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Vangelis — L'Enfant
Album: Opera Sauvage
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Released: 1979
Length: 4:52
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My nipples get hard when I hear this orgasmic music...  love it...
Posted 10 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]

This is from the soundtrack of the 1982 film The Year of Living Dangerously... I was still a teenager vivere pericolosamente when this movie premièred...  that was a very, very good year...  I still play this on my piano— somewhat wistfully these days... very few people know what I'm playing... sigh... love it...
 
Posted 11 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]

 

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Posted 15 years ago by calypsus_1    [ Reply ]
winter wrote:
It sounds like something from a bad Eighties movie soundtrack - there should be some kind of montage with this.
It's actually from an 80s film (The Year of Living Dangerously) that is quite good. MAY have been a montage or two in it.
Posted 17 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]
Has the elevator reached my floor yet cause I wanna get off.
Posted 17 years ago by Daveinbawlmer    [ Reply ]
It sounds like something from a bad Eighties movie soundtrack - there should be some kind of montage with this.
Posted 17 years ago by winter    [ Reply ]
I'm surprised a ninja would make such corny music.
Posted 17 years ago by OldFrenchie    [ Reply ]
Vangelis is a great composer within his genre but the production / soundscape is often quite poor. Sad to say it but cheap covers of Vangelis music is often better produced (except 1492 - conquest of paradise) I usually don't like remakes by the same artist ( Jarre, Oldfield etc) that often is made as a middle age crisis but I would like to hear old Vangelis tunes with new bombastic atmosphearic sounds.
Posted 17 years ago by DrDIP    [ Reply ]
Something Christmas-y about it. 8.
Posted 17 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
trekhead wrote:
I first read that as ' OPERA SAUASAGE'.
Thank you for my first laugh out loud moment of the day. I'm still giggling.
Posted 17 years ago by rtrudeau    [ Reply ]
darrellw wrote:
This was used by Peter Weir in the film "The Year of Living Dangerously" with Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver, with an amazing performance by Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan, a MALE photo-journalist in Sukarno's Indonesia -- one of the more remarkable films of all time. L'Enfant still evokes strong emotion and is a powerful piece of music some 24 years later (although Opera Sauvage was released in 1990, L'Enfant predates the album release).
Yeah, but they never included it on the damn soundtrack! I went out and bought it after seeing the film because of this piece and was very disappointed. Still, 23 years later or whatever it was, and out of context, I can see why people aren't impressed. It's amazing how many early 80s movies replay badly due to cheesy synth soundtracks. (Chariots of Fire anyone?)
Posted 17 years ago by suddenchad    [ Reply ]
junebaby65 wrote:
I have an urge to run a marathon on a beach right now....
I just got back from running on the beach...barefoot, just like in the movie. You know which movie.
Posted 17 years ago by Kevstar    [ Reply ]
Love is a burning thing and it makes a firery ring bound by wild desire I fell in to a ring of fire... I fell in to a burning ring of fire I went down,down,down and the flames went higher. And it burns,burns,burns the ring of fire the ring of fire. The taste of love is sweet when hearts like our's meet I fell for you like a child oh, but the fire went wild.. I fell in to a burning ring of fire.....
Posted 18 years ago by thatslongformud    [ Reply ]
Slick wrote:
Muzak for the wine and brie set
I like wine and brie. We listen to the Ramones.
Posted 18 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
Posted 18 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
victoryluna wrote:
MAKE IT STOP! It's rewiring my synapses!
Posted 18 years ago by orpheus    [ Reply ]
This was used by Peter Weir in the film "The Year of Living Dangerously" with Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver, with an amazing performance by Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan, a MALE photo-journalist in Sukarno's Indonesia -- one of the more remarkable films of all time. L'Enfant still evokes strong emotion and is a powerful piece of music some 24 years later (although Opera Sauvage was released in 1990, L'Enfant predates the album release).
Posted 18 years ago by darrellw    [ Reply ]
I'm not sure I'd want to listen to the rest of the CD, but this is a nice little interlude.
Posted 18 years ago by handyrae    [ Reply ]
I once used this as the music bed for a commercial. I still don't think it's worthy of being much more than that.
Posted 18 years ago by radiojunkie    [ Reply ]
Muzak for the wine and brie set
Posted 18 years ago by Slick    [ Reply ]
liser wrote:
Is it Christmas already?
haaaa. this does totally sound like something off of the Mannheim Steamroller albums...
Posted 18 years ago by rah    [ Reply ]
I have an urge to run a marathon on a beach right now....
Posted 18 years ago by junebaby65    [ Reply ]
Is it Christmas already?
Posted 18 years ago by liser    [ Reply ]
victoryluna wrote:
MAKE IT STOP! It's rewiring my synapses!
REVERTING TO DEFAULT PROG RAMMING... DESTORY ALL HUNAMS!!!
Posted 18 years ago by UltraNurd    [ Reply ]
Shesdifferent wrote:
An odd choice for Vangelis on RP, he has so many great tracks.
Very weak, too much Chariots of Fire and John Tesh, not enough Albedo.
Posted 18 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
An odd choice for Vangelis on RP, he has so many great tracks.
Posted 18 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
MAKE IT STOP! It's rewiring my synapses!
Posted 18 years ago by victoryluna    [ Reply ]
