[HN Gopher] Vangelis has died
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       Vangelis has died
        
       Author : Saint_Genet
       Score  : 466 points
       Date   : 2022-05-19 17:04 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | bmitc wrote:
       | He was a very unique, visionary talent. To back that up, beyond
       | his scores, take a look at the following video to get a glimpse
       | of how he worked.
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/GWggDMDhwIA
       | 
       | There used to be some forum posts detailing the custom MIDI
       | controllers and setup more, but it looks like a lot of it has
       | been deleted or removed. I found this though:
       | 
       | https://www.synthevolution.net/blog/2017/5/22/the-devils-wor...
        
       | lycopodiopsida wrote:
       | A very sad day. He was still productive despite his age, his
       | Nocturnes from 2019 are incredible. RIP and thanks for all the
       | beautiful moments.
        
       | climb_stealth wrote:
       | The boxer Henry Maske had Conquest of Paradise playing as the
       | entry music [0]. I don't quite remember the context but it may
       | have been the last fight in his career. Pure athmosphere and
       | goose bumps back in the day. I didn't actually know what song it
       | was back then as I was just a child but the melody always stuck
       | with me. It was years and years later when I actually learned
       | about Vangelis and came across the song again.
       | 
       | [0] https://youtu.be/J4HvovGe5TY
        
       | msie wrote:
       | Loved the guy's work for many years. Inspired so many other
       | artists. I listen to his work and variations inspired by him, on
       | YouTube while working. Rest in Peace.
        
       | johnsanders wrote:
       | Chariots of Fire is iconic of course.
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo
       | 
       | I think my first encounter with his music was the Ernest & Julio
       | Gallo wine commercials.
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mES7lzR9uFE
       | 
       | Seems he should have been considerably older than 79.
        
         | johnsanders wrote:
         | And you can't mention the Ernest & Julio Gallo ads without a
         | link to the voiceover guy / head of the ad agency Hal Riney.
         | Another legend.
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_lnwNIlJUo
        
         | julienchastang wrote:
         | Thanks for the link to the commercial. Classic Vangelis.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | motohagiography wrote:
       | Imo, Vangelis brought the synthesizer from an experimental
       | novelty to an instrument for composition. The two sounds I
       | associate with him are the long brassy triangle with a steep
       | envelope that we know from both Blade Runner and the
       | accompaniment to the piano in the Chariots of Fire theme, and his
       | effective use of chimes.
       | 
       | I have tickets for Olafur Arnalds next week, and there is a
       | younger generation of composers like Arnalds, Frahm, Richter,
       | Tiersen, Aphex/James, and even Reznor/Ross, who could not have
       | avoided Vangelis' influence marrying the synth with classical
       | techniques. He was a big part of what inspired me to start making
       | synth music and more than a few of my tracks have homages to his
       | work, and this note triggered a memory of playing the Chariots
       | theme on piano as a really young child and it seemed to be
       | everywhere at the time. A loss, but hard to mourn such an
       | exceptional contribution as well.
        
         | pmoriarty wrote:
         | Just for reference, here's Nils Frahm performing _More_ :
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRj6G6RB7jc
        
         | johnohara wrote:
         | When I listen to Chronotope Project I hear the Vangelis
         | influences. Along with Vangelis' inspiration to pursue such
         | solitary and personal musical expressions.
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARkcu3J8OvI https://chronotope-
         | project.com/bio
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | fetus8 wrote:
         | Based on my listening and no other knowledge, he probably had
         | quite the influence on Oneohtrix Point Never aka OPN aka Daniel
         | Lopatin. He's always been a big synth head and his OST scores
         | really showcase his talents.
        
       | caution wrote:
       | So the piano was a beautiful instrument for you...
       | ... But just one instrument, not enough. So I put nails in the
       | piano, played on the strings, banged on the keys, making
       | incredible sounds come out.
       | 
       | [1]
       | https://www.nemostudios.co.uk/vangelis/interviews/keyboard/k...
        
       | PrimeDirective wrote:
       | I have listened to Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks
       | countless times while developing or just spending time behind the
       | computer. Thanks for making the time go by better Vangelis!
        
       | mishkovski wrote:
       | His music is strong nostalgia inducer for me. His melodies,
       | hooks, and effects work perfectly bringing simple ideas into
       | amazing atmosphere and experience.
        
