Art of Noise - Il Pleure

[zarakhast]

Art of Noise were brilliant. Faraway places galore !

[zarakhast]

@zarakhast Far away I meant. There was a horse called Faraway Dancer which raced circa 1986 and that's where I probably got that from. Sheesh, articulate one moment, stupid the next.

[AAInventors]

Turn off the lights and listen. Let your mind travel.

[KRxN11]

Something a little different from what you may ordinarily hear. Dig.But then again, nothing I do is ever ordinary. Either it is extraordinary or its nothing. With love, to you in Cheraw & Hoover. krxn11

[Ashaninca]

Caca en fusion

[ridiai99]

EPIC

[1957thack]

undeniably! their best work!

[guywilson69]

I love to play this song on a rainy night!

[tRaceur89]

what a masterpiece!!!!!



[kekenutikeke]

this words and song capture my heart.all i can say it amazing.congrats for wonderful sher.

[kinstube]

THANK YOU !!!

[themanfromdc]

SHOWS US THAT MUSIC IS UNIVERSAL !!!!!

[skoppy08]

Oh wait.. it sounds so much like Vangelis at the beginning...

[Im4allguns]

Man, I used to love AON.....now I remember why I quit listening to them (this garbage).

[1957thack]

Such a unbelievable interpretation of Music.......

[trinitymonoxide]

Brilliant

[princetalleyrand]

Unbelievably impressive album and this song in particular is stunning. Plus, I can't help but smile and laugh when I hear "...and it was raining." Not just death and bombardment, but rain! Genius.

[HairyMcHero]

I miss the budgies!

[scifirank]

@HairyMcHero .....did you mean The Buggles ???????

[HairyMcHero]

@scifirank

No though I can see your Trever Horn connection.

No I mean the Budgies, the little feathered creatures, I had several Art of Noise12" vinyl singles ( still got a few )and one of my favorite has budgies gently chirping along to piano accompaniment , I'm pretty sure It was part of Beat Box diversion 2 but I don't have it anymore. Although Anne Dudley's piano playing was and still is sublime it was the budgies who were the stars. The Buggles didn't do it for me I'm afraid.

[Schiller153]

Der beste Song auf einem insgesamt sehr guten, aussergewöhnlichen Album. AoN-Fan seit 1988. Bin heute noch meinem Kumpel M. dankbar, dass er mir damals einfach einen Sennheiser-Kopfhörer bei voller Lautstärke aufsetzte. Es lief die Version von Moments in Love, die auf dem Best of- Album zu finden ist. Er war amüsiert und erfreut über meinen Gesichtsausdruck, der wohl "sagte": Oh Mann, was ist DAS DENN?? --- Ein Schlüsselerlebnis in Sachen Klangwelten!!

[themanmaschine]

I have been an avid AON fan since I was about 9 old (1988 in case you're wondering, I've always been ahead of my time!) And I bought this album in 1999, it was the most beautiful aural experience I'd ever had, my only regret was that I didn't take the Reduction album at the same time, it appears to be super rare now! I was offered it at the time!

[YungZayYaDigg]

@0:00-@8:03 great

[YungZayYaDigg]

Life Will Never Be As Great As The 90's

[wiseroldfart]

@YungZayYaDigg: It's a generation gap thing. To me, nothing will ever beat the 60's. What a great time I had growing up! American rock and roll as well as soul music was at its best. And then came the British Invasion! The Beatles led the way. They were so popular that they once had the top 10 or 15 songs on the radio one week during the countdown to #1. Nobody ever impacted the world of modern music the way they did. And then came the Rolling Stones and a whole lot more from across the pond.

[pHr33kAcHu]

@YungZayYaDigg Hells yes.

[Yams313]

I came so hard when John Hurt started talking. 

[silvereagile2061]

@Yams313 so you jizzed?

[Yams313]

@silvereagile2061

That's one way of putting it.

[krssnoop]

@Yams313 lol

[eluded1]

Nostalgia.

[ebicurry]

I just found out about this song....how could I have missed it all these years?

[1957thack]

Imagine ME Saying The Following.......

A timeless Masterpiece......

[guywilson69]

I love the song! I didn't know Art of Noise made this song in 1999.

[PetritAugustini]

Majestic.

[1957thack]

Wow!! Doesn't this track really take you BACK!!

This song really lets the imagination run rapidly wild!!!

An Imaginary Voyage into Hyper Space... zzzZZZZZ

I love it!!! Definitely their best work!!!

[1957thack]

Wow doesn't this track really Back!!!

Let your imagination run rapidly wild!!

What an imaginary voyage into hyper space..........

Love it!! Definitely their best track!!!

[captainron042]

I ask my wife to never disturb me when I play this album, unless it's an emergency! ha ha

It's so vivid, like Fantasia without the visuals. And, like a good movie, every time I play it, I hear new parts that it seems weren't there before.

[Adanosiam]

3:40 best change ever

[kragshot1]

I love this track. Whenever I'm doing shows and I need to do a sound check, to get the feel of the room, I always put this on. This and "The Holy Egoism of Genius" are amazing tracks to put a sound system through its paces. But I've been a fan of The Art of Noise since "Into Battle With..."

[TMinusZero2Supernova]

I love this song, it is my absolute favourite! I just checked, and, on my Ipod alone, I have listened to it 2539 times in the past 7 or so months!! There's just something so beautiful about it... it still gives me chills to listen to it!

[widlasl]

It's all in the mind

[willbilly2fistmcgee]

Awesome arrangements !

[j4kn1f3]

This whole album is brilliant - they use melodies written by Debussey through out the album. With quite spectacular results, i must say.

