Solid State Survivor
Solid State Survivor is the second album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1979.
" Solid State Survivor" was never released in the United States, but many of the songs from this album were compiled for release in the States as the US pressing of" ×∞ Multiplies"( 1980), including the tracks" Behind the MaskRydeenDay Tripper", and" TechnopolisSolid State Survivor" is only one of a handful of YMO albums in which the track titles do not have a Japanese equivalent.
The album was an early example of synthpop, a genre that the band helped pioneer alongside their earlier album" Yellow Magic Orchestra"( 1978), and it also contributed to the development of techno.
" Solid State Survivor" won the Best Album Award at the 22nd Japan Record Awards, and it sold two million records.
Several songs from the album have continued to be widely covered and sampled.
Rendez-Vous (Jean-Michel Jarre album)
Rendez- vous is the eighth studio album by electronic musician and composer Jean- Michel Jarre released on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor, in 5 April 1986.
It sold some three million copies worldwide and remains Jarre's longest- running chart album in both the U.S. and UK, with a 20- week run in the U.S. and an impressive 38- week run in the UK.
It's his last studio album to date that topped the French charts.
The album art of the album was created by long- time collaborator Michel Granger.
The last track on the album was originally scheduled to include a saxophone part recorded by astronaut Ron McNair on the Space Shuttle" Challenger", which would have made it the first piece of music to be recorded in space, but on 28 January 1986, 73 seconds after lift- off, the shuttle disintegrated and the entire" Challenger" crew was killed.
The track was dedicated to McNair and the other astronauts on board" Challenger".
On the album the saxophone part is played by saxophonist Pierre Gossez.
The album reached# 9 in the UK charts and reached# 52 in the US, making it Jarre's highest- charting album in the country.
The album was nominated for Grammy Award for Best New Age Album in 1987, although it did n't win the award.
In April 1986, Jarre performed the large- scale outdoor concert" Rendez- vous Houston" in Houston, Texas, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of Texas.
The show attracted a then- world- record live audience of 1.3 million people.
The concert was originally to have included a video projection of Ron McNair's performance, recorded in space.
Jean- Michel returned to the stage in October for another performance," Rendez- Vous Lyon", marking Pope John Paul II's visit to Jarre's hometown of Lyon.
Métamorphoses
Métamorphoses is the thirteenth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean- Michel Jarre, released by Sony Music on January 24, 2000.
It was released in the U.S. on Disques Dreyfus in 2004.
This album was, to fans, a surprising break from his previous works, as it makes extensive use of vocal elements, as well as house, techno, trance, dance- pop, breakbeat, and downtempo sounds.
The vocal elements are not short, sampled pieces as highlighted in his album" Zoolook", but longer, more integral parts of the work, and thus quite surprising for an artist known for his instrumental works.
" Métamorphoses" is also Jarre's first album to contain actual songs with lyrics.
Jarre's own voice is heard through a vocoder in many of the songs, but the album contains several other voices as well, mostly of female singers.
" Rendez -vous à Paris" features Sharon Corr on violin.
" Rendez- vous à Paris" and" Bells" are the only largely instrumental tracks on the album; in the former only the track title is repeated in rhythm, the latter does not have intelligible lyrics.
Although the album was generally not badly received by critics, and despite the collaborations and a number of single releases(" C'est la vie" and" Tout est bleu"), Jarre did not achieve great mainstream success with this album.
Oxygène 3
Oxygène 3 is the nineteenth studio album by the French electronic musician and composer Jean- Michel Jarre.
Announced via a post on Jarre's Instagram account, the album was released on 2 December 2016, on the 40th anniversary of the original" Oxygène" album.
Place De La Concorde (concert)
Place De La Concorde was Jean Michel Jarre's first concert, held on July 14, 1979, celebrating the Bastille Day.
One million spectators attended this concert, setting up a new record for Jean-Michel to the Guinness Book of Records.
The concert was broadcast on TV by Eurovision.
A rare VHS + 7" single with tracks proposed as concert tracks was released.
O Soundtrack My Heart
O Soundtrack My Heart is the second album by PVT( still under the band's original name, Pivot) – their first on Warp Records.
It was released on 9 August 2008 in Australia, and 18 August in Europe.
The album was produced by Pivot in Sydney via London throughout 2006, tracked by Scott Horscroft, mixed by John McEntire( Tortoise, The Sea and Cake) in May 2007 and mastered by Noel Sommerville( Interpol, White Stripes).
The album's cover art contains images by French artist Michel Granger who was also responsible for the sleeve of Jean Michel Jarre's album" Oxygène".
Indeed, the sleeve of" O Soundtrack My Heart" bears a thematic similarity to the cover of Jarre's" Oxygène 7–13" album.
In 2009 the song" Fool in Rain" was covered by Scott Herren's' Diamond Watch Wrists' for the" Warp20( Recreated)" compilation.
Rendez-vous (In-Grid album)
Rendez- vous is an album by In- Grid released in 2003.
Interior Music
Interior Music is a promotional album by French electronic musician and composer Jean- Michel Jarre, and released in as a special release for Bang& Olufsen in 2001 ..
The album was a demonstration disc that was to be played in Bang& Olufsen stores, and was to be released as a future album, but that never happened.
Musique pour Supermarché
Musique pour Supermarché( English title: Music for Supermarkets) is the sixth studio album by electronic musician and composer Jean- Michel Jarre.
Only a single copy was pressed and distributed, and its master plates were deliberately destroyed.
Speak!!!!
Speak!!!!
is the third album from The Mad Capsule Markets.
The album was recorded in England.
Two songs were featured from the original Berrie recording.
The album displayed a more experimental and darker side to their music, evident in the closing song "Kachiku".
It was also their first album to have a full English song ("Solid State Survivor", originally by YMO).

Question: Which album was released earlier, Solid State Survivor or Rendez-Vous (Jean-Michel Jarre Album)?
Answer: Solid State Survivor