History Music / AphroditesChild

* {{Scatting}}: "Break" includes scatting by Vangelis at the end,which was intended to make fun of the dramatic feel of the song.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their earliest stuff was generic psychedelic pop, which was very different from their last album (which ''is'' already weird by itself).

* ShoutOut: The lines "We've Got The System" and "Do It!" are references to the books "Fuck The System" by Abbie Hoffman and "Do It! Scenarios Of The Revolution" by Jerry Rubin, respectively.

* TitleDrop: That was "the Capture of the Beast"/Now comes "the Wedding of the Lamb"

* {{Sampling}}: The TitleDrop at the end of "All The Seats Were Occupied" comes from a recording of a [[Creator/BBC]] English Teaching lesson.

* VocalTagTeam: Demis Roussos and Lucas Sideras split lead vocal duties on ''666''. Roussos sings lead on "The Four Horsemen", "Babylon" and "Hic Et Nunc", while Sideras sings lead on "The Beast" and "Break".

* VocalTagTeam: Demis Roussos and Lucas Sideras split lead vocal duties on ''666'. Roussos sings lead on "The Four Horsemen", "Babylon" and "Hic Et Nunc", while Sideras sings lead on "The Beast" and "Break".

--> "End of the World"

* Scatting: "Break" includes scatting by Vangelis at the end,which was intended to make fun of the dramatic feel of the song.

* RefrainFromAssuming: "Hic and Nunc" wasn't called "Here and Now".

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After they disbanded, Vangelis found success making film scores and Demis Roussos became a successful pop singer, who was very popular in Europe and Middle East during TheEighties. Roussos' music is CondemnedByHistory nowadays, but he had many hit singles back in the day.

Aphrodite's Child was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Greece}] Greek]] rock band based in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, UsefulNotes/{{France}}. The band consisted of a bunch of musicians (most notably Demis Roussos and [[Music/{{Vangelis}} Vangelis Papathanassiou]]) who were already successful in Greece, but they decided to flee to London after the junta of 1967. Since they couldn't get a visa to enter Britain, they decided to work in France instead.

* ArcWords: So many examples in ''666''

* DarkerAndEdgier: They moved on from being a psychedelic pop band to ''666''

*** Vangelis became much better known as a film score composers.

** The Greek spoken word section in "Ofis" is pure ham
** Irene Pappas, shouting in "∞"

*** Vangelis is much better known as a film score composer nowadays.

* NumberOfTheBeast: Their last album is named ''666'' after all
* ProgressiveRock: Their last album, ''666''

Aphrodite's Child was a Greek rock band based in Paris, France. The band consisted of a bunch of musicians (most notably Demis Roussos and [[Music/{{Vangelis}} Vangelis Papathanassiou]]) who were already successful in Greece, but they decided to flee to London after the junta of 1967. Since they couldn't get a visa to enter Britain, they decided to work in France instead.

''Do it!''

!!! Studio discography

!!! Members

! '''''The First Trope is Red''''':

I feel you don't want to come.\\''

* GrayRainOfDepression: "Rain and Tears" from their first album, ''The End of the World''

While they started as a PsychedelicRock influenced pop band ''à là'' Music/ProcolHarum or Music/TheMoodyBlues, their last album ''666'' (1972), which was a seminal ProgressiveRock album is the one which is best remembered (albeit as a CultClassic, and only among prog circles). The scope and ambition of this double album was what caused the demise of the band. While Vangelis wanted to stop making commerical albums, Roussos and Sideras wanted nothing to do with such experimental albums. There's also the problem of their record company, not wanting to release that album because it's not commercial enough.

* LimitedLyricsSong: The only spoken words in "Do It" are the title, spoken

* MindScrew: Most of ''666''. There are many [[LyricalDissonance catchy tunes about the Apocalypse]], and there are some pieces which are so expermental, they could hardly even be considered music.

