WFMU: Morricone Island with Devon E. Levins: Playlist from May 24, 2022

Listener comments!
	8:00pm ironybread: This Vangelis guy...was kind of...unstoppable
	8:01pm The Count of Al Dente: 'good evening.
	8:01pm ultradamno: Devon! Castaways!
	8:03pm dale: that last scene with rutger hauer and harrison ford was pretty damn fine.
	8:03pm StringOFperils: Unstoppable because of his colossal electricity bills.
	8:03pm Glistener MW: R.I.P. Vangelis. 🗡 🏃‍♀️
	8:04pm ironybread: @string oh my yes, I mean just look at the number of synths on that rack
	8:05pm StringOFperils: He must've had to crawl under the piano to get in there
	8:08pm spodiodi: hello, hello, Devon and Company. here for the good stuff
	8:08pm ironybread: Was Vangelis an impossible, tempermental artist? Is that why there was no "Blade Runner" soundtrack for ten years after the release of the film? Or is the story much, much more complicated? Wrong answers only.
	8:10pm Will: Vangelis: The Man Who Made Music. Doc coming soon.
	8:10pm Listener Robert: Aw, horseys.
	8:10pm dale: warner brothers owned it and probably didn't see any money to be made from it.
	8:12pm ironybread: @dale After what happened to the "Shining" soundtrack, I would not doubt this theory one bit
	8:12pm Jackie G: Hope we hear some Jon Anderson stuff
	8:13pm P-90: No one has called Vangelis “temperamental” or difficult to work with. But he picked his projects very carefully.
	8:13pm DanFA: Hello Devon. Great show.
	8:13pm StringOFperils: While walking along in desert sand, you suddenly look down and see a tortoise crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over onto its back. The tortoise lies there, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it cannot do so without your help. You are not helping. Why? A)Because I have to hear these 300 Vangelis albums. B)Because Morricone Island's on now C)Because I'm going to rip your head off, meatbag.
	8:15pm Will: For me, it'll always be Ton Scherpenzeel.
	8:15pm spodiodi: Bitter Moon <3
	8:15pm DanFA: @Stringofperils, what's this gotta do with my mother?
	8:16pm JetBoy of Brooklyn: I’m gonna go with C
	8:16pm P-90: and if it took a few years for the Blade Runner soundtrack to come out, it’s almost certainly because the studio didn’t think it was worth it, nothing to do with Vangelis
	8:16pm ironybread: @StringOfPerils They're just questions
	8:19pm ultradamno: Though that's a little weird, since Chariots Of Fire had JUST happened, which would the high visibility point for Vangelis
	8:20pm ironybread: I certainly would hope that my initial impression of Vangelis was correct, that he was concerned above all about the quality of the product put out under his name; however the 1994 Warners CD of "Blade Runner" included a liner note by Vangelis saying "Finding myself unable to release these recordings at the time, it is with great pleasure that I am able to do so now", which raised a tiny red flag with me...did he have a beef with the studio? Or were there other extenuating circumstances?
	8:21pm StringOFperils: Probably some sort of international publishing rights/marketing complications. Who gets what share of what when and how and for how long.
	8:22pm Marshall Stacks: Memory is hazy, oh so hazy, but I believe I saw Vangelis perform in Jersey City as the keyboardist for Yes in, dunno, 1976?
	8:22pm dale: they couldn't afford a real graphic designer for this last album.
	8:24pm Jackie G: That may have been Patrick Moraz at Jersey City. He replaced Wakeman as keyboardst on one album.
	8:24pm P-90: The inside story is that Vangelis actually did accept the offer to join Yes, provisionally in the basis that he would have a chance to play with the band and see if he was comfortable playing Wakeman’s parts on songs in the repertoire (as well as participating in writing new material.) They tried it, he just couldn’t deal with the thought of touring and having to replicate Wakeman’s style night after night. So Vangelis and Yes moved on, quite amicably.
	8:24pm StringOFperils: They blew the graphic design budget on the Letraset for his last name.
	8:26pm dale: string - ha ha!
	8:27pm dale: they had to buy another sheet for the consonants...
	8:30pm ironybread: @String Hey man, it's simply a fact that every circumflex E, hachek A, or umlaut you put on an album automatically adds 30 cents to the replication costs
	8:30pm P-90: Once Vangelis signed the contract and did the BR soundtrack it was the studio’s to release. They were down in the movie and didn’t want to spend the money for a soundtrack album of nom-pop music. That’s what Vangelis was referring to.
	8:33pm ultradamno: But tildes are free!