       | WalterBright wrote:
       | Vangelis is one of those artists I just click "buy" on everything
       | he does. I've never been disappointed. So sad to see no more
       | albums. Thank you, Vangelis, for all the listening pleasure you
       | created.
        
       | aurora72 wrote:
       | Vangelis' 1977 composition "To The Unknown Man" was interpreted
       | by the Italian singer Milva as "Moi je n'ai pas peur" in 1981.
        
       | eimrine wrote:
       | RIP Maestro, your works are timeless! I firstly heared Vangelis
       | from Ariston commercial w/ Ask The Mountains track _promice to
       | add a link to YT when I can_
        
       | Laremere wrote:
       | My absolute favorite song of all time is Dial Out by Vangelis:
       | https://youtu.be/Jnn9_NCLazM
       | 
       | Rest in piece to a master of his art, and creator of the unique
       | soundscapes made the world of blade runner something truly
       | unique.
        
       | mntne wrote:
       | From his first band, Aphrodite's Child:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WTNFuF6qiA
       | 
       | Bye my friend, goodbye
        
       | LargoLasskhyfv wrote:
       | /me salutes by playing Alpha
       | 
       | [[?]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gG1VBryzKM
        
       | endorphine wrote:
       | This is my favorite (and perhaps the least popular) from
       | Vangelis. Listen to this gem...just listen to it:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uta02hfUF4o
        
         | Pr0ject217 wrote:
         | Thank you.
        
       | ohiovr wrote:
       | I really love his work especially the album Voices.
        
       | parenthesis wrote:
       | "State of Independence" by Jon [Anderson of Yes] and Vangelis.
       | Also features the wonderful Dick Morrissey (who, amongst other
       | things with Vangelis, plays saxophone on the Blade Runner
       | soundtrack).
        
       | aemadrid wrote:
       | You will be sorely missed. Fond memories of listening to Chariots
       | of Fire, both sides of the tape, lying in my bed as a teenager.
       | Always in my heart.
        
       | stefanos82 wrote:
       | This gave me goosebumps because I could not stop thinking about
       | him the past week or so and I could not understand why...
       | 
       | Anapausou en eirene thrule, Rest in peace legend.
       | 
       | Kalo taxidi giganta mou https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd-
       | DlMOLCY4
        
       | smrtinsert wrote:
       | Here's a great tidbit - Vangelis and Ridley Scott prior to Blade
       | Runner:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DjvN8I0c7I&ab_channel=Mrden...
       | 
       | RIP Vangelis
        
       | julienchastang wrote:
       | RIP. He had some memorable soundtracks during the 80s: Blade
       | Runner, Chariots of Fire. Also scores for the TV series Cosmos w/
       | Carl Sagan. I used to own the cassette tape for "China" which I
       | remember enjoying many years ago.
        
       | dver wrote:
       | His work, especially the colab with Jon Anderson, has been an
       | important sound track to my life.
       | 
       | And dammit COVID 19
        
       | nonrandomstring wrote:
       | RIP a true master of synthesis, up there as an equal to Isao
       | Tomita and Ralf Hutter.
       | 
       | So many memorable and now foundational techniques:
       | 
       | The gated saw string "chug" (Chariots of Tire)
       | 
       | Glissando space echo dives (Blade Runner)
       | 
       | Incredible synthetic guitar solos that inspired Jan Hammer
       | 
       | Analogue strings from the CS80 that melt like Mantovani.
       | 
       | Will be so sorely missed. I'm gonna play out all my collection in
       | a huge Vangelisathon.
        
       | racl101 wrote:
       | R.I.P. Vangelis.
       | 
       | That Blade Runner soundtrack was something really special.
        
       | skywal_l wrote:
       | - Blade Runner
       | 
       | - Chariots of Fire
       | 
       | - Cosmos
       | 
       | - 1492
       | 
       | and the list goes on. Pretty impressive.
        
       | mhh__ wrote:
       | That's a shame.
       | 
       | His work on blade runner just has this timeless magic to it. The
       | sequel ends on his motif (tears in rain) for a reason too.
       | 
       | I also forgot to mention that chariots of fire is truly great
       | too.
       | 
       | Some parts of his music haven't aged too well, but the stuff that
       | hasn't is sorely missed in today's film scores. Even if Zimmer is
       | brilliant he's not a poet.
        
