I usually have trouble getting into artists with big discographies so guides like this are a big help. Might start picking up the top 10 of this list! If not for this I might not even be considering getting into Jarre. Thanks.
Absolutely love the fact that you are adapting this concept. I will be so happy to see this used for BT considering how difficult it will be to rank his albums.
6:32 -- "Magnetic Fields" album. I wonder why Chicane made his "Chicane - Thousand Mile Stare" (2012) album cover to look like a bound to this JMJ's album...
@equinoxe i have to say, i agree with you completely. When i heard Teo and Tea, i was completely taken back... i thought to myself, for a man who was ten years ahead of his time in electronic music, he's just knocked himself back 10 steps with this album. I wish i wouldn't have bought it. I used to be a die hard fan of Jarre, until that point. This album, now sits in my "toilet dance" pile. The track he did with Armin Van Buuren, is a new milestone for Jarre. I hope to hear more like this instead. Also, on that token, i LOVED, and still love Chronologie. That too was well ahead of its time. Sorry OP, not sorry...
Yep, honestly could not believe that placing, either. Teo and Tea is one that JMJ himself admits he would rather forget, versus Magnetic Fields, a nailed-on classic which personally I'd have vying for the top spot. I mean, everyone is entitled to their opinion, I guess...
nice video! I like recognition of Metamorphosis. JMJ himself thinks Zoolook is his best (he also confirmed a couple of days ago). Also I think Equinoxe Infinity deserves top 10, but of course it is your ranking :) thanks! still waiting for vangelis and enigma reviews
Great video I love when reviews do ranked videos there always so fun to watch. I wish you did a voiceover and had live footage on the screen like ARTV would do but then again the melon and Notes Reviews just talk in front of screen which is fine! 😃 like you I would totally have Interior Music as my least favourite and like most people your number one as my number one also I’ve been coming back to songs on Métamorphoses quite a bit lately I think it’s also becoming one of my favourites! Keep up the good work, Tommy!
It is all a matter of taste. You cannot argue about taste. So go ahead, make your list - it's a personal opinion, not a standard. Just as long as you respect other people's own taste and values.
Ni yo, oye aprovecho para avisarte (en caso de que no lo hayas notado) que algunos de tus videos han desaparecido o bloqueados de mi país (México), te informo bajo la esperanza de que ojalá puedas solucionarlo.
Believe it or not, (Electronica 2) is the first Jean-Michel Jarre album I bought as a CD copy. The next J-MJ CD album I will buy will be "Oxygene Trilogy".
I remeber Oxgene 7-13 coming out. The 90s were full of tired digital workstation and sampler shlop. It was a perfectly timed album at the start of the analog synth revival, and it sounded fresh for a generation who never heard the sound of classic analog synths before. For me it sounded nostalgic, the sound of my childhood growing up in the early 80s.
My first 10 including live, from Masterpiece to good albums... 1) CONCERTS IN CHINA (FISHING JUNKS AT SUNSET, SOUVENIR OF CHINA, ORIENT EXPRESS, OVERTURE magnetic fields 1 slow speed, NIGHT IN SHANGAI and APREGIATOR... are MASTERPIECES, DON'T FORGET THESE TRACKS ... ) 2) OXYGENE 3) EQUINOXE 4) MAGNETIC FIELDS 5) RENDEZ VOUS 6) REVOLUTIONS 7) LIVE HOUSTON LION 8) JARRE LIVE (LONDON 1989) 9) ZOOLOOK 10) CHRONOLOGIE
hi from france. just a small detail. for "les granges brulées ", it is an original film soundtrack. and the music goes very very well with the film (alain delon and simone signoret are sacred monsters of french cinema)
Exactly, you have to put that album into the context it was derived from. Also keep in mind this was recorded in 1973, 3 years before the release of Oxygene.
in the slightly more recent i like Chants magnetiques 3 (Concerts in China) - and his 14th of July show in Paris near the ominous government blocky building
quite surprised about your ranking rating Metamorphose and Sessions too high and Chronologie and Equinoxe Infinity too low... Yet, that's the universe Jarre... some hated albums by some are really loved by others... That's how it goes. Good video anyway dude!
Teo and Tea for me is less EDM than chipsound with some dance sound on it. Chronologie has soo many non-safezone moments with exceptional sounds like the train in the beginning that woshes by you... Also the second part of this Chronologie 1 with its sweeping sounds is also far from being a standard 90s sound. Plus Chronologie 6 is a very fine tune. And CALYPSO 2 is really not special to you? The first part is so fantastic that I can't listen to it often enough. That builtup to the rhythm, the rhythm itself then. Haunting! For me however OXYGENE 3 has absolutely nothing to do with OXYGENE, except for Part 17. Interesting how different tastes can be :)
All right, 5 year old video but let's do this. Even though I have been aware of Jarre for most of my life, I am so far behind in listening to his albums. So this list will ONLY be based on the albums I have listened to from start to finish. 1: Équinoxe 2: Oxygène 3: Chronologie 4: Zoolook 5: Les chants magnétiques 6: Rendez-Vous 7: Métamorphoses 8: Révolutions 9: En attendant Cousteau 10: Oxymore I'm pretty confident on 1-4 and 9-10 while I could probably spend hours rearranging 5-8. I also haven't listened to Oxymore as much as the others and Métamorphoses has recently grown on me, so this is all subject to change but as of February 2024, this is it.