	8:34pm ironybread: @P-90 Warner Bros. certainly didn't have any love to spare for the Ladd Company or any of their product in 1982, despite the fact that Ladd brought "Chariots of Fire" and its attendant Oscar nomination into the Warners stable
	8:34pm ironybread: And bless Laddie for greenlighting the likes of Blade Runner and Twice Upon a Time and Star 80
	8:35pm ironybread: And now I have to stop commenting for a few minutes so I can cry over this "Cosmos" theme.
	8:35pm ultradamno: The band Höt Levels had to pay extra...
	8:36pm dale: claudia cardinale - no one wants fmu to be super professional. thar would take away from the homespun feels
	8:37pm dale: THAT...
	8:37pm Androu B.: Good Evening, Devon & Castaways! Well, this one seemed quite in the mail. For the past few mpnths, I'd been going through his many soundtracks and solo projects. An amazingly vast body of work, only equal to the likes of Andrzej Korzynski and Jean-Michel Jarre, which will endure for future generations to enjoy and be fascinated by. RIP "Papa".
	8:38pm chresti - in Frisco: Ahoy!
	8:38pm ironybread: hiya chresti!
	8:38pm P-90: It wasn’t about the Ladd Company, it was just about a movie they were pessimistic about, it cost a lot of money and didn’t look like it could be very successful in theaters ( which it was not.)
	8:40pm spodiodi: aloha, chresti! \\//
	8:41pm P-90: How’s Frisco?
	8:43pm dale: this is so richard clayderman.
	8:45pm DanFA: Good movie.
	8:46pm Thomas: ReneTLevins - I definitely agree the levels sound hot - hearing a lot of scratchiness, clipping...
	8:46pm DanFA: Every Oliver Stone is controversial for one reason or another.
	8:47pm Androu B.: I remember a fellow GYBO-mate from a while back made a mashup, successfully putting the Chariots Of Fire theme together with The Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star". And it sounded excellent!
	8:48pm chresti - in Frisco: Hola spodi\\// wasn’t to Mario’s today with Baba Bee! P-90 great, warmer today more than I like (still cooler than SanGabriel) cooler tomorrow This time of day the google buses are bring workers back so they can become chariots of fire along the Panhandle
	8:49pm chresti - in Frisco: *WENT to Mario’s
	8:50pm spodiodi: cool, chresti. i don't think i've ever been. hope it was great!
	8:51pm dale: thanks devin. logging out but listening on the radiola.
	8:52pm P-90: “Google busses” [shudder]
	8:52pm ironybread: @chresti Is Vicki's "Gone Gone Beyond" on your to-do list?
	8:53pm DanFA: This sounds like No Quarter by Zeppelin
	8:57pm Androu B.: Thanx for another excellently curated postmortem tribute, Devon!
	8:57pm GiB: R.I.P. LORD OF SYNTH!
	8:57pm joe mulligan: just missed this show but will go back and play as soon as it's on the archives. Thanks Devon for the well needed tribute.
	8:58pm spodiodi: thanks, Devon!
	8:58pm P-90: Thanks Devon
	8:59pm rich: thanks devon
	8:59pm ironybread: Thanks Devon, this was the tribute show I was waiting for
	9:00pm Androu B.: This really deserves a part 2.

