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Tear Jerker / Jean-Michel Jarre

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This French electronic musician has some very moving songs.


  • "Rendez-vous '98", a collaboration with Apollo 440. It's based on the cheerful uptempo "Fourth Rendez-vous", but many people were driven to tears with this one, because this song radiates all the thrill and the emotion of a FIFA World Cup finale.
  • "Souvenir of China" — especially at the "Oxygen in Moscow" concert, where it was dedicated to Princess Diana. It was introed with a moment of silence.
  • "Ron's Piece" — especially when it was dedicated to the victims of the Challenger disaster, complete with a Ronald Reagan speech following the Challenger disaster. The saxophone solo was originally planned to be played by Ron McNair aboard the Shuttle live during Rendez-vous Houston in April 1986; instead of being its featured soloist, he became its posthumous dedicatee.
    • From the same album, "First Rendez-vous" has a similarly haunting, melancholic feel to it.
  • "Oxygène 13" and "Oxygène 20" both qualify in the Awesomeness Withdrawal sense, coming at the very end of their respective chapters of Jarre's electronic music epic. "Oxygène 13" was also played as the last encore at Jarre's 1997 concerts which meant that when this piece of music was over, the show was over.


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