Hey, Tommy, just wanted to ask for your advice. Could you help me figure with which album it would be better to start listening to BT? I know you like him a lot, really want to get into his music
Analogue Bubblebath I’m not him but if your into experimental glitchy ambient stuff you would enjoy This Binary Universe, If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I and maybe undrescore if your into his more danceable and trance styles you could check out everything else Ima is a good staring point but just be careful when you have to the 42 minute beast this is Sasha’s Journey Of Ima
My starting point was These Hopeful Machines so I'd probably go with that and This Binary Universe is the other big essential though it is a completely different album lol
Great video. Respect your views. You really should have had Concerts in China on the list due to the new material Jarre composed for it. Some of the tracks such as Night in Shanghai have never been played since. Plus check out his HSBC music. Really nice.
What ? Chronologie is No 18 ??? NO !!!!! Metamorphoses is better then Equinoxe NO ! Top: Oxygene, Equinoxe, Zoolook, maybe Waiting for Cousteau but too short, Chronologie and Oxygene 7-13 !
my order would be *completely* different lol 1 - Equinoxe The best one, love the positive and quirky vibes, the inventiveness of part 5 and the glorious "lost speeding through space" feeling that part 7 organically evolves into. True mastery of blending textures and taking our minds on a hallucinogenic ride. *This is the one.* :D 2 - Oxygene The ultimate classic but side 2 (specifically parts 4 and 6) are a little shallow imho. Definitely behind Equinoxe in terms of depth and detail. Of course the panoramic view of desolate and dystopian nuclear wastelands that side 1 evokes was a life changer for me. 3 - Zoolook I positively hated this when it came out, I even considered writing a letter to Jarre complaining about the album but since then it begged to be re-discovered again and again... really unique! The fleeting glimpse of a digital utopia that never arrived. 4 - Waiting For Cousteau ("Waiting for Custeau"), for Calypsos see below Best piece of ambient music on the planet - *but those calypsos are absolutely unbearable* 5 - Magnetic Fields Ventures into psychedelic pink floyd territory. B-side doesn't fully live up to the hype. 6 - Oxygene 3 The album where Jarre has successfully completed his "sound update" and has finally caught up with the post-90ies trance sound, successfully marrying it with the oldschool sounds of his early albums. 7 - Metamorphoses Not my favorite kind of music, but I can and do appreciate all the musicality of this. It shows that there is a lot to Jarre we didn't know before, an awareness and a creative spirit that has a lot more in it, and every track is well done in its own way. 8 - Rendez-Vous The least favorite of his classic albums for me, sounds too "hard" somehow - his ingenious evocative psychedelic sauce seems to have dried up. Still like it, just not his most favorite. - He probably made this album to reconnect with his earlier work after Zoolook because of the letter of complaint I (didn't) write to him. 9 - Oxygene 7-13 one or the other track is really great, but overall I found it lacking courage and also lacking the mind-engulfing immersiveness of the original - the cinematic flights of fantasies the original was causing. Instead I see a keyboard player. pt.8 is a hit though :D 10 - Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise 11 - Electronica 1: The Time Machine The Electronicas are partially cringe, parially excellent - I think they are like an advanced training program for Jarre to finally get certified with the post-techno-trance electronics he seems to have struggled with in his earlier releases. He got the best teachers to show him and has achieved an average grade of B- :D I love "The Heart of Noise" though... despite its apparent simplicity the most "organic" and directly emotional- feeling electronica track I know of. 12 - Equinoxe Infinity Maybe this can still rise further up if I hear it more often. 13 - Teo and Tea Honorary mention - not as bad as it seems, kind of fun actually... Jarre trying to be "2005" but not really getting there while unintentionally overachieving in other areas. Next to Zoolook his most successful "I am a genius I can try something completely different, I don't care whehter you'll cringe still going to do it" commendable ventures. 14 - Deserted Palace Historically fun, an actual synthesizer album vs. the quasi-orchestral "Solina Strings/Farfisa organ" electronics on Oxygne/Equinoxe 15 - Chronologie The first part is an admirable composition to come back to and re-appreciate again and again, but overall the album tends toward unbearably bombastic, harsh and "I'd like to 90ies but I can't" with misplaced pulsating TR909-Bassdrums etc. 16 - Interior Music Experiment - badly emulated Eno. 17 - Sessions 2000 This is completely opaque to me... does not catch my ear. 18 - Geometry of Love I don't remember this very much - maybe I need to give it another spin 19 - Revolutions partially unbearable to me - "music can be cruel" - repetitive, empty, inflexible... The title track has something to it, but it's a classic case where the genre he attmpts to emulate is clear, but it just doesn't come together. With "Exit" on Electronica he finally made that grade. :D 20 - Les Granges Brulees effective soundtrack, but kind of hackneyed as a record by itself. 21 - Waiting for Custeau: Calypsos 1-x *oh god... turn it off immediately!*
I agree there are some junk tracks on Revolutions. But if you are going to ignore junk tracks to elevate Waiting For Cousteau to 4th place, then Revolutions should also be placed higher than 19th. Listen to "Industrial Revolutions" again, it is fantastic.
Oxygene was totally new and ground breaking and no one did anything like it straight after so Equinoxe was too, but then Magnetic Fields had Fairlight which was new, so it kinda worked in that ground breaking mode. In my opinion, everything after those 3 were not new or alien, so were just mainstream.
