Alec R Costandinos

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can anyone tell me shit about this dude?

― gareth, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Omigod. The most over-the-top of over-the-top disco producers. The creator of staggeringly retarded album-length disco adaptations of "Romeo and Juliet" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." The co-composer of Cerrone's please-make-it-stop-no-really-please "Love in C Minor." The man behind Love and Kisses' fully deranged "How Much, How Much I Love You." The man behind Sphinx's "Judas Iscariot, Simon Peter," which is a two-song, 40-minute lobotomized disco-opera take on the life of Christ. Not to mention the presence of gauzily photographed topless women on horses on most of his album sleeves. Total genius, in an extremely sick way.

― Douglas, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four months pass...

OH MY GOD! You are so right but i want all of those on CD.

― Ricky, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

HE IS THE BEST AND I WOULD LOVE TO GET HIS CD'S. LET ME KNOW IF THEY ARE OBTAINABLE.

THANK YOU

― ANNETT MARTIROSSIAN, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

the hunchback of notre dame has these fantastic woozy melodramatic pianos and strings, but never quite delivers once the tracks get going. the spoken word parts are very strange, i dont know what he was thinking...

and i like how he has this long and cumbersome name, thats slightly difficult to remember, but its not his real name, and he changed his name from a more cumbersome one, he didnt pick a very catchy one

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 8 January 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

I have a lot of his work on CD - tough to get but I got it.
"Romeo & Juliet" All 32 minutes of it! I remember Hustling to this when it was released in the spring of '78 and I've loved it since.

"Thank God It's Friday"

"Accidental Lover" and "How Much, How Much I Love You" all terrific Costandinos especially "Romeo & Juliet".

― Roger LaFerriere, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

found out this dude is family friends with a friend from college and its weird to imagine him as a real person

― max, Friday, 24 October 2008 12:44 (seventeen years ago)

obviously hes awesome tho. "golden tears" is a classic.

― max, Friday, 24 October 2008 12:45 (seventeen years ago)

he just seems like such a cartoon i sort of assumed he never made it past 1982, not that he died, just that he got stuck there

― max, Friday, 24 October 2008 12:45 (seventeen years ago)

I had the "Judas Iscariot/Simon Peter" LP many years ago. I bougth it because I thought it was some kind of rock opera a-la Jesus Christ Superstar, but darker.
At the time I thougth that Disco and the Bible weren't a good match. I honestly didn't care for disco music that much at the time, but I remember it being very boring and repetitive.

Lee Ritenour played on that one.

― Amenaza Elegante, Friday, 24 October 2008 12:55 (seventeen years ago)

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