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Aphrodites Child: 666

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s

Artist: Aphrodites Child
Title: 666
Released: 1971
Label: Vertigo Records
Time: 36:35 / 41:35
Producer(s): Vangelis (Evangelios Papathanassiou)
Appears with:
Category: Pop/Rock
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD Double
Purchase date:  1999.10.19
Price in €: 15,99
Web address: www.demislegrec.com/anglais/aphro.html

 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


Disc 1:
[1] System - 0:23
[2] Babylon - 2:47
[3] Loud, Loud, Loud - 2:42
[4] Four Horsemen - 5:54
[5] Lamb - 4:33
[6] Seventh Seal - 1:30
[7] Aegian Sea - 5:22
[8] Seven Bowls - 1:29
[9] Wakening Beast - 1:11
[10] Lament - 2:45
[11] Marching Beast - 2:00
[12] Battle of the Locusts - 0:56
[13] Do It - 1:44
[14] Tribulation - 0:32
[15] Beast - 2:26
[16] Ofis - 0:14

Disc 2:
[1] Seven Trumpets - 0:35
[2] Altamont - 4:33
[3] Wedding of the Lamb - 3:38
[4] Capture of the Beast - 2:17
[5] oo - 5:15
[6] Hic et Nunc - 2:55
[7] All the Seats Were Occupied - 19:19
[8] Break - 2:58

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Demis Roussos - Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocals
Vangelis - Organ, Bass, Flute, Percussion, Piano, Arranger, Composer, Keyboards, Background Vocals, Vibraphone
Lucas Sideras - Drums, Vocals, Background Vocals
Silver Koulouris - Guitar, Percussion

Guests:
Harris Halkitis - Bass, Percussion, Drums, Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Vocals, Background Vocals
John Frost - Vocals, Narrator
Vannis Tsarouchis - Vocals
Irene Papas - Vocals
Michel Ripoche - Trombone, Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
Costas Ferris - Text

Hans Brethouwer - Compact Disc Mastering

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


An amazingly bombastic concept album about the Apocalypse of St. John seen as a rock spectacle. Demis Roussos wails the lyrics in a frantically operatic falsetto, while the band pound fiercely through Vangelis' furiously complex music. It certainly has its moments, but the entire set eventually becomes too overwhelming to sit through.

Steven McDonald, All-Music Guide
 


Vangelis started working on this album in 1970, because the contract with Mercury demanded a third album. The record company had doubts about the concept, which was very progressive, so they asked for a new single first. After "Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall" had been released the group started to record 666, joined by Silver Koulouris who's initial participation in Aphrodite's Child couldn't be because he had had to fulfill his duties in the Greek Army.

While Vangelis finished the work on the album the other band members started performing live without him, and Demis Roussos released a solo album. It took more than a year to finish, and by the time it was released, in 1972, the band had already split up.

There was quite a bit of controversy surrounding the album at the time of its release. This led to boycotts on certain radio stations. One of the reasons for this was a remark on the album's sleeve stating that the album was recorded under the influence of "Sahlep", which was interpreted as being either a drug or a demon. It actually is a Turkish drink which includes Sahlep powder (a spice) as ingredient. Another reason was the song "Infinity" which has Irene Papas making certain noises one would normal not allow to leave the bedroom. And quite loud as well. It's ironic that this album would, for a long time, turn out the only one to get a general release on CD, until it was joined by the other albums being released on CD, only in Greece in 1996. The album is still regarded as a classic in the progressive rock genre, being covered and sampled by present day artists, and appearing in popular magazines' top 10 lists.

Some of the sounds and voices on the album have lived another live more recently, when Rumanian born composer Michael Cretu used many large samples from this album in his famous Enigma album "MCMXC A.D.", released in 1990.

This double-album was until recently the only album by "Aphrodite's Child" that had been released on CD.

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 L y r i c s


System

(No lyrics available)


Babylon

Fallen fallen fallen
is Babylon the great!
Space is getting bounded,
time is getting late!

Masters fall and wonder,
people rise and wait
Fallen fallen fallen
is Babylon the great!

You don't need a coin,
I don't have to shine
We don't know the reason

But I need you madly
and you need me too
and we need each other...
and we need each other...
and we need each other...
Fallen fallen fallen
is Babylon the great!
Space is getting bounded,
time is getting late!

Masters fall and wonder,
people rise and wait
Fallen fallen fallen
is Babylon the great!

You don't need a coin,
I don't have to shine
We don't know the reason

But I need you madly
and you need me too
and we need each other...
and we need each other...
and we need each other...


Loud, loud, loud

The day the walls of the citys will crumble away
uncuvering our naked souls,
we'll all start singing,
shouting, screaming
loud, loud, loud, loud

The day the circus horses will stop turing around,
running fast through the green valleys,
we'll sing and cry and shout
loud, loud, loud, loud

The day the cans will lay in heaps
their wheels turing in vain,
we'll run along the empty highways
shouting, screaming, singing
loud, loud, loud, loud

The day young boys will stop becoming soldiers,
and soldiers will stop playing war games,
we'll sing and cry and shout
loud, loud, loud, loud

The day will come up
that we'll all wake up
hearing and shouting of joy
and shouting together with the freaks
loud, loud, loud, loud

The day the world will turn upside down
we'll run together round and round
screaming, shouting, siging
loud, loud, loud, loud
loud, loud, loud, loud
loud, loud, loud, loud


Four Horsemen

(No lyrics available)


Lamb

(No lyrics available)


Seventh Seal

(No lyrics available)


Aegian Sea

I saw the souls
I saw the martyrs
I heared them crying
I heard them shouting
They were dressed in white
they've been told to wait

The sun was black
the moon was red
the stars were falling
the earth has trembling

And then a crowd impossible to number
Dressed in white
carrying palms
shouted amid
the hotless sun
the lightless moon
the windless earth
the colourless sky ...

