Oxygène

Very futuristic sounding electronica from the 70s. I didn't mind it but did start to lose interest halfway through although I may enjoy it with more listens but for now I prefer Eno

Listened to this once in 2020 when I was in my "music discovery" phase Back then I thought it was okay, most likely because I was a bit pretentious in my music taste, but nowadays I think it's underwhelming

Oxygène (Part IV)

If I was 15 in 1976, this would have blown my mind. Since neither are currentlt true, it's alright, you can do better within the genre

Is it just me or is this album just the same song over and over again at different lengths?

Ambient

Filler 70s music. I am surprised at how old it was, I would not listen again though

Somewhere there is an elevator in the Star Wars world that is playing this. Totally mid. I get that this is supposed to be a historic album or whatever but it sounds seriously dated and literally put me to sleep. Nothing happens in this entire album. It’s just spacey sci fi vibes.

Not a lot to be excited before. Maybe it was ahead of its time, but that doesnt mean I enjoyed it.

Reminds me of Ross on friends when he was playing the keyboard. "Wordless sound poems" The whole album was giving me theme park vibes. Then the 4th track kicked in and I realised its was the actual song from the claw machines at theme parks! No thanks, not for me 2 ⭐️

It's like the whooshy spacy parts of the whooshy space Pink Floyd songs but without any psychedelic rock. Too busy to be ambient, too new age to be interesting.

Yeh, really boring stuff. Top tip- listen to track 1, and you’ve heard it all.

Pretty good background music for cleaning the house or studying. I tried to actively listen but my mind kept wandering. Everything sounds the same.

I don't want to insult the guy, but I just don't find this exciting at all. Considering we're talking about an album from almost 50 years ago, the technology of the time to produce an album like this is pretty staggering. But now? It just seems very noodle-y to me. At least he had the electronic percussion, which works with everything else. Makes it all sound... otherworldly. I can see where most of the other electronic music came from all of this. You decide whether that's a good thing or not. The fade out on the last track works for me, too. So... yeah, I can dig it. Just definitely not something I will come back to, and I appreciate it's historical importance. Next.

I mean other than finding it funny that this featured a shooting stars song, I didn't care much for this. It was an ambient style that didn't mean much to me

Well it was okaaaay, bit boring.

It’s quite hard to review this album. Like rain on a tin roof, it made for a pleasant listening experience. However, like rain on a tin roof, a lot of it was just a pleasant sound, rather than music. I guess that is the nature of the ambient genre, but maybe you need to be really into it to appreciate it. This made me think of Kraftwerk, but if they didn’t want their music to be catchy. I can appreciate this, but it’s certainly not an album I’ll be seeking out again.

Pretty alright ambient background music but probably wouldn't listen again

Interesting from the perspective of a continuous piece of music evolving. Boring beyond that.

From reading the Wikipedia page for this album I gather it has a lot of historical significance as one of the earliest electronic albums. My own criteria for this project is solely based on how much I enjoyed listening to the record. So the fact that it's a landmark album or was very influential counts for nothing (to me personally) and I award two stars on the basis of "boring but not actively bad"

Just didn’t find it that interesting, got pretty bored of some of the beats

Background music

Needed a few overpriced drinks to go with this.

O please, another electronic synth robot album - or wil I be surprised? A little - not robotic, but it's clear why all his previous albums were released as soundtracks. This all sounds like watching a movie, and it's not obnoxious, but why would I pop it into my headphones? My drive to the grocery just isn't that dramatic!

Just background music to a low budget film. You probably had to be there back in 1976 to truly appreciate this one.

Epcot ambience

Pretty boring and I generally like electronic instrumental

Chill background music. Tbh didn’t notice it while doing other things around the house. Probably wouldn’t seek it out but would be surprised if this artist had come up in my sleep music category before

Chill. I recognized the one song, probably from the kraftwerk album radio, considering they came up a lot after this album was over. Hard to rate bc I doubt I’d seek it out specifically as “background music” but it did sound good for what it was.

Not sure the purpose of this. I did not need 40 minutes of 70s synthesizer/ambient music. It was just there.