         | zeruch wrote:
         | He did some of his best (and worst) work while collaborating
         | with Jon Anderson in my opinion. "Short Stories" was a great,
         | quirky album in the late 70s. "Friends of Mr. Cairo" was dreck
         | in the 80s.
        
         | moron4hire wrote:
         | Seriously, I can always tell a Hans Zimmer score without even
         | having preknowledge that a film had hired him. Big, orchestral,
         | boring score that repeats the same motifs he's been using for
         | the last 50 years? Dude has one act.
        
           | mkr-hn wrote:
           | I think you overestimate how much say a film composer gets in
           | the sound. They're there to put music to image and make the
           | director happy, not impress you with their knowledge of
           | composition. Being famous doesn't change that. Directors want
           | their movies to sound like other successful movies, so you
           | end up with trends. It's the same reason trailers all sound
           | alike.
        
           | paulsmith wrote:
           | I'm basically with you but Interstellar stood out for me, I
           | think he matched well with that film's themes.
        
           | nsonha wrote:
           | Same to Chris Nolan actually, he should for once make a film
           | that does not mess with the concept of time. At this point it
           | has become a gimmick
        
           | vanderZwan wrote:
           | That's more due to how movie scores are produced these days.
           | Every Frame A Painting explains it really well in this video
           | on why you can't remember any music from Marvel movies:
           | 
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs
           | 
           | (well, up until they made that video, at least)
        
           | pmoriarty wrote:
           | What other Zimmer track sounds like _Time_ [1] (from his work
           | on _Inception_ )?
           | 
           | [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k
        
       | pmoriarty wrote:
       | Vangelis is best known for the themes of _Blade Runner_ and
       | _Chariots of Fire_ , but _Light and Shadow_ [1] also deserves to
       | be remembered as one of his greats.
       | 
       | And here is a fantastic video of him performing one of his tracks
       | live: [2]
       | 
       | [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUzIbphUL0Q
       | 
       | [2] - Performance starts at 1'36" in
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b1xJYCrKDU
        
       | gghhzzgghhzz wrote:
       | poor example compared to his lifetime of work, but this was a
       | beautiful advert
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsyyJaX0j3Y
        
       | als0 wrote:
       | Incredible composer. Very sad news.
        
       | sydthrowaway wrote:
       | How did people learn synths back then without the internet?
        
       | Saint_Genet wrote:
       | I've been listening mostly to his 70s proggish stuff lately, but
       | the opening of Blade Runner still gives me goosebumps. It
       | wouldn't have been half the film it was without his music.
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/P1jXmJmmj3o
        
       | subculture wrote:
       | He did incredible work.
       | 
       | The Four Horsemen from his band Aphrodite's Child really shows
       | off his impressive prog-rock chops as well as showcasing a
       | fantastic video of the band's persona (as well as a lot of Ouzo
       | shots): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KCbqhJt16k
        
       | WesolyKubeczek wrote:
       | I remember that back in the late 1990s, when I had just learned
       | how to use Internet, one of the first thing I went looking for
       | was more information about Vangelis and his music. All I had back
       | in the day was Portraits and Voices on cassettes. Oh, and a local
       | radio station had Metallic Rain as its evening news jingle.
       | 
       | The Internet did not disappoint:
       | https://www.vangelislyrics.com/vwr/ (Vangelis webring). One of
       | the first websites I visited in my life.
       | 
       | And this webring is still alive.
       | 
       | RIP.
        
       | subpixel wrote:
       | I recently found out about the work he did with the (also)
       | inimitable Irene Papas:
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq1hodbSDkg
        
       | greenhorn123 wrote:
       | I love Soil Festivities, still decades after hearing it for the
       | first time. Amazing album. Not to diminish his other work, but
       | that one really stands out for me.
       | 
       | Also, if you don't know about it yet, check out his
       | collaborations with Jon Anderson, as Jon & Vangelis, two awesome
       | musicians at their peak.
       | 
       | What a pity...
        
         | chasil wrote:
         | My favorite was Opera Sauvage. It had a flow and consistency
         | that was, for me, unique in his works.
         | 
         | He will be missed.
        
         | seydor wrote:
         | Yes what remarkable, 'organic' sound. Also 'l'apocalypse des
         | animaux' and his other early albums really. Despite being old
         | synths, they still sound classic
        
       | rffn wrote:
       | First Klaus Schulze and now Vangelis. So sad. Rest in peace!
        
