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1.0 out of 5 stars
Gives "classical music" a bad name, June 4, 2000
This review is from: Chariots Of Fire: The Music Of Vangelis (Compilation) (Audio CD)
This is the kind of stuff that's marketed as "classical music" or "classically-influenced" or "Bach-like" that gives real classical a bad name, and shows the people who say these things don't understand, and have probably never heard, Bach. Those kinds of accolates are what suckered me in to buying this when it first came out back in 1981. I was in eighth grade and had been listening to classical music for about three months, and I could immediately see these tunes had nothing to do with it. They are pedestrian pop songs. Instead of a singer or chorus, we have "waa-waa"ing synthesizers, but these are simple tunes with repeated drum machine beats on a synthesizer, nothing more. If you play the samples here and you like this sort of thing, fine and good. Many people like Britney Spears too. But it's not "classical music" and does not owe anything to it. It may be part of what brought the likes of John Tesh and Yanni out of the woodwork, however.
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