Ambient

It sounds a lot like an 80s movie soundtrack. Which in a way isn’t surprising as this is what JMJ did for a lot of his career. While it’s still pretty impressive in a ‘before its time’ kinda way, I just wasn’t that excited by the idea of listening to it again.

Iconic cover art

Sounds like an early 2000s video game soundtrack

Wanted to like this more than I did but just found it too dull. Ended up turning it off midway through. Not bad background music but not for me as an active listen.

I get that this was technically influential, but musically, it goes nowhere. 2 very bored Space Invaders out of 5 👾👾

It's not bad, but it's not the kind of thing I'd ever want to sit down and listen to. It sounds like one giant interlude that you might hear half way through an album of actual songs. Or background music for something more interesting, like a video game. Worms music, two days in a row. ⭐️⭐️

Un LP que claramente se adelantó a las tendencias ambient que dominaron el panorama del IDM hacia finales de los '80s. A pesar de que es sumamente interesante, puede escucharse bastante monótono. Sin embargo, no podría criticarlo más que eso, ya que es uno de los primeros discos de electrónica.

It was weird reading the Wikipedia page about Oxygene and learning that it was an international sensation that sold 10 to 15 million copies, and that Jean Michel Jarre was the first Westerner to ever play China and put on the biggest concert of all time, because I had never heard of this album or this artist before today. It felt like that Berenstein Bears thing where you feel like you’ve shifted to a slightly different dimension. I thought Oxygene sounded a little like Tangerine Dream and a little like Tubular Bells but did not appeal to me as much as either of those. I appreciate that this album was ahead of its time when it was made but I think this type of music has been taken to a lot more interesting places in subsequent years. I found listening to this comparable to someone liking Renaissance art and then being told to check out crappy medieval art from before they figured out perspective. Like yeah, this guy’s flat face in this circa 1135 painting is cool and all, and was the best they could do at the time, but I’d rather go back to Raphael and Michelangelo and the other ninja turtles.

Oggi poco tempo che c'e' san remo me ne ascolto un paio - almeno siamo nei 70 Ma che cazzata di album - va bene tipo slow n cute sex session Apparentemente e' tipo uno dei primi famosi album di musica elettronica - still na palla

Neither ambient or something to pay attention to. Surely influential but not for me.

I can appreciate how groundbreaking this might have been when it was released, but I don’t think it has aged well.

Bit boring for me

Might listen to this when going to bed. Other than that it sounds like one of those 70s sci-fi movies with very little dialog and some dude wandering a barren planet.

Meh. It was a cool soundtrack for what it was but it’s not a standout to me.

The sound was solid, it was just too boring to not be an OST or have something it needed to go along to

The whole album feels like a Steve Miller Band intro.

Someone went mental with a synth. Before they realised that actually they're best used to make dance music people thoight electronic music was better at making kinda modern classical. The french particuarlly with their bagutte enfused dreamscapes. Mixing strong coffee, manic stares and ambience wasnt what we after guv.

Not sure what to think of this. Bits of it are interesting, bits of it are bland. Sort of decent for the background but Im not massively sure what the point of it is. 2.5

Mike Oldfieldy electronic prog, found it very cluttered and all a bit silly. There were some bits and pieces that caught me but they were largely covered in bleeps and laser noises, think Jean-Michel wanted to use all the settings on his new synth. Not really for me as a genre anyway and this didn't change my mind.

Parts IV and II were the best. Pleasant enough to have on in the background.

Was just about okay as background music but there was little for me to enjoy. Seeing how it was made in the 70s I imagine it was well ahead of it's time.

ehhhh....

definitely not for me

A bit repetitive

Upbeat instumental music that's ok. Not very emotion provoking. Found it boring 2

Ambient music can be interesting. Especially when it portrays emotions and other abstract things, or when it brings you to a different place. But most of the time, ambient music takes its name too seriously. It takes a form of a monotonous background music that can barely take your attention. You gain nothing when you play it. It's just that: ambient. Air. Just a bunch of oxygen, I guess. It's vital, but come on, it's already all over the place.

It's barely music. Once again another album on list for the sake of one recognisable song.

