666: Aphrodite's Child
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Topic: 666: Aphrodite's Child
Posted By: SteveG
Subject: 666: Aphrodite's Child
Date Posted: December 06 2014 at 11:30
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Some prog fans say this is one of the best prog albums ever produced, while others remain puzzled by its acclaim. What's your opinion on 666?
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Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: December 06 2014 at 11:33
| Mmmm... one of my old favourites. Up until the end of "Altamont" it is masterful. Very strange, very eclectic. Has to be prog at some of its best. And I can listen to "Aegean Sea" on repeat forever. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 06 2014 at 13:57
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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. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: December 06 2014 at 14:58
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Love it! Gave it 5 stars. Some weird stuff on here but that's part of it's charm. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: December 06 2014 at 15:47
A beauty from Greece.   |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: December 06 2014 at 15:49
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I really dig it but I definitely have to be in the mood. If it pops up in shuffle I don't always let it play. I can see how opinions run hot and cold. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 06 2014 at 16:00
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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! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 06 2014 at 17:37
| Most prog albums of the time aren't fit to wipe its boots. If you have to explain why this album is so great then really I just wonder what passes as 'progressive' in people's minds. This is totally fearless stuff. This is what it is all about. Do you reckon that Pink Floyd and Genesis and many others might have heard this? I have an inkling they did. |
Posted By: Kazza3
Date Posted: December 07 2014 at 02:51
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Loud, loud, loud, loud. For me, it's not quite a masterpiece (maybe it's too incoherent?....
 ), but there is something so completely unique and captivating about it and the way it presents the lyrical material. Aegian Sea is so emotive. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 09 2014 at 12:31
Aegean Sea helps you interpret the story in Ulysses about the sirens serenading you ... to your death! Which in today's terms, means that you can't go back and listen to the same old sh*t anymore ... it comes off so meaningless! Same thing for the album, btw! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Kazza3 wrote:Posted By: The Jester
Date Posted: December 09 2014 at 13:04
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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! ------------- If anybody wants please visit: http://www.gfreedomathina.blogspot.com/ This is my Blog mostly about Rock music, but also a few other things as well. You are most welcome! Thank you. :) |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 09 2014 at 19:46
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I AM TO COME I WAS... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: December 09 2014 at 19:58
My thoughts as well. In the right mood, it's out of this world, though. ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: AllHellosInTheWorld
Date Posted: December 09 2014 at 21:19
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.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 10 2014 at 01:45
desperately horny?  |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 10 2014 at 02:39
Though I'd give it a 4 if I was going to review it I pretty much agree here. It's highly excellent and I very much enjoy it even if it dips occasionally. Four Horseman 4ever. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: December 10 2014 at 11:26
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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. |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: December 10 2014 at 11:37
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A masterpiece,
very unique album, right up there with the best ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 12 2014 at 11:51
He was the lead singer in Aphrodite's Child!
"It's 5 o'clock" is another one of their "hits". ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: December 12 2014 at 14:23
Surely an historical record, a very ambitious project, very telling of the social and cultural landscape of its time, and one which needs to be listened to with the right kind of mood (or the right kind of weed  ). It reminds me a bit of "Ciclos" by the Spanish Los Canarios. I rate it highly but it's not an album I would listen to frequently in the present times.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 13 2014 at 02:26
He was also the bass player! Due to the heavier instrumental approach compared to their earlier albums Roussos only gets to sing lead vocal on 3 tracks on 666.Drummer Lucas Sideras actually sings lead on a couple and Irene Papas obviously features on 'infinity'. |
Posted By: Wakeman's Birotron
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 18:15
| An absolute masterpiece in my opinion (despite its flaws). Demis Roussos' performance on "The Four Horsemen" might well be my favorite vocal performance by any singer, EVER. |