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Best Tangerine Dream Album
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Poll Question: Pick your favourite
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

OK. If Phaedra (and Rubycon, by one listen through internet) were not my cup of tea, given it's lack of melody (I mean, I did enjoy it anyway, but it's not something I'll be wanting to visit all that often), is there anything else from the band that I might actually enjoy. 

From Stratosfear they became much more melodic. Another pick would be Tangram, or Edgar Froese's solo work, Epsilon in Malaysian Pale or Stuntman.
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

OK. If Phaedra (and Rubycon, by one listen through internet) were not my cup of tea, given it's lack of melody (I mean, I did enjoy it anyway, but it's not something I'll be wanting to visit all that often), is there anything else from the band that I might actually enjoy. About 70's electronic music, I did love Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene and Equinox.

Since we have a point of reference, I can recommend without hesitation the following albums (some already have been). They're positively dripping with melodies!

Force Majeure (1979)
Thief (1981 – soundtrack)
Exit (1981) 
Poland (1983)
Le Parc (1985)
Underwater Sunlight (1986)

Also give the following solo albums a shot. They're fantastic.

Peter Baumann – Transharmonic Nights (1979)
Edgar Froese – Stuntman (1979)
Edgar Froese – Pinnacles (1983) 
Johannes Schmoelling – Early Beginnings (2008)
Johannes Schmoelling – A Thousand Times (2009)
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

OK. If Phaedra (and Rubycon, by one listen through internet) were not my cup of tea, given it's lack of melody (I mean, I did enjoy it anyway, but it's not something I'll be wanting to visit all that often), is there anything else from the band that I might actually enjoy. 

From Stratosfear they became much more melodic. Another pick would be Tangram, or Edgar Froese's solo work, Epsilon in Malaysian Pale or Stuntman.


Originally posted by flyingveepixie flyingveepixie wrote:

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

OK. If Phaedra (and Rubycon, by one listen through internet) were not my cup of tea, given it's lack of melody (I mean, I did enjoy it anyway, but it's not something I'll be wanting to visit all that often), is there anything else from the band that I might actually enjoy. About 70's electronic music, I did love Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene and Equinox.


Try "Force Majeure".  It's perhaps a bit more what you might call 'accessible'   You could also try my personal favourite which I mentioned in an earlier post   "220 Volt Live".   It's very guitary and even has a cover of 'Purple Haze' on it.




Thanks for that, I hope I get a chance to check it out soon. And how about compilations? And about Klaus Schulz?
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Thanks for that, I hope I get a chance to check it out soon. And how about compilations?

Check out the seven-volume-strong Booster series. Tons o' stuff across various decades.

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

And about Klaus Schulz?
 

Klaus' music's based much more around sequencer space. He kept going further in one direction, while Edgar Froese and Tangerine Dream would experiment with different approaches. While TD's my main band for EM, I like a lot of what Schulze has done, too. Try Timewind, Mirage, or the more recent Moonlake. Avoid his mid-80s albums like Dreams and En=Trance. Klaus has also collaborated with Ashra guitarist Manuel Göttsching, vocalist Lisa Gerrard, and cellist Wolfgang Tiepold.
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Just working through their stuff, but so far Phaedra is my favorite. Cant vote now, but hopefully can soon.
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I believe there's nothing to fear but fear itself, so I'm voting for Stratosfear. Smile
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For many years, my favorite TD was Exit, but I'd say over the last decade or so, Rubycon has become my #1 from them.  Tangerine Dream is *by far* my favorite band, I've adored their music since I first heard it in 1980.  Collected, for a while, and had a zillion albums/bootlegs, etc.  They are the wrong band to choose if you're collecting, because their discography is ridiculously large.

I've seen them in concert 3 times - Tyger/Underwater Sunlight tour, 1986 | Optical Race tour, 1988 | 220 Volt Live tour, 1992

I love the earlier more experimental stuff, from Electronic Meditation to Rubycon.  Big fan of the Baumann and Schmoelling years... but they really lost me after Christopher Franke left in 1987, their sound really got weaker.

I haven't seen anyone mention Logos.  Logos is some downright epic synthesizer work.  Incredible sound programming, beautiful melodies, intricate sequencing... Logos is a real gem.    
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Somehow it just has to be Zeit.

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Apparently I hadn't voted before in this poll.

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Originally posted by ProfPanglos ProfPanglos wrote:

For many years, my favorite TD was Exit, but I'd say over the last decade or so, Rubycon has become my #1 from them.  Tangerine Dream is *by far* my favorite band, I've adored their music since I first heard it in 1980.  Collected, for a while, and had a zillion albums/bootlegs, etc.  They are the wrong band to choose if you're collecting, because their discography is ridiculously large.

I've seen them in concert 3 times - Tyger/Underwater Sunlight tour, 1986 | Optical Race tour, 1988 | 220 Volt Live tour, 1992

I love the earlier more experimental stuff, from Electronic Meditation to Rubycon.  Big fan of the Baumann and Schmoelling years... but they really lost me after Christopher Franke left in 1987, their sound really got weaker.

I haven't seen anyone mention Logos.  Logos is some downright epic synthesizer work.  Incredible sound programming, beautiful melodies, intricate sequencing... Logos is a real gem.    

Logos is indeed a great album. Apparently the soon to be released box set Pilots Of Purple Twilight includes a complete unedited version of the 1982 gig at the Dominion Theatre (London)

I saw them play live once on about 2002 at Shepherds Bush Empire, it was of course a long way removed from their classic live performances of the seventies but still very interesting.

I agree about the loss of Chris Franke being a major issue although I think TD did pick up again with Purgatorio in the 00's and then a series of solid releases following (Finnegan's Wake , Views From A Real Train and Island Of The Fay among them).
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Encore - T Dream live albums should count as they are hardly normal live albums.

So much difficult choice here. For whatever ungodly reason Cyclone gets sl*g.ed. Dunno why and I'd reject the prosecution case against it in a trice. Bent Cold Sidewalk....
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