Weird

Historical EDM important, but not that good to listen to

It’s not like all the songs were bad on this album but I’m not sure I can put a single one on my playlist just because it’s a little funky. But he sounds pretty good enough for me not to give him a one

Before even listening, I gotta give credit to the album cover. I don't really like the Pt.1-Pt.6 idea for an album though, I think titles give songs flavor and identity throughout an album. That being said this is no regular album. This is the album I'd want playing if I got abducted by aliens. Maybe Jean-Michel Jarre watched E.T. on psychedelics and got a bit too invested, that has a high chance of being the origin of this album. Would give this an extra star if the name was changed to Space-Techno-Odyssey.

If Ross was a better musician

Fine for background noise I suppose

# 106 : Electronic mumbo-jumbo, that just made me want to go to sleep. Listened : 09/11/2023

Err...it's too slow. For so long, it drives along at such a slow tempo that when it speeds up to that 80s chase theme, it feels jarring and out of place which is a shame as I love how that piece evolves. I understand this guy makes soundtracks, but this is a soundtrack to nothing and it shows.

Actually what why did I like this

Not my bag

Pimpel pompel. Ihan viihdyttävää, onnistuu luomaan tarinan. Mutta muistanko hetken päästä mitään? Vähän.

If this was the score to a tv show or movie, I’d dig it. But as a MUSIC album…blech.

Not as good as I thought it was. Memory playing tricks

Original at that time, in my opinion not enough to be in the list

I don't get excited by this. It feels mechanic and outdated. The tune #4 is of course classic but that's not enough to save it.

This is just as good as any electronic album I've got on the 1001 list, which means I dislike it as almost all other electronic albums. However, I must assume that it sounds kind of innovative to know that a so modern sound was released in 1976. It is worth something!

Needs more Oxygen.

Repetitive / dull - sorry !

Thank goodness the lights were on, or this planetarium show soundtrack would have put me to sleep. It is appropriately space-y and dreamy and hypnotizing, but it doesn't feel timeless to me. It feels very 80s (so still ahead of its time?), and perhaps could have been the soundtrack to a cheesy 80s sci-fi movie that would look really dated today, about a mission to discover some aliens that turned out to use too much hairspray. I can see some distant inspiration here for something like the "TRON: Legacy" soundtrack, but if the two are the same genre then the symphonic and soaring "TRON" blows "Oxygène" away.

I do not care for this type of music at all. The only praise I can give this is that it at least it sounds ahead of its time. You'd be surprised to learn that it came out in 1976.

New Age before that was even a thing. Kudos to him for that. Trippy and pointless, but not bad to zone out to.

This guy sure knows how to name a song. Well it’s just an album of sci fi noises for half an hour, admittedly it does sound cool in areas but this music isn’t really for me. 2/5.

Sounds like a half rate David Lynch soundtrack. Respect to how innovative this probably was at the time, but it doesn’t hold up as a worthwhile listen now. I’d put it on as background music, but that’s about it.

That was pretty much the same track on repeat yeah?

I don’t know. Nothing was that special except for Part 4 and 5. Was ahead of its time for ambient and electronic music but nothing amazing. 5/10

Pretentious tosh really, with one banger. I'm sure it was revelatory, but now just sounds a bit silly. 2 stars

For the time of release it must of sounded so interesting but for me, as nice sounding as some tracks were (Part 5 was lovely), there's nothing that really stuck with me. Whilst Part 4 was included in GTA4 that still isn't enough to get me going.

Good electrónica that drags a bit as you go through the project. Better off saving your favorite songs and never listening to the rest again, but even then don’t think I’m going to listening to any of this project that much.

Happy it was a short album. But did not enjoy very much.

not my bag

jean michel snore.

Space the final frontier

Asturias is a song that as soon as you listen to it, you understand it. The build up. The drama. The climax. I don't understand anything about this album.

Not as good as remember. For its time I suppose it was impressive but it hasn’t aged well.

Volgens mijn luistermaatje de achtergrondmuziek bij de Teleac-cursus Sterrenkunde. Een betere omschrijving kan ik niet geven. Om in zijn geest te blijven schrijven: goed om kennis van te nemen.

