Best Tangerine Dream record?
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Topic: Best Tangerine Dream record?
Posted By: Logos
Subject: Best Tangerine Dream record?
Date Posted: April 02 2005 at 12:06
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I don't know if there are any / many Tangerine Dream fans here (I'm
one, and a fanatic one), but if there are, it's interesting to know
which of their albums you like best. My favourite is probably Phaedra, Ricochet or Stratosfear. Phaedra has that classic TD sound, but Ricochet has those wonderful guitars and drums a la Froese / Baumann. Stratosfear is also great, the sequencers of the first track, the serene feel of the two following tracks and the climatic ending of "Invisible Limits" knocks me out every time. A very hard decision for me, but I'll think about it and cast my vote in a while. |
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Posted By: plodder
Date Posted: April 02 2005 at 12:31
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I have their 4 album box set: 1970-80. I don't play it too often but the version of Force Majeure on it is fantastic. Saw them a few times during the 80s. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 02 2005 at 12:36
I voted for Rubycon my first Tangs album . ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: April 02 2005 at 13:47
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Force Majeure, though I can't understand why you didn't include the mighty Zeit. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: dropForge
Date Posted: April 03 2005 at 01:35
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There are quite a few. A search will yield many posts.
It's certifiably impossible to pick the "best" TD album, but I picked Force Majeure from your selection above because there are others you didn't list that I like a lot. And anyone whose fave TD is Electronic Meditation needs their head examined! |
I don't know if there are any / many Tangerine Dream fans here (I'm one, and a fanatic one)Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: April 03 2005 at 04:33
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Of the above - Phaedra Favourite pre Virgin Records Atem ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 03 2005 at 04:50
| I actually like the era 1980 -1987 most re TD.My favourite album by them is Tangram and I also like Poland,Hyperborea,Logos,Underwater Sunlight and Le Parc.Of the seventies stuff I find it difficult to get interested in anything they did pre Ricochet.Force Majeure is of course a great prog album....I started a thread about this before they were allowed into the archives. |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: April 03 2005 at 07:25
Certainly one of my TD top 5 !! |
Posted By: Richardw
Date Posted: April 03 2005 at 07:32
| Stratosfear is my favourite 70s album. Poland is my favourite of all TD's output. |
Posted By: Harlequin
Date Posted: April 03 2005 at 11:40
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Close between Ricochet, Phaedra, Rubycon and Stratosfear. Ricochet got my vote. I love the way the Piano merges with the synths on part two. Recently saw a film of a live performance of the album at Coventry Cathedral which brought back memories. They were the first band I ever saw back in 1976. There are 25 TD albums in my collection. I recently bought Tyger. It cured me from buying more. ------------- Information is not knowledge Knowledge is not wisdom Wisdom is not truth Truth is not beauty Beauty is not love Love is not music Music is the best... |
Posted By: Xanadu
Date Posted: April 03 2005 at 14:10
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Easy pickin...have to be Force Majeure since it is the only along with rubycon I´ve been able to listen to. Great title track and I have to say the guitar work on Cloudburst flight is mighty stunning. ------------- "Oh, yes, sitting-the great leveler. From the mightiest pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn't enjoy a good sit?" |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 03 2005 at 14:36
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that's a good question! LOGOS! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: April 03 2005 at 15:30
Do you mean that you just haven't heard any other albums, or have they been so bad that you can't listen to them?  |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 03 2005 at 21:08
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i dunno WHY most of peple "STOP" considering TD after force majeure! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: dropForge
Date Posted: April 03 2005 at 23:30
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I wonder myself, green... Btw, have you heard the soundtrack to Timm Thaler? It's awesome. Check out these sound samples: http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/timmthalersoundtrack.htm - http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/timmthalersoundtrack.htm
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 04 2005 at 01:46
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that's great: this is the artist that sounds the most like TD of the 80's so far! clip 8 has the rhythmic sound of network 23 on exit, with a PF's "wish you were here" synth solos! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: April 04 2005 at 02:29
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Great question, my vote goes to Tangram because it was so slickly produced and the mood throughout both parts is awesome and totally psychedelic, In saying that Ricochet, Phaedra and Force Majeure are also stunning works. I started losing interest after White Eagle but by all accounts I have a couple to still discover from the 82-90 era. The remixes from the 90's sadly only makes for good gym workouts!!! Encore and Rubycon are also great as is Stratosfear ( The shortest most complete work, 34 minutes all told) ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: dropForge
Date Posted: April 04 2005 at 03:02
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And recorded in 1979, to boot! |
Posted By: Lunarscape
Date Posted: April 04 2005 at 05:12
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Force Majeure is my vote from the listed albums in the poll. But I still recomend Pergamon as the finest recording TD ever made. Other of my personal favorites are;
For those who want to begin a TD trip beyond the late 70ies Tang-Go is double CD packed with recordings from the early 80ies to early 2000, If you have more money than that then the I-Box is recomended. Indispensable is Beyond The Storm by Edgar Froese, s Must Have album... Lunar ------------- Music Is The Soul Bird That Flies In The Immense Heart Of The Listener . . . |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 04 2005 at 12:25
where are white eagle and logos? ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: April 04 2005 at 12:47
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Why isn't "Lily on the Beach Listed"? Not that I think it's their best, but am wondering why it wasn't included as a choice. ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: Possessed
Date Posted: April 04 2005 at 15:53
Force Majeure
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 05 2005 at 02:57
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Ricochet. I am surprised that this one gets so little votes. Easily the rockiest and simply fascinating. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |