skiwillgee opened this issue on Nov 14, 2006 · 36 posts
mboncher posted Wed, 15 November 2006 at 5:48 PM
There's an album cover I remember. :c) And you're familiar with him too Connie? Boy, I came to the right place. Svarg, you impress the hell outta me having that as an album. LOL
My collection of Jean Michel Jarre is limited to a few tapes:
Oxygene
Revolutions
Zoolook
Rendezvous
and Magnetic Fields
I discovered him back when he was brand new in the early 80s, and my friend and aquaintences in HS thought I was friggen nuts. I was hooked the first time I heard "Ethnicolour" on Zoolook. To this day, if I listen to that I have to read Stephen King's "The Long Walk". The two scarily combine themselves very well together.
Combine that with listening to classical cum new age artist Tomita and owning 40 plus tapes of Tangerine Dream and most of the Art of Noise albums, yeah, popular as a wart in a dermatologist's office.
As for Tomita albums you couldn't get them here, so I had to tape copies from the library.
"Holst: The Planets" (Mars is by far his signature piece)
"Kosmos (Pacific 231 is my favorite of all his works outside of Pavane for a Dead Princess)
"Best of Tomita" (Star Wars theme not withstanding, it's a pretty good album)
"Tomita's Greatest Hits" (Better, but not really a great mix of his work)
"Snowflakes are Dancing" (Debussy's finest, plus the theme to "Star Hustler" came from here)
"Grand Canyon Suite" Creepy but oh so enchanting
"Pictures at an Exhibition" (Best version of this work I've ever heard)
"Live At Linz" (I loved his fooling around with the "Close Encounters" theme and solo violinist)
But that's all I ever had... and now it takes an act of God to find one to buy it seems or a lot of trust on the internet. sigh....
I'm shocked so many people yes 2 is "so many" for now, know who JM Jarre. Just makes me giddy in a stupid way.
Let's see who can scare me and know who "Synergy" is, let alone Larry Fast without googling him. What other far out artists do we know?
mdb