I respect it for its avant garde-ness...in its day. but, in this day...pass the coffee. nice one to hear...once...every year to two. max.
Posted 18 years ago by bschena    [ Reply ]
Muzak version of Enya.
Posted 18 years ago by Squirrel    [ Reply ]
shayde wrote:
...and the great stuff he did with the backing music for Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos'. But I must admit, 'Heaven and Hell' was one of my favorite albums back in the 80's 8)
Hm. I'm pretty sure the backing music for Cosmos pretty much was Heaven and Hell. -mt-
Posted 18 years ago by mattt    [ Reply ]
wow I hope this is back from the revolutionary movement of electronic synth cause today's standards I'm thinking....huh? what's going on here? Just confused not enjoying it....keep waiting for something to happen...
Posted 18 years ago by Beezer    [ Reply ]
I'm getting out the Yule Log and the Christmas tree.
Posted 18 years ago by JGD    [ Reply ]
It sounds like the soundtrack to Tron. That's not a compliment.
Posted 18 years ago by gntlemanartist    [ Reply ]
I first read that as ' OPERA SAUASAGE'.
Posted 18 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
))((
Posted 18 years ago by fearlessfreep    [ Reply ]
yclept wrote:
...and don't forget the soundtrack for "Bladerunner"!
Yes!!
Posted 18 years ago by rapunzel210    [ Reply ]
gntlemanartist wrote:
I thought for a moment that this was going to turn into the Chariots of Fire theme. Alas.
my thoughts exactly
Posted 18 years ago by mace    [ Reply ]
dmax wrote:
As much as I rant about Keith Emerson, or Rick Wakeman... my real creative keyboard influence is the organic evocative writing of Vangelis Papathanassiou. It's easy to write him off as new age Yanni/Tesh - but that's because they ride his coattails without adding to the genre of emotive instrumentalism. If you have any interest in this sort of stuff, grab Albedo 0.39 or Spiral. Brilliant stuff, really - particularly for the period. (And I think that some music deserves to be heard in the context of its period, like The Doors or Traffic or this)
Absolute and total agreement, here. It's a great pity when a good genre -and its founder(s)- get dismissed as "trashy" or "overdone" as a result of all the imitation that followed. When Vangelis released "Albedo 0.39", he was writing true avant-garde electronic music. Vangelis is an outstanding composer and performe, who has written highly original material. He doesn't sound like Yanni. Yanni and co. sound like him, and thrashed an interesting and original style to death. Likewise, most kids today think that Star Wars is goofy and cheesy, without realizing that it was the movie that made all the modern space genre possible.
Posted 18 years ago by gekkosan    [ Reply ]
shayde wrote:
. . . I must admit, 'Heaven and Hell' was one of my favorite albums back in the 80's . . .
I was out with some friends at an all night marshmallow roast/bull session on a partly cloudy night with a full moon. Someone had a tape of Heaven & Hell in the boombox, and the clouds passing in front of the moon started synchronizing with the music. Like, wierd, Scoob! I second the recommendation of Albedo 0.39 and Cosmos; also recommend you take a listen to Soil Festivities. Some good planetarium music in there!
Posted 18 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
zzz (without the smile)
Posted 18 years ago by bbHappy    [ Reply ]
daveesh wrote:
this is really bad!
john tesh meets yanni? has to be eurotrash...
Posted 18 years ago by tony620d    [ Reply ]
Thumbs up here, Vangelis? Nice!
Posted 18 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
this is really bad!
Posted 18 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
I thought for a moment that this was going to turn into the Chariots of Fire theme. Alas.
Posted 18 years ago by gntlemanartist    [ Reply ]
...and don't forget the soundtrack for "Bladerunner"!
Posted 18 years ago by yclept    [ Reply ]
This is one of the rare times I am turning down the volume.
Posted 18 years ago by k486    [ Reply ]
Does anyone have stuff from the 1492 soundtrack? That is some really good Vangelis.
Posted 18 years ago by UltraNurd    [ Reply ]
Fondly remembered, and still very effective.
Posted 18 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]
I loved the movie and the music, still watch it when it pops up on TV. Some of the Vangelis eletronica sounds a wee bit like vintage Atari midis, but it's still a lovely piece of music.
Posted 18 years ago by Brisa    [ Reply ]
this is pretty cheese eurotrash... yanni says what? lol
Posted 18 years ago by tony620d    [ Reply ]
I loved the music from "The Year of Living Dangerously," and I guess I'd assumed the theme music was written by Maurice Jarre (a composer I like a lot), but of course it was Vangelis. Evocative.
Posted 18 years ago by rapunzel210    [ Reply ]
John Tesh says what? yeah, I know, he's been around a lot longer, bla bla bla. This is still crap.
Posted 18 years ago by timandjuliet    [ Reply ]
Um... this is... not so totally awesome.
Posted 18 years ago by Happygirl    [ Reply ]
oh dear.
Posted 18 years ago by flyfree    [ Reply ]
There's very few of Vangelis' pieces that I really get into and enjoy. His peak was the Chariots of Fire soundtrack, and the great stuff he did with the backing music for Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos'. But I must admit, 'Heaven and Hell' was one of my favorite albums back in the 80's 8) This particular track? Dull, but is indicative of a lot of his stuff. There are gems in his work, but you have to dig for them.
Posted 18 years ago by shayde    [ Reply ]
Very nice. An 8, at least.
Posted 18 years ago by AlienRelic    [ Reply ]
I have always loved this song. It was from one of the first 10 CD's I have ever purchased back in the 80's. It blew my mind when I heard it being played! It was the second song used on the Old Style beer commercials, in the 80's.
Posted 18 years ago by Trapezium    [ Reply ]