Moog Music Forum

Hi,Everyone.
What are your favorite Moog-saturated albums?
Thanks.

All of them.

But Switched On Bach has to be the top one. It's the one that I couldn't believe was done with a monophonic analog synth when I first heard it. (I was 3 years old when it came out, so I discovered it years later around 1975)

In second place, I would have to say Kaleidoscopic Vibrations. I remember that a local TV station used a few of the songs on that album as intros to some of their programs. One was called "La couleur du temps" (a thirty minutes weather program) that had the song "The Savers" from that album as main musical theme.

Early Synergy, Tangerine Dream (before 1984), Amin Bhatia "Interstellar Suite", Tomita, Carlos SOB are my favorites.

The Minotaur from MOOG: The Electric Eclectics Of Dick Hyman. Modular Moog with a cheesy rhythm box and lots of octave portamento (Keith Emerson would follow suit with Lucky Man). Loved it.

Journey to the centre of the earth...

There is some brain melting resonance on that one!

Eden.

RL wrote:SAGA

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Brain Salad Surgery by ELP, hands down my favorite. Switched on Bach is a close second.

Moog Indigo by Jean-Jacques Perrey hits the top of my list.

E.V.A. can even rock a dance floor today, and The Elephant Never Forgets has been with me since childhood; it was the title track for "El Chavo del Ocho", a classic latin TV series, something between Sesame Street and Gilligan's Island

I think I first heard the MiniMoog on pop records like Chicory Tip's Son of My Father, and then on Rick Wakeman's Six Wives. The solos on Anne Boleyn were probably what did it for me.

From then it was Yes and ELP, closely followed by Wendy Carlos' Moog albums and Tonto's Zero Time, and Tangerine Dream, and any synth stuff I could find. Back in the 70s I just had to hear synthesizers.

Most of those records have stood the test of time for me. The Wendy Carlos albums sound even more beautiful now I understand them, and ELP's live version of Aquatarkus amazes me every time.

My all time favourite synth album would probably have to be Tim Blake's Crystal Machine, though. There's MiniMoog on there, but the real brilliance is with Tim's double modified EMS synthi.

Why is Tim Blake's 2nd solo CD priced at EUR184.00 on his website?!?

Sweep wrote:I think I first heard the MiniMoog on pop records like Chicory Tip's Son of My Father, and then on Rick Wakeman's Six Wives. The solos on Anne Boleyn were probably what did it for me.

FYI; that's a Moog modular on 'Son of My Father, both on Moroder's original and Chicory tip's version.

MC wrote:Why is Tim Blake's 2nd solo CD priced at EUR184.00 on his website?!?

Very good question. I'll have a look at that and email him. (Or I could sell you my copy for a bargain 150 Euros. )

mikael488 wrote:FYI; that's a Moog modular on 'Son of My Father, both on Moroder's original and Chicory tip's version.

Thanks. I was foolish enough to think it was a Mini because that's what they used on Top of the Pops (which was always unreliable when people were miming). I didn't know there was a Georgio Moroder original version, either. I haven't heard it since 1971 or whenever it was and I'd never heard of him back then.

So that's got me curious and I'll do some searching on that. This is one of the things I love about the Internet - all the stuff I didn't know that I didn't know.

I've always been big into Air's Moon Safari, it's actually the album that brought my attention to Moog in the first place when I was just starting out learning about synths. That album's riddled with Minimoog.