What Are You Listening To?

[JeromeD]

Getting lost in the Oxygene Trilogy today. This music is light years ahead of anything else ever created in the electronic realm. Pure genius at work. Recorded in a makeshift studio in his kitchen in 1976. The artwork by Michel Granger captures the mood of this album perfectly. Or maybe the music was inspired by the painting. Not sure. Anyway, when I am sick of listening to all the other albums I always return to this one. Just like DSOTM it does not age at all. Timeless beauty and simplicity.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

HUMAN LEAGUE  "dare"  vinyl/cd 1981


a revisit of a classic album...
their third album but first to make a real impression on the charts...
full of catchy tunes and surprisingly, the synths do not sound too dated like a lot from that era...
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

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Take time to see the wonders of the world
To see the things you've only ever heard of
Dream life the way you think it ought to be
See things you thought you'd never ever see

Take a cruise to China or a train to Spain
Go 'round the world again and again
Meet a girl on a boat, meet a boy on a train
And fall in love without the pain

Everybody needs love and adventure
Everybody needs cash to spend
Everybody needs love and affection
Everybody needs two or three friends

These are the things, these are the things
The things that dreams are made of
These are the things, these are the things
The things that dreams are made of

Take a lift to the top of the Empire State
Take a drive across the Golden Gate
March, march, march across Red Square
Do all the things you've never dared

Everybody needs love and adventure
Everybody needs cash to spend
Everybody needs love and affection
Everybody needs two or three friends

These are the things, these are the things
The things that dreams are made of
These are the things, these are the things
The things that dreams are made of

Like fun and money and food and love
And things you never thought of
These are the things, these are the things
The things that dreams are made of

New York, ice cream, TV, travel, good times
Norman Wisdom, Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, good times

These are the things, these are the things
The things that dreams are made of
These are the things, these are the things
The things that dreams are made of

(Everybody needs love and affection)
These are the things, these are the things
The things that dreams are made of
(Everybody needs love and affection)
These are the things, these are the things
The things that dreams are made of

[JeromeD]

Daring and very, very different - Brian Eno's 'Music For Films'.

https://youtu.be/q5VIJor61uM

[PCM72]

Getting lost in the Oxygene Trilogy today. This music is light years ahead of anything else ever created in the electronic realm. Pure genius at work. Recorded in a makeshift studio in his kitchen in 1976. The artwork by Michel Granger captures the mood of this album perfectly. Or maybe the music was inspired by the painting. Not sure. Anyway, when I am sick of listening to all the other albums I always return to this one. Just like DSOTM it does not age at all. Timeless beauty and simplicity.

Glad you appreciate JM Jarre’s masterpiece. I used to listen a lot of his music (I might suggest Zoolook if you would try some “very different” Jarre) but frankly I’ve never listened his later oxygene works. But there is a lot of music I regret that I haven’t listened when I used to listen a lot of music (not in recent decades…). Brian Eno’s music is among that (I know him just for the amazingly effective atmospheres in Zooropa and Numb). Since you like Brian Eno's 'Music For Films', perhaps you might like Vangelis’ soundtracks too? I would prefer Antarctica over Chariots Or Fire or Bladerunner, but there is an improper “soundtrack” that is actually superb for my tastes: although it was the soundtrack of a milestone for who (like me) was inducted into science by it, it’s more a compilation that includes classical music, providing an effective bridge from the past to modern electronic/ambient music: https://youtu.be/AQ720sKllMM .

[JeromeD]

I am very familiar with Vangelis. Have most, if not all, of his albums. I will give Cosmos a try - probably right up my alley if it combines classical & modern elements. Try Oxygene 7 - 13. Play that one quite a bit. The last of the Oxygene Trilogy discs is not that great but the final track is awesome.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

VANGELIS  "mask" 1985

borrowed from a friend...
his 10th studio album...
often called "the mask"....
i have a couple of his albums, both of which i like so was curious to hear another...
six tracks, 45 minutes in length...
has enough variation to keep me listening throughout...
not sure how this one ranks in his back catalogue (maybe Jerome could guide me) but...
I LIKE THIS ALBUM

fave of the six 'movements'...