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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Topic: Demis Roussos culture shock Posted: October 18 2005 at 06:12 |
I'm a huge fan of APHRODITE'S CHILD, and I like their first album as much as "666", though they are quite different. Having this in mind, I though I'll try listening two of his solo albums that my father has in his LP collection. And...
Terrible! I listened halfway the first track on "Forever and Forever" album, then I skipped to "My Only Fascination" and survived it for 15 seconds. What a shame.
Maybe I got overreacted, as I think I expected too much. But I felt that there's not any kind of imagination on them, plus what troubles me even more, there was no power! "End of The World" and "It's Five O'Clock" have a huge emotional power in them, and they are nice to listen due that. Oh dear, well, he got more money with this kind of career (and women)!
Does anybody know, are there any decent songs from him, that I should try instead of those two hits?
http://www.angelfire.com/punk2/walktheplank/demis.html
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chopper
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Posted: October 18 2005 at 07:36 |
Demis Roussos - the singing tent. I found it hard to believe when I first found out he was in a prog band with Vangelis. His solo stuff is horrible.
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Logos
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Posted: October 18 2005 at 08:07 |
Eetu, you should check Finnish humour show Kummeli, in one of the older episodes there is a hilarious Demis Roussos scene.
But agreed, his music is horrid.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: October 18 2005 at 10:24 |
Well, you know, Eetu, most Aphrodite's Child tracks had music on it that was written by Vangelis. And Vangelis was already very good in giving his albums (well, Aphrodite's Child's in this case) a great sound. That explains a lot, doesn't it?
I always liked Demis' hitsingle "My Friend The Wind" though, that's from 1973. That has a sort of Moog-solo on it which I like.
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: October 18 2005 at 14:16 |
chopper wrote:
Demis Roussos - the singing tent. |
Logos wrote:
Eetu, you should check Finnish humour show Kummeli, in one of the older episodes there is a hilarious Demis Roussos scene. |
I think I remember that! He had a one meter wide coqnac glass on it, no?
Moogtron III wrote:
I always liked Demis' hitsingle "My Friend The Wind" though, that's from 1973. That has a sort of Moog-solo on it which I like. |
I'll try listening that one.
Thanks guys!
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richardh
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Posted: October 23 2005 at 18:58 |
Rousos solo stuff is cheesey to the extreme.Its funny to think that he only sings on about 3 songs on '666' (a good thing!) although admittedly one of those is the brilliant 'The Four Horsemen'.
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Dragon Phoenix
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 00:00 |
Goadawful. He had a string of number one hits in Holland in the seventies, all of them equally bad.
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Trotsky
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 22:50 |
Hello Eetu!
I have a 16 track Best Of and most of it is awful 70s pop fluff like Forever And Ever and even a cover of Air Supply's Lost In Love
But there is one excellent single called We Shall Dance, which is his very first solo hit back in 1971, and done very much in the style of Rain And Tears ... I really love this excellent song ...
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: October 27 2005 at 06:25 |
OK, thanks! I'll check it out.
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