Reviews (page 6 of 8)
After part one was finished, I felt it had been nice and relaxing. The album certainly seems influential, what with being mostly synthesisers. However, I prefer interesting instrumentals, pieces that convey moods, images, and intrigue the listener due to their complexities and technical difficulty (I find that these requirements usually only apply to classical music, and I am aware how snobby this makes me look). This was not that; thus, it sounded fairly similar throughout. Nevertheless, the album wasn't bad (if you like instrumental popular music, you'll love this) and the aforementioned influence is important, so I shall give Jarre 5/10.
Way more space-y than Spacemen 3 (the album generated the day before this one) despite this album being released 13 years before the Spacemen 3 album.
Cool
Oxygène is the third album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre and it is considered his breakthrough album for being immensely popular worldwide. It is an electronic, ambient, synth-pop album that revolutionized the sounds of synthesizers throughout the end of the 70's and remains one of the best-selling French electronic & instrumental albums in history. Certified platinum in the UK & France, this album influenced forthcoming electronic artists like Moby. Incredibly, the entire album was recorded by Jarre in 4 months from within the makeshift studio in his apartment using synthesizers, drum machines, and a keyboard. Critical reviews at release were negative as people had grown accustomed to the popular punk rock music at the time and had no care for electronic music. However, this album has gone on to be an important piece in the foundation of electronic music and is praised in retrospective reviews. I liked this album and its sci-fi melodic themes that both soothe and move the listener. You can dance to these tracks or just relax and let your mind wander. This is a wonderful album that shouldn't fall to the wayside to other more popular albums. Give it a try!
From the opening track, "Oxygène Part I," to the final track, "Oxygène Part VI," the listener is taken on a sonic journey that mesmerizes and captivates but sometimes loses your full attention at dragged out parts of the record. Oxygène is creater in a way in which Jarre uses electronic sounds to create a sense of atmosphere and mood. Each track is carefully crafted to evoke a specific emotion, and the use of synths, sequencers, and other electronic instruments creates a sound that is both futuristic and otherworldly. The fact that this album was released in 1976 is actually pretty insane considering how modern it sounds. Oxygene is definitely a groundbreaking album with it’s electronic, ambient sound and whilst it drags on at times it’s still a record that i recommend for some relaxation.
better than brian eno part 3, part 6
Elcetrónica del ¡¡'76!! Muy bueno lo que se escucha. Por ahí tiene vaches grandes y se vuelve música de documental.
Needs a relisten
Bruh. When track 4 started my jaw dropped so far open you'd think I just found out my mom died. I recognized the song immediately and I started freaking out, it's the fucking claw machine song. If you've played a lot of them you probably know what I'm talking about. I can't believe it's actually from something and I found out what it is through this list. Well anyways, the album is pretty good. Ethereal early synth soundtrack-esque music. Feels like a predecessor to stuff like metroid and 80s film scores. Wasn't in love with the last 2 tracks however and they take up a lot of the runtime. A silly little mouse is running around on part 6 and no one is trying to catch him. You can picture a dude sitting in his room fucking around with the synthesizer as you listen, but not in a bad way. It's quite endearing. Score: 70. Album art: 90 - it kicks ass
Early synth with a lot of pew pew space lasers. A chill ambient soundtrack that's not really a soundtrack, but you can use your imagination and fit it into many things. It feels familiar and I enjoyed that it was one collective project split into 6 parts. It can be a little sleepy, but doesn't outstay it's welcome.
Jean-Michel Jarre s'aventure ici sur le terrain des Chemical Brothers et fait bien pâle figure quand on sait que les deux frères ont été générés la veille. En quarante minutes, Jarre sera incapable de nous donner la formule chimique de l'élément-titre de son album. Pitoyable.
I know this isn't a movie soundtrack because wikipedia told me so. But you could have fooled me. If it looks like a duck, etc. That said, it was interesting background music for getting ready for work at least. Not interesting enough to be distracting but also not annoying at any point, it just flew under the radar from start to finish.
Pretty hit or miss for me. Maybe two or three pretty decent songs and then the others are just too atmospheric/ambient or don’t develop enough of an idea to make them interesting. 6/10
Obviously influential to electronic music, but feels outdated and empty compared to current EM. Some great parts to it, but also a bit dull at times. 3.5/5.
Scifi background music. Enjoyable enough.
I enjoyed the 70s future-nostalgia vibe of this. Didn't realise this was where Limmy took the Falconhoof backing music from (which made it a little hard to take that bit seriously)
Best: Oxygène, Pt. 4 Worst: Oxygène, Pt. 3 twas chill I was doing work to it
I dig that it was made in 76 and sounds so good but it’s fucking boring
Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: I actually did, wasn’t expecting too as much because instrumentals haven’t been my particular taste for a while but this is quite good! Favourite song: Track 2 - Oxygene, Pt.2
Interestesting 70's electronica. The album has a lot of atmosphere. Not certain if I'd listen again.