       | dav_Oz wrote:
       | The opening track to Carl Sagan's Cosmos is actually taken from
       | Vangelis' - still prog-rock influenced album - _Heaven and Hell_
       | (1975); the 3rd movement.
       | 
       | I still really enjoy his early/progressive stuff and to this day
       | cannot quite relate to his later stuff (80s and beyond) as much;
       | nevertheless, amazingly, he always maintained a very unique style
       | throughout all his years and certainly is deeply woven into the
       | beginnings of synth music.
        
       | FlyingCapybara wrote:
       | Rachel's Song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnwKeiJflBw I
       | strongly suggest every BR's fan to play Observer :
       | https://www.eurogamer.net/goodbye-rutger-hauer-its-such-a-sh...
        
       | Agamus wrote:
       | Sad to hear! I had just this month sent myself on a deep dive of
       | Vangelis' work. He composed so many amazing things - here are a
       | few tracks that have stuck out for me. Something about them is
       | just hard to "get out of":
       | 
       | Jon and Vangelis: "I'll Find My Way Home"
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKqLAVyRaXw&list=PLHgJlrCztl...
       | 
       | Vangelis: "Juno opening its solar arrays"
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXqt2EQIG5g&list=PLHgJlrCztl...
        
       | TheOtherHobbes wrote:
       | Massive, epic talent. Did everything by ear and instinct, never
       | learned to read or write music. Incredible feel for timbre,
       | melody, and structure.
       | 
       | The DX7 synth used to have a ridiculous "chuff chuff chuff DING!"
       | comedy steam train preset. It sounded terrible and was utterly
       | useless except as a 10 second novelty.
       | 
       | He used it in one of his soundtracks - and somehow made it
       | perfectly _musical_ in that setting.
        
         | seydor wrote:
         | which one was it?
        
         | pmoriarty wrote:
         | _" Did everything by ear and instinct, never learned to read or
         | write music."_
         | 
         | He seems to have had his own musical notation, of a sort. You
         | can see him using it at the beginning of this video:
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b1xJYCrKDU
        
           | pnemonic wrote:
           | I guess there is a point where convention just slows you
           | down. I would say it is a hallmark of true genius.
        
       | lb1lf wrote:
       | This was sad news indeed. I have just listened to his works again
       | for the first time in years, after a random encounter with a guy
       | wearing a faded Chariots of Fire T-shirt - next thing I knew, I
       | spent several hours in my hotel room, listening to several albums
       | to kill time and rekindle my on-and-off love affair with his
       | music.
       | 
       | Today, as I flew home from working overseas for a few weeks, I
       | listened to Opera Sauvage over and over again - then landing at
       | my destination to see news of his passing.
       | 
       | Sigh.
        
       | leblancfg wrote:
       | This makes me very, very sad. One of my favourite composers are
       | artists, with an amazing knack for melody. And he was still
       | cranking out new music!
        
       | BLKNSLVR wrote:
       | This video introduced me to Vangelis' existence, and only after
       | looking up the artist did I realise he did Blade Runner and
       | Chariots of Fire.
       | 
       | https://youtu.be/GoW8Tf7hTGA
       | 
       | The combination of audio and content of this video gives me
       | chills.
        
       | sheinsheish wrote:
       | one of his more esoteric and probably less known tracks :
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qoTPhhv9w La petite fille de la
       | mer
        
         | bborud wrote:
         | That track was almost impossible to get hold of back in the
         | day. I had heard _of_ it, but never heard it. After years of
         | asking around in record stores I finally found a really
         | scratchy sounding cassette tape (no doubt a pirated copy) in a
         | German record shop in East Frisia the summer of 1985.
        
           | sheinsheish wrote:
           | i was 13 in 85. Got my fist walkman some years after that.
           | But i doubt i had some Vangelis on tapes. No, we had to buy
           | records then..
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | WalterBright wrote:
         | It's on the Themes album.
        
           | pmlnr wrote:
           | Also on Portraits :)
        
       | pmlnr wrote:
       | Just chipping in: "To The Unknown Man" is less famous from him,
       | and it shouldn't be.
        
       | netsharc wrote:
       | RIP. I remember watching the movie 1492 Conquest of Paradise,
       | being wowed by the music, and then downloading the MIDI of the
       | theme song on my 28.8k modem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd-
       | DlMOLCY4 (not a MIDI).
       | 
       | I even saw the movie on Laser Disc, geez, ultimate 90's nostalgia
       | trip.
        