I was a big Jarre fan back in 1976. Here's my list on order of preference --> 1/ Equinox - 2/Oxygene - 3/ The Concerts in China - 4/ Magnetic Fields - 5/Zoolook - 6/ Oxygene7-13 - 7/ Revolutions-RendousVou-(jointly) -8/ Cousteau The rest did not really make it. I understands why he loves the whole music stuff, I guess its his hobby and I respect his dedication.
You should do some of these for more mainstream electronic artists for those of us who only know Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin lol. I do appreciate how much new music you turn me on to tho
For me anything in the last 25 years after Metamorphosis isn't worth bothering with. I think once you start using ubiquitous sounds and loops instead of creating your own otherworldly patches and samples (Zoolook/Oxygene) you lose your identity sadly. Surprised magnetic Fields was ranked so low. My best albums: 1.Oxygene 2.Equinoxe 3.Zoolook 4. Waiting for Cousteau (for that long track alone) 5.Magnetic Fields 6. Revolutions (for Industrial Revolution alone) 7 Rendezvous 8.Oxygene 7 -13 9. Metamorphosis Of course since listening to all these as far back as 1981 I have a lot of nostalgic/emotional memories tied to them as well as having seen him live 5 times starting with the Docklands in 1988 and getting soaking wet in gale force winds in October. Fun fact: I bumped into Jarre in 2008 in Manchester during the afternoon as he walked in the theatre pre-show. He was very friendly but clearly a bit stressed but had time to have a quick photo with me.
In general I would say the older the album the better but in reality, some of his more recent release are not so bad. I just think he has changed his style of music too much instead of continuing with what made him great and unique. Magnetic fields 4 is for me the best tune he produiced! Thanks for the video.
You seem to be misinformed that INTERIOR MUSIC is a 'proper' album release by Jarre... he was commissioned by Bang & Olfsen to produce a disc for pure demonstration purposes of their hi-fi equipment in their stores...just that, the disc which was a limited item, was given to a customer who purchased equipment. Reviewing it as a real release from his catalogue is a dumb mistake on your part.
I'm fully aware of the context in which it was created & released, hence it taking up the bottom spot and never getting a proper dedicated video review when I originally did my series on his discography. but excuse me for treating the album-length project of exclusive original material often listed as an album of original material and seeing collectors shelling out hundreds of dollars for it as technically part of his catalog, no need to actively call me stupid for including it here
I don't think he brought anything new after Waiting for Cousteau. The newer albums seem to be just the recycling of the same creative attitude that may have worked in the past but not today. He is trying to adapt to new developments in forms and styles in electronic music but his pioneering, prodigal spirit that propelled him in 70, 80's turned in to apathetic repetitiveness. Anyways, I like Ethnicolor rendition from Houston concert. Studio version does not have that dramatic gradation and liveliness built on relationship and interaction with the public. But if the studio version was meant to be deliberately vague and intended to be finalized only through unique improvisation in the concert, it is a pretty good move and nice concept.
"Equinoxe Infinity is close to Teo and Tea, enjoyment-wise"?? No. Root canal surgery is close to Teo and Tea, enjoyment-wise. Equinoxe Infinity is a damn fine album. (I wouldn't argue with your top two, by the way.)
well that's kind of the problem lol, I don't feel like I can compare a greatest hits project to his main albums as that feels like cheating would probably be in the upper half somewhere though given I do enjoy putting it on every now and then
Nice video. Not so many melodic layers as Vangelis or Rick Wakeman like, but real personality. I think that the best albums were the first ones, just because of the sound. From 1980 on, digital synths weren't as great as analogic ones. All of them seem the same.
Buena critica de harry Potter pero tiene una visión desde su juventud los seguidores de jarre de toda la vida sabemos el orden en que pondriamos sus obras
Oxygen 7-13 was the last great work from JMJ. Everything else is too random, noisy and non-musical made for kids of a different time. I love London Kid. Chronology 6 sounds like an inspiration from Mylene Farmer.
Pale, now you go way too far...by simply 'ranking' the artworks of the friendliest person on the face of the earth: Jean Michel Jarre. What CHRONOLOGY does for me, my heart, 'you' are totally 'not' the person to tell 'me'. INTERIOR MUSIC was designed as a sort of 'test/demo-album' for that danish brand...this is how you could test out your audio product/had to do with the opening of a new shop of that danish brand in Paris, I believe...only a thousand copies made of it and therefore not at all commercially interesting. GEOMETRY OF LOVE deserves a much higher ranking, caus of its top quality mysterious sound...incomparable really and one of the very few 'lounge-like' albums of the good man. TÉO AND TÉA is ranked higher than MAGNETIC FIELDS...what??? Shouldn't you be doing something else, pale??? Jean Michel is so close to my heart...he stands above every kind of ranking. Please consider this the next time you dare to rank any artist. Again: Jean Michel is such a 'big one' and touched many, many, in their hearts...it's simply impossible to judge him 'only' on artistic outings...there's so much more to the man. Good luck, still...but never, never, judge such heavy weight as Jean Michel lightly. See this as: 'you can only learn from your mistakes'. To give you just one positive point: Cousteau (the long piece)...here, you are totally right.
That's understood...btw: excuses, concerning my first comment (removed it btw), by you, pronouncing Jarre as 'jar', caus of something in your way of bringing words out. But, as long as you keep this listening experience for and to yourself and in this case, no-one has been helped...the main effect is only: you have set yourself apart by spreading this completely superfluous message throughout the internet. I regret watching this upload and again I wanna express the fact that Jean Michel is a giant amongst many lesser gods in the art-scene, overall and who are 'we'' to just lightly and (in this particular case) sometimes a bit too bitter, judge his works, while this great man has changed so many hearts and lives? It's the 'tone' you set/you bring this in a cynical manner and jump from one album to another, as if it were cookies or candy-bars... Who 'are' you to do this? Is it simply arrogance? I will never look you up again on YT...who are you to play your game publicly? Yes...no-one!