Rating: 6/10
funny noises
Cool but kind of sounded the same the whole time 6/10
I was into the spacey sounds at first but as it went on it got a lot more grating. 6/10
Dah dunnah dah
It is the distant future. The year TWO THOUSAND. Jean Michell Jarre has invited you to a strange alien landscape. He invites you to sit awhile, while strange noises and themes come at you. They come slowly, and deliberately, allowing you to explore them at your leisure. There's probably some weird alien fauna surrounding you. It's blue, and the sky is yellow, and there's a strange alien breeze whisping about your feet and running over your toes. Somewhere you hear a distant shore. You're calm and laid back, exploring this world in no real hurry. JMJ is taking his time. He's exploring the space himself, just like you. A look of serenity is on his face. He looks over at you and nods approvingly. Am I in a dream right now? Am I dead? Why am I surrounded by purple clouds? Have we transcended into another spiritual realm? No. It's all over now. That was interesting, and I've enjoyed this moment in time.
I actually have this record on vinyl but never listened to it. It was nice to throw on some good headphones and get lost in the music. This is some good early electronic music with some ambient tracks as well. Pretty trippy. Solid record overall, good but not amazing.
Psychedelic Synth
It is wild to think about just how far out into the future it would be before an album like this was taken for granted in the musical mainstream. Kudos to Jean-Michel for setting those wheels into motion!
Half uur durende lsd trip van een fransoos met een synthesizer onder zijn vingers
decent synth-heavy.
I listened to this on my air pods at work. It was soothing and sounded good. Not very exciting but it was okay.
experimental instrumental -- like swimming without needing air
Found this an interesting album different and impressive this came out in the 70’s clearly ahead of its time and influential on electronic music.
About as chill as it gets. Great background music
Best Song: Ethereal and bloopy, while still being short enough to be a traditional song. Worst Song: Can't say there is one... the label barely applies here. Overall: Nice easy listening. Very clearly "proto-" electronic, but it feels interesting listen to where the genre came from, in contrast to the places it's gone since.
This one feels like a clear, definite journey. Quite forward moving, at different rates of acceleration. The craft you’re in dives from the clear sky and plunges into the sea, where you turn on the floodlights and lay bare the mysteries of the deep. The ascent from the sea is not merely a return to the atmosphere but beyond into naked space.
Sometimes I've struggled to appreciate Electronica, often there aren't traditional "songs", more of a stream of background music. This sounds like this could be a soundtrack to a futuristic sci-fi film, that kind of goes on and on and ...For the most part, I enjoyed it, it's sort of cool in a weird way, but after a while I was waiting for it to end or at least for the imaginary movie in my mind to be over.
Iconic and mellow.
I'd never heard of this guy (and yet he has the largest ever attended concert in history!?) and I always am sceptical of electronic music on this list, but this was okay. Not amazing, but not the worst thing. It has good production made for something in the 70s though. 3.5/5
Surprisingly dope. Feels like I'm shooting lasers in a cyberpunk disco 3
Electrónica
Nice ambient stuff, it makes for good listening and clearly impressive for its time but nothing too exciting going on
Revolutionary but a bit boring. Futuristic but very dated.
p367. 1976. 3 stars Primeval trippy electro music from the 70s, and hence a high degree of musical wankage. Outstays its welcome on most of the tracks, and oh my, didn't someone have fun passing those synth sounds from speaker to speaker? Vangelis did this kind of thing much better IMHO. Perfectly acceptable of its kind, but it's all a bit pompous and sterile.
Cool. 6/10
Decent background music
Still not really my thing, and it probably never will be, but I can appreciate it as quality regardless. I’d just personally never choose to listen to it. C
Well that was some crystal-gripping gear. My kids felt like they were in space. I enjoyed the review "when I saw every track was call oxygen I knew it would be shit"
I was going to say, this sounds like the Gallipoli soundtrack. Oxygene Pt 2 IS on the Gallipoli soundtrack. I have heard this song about 200 times and never knew who it was.
Wasn't quite what I was expecting. Not bad, but not what I was expecting.
I hated this stuff in my youth. These days it's tolerable but I never reach for it.
Boring for me.
3/5. Classic early electronica.
Extremely soundtracky… nice to have on in the background, but nothing I’d ever buy!
Makes me think of background music for a movie about space
Bien. Conocía Oxygene, Pt. 4. Soy más de Mike Olfield. Aunque, en general, está bien el músico éste.
De va swag!
