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November 7, 2023: The Wiggle Room w/ BC Sterrett of The Lost Media Archive: Reconstructing the un-officially released, early test press version the "See You Later" album by Vangelis (1980)
For this month, I've decided to pay tribute to my favorite enigmatic album seldom talked about, released in November 1980. But...
"See You Later originally started out very differently to the officially released version...(There is) only one known test pressing LP in existence contain(ing the original track list). - Discogs*********the See You Later album that we all know and love is not how Vangelis originally intended it to be(.) There is an 8 song test pressing LP of how Vangelis originally intended the album to be released. Two songs are only available on this record, with a third song being the track "My Love", which was actually released as a single (with an non-album B side)! The two songs are now confirmed as being titled "Fertilization" and "Neighbors Above". The 8 song version is more like a concept album, suggesting a life-progression theme. - Vangelis Collector********
From Wikipedia:
"See You Later is an album by the Greek electronic composer Vangelis, released in November 1980. It breaks quite violently with the style he employed in the late 1970s and later, relying much more on vocals and being more experimental and returning (in many respects) to his early 1970s work...It was never released in the United States, until it was remastered in 2016 as part of the Delectus boxset.****** Wikipedia Overview:
See You Later is Vangelis' most wide-ranging work of the 1980s, with more radical musical and lyrical themes than are found in his other albums. The concept album is bleaker than most of his records, incorporating negative and satirical intonations of a dystopian future. Subjects touched on include funerals, masks, and ready-to-wear and ready-to-eat things.
The lyrics are written by Vangelis in English, French and Italian; they use electronic terminology and incorporate references to lost love, and the downfall of humanity due to the influence of technology. The title track lyrics say "See you later then... alive or dead"....
The album's sleeve shows an ice-covered ocean with a woman wearing sunglasses to protect her eyes; the image uses optical compression in the horizontal axis..."
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | Images | Approx. start time |
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My Love
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45 Single | Polydor | 1980 | Other | The original opening track from the white label test press version of "See You Later," ...deleted from the final release. Vocals by Peter Marsh and Cherry Vanilla. |
"Prior to the 1980 album, a single was released referring to an upcoming album ..."My love", backed with "Domestic Logic One"... (Notes from the liner notes of "Memories").
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| Vangelis |
Not A Bit - All Of It (aka Not A Bit-All Of It = Un Poco No, Todo)
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See You Later | Track 2 on the test press album aka Track 4 on the final version of the album. Also released as a 45 single w/ "Multi-track Suggestion" in 1981. "Oddly enough, this remaster (while superior to the original issue in sound quality) is missing the final 2 seconds of "Not a Bit - All of It", where a man says "obviously" in a snarky tone." - Discogs Comment by Icehaus68 Jul 29, 2020. Vocals by Cherry Vanilla. |
Picture Sleeve for the 45 Single released in Spain.
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| Vangelis |
Neighbors Above
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Can be found on the unofficial CDR Mexican release "Memories 1974-1981" (2023) | Other | Track 3 on the test press version of "See You Later." (Deleted off the final project). |
8 song white label test pressing (no artwork)
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| Vangelis |
I Can't Take It Any More
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See You Later | 1980 | LP | The opening track 1 on the final version of "See You Later." "I Can't Take It Anymore" is sung by Peter Marsh through a vocoder over a deep synthesizer glissando bass, a synthesizer choir and KR-55 hihats. -WIkipedia *********** To me, this song takes on entirely new meaning conceptually, when placed after the song "Neighbors Above." - BC Sterrett |
Canadian, Custom Inner Label, Polydor VAN 06, 1980
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| Vangelis |
Memories of Green
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See You Later | Track 3 on the final version. "Memories of Green" is a slow piano-based piece with a backdrop of synthesizer sounds and bleeps from the 1978 Bambino electronic game "UFO Master Blaster Station". The piano used on this piece was a Steinway Grand piano. Its distinctive "drunk" sound was achieved with the use of an Electroharmonix Electric Mistress flanger pedal.[7] This song was used in Vangelis' subsequent soundtrack to the 1982 film Blade Runner.[4] - Wikipedia ******** Before I knew anything about the history of this song, to me, this track was very bleak but extremely intimate, personal and beautiful. The bleeps and nauseated synths made me picture someone on a hospital bed, on the verge of death, in between blurry memories and reality. The slow siren synths at the end, reminded me of an ambulance. Perhaps the soundtrack for someone at the side of such an individual, hoping that they hold on, although things don't good, feeling the heaviness of the day and the situation, as if in the state of a drunken dream, but remembering happy memories with the person when the song begins its beautiful flourishes in the middle... - BC Sterrett |
1982 screen shot of Harrison Ford's eye, during the flying cop car scene of "Blade Runner," where this song takes place during the film...making this the most famous track of the album.
