Cerrones paradise

[langlang]

hello forum! was having a discussion with someone about cerrones paradise and supernature and which was the first to drop stateside. i thought it was supernature(even though it is cerrone 3-duh!), because i just could'nt recollect paradise being in play in '77. a quick gander at the disco files and a few billboard charts reveals love in c minor hitting late winter/early spring of '77 and paradise hitting around mid-summer, with supernature coming end of '77/ beginning of '78. but, as i said it's very foggy to me and seems like short shelf life for such powerful albums. maybe marky,stephen or some of the other disco professors can shed a little light on this. would be much appreciated.

[remicks]

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I recall LOVE IN "C" MINOR coming out and not being impressed with it. When my partner bought it, & he wanted to put it on his side of the tape (we made reel-to-reel tapes for stand-up bars... he'd do one side I'd do the other... I think 90 minutes per side ) it was fine by me because I didn't really care for it and I didn't want that too-long-a song taking up that much time on my side!
Cerrone's Paradise is as you say .. sort of a blur for me too ... because I found it rather blah. Basically a LOVE IN C MINOR PART II.

It wasn't until SUPERNATURE that I really paid attention. That song seemed to have something, a boldness, ( and was a lot more Giorgio-esque.... suspiciously so imo) and I think it was at that point Cerrone really hit his stride.

Those three big records that first year! Pretty amazing. 1977 was certainly a blossoming year for his creativity wasn't it .

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[tyree_kevin]

It`s funny because we were talking about these records about two months ago. "Supernature" got my attention because of the lyrics and that bassline. You`re right about it`s boldness.

[Cory Ander]

Rems: I remember initially not being impressed with either "Love In C Minor" or the unedited version of "Love To Love you Baby" and probably for the same reason as you: they seemed long just for the sake of being long, repeating sections and riffs over and over. I eventually grew fond of "Love in C Minor" (though I can't remember why exactly) but STILL can't usually sit through 16 plus minutes of "Love to Love You". I was MUCH more impressed with Costandinos' later disco suites as they had separate movements to them and were melodically more interesting, sounding more like separate songs blended together with the main melody usually repeated at the end for continuity. And I noticed other producers, especially Jacques Morali and Ray Martinez, used the same formula to make their suites interesting also. 5/24/2011

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

'Cerrone's Paradise', fairly-well bombed, stateside. It was a blatant 'Love in C-Minor' knock-off, and although Wisniak & Ray did come-up with a beautiful piece of music (it's my favorite 'Cerrone' LP), it couldn't compete with the energy of "Accidental Lover", or "I Found Love...", which, by late spring of '77, had already pulled French/Euro Disco into a new direction. (although... I can recall playing 'Take Me', from side 2, for a dance floor.)

Also, the US copies were pressed sooooo quiet, that you could barely hear the opening dialogue, which sets-up the story-line. And the N. American covers were that horrid paste-up thing, instead of the f-a-reakin' amazing, Malligator cover. So, everyone I knew, bought the French, or UK pressings. Which, in turn, was a big reason for Atlantic/USA's not being able to move much of their 'Cerrone 2' product.

of course... these were, merely, my own observations, at that time.

[Videoskooter]

Stephen, it didn't do that well in Europe either although I enjoy the record every time I listen to it. Wisniak and Cerrone hit back with "Supernature", an almost complete different style of Music and it was the start of a very long and fruitful collaboration.

Alain returned in full Dance power in 2003 when he co-wrote and co-produced the third album of Christophe LeFriant, better known as Bob Sinclar, which also saw the return of Lene Lovich as lyricist.