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Aphrodites Child: The best of Aphrodites Child

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s

Artist: Aphrodites Child
Title: The best of Aphrodites Child
Released: 1975
Label: Mercury Records
Time: 39:43
Producer(s): Vangelis (Evangelios Papathanassiou)
Appears with:
Category: Pop/Rock
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD Double
Purchase date:  1999.10.12
Price in €: 10,90
Web address: www.demislegrec.com/anglais/aphro.html

 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Spring, Summer, Winter & Fall (Francis/Papathanassiou) - 4:57
[2] Such a Funny Night (Adams/Papathanassiou) - 4:33
[3] I Want to Live (Bergman/Martini) - 3:30
[4] You Always Stand in My Way (Bergman/Papathanassiou) - 3:55
[5] Rain and Tears (Bergman/Papathanassiou) - 3:10
[6] Let Me Love, Let Me Live (Francis/Sideras) - 4:42
[7] Don't Try to Catch a River (Bergman/Papathanassiou) - 3:38
[8] It's Five O'Clock (Francis/Papathanassiou) - 3:29
[9] Wake Up (Francis/Papathanassiou) - 4:05
[10] End of the World (Bergman/Papathanassiou) - 3:13

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Demis Roussos - Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Vangelis (Evangelios Papathanassiou) - Bass, Keyboards
Lucas Sideras - Drums, Vocals

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1975 LP Mercury 838 706-2

The first ever Aphrodite's Child compilation on CD. Used to be one of the countless different compilation LPs - this one being printed and released in Germany - later got transfered to CD and released all over the world. For a long time it was the only way to get most of Aphrodite's Child's hit songs on CD, until Polygram Greece released the albums and BR Music and Mercury started to release the other compilations.




A Greek band of the late '60s and early '70s, Aphrodite's Child scored only one European hit, "Rain and Tears." Though it was a big one, the group became little more than a trivia answer after keyboardist Vangelis Papathanassiou dropped his surname and hit number one with the theme to Chariots of Fire in 1981. Aphrodite's Child also included drummer Lucas Sideras and vocalist Demis Roussos, who enjoyed some solo success himself as a pop vocalist. The band formed in Greece in the mid-'60s, and the title track from the second album hit throughout Europe. The 1972 album 666 - The Apocalypse of Saint John, was generally agreed to be the best, but it proved to be the last, though the single "Break" was also a hit in Europe.

John Bush, All-Music Guide



Serious art-rock fans would not consider this compilation to represent the best of the group, as it concentrates on their early pop-oriented singles of the late '60s and early '70s, not their most ambitious, conceptual 666 period. If psychedelic pop is more your bag, though, it does signify their best phase, including of course their big 1968 European hit (which made #30 in the U.K.), "Rain and Tears." This is actually, at its core, more akin to sentimental Mediterranean pop than far-out psychedelia. Leading the way is Demis Roussos, whose quavering vocals are similar in some respects to those of the Bee Gees' Robin Gibb, though they can be gratingly cloying in a way the Bee Gees rarely were. Unfortunately, this is missing the 1969 B-side "Marie Jolie," one of their best songs.

Richie Unterberger, All-Music Guide

 L y r i c s


Spring summer, winter and fall

Spring, summer, winter and fall
keep the world in time
spinning around like a ball
Never to unwind

Spring, summer, winter and fall
are in everything
I know in love we had them all
now our love is gone

This last thing
is passing now
like summer to spring
it takes me
and wakes me now
like seasons i'll change
and then re-arrange some how

Spring, summer, winter and fall
keep the world in time
spinning around like a ball
Never to unwind

[interlude]

this last thing
is passing now
like summer to spring
it takes me
and wakes me now
like seasons i'll change
and then re-arrange some how

Spring, summer, winter and fall
keep the world in time
spinning around like a ball
Never, never to unwind

Spring, summer, winter and fall
are in everything
I know in love we had them all
now our love is gone


Such a funny night

Oh, it’s morning in my head
It’s spinning round
I had a girl
When I came in
That’s when I woke up
She was gone ...