Morricone Island with Devon E. Levins: Playlist from May 24, 2022

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May 24, 2022: RIP Vangelis Papathanassiou

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Vangelis	Main Titles & Prologue "Main Titles & Prologue" by "Vangelis"	Blade Runner	Warner	1982
Vangelis	End Credits "End Credits" by "Vangelis"	Blade Runner	Warner	1982	0:01:27 (Pop-up)
Aphrodite's Child	The Four Horsemen	The Face of Medusa	Vertigo	1971	0:05:49 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Vangelis	Venezia "Venezia" by "Vangelis"	Amore	Mara Films	1974	0:17:17 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Movement One "Movement One" by "Vangelis"	Sex Power	Philips	1970	0:17:21 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Generique "Generique" by "Vangelis"	L'Apocalypse des Animaux	Polydor	1973	0:19:45 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	O Thalasa! "O Thalasa!" by "Vangelis"	Ignacio	Barclay	1975	0:21:04 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	La Fete Sauvage "La Fete Sauvage" by "Vangelis"	La Fete Sauvage	Pathé	1975	0:23:40 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Aries "Aries" by "Vangelis"	De Mantel Der Liefde	RCA Victor	1978	0:26:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Vangelis	Trashed Main Theme "Trashed Main Theme" by "Vangelis"	Trashed	Blenheim Films	2012	0:28:14 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Hymne "Hymne" by "Vangelis"	Opera Sauvage	Polydor	1979	0:36:53 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Theme From The TV Series Cosmos	Cosmos	RCA	1981	0:36:56 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Pablo Picasso "Pablo Picasso" by "Vangelis"	Pablo Picasso Peintre	EMF	1982	0:39:07 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Curfew "Curfew" by "Vangelis"	Missing	Silver Screen Disk	1982	0:40:46 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Main Theme "Main Theme" by "Vangelis"	Chariots Of Fire	Polydor	1981	0:41:04 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Vangelis	Gardens of Delight "Gardens of Delight" by "Vangelis"	Alexander	Sony Classical	2004	0:42:50 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Main Title Theme "Main Title Theme" by "Vangelis"	Antarctica	Polydor	1983	0:48:16 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Credits "Credits" by "Vangelis"	The Bounty	One World Music	1984	0:50:54 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Strange Attractions "Strange Attractions" by "Vangelis"	Bitter Moon	Yunanistan	1992	0:54:14 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	1492: Conquest Of Paradise Part II (End Titles)	1492: Conquest Of Paradise	EastWest Records	1992	0:55:29 (Pop-up)
Vangelis/Kritikes Madares	Part 5 "Part 5" by "Vangelis/Kritikes Madares"	El Greco	Polydor	2007	0:59:35 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	8:00pm ironybread: This Vangelis guy...was kind of...unstoppable
	8:01pm The Count of Al Dente: 'good evening.
	8:01pm ultradamno: Devon! Castaways!
	8:03pm dale: that last scene with rutger hauer and harrison ford was pretty damn fine.
	8:03pm StringOFperils: Unstoppable because of his colossal electricity bills.
	8:03pm Glistener MW: R.I.P. Vangelis. 🗡 🏃‍♀️
	8:04pm ironybread: @string oh my yes, I mean just look at the number of synths on that rack
	8:05pm StringOFperils: He must've had to crawl under the piano to get in there
	8:08pm spodiodi: hello, hello, Devon and Company. here for the good stuff
	8:08pm ironybread: Was Vangelis an impossible, tempermental artist? Is that why there was no "Blade Runner" soundtrack for ten years after the release of the film? Or is the story much, much more complicated? Wrong answers only.
	8:10pm Will: Vangelis: The Man Who Made Music. Doc coming soon.
	8:10pm Listener Robert: Aw, horseys.
	8:10pm dale: warner brothers owned it and probably didn't see any money to be made from it.
	8:12pm ironybread: @dale After what happened to the "Shining" soundtrack, I would not doubt this theory one bit
	8:12pm Jackie G: Hope we hear some Jon Anderson stuff
	8:13pm P-90: No one has called Vangelis “temperamental” or difficult to work with. But he picked his projects very carefully.
	8:13pm DanFA: Hello Devon. Great show.
	8:13pm StringOFperils: While walking along in desert sand, you suddenly look down and see a tortoise crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over onto its back. The tortoise lies there, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it cannot do so without your help. You are not helping. Why? A)Because I have to hear these 300 Vangelis albums. B)Because Morricone Island's on now C)Because I'm going to rip your head off, meatbag.
	8:15pm Will: For me, it'll always be Ton Scherpenzeel.
	8:15pm spodiodi: Bitter Moon <3
	8:15pm DanFA: @Stringofperils, what's this gotta do with my mother?
	8:16pm JetBoy of Brooklyn: I’m gonna go with C
	8:16pm P-90: and if it took a few years for the Blade Runner soundtrack to come out, it’s almost certainly because the studio didn’t think it was worth it, nothing to do with Vangelis
	8:16pm ironybread: @StringOfPerils They're just questions
	8:19pm ultradamno: Though that's a little weird, since Chariots Of Fire had JUST happened, which would the high visibility point for Vangelis
	8:20pm ironybread: I certainly would hope that my initial impression of Vangelis was correct, that he was concerned above all about the quality of the product put out under his name; however the 1994 Warners CD of "Blade Runner" included a liner note by Vangelis saying "Finding myself unable to release these recordings at the time, it is with great pleasure that I am able to do so now", which raised a tiny red flag with me...did he have a beef with the studio? Or were there other extenuating circumstances?
	8:21pm StringOFperils: Probably some sort of international publishing rights/marketing complications. Who gets what share of what when and how and for how long.
	8:22pm Marshall Stacks: Memory is hazy, oh so hazy, but I believe I saw Vangelis perform in Jersey City as the keyboardist for Yes in, dunno, 1976?