       | languagehacker wrote:
       | Damn, RIP. Dude wrote my favorite song describing what color each
       | horse of the apocalypse is
        
         | poulpy123 wrote:
         | the four horsemen ?
        
         | james-skemp wrote:
         | For those that want to know more, this is referencing the album
         | 666 by Aphrodite's Child.
         | 
         | Got a copy from Germany sometime between '00 and '03.
         | 
         | Amazing album, especially for someone that had only known him
         | for Blade Runner at the time.
         | 
         | His stuff with Jon Anderson is also fairly good. The Friends of
         | Mr. Cairo is one of my favorites.
        
           | [deleted]
        
         | PAGAN_WIZARD wrote:
         | link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVExlaxaweo
        
         | termios wrote:
         | the leading horse is WHITE the second horse is RED the third
         | one is a BLACK the last one is a GREEN
        
         | Saint_Genet wrote:
         | Most people know him from his brilliant film scores, but his
         | prog rock era is up there with the greatest of the genre too
        
       | skyechurch wrote:
       | He wrote the theme song to the Carl Sagan series "Cosmos", both
       | the song and the show had me transfixed as a kid.
       | 
       | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7FW_wOUUTT8
        
         | sebastianconcpt wrote:
         | I feel you...
         | 
         | :')
        
         | colomon wrote:
         | To be more precise, he wrote the music which was used as the
         | theme song for "Cosmos" -- it originally appeared on Vangelis's
         | album "Heaven and Hell", five years before "Cosmos" came out.
         | Apparently it was called Movement 3 from "Symphony to the
         | Powers B", though on my old CD copy of the album it just
         | appears in the middle of the track "Heaven and Hell Part 1".
         | Really powerfully evocative music, takes me right back to being
         | a 10 year old watching "Cosmos".
        
       | yardie wrote:
       | I don't know much about Vangelis other than Chariots of Fire,
       | he's Greek, and my neighbor when I was a kid loved the shit out
       | of him. I assumed for a very long time Vangelis was an entire
       | band and not just one person.
       | 
       | RIP amongst so many others, lately.
        
         | seydor wrote:
         | He could be an entire orchestra not just a band yes
         | 
         | He had an album based on Greek folk music (Odes, 1979). This is
         | a cretan dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc9_qVAflzk
        
       | mudlus wrote:
       | RIP. One of the most influential musicians on me, for sure. A
       | legend...Love to his family and friends.
        
       | MikeDelta wrote:
       | This is very sad, his music has been an inspiration for me for a
       | large part of my life. This is one of those days you knew were
       | coming but hoped they didn't.
        
       | zoomablemind wrote:
       | My memory holds that magical feeling, when in the mindnight
       | darkness and quietness of home, suddenly heard a gentle stream of
       | silver bells and a beautiful, maybe melancholic, melody from a
       | tiny radio speaker... with no announcement of the author or name
       | of the song. It was then just used as a last song of the day.
       | 
       | Took me a veeery long time and other side of the globe to hear it
       | again, again by chance, but with attribution in that case. Then
       | some hours trying to locate the recording...
       | 
       | La Petite Fille de Mer
       | 
       | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qoTPhhv9w
       | 
       | Truly as if having a chanceful glimpse of a Mermaid.
       | 
       | Thank you for the magic, Master Vangelis. RIP.
        
         | nixass wrote:
         | Man, never knew this was his song. Even tho I am fan of his
         | work I never end discovering knew masterpieces he made.
        
       | dancemethis wrote:
       | I had no idea it was a _person_ named Vangelis. The word sounds
       | like a band name.
       | 
       | And really, the exquisite textures are a workload which would
       | ordinarily require multiple talents. Guess he was THAT good.
        
         | nixass wrote:
         | It's actually common Greek name. I was in shock (positively)
         | when I got two new colleagues at work both named Vangelis. They
         | remind me of the Vangelis every single day, funny stuff
        
       | MomoXenosaga wrote:
       | That's sad. Don't care about music much but for synthesizer I
       | always make an exception. Guess I'll be listening to the Blade
       | Runner OST tomorrow at the gym in remembrance.
        
