Moonflowers & Mini-Skirts

Peter Thomas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 19, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B00000I5Q4
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #639,919 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Opium

2. Multi-Kolored Mini-Skirts

3. Black Power

4. 11 Uhr 20 (Main Theme)

5. Pozzolico

6. Milky Way

7. Under Control

8. Moonflower Q

9. Vergiess' Mich, Wenn du Kannst

10. Rockin Computer

11. Power Boost

12. Spiral Angst

13. Meeting Palermo

14. Flash Point

15. Mein Wochenende

16. Happening in White [Main Theme]

17. Beige Turtleneck

18. Malaparie Sinus

19. Minoti on the Run [From the TV Mini-Series "11 Uhr 20"]

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Moonflowers & Mini-Skirts is a journey through interstellar cool and nova-hot genius via the martini-soaked soundtrack compositions of Peter Thomas. Originally, these travelogues navigated through such diverse '60s and '70s projects as the German television series Babeck and the snow-bunny-bingo film Happening in White. While Thomas is probably best known for the otherworldly, experimental themes of science fiction series Raumpatrouille, this collection is more like a rocket in the pocket of Esquivel and John Barry. In fact, Barry's James Bond influence can be felt like a quake in Thomas's "Black Power," as Donna Summer belts out the title words like Shirley Bassey singing the main theme from Goldfinger. Other audacious sparks include the swinging trumpet nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey on the track "Opium" and the fast-forward punk energy (if punk had been a movement then) of "Rockin' Computer." If anything, rereleasing Peter Thomas's material shows how contemporary electronica bands such as Stereolab and Add N to X are simply discovering trails pioneered 30 years ago. --Michael Woodring

Product Description

Compilation of the wildest & funkiest recordings from thelate '60s & early '70s by Germany's leading film composer ofthe period. 19 tracks, including many rare & previouslyunreleased gems, including the first ever recorded vocal byDonna Summer, 'Black Power', plus other sought-after vocalcuts by movie starlets Senta Berger & Uschi Glas. 1998Marina release.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars late '60's op art mod easy listenin'!!! Sublime swank!, September 19, 1999

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This review is from: Moonflowers & Mini-Skirts (Audio CD)

FOR THOSE FELLERS OF ALL GENDERS OUT THERE THAT ENJOY UNEARTHING MIND STIMULATING AND SOUL SHAKIN' ELUSIVE GEMS FROM THE WANING PERIOD OF THE JET AGE THIS IS FOR YOU!! EURO-SOUND STYLINGS BY WAY OF GERMAN B-MOVIES, VAGUELY REMINISCENT OF VAMPYROS LESBOS BUT A LITTLE LESS CAMPY AND MORE ARTY, AN UPGRADE IF YOU WILL. GO AHEAD AND BUY THIS CD, YOU WON'T BE DISSAPOINTED, IT'LL MAKE YOU WANNA REFURBISH YOUR INTERIOR WITH THE ELUSIVE INDUSTRIAL DESIGN OF THE ERA, I'M, TELLIN YOU KIDS, AND REMEMBER YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, THIS IS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE FOR ALL YOU PRETENTIOUS SOPHISTICATES OUT THERE, BOTH AURALLY AND AESTHETICALLY!!! SO GO AHEAD AND LUXURIATE IN THE SPLENDOR, CUZ THERE AINT NOTHING BEING CREATED NOW TO LAUNCH YOU TO THIS DREAMY AND ELUSIVE STATE, YOU WANT AUTHENTIC, QUALITY GOODS DONTCHA? WELL HERE YA GO!!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yeah Baby!, July 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Moonflowers & Mini-Skirts (Audio CD)

Great overview of one of the 60s most interesting big band composers! If you've never heard thomas before i think this is a great starting point!