GeeJee himself has asked me to take this step.
Fellow fans, the Legendary List is back. And maybe we'll crack the 800 points mark this time. (Don't forget the numbers when adding points!)
You know you're a Jean Michel Jarre fanatic if...
Here are some recycled points from me plus a new one.
1. ...you consider Woodstock's 500,000 spectators few.
2. ...you refer to the latest stage shows of the Rollings Stones and U2 as ridiculously small.
3. ...you wonder how Pink Floyd's 1990 performance of The Wall in Berlin stayed in the Guinness Book of Records longer than Paris La Défense.
4. ...your cellular phone rings La Cage, Hymn To Acropolis or the Aero Overture. Even many other fans don't recognize that it's Jarre music.
5. ...your custom-made door bell rings Oxygène 4.
6. ...you spend EUR 300 more each month on your new flat since you need an extra room for your Jarre collection.
7. ...you spend even more money each month on Jarre stuff.
8. ...you try to regain some of the money by transforming the room into a Jarre museum.
9. ...you tried hard to find a girl-friend with as much resemblance to Charlotte Rampling as possible.
10. ...then you tried hard to find a girl-friend with as much resemblance to Isabelle Adjani as possible.
11. ...now you try hard to find a girl-friend with as much resemblance to Anne Parillaud as possible – and eventually get rid of that annoying Adjani look-alike.
12. ...it's impossible to buy unusual Jarre CDs or records in your hometown since it's you who buys them first.
13. ...you bought ten laser pointers and small mirrors and mounted them all onto your balcony to have your own Laser Harp.
14. ...there are only four places you'd visit when you're in Paris: Champ-de-Mars and the Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde, La Défense, and where Le Chat Qui Pêche used to be.
15. ...when you're in London, you spend a whole day at the Queen Victoria Docks worrying how they changed since October 1988.
16. ...the only city in the U.S.A. you'd love to see is Houston, TX.
17. ...you sold you car to have both money and space for a complete collection of Russian bootlegs.
18. ...you know that it's no rumour that Jarre sold his vintage instruments because you have bought most of them.
19. ...you can neither afford nor play them, but you don't mind.
20. ...you'd sell your mother-in-law to buy an original La Cage.
21. ...you thought about a bank robbery at least once to gain the money for the day Jarre's former Fairlight CMI or the only original Music For Supermarkets appears at eBay.
22. ...you named your son Jean Michel (without hyphen) and call him Jamie.
23. ...other names you'd give your children are Barnaby, David, Émilie, Djaina, Diva, Gloria (even if it's a boy), London Kid, Tokyo Kid...
24. ...your son spends most of his time at his grandparents' because young Jarre did so.
25. ...your son spends most of his time at his grandparents' because his room in your flat is stuffed with Jarre items.
26. ...your son spends most of his time at his grandparents' because he dislikes Jarre's music (though or because he had a musical clock playing Equinoxe 4).
27. ...you made the organist play Chronologie 8 at your wedding.
28. ...you own at least half a dozen Swatch MusiCalls, one of which you wear everyday.
29. ...you made a speech going "She was a friend, she was young, she was beautiful, she was generous, and she was also a rebel princess..." at your grandmother's funeral - although none of these attributes ever applied to her. And everybody wondered about your French accent.
30. ...your friends won't even drive 150 kilometres from one city to another for a concert of their favourite musician/band, so they wonder why you flew to China for a Jarre show.
31. ...your local radio station refuses to play any of your wishes (when you're German).
32. ...your idea of a perfect organ sound is neither a huge church organ nor a Hammond B-3 with a Leslie rotary cabinet, it's an Eminent 310 Unique with a Smallstone phaser.
33. ...you don't like the sound of the London Symphonic Orchestra because their strings don't sound like an Eminent.
34. ...you own the same Nikon SLR camera as Charlotte Rampling, only because it plays that Souvenir of China sample.
35. ...you're a girl taking singing lessons, and you refuse to sing anything but Chronologie 3.
36. ...you're a girl taking singing lessons, and you refuse to sing anything but Chronologie 3, the end of Equinoxe 4 and the end of London Kid (as C'est La Vie is too modern for your singing teacher).
37. ...you're taking accordion lessons, and you refuse to play anything but Band In The Rain and Chronologie 6.
38. ...you're taking dancing lessons, and you can only dance to Jarre music (rhumba to Oxygène 6 and Magnetic Fields 5, disco-fox to Hey Gagarin and Chronologie 4, samba to Calypso and Magnetic Fields 1, jive to Magnetic Fields 2, waltz to Equinoxe 3...)
39. ...you're disappointed about your saxophone teacher because he couldn't teach you how to play Ron's Piece within four weeks.
40. ...you know the exact date of each and every Oxygène Arena Tour concert, but you don't remember your wife's birthday/your mother's birthday/your wedding anniversary.
41. ...you love to paint your left ear yellow.
42. ...during thunderstorms you look out of the window to see if there's a band in the rain out there.
43. ...you're living in Hamburg in the Jarrestraße (= Jarre Street) just because of the street name.
44. ...you spend your Saturday nights in Hamburg in the La Cage just because of its name.
45. ...you love Greek food, but only in restaurants called Akropolis.
46. ...whenever you see a megaphone, you feel the urge to take it and shout "Revolution". Especially when it's red.
47. ...you hate Rod Stewart for his record-breaking concert in Rio de Janeiro 1994. This record belongs to Jarre!
48. ...you've read all of this list.
49. ...you feel offended by it.
50. ...you don't mind this list having been renamed (it used to be You might be a Jarre fan if...) since you're used to Jarre's song renamings.
Feel free to add! So will I, by the way.