PURE MOODS POLL

'Orinoco (Mad) Flow' if only cos of it being sampled on Rebel MC's 'Tribal Base'

I gotta go for Oxygene.

Jan Hammer any & every time

"orinoco flow" should be judged "bomb" on its own merits

I'm pretty sure I bought that Jarre album on vinyl for cheapo at a yard sale a year ago and never listened to it. Really need to pull that out.

hmmm "crockett" or "toxygene", tough call

you're mixing yr Orb w/yr Jarre there

it's true

i started a post about how it was intersting that "crockett" and "oxygene" were both improved via 90s dance remixing but that "the x-files theme" got worse and whether that meant that the "the x-files theme" wins

see also charlemagne palestine's comment about the most successful minimal composer of the 20th century being john williams for the "star wars" theme ... by that criteria the x-files theme should probably be judged with the greats

which one of these could the average folk on the street hum?

probably most likely it'd be "x-files", though i admit i was just humming it to myself but then i realized i was humming "dr who"

the X-Files theme is great!

it's Hammer time

"My Wife with Champagne Shoulders" - Mark Isham

What's this? Is it as terrible as the title makes it sound?

Deep Forest.

That monk chant hook from Enigma's "Return to Innocence" is impossible to resist.

curtis i kiss you for this poll

and i cant believe no ones mentioned the theme from the mission which is one of my most played songs on itunes

"Crockett's Theme" - Jan Hammer

this poll is my gift to you, max.

I'm really having a hard time deciding here.

Is it okay to vote in this poll if you find these songs campy?

yes

theme from the mission for sure

The Promise = the theme from 'the piano'!! i should rep for that, but i like Oxygene a bit better.

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crockett's theme definitely wins this one. jan hammer is unstoppable.

I voted for Sadeness because I am totally lame

i really want to post more on this thread, but my words are so tainted compared to the purity of the moods embodied in these songs

There aren't many songs I hate more than "Lily Was Here."

"orinocco flow" i guess, though i've been digging on the oxygene album alot recently.

why doesn't this cd include "forbidden colours"?

also, the sakamoto side of the last emperor soundtrack is much much better than the byrne side

it turns out the Jarre album I have is Equinoxe, not Oxygene

Hey Forbidden Colours isnt that cheesy! :( I love that song.

I have Oxygene btw Curtis. And Zoolook. I think.

Crocket's Theme. Always.

who said it was cheesy? it's one of my favourite songs! (and it is totally cheesy!)

It is bootiful.

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disappointed w/ adiemus's showing

No one voted for Tubular Bells!? Thats kind of suprising.

Read it again!

Oh god. One vote sorry. Its saturday morning here and I think I'm gettin a cold and I need coffee and I'm in a bit of a cranky mood.

I need PURE MOODS!

i tried to put this on last night for some settlers of catan action and i got this response

"oh, fuck, dude... no."

Ahahahaha :D

I always get that reaction when I put !!! on around Nick.

woah, what does Nyman's stuff sound like? i've read his Cage book for a class before, had no idea that he was a new age moodsynth composer.

10. "Theme from The Mission" - Ennio Morricone 4

ROBBED

INSANE-O LEVELS OF GOODNESS HERE

why the hell did Deep Forest only get four votes???

because it's balls, but 'Yeha Noha' is seriously the worst shit of the 90s or indeed any decade

haha

haayyaaHAAAA ohhwaaa yaa yaaa

I kind of miss Deep Forest actually

I wish more New Age music was like "Orinoco Flow", so much of it is so tuneless, but that one's a classic.

Really surprised that "Children" by Robert Miles isn't on here, but maybe it wasn't released yet

1994 iirc?

If you were to create a follow up to Pure Moods, what would it include?

julianna barwick

this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1WvfA-St7Y&noredirect=1

basically its what i wish all these songs outside of "Oronico Flow" and "Oxygene 4" were more like

I kind of miss Deep Forest actually

Oh god, me too.

What was the other song that came out about the same time as Deep Forest and also (IIRC) sampled pygmy chanting? Was it another Enigma song?

Well there were several other Pure Moods volumes that followed this, with the seres ending in 2004. That last volume has the likes of Joss Stone, Kings of Convience, Dido, Pink Martini, The Polyphonic Spree and the acoustic version of Dirty Vegas's Days Go By on it.

LOL

For more information on where the Pure Moods series went after the first volume, consult your local Wikipedia.

Looking back at the OG Pure Moods, at the time it was probably the kind of thing that was considered extremely naff, music for your dad to play in the car on summer holidays etc... But what with bona fide classics like Tubular Bells and Oxygene, critically reappraised tracks like Orinoco Flow, appearances from David Byrne, Angelo Badalamenti, Jan Hammer and Morricone; not to mention the nineties eurocheese nostlagia of Enigma and Deep Forest, this looks kind of essential.

much like the "Tubular Bells" series it appears this dropped off pretty sharply from volume 1. though I do think Moby's "Porcelain" was a pretty obvious choice

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence is another good omission from the first vol.

you know "3 + 3" by Vangelis would've been pretty tight on this one

While I didn't grow up with Pure Moods, my mom owned the two volumes of Escapes, a Canadian compilation series that had quite a bit of overlap with Pure Moods, except with worse cover art:
Escapes
Escapes II

12. "Yeha-Noha (Wishes Of Happiness And Prosperity)" - Sacred Spirit 0

A former boss of mine used to play this on repeat for an hour on a Friday afternoon before going for a pint. He's a super-stressed manager and the least "Native American chanting about being at one with the world" guy ever. I'm not aware of him ever listening to any other music.

What was the other song that came out about the same time as Deep Forest and also (IIRC) sampled pygmy chanting? Was it another Enigma song?

Enigma had a big hit in 1994 with tune that sampled Native American chanting, maybe that's what you mean?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08

Or maybe you're talking about Deep Forest's follow-up to "Sweet Lullaby"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x05BUoXCXjM

Btw, contrary to common belief, "Sweet Lullaby" is not based on pygmy chant, but on a song recorded at Solomon Islands. There's a video on Youtube where some dude travels to Solomon Islands to track the origin of the tune, and interviews some family members of the singer sampled on the track (she had already died by then).

My wife looked up the commercial on youtube, which I'd forgotten. It used to be on all the time. Also I now realize that this is one of my yoga instructors' go-to mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox_2s

HEYYY YAAA HOOIIIII

**girl spinning with unicorn**

"Imagine a world where time drifts slowly..."

when I'm 90 years old and can't remember my own kids names I will still have "Take a trip into the unknown with the X-Files theme" running through my diseased brain

I have a huge affection for New Pure Moods, a sort of cut-and-shut of the first couple of volumes, which I bought when it came out in my early teens:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-New-Pure-Moods/release/2738830

No Orinoco Flow, oddly, but I remember the finding the lines it drew between new age, world beat stuff, soundtracks, modern classical and trance opened a lot of music doors for me. That kind of scene-trotting is fairly commonplace today, but felt new to my ears at the time.

(Also, the US series and the UK series seem to have very similar track listings in a variety of different configurations, which I find endlessly confusing)

There aren't many songs I hate more than "Lily Was Here."