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Aphrodite's Child (Music)

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Aphrodite's Child was a Greek rock band based in Paris, France. The band consisted of a bunch of musicians (most notably Demis Roussos and Vangelis Papathanassiou) who were already successful in Greece, but they decided to flee to London after the junta of 1967. Since they couldn't get a visa to enter Britain, they decided to work in France instead.While they started as a Psychedelic Rock influenced pop band à là Procol Harum or The Moody Blues, their last album 666 (1972), which was a seminal Progressive Rock album is the one which is best remembered (albeit as a Cult Classic, and only among prog circles). The scope and ambition of this double album was what caused the demise of the band. While Vangelis wanted to make more music like it, Roussos and Sideras wanted to keep the band's sound mainstream. There was also the problem of their record company not wanting to release the album because it was too avant-garde for commercial radio.After they disbanded, Vangelis found success making film scores and Demis Roussos became a successful pop singer, who was very popular in Europe and Middle East during The '80s. Roussos' music is largely forgotten nowadays, but he had many hit singles back in the day.While they remained a cult group, they were influential on bands such as The Verve, Beck and Enigma. Their music was noticed by Yes frontman Jon Andersonnote Who later collaborated with Vangelis, and he loved 666 so much, he offered Vangelis to become their keyboardist after Rick Wakeman left the band. He couldn't join Yes because of visa problems and Patrick Moraz joined Yes instead.
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse: "The Four Horsemen"
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Reprise Medley
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Reprise Medley: "All the Seats Were Occupied" is basically all the songs in the whole album reprised.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: They moved on from being a psychedelic pop band to 666.
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Title Drop: That was "the Wedding of the Lamb"/Now comes "the Capture of the Beast"
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New Sound Album
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New Sound Album: 666 is a Progressive Rock Concept Album of the experimental kind, which is very different from their earlier soft psychedelic pop music.
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As the Good Book Says...
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As the Good Book Says...: The concept of 666 is based on the Book of Revelation
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Longest Song Goes Last: The second type in 666, since "All the Seats Were Occupied" (19:19) is followed by "Break" (2:59).
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Minimalistic Cover Art
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Minimalistic Cover Art: The outer gatefold of 666. The inner gatefold, which features an illustration of a car crash, is a little more elaborate.
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Miniscule Rocking
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Miniscule Rocking: Many tracks in 666 are shorter than 2 minutes. Most of those are spoken word pieces, instrumentals or experimental tracks which are barely even music.
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Number of the Beast
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Number of the Beast: Their last album is named 666 after all.
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Concept Album
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Concept Album: 666 is a concept album about a theatre troupe performing a play about the apocalypse, while the real apocalypse happens. It is also one of the earliest rock concept albums.
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Uncommon Time
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Uncommon Time: Appears often, which is not surpising for a Greeknote uncommon time signatures are already common in Greek folk music traditions prog band.
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Genre Roulette
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Genre Roulette: From straight prog to hard rock, psychedelia, funk, soul, jazz, electronica, musique concrète and different traditions of Greek folk musicnote Even the kinds of music not intended for recreational listening, like liturgical choruses and wedding music can find its place here, 666 is a real genre roulette.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Their earliest stuff was fairly lightweight psychedelic pop, which was very different from their last album (which is already weird by itself). The band itself is one for two of its former musicians: Demis Roussos makes soft pop music, which is very very different from anything Aphrodite's Child has ever done. Vangelis became much better known as a film score composer.
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Sampling: The Title Drop at the end of "All The Seats Were Occupied" comes from a recording of a BBC English Teaching lesson.
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Lead Bassist
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Lead Bassist: Demis Roussos is a Type B version.
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Epic Rocking: "All the Seats Were Occupied" is 19 minutes 19 seconds long. "∞" was originally 39 minutes long before Vangelis shortened it to five minutes.
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Arc Words
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Arc Words: So many examples in 666. The lyrics "We've got the system to fuck the system" starts off the album. "Do it!" "I was, I am, I am to come"
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Instrumentals
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Instrumentals: "The Lamb", "Aegian Sea", "The Seventh Seal", "The Wakening Beast", "Do It", "The Marching of the Beast", "Tribulations", "The Battle of Locusts", "The Wedding of the Lamb", "The Capture of the Beast"
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Large Ham: "Seven Trumpets" consists of a very hammy anouncement. The Greek spoken word section in "Ofis" is pure ham. Irene Pappas, shouting in "∞".
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Spoken Word in Music
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Spoken Word in Music: Songs like "Loud, Loud, Loud", "Seven Bowls", "The Seventh Seal", "Seven Trumpets", "Ofis", "Altamont" are made solely of these.
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Apocalypse How
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Apocalypse How: A very common theme in their music Their first album (and its eponymous single) is named "End of the World" Their last album, 666 is a concept album about a theatre troupe performing a play about the apocalypse, while the real apocalypse happens. The whole album is based on the Book of Revelation
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The Bus Came Back
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The Bus Came Back: Argyris "Silver" Koulouris joined the army when the rest of the band left Greece. He rejoined them in time to participate in 666.
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Canis Latinicus
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Canis Latinicus: "Hic and Nunc"note Which means "Here and now"-the very words that were sung in English in chorus, but the word and is left English
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Careful with That Axe
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Careful with That Axe: "∞" consists of Irene Pappas shouting the words "I was, I am, I am to come" again and again, louder every time
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Gratuitous Greek
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Gratuitous Greek: A rare instance of a band using their native Modern Greek amongst mostly English songs. "The Beast" includes the exclamations "Pame"note "Let's go" and "Teliounome edho pera, etsi?"note We finish here, right? "Ofis"note Ancient Greek for serpent is a hammy spoken word piece in Modern Greek.
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Scatting
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Scatting: "Break" includes scatting by Vangelis at the end,which was intended to make fun of the dramatic feel of the song.
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Gray Rain of Depression
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Gray Rain of Depression: "Rain and Tears" from their first album, The End of the World
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Mind Screw
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Mind Screw: Most of 666. There are many catchy tunes about the Apocalypse, and there are some pieces which are so experimental, they could hardly even be considered music.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: The lines "We've got the System, to fuck the System!" and "Do it!" are references to the books "Fuck The System" by Abbie Hoffman and "Do It! Scenarios Of The Revolution" by Jerry Rubin, respectively.
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Limited Lyrics Song
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Limited Lyrics Song: The only lyrics in "Do It" are the title, which is spoken.
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Lyrical Dissonance
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Lyrical Dissonance: "The Beast" is a catchy, funky song about the Beast of the Apocalypse.
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Progressive Rock
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Progressive Rock: Their last album, 666.
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Hard Rock
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"Do It" and "The Battle of Locusts" are Hard Rock instrumentals à la Led Zeppelin.
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In the Style of
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In the Style of: "Babylon" in the style of The Who, specifically their Tommy era. "The Marching of the Beast" in the style of Jethro Tull. "Do It" and "The Battle of Locusts" are Hard Rock instrumentals à la Led Zeppelin.
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Vocal Tag Team
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Vocal Tag Team: Demis Roussos and Loukas Sideras split lead vocal duties on 666. Roussos sings lead on "The Four Horsemen", "Babylon" and "Hic Et Nunc", while Sideras sings lead on "The Beast", "Altamont" and "Break".
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Fading into the Next Song
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Fading into the Next Song: All the songs in 666.
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