Love the soothing feel of JMJ. Have not listened to this one for years and years. Brings back great memories. I prefer the group "tangerine dream" which has a similar sound.
Interessant, insgesamt besser als erwartet. Hatte das Gefühl dass dabei die Hausarbeit besonders episch war 😅
Abgespaced im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Filmmusik, Star Wars Laser, Clockwork Orange. Man hört dass jemand mal einfach fett das potenzial von Synthies ausreizen wollte :-) Vangelis lässt grüßen
3.5
Kind of trippy electronica that I liked but probably don't need to hear too often. Nice to discover though!
Nice, this is like the French answer to Mike Oldfield.
Better than I would’ve thought
Not the kind of music I usually listen to but I liked it. Interesting and captivating sounds. 3.5/5
Pretty awesome soundscapes. Definitely someone I imagine Daft Punk would be inspired by. Interesting to think about how he did this with the limited technology of the time. Each part flowed into the next smoothly!
Pretty smooth and relaxing. Really enjoyed!
its good but not great, it sounds ahead of its time but dated nowadays
I listened to less than 10 min of this at home and it wasn't doing much for me but I had to drive to Ajax tonight so I tried again in the car. I used the YouTube link which I later learned was a remastered extended version. Something about the car stereo and being in an enclosed space made it quite enjoyable. This music is made for headphones. The only parallels I can draw are that some of the extended mix sounded like laser fire on that ancient video game called Galaxia and the last half of Pt 5 sounds like the music played on 1970s porn. What's not to like?
Enjoyed it
Interesting, I would not have paid for it.
I imagine this electronics being influential and big at the time, but it was fine background music
Not my kind of thing, but can hear its influence in loads of stuff. Instrumentals with only electronic sounds get very repetitive very fast.
Boy, this album keeps going, doesn't it. I'm ordinarily a fan of early MOOG synthesizer stuff like this, but this album is so slow, it's hard to do anything with it but put in on in the background and ignore it. It works fine for that purpose, but it contrasts pretty sharply with, for instance, Plantasia by Mort Garson, which was released the same year and felt like it had much more of a concept to it. I can see why this album is highly regarded in the history of electronic music, but I don't think it holds up without its historical context 3/5
This is not the type of album I usually like, but it kept me well entertained the whole time. I like the overall vibe
futuristic for its time but a bit too ambient and somewhat lacking drive
Wiiiiwooooooowaaaaa
Ethereal synthesizer for over an hour
Sadly didn’t get to hear it all. It was new and different at the time and good to hear again. ***
Part BBC Radiophonic Workshop/Doctor Who/sci-fi soundtrack, part Kraftwerk, part prog, part Pink Floyd’s ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ and part Patrick Cowley/disco. Sure, parts of ‘Oxygene’ are a bit derivative, but equally, other parts are startlingly iconic and original. It sounds simultaneously dated and futuristic, but that’s part of its overall charm.
Cool for an electronic album made in the '70s, just not really my thing.
Well as in "they walked so the predecesors could fly" I understand the inclusion of this album on the list. the best in electronic music was yet to come in 77.
It's very vibey. I think the album is a lot like laying in the middle of the ocean; it's peaceful and serene, but there's a sense of uncertainty and anxiety underneath. As for listening through it, it was alright, but the longer songs tend to drag on a bit. Favorite track: Part 4
It was cool, but I don't really care for it. It's not something I'm going to come back to, but it's pretty cool to hear early electronic music. Highlights: 2, and 4.
Whilst admirable for its innovation, it feels a little like a museum piece now. A bit dusty.
Perfectly fine ambient music. Added to my study playlist
An intriguing journey into historical electronica. Chill grooves
I feel like I’d enjoy whatever non-existent sci-fi movie this album would soundtrack more than the actual album, but it’s pretty aight.
Evocative synth instrumentals in the vein of Vangelis. I enjoyed.
It's not something that I'd ever listen to again but I still kind of enjoyed it as an imaginary sci-fi soundtrack. Best track: Oxygène (Part V)
Really enjoyed and hard to believe it’s almost 50 years old. Would def revisit
I typically don't love electronic music, but I think that's more on the EDM side - this reminded me a lot of Brian Eno, which I liked a good bit. Cool sci-fi vibes and good studying/working music
Interesting
I enjoyed this. Decent piece of music.
De origine van elektronische muziek. Niet zo verkeerd. Goed om geluisterd te hebben
Entrancing. I wonder how much this type of music is created for direct listening or background listening
Without this album there probably wouldn't have been the stone-cold-classic "Bing Bong" by SFA
Basically 40 mins of the Hartbeat gallery music, which isn't an entirely bad thing. Oxygene Pt. 4 is the 'magician on TV doing something mystical or a spy being spooky' music. Exactly what I imagined a JMJ album would be.
