Is Waiting for Cousteau Jarre's last 'great' album?


Post Posted Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:37 am
Jon
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Jon wrote:
Kanta wrote:Can't believe how old it is. :o
Oxygene is even older :pwned: :mrgreen:
:no: :no: , Deserted Palace is the oldest. :pwned: :mrgreen: :pwned:
Jarre concerts attended - Destination Docklands 1988 - Paris La Defense 1990 - Europe In Concert 1993 (Manchester & London) - Oxygene Tour 1997 (Birmingham)

"A group of men and woman entered the laboratory one month ago to live in a smell free world. Body odour, sweaty arms pits and smelly feet are to create the energy to survive. A total mystery surrounds this experiment, and it's project code name: B.O and Smell'i "
Post Posted Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:34 pm
GlennFolkvord
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GlennFolkvord wrote:To answer the original question; no, I dont think WFC was the last great album. All the following studio albums were great in different ways. IMO not so much T&T (and I dont count GOL and S2K as real album projects) but in no way do I think Jarre has lost "the touch", as some people suggest. I think it's more to do with people changing their taste because of age and experience, or the music scene being much more diversified and full now than 20 years ago.
Well spoken!
Post Posted Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:19 pm
GeeJee
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GeeJee wrote:Right, like Jakob points out, it will always be a matter of taste.

But, if WFC is the last album you really enjoyed, it sounds like you have had a miserable life since 1990, hoping everyday for something better to be released. Haven't you moved on? It's a fricking 19 years ago!! :punch:
To some extent this is true!

Please don't get me wrong here, I'm not seeking to be hyper critical of Jarre's work since WFC - I've certainly enjoyed all of Jarre's albums since WFC in one way or another, and I think there have been elements of greatness in most of them... all I'm saying is that WFC was, in my view, Jarre's last genuinely great album from beginning to end.

I admit I've struggled to move on and yes, since 1990 I have spent every day hoping for something better to be released!

In my original question I mentioned the amount of genuine originality in WFC - and we've since discussed the use of algorithms as a genuinely original idea, so, pushing my agenda further and distorting the question, where are the weak points in WFC?
:mrgreen:







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