I could have chosen a dozen tracks from this monumental double album, but before I tell you why, here is a bit of back story for you...
Demis Roussos, the big Greek hairy man, isn't what many people would call the epitome of cool, he might feature on a few of those I heart 70s type albums but its just for the cringe effect really, those soppy romantic ballads sung by a fat man, it just doesn't wash.
Similarly Vangelis is a bit naff too, bar the end credits of Bladerunner what is there to choose from? Chariots of Fire soundtrack? 1492 conquest of paradise soundtrack? No they can all fuck off.
But when you combine Roussos and Vangelis and go back in time in a time machine to 1969 they stop being shit and become the 2 coolest muthafukkin Greek muthafuckazs in the universe along with Lucas Sideras (drums and vocals), and Silver Koulouris (guitars) they become Aphrodites Child, who recorded the album '666' a huge double concept album about the book of revelations which brings us to where the blog started... its a little bit like that bit in Fight Club where Edward Norton has the gun in his mouth.
The track is a little spoken word interlude which is quite haunting... 'Four Horsemen' and 'the Beast' are more conventional rock songs, but this is nice too.
No comments:
Post a Comment