3.3 - Probably a good example of early instrumental ambient scifi synth. Some solid and timeless sounds - probably impressive for 1976 but nothing special in 2021.
Great synth/ambient/space tunes. Fimilar with him but not this album.
Very atmospheric, predictably. A pleasant listen. Super influential, from what I've read.
Måste ha varit en banbrytande skiva när den kom. Jag tycker man tydligt hör att "War of the worlds" av Jeff Wayne som kom två år senare har "lånat" väldigt mkt från framför allt Oxygene, Pt.2. Bästa spåren, Oxygene, Part 2, Part 4 & Part 6
cosmic sound
This was fascinating and I can see how it lead to modern day electronic music.
I feel like I might derive more from this with repeated listening a and closer attention but as it went it stayed pretty well background, pleasant enough but making faint impression.
It's not the most remarkable album until you consider that it's early electronic music from the 70s when it was hard to do a bunch of that stuff. Latter tracks in the album were better. Interesting how many modern electronic musicians still come back to those great early synth sounds.
Reminds me very much of Vangelis' music. Had to listen to "Fields of Coral" by Vangelis in the middle of this. I think since its release, there have been better version of synth instrumental albums that I've discovered before this so it's going to be an unremarkable album in my opinion.
Blim. Blim blam.
Cool sounding album. The sound effects were probably before its time. I feel like movies have used these songs in there sound track.
Different, meh
It's electronica with a melody, which is a minor miracle. I almost gave it a higher score because it exceeded my expectations by not completely sucking. You can tell it's from the 70s because of the lasers and other space noises. Best track: Oxygène IV
It reminds me of a soundtrack to a space video game. Soothing to listen to and the sounds were very rich. Not really the type of music I like listening to but I enjoyed the experience.
I'm not sold on this one. It's ok, but after two tracks, I was bored. Just never found anything to pull me in. Recommended if you want to fall asleep or just need some really dull dinner party music.
I mean, it certainly is Ambien, I mean AMBIENT, music.
remind me to put this on when I go int outer space which I would also never ever do
Not against the album, but this genre doesn’t really make me feel anything.
My excitement waned rather quickly when I realised this was 7 versions of the same track, 1 I knew from the charts and 6 boring muzak tracks. Grab any VHS 70s or 80s sci-fi B Movie and the soundtrack is better.
Cybernetic. But not my style.
There's no melody, it's just tones
Beep boop lasers
That was underwhelming as far as listens go. Creative? Yes. Listen again? No.
Cover art somewhat disturbing. Musically, this is what you hear when you call the front desk at the Great Northern Hotel in Twin Peaks and they put you on hold. While you wait, you look out the window and see a woman walking by carrying a log with which she appears to be having a conversation. You really need to get out of this place.
I'm sure at some point this was interesting. Not to these ears. Electro plod
Liked the electronic soundscapes.
I don’t know what’s happening really
Lots of synthesizer and I can see how this inspired early house and EDM
Interesting sound, but it's just not my genre
me when I'm an alien and I wanna chill tf out
I wish I had gotten this album during a weekday. This is great music to listen to while focusing on a task. For casual listening, not my cup of tea and hard to get into.
Maso
feels like im playing osrs
not my kind of electronic music
buena música de ambiente, pero no más que eso. son todas iguales ademas loco basta 3/10
One of the very first CDs I bought but now a bit ho hum
This is intense for the ambient genre while sober. Imagine showing this to the Beatles
I've never heard of Jean-Michel Jarre or this album, so this is all new to me. It's described as electronic music, which it definitely is, but it's not the dance electronic music that you think of. I had the Brian Eno album a few days ago that basically created the genre of ambient music. This is a step up from ambient music as far as pace goes, but very similar. This particular album has a very outer space kind of vibe to it. Like other albums in this genre, I just don't know it well enough to say whether it's good or not. For me personally, fine as background music but nothing I would listen to regularly.
Music was relaxing but boring
Kinda Stranger Things vibes at certain points. It would’ve been better if he stayed with the spooky electronica throughout the entire album.
Mostly inoffensive as background noise, but it never grabbed me. Fairly boring, to be honest. 2.2
Alien abduction crap. My personal favourite was oxygene number 3, or was it number 4. At least it was short
Resisting the urge for my written reaction to just be “bleep bloop beep beep.” It’s pretty and atmospheric, clearly the result of great skill, and not really for me. I will acknowledge that this was way ahead of its time and would make great, say, video game soundtrack music. Overworld themes, perhaps. Love the album art.