WFC is awful. Calipso 1-3 are the worst cack he's ever done and title track gets boring very quickly. Electronica 2 is easily better than 1 1.zoolook 2.revolutions (except London kid) 3. +metamorphoses . So there. You're wrong. Boo yar sucks to you. 😉
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update for 2021: Equinoxe Infinity < Amazonia < Electronica 2
update for 2022: Rendez-Vous < Oxymore < Waiting For Cousteau
“ My mouse is not working today.” You mean you have a Deadmau5 ;)
arnett23 Me I thought he meant mouth lol 😂
No.....no no no...
Chronologie so low? O_o wow. Personally it's one of my favorites.
I usually have trouble getting into artists with big discographies so guides like this are a big help. Might start picking up the top 10 of this list! If not for this I might not even be considering getting into Jarre. Thanks.
Absolutely love the fact that you are adapting this concept. I will be so happy to see this used for BT considering how difficult it will be to rank his albums.
6:32 -- "Magnetic Fields" album.
I wonder why Chicane made his "Chicane - Thousand Mile Stare" (2012) album cover to look like a bound to this JMJ's album...
Do Squarepusher next. His discography is so big it could use, some concise organization in one whole video would do a great service.
Omg, Teo And Tea higher than Magnetic Fields? Seriously?
not much else to say besides I'm more often in the mood to listen to it :)
@equinoxe i have to say, i agree with you completely. When i heard Teo and Tea, i was completely taken back... i thought to myself, for a man who was ten years ahead of his time in electronic music, he's just knocked himself back 10 steps with this album. I wish i wouldn't have bought it. I used to be a die hard fan of Jarre, until that point. This album, now sits in my "toilet dance" pile. The track he did with Armin Van Buuren, is a new milestone for Jarre. I hope to hear more like this instead.
Also, on that token, i LOVED, and still love Chronologie. That too was well ahead of its time. Sorry OP, not sorry...
Magnetic fields is a masterpiece
Yep, honestly could not believe that placing, either. Teo and Tea is one that JMJ himself admits he would rather forget, versus Magnetic Fields, a nailed-on classic which personally I'd have vying for the top spot. I mean, everyone is entitled to their opinion, I guess...
Wonky, best video to date!!!! ps please don’t feel u need to apologize in advance, sir.
I love your honesty and valid reviews!!! Well done!!!! 🙏
I like this type of review you're doing. I also love the transitions xD
nice video! I like recognition of Metamorphosis. JMJ himself thinks Zoolook is his best (he also confirmed a couple of days ago). Also I think Equinoxe Infinity deserves top 10, but of course it is your ranking :) thanks!
still waiting for vangelis and enigma reviews
20: Interior Music
19: Les Granges Brulees
18: Deserted Palace
17: Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
16: Sessions 2000
15: Teo & Tea
14: Metamorphoses
13: Geometry of Love
12: Electronica 1: The Time Machine
11: Chronology
10: Zoolook
9: Equinoxe Infinity
8: Waiting for Cousteau
7: Magnetic Fields
6: Oxygene 3
5: Oxygene 7-13
4: Oxygene
3: Industrial Revolution
2: Rendez-Vous
1: Eqinoxe
You uploaded the video the exact moment Equinoxe became 40 yrs old!
Great video I love when reviews do ranked videos there always so fun to watch. I wish you did a voiceover and had live footage on the screen like ARTV would do but then again the melon and Notes Reviews just talk in front of screen which is fine! 😃 like you I would totally have Interior Music as my least favourite and like most people your number one as my number one also I’ve been coming back to songs on Métamorphoses quite a bit lately I think it’s also becoming one of my favourites! Keep up the good work, Tommy!
22. Deserted Palace (fav track: Deserted Palace)
21. Les Granges Brulees (fav track: Les Granges Brulees)
20. Interior Music (fav track: Whispers of Life)
19. Geometry of Love (fav track: Velvet Road)
18. Teo & Tea (fav track: Vintage)
17. Rendez-Vous (fav track: Last Rendez-Vous)
16. Magnetic Fields (fav track: Magnetic Fields Pt 2)
15. Equinoxe Infinity (fav track: The Opening (Movement 8))
14. Amazonia (fav track: idk, the entire thing pretty much flows as one track :p)
13. Oxymore (fav track: Brutalism)
12. Sessions 2000 (fav track: March 23)
11. Revolutions (fav track: Revolutions)
10. Chronologie (fav track: Chronologie Pt 2)
9. Oxygene 3 (fav track: Oxygene Pt 20)
8. Equinoxe (fav track: Equinoxe Pt 4)
7. Oxygene 7-13 (fav track: Oxygene Pt 8)
6. Zoolook (fav track: Ethnicolor)
5. Electronica 1: The Time Machine (fav track: Close Your Eyes)
4. Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise (fav track: Exit)
3. Metamorphoses (fav track: C'est La Vie)
2. Oxygene (fav track: Oxygene Pt 2)
1. Waiting for Cousteau (fav track: Waiting for Cousteau (fav Jean-Michel Jarre track)
Glad you're adapting this format dude! Especially when there are not many top 10's, top 20's, etc about electronic music albums lol
Chronologie part 1 is phenomenal .