The future certainly doesn't sound like it used to sound. It's worked out to be more interesting than JMJ seemed to think it would be.

Ongetwijfeld baanbrekend in het prachtige jaar dat deze plaat uitkwam, maar inmiddels hopeloos gedateerd en boring. 2 Sterren voor de invloed die JMJ had op alles dat na 'm kwam.

While I'm sure this album was really impactful to the electronic music genre it's just not for me.

Interesting. Although I never heard it before, some musical patterns are very familiar. Especially PT4. I really like PT2 too. Although interesting for it's time, not that special to me.

Good history lesson but not good music

Like a John Carpenter soundtrack without a John Carpenter movie.

Ambient/New Age music A must that you listen with headphones - nothing else will do. I liked Pt. 5 enough to add it to my misc instrumental playlist. Overall it was okay, but it's not something I'd listen to very often

Not bad... just not for me.

Good background music, nothing more

Disappointing, a boring listen except for the well known IV. It's like Jarre has no concept of time and left the same sounds playing for way too long. Kraftwerk didn't do such boring lazy recordings and neither did Oldfield or even Orbital. Even Side 2 of Low, which has vague similarities, is more interesting. Did I say I was disappointed?

Strange album of atmosphere and sounds I wouldn't have expected out of 1976.

This no doubt sounded hopelessly futuristic then, which perfectly balances its sounding hopelessly dated now. Eno’s ambient is an order of magnitude better (his stuff only occasionally sounds like A Planet of the Apes soundtrack) and Kraftwerk the poppier side of prog better. Sure, there are a few moments, but they pass too quickly – e.g., Pt 5 sounds briefly like a Bach fugue but then morphs into a TV soundtrack theme, with chimes sounding not ominous or profound, but more contrived and self-consciously weighted. Maybe this was precisely when 80s started; if so, let’s run back the clock shall we and see if we can choose a more propitious course or at least wait a bit til the synths outgrew this beeping-and-blooping thinness.

It's just not for me. I see the influence, especially in Pink Floyd, but I just...can't. Sorry.

Honestly, how much fucking French electronica does this list need to have?!?! I can’t stand it. It’s just so asinine. Point added for this album art though, because it is really cool. I just cannot stand this music and I’ve had my fill of this niche genre already, thanks.

Now I know where the composers of the Stranger Things score got their inspiration.

It sounds like someone has left a synth plugged in and left the room. Best Tracks: Oxygene Part 2; Oxygene Part 4; Oxygene Part 6

Meh

Might as well have come out in the 80s for how dated, excessive, and cloying it is. A lack of any melodic throughline means this is ambient music listening at best.

1/2522

strumentalona senza gran senso

🤨

bit too boring for me

Electronic music decent for background

So. I did not like this. Just forty minutes of instrumental synth music. Maybe it'd be good in a video game, but on its own? No thanks, I'll pass.

Fine, probably a lot more ground breaking in 76

Kinda fine. Perhaps more ground breaking at the time of its release?

pt.4 pelasti ykköseltä....

I wasn't looking forward to this but it isn't as cheesy as I expected. Probably amazing in it's day but now heard loads of the tracks on tv and ads etc

Pew Pew Pew...

I could hear this being a soundtrack for a sci-fi video game or something. Probably wouldn’t listen on my own though.

Not really my thing. Although it wasn't unpleasant enough for one star.

Ok. Didn’t do anything for me.

Alright yeah

Ok for background music

With only a couple good songs, it’s clear that this album is most notable for its production and sound rather than composition. Influential yet it meanders aimlessly for most of its run time

It’s alright and I hear how influential this is but I’m not just going to sit around listening to space vibe music.

50's sci fi sounds Alright, not bad or great Wouldn't listen for fun

An interesting project. Just synth and drums. It feels like listening to a spacey David Attenburough documentary. I probably won't register, but it's a fun project. Fav track: Oxygen 4

Difficult to rate on a single listen.