A little conflicted with my feelings here. On the one hand I can appreciate how game changing this must have been in 1976. It still sounds spacey and futuristic now. However I found the first half really boring. It wasn’t until part 4 that I started to enjoy myself. Will need further listens to appreciate more I suspect.
It reminded me of donkey Kong a little
#963. 39 minutes of various noises. 2/5: meh
Lounge techno
Classic aber auf albumlänge ohne Pandas Anlage Lampe
Not an everyday kind of album. Sounds like Bladerunner and apocalypse now.
Evokes the 1980s educational laserdiscs that we watched in public school in the 90s. Felt cheesy then, still feels cheesy now!
Let’s stick to actual music
Я не знаю що написати про цей альбом. Напевне, в свій час це був дуже впливовий альбом в своїй ніші футуристичного прогресивного ембіенту. Але зараз, мені особисто, це слухати просто нудно. Оцінка: середня-висока 4
Thoughts before listening: I don't know. Maybe some sort of new agey techno thing or something. Or maybe new agey jazzy thing. Or maybe a new agey techno jazzy thing. Review: Replace jazzy with ambient and I nailed this. This sounds like a sci fi movie score or maybe some sort of RPG video game background music. Its synthy and ominous and dramatic, and not really my thing. I especially don't like the ambient parts, but whenever they pick up the pace a bit with more a of a driving beat my ear perk up a little bit. I typically get bored quick as nothing happens, but its at least something. I can't totally hate on something like this just cause its not in my wheelhouse (I get annoyed at all the 1-star reviews dismissing country and punk albums on principle alone), but the best I can give it is 2-stars.
This is not for me.
This should have been some sort of movie soundtrack. Nothing too exciting here, I preferred Kraftwerk.
Blind album and artist. I really dont think i was in the mood for this but I tried to listen to it with an open mind. 2.
Interesting and atmospheric, but not something I would probably listen to again.
This was likely pioneering at the time but it sounds dated and I can’t help but categorize it as ‘keyboard sounds’. Some pretty good sounds near the back half. I would have thought it was sampled frequently in hip hop but nothing I recognized.
I kept waiting for the song to begin. Then I realized it's just background music. It's not something you actively listen to. You do other shit while it's on and it just fills the room with what I imagine a computer getting high sounds like.
Day 264 IV is excellent and the last one is ok but the others all felt like intros to songs that never got started. Highlight Oxygene IV
Hmm…ok. Maybe not quite in the mood for this one. Great as a sci-fi soundtrack while reading a pulpy comic book or sci-fi novel. Or just chilling and spacing out. Pioneering, especially now knowing this was made in the 70’s. Will revisit in the right moment.
No es mi estilo
Meh.
I just don't get it.
not my thing but i respect where this was coming from in 1976 and it's importance in electronic music history
Vor 50 Jahre innovativ. Heute bewegt es nicht mehr die Welt.
Not interested in electronic noise, thank you.
Feels like I’m in a movie or a video game. Don’t love it, but I don’t hate it as much as I thought I would. Makes me confused sometimes
I really only cared about 1 song. Giggled at them using a theremin on the first song though
not for me :(
Mais non, merci
Honestly gave me a bit of a headache.
Bon. Franchement album très moyen voir calamiteux. Honnêtement, ça n'est pas le pire des albums electro et pour l'époque, on ne peut pas lui enlever qu'il sagit d'une sacrée révolution. Néanmoins, et ça fait du mal de le dire en tant que français mais l'album est très chiant, les sonorités y sont extrêmement vues et revues en plus d'être extrêmement lourdes passé les deux premiers sons. Je peux comprendre que ça puisse plaire à des gens, mais pour ma part ça reste très peu pour moi.
This must have been impressive at the time and still is now. Still a 2/5 only because I don’t listen to music without vocals.
Pretty basic electronic music. I can only assume this got popular because it's old and was probably ahead of its time.
Decent album but slightly annoying at times. 2.5/5
I'm sure this guy is very talented, however I did expect something more. The album just felt like a whole load of nothing - like a huge buildup for something that never comes.
I’m not a fan of this style of music. It’s well made and laid the groundwork for other musicians to come. Just not my thing.
Kjedelig
This has 80s future technology TV show theme music vibes all over it! ... and then _Oxygène (Part IV)_ came one and I recognised that it had indeed been used on some 80s future technology TV show. Not _Tomorrow's World_ as I initially assumed, but one called _Where There’s Life_, which I don't remember anything of.... except the theme tune! I'm not a big fan of ambient music, it's generally not what I listen to music for so whilst this will happily sit in the background whilst I work, it's just not something I'm interested in or going to get excited about
Kind of interesting, probably very ahead of its time. Just not for me.