       | gsoto wrote:
       | Just sharing one of my favorite pieces of him:
       | 
       | "Memories of Green" (from the album "See You Later")
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794
       | 
       | I think this piece shows the range of his musical expressiveness,
       | apart from his virtuosity or synth programming skills. Just a
       | piano passed through a flanger effect with some ambient sounds.
       | 
       | The electronic bleeps in that track are recorded from a handheld
       | electronic game (Bambino UFO Master Blaster [1]). Talk about
       | giving a whole new meaning to those sounds.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEOW8wAqG0
        
         | wcarss wrote:
         | I couldn't play that video for some reason (says it's
         | unavailable), so here's another link to (I think) the same
         | song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1KfOMkyU_w
        
           | gsoto wrote:
           | It is the same song. Thanks :)
        
         | the_af wrote:
         | "Memories of Green" was also used to great effect in Blade
         | Runner. I love how well it works there. It's so sad and
         | evocative.
        
           | jug wrote:
           | Wow, I thought it was written for the film until now! How
           | embarrassing... Not only for the song suiting, but the title
           | too. As it's a bleak post-ecological society.
        
         | ffhhj wrote:
         | >> "Memories of Green" (from the album "See You Later")
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794
         | 
         | That title and that album cover: a woman wearing bikini and
         | low-light glasses for snow, with the sun on the back and broken
         | floating ice. A prediction of climate change from 1980?
        
       | janci wrote:
       | Can somebody shed som light on Miami Vice song? I always thought
       | it's Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis song, but apparently it is
       | called Crocket's Theme by Jan Hammer
        
       | ArekDymalski wrote:
       | That's one of these posts that it's unsettling for me to
       | upvote/like. Sad news, great composer of someny incredible
       | tracks.
        
       | bigpeopleareold wrote:
       | My first introduction to Vangelis was a vinyl of the album Spiral
       | when I was younger ... I didn't even know he did Blade Runner
       | until years later, but I really liked that album. Sad to hear he
       | passed away though.
        
         | tgv wrote:
         | Spiral and Albedo 0.39 were my introduction to his work. Great
         | albums, quite possibly the best instrumental "pop" albums of
         | that time.
        
       | gmas wrote:
       | Super bummed, Vangelis got me into electronic music back in the
       | early 90s. I've since made it my mission (obsession) to collect
       | all of his albums, which I'm still working on.
        
       | troyvit wrote:
       | Maaaaaan about the time Blade Runner came out I was a fourth
       | grader fumbling with the Chariots of Fire record pretty much
       | every day. That was the first record I remember associating the
       | different reflections on the grooves with the length of the song.
       | Pretty clear given that side 2 was all one song.
       | 
       | So many elementary school crushes I dreamt of to that album.
       | 
       | Didn't get whacked upside the head by Blade Runner until like
       | 1989 or something and then went on that endless quest to find the
       | version of the soundtrack that most matched what you hear in the
       | movie (there was some legal crap about releasing the original
       | music). Ended up with a few of the CDs floating around.
       | 
       | My world wouldn't be the same without his music.
        
         | the_af wrote:
         | > _(there was some legal crap about releasing the original
         | music)._
         | 
         | That crap resulted in multiple bootleg versions of the Blade
         | Runner soundtrack. I don't know if there is a definitive one :/
         | Maybe with the Special Edition blue-ray?
         | 
         | I like the voiceover version of the tracks from the original CD
         | ("do you like our owl?"), but I also like listening to the
         | tracks without voiceovers.
        
           | IndySun wrote:
           | http://www.brmovie.com/FAQs/BR_FAQ_Soundtrack.htm
        
             | the_af wrote:
             | Oh, I must have read every nook and cranny of that website.
             | Used to be my go-to website on all things Blade Runner!
        
       | DonHopkins wrote:
       | "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on
       | fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in
       | the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost
       | in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU
        
       | genjipress wrote:
       | Oh no. I own all of his albums, including many bootleg issues. He
       | was productive right up to the end, though; his last album came
       | out in July of last year.
        
       | arrakis2021 wrote:
       | What a talent.
        
       | Kaibeezy wrote:
       | _So Long Ago, So Clear_ , in our headphones, on a foggy night, on
       | the Pont au Double, when the Bateau-Mouche passed under,
       | searchlights setting the air on fire. Pure, pure magic. Thanking
       | you.
        
       | trh0awayman wrote:
       | Spiral is one of my all-time favorite albums - and the opening
       | song is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-0Z5D7eRh8
        
         | hmahncke wrote:
         | I listened to this album constantly as a teenager...
        
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