The Tangent Appreciation thread

darkshade wrote: How is A Place In The Queue? I want to get that and the first album, but I'm not sure which to get first. Queue is cheaper to get, it seems the first album is a little rare.

The first one is still my favorite, but I like all of them quite a bit.  I actually like Not As Good As The Book a lot.  The lyrics kind of have some personal meaning for me.

Yes, I bought COMM directly from the band along with Andy Tillison's Murk.  It doesn't wow me the way that their first few albums did, but I enjoy it.  I get a chuckle out of Tech Support Guy. 

darkshade wrote: Well basically, their first 4 albums consist of mainly Flower Kings members. Jonas Reingold on bass for the first 4, Zoltan on the first 2, Roine Stolt on the first 2, and Jamie Salazar on Queue and Good As The Book. I like their current lineup, or at least the one on COMM. I haven't heard anything from their new bassist, but the guitarist is really good.

The new bassist, Dan Mashal, is amazing. Jonathan Barret didn't lack for technical ability but Mashal brings back a style and flair to the bass thats been missing since Jonas left, and I think he was missing it as well on Not as Good....

I think the current quartet with Theo's studio wind instruments added, is the strongest line up they've had since The Music that Died Alone.

I just picked up The Music That Died Alone, and A Place In The Queue (special edition). I now have all The Tangent studio albums! 

Just waiting on my copy of The Flower King's Retropolis to come in the mail and I'll have all their studio albums too! So much new music to listen to.

My local record store had a copy of it. You can get it on Amazon.

Listening to it right now, and I can't believe I didn't get this album first before their others. It's fire!

I'll be getting to that soon enough, probably after a few more spins of The Music That Died Alone. That first epic is amazing!

Horizons wrote: I wish they were single tracks.

The first album?

Horizons wrote: Yeppers.

It's funny, because I knew the epics were split into tracks, making 16 tracks. But when I looked at the back cover, it only had 4 songs listed, so I was like "ok, I guess this version is just the 4 songs". But then on the inside booklet, it has the divided tracks listed with each name. I thought it was a little strange.

It's one thing to do it for an epic that takes up a whole CD, or is the only song on the CD, like The Whirlwind, Garden of Dreams (though it has an epilogue after it), or Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. But it's 4 different songs, each one divided up into separate tracks, with one stand-alone song. Kinda weird.

But it doesn't matter cause I thought that album ruled. I want to listen to it again already.

  I love The Music That Died Alone.  That album is about as perfect an album as I have ever heard.  One of the handful of albums that I have rated with a 10 out of 10 on progfreak.