So my first impression of this album was that it was a mildly underwhelming electronic album that leans alittle to the ambient/vibe side of electronica. But then I noticed what year this album came out (1976!) and that totally blew me away. Like how is this album able to be SO far ahead of its time?! It’s really really impressive to say the least. Most, if not all, current electronic musical artists would be genuinely ecstatic if their work came out sounding like this. But unfortunately I can’t just review this album on whether or not it was ahead of its time (cause if I was this would legitimately get a 5/5) I also have to review the music for my own personal taste, and this was crazy dry. It had its moments, I saved a song (pt.4) and enjoyed myself. But I’d never come back to this album outside of owning it for solid background noise. But for a list of music you HAVE to hear before you die, I’d say this albums inclusion is debatable/controversial to say the least.
Boring electronic
Pleasant background music. I thought it sounded like it could be a video game soundtrack and the artist made multiple soundtracks before this album. It is somewhat repetitive and kinda boring, but I am sure it was revolutionary at the time.
I like synth and I think Jean Mikchel Jarre is a talented guy, but after the 1st song I was bored. This is not my taste. It's background music.
Ambient ahh
I did not listen all the way through on this. Maybe if I was stoned at a planetarium show this would have hit - but alas I wasn’t.
Kind of eye rolled after track one. Halfway through part 2 I started to get in the zone of it. Then it got old quick. It's cool music in the right environment. 2/5
Fine enough background music, but not sure why it makes this list.
For this most part, this faded into the background when I worked. But when I did notice it, it was annoying.
I don’t really get the addition of ambient music on this list, but this was somewhat enjoyable. Sonically it’s very beautiful but there aren’t really any situations in which I can see myself saying “Throw on that one Jean-Michael Jarre album. The ambient music one.” The only scenario I could see myself listening to this is when i’m reading and need background music. With other forms of ambient music, I can at least say I can see this for a yoga class or for mediation. Not with this one though.
Decent for an all synth album, but there’s a very low ceiling for this type of album.
I won't insult this. It's very... of its era. And, for the mid-70s, this must've sounded incredible. But. Not a huge hit for me. I see how it probably influenced the hell out of Daft Punk. I appreciate it for being a stepping stone, but I can't see returning to this one. 4/10
helt ålreit. må høre nøyere gjennom en annen gang.
Oxygene pt3 should be on 1001 singles to listen to, but the album can be missed. The second half of Oxygene pt5 is a banger though. Should have been split into 2 tracks
I only thought the 2nd half of track 5 was any good.
The obsession with instrumental albums KILLS ME
some french guy had a vision and good for him for seeing it through but I just don't see where he's going with this
Not really my bag - it builds and builds but never goes anywhere
Another album that is probably more important than enjoyable for me. Passed me by without much thought (other than remembering that joke about Zsa Zsa Gabor and Jean Michel Jarre marrying)
Cool for its time. Not really worth mine.
Today was an uncharacteristically foggy day in my city, so listening to this while driving to work felt like transcending dimensions. Apart from that experience, which wasn’t bad, I feel like this album is only meant to be listened to in very specific situations, and for normal life it’s kind of boring and WAY too boom shoom wao wao fiu fiu.
How did this sell so much?
Good background music
Ambient, instrumental. Feels like I'm in space. Seems to come to life midway through track 2. Track 5 is fairly upbeat - Why does one of the melodies remind me of Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love'? Each track blends into one - kinda good to work to though once I've had a coffee
2 enjoyable tunes ..4 n 6. the rest nothing special.
alien sounds, innovative aber nicht for me, hat zu lange gedauert, bis es vorbei war
Not really interesting
I'd like to give Oxygène its flowers for its importance in the lineage of ambient music. Jean-Michel Jarre is a pioneer, etc, and influenced artists I blah blah blah. But this album did nothing for me.
Heard about it somewhere before. Idk not really my style
30/1089 2.3882* Never heard of this dude or the music but he's a pretty big deal in Europe, circa 1970s. This music is something from a post apocalyptic/dystopian film from the 70s. Maybe a perfect atmospheric soundtrack for Charlton Heston's finest performance as The Omega Man. Good representation of the synth rock to follow in the 80s and mellow but I didn't catch many hooks or very interesting melodies. Hits...Oxygene
Equal parts very annoying, quite stupid and very pointless. The famous one rescues it a little, and it's almost relaxing at times. But mostly it's pretty poor fare. I guess I just don't see its relevance in here.
Positives: I used to like driving around in GTA IV listening to the station that had Oxygène 4 and Philip Glass on it. Negatives: It becomes repetitive very quickly and lacks the variety and sense of place that other early pioneers such as Kraftwerk provided.