Heard it at Wembley in 1993 when he was doing the Europe in Concert tour.
01. Oxygene
02. Equinoxe
03. Oxygene 7-13
04. Zoolook
05. Equinoxe Infinity
06. Chronologie
07. Oxygene 3
08. Magnetic Fields
09. Waiting for Cousteau
10. Rendez-vous
11. Metamorphoses
12. Revolutions
13. Electronica 1: a time machine
14. Electronica 2: the heart of noise
15. Téo & Téa
16. Geometry of love
17. Les Granges brulées
18. Sessions 2000
19. Deserted Palace
20. Interior Music
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Totally desagree with Chronologie position
I have to agree i still listen to oxygene and i still find as interesting to listen to now as i did when my mum got it for her birthday in 76
It is all a matter of taste. You cannot argue about taste. So go ahead, make your list - it's a personal opinion, not a standard. Just as long as you respect other people's own taste and values.
¡Wow! no me esperaba encontrar "Chronolgie" en un puesto tan bajo. Buen vídeo.
Ni yo, oye aprovecho para avisarte (en caso de que no lo hayas notado) que algunos de tus videos han desaparecido o bloqueados de mi país (México), te informo bajo la esperanza de que ojalá puedas solucionarlo.
Ni yo. Para mí en top 5 mínimo. Si no el mejor. Será porque fue el álbum que me enamoró y me hizo descubrir su música
Harry Potter habla y evalua según sus gustos pero todos sabemos cual seria el orden en los álbumes del maestro
Believe it or not, (Electronica 2) is the first Jean-Michel Jarre album I bought as a CD copy.
The next J-MJ CD album I will buy will be "Oxygene Trilogy".
Jarre is already working on two new projects. Possibly and as I commented just 1 month ago, it is possible that one of them is Electronica 3
Yeah...its Electronica 3 and .... ????
I remeber Oxgene 7-13 coming out. The 90s were full of tired digital workstation and sampler shlop. It was a perfectly timed album at the start of the analog synth revival, and it sounded fresh for a generation who never heard the sound of classic analog synths before. For me it sounded nostalgic, the sound of my childhood growing up in the early 80s.
Teo & Tea over Magnetic Fields?! Your list is a joke
My first 10 including live, from Masterpiece to good albums...
1) CONCERTS IN CHINA (FISHING JUNKS AT SUNSET, SOUVENIR OF CHINA, ORIENT EXPRESS, OVERTURE magnetic fields 1 slow speed, NIGHT IN SHANGAI and APREGIATOR... are MASTERPIECES, DON'T FORGET THESE TRACKS ... )
2) OXYGENE
3) EQUINOXE
4) MAGNETIC FIELDS
5) RENDEZ VOUS
6) REVOLUTIONS
7) LIVE HOUSTON LION
8) JARRE LIVE (LONDON 1989)
9) ZOOLOOK
10) CHRONOLOGIE
Bought my first jarre album while in Paris on vacation in ‘87 - You are spot on in your analysis. Thank you!
Here is complete The Wonky Angles list, as updated for 2022:
22.Interior Music
21.Les Granges Brûlées
20.Chronologie
19. Deserted Palace
18. Geometry of Love
17. Magnetic Fields
16. Téo & Téa
15. Equinoxe Infinity
14. Amazonia
13.Electronica 2
12.Revolutions
11.Rendez-Vous
10.Oxymore
9. Waiting for Cousteau
8. Electronica 1
7. Sessions 2000
6. Oxygène 3
5. Équinoxe
4. Oxygène 7-13
3. Metamorphoses
2. Zoolook
1. Oxygène
1 - Oxygene
2 - Waiting For Cousteau
3 - Oxygene 7-13
4 - Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
5 - Zoolook
6 - Oxygene 3
7 - Equinoxe
8 - Electronica 1: The Time Machine
9 - Sessions 2000
10 - Metamorpheses
11 - Equinoxe Infinity
12 - Teo and Tea
13 - Geometry of Love
14 - Magnetic Fields
15 - Revolutions
16 - Chronologie
17 - Rendez-Vous
18 - Deserted Palace
19 - Interior Music
20 - Les Granges Brulees
hi from france. just a small detail. for "les granges brulées ", it is an original film soundtrack. and the music goes very very well with the film (alain delon and simone signoret are sacred monsters of french cinema)
Exactly, you have to put that album into the context it was derived from. Also keep in mind this was recorded in 1973, 3 years before the release of Oxygene.
Thank you so much! A very helpful introduction to his music. I love "en attendant Cousteau" very much, too.
16. Тео&Тeа
15. Geometry of love
14. Equinox infinity
13. Zoolook
12. Electronica 2
11. Electronica 1
10. Oxygen 3
09.Metamorphoses
08. Chronologie
07. Waiting for Cousteau
06. Euinox
05. Magnetic fields
04. Oxygen 2
03. Rendez Vous
02. Revolutions
01. Oxygen 1
What happened to your wall in the background? There’s a big crack.
idk, it's been there as long as I can remember
in the slightly more recent i like Chants magnetiques 3 (Concerts in China) - and his 14th of July show in Paris near the ominous government blocky building
I like this format!
quite surprised about your ranking rating Metamorphose and Sessions too high and Chronologie and Equinoxe Infinity too low... Yet, that's the universe Jarre... some hated albums by some are really loved by others... That's how it goes. Good video anyway dude!
