Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene

Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene counts as classical music.

Prove me wrong.

too many lazers

I prefer toxygene

classical music isnt given out free with the observer on sundays

does 1950's surf music coutn as classical, because lets face it, surf music was around way before oxygene was made, and if thats classical, then whats surf music?

surf music is for proletariats

But it was made with synthesizers!!

*proves you wrong*

  my usernames always really suck said:

Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene counts as classical music.

 

Prove me wrong.

arguments for:

there's a pretty decent history of synths in classical from mixtures of 'conventional' instruments and synths (like stuff using the ondes martenot) to full synth covers of classical stuff - 'switched on bach' and a bazillion similar records throughout recent history, up to and beyond william orbits 'pieces in a modern style'. those are covers/interpretations of course but they bridge the gap nicely up to mr jarre doing oxygene so i reckon that helps make it classical.

depends how you define classical but it's definitely complex, melodic and harmonically tonal (nae white noise drum shenanigans really). it's also much more in line with the pop side of classical that you usually hear, unlike things like the clockwork orange soundtrack which is more 'difficult' (but i'd call it classical too really, or just awesome, hell i dunno!).

against:

it can't be played live without electricity. it wasn't made over 80 yrs ago by someone who is dead. synths aren't 'real' instruments. ( /idiot music snob viewpoint)

  Fred McGriff said:

too many lazers

it counts as pop

classical died in 1850

Its a great album, its some of the first music i heard when i was small, and loved it ever since. I dont care what u guys say about it.

Messian knows his shit also, i love the way eveyone thinks classical music is classical music. The classical period was 1750-1820, followed by the romantic period and then 20th century there after.

come on, there's no notation for those jamming solo's.

Most of the shit at best was notated in midi.

Not composed in the classical sense.

one thing is classical music, and another is a classic, after 10 or 20 years eveytingh becomes a classic, cars, songs, movies... it might be a classic, but it's not classical music...

zoolookologie > any oxygène

Space Art > Jean Michel Jarre < YMO

i got my copy from my moms sunday (daily) mail

suckers!!

the biggest selling electronic album of all time

the pivotal crossover album from experimental electronic to popular music (fuck Kraftwerk)

an analogue masterpiece which even the man himself can't replicate 100% (although technically speaking its more an organ album than a synth album)

a great listen all the way though especially with headphones after a doobie although I still have to perservere with Oxygene 4 (the token single track)

structurally its more disco than classical although JMJ did do some neo classical stuff later in the 80's

Ceephax playing some Jarre on a real Yamaha Light Synth near the end !

  THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

one thing is classical music, and another is a classic, after 10 or 20 years eveytingh becomes a classic, cars, songs, movies... it might be a classic, but it's not classical music...

a saw a poster for a disney movie (not a re-release or anything) a few years back and it had text saying it was disney's all new family classic. i guess they were groupingi t together with their past classics, but it hardly made any sense.