Images – The Best of Jean Michel Jarre is a compilation album by Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...

 originally released in 1991.

Unlike previous Jean Michel Jarre compilation albums this album isn't just a collection of separate tracks. Instead, Jarre blended all tracks together into a single mix and thus creating an audio adventure through his work to date.

Apart from Jarre's best known tracks the album also contains two previously unreleased tracks composed for the canceled Teotihuacan solar eclipse

Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991

A total solar eclipse occurred on July 11, 1991. Totality beginning over the Pacific Ocean and Hawaii moving across Mexico, down through Central America and across South America ending over Brazil. It lasted for 6 minutes and 53 seconds at the point of maximum eclipse...

concert scheduled for July 11, 1991, one rare track as well as three new versions of older work.

At the time of release two versions were issued with different track listings. In 1997 a new version was released with both track listings combined and a few extra tracks added.

The compilation was also released in VHS format in 1991. The VHS contains all Jarre's videos from 1976 to 1991.

Track listing

1991 International Release

1. "Oxygene 4" – 3:09
2. "Equinoxe, Pt. 5" – 3:21
3. "Magnetic Fields II" – 3:57 (new version)
4. "Oxygene 2" – 3:11
5. "Computer Weekend" – 3:36
6. "Equinoxe, Pt. 4" – 3:12 (new version)
7. "Ethnicolor, Pt. 1" – 3:41
8. "London Kid" – 3:45
9. "Band in the Rain" – 1:26
10. "Orient Express" – 3:26 (new version)
11. "Calypso, Pt. 1" – 2:59
12. "Calypso, Pt. 3" – 3:42
13. "Rendez-Vous 4" – 3:24
14. "Moon Machine" – 2:58 (rare)
15. "Eldorado" – 3:39 (previously unreleased)
16. "Globetrotter" – 3:29 (previously unreleased)
17. "Rendez-Vous 2" – 8:48 (new version)

1991 French Release

1. "Oxygène 4" – 3:09
2. "Équinoxe, Pt. 5" – 3:21
3. "Chants Magnétiques II" – 3:57 (new version)
4. "Oxygène 2" – 3:11
5. "Computer Weekend" – 3:36
6. "Équinoxe, Pt. 4" – 3:12 (new version)
7. "Ethnicolor, Pt. 1" – 3:41
8. "Zoolookologie" – 3:45
9. "L'Orchestre Sous La Pluie" – 1:26
10. "Orient Express" – 3:26 (new version)
11. "Calypso, Pt. 1" – 2:59
12. "Calypso, Pt. 3 [Fin de Siècle]" – 3:42
13. "Rendez-Vous 4" – 3:24
14. "Moon Machine" – 2:58 (rare)
15. "Eldorado" – 3:39 (previously unreleased)
16. "Globetrotter" – 3:29 (previously unreleased)
17. "Rendez-Vous 2" – 8:48 (new version)

1997 International Remastered Release

1. "Oxygene 4" – 3:09
2. "Equinoxe, Pt. 5" – 3:21
3. "Magnetic Fields II" – 3:57 (new version)
4. "Oxygene 2" – 3:11
5. "Computer Weekend" – 3:36
6. "Equinoxe, Pt. 4" – 3:12 (new version)
7. "Ethnicolor, Pt. 1" – 3:41
8. "Band in the Rain" – 1:26
9. "Orient Express" – 3:26 (new version)
10. "Calypso, Pt. 1" – 2:59
11. "Calypso, Pt. 3" – 3:42
12. "Rendez-Vous 4" – 3:24
13. "Moon Machine" – 2:58 (rare)
14. "Eldorado" - 3:39 (previously unreleased)
15. "Globetrotter" – 3:29 (previously unreleased)
16. "Wooloomooloo" – 3:18
17. "Blah-Blah Cafe" – 3:21 (slightly different version)
18. "London Kid" – 3:47
19. "Zoolookologie" – 3:46 (remix)
20. "Rendez-Vous 2" – 8:48 (new version)

External links

• Official Jean Michel Jarre website
• Jarre UK website