made my parents stay to the end of the credits, waiting to see "Music by Pink Floyd," but being shocked that it was by someone I never heard of, "Vangelis." Ever since that day, I've been obsessed by Blade Runner.

 

However I think these are all masterpieces as well and none are 70's

El Greco

Voices

Direct

Antarctica

Soil Festivities

Mask

 

 

Soil Festivities in one word: sublime. I always recommend it to other people who I know who enjoy EM, but have never heard that record. "I'll get around to it." (They don't know what they're missing!)

 

Direct, which I bought new in '88 (whew!), is a seriously underrated album. I likened it to a return to his Spiral sound, just more modern (for the time). The CD had that great bonus track "Dial Out" (I had to upgrade, because I had first purchased it on cassette!).

Understand----don't love the album but at the time thought it was cool and a departure from his other stuff---I haven't heard it recently ---hard to find the CD.