Teo and Tea for me is less EDM than chipsound with some dance sound on it.
Chronologie has soo many non-safezone moments with exceptional sounds like the train in the beginning that woshes by you... Also the second part of this Chronologie 1 with its sweeping sounds is also far from being a standard 90s sound. Plus Chronologie 6 is a very fine tune.
And CALYPSO 2 is really not special to you? The first part is so fantastic that I can't listen to it often enough. That builtup to the rhythm, the rhythm itself then. Haunting!
For me however OXYGENE 3 has absolutely nothing to do with OXYGENE, except for Part 17.
Interesting how different tastes can be :)
All right, 5 year old video but let's do this. Even though I have been aware of Jarre for most of my life, I am so far behind in listening to his albums. So this list will ONLY be based on the albums I have listened to from start to finish.
1: Équinoxe
2: Oxygène
3: Chronologie
4: Zoolook
5: Les chants magnétiques
6: Rendez-Vous
7: Métamorphoses
8: Révolutions
9: En attendant Cousteau
10: Oxymore
I'm pretty confident on 1-4 and 9-10 while I could probably spend hours rearranging 5-8. I also haven't listened to Oxymore as much as the others and Métamorphoses has recently grown on me, so this is all subject to change but as of February 2024, this is it.
JMJ é único. Escuto suas músicas futurísticas desde 1980.
Hey, Tommy, just wanted to ask for your advice.
Could you help me figure with which album it would be better to start listening to BT?
I know you like him a lot, really want to get into his music
Analogue Bubblebath I’m not him but if your into experimental glitchy ambient stuff you would enjoy This Binary Universe, If the Stars Are Eternal So Are You and I and maybe undrescore if your into his more danceable and trance styles you could check out everything else Ima is a good staring point but just be careful when you have to the 42 minute beast this is Sasha’s Journey Of Ima
My starting point was These Hopeful Machines so I'd probably go with that
and This Binary Universe is the other big essential though it is a completely different album lol
The Wonky Angle Many Thanks!
Patrick Lauer hey, thanks for suggestions! Will listen to everything you mentioned eventually)
The Wonky Angle honestly same I came back to songs from of those albums you mentioned before getting into his discography last year
I really liked the last 3 parts of "equinox infinity" , I thought they managed to create the same feelings in me as other Jarre music.
briefly i thought the title was 'from worst to bad' but i like him since the 70's, so i'm not dissing but thought it was funny
My list
1) zoolook
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Great video. Respect your views. You really should have had Concerts in China on the list due to the new material Jarre composed for it. Some of the tracks such as Night in Shanghai have never been played since. Plus check out his HSBC music. Really nice.
What ? Chronologie is No 18 ??? NO !!!!! Metamorphoses is better then Equinoxe NO ! Top: Oxygene, Equinoxe, Zoolook, maybe Waiting for Cousteau but too short, Chronologie and Oxygene 7-13 !
my order would be *completely* different lol
1 - Equinoxe
The best one, love the positive and quirky vibes, the inventiveness of part 5 and the glorious "lost speeding through space" feeling that part 7 organically evolves into. True mastery of blending textures and taking our minds on a hallucinogenic ride. *This is the one.* :D
2 - Oxygene
The ultimate classic but side 2 (specifically parts 4 and 6) are a little shallow imho. Definitely behind Equinoxe in terms of depth and detail. Of course the panoramic view of desolate and dystopian nuclear wastelands that side 1 evokes was a life changer for me.
3 - Zoolook
I positively hated this when it came out, I even considered writing a letter to Jarre complaining about the album but since then it begged to be re-discovered again and again... really unique! The fleeting glimpse of a digital utopia that never arrived.
4 - Waiting For Cousteau ("Waiting for Custeau"), for Calypsos see below
Best piece of ambient music on the planet - *but those calypsos are absolutely unbearable*
5 - Magnetic Fields
Ventures into psychedelic pink floyd territory. B-side doesn't fully live up to the hype.
6 - Oxygene 3
The album where Jarre has successfully completed his "sound update" and has finally caught up with the post-90ies trance sound, successfully marrying it with the oldschool sounds of his early albums.
7 - Metamorphoses
Not my favorite kind of music, but I can and do appreciate all the musicality of this. It shows that there is a lot to Jarre we didn't know before, an awareness and a creative spirit that has a lot more in it, and every track is well done in its own way.
8 - Rendez-Vous
The least favorite of his classic albums for me, sounds too "hard" somehow - his ingenious evocative psychedelic sauce seems to have dried up. Still like it, just not his most favorite.
- He probably made this album to reconnect with his earlier work after Zoolook because of the letter of complaint I (didn't) write to him.
9 - Oxygene 7-13
one or the other track is really great, but overall I found it lacking courage and also lacking the mind-engulfing immersiveness of the original - the cinematic flights of fantasies the original was causing. Instead I see a keyboard player. pt.8 is a hit though :D
10 - Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
11 - Electronica 1: The Time Machine
The Electronicas are partially cringe, parially excellent - I think they are like an advanced training program for Jarre to finally get certified with the post-techno-trance electronics he seems to have struggled with in his earlier releases. He got the best teachers to show him and has achieved an average grade of B- :D
I love "The Heart of Noise" though... despite its apparent simplicity the most "organic" and directly emotional- feeling electronica track I know of.
12 - Equinoxe Infinity
Maybe this can still rise further up if I hear it more often.