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| Vangelis |
Fertilization (aka Gestation)
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See You Later Test Press | Due to a copyright claim regarding a poem, Vangelis had to drop the track Fertilization and re-arrange the track order. My Love was also dropped (although it still existed on the single of the same name, with an added b-side called Domestic Logic 1) and an extra track called See You Later was added to bookend the album. Another song from the See You Later sessions was called Neighbours Above, this also was left off the final album. Only one known test pressing LP in existence contains the track Fertilization, thought to be initially released in Ireland (not to be confused with the misprinted Irish LP release, that contains the extra tracks on the label, but plays the regular album). The tracks; My Love, Domestic Logic 1 and Neighbours Above were remastered and released on CD and digitally via the Delectus boxset in 2017. - Discogs **********""Fertilization" contains vocals that describe the act of creation of a human." - Vangelis Collector |
Photo from youtube fan film.
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| Vangelis |
Suffocation
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See You Later | "The inner sleeve is also disturbing, displaying a character seated in a greenhouse wearing an eerie-looking gas mask.... "Suffocation" employs the KR-55 and a saw wave synthesizer melody, followed by an eerie brass and megaphone emergency announcements in Italian. The second (slower) half of the piece features vocals by Jon Anderson (of YES) and a narrative in Italian, by Krisma (Maurizio Arcieri and Christina Moser)...."Suffocation" was inspired by the Seveso disaster in Italy. - Wikipedia |
Inner sleeve photo by Vangelis of what appears to be two people in a greenhouse wearing gas masks -the nude human is perhaps dead or dying. My own interpretation: reminiscent of religious art & perhaps a commentary vision of futuristic living conditions.
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| Vangelis |
Multi-Track Suggestion
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See You Later | 1980 | LP | Track 8 on the test press, Track 2 on final release. "Multitrack Suggestion" is Kraftwerk-style and Eurodisco, which builds on a polysynth and upbeat KR-55 pulse; the choir sings some terms associated with analog synthesizer technology (VCO, VCF). ***********A look at the lyrics by Vangelis: 2 MULTITRACK SUGGESTION Years passing by VCO VCA And again And again Years passing by Let her go Let her stay In the memory's place Gets a machine VCO VCA Get the tape Get the bass 100+ one Multitrack Patch bay, patch bay EQ Low Cut Free post Frequency 1000 La da, da, da VCO VCA In the memory's place We let them pay VCO VCA I am no techno-guy The live ... 100+ one Multitrack Patch baypatch bay EQ Low Cut Free post Multitrack suggestion... Suggestion.. (This is how the test press version of "See You Later" ends. |
Also released as a Flexi-disc, Picture Disc, 33 ⅓ RPM, Mono, Unofficial Release, Poland 1986
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| Vangelis |
See You Later
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See You Later | Polydor | 2021 | LP | (Bonus Track) The only song added for the final version of "See You Later," that become the new conclusion. - BC Sterrett ********Vangelis on electric piano and staccato male atonal choir. About halfway through, there is a child narrative in French, with Jon Anderson's vocals used in the finale. -Wikipedia |
Back photo of the inner sleeve from my Japanese CD 2021 re-issue: ヴァンゲリス – 流氷原
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Music behind DJ: Final DJ Notes |
See You Later Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou (R.I.P.) Thank you for all the art, music and love of life. |
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A bit like the then Sparks, but more bent, which is high praise
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I def loved me some Vangelis back in the day. So really diggin this
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