They'll no more suffer from hunger
they'll no more suffer from thirst
They'll no more suffer from hunger
they'll no more suffer from thirst
They'll no more suffer from hunger
they'll no more suffer from thirst


Seven bowls

The first bowl on the earth
the second bowl on the sea
the third bowl on the rivers
the fourth bowl on the sun
the fifth bowl on the Beast
the sixth bowl on the stars
the seventh bowl on the air
And the earth turned grey
the sea turned black
the rivers turned red
the sun turned cold
the Beast turned pale
the stars turned fast
the air turned to poison


Wakening Beast

(No lyrics available)


Lament

I've long awaited for the day
That comes to set me free
And all I ask
As I'm a fool
Is love for you and me
For now and each and every day
The moon, it changes us all

All the misery lies
Set to blind your eyes
All in all
From seeing you

All I need is a simple truth
Cause I believe in you
A story telling silent order make believe us true
Cause I will know
A time to climb above my lonely soul
I reach out with my heart
To the moment divine
And feel my love grow
   
Freedom divine
Freedom divine
Freedom divine
Freedom divine
Freedom divine

All I need is a simple truth
Cause I believe in you
A story telling silent order make believe us true
Cause I will know
A time to climb above my lonely soul
I reach out with my heart (Freedom divine)
To the moment divine (Freedom divine)
And feel my love grow
Freedom divine
Freedom divine
Freedom divine


Marching Beast

(No lyrics available)


Battle of the Locusts

(No lyrics available)


Do It

(No lyrics available)


Tribulation

(No lyrics available)


Beast

(No lyrics available)


Ofis

(No lyrics available)


Seven trumpets

Ladies and gentlemen

Seven trumpets
the sound of thunder!
Seven trumpets
the threatening anger!
Seven trumpets
the trembling voice!
Seven trumpets
You got no choice!

Seven trumpets
the seven angels!
the seven trumpets
the music changes!


Altamont

This is the sight we had one day
on the High Mountain

We saw a lamb with seven eyes
We saw a beast with seven horns

and a book sealed with seven seals
Seven angels with seven trumpets
and seven bowls filed with anger

Those are the pictures
of what was
of what is
of what has to come(No lyrics available)

We are the people
the rolling people
the why people
the waiting people
the wanting people
the tambourine people
the alternative people
the angel people


Wedding of the Lamb

(No lyrics available)


Capture of the Beast

(No lyrics available)


oo

(No lyrics available)



Hic et Nunc

Here and now!
Here and now!

Fixing the ceiling
I got a feeling
sing it again!

Here and now!
Here and now!

Show me the season,
give me the reason
sing it again!

Here and now!
Here and now!

We got the System, to fuck the System!
We got the System, to fuck the System!)
We got the System, to fuck the System!

Oehhhhhh....

Whisper a meaning
nowbody's leading
sing it again!
sing it again!

Here and now!
Here and now!

I got a feeling
somebody's missing
sing it again!
sing it again!

Here and now!
Here and now!

Here and now!
Here and now!



All the seats were occupied

Ladies and gentlemen

Seven trumpets
the sound of thunder!(we got the system)
Seven trumpets (to fuck the system)
the trembling voice! (We got the system)
Seven trumpets (to fuck the system)
the threatening anger! (we got the system)
Seven trumpets (to fuck the system)
the trembling voice! (we got the system)
Seven trumpets (to fuck the system)
You got no choice! (we got the system)
Seven trumpets (The leading horse is white)
the seven angels! (the second horse is red)
the seven trumpets (the third one is a black,)
the music changes! (the last one is a green)
The leading horse is white
the second horse is red
the third one is a black,
the last one is a green
The leading horse is white
the second horse is red
the third one is a black,
the last one is a green

[interlude]
Exelthe ofi katiramene,
dhioti an dhen exelthe essy,
tha se exelthe ego!
Ou! Ou! Ou!....

I am
I am to come
I was
I am
I am to come I was
I am
And the earth turned grey
the sea turned black
the rivers turned red
the sun turned cold
the Beast turned pale
the stars turned fast
the air turned to poison
I am, I am to come, I was I am to come I was

[interlude]

I am, I am to come, I was
I am (The leading horse is white)
I am to come (the second horse is red)
I was (the third one is a black,)
I am (the last one is a green)

[interlude]

Seven trumpets (to fuck the system)
the trembling voice! (we got the system)
Seven trumpets (to fuck the system)
You got no choice! (we got the system)
Seven trumpets
the seven angels!

[interlude]

We are the people
the rolling people
the why people
the waiting people
the wanting people
the tambourine people
the alternative people
the angel people
We are the people
the rolling people
the why people
the waiting people
the wanting people
the tambourine people
the alternative people
the angel people

Exelthe ofi katiramene,
dhioti an dhen exelthe essy,
tha se exelthe ego!
Ou! Ou! Ou!....

[interlude]

I am, I am to come, I was
All the seats were occupied



Break

Bye bye, my friend, goodbye
With a lie
you forget and break it

You make it
You make it
You make it
You make it

Cry in my empty room
and we try
to forget and break it

Fly
high
and then
you make it

[interlude]

Bye bye, my friend, goodbye
With a lie
you forget and break it

You make it
You make it
You make it
You make it

Do it!

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