13 - Teo and Tea
Honorary mention - not as bad as it seems, kind of fun actually... Jarre trying to be "2005" but not really getting there while unintentionally overachieving in other areas. Next to Zoolook his most successful "I am a genius I can try something completely different, I don't care whehter you'll cringe still going to do it" commendable ventures.
14 - Deserted Palace
Historically fun, an actual synthesizer album vs. the quasi-orchestral "Solina Strings/Farfisa organ" electronics on Oxygne/Equinoxe
15 - Chronologie
The first part is an admirable composition to come back to and re-appreciate again and again, but overall the album tends toward unbearably bombastic, harsh and "I'd like to 90ies but I can't" with misplaced pulsating TR909-Bassdrums etc.
16 - Interior Music
Experiment - badly emulated Eno.
17 - Sessions 2000
This is completely opaque to me... does not catch my ear.
18 - Geometry of Love
I don't remember this very much - maybe I need to give it another spin
19 - Revolutions
partially unbearable to me - "music can be cruel" - repetitive, empty, inflexible... The title track has something to it, but it's a classic case where the genre he attmpts to emulate is clear, but it just doesn't come together. With "Exit" on Electronica he finally made that grade. :D
20 - Les Granges Brulees
effective soundtrack, but kind of hackneyed as a record by itself.
21 - Waiting for Custeau: Calypsos 1-x
*oh god... turn it off immediately!*
Calypso 1+3: ok, i am with you there.
But Calypso 2? That thing is incredible IMHO.
did you really just put Revolutions 6 places below Teo and Tea.... ?? come one man
I agree there are some junk tracks on Revolutions. But if you are going to ignore junk tracks to elevate Waiting For Cousteau to 4th place, then Revolutions should also be placed higher than 19th. Listen to "Industrial Revolutions" again, it is fantastic.
Oxygene was totally new and ground breaking and no one did anything like it straight after so Equinoxe was too, but then Magnetic Fields had Fairlight which was new, so it kinda worked in that ground breaking mode.
In my opinion, everything after those 3 were not new or alien, so were just mainstream.
I was a big Jarre fan back in 1976. Here's my list on order of preference --> 1/ Equinox - 2/Oxygene - 3/ The Concerts in China - 4/ Magnetic Fields - 5/Zoolook - 6/ Oxygene7-13 - 7/ Revolutions-RendousVou-(jointly) -8/ Cousteau
The rest did not really make it. I understands why he loves the whole music stuff, I guess its his hobby and I respect his dedication.
I'm just getting into Jarre, Chronologie was the first thing I got; really makes me nostalgic for the ps1 era.
You should do some of these for more mainstream electronic artists for those of us who only know Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin lol. I do appreciate how much new music you turn me on to tho
Nah, there are a lot of different reviews on this channel: from mainstream to underground
Jean Michel Jarre is pretty mainstream.....
For me anything in the last 25 years after Metamorphosis isn't worth bothering with. I think once you start using ubiquitous sounds and loops instead of creating your own otherworldly patches and samples (Zoolook/Oxygene) you lose your identity sadly. Surprised magnetic Fields was ranked so low.
My best albums:
1.Oxygene
2.Equinoxe
3.Zoolook
4. Waiting for Cousteau (for that long track alone)
5.Magnetic Fields
6. Revolutions (for Industrial Revolution alone)
7 Rendezvous
8.Oxygene 7 -13
9. Metamorphosis
Of course since listening to all these as far back as 1981 I have a lot of nostalgic/emotional memories tied to them as well as having seen him live 5 times starting with the Docklands in 1988 and getting soaking wet in gale force winds in October.
Fun fact: I bumped into Jarre in 2008 in Manchester during the afternoon as he walked in the theatre pre-show. He was very friendly but clearly a bit stressed but had time to have a quick photo with me.
In general I would say the older the album the better but in reality, some of his more recent release are not so bad. I just think he has changed his style of music too much instead of continuing with what made him great and unique. Magnetic fields 4 is for me the best tune he produiced! Thanks for the video.
Nice to know Equinoxe Pt. III is among your favorite tunes!
You seem to be misinformed that INTERIOR MUSIC is a 'proper' album release by Jarre... he was commissioned by Bang & Olfsen to produce a disc for pure demonstration purposes of their hi-fi equipment in their stores...just that, the disc which was a limited item, was given to a customer who purchased equipment. Reviewing it as a real release from his catalogue is a dumb mistake on your part.
I'm fully aware of the context in which it was created & released, hence it taking up the bottom spot and never getting a proper dedicated video review when I originally did my series on his discography. but excuse me for treating the album-length project of exclusive original material often listed as an album of original material and seeing collectors shelling out hundreds of dollars for it as technically part of his catalog, no need to actively call me stupid for including it here
@@TheWonkyAngle...dont think I called you stupid... but I apologise 👍
I don't think he brought anything new after Waiting for Cousteau. The newer albums seem to be just the recycling of the same creative attitude that may have worked in the past but not today. He is trying to adapt to new developments in forms and styles in electronic music but his pioneering, prodigal spirit that propelled him in 70, 80's turned in to apathetic repetitiveness.
Anyways, I like Ethnicolor rendition from Houston concert. Studio version does not have that dramatic gradation and liveliness built on relationship and interaction with the public. But if the studio version was meant to be deliberately vague and intended to be finalized only through unique improvisation in the concert, it is a pretty good move and nice concept.