I can see the influence this might have had on subsequent electronic music and for that I need to give it something, but it is a little bit shit, like a programme portraying the future that has aged poorly. It was likely very futuristic for its time but with hindsight, doesn’t have a great deal of the charm of some of its peers. I’m not averse to the synths per se but the percussion on it is washed out and isn’t as driving as something like kraftwerk. I’m glad to have listened to it, but not sure I’d want to revisit it.
Yay. More electronic music. That’s what I want for Christmas - no electronic music.
I understand the cultural/historic significance But unless I’m trying to have Lofi electronic music to work to or make a pretty boring sci-fi movie. I don’t understand why you would re-listen to this.
Couldn't get through the first song...
There's elements of this I really like but needed far more variation. I really don't like this era of electronic music being all the same song but in different parts.
castlevania soundtrack music
2.5, I think I wish all of it was a little bit More
Not sure about this album.
Sounds great for 1976, but I'm in 2025
French electronica. Boof. Listen. I don't like this. This is not for me. But I feel I must give credit where credit is due. Could I make something like this? Not even just technically, but musically? No. In fact, I wouldn't even know where to start. And that's in today's world, with today's resources -- not in fucking 1976. So while I am tempted to flip the ole' bird to mister Jean-Michel Jarre, unfortunately it's just not that simple. Also, parts 4 and 5 did kind of bang. Still 2 stars.
Wasn't my vibe today
1.5 stars There’s no reason I should be listening to this outside of watch a B-movie about aliens, being high out of my mind, or both. I’m sure it’s revolutionary but I’ll never listen to this front to back again.
2.5
I listened. Sounds were made.
Kind of weird.
2.5
Made me want to fall asleep sitting up at my computer trying to work, every hard to get through such a short album. It was like elevated hold music, faded into the background easily. Would be great music for a video game, not for my personal enjoyment.
experimental type music, instrumental, pre industrial, pre electronica
How boring can an album get
40 minutes of ambient sleep noises. Why?
Kraftwerk meets classical but pseudo!!
Probably great when it came out, sounds very dated now. And overplayed as tv backing music.
Eigentlich ein Stern, aber ich kann die elektronische Pionierarbeit wertschätzen.
I appreciate that this is a pivotal piece of early electronic music that helped revolutionize the use of synthesizers in popular music and I can appreciate the ambient atmosphere of this album, but if I'm being honest, it just feels a bit dated and boring. It's not bad, it's just not something I can see myself returning to in the future.
Kind of boring, not my favourite
Very believable that this guy worked on soundtracks before this. This just sounds like the background ambience to some low-poly 3D Indie video game.
Not my type of music but I'm sure it's pretty good in its own style
В принципе понято. Есть знакомые нотки. На этом остановимся.
Spacey music that sounds like it is a soundtrack to some B sci-fi movie. It sounds very dated.
This largely passed me by. It's not that the synths weren't nice, but they weren't especially ear catching or memorable... With the exception of oxygene part 4 which I knew from being the tomorrow's world theme and in my head I had attributed to kraftwerk. Part 4 aside it was largely forgettable, but I guess it wasn't unpleasant either.
It ok
Asi spis na doma na podkres
cool soundscapes, brah
I can understand the significance of this record - but it's something I would never listen to again - and had a hard time getting through the first time.
I’m not all that impressed. It’s fine but nothing outstanding, although for some reason I’ve heard pt. 4 so many times before. It must have been on a Synthesizer Greatest compilation
Must have been mildly mindblowing at the time, if you were in awe of what synthesizers could do. In hindsight, it just sounds like 40 minutes of incidental music created for an educational programme about mathematics.
I suppose I can see how this might have blown people's minds in the 70's, very futuristic and Sci-Fi. Didn't blow me away though. 2 Stars.
All sounded the same to me
Parts 4 and 6 were ok, but overall not very good.
The top review on this site states that “everyone over 35 knows” who this artist is and knows at least one song off this album: “pt. 4, obviously.” What circles do you guys run in? Never heard of this before, never need to hear it again.
Early electronic ambient. I’m a fan of this genre but didn’t love the high pitch bubbling. The rest is nice, but not something I could tolerate in regular rotation.
Heard this was a banger on the way to Saturn.
i'm aboard an alien spaceship and i don't know how to feel. all i know is that i wasn't a huge fan of this album.
Great for space movies, not so much for casual listening.
Jean has a real flare for song titles, even Kraftwork (previous record and massive influence on this one) had more creativity than this! Like been held on virgins customer service line......
electronica....can't believe this is actually a subset of music....
I honestly thought it was all one song.
Я розумію впливовість і все таке, але оці ретро-синти в мене викликають якусь неприємну ностальгію, тому на жаль ні, я не люблю Жана-Мішеля Жарра.
meh
Ambient music is not my jam. Imaginative and creative use of samples
Alright.