Ich mochte vor allem die ausgefallen und abwechslungsreichen Songtitel. Eigentlich aber auch nur das, die Musik klingt, wie Wahlgesänge auf LSD

Nicely put together but never held my interest

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Oxygene Pt. 2 Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Very hard for me to grade these ambient and ambient-adjacent albums. How do you grade something that intentionally fades into the background. Probably blew mfs minds in 1976 but today it sounds like something you would hear in a carnival imitation of Space Mountain.

ooky spooky

Varmasti ollut uusinta uutta aikanaan ja eihän tuo mitenkään huonosti ole ikääntynyt, mutta ei ihan minun kuppini teetä. Ei häirinnyt, mutta en oikein voi väittää tykänneenikään kovin paljoa. Se oli ylläri, että levyltä löytyi popcornia, piti oikein googlata että onko se alunperin Jarren, mutta olikin vielä vanhempi styge. pt.6 4:55 kohdasta löysin yhtäläisyyttä myös Aavikon Torpedo Boysiin (~1:30 ->)

my ears... poor ears...

Eille fuck you Jean Michel Marde... Fucking space spa music

not my style

Meh. Better than expected for mood music.

actual Pure Moods

Bored

ok for its time, i guess

Eilen illalla sohvalla rauhassa kuunnellessa tämä kuulosti jopa erittäin miellyttävältä. Tänään työn ohessa ei sitten jaksakaan enää yhtään. Lopulta mielipide kääntyy varovaisen negatiiviseksi. Genren edelläkävijänä varmasti tärkeä levy, mutta vähän väljähtäneeltä kuulostaa nykyajan elektroniseen musiikkiin verrattuna.

Oxygene part 4 är väl mest välkänd och bäst. Rätt flummig skiva annars. Förstår att den var en revolution 1976 men är kanske inte lika enastående år 2021.

You know, the seventies, synthesizers, blah blah blah.

1976: Oxygene, Pt. 2, Oxygene, Pt. 4

I respect the technical skill required to create this album, but just not my taste at all. Clearly the creator has talent, but the music did nothing for me, personally. Well orchestrated and arranged, but not to my personal musical tastes.

Garbage

Sounds like a YouTube AI generated album now

What..

Boring

I didn’t even mind that it was instrumental. I grew up on classical music because I spent so much time with my grandma, and I often enjoy it/it gives me a happy nostalgic feeling. This was boring and it felt largely ignorable.

This is terrible. Where's the progression?

No

Para otro momento de mi vida

I have had zero interest in this genre, and after listening I still don't. 1 star or F.

Almost 500 albums in I just don’t have the patience for this type of shit anymore

Fuck this guy. Why? And why do these songs have so many streams?

Flashbacks of when this had mini revivals in the 80s and 90s and everyone (apart from me) thought this was the future of music. Before soon realising it was rubbish!

It's ambient music, and it's not very interesting.

1.33

First thought - hilarious to think of this coming out in the 70s. It's giving X-Files but this is way too early for that. I'm going to need to DNF this one. It's just not the vibe.

1 out of 5 This is music you hear at a spa. Odd.

aburrido

Give me lyrics

I couldn’t decide if I was in a horror film; a Halloween haunted house, a dance club or outer space and I don’t mean that positively.

Didn’t like it.

Think: Ross Geller’s college band keyboard music. *Some* listen-able moments toward the end of album. Could *maybe* be a 1.5

Not for me. Sounds a bit like a B movie sci fi soundtrack from the 80s.

*In Announcer Voice* Welcome to the futuristic ride, Space Shift 4000. Make sure your lap belts are buckled. Sit back and enjoy the ride. 40 minutes, of stuff you could cut to 30 seconds for its best use. I need to listen to before I die? You've got to be bleeping kidding me. 1

Too hygienic for me, like shopping in duty free. Tom.

I did not enjoy this album although I can hear how it would influence music I do enjoy.

star trek nonsense

Don’t like

Rolling my eyes at how pretentious the person who made this list apparently is

It was unusual when released but long and tuneless for the most part.

1 porque no le puedo dar menos

no...

I can’t take it.

Bad video game music

Didn’t do it for me.

Not for me. Wasn't bad music, just a little avent garde for my typical listening. Cool to hear old electronic music and learn more about it.