	8:22pm dale: they couldn't afford a real graphic designer for this last album.
	8:24pm Jackie G: That may have been Patrick Moraz at Jersey City. He replaced Wakeman as keyboardst on one album.
	8:24pm P-90: The inside story is that Vangelis actually did accept the offer to join Yes, provisionally in the basis that he would have a chance to play with the band and see if he was comfortable playing Wakeman’s parts on songs in the repertoire (as well as participating in writing new material.) They tried it, he just couldn’t deal with the thought of touring and having to replicate Wakeman’s style night after night. So Vangelis and Yes moved on, quite amicably.
	8:24pm StringOFperils: They blew the graphic design budget on the Letraset for his last name.
	8:26pm dale: string - ha ha!
	8:27pm dale: they had to buy another sheet for the consonants...
	8:30pm ironybread: @String Hey man, it's simply a fact that every circumflex E, hachek A, or umlaut you put on an album automatically adds 30 cents to the replication costs
	8:30pm P-90: Once Vangelis signed the contract and did the BR soundtrack it was the studio’s to release. They were down in the movie and didn’t want to spend the money for a soundtrack album of nom-pop music. That’s what Vangelis was referring to.
	8:33pm ultradamno: But tildes are free!
	8:34pm ironybread: @P-90 Warner Bros. certainly didn't have any love to spare for the Ladd Company or any of their product in 1982, despite the fact that Ladd brought "Chariots of Fire" and its attendant Oscar nomination into the Warners stable
	8:34pm ironybread: And bless Laddie for greenlighting the likes of Blade Runner and Twice Upon a Time and Star 80
	8:35pm ironybread: And now I have to stop commenting for a few minutes so I can cry over this "Cosmos" theme.
	8:35pm ultradamno: The band Höt Levels had to pay extra...
	8:36pm dale: claudia cardinale - no one wants fmu to be super professional. thar would take away from the homespun feels
	8:37pm dale: THAT...
	8:37pm Androu B.: Good Evening, Devon & Castaways! Well, this one seemed quite in the mail. For the past few mpnths, I'd been going through his many soundtracks and solo projects. An amazingly vast body of work, only equal to the likes of Andrzej Korzynski and Jean-Michel Jarre, which will endure for future generations to enjoy and be fascinated by. RIP "Papa".
	8:38pm chresti - in Frisco: Ahoy!
	8:38pm ironybread: hiya chresti!
	8:38pm P-90: It wasn’t about the Ladd Company, it was just about a movie they were pessimistic about, it cost a lot of money and didn’t look like it could be very successful in theaters ( which it was not.)
	8:40pm spodiodi: aloha, chresti! \\//
	8:41pm P-90: How’s Frisco?
	8:43pm dale: this is so richard clayderman.
	8:45pm DanFA: Good movie.
	8:46pm Thomas: ReneTLevins - I definitely agree the levels sound hot - hearing a lot of scratchiness, clipping...
	8:46pm DanFA: Every Oliver Stone is controversial for one reason or another.
	8:47pm Androu B.: I remember a fellow GYBO-mate from a while back made a mashup, successfully putting the Chariots Of Fire theme together with The Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star". And it sounded excellent!
	8:48pm chresti - in Frisco: Hola spodi\\// wasn’t to Mario’s today with Baba Bee! P-90 great, warmer today more than I like (still cooler than SanGabriel) cooler tomorrow This time of day the google buses are bring workers back so they can become chariots of fire along the Panhandle
	8:49pm chresti - in Frisco: *WENT to Mario’s
	8:50pm spodiodi: cool, chresti. i don't think i've ever been. hope it was great!
	8:51pm dale: thanks devin. logging out but listening on the radiola.
	8:52pm P-90: “Google busses” [shudder]
	8:52pm ironybread: @chresti Is Vicki's "Gone Gone Beyond" on your to-do list?
	8:53pm DanFA: This sounds like No Quarter by Zeppelin
	8:57pm Androu B.: Thanx for another excellently curated postmortem tribute, Devon!
	8:57pm GiB: R.I.P. LORD OF SYNTH!
	8:57pm joe mulligan: just missed this show but will go back and play as soon as it's on the archives. Thanks Devon for the well needed tribute.
	8:58pm spodiodi: thanks, Devon!
	8:58pm P-90: Thanks Devon
	8:59pm rich: thanks devon
	8:59pm ironybread: Thanks Devon, this was the tribute show I was waiting for
	9:00pm Androu B.: This really deserves a part 2.

Morricone Island with Devon E. Levins: Playlist from May 24, 2022

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