Demis roussos

[manzo]

Other than the Aphrodites Child malarky, has the fat tent pole got any tunes worth bothering with? There were four of his LPs in a local shop today, but I couldn't bring myself to get them all on a punt. One, I can manage, but four?

[Col Wolfe]

Le Jeune Fabre OST has good bits - nice Cecile Aubry work on it too

[wooly]

hey manzo... "fire and ice" has a pretty decent track on it, in the shape of "o my friends, you've been untrue to me". it's fairly psychedelic - it seems he was enlisting the help of french sessioneers at the time.

[manzo]

Cheers for that. In typical style, I've managed to forget the names of the LPs in the shop, though I don't think that Fire and Ice or Le Jaune Fabre were among them. There were a bunch of French names on the back of one of the LPs, so I might go get that one.

[LDJB]

'Action Lady' is a good disco type track as is 'L.O.V.E' but I can't remember which LPs the are on.

Quote[/b] ]"fire and ice" has a pretty decent track on it, in the shape of "o my friends, you've been untrue to me". it's fairly psychedelic

And sampled by DJ Shadow no less!

[Blighty]

clickity click click click

[wooly]

Quote[/b] (LDJB @ Aug. 31 2004,20:40)]

Quote[/b] ]"fire and ice" has a pretty decent track on it, in the shape of "o my friends, you've been untrue to me". it's fairly psychedelic

And sampled by DJ Shadow no less!

blimey! never knew. it's a good track!

[Blighty]

It's on that Latryx track. Great sample. I love the guitar sound on that album. Possibly not a guitar actually. Maybe some Greek instrument. Whatever it is it sounds nice. I don't like Demis' voice though. He spoils his album.

[Lord Thames]

Fire and Ice is a pretty decent psych LP - obviously just coming out of his Aphrodite's Child phase - and there's a good disco-funk track on 'The Demis Roussos Magic' called 'Make It Happen', arranged by Vangelis.

I bought a cache of Demis LPs just on the offchance, and they usually yield at least one track that's surprisingly good (if you had low expectations to start with&#33

Avoid the one with a big 'orrible painting of his face on the cover that's recorded in Nashville though - nowt to be had here.

[manzo]

Quote[/b] (Blighty @ Aug. 31 2004,20:49)]clickity click click click

Honestly, I *did* search the board, and the main site.

I may have forgotten to change the time period searched to earlier than this month, but that's a different matter.  

Cheers for the info guys, I'll have to pop down tomorrow and see if they're still there!

If I haven't posted anything by 6pm tomorrow, call an ambulance for me; I'll have overdosed on too many bad tunes by the fat one.

[vinylism]

"the magic of" lp offers up two good funky disco-ish tracks. and the one with "l.o.v.e" on is well worth it if you like a bit of funky disco.. it's quite hard to find too so well worth grabbing (well it took me a couple of years to bag a piece without paying money... nice though some of his tracks are, i couldn't bring myself to pay more than £1.00 for them)

[Blighty]

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Quote[/b] (Blighty @ Aug. 31 2004,20:49)]clickity click click click

Honestly, I *did* search the board, and the main site.

I may have forgotten to change the time period searched to earlier than this month, but that's a different matter.  

Yeah, that 'this month or newer' preset has gotten me a few times too. 'Newer' being next month?

[Lord Thames]

'Souvenirs' is the one with L.O.V.E on it, innit?

[Dr Rubberfunk]

Souvenirs is the one with 'Action Lady' on ::

[RobSterling]

Quote[/b] (Blighty @ Aug. 31 2004,21:00)]It's on that Latryx track. Great sample. I love the guitar sound on that album. Possibly not a guitar actually. Maybe some Greek instrument. Whatever it is it sounds nice. I don't like Demis' voice though. He spoils his album.

What Latryx song out of wonder?