* SpokenWordInMusic: Songs like "Loud, Loud, Loud", "Seven Bowls", "The Seventh Seal", "Seven Trumpets", "Ofis", "Altamont" are only made of these.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: All the way from 1 to 5 (or maybe even a softer, but weirder 6).

* EpicRocking: "All the Seats Were Occupied" is 19 minutes 19 seconds long.

* GenreRoulette: From straight prog to hard rock, psychedelia, funk, soul, jazz, electronica, musique concrète and different traditions of Greek folk music[[note]]Even the kinds of music not intended for recreational listening, like liturgical choruses and wedding music can find its place here[[note]], ''666'' is a real genre roulette.

* Instrumentals: "The Lamb", "Aegian Sea", "The Seventh Seal", "The Wakening Beast", "Do It", "The Marching of the Beast", "Tribulations", "The Battle of Locusts", "The Wedding of the Lamb", "The Capture of the Beast"

After they disbanded, Vangelis found success making film scores and Demis Roussos became a successful pop singer, who was very popular in Europe and Middle East during TheEighties. Roussos' music is DeaderThanDisco nowadays, but he had many hit singles back in the day.

While they started as a PsychedelicRock influenced pop band ''à là'' Music/ProcolHarum or Music/TheMoodyBlues, their last album ''666'' (1972), which was a seminal ProgressiveRock album is tthe one which is best remembered (albeit as a CultClassic, and only among prog circles). The scope and ambition of this double album was what caused the demise of the band. While Vangelis wanted to stop making commerical albums, Roussos and Sideras wanted nothing to do with such experimental albums. There's also the problem of their record company, not wanting to release that album because it's not commercial enough.

** "Do It" and "The Battle of Locusts" are HardRock instrumentals ''à la'' Music/LedZeppelin

* MinimalisticCoverArt: ''666'' has one.

* CanisLatinicus: "Hic and Nunc"[[note]]Which means "Here and now"-the very words that were sung in English in chorus, but the word and is left English[[/note]]

* CherubicChoir: "Loud", "Hic and Nunc",

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Their earliest stuff was generic psychedelic pop, which was very different from their last album (which ''is'' already weird by itself)
** The band itself is one for two of its former musicians

* EpicRocking: "All the Seats Were Occupied" is 19 minutes 19 seconds long

* GenreRoulette: From straight prog to hard rock, psychedelia, funk, soul, jazz, electronica, musique concrète and different traditions of Greek folk music[[note]]Even the kinds of music not intended for recreational listening, like liturgical choruses and wedding music can find its place here[[note]], ''666'' is a real genre roulette

** "The Beast" includes the exclamations "Pame"[[note]]"Let's go"[[/note]] and "Teliounome edho pera, etsi?" [[note]]We finish here, right?[[/note]]
** "Ofis"[[note]]Ancient Greek for serpent[[note]] is a hammy spoken word piece in Modern Greek

** "Babylon" in the style of Music/TheWho, specifically their Music/Tommy era
** "The Marching of the Beast" in the style of Music/JethroTull

* LongestSongGoesLast: The second type in ''666'', since "All the Seats Were Occupied" (19:19) is followed by "Break" (2:59)
* LyricalDissonance: "The Beast" is a catchy, funky song about the Best of Apocalypse

* RefrainFromAssuming: "Hic and Nunc" wasn't called "Here and Now"

Aphrodite's Child was a Greek rock band based in Paris, France. The band consisted of a bunch of musicians (most notably Deemis Roussos and Music/{{Vangelis}}) who were already successful in Greece, but they decided to flee to London after the junta of 1967. Since they couldn't get a visa to enter Britain, they decided to work in France instead.

After they disbanded, Vangelis found success making film scores and Demis Roussos became a commercially very successful pop singer, who was very popular in Europe and Middle East during TheEighties. Roussos' music is DeaderThanDisco nowadays, but he had many hit singles back in the day.