shhh
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
no, really
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, I couldn't disagree more with what some of the people were saying 6 years ago. This album is a total classic, and while the 4 Horsemen is nice, it's one of the less interesting tracks to me. I don't get how you could consider it a "mess". My favorites are The Lamb, The Battle of the Locusts/Do It, The Wedding of the Lamb, and Hic and Nunc.
― Ktulu says, I've come to hate my body (wk), Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
i love the album but it is a "mess". a good mess though
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 June 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
what's messy about it?
― Ktulu says, I've come to hate my body (wk), Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
i just feel that way because it's really all over the place as an album and ends rather strangely with a collage piece. it reminds me a lot of some of Zappa's albums
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
hmm, it sounds very cohesive to me. for a progressive rock two-disc concept album, it's pretty damn tight. I like basically every track, can listen to it all the way through, and everything flows together well. The concept is pretty well exploited and even if it's a bit silly, it's not nearly as off-putting as when English bands got silly and pretentious. It gives the album a nice weirdo mysterious greek vibe. The writing, production, playing, and arrangements, are all top notch. Overall, I think they managed to keep the perfect balance between experimentation and a strong pop sensibility. You never get the impression that they're going off into weird time signatures or doing 20 minute drum solos just for the sake of it. I don't feel like there any freakout parts just inserted to fill out a side of the record. The stuff that might come across as filler on another album is used well here to add to the overall flow and atmosphere.
Maybe something is wrong with your version, because mine ends with the song "Break".
But then I don't really find Zappa's albums to be messes either. Or rather the ones that other people might consider messes are his best albums IMO.
― Ktulu says, I've come to hate my body (wk), Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
"BREAK!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WTNFuF6qiA
Funny:1) Song is by the drummer2) there are no drums on it.
― Mark G, Monday, 20 February 2012 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
What are the solo Demis Roussos lps like. Trying to find reviews but having no luck. Looks like at least the first one and Forever and Ever retain some prog/psych influence from the couple of reviews I've seen.
The scene in Abigail's party always had me thinking they must be far straighter MOR stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-hXUehyRlE
and iirc he was thought of as a grannie's favourite on mainstream tv in the late 70s/early 80s. But received wisdom can be pretty distorted.
― Stevolende, Monday, 20 February 2012 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
The "Roussos Phenom" documentary had a fair bit of "Rock" on tracks like "I dig you" which was an oldie by "Odyssey" (not the Native NY lot) previously called "Who"..
― Mark G, Monday, 20 February 2012 10:53 (twelve years ago) link
Looks like at least the first one and Forever and Ever retain some prog/psych influence from the couple of reviews I've seen.
I've got the first one, have been too scared to venture further than that, and it's pretty good! Not sure about the track where he's going on about the Greek side of his mind, it must be said.
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 20 February 2012 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
But, yes, it's quite close to Aphrodite's Child - first 2 albums, not 666 - the schmaltz is encroaching however
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 20 February 2012 10:57 (twelve years ago) link
here's a piece i wrote for FT last year that encompasses aphrodite's child
― mark s, Monday, 20 February 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
I've always loved Vangelis's synth albums, but I don't really care about prog rock. Is any of the AC stuff worth checking out for a Vangelis fan, or is it all prog?
― Tuomas, Monday, 20 February 2012 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
It's all prog/psychedelia/pop
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 20 February 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
prog/psychedelia/pop/fusion/classical/folk/reggae/techno/punk/swing/juju
― mark s, Monday, 20 February 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
i.e. Tuomas won't like it
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Monday, 20 February 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
he will if he approaches it on a swingin eurotica tip
(ok no he probably won't)
― mark s, Monday, 20 February 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
I picked up the 'Break' single recently, it's the happiest 'sad' song ever.
― Mark G, Monday, 20 February 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
Altamont is such a jam
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 16 August 2014 11:37 (nine years ago) link
Demis Roussos has died:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/26/demis-roussos-dies-aged-69-greek-singer-forever-and-ever
― you've got no fans you've got no ground (anagram), Monday, 26 January 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
that pale horse sure has a sense of timing
― ear sirrom (imago), Monday, 26 January 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, shame, 68 is too young. RIP Demis.
― A trumpet growing in a garden (Tom D.), Monday, 26 January 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
RIP Demis - Four Horsemen is my second favourite rock song of all time and a solid lock for a desert island disc.
I was DJing on Saturday night and played I Dig You and that was the moment the entire night kicked off. It still sounds like magic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Q1HsPE5cQ
― Doran, Monday, 26 January 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
'The Four Horsemen' is a work of genius. RIP.
― emil.y, Monday, 26 January 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link
I've said here it till I'm blue in the face but I like his first solo album ... the later one with Vangelis is good too.
― A trumpet growing in a garden (Tom D.), Monday, 26 January 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
:(
― Get Ducked (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 26 January 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
Love his performance on this one :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwbr9EL0UJM
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Monday, 26 January 2015 13:47 (nine years ago) link
showing lewis baloue how to do it properly:
http://eil.com/images/main/Demis-Roussos-Man-Of-The-World-425651.jpg
― why you gotta be so rmde (NickB), Monday, 26 January 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
I always considered "My Face in the Rain" to be one of the most beautiful vocal performances ever, rest in peace man :(
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Monday, 26 January 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, this is a huge bummer. He basically had the voice of God.
And Forever and Ever is one of the most glorious, sun-soaked, harpsichorded, balilaka'd-out pop albums ever.
SUCH A BANGER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a0XolnWKf4
― J. Sam, Monday, 26 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Also, this gloriously schmaltzy Morricone collab:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnEH5gT0Mbc
― J. Sam, Monday, 26 January 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
From Andrew Male of Mojo on Twitter:
Yer @signifyingwolf points out that, in 2009, the late, great Demis Roussos recorded a song called Who Give A Fuck...Sorry, that should have read A NINE-MINUTE DEMIS ROUSSOS SONG called WHO GIVES A FUCK?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDJQy4vIwbY
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 January 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
RIP, what a legacy.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 26 January 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
so if we add the vangelis album to the bayle piece that directly features recordings of the may 68 riots, what else is there? what is the ideal May 68 playlist?
Daevid Allen, "And His Adventures In the Land of Flip" (from the "Banana Moon" album (he plays guitar on the Francois Bayle piece mentioned in the original post too))
Also this...
https://continuo.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/nono-lp-front.jpg
― This Year's Model Victim (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 July 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BUDrKiR49o
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 24 February 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link