Favourite vangelis album

Yes, these two, which are his best after Blade Runner IMNSHO

Thankyou kevin-w for the quick reply 

I do actually have spiral on vinyl which i got for 50p from a charity store,but my record deck is a bit pants

I think i will have to buy it on cd, like all my other albums

My cd player has a far superior sound than my record deck!!!

I will check out albedo 0.39 for sure thanks

This is a must have a classic...IMO

Graham 

Vangelis' RCA/Arista back-catalogue is soon to be reissued (and remastered) on Cherry Red, so don't reinvest just yet! The Spiral album will have an extra track.

Four must-haves that blow away most of those others are:

'See You Later', 'El Greco', 'Soil Festivities' and 'Mask'.

I only have Blade Runner. I like it a lot.

Aphrodites Child and Blade Runner for me.

Check out Olias of Sunhillow by Jon Anderson. Vangelis doesn't get a proper credit, but it sounds very much like him and there has been speculation for years that he was a lot more involved than either he or Mr Anderson have admited. I love it.

Keith

Also, + 1 for Blade Runner.

+1. A bonkers masterpiece.

I've been a fan since my teenage vinyl-buying days, and have since replaced the black discs with silver ones and added a few more.

From what's been mentioned above, Direct is probably my favourite, closely followed by Albedo 0.39. China is probably 3rd and Spiral 4th. I had Soil Festivities on vinyl, but really didn't enjoy it, so haven't replaced it on CD.

Albums I've got which haven't been mentioned yet are:

Heaven & Hell (1975): a bit bonkers prog/classical, somewhat a la Rick Wakeman of the period, but worth a listen.

Chariots of Fire (1981): How has this not been mentioned?! Aside from the main theme which surely everyone on the planet knows by now, the rest of the album is pretty good, though quite different.

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992). Main theme is 'the famous one', but the rest of the album is very good too.

Voices (1995). Hmm. Not bad, but left me underwhelmed, I'm afraid.

Wonderful news that remasters of the classic 70s RCA albums are on the way. Let's hope they're not DRC'd to within an inch of their lives.

Mark

Thankyou all for your info

hafler3o- I think i will wait for the new remasters. 

Hope its the great man himself who does the remastering.

Anyone have any idea when the release date of the new remasters is, and what albums will be included?

looks like he is supervising

http://www.cherryred.co.uk/shopdisplayproducts.asp?search=yes&bc=no&artist=Vangelis

release is 25/11/13

If you are thinking of checking out 666 (as recommended) it may be worthwhile listening to 'Earth' first to acclimatise yourself to the oddness. They are both great but a long, long way from most of what you have listed stylistically!

Fantastic news thankyou 

just checked out the site.

Christmas is coming a month early this year lol.

Nicely priced too.

Just listening now on youtube to the "666" album, as you said its a BIT different to my vangelis collection,

But i will give it a good listen, see if it grows on me.

Good luck! Also there are the 2 albums with Irene Papas (already available Remastered on CD) They are very beautiful, not sequencer driven (like Spiral) but somewhere between the soundtrack and more traditional Greek music (with his lush, romantic keyboard 'washes' for good measure).

I always had a liking for his China album.

One to avoid is Beaubourg. Tuneless plonking about IMO. Spiral tops the pile for me.

Good news indeed. I hope they might be restoring the original track separation for Heaven and Hell. The disc centre label on my old vinyl had a much more detailed breakdown than the CD's mere 2 tracks. Wikipedia (bless it) has a record of the detailed listing here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...Hell_(Vangelis_album)

By my reckoning, there should be 11 tracks altogether. It would be great to have them all individually indexed on the CD rather than having to fast forward like a mug.

A real shame China was released by Polydor so therefore is not on the remastering list - it is indeed a classic.

Mark

Now the remastered CDs are out, has anyone listened to them and got any comments on the SQ? There are some stingingly bad reviews and comments on Amazon about them:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/review...ewpnt#R1AUSP0XR45HTD

Mark

Jay, my thoughts too: I love the collaboration between these two greats.

I'm a complete fool for the Blade Runner* music and the style Vangelis had around that period.

Antarctica

Opera Sauvage

Soil Festivities

All the above have resonances with Blade Runner (Soil Festivities especially was a great find).

Albedo 0.39

Heaven & Hell

More bombastic.

1492: Conquest Of Paradise

Somewhere between the two styles.

Beaubourg

I wondered why so many (though by no means all) Vangelis fans hated this with a passion so listened to it and fell in love, not because it's remotely like other Vangelis (apart from perhaps Invisible Connections) but because in its atonality it reminds me strongly of Morton Subotnick (Silver Apples Of The Moon, The Wild Bull). So not  to be approached lightly or in expectation of any tunes or rhythms, as such!

*Blade Runner:

Love the three disk version (for disk two, disk three is fairly meh) but why oh why didn't they go that extra few yards and include all the unreleased cues on the second disk?. Have recently got the Audio Fidelity Gold remaster (not a huge improvement over the original).

As an almost complete aside, the album Severant, by Kuedo is well worth checking out. A modern synthesist obviously inspired by that Blade Runner period of Vangelis even to the point of plagiarism!

Mine is direct for me, I just brought the remaster and have to say that I would stick with the original don't waste your money.