My 10 best albuns list:
1 - Oxigene, 2 - Equinoxe, 3 - Rendez-Vous 4 - Revolutions 5 - Chronologie 6 - Sessions 2000 7 - Metamorphoses, 8 - Eletrônica vol 1 9 - Eletrônica vol 2 10 - Geometry of Love
Revolutions is one of my favourites
Magnetic Fields is so patchy. In places it's really good but there's too much filler.
oh finally someone who's not just calling me crazy for that take lmao
man, ranking sucks. In this context.
Oh god dammit I literally filmed one of these 2 days ago, oh well.
"Equinoxe Infinity is close to Teo and Tea, enjoyment-wise"?? No. Root canal surgery is close to Teo and Tea, enjoyment-wise. Equinoxe Infinity is a damn fine album.
(I wouldn't argue with your top two, by the way.)
u can hear the ARP 2600 'Tonus logo' synthesizer at the end! ♥ WHAWW
and Hall 9000 too
Where's Aero?
doesn't count as an album imo. has like 2 original songs and everything else is just slightly updated versions of his greatest hits
@@TheWonkyAngle Okay, but you would place it, where would be?
well that's kind of the problem lol, I don't feel like I can compare a greatest hits project to his main albums as that feels like cheating
would probably be in the upper half somewhere though given I do enjoy putting it on every now and then
Session 2000 is not even worth mentioning,.... Let´s all agree it has never been recorded.
Nice video. Not so many melodic layers as Vangelis or Rick Wakeman like, but real personality. I think that the best albums were the first ones, just because of the sound. From 1980 on, digital synths weren't as great as analogic ones. All of them seem the same.
Buena critica de harry Potter pero tiene una visión desde su juventud los seguidores de jarre de toda la vida sabemos el orden en que pondriamos sus obras
jajaja no seas malo
I completely dissagree with you with this list. Teo and Tea is absolutely the worst album of him. Chronologie is absolutely on the 3th place for me.
Equinoxe el mejor y luego oxygene magnétics fields oxygene 7:13 zoolook y concerts in china
For me Metamorphoses and Oxygene 1-6 first place toghether
1. Equinoxe
2. The Concerts in China
3. Oxygene
4. Zoolook
The rest has too many low points imo.
Oxygen 7-13 was the last great work from JMJ. Everything else is too random, noisy and non-musical made for kids of a different time. I love London Kid. Chronology 6 sounds like an inspiration from Mylene Farmer.
Of all the Wonky reviews I'd rank this in the middle the odd start sets the tone badly.
Pale, now you go way too far...by simply 'ranking' the artworks of the friendliest person on the face of the earth: Jean Michel Jarre. What CHRONOLOGY does for me, my heart, 'you' are totally 'not' the person to tell 'me'. INTERIOR MUSIC was designed as a sort of 'test/demo-album' for that danish brand...this is how you could test out your audio product/had to do with the opening of a new shop of that danish brand in Paris, I believe...only a thousand copies made of it and therefore not at all commercially interesting. GEOMETRY OF LOVE deserves a much higher ranking, caus of its top quality mysterious sound...incomparable really and one of the very few 'lounge-like' albums of the good man. TÉO AND TÉA is ranked higher than MAGNETIC FIELDS...what??? Shouldn't you be doing something else, pale??? Jean Michel is so close to my heart...he stands above every kind of ranking. Please consider this the next time you dare to rank any artist. Again: Jean Michel is such a 'big one' and touched many, many, in their hearts...it's simply impossible to judge him 'only' on artistic outings...there's so much more to the man. Good luck, still...but never, never, judge such heavy weight as Jean Michel lightly. See this as: 'you can only learn from your mistakes'. To give you just one positive point: Cousteau (the long piece)...here, you are totally right.
it's called an "opinion"
that is to say, this video only speaks for my own listening experience and no one else's
That's understood...btw: excuses, concerning my first comment (removed it btw), by you, pronouncing Jarre as 'jar', caus of something in your way of bringing words out.
But, as long as you keep this listening experience for and to yourself and in this case, no-one has been helped...the main effect is only: you have set yourself apart by spreading this completely superfluous message throughout the internet. I regret watching this upload and again I wanna express the fact that Jean Michel is a giant amongst many lesser gods in the art-scene, overall and who are 'we'' to just lightly and (in this particular case) sometimes a bit too bitter, judge his works, while this great man has changed so many hearts and lives? It's the 'tone' you set/you bring this in a cynical manner and jump from one album to another, as if it were cookies or candy-bars... Who 'are' you to do this? Is it simply arrogance? I will never look you up again on YT...who are you to play your game publicly? Yes...no-one!
Only Oxygene, Equinoxe, Magnetic Fields and Live in China, the rest are average or bad
You're list is all over the place. But, that's just my opinion.
The melon...
Magnetic fields should be in the top 5
random dude ranks Jarre… nevermind. why the hell I‘m here?
Merzbow next, hes even better than this french guy
Equinox , Oxygen for me first
WFC is awful. Calipso 1-3 are the worst cack he's ever done and title track gets boring very quickly.
Electronica 2 is easily better than 1
1.zoolook
2.revolutions (except London kid)
3. +metamorphoses .
So there. You're wrong. Boo yar sucks to you.
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Chronologie is top 5...
Equinoxe is by far hes best album Oxygene had part 2 and 4 Equinoxe had part 4 ,5 ,6 and 7
Absolute bollocks !! Sessions 2000 in the top 10....lmfao.... 🤣😅😄