I do not think electronic music is my thing sooo

Yea, not for me. Tough to make it to the end.

Not as objectionable as some other electronic stuff. If you ask me, though, this is stinky poo poo!

This electronic album drifts like a slow satellite arc—cool, luminous, and a little distant—gliding through space on glowing synth trails. Basically getting a glimpse is okay, listening trough the whole thing: boring.

Too cold

Album 977 of 1089 Oxygène - Jean-Michel Jarre (1976) Rating : 1 / 5 I’ll give it credit where it’s due: if you’re in a meditative mood, this could probably set the atmosphere just fine. It’s calm, spacious, floaty… all the things ambient electronic fans look for. But as far as listening for pure pleasure? This one just isn’t for me. After a while it felt less like music and more like an album of sound effects stitched together. I can understand its importance in the electronic world, and I’m sure it hits the right buttons for those who gravitate toward this kind of thing - but my buttons remain unpressed. Not offensive, not difficult - just not something I’d ever reach for again.

Someone likes the sound of his own keyboard. Pompous and drawn out.

An album that all the nerds at schools use to have wet dreams over. I was too busy with 2Tone and girls. Time to see if the nerds won the long game? tl;dr nerds never win. At the end of Oxygène 1 I was ready to bail. Wait. There's five more servings of this shit sandwich to come? It sounds more like the annoying soundtrack for an early 80's video game console. It's got a crap cover as well. UP YOURS, nerds.

I wouldn’t miss it if there was no electronic music.

Absolute pish

Ummm not a fan

Das ist gar nichts.

Wohl eher Oxygähn. Mag in elektronischer Musik zu seiner Zeit revolutionär gewesen sein, aber catcht mich wirklich überhaupt nicht

Very boring. I didn't understand the value. I wanted music, not cosmic sound of nothingness.

Len Houmous & Jean Michel Jarre actually launched a musical washing powder. It took away from the dull hum and the chuntering sounds of a washing machine. It was called Oxygene. But they fell out when Jarre wanted this boring constant hum but Len wanted something a little more ‘fruity’. Anyway, Len signed with Daz and we all know what happened to Jarre on his own! 1.4 4/6 Oxygene Pt 4

Bit too space-y for my taste.

point7.

Not for me.

I would say don't waste your oxygen singing the tunes of this album, but it's entirely instrumental, and not in a good way. Favorite Track: "Oxygene(Part IV)". It was a little catchy.

Man, do i just have severe undiagnosed ADHD or something? i usually find "boring" to be a really lazy/thoughtless word to critique art, but i am at a loss for any other word. i was intrigued when this popped up because i enjoy aphex twin, brian eno, and other mainstream contemporaries. but even with those artists, i am unable to retain interest in long, droning tracks, and this record is not an exception to that preference. if i were a computer science dude working on a really intense coding project, i might like to have this on; i can see it being inspiring/stimulating in that context. but unfortunately my job is incredibly boring and requires very little brainpower from me, so repetitive music only serves to exhaust me. further, as somebody who consumes new movies as eagerly as i consume new music, there is another interesting lens through which i can appreciate this record: La Planète Sauvage, a french animated sci-fi film about a race of blue aliens enslaving human beings, was released only three years before Oxygène. much to be dredged up there about late 20th century french society, reckoning with colonialism, burgeoning forms of technology... i like pt. 3(the shortest track, go figure) but not enough to keep me coming back to it. on a more petty note: the fact that all the tracks have the same name pisses me off.

All this album did was make me want to squirt canned whip cream into my mouth and take a nap

Not my cup of tea. Reminds me of the time, back in 1978, when I was abducted by aliens outside of Roswell. Bad deal. Trauma resurfacing!

Just noise

One look at the tracklist told me this was going to be shit and I wasn't wrong

When i listened to this i felt like I was in a 70s vidio game. Not good.

1. Boring 2. Synthesized garbage.

now cmon now .. this is just fancy hold music

Nope. Boring.

It's just sound that sounds really repetitive. It's probably just a me problem because I'm not used to listening to stuff like this.

