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Posted: **Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:54 pm**

Tell us what you think about this album here.

Love Leelene

Posted: **Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:15 pm**

Part 1 - 8.5/10 - I really like this, even though some people are "OMG IT'S EQUINOXE 1 RIPOFF LOLZORZ", it is somewhat and cheesy though... but still really awesome.
Part 2 - 10/10 - This is really awesome, somewhat crazy and majestic combination of church organs, cool bass and... uh, dance. Really one of my favorites. The Gdansk version was quite good, but not as awesome as this version for example.
Part 3 - 9/10 - This is quite an eerie song, listening to it certainly makes me wonder why some people put him in the same cast as some random "lolzorz synthesizer themes"-people. Reminds me of Final Fantasy VIII too.
Part 4 - 9/10 - Even though it reminds me a lot of Go West, it's still more awesome in my opinion. Quite cool, but it also sounds really 1993, perhaps even dated in some sense... but I don't care much about that.
Part 5 - 7/10 - Reminds me of some supermarkets and odd quiz-like things and my fathers career as an editor of that time. Not really one of my favorites.
Part 6 - 7.5/10 - The album version sounds somewhat slack... and it is too overplayed. Perhaps Jarre just likes it much, but I don't. However, the version from CPLT is gorgeous and I would rate it 9/10, but that's not the case now.
Part 7 - 7.5/10 - I think it's somewhat underrated (could work well if reworked to something longer ambientish stuff), but it still feels like a filler track.
Part 8 - 8.5/10 - People seem to hate this, but I like it. Not as much as Chronologie 2, but it certainly has whacky feeling, percussions and groovy atmosphere. But like Chronologie 4, it represents the year 1993 (r or early 1990's in general) so it's dated in that sense. The Michel Geiss remix is better though.

Overall - 8.4

I used to dislike this album, thinking that Jarre made totally awesome music up to 1993. Then I started to like it more (around 1995ish, after CPLT) and now it's one of my favorites. And I still can't understand how many people think it's not as good as Equinoxe or Oxygene.

Posted: **Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:42 pm**

An album I rarely listen to. The highlights of this album are part 2 and 4. i miss the EiC laser harpe in part 3. JMJ said this album was meant to cross different genres, and maybe that's why I think the tracks sounds too different. I miss Digisequencer on this album.

Posted: **Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:21 pm**

Posted: **Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:27 pm**

I love this album!

Posted: **Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:08 pm**

Plain awesome. Need I say more? 11/10

Posted: **Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:12 pm**

AWESOME! I listened to this album 4 times in a row when I first got it,and it helped me through some difficult times so it is special to me.

Posted: **Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:19 pm**

I only heard this album a few years ago, and I instantly thought it was a work of art! Part 4 especially - fantastic

Posted: **Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:20 am**

Love it, will always do. It is a cool album and I think it is among the top 5 best albums ever.

Love Leelene

Posted: **Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:25 am**

One of Jarre's very best albums!

#6 in my top-10 JMJ albums!

9/10

Posted: **Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:27 am**

Posted: **Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:11 am**

Top 3 JArre albums for me

Posted: **Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:01 pm**

Great great album!!!

Posted: **Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:59 pm**

9/10
very very very great, especially Chronologie 1, 2, 4 and 6

could be good to have a Chronologie II

the mood is amazing, very relaxing sometimes and very great and, wow, I have not words to say it

Posted: **Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:18 pm**

I think this album sums up what Jarre is about. In the first two parts I reconise the 'old' Jarre like Oxygene and Equinoxe. Part 3 could fit perfectly next to Second Rendez-Vous. Part 4 is very poppy/commercial/dance. Part 5/6 showed where Jarre was going at that time but somehow also reminds me of the Revolutions album. Part 8 is looking at todays (at that time) musicstyle (rap/hiphop). The album clearly shows in (almost) chronologic order the career of Jarre...