[interlude]

Oh, it’s morning in my head
It’s spinning round
I had a girl
When I came in
That’s when I woke up
She was gone

[interlude]

Oh, it’s morning in my head
It’s spinnig round
I had a girl
When I came
That’s when I woke up
She was gone ...

la la la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la la la


I want to live

I want to live
Where they'll change what they have done
Yeah

I must die
cold and shunned by the sun
Yeah

Why should I stay
Where there are people that hate
The things I need
and making me wait
yeah

They will teach you the hows instead of the why's
They will turn your truth into lies

I feel like crying
when I'm groping for a way to stop it from going
cause I want it,
want it to stay
Yeah

They will teach you the hows instead of the why's
They will turn your truth into lies

try, look and understand
I needed you to take hold of my hand
and pull me up, yeah
I feel but I can't, yeah
Yes I do
I want to, I want to live
Yes, I want to live yeah, yeah
To feel and...
I'm gonna lose it, yeah



You always stand in my way

Hey you
You always stand in my wayYou
will you hear to what I say?
I want you to go away

You
You should find another man

I say you
make my face become one
I want you to cut it down

You, you, you
got a way I can't stand
You, you, you
I went mad when I see you
you, you you
better hide or clutch your face

you
you [come home or I'll change my mind]

Say you
You're the one I must cement
and what if I don't want you

You You always stand in my way

And I said you
Will you hear to what I say
And I want you to go away

You you, you
got a way I can't stand
you, you you
I went mad when I see you
You, you better pack up all your things
and I, I, I feel like you are so kidding me

Baby And I said you
you, you always stand in my way
(better not)

You
will you hear to what I say
I want you to go away

You
you should find another man
I said you
make my face become one
I want you to cut it down

you, you, you
got a way I can't stand
you you, you, you
got a way I can't stand

you
You you you better hide and clutch your face
And I, I, I feel it
You better say
you, you, you


Rain and tears

Rain and tears, are the same
but in the sun
you've got to play the game>

When you cry
in winter time
you can pretend
it's nothing but the rain

How many times I've seen
tears coming from your blue eyes

Rain and tears, are the same
but in the sun
you've got to play the game

(interlude)

Give me an answer of love
(o----ooohhh)
I need an answer of love
(o----ooohhh)
Rain and tears, in the sun
But in your heart
you feel the rainbow waves

Rain and tears
both I shun
for in my heart there 'll never be a sun

Rain and tears, are the same
but in the sun
you've got to play the game
Game ....


Let Me Love, Let Me Live

(No lyrics available)



Don't try to catch a river

When she flows
(Don't try to catch a river)
No one will ever catch her.
When love goes,
(don't try to catch your lover)
For love is a kind of river,

River flows over rocks and walls,
and I likes in a while,
She seems so free, so far away from the sky.

When she flows,
(Don't try to catch a river)
No one will ever catch her.
When love goes,
(Don't try to catch your lover)
For love is a kind of river.

Love will leave ... at sunrise,
and I likes in a while,
They seem to be so ashamed of the size,

Don't you try
Don't you try
Don't you try
Don't you try River
River
River

When she flows,
(Don't try to catch a river)
No one will ever catch her.
When love goes,
(Don't try to catch your lover)
For love is a kind of river. ,
And I likes in a while,
Why don't lovers bring their ...

River
River
River

Oehh ... River...
Oehh ... River...
River...



It's five o'clock

It's five o'clock
and I walk through the empty streets
thoughts fill my head
but then still
No one speaks to me
My mind takes me back
to the years that have passed me by

(interlude)

It is so hard to believe
That it's me
that I see
in the window pane
it is so hard to believe
that all this is the way
that is has to be
It's five o'click
and I walk through the empty streets
The night is my friend
And in him
I find sympathy

And so I go back to the years that have to past me by

(interlude)

It is so hard to believe
That it's me
that I see
in the window pane
it is so hard to believe
that all this is the way
that is has to be

It's five o'click
and I walk through the empty streets
The night is my friend
And in him I find sympathy
He gives, gives me day
gives me hope
and a little dream too


Wake up

Talking, people talking
But I can understand just what they say
The thoughts that fill my head are about tomorrow
What am I to do about today ?

Looking, people looking
But I can understand just what they see
If I shut my eyes sometimes it is much better
But how long can I go on living this way ?

Laughing, people laughing
The people are the same in every land
Do they laugh because they have no way of crying ?
Or cry because they have no wat to laugh ?

Freedom, they want freedom
Can this feeling be reality ?
Till one day the silly people will be asking
For an apple that as come before the tree

Answers, who has the answers ?
To all the questions that we have to ask ?
I can show you how to find a good solution
Aphrodite’s Child will tell you on the back

[interlude]

pom pom pom ...



End of the world

You should come with me to the end of the world
without telling your parents and your friends

You know that you only need
to say the word so end my play with thy
end of the world
what I know
that I'll go away by myself
I feel you don't want to come

You should come with me to the end of the world
We could lay all day on the quiet sands

I would introduce you to my friend the bird
who sings and flies along the fairy [trend]

But I know
that I'll go away by myself
I feel you don't want to come
he---e, ha---a

If you come with me to the end of the world
I'll give you anything that lives on earth

You know that you only need
to say the word so end my play with thy
end of the world
what I know
that I'll go away by myself
I feel you don't want to come
he---e, ha---a

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