No sir, this was not my cup of tea. It sounds like the soundtrack of a fever dream version of a clockwork orange.

Noise

Old school elektronisk, ambient, lige lovlig spacy

may have been worthy of merit as film score for a sci fi movie set on a distant ocean world but as an album? no

Muzak

Sounds like every rubbish sc-fi soundtrack from the 80s

Day478 - i was hoping oxygene part 7 would be the ska version but alas

💩

I almost fell asleep so I gave up.

I have zero interest in this kind of music.

Basically Muzak.

Thin and cringy

Not my type of music at all. In summary I found this album to be background noise and absolute rubbish!! Favourite song: Oxygene part 4. I have heard this somewhere before and can’t quite place it. Least favourite: Every song on the album called oxygene! Album artwork: Cool cover but that’s about as good as it gets.

Just not for me.

Meh

Irgendwie cooler ambient kram Aber sau lame??? Cooles cover though

I can tell good electronic music when I hear it and boy oh boy did I not hear it

at least it was only 40 minutes long...

Not my thing. BUT … I did find it useful as ambient noise while I was trying to finish a painting. I tried to pick a favorite out of the six songs that sounded exactly alike. Failed.

This was a hard decision between a 1 and 2. Was it as unenjoyable as other 1 stars? probably not. Would I ever listen to it again... probably not. Just an background album with nothing really happening.

This is totally not fair, but the overall effect of the way this sounds and the way JMJ presented himself is next level corny, haha. But for real, I love that JMJ likes synths and I'm glad he found a large audience.

If that album is the only source of oxygen, then I'll rather suffocate.

Alrighty then

If this music was playing in a store I would immediately turn around and leave

Random noises

I hate electronic music

Too weird for me. It sounds like it would be the backing track for an animated film that I didn't understand.

Resident sleeper. If i wanted to float in space i’d pay Bezos 20M to take a ship to space as opposed to listening to this dog piss and pretending i’m floating in space

Pass. It wasn’t for me

I’m sorry, I started to and I just couldn’t make myself listen to it.

What in the world?

Light relaxing background music. Daughter called it Minecraft music. How does something like this become an album you need to listen to before you die?

Utter nonsense. See also Tubular Bells.

Not even gonna bother

ambient slop

TIHI! 1/5

I hated every moment of this that I could stomach. Obvious DNF.

This is terrible!

This sounds like music from an amusement park ride for a space adventure. I don’t see why this should be on the list. I think that I could have played this on the keyboard.

It sounded celestial which is cool until you listen to the rest of the album and say this isn’t cool it does not vary a lot.

No-once again why was this on list? Sounds like it belongs on a bad sci-fi movie soundrack.

The song titled "Oxygene" sucked. Oh wait, all the songs are titled "Oxygene".

The kind of album that makes you want to quit doing this listening quest. Genuinely pissed that I sat through this. I get it, it's just soooooo creative and genius that it HAD to be added to this list, right? C'mon.

Literally just videogame music. Was probably very cool in the 70s.

brutal

Boring

weird. not good. trippy

Sleepy video game music

No

Music fans *really* need to stop using the word "experimental" as a synonym for "acceptable". Labelling something as "experimental" seems to be a shield against scathing blowback. The definition of an experiment is "to demonstrate a known truth, to examine the validity of a hypothesis, or to determine the efficacy of something previously untried". Experiments are carried out in private under controlled lab conditions or amongst a select focus group. The results are only made available to the public after careful consideration & if the findings are worthwhile. Why should music fans waste their precious time & hard-earned money on these narcissistic experiments? Do they think we're fucking suckers with nothing better to do? It's insulting. "Experimental" = not ready for widespread release; a work-in-progress; still shit. Also, fuck Jean-Michel Jarre for wasting such awesome album art on this dogshit album of cheap sci-fi sound effects. Cunt. 👎👎

I don’t hate it. It would be good if I was high or on psychedelics. But I’m not. I’m just bored listening to space music. Not bad space music. Just nothing I’d listen to regularly.

Hard miss. DNF.

