Aphrodite's Child BABYLON

BABYLON
Fallen fallen fallen
is Babylon the great!
Space is getting bounded,
time is getting late!

Masters fall and wonder,
people rise and wait
Fallen fallen fallen
is Babylon the great!

You don't need a coin,
I don't have to shine
We don't know the reason

But I need you madly
and you need me too
and we need each other...
and we need each other...
and we need each other..

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• Aphrodite's
• Child
• BABYLON
• GREECE

[NotioSellas]

komatara ta spaei ola !!!!!!!! alla gmt ta pio polla comments einai apo ksenous den tous ma8ane pote stin ellada???

[kosathel]

@NotioSellas

Δίκιο έχεις, αλλά στην Ελλάδα ποτέ το ΡΟΚ δεν είχε την αποδοχή που έχουν τα σκυλάδικα.

[koolman420]

One of the greatest songs from the greatest Greek rock band of all time! Orea ine! Cheers from St. Louis, MO.

[Tesseliene]

Also listen to this Dutch song, inspired by Babylon: Lola Kite - Different Story

[SacredAudacity]

@theo9952 The only song, which could have a political meaning, is the track "Loud.loud. loud" , all the others are biblically based. But there is no problem when people want to read another meaning in the lyrics than the words alone suggest. By the way: a gordeous album from a couple of great musicians.

[theo9952]

@SacredAudacity

It is true that they did not make political statements, but all i am saying is to  read the lyrics carefully.

[SacredAudacity]

@theo9952 I do not believe that. The members of the band never made any political statement at all. Not even once towards the military junta in their own homeland at that time. The lyrics of the album 666 are strictly based upon the chapters of John´s book of the Apocalypse. None of their songs of this album of the songs before has any political meaning. Their music is a mixture of psychedelic rock and ancient Greek folkmusic, nothing less, nothing more. I think, you are mistaken.

[theo9952]

@SacredAudacity

2. also the art work inside the gatefold sleeve  of the album is very suggestive, if one looks at it very carefully... In my opinion the concept of the Apocalypse is just the surface.

[theo9952]

@SacredAudacity

1. I don't agree. The work is highly political and its lyrics although based on the Apocalypse, are full of political comments and inuendos concerning the turmoil of protest by the youth in europe and the USA against the vietnam war and other issues such as nuclear disarmament, of the times. And this becomes obvious right from the begining with the voices of the crowd repeating, ''we've got the system to fuck the system'' .

[theo9952]

@NotioSellas Μπααα... ειναι απασχολημενοι... ακουνε ...σφακιανακη, ρουβα, βισση, κλπ... τοσους και τοσους !

Που να βρουν καιρο να ασχοληθουν ...

[SacredAudacity]

@andreouleon4 This record is a track of the album 666, which was released in 1971 and edited in most countries in 1972. It has nothing to do with any political event of that time or the time afterwards.

[andreouleon4]

this record was released in 1974. And you know what was going on those days. Turkish invasion in Cyprus, junta fall down in Greece, new government....with all these troubles, how would you come aware of the excistence of such great record

[NotioSellas]

@thekilon sad but true