Citizensmurf wrote:
Popel Vooje wrote:
phallus dei wrote:
Great review as always, Seth Man. 666 is one of those all-encompassing doubles I love, and I can't believe there's an extra five minutes of it that I've never heard lurking out there somewhere in infinity!
Great review and album, but I'm a little confused. I know there have been at least two CD releases of this album, one single and one double. Doesn't the current double CD issue - which I have - include around 15 extra minutes that were cut from both the original vinyl and the single CD? If so, is the current double CD the same as the Greek mix, or yet another variation?
On a side note ... there are few experiences in life that compare to listening to "Aegean Sea" on headphones, stoned out of one's gourd, whilst looking over the deck of a ferry crossing the Aegean Sea. I'd unreservedly recommend this to anyone who hasn't tried it.
Is it only the Greek pressing which has this mix variation, or did it make its way to other countries. I notice several 1974 reissues from a few countries on Discogs, but the track timings are most likely copied from the original listing.
Hey, Citizensmurf --
I just looked and yeah: those times on the labels follow the 1972 original LP. Even on this Greek pressing:
https://www.discogs.com/Aphrodites-Child-666/release/13539241
Notice how it lists the time for “The Battle Of The Locust” as 0:56 (as usual) although it runs for 1:41.
And “Hic Et Nunc” is listed at 3:00 -- not 4:37.
Those are two of the more extreme time differences on "666."
As far as I know, the 1974 Greek 2LP is the only place I know of that has the different mixes. (On Vangelis Collector, the guy mentioned a single German white label test pressing that apparently had some of the different "Greek" mixes on it but I can't verify whether stock copies of the German press from 1974 do, or not.)
To the best of my knowledge, the Greek mixes have yet to be released on CD.