Well this was only gonna end up with one result. And it's not a good one. I have only every heard oxygen part 4 before on the radio and I'm not a fan. Also the bloke is French, and he is doing electronic music. And no singing. Also why not try some different track names out? Lucky for this album there isn't minus stars. Only positive is that it is a relatively short album . If this were the last oxygen left on earth then I would rather take my chances breathing in carbon monoxide

Eyeshadow

BASTA QUESTE ROTTURE DI MINCHIA

This album is terrible, only worse.

Buncha Bullshit

This has got to be one of the worst albums I have listened to

gave me a headache

terrible

??????????

Wish I could give it a zero

Ein gelungenes Experiment - nichts für mich.

A New Age Space Oddity

Not for me

2/100 Based on the following scale: 1 star - 0 to 19 2 stars - 20 to 39 3 stars - 40 to 59 4 stars - 60 to 79 5 stars - 80 to 100 I'm trying to like electronic music. I really am. Today, styles descended from this are massively popular. Maybe it means that along the way, this stopped sucking. Either that, or it means that the masses like things that suck. But yeah, this is sort of like the soundtrack to being given an anal probe by aliens and it leaves one wondering which was more unpleasant; the probe, or the music. At least, the probe presumably served some sort of purpose.

This is the perfect album to realize my banal existence during my morning commute. Mainly because the music is so lackluster I was stuck with my thoughts. Another album that doesn’t deserve to be on this list. 1.4/10

1/5 - The rejected (rightfully so) Star Wars album. I'm more impressed that people in 1976 had an idea what 80s lasers sounded like. Less impressed they used them 1000 times in each song. I don't even think this would be cool on acid.

Not typically my thing and this is no exception. Nice ambience I suppose

Taustamusiikkia - kuinka huomaavaista!

Again. Not for me. Very clever, loved the stuff he did with Sparks. This is fine, just not for me.

No.

Oxy Gene? That's the guy who's always rooting through my garbage and stealing the copper out of buildings. Seriously though, I'd prefer the sound of a junkie knocking over trash cans to this.

Might have been good back then

Electronic music. Sounds like a film score. Not really music I would casually listen to in any setting or time.

On today’s edition of 1001 albums Ryan forced me to listen to while I slowly die inside

Oh great, another electronica album, this time from France. As suspected, Jean-Michel Jarre's music sounds like what aliens have sex to with its space age beeps and zaps. Set phasers to lame for this album. No one should be subjected to 40 minutes of shitty theremin music. The whole record is one long song really, which Jarre split into 6 parts, however since it all runs together so seamlessly, it's hard to tell which track you're listening to. Luckily, I hated the whole album equally. Apparently this dude has Guinness World Records for the highest attendance to some of his concerts, with the largest number of attendees being 3.5 million in Moscow. I don't understand how there are that many people who would willingly subject themselves to this music, but to each their own I suppose. The one impressive thing about this album is that it came out in 1976, way ahead of its time, so I will give Jean-Michel props for that, but my God I hate electronica. I try to keep an open mind to it, but it's just not my thing I guess. Oxygene Part 5 & 6 gave the impression that we were listening to a big ass robot moving around in the wilderness, surrounded by birds and shit, which was the only interesting part of the album, but did the robot have to shuffle around for 15 minutes? I think not. Also, why is Jarre so obsessed with wind noises? Not enough drugs for me to enjoy this. Favourite song: Oxygene, Part 4 I guess, because it is one of the shorter tracks on the album. Least favourite songs: The rest of the album. 1/5, thank God that's over

Hier begin ik niet aan.

Orgel-Joke eat your heart out!

Wij hadden vroeger een keyboard thuis. Daar zaten deuntjes op waarmee je mee kon spelen. Dat was dit.

zzzzzzzzzz

If you like purely instrumental noise you’re lying to yourself. If I get one more instrumental album then I will give up on this list

Highlights: - Artwork: 5 / 10 Rating: 1,5 / 10

1/5 not at all

was this music?

It could have been interesting instrumental music. But there was not enough that changed. Not a fan.

star trek? stranger things soundtrack? sheldon cooper auf dem theremin? wie auch immer, nix für mich einfach so zum hören