After having taken piano lessons, Vangelis began his professional musical career working with several popular bands of the 1960s such as the Forminx and Aphrodite's Child, with the latter's album 666 going on to be recognized as a psychedelic classic. Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed music scores for several animal documentaries, including L'Apocalypse des Animaux, La Fête sauvage and Opéra sauvage; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream. In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis.
In 1981, he composed the score for the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack's single, the film's "Titles" theme, also reached the top of the American Billboard Hot 100 chart and was used as the background music at the London 2012 Olympics winners' medal presentation ceremonies. Vangelis also received acclaim for his synthesizer-based soundtrack for the 1982 film Blade Runner.
Having had a career in music spanning over 70 years and having composed and performed more than 50 albums, Vangelis is considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of electronic music.
Vangelis was born 29 March 1943, in Agria, near Volos, Greece. Largely a self-taught musician, he reportedly began composing at the age of three. His earliest memory is "playing piano, some percussion and whatever else that was available that made a noise. Right from the start, I was only interested in playing my own music". He refused to take traditional piano lessons, and throughout his career did not have substantial knowledge of reading or writing musical notation. When he was six, Vangelis's parents enrolled him at a specialist music school in Athens. He recalls "I was lucky not to go because music schools close doors rather than open them". He studied painting, an art he still practices, at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
In 1989 received Max Steiner Award. France made Vangelis a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1992 and promoted to Commander in 2017, as well Chevalier de la Legion d’ Honneur in 2001. In 1993 received music award Apollo by Friends of the Athens National Opera Society. In 1995, Vangelis had a minor planet named after him (6354 Vangelis) by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; the name was proposed by the MPC's co-director, Gareth V. Williams, rather than by the object's original discoverer, Eugène Joseph Delporte, who died in 1955, long before the 1934 discovery could be confirmed by observations made in 1990. In 1996 and 1997 was awarded at World Music Awards.
NASA conferred their Public Service Medal to Vangelis in 2003. The award is the highest honour the space agency presents to an individual not involved with the American government. Five years later, in 2008, the board of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens voted to make Vangelis an Honorary Doctor, making him Professor Emeritus at their Faculty of Primary Education. In June 2008, the American Hellenic Institute honoured Vangelis with an AHI Hellenic Heritage Achievement Award for his "exceptional artistic achievements" as a pioneer in electronic music and for his lifelong dedication to the promotion of Hellenism through the arts. On 16 September 2013, he received the honour of appearing on the Greek 80 cent postage stamp, as part of a series of six distinguished living personalities of the Greek Diaspora.
I Can't Take it Any More
Vangelis Lyrics
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I can't take it any more
I can't take it any more
I can't take it any more
Too loud, too loud
Too loud, too loud
Too loud, too loud
I can't take it any more
Can you take it any more?
Can you take it any more?
Can we take it any more?
Can we take it any more?
Too loud, too loud
Too loud, too loud
Too loud, too loud
Too loud, too loud
Ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha, ha
Ha, ha...
Too loud, too loud
Too loud, too loud
Too loud, too loud
Too loud, too loud
Too loud...
The lyrics to Vangelis's song "I Can't Take it Any More" express a feeling of overwhelming frustration and sensory overload. The repetition of the refrain "I can't take it any more" emphasizes the singer's state of mind and suggests that they may be feeling trapped or stuck in a situation that is beyond their control. The repeated phrase "too loud, too loud" echoes this feeling of being overwhelmed by external stimuli, perhaps from noise or chaotic surroundings.
The song's open-ended questions, "Can you take it any more? Can we take it any more?" invite the listener to consider their own emotional state and empathize with the singer's distress. The final repetition of "too loud" seems to convey a sense of resignation or defeat, as if the singer has given up on trying to cope with the overwhelming situation.
Overall, "I Can't Take it Any More" is a powerful expression of the human experience of feeling overwhelmed and helpless in the face of external pressures.
Line by Line Meaning
I can't take it any more
The singer has reached their limit and cannot tolerate the current situation any longer.
Too loud, too loud
Whatever is happening around the singer is too intense or overwhelming, causing them distress.
Can you take it any more?
The singer is questioning whether the person they are speaking to is also having difficulty coping with the situation.
Can we take it any more?
The artist wonders if they and the person they are speaking to can withstand the situation together.
Ha, ha, ha
The laughter portrayed here is not genuine, but a sarcastic expression of the artist's current mood.
Too loud...
The repetition of this line emphasizes how the intensity of the situation has become unbearable for the singer.
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Written by: EVANGELOS PAPATHANASSIOU
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Nicolas Therrien
Gear geek fact: This awesome song uses, among tons of instruments, all three sections of the original 1979 Roland VP-330 Vocoder synth: strings, choir and vocoder.
Philippe Cirse
See you later est plus que le reflet d'une époque. C'est un astéroïde fantôme qui revient jeter son dévolu sur l'art sonore. Une onde décadente chargée de paradoxes d'où s'échappent l'obscurantisme et l'irrationnel, facteurs hypnotiques défiant les âmes vulnérables en quête d'absolu. Cette architecture sonore est un court tunnel qui mène à la lumière !
Roberto Masera
Bonne critique
Nils
Exactement que j'ai pensé
Marty
Never heard this before. I love it.
Nils
1990 i was frustrated that there was no blade runner soundtrack so I bought this album (because I liked the cover). One of my all time favorites now.
(and didn't know that it contained one track from the movie. I was so happy)
Bart Prins
"Memories of Green" already existed before Blade Runner. Because it turned out to be the perfect match for that scene it was used in the movie.
Bladerunner 1986
This albums underrated. It seems very much a continuation of Albedo 0.39. The title tracks really incredible
Walter Barnes
Extraordinary , Beautiful ..!!!!
Bergamot Deter
Puisqu'au fond ce n'est pas si loin, d'aller très loin ! See you later !