Ganz nett.
ambient electronica pick: oxygene pt 4
Interesting and soothing. Electronics is not my jam, though.
Vähän liian vähän tarttumapintaa tässä. Osittain ihan kivan kuulosta.
The journey begins with an astronaut cruising through an intricately woven nebula. They blast their ship out of the cosmos and hone in on a distant planet in the view port. The ship drifts down through the planet's thick, billowing atmosphere of dense clouds. It touches down on a sparsely vegetated beach along an ever expanding dark ocean. The astronaut tests the air and sees that it is suitable for breathing though with higher levels of methane and CO2. Equipped with a small boat pod, the astronaut ventures out into the ocean, speeding along shoreline with the sound of seagulls echoing around. They end up at a cove with a small private beach. They park the boat and swim to shore but as they approach the sand, something seems off. There is something not right about this cove. They notice dead fish and birds strewn about the shore. Their skin starts to burn and a red rash is forming. They quickly swim back to the boat and leave the cove. Jetting along the shoreline they look for a spot to rest as night is approaching. They ride for hours, beginning to feel very sleepy and just when they are about to doze off...a loud crash is heard. They spring awake and drive towards the crashing noise. They come to a large metal barrier with the rising sea level crashing against it...trying to break in. The astronaut climbs out of the boat and up a rocky outcrop next to the barrier. As they near the top, the sun begins to rise. When they break the peak, the sun is fully out and reveals a landscape covered with oil refineries and heavy industry pumping smog and smoke into the air. Fires burning coal and tires, metal smelters showering sparks and toxic fumes. The astronaut drops to their knees and realizes that they have landed back on Earth many years later. The planet is now in a runaway greenhouse affect. With tears in their eyes, our astronaut pans over to an oiled covered seagull standing on an Exxon-Mobil sign...keowing sadly. I like this for the early electronica paving. It's slow but well done. Needs more beats though. 2.12 stars for the electro-Frenchy adventure.
Yeah this is just a dude messing around on a keyboard. The keyboard salesperson probably put this on to demo and make a sale.
This album sounds like standing in line for space mountain. Like if you mixed that with old school original Metroid. 2/5
Детка ты любишь рваные джинсы
I mean it was fine. Spacey and outer-worldly? I like ambient music but there was nothing crazy special. Maybe it was first of its time! Idk.
Pretentious
Personally, it didn’t leave much of an impression beyond Part IV, which was okay. I remember someone in the family owning the single. The rest of the album felt ambient to the point of forgettable. What stuck with me more was the cover art that hinted at a drama the music never quite delivered.
I felt like I was at a massage parlor with the Stranger Things soundtrack playing in the background.
Better than some other ambient European electronic albums we have had…but that’s a low bar for me
That was pretty calming annnnnd I can’t think of a single other thing to say about it.
Cool concept but not for me. 4.1/10
Very chill. Wish there was a little more going on.
Halloween/video game space music. Songs were not very distinguishable from each other, overall kinda of blah.
Wasn’t too into it, but the pew pew noises in Pt. 2 were cool
Ondanks de beroemde hit, geen blijver voor mij. Het synthesizert beetje door van oor tot zonder spanning. Toen vernieuwend, nu gedateerd.
I can appreciate music that puts you in a different world. i can appreciate the complexities of electronic music. It does not mean i like to listen to it
This did not do it for me at all, which is surprising because I like a lot of the stuff that he has most likely influenced. It bored me, there was nothing to grab on to. I can see why he used to have dramatic effects while performing
Good soundtrack for an alien invasion or smthn
Música para el espacio
2 - 35 minutes of cool songs but not a whole lot else going on
I tried. It’s not terrible. Just don’t care for it.
At times, a worse Blade Runner score. At others, a worse Mega Man score. That my comparisons all came out a decade after, speaks to its innovation. But innovation only counts for so much.
qu se yo, ambiental. me dio paja
It's fine but the albums ended and my streaming switched to "autoplay similar stuff" mode and I completely didn't notice for three songs. 2.5 for generic pretty beep boop music
2+ Stars (6/15)
I think he might have been the first person to own a synth
And the award for most unexpected "oh wait I actually know this song, it's a bop" goes to...
This album sounded like music that would be in Logan's Run 10+ years after Logan's Run. Just sounded way after it's time, which was weird. Plus, it's an instrumental, a techno instrumental but an instrumental none the less. I wanted to give this album a 1 but it's at least more unique than that.
Quite repetitive and boring.
too experimental
Some decent composition and I’m sure this was ahead of it’s time, but I just can’t get out of my head how this sounds like the outdated synths from A Clockwork Orange.
2,5
Not my thing