[pretzelkittens]

Wow, it really makes you realize how much the quality of music is declining.

[yushis1]

@pretzelkittens

Nah, it's getting better.

Mainstream music is definitely getting worse, but this is not and never was mainstream. The internet has allowed all sorts of great niche artists to find fanbase. People who would have never cut it in the 80s or 90s.

Art of Noise was kind of lucky to find a following in the 80s. I'm sure there was plenty of fantastic stuff produced in the 80s that we never heard about because the only thing record labels wanted was pop and hair metal.

[hgbrown20001]

Was turned on to AoN ten years ago in a used CD store. Took them home and spent the entire day listening to them. It is truly one of my favorite CDs and I love the group. What an awesome treatment of Debussy! I am 72 and have lived through the Golden Age of Opera in NYC, Filmore East, the British Invasion, and only two can still set me on the ground in breathlessness--AoN and The Band. I never tiree of playing them.

[artizer]

@hgbrown20001 It's cause of true musical mastership....Art of Noise is pure musical magic!

[dztop]

God bless you qbic2 I've been looking for this piece for agaes. What a bless. Remember chilling back in the day listening to this. yay. Love it. Thanks!

[edunogueira]

The choice of John Hurt as the narrator seems perfect to me. This is also my favorite song of the album.

[Staalstraal]

I totally agree. Relaxes my spirit after I dim the lights.

[VoyagerAlex]

Best song on the album I think... Truly breath-taking.

[ShinyLucarioFTW]

I can't listen to music while people are talking about Germans bombing people unexpectedly in Paris while it's raining.

[Steril707]

Haha.. Good one... ;)

[mogadoremike]

youre a dick

[SzilveszterCsaba]

I love the IDM in it.... could anyone tell me where can i find IDM music??? REAL IDM music.... I would highly appreciated!

[mogadoremike]

what is IDM ??

[SzilveszterCsaba]

(Intelligent Dance Music)... intelligent (as in intelligently sliced beats to follow the harmony and the tune of the song), they usually have a darker theme. But, when mixed with debussy, one can't feel "the dark" in the song, because debussy's impressionist harmonies provide a lifting feeling to it... Actually, I've found an artist doing this. "Venetian Snares" look it up... it has a song named "Szamar Madar" (it's in hungarian it meens "Donkey Bird"), It is idm mixed with Bartok.

[neurario]

One of my favorite songs ever, especially when I want to sleep. :3

[rmsolympic1]

0:01-24 Is this not the sound of the breath of a star? Are there any other AON albums/songs like The Seduction Of Claude Debussy?

[TMinusZero2Supernova]

Their music is always so eerie... I love it. Beautiful music.

[cogitacogito]

Very beautiful..

[DVincentW]

Really really thanks JM1233 for sharing this:)

[jmm1233]

Shared , 5 stars , Faved

[f417h]

ThnX Jim

this rocks...

Love Art of Noise

[goncalobotelhosousa]

Debussy is such a great inspiration... His compositions are magical.

[rmsolympic1]

Absolutely!

[zmansporscheboxster]

I love this music.

[CatCommunication]

I remember the first time I heard John Hurt say "Imagine ME saying the following"... I got a little shiver.

This is one of THE BEST electronica albums. EVER.

[goncalobotelhosousa]

I felt the same. This is epic!

[DVincentW]

John Hurts voice was also great in Watership Down.

[TheDarkRedWyvern]

@CatCommunication I agree with you about John Hurt's voice! Amazing.

[Killersole]

@CatCommunication Just got that same shiver



[biglokote1991]

its gots alittle drum n bass nice....

[Harle4]

Isn't it actually supposed to mean "Il pluit dans mon coeur comme il pluit sur la ville"? Dont remember too much of my french, or is it some sort of stylistic feature in the language?

[bellgica]

You're almost there. Technically he should have said "Il pleut dans mon coeur", but he's making a pun, a ply on words byt using pleure.

Pleurer and pleuvoir (to cry and to rain) are similar in conjugation, but pleuvoir only ever conjugates in the 3rd person singular. I'm no expert on stylistics, but I think it's clever without being pretentious :)

[Harle4]

Ah, thank you very much :)

Geez, it's been so long since my last French class...

[Juggity]

"Il pleure dans mon coeur

Comme Il Pleut Sur La Ville"

"It is crying in my heart.

As it is raining on the city."

That's an old poem by the Romantic-era poet Paul Verlaine.

[Draconis888]

Quite possibly the best album the Art of Noise has ever produced...and they are all exceptional.

[EdEditz]

True that!

[radiodarkhorse]

Very tue that!

[gdp]

just smart

[Killswitchfan11]

I love this song so much, i have this album and it is fan-friggin-tastic.

[dr202usa]

hab das album im kosovo in 2001 gekauft war wohl die sache mit dem art of noise titel die mich dazu getrieben hat. konnte einfach nicht vergessen wer "instrument of darkness" gemacht hat obwohl das hier ganz anders aber dennoch sehr gut klingt,das ganze album klingt ja wie ein song einfach toll, thanks for putting it in here mate

[eeaxxx]

the beginning is good but the rest is crap-probably lame drum and bass at the time it came out much less now

[afa78djd]

Art of Noise is just awesome!!

[Bistro223]

simply amazing thanks for posting this. Its been forever since I heard this!

[GS195]

Beautiful! Is the piano in the beginning by Debussey?

[Greatheil]

yes

[GS195]

What song?

[joosuue]

i like the song, who's the bass voice's boy

[JesperHastrup]

John Hurt