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Hello all Tangent fans! Prog Sphere just completed an interview with Andy Tillison and Jonathan Barrett (The Tangent's new bassist) for our up-and-coming review/interview blogzine! Linked here - http://prog-sphere.blogspot.com/ Stop on by and read the first part of the interview, and feel free to comment. Part two, the part containing both Andy and Jonathan (instead of just Andy) will be up soon.

Also, I would like to mention that there will be some more interviews with people such as Nad Sylvian, Ryo Okumoto, Guy Manning among others. Be sure to check it, coz Prog Sphere is here to stay!
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I love all the albums -- but I'd say the three essential ones are the first one (The Music That Died Alone), the third (A Place in the Queue) and the current one (Down and Out in Paris and London)....but the even numbered ones are very good too.
 
Come to think of it, Tangent albums are rather like Beethoven Symphonies....
 
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My personal opinion is that they are all great and that you should start at the beginning and work your way forward.  The Music That Died Alone came at the perfect time for me and had a major impact on drawing me back to progressive rock, and I think that it is also a great place to start with them. 

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Hello i need a begginer's guide to The Tangent.
 
What albums do you recommend to me.
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The schizoid band is nice, but his song writing is definitely key.  You need to check out:

Jakko-Are My Ears on Wrong

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Jakko Jakszyk-The Bruised Romantic Glee Club

this stuff is just really good ear candy.

His appearance with holdsworth et al, on Level 42's Guaranteed album was a good outing as well.

Jakko - Are My Ears on Wrong The Bruised Romantic Glee Club
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^ Yes Jakko  Jackszyk is a verry good singer esecially on that Schizoid Band thing ive seen on YouTube (Epitapth i think) and he NAILS it he has a great passionate voice and sings the songs with such passion and you realy se he respects KCs work

but yes back to topic The Tangent RULES and their art-works is realy pretty it's like I want to walk into them and see whats living creatures you can find their .

http://www.po90.com/tangent2008/queuefront.jpg
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WOW!  Very impressed with The Tangent.  I grabbed as many albums as I could.  

Let me give you my background.  I came into the Tangent from Jakko Jakszyk.  I really am crazy about Jakko's solo work and found he was in the Tangent for "Not as good as the book".  I feel that Jakko has a unique ability to sound fripp-esque and holdsworth-ian sometimes.  He's very unpredictable on the guitar.  That's what makes him fun.  Also, the man has a great voice (whjch is rarely heard which is a shame!)

Personally, I think this album gets a bad rap.  So far "Not as Good As The Book" has been the only Tangent album I could assimilate in one listen.  This doesn't mean the rest are bad albums.  It just seemed to me to be the easiest to assimilate.  I'm plowing thru "The world we drive..."  and its getting better by the listen.

I'm not afraid of "dense" prog music like this.  Hell, I'm a die hard Hatfield & the North fan which can be VERY dense/complicated music.  So you can see that Tangent would serve me well and it does.  QUITE well.

I'm just thrilled with stumbling over The Tangent, and I just thought I'd share my early experience.

and to tell everyone to stop panning or down-rating "Not as good as the book" as i feel for me, it is/was the best introduction.

PS long live the legacy of pip pyle and hugh hopper.  i miss them so much it hurts!
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A bit late to make my debut on this thread but better late than never right ? Anyway, I would think this thread a bit hotter than it appears right now so shortly after the release of Down and out ...
And shouldn't the thread have more followers than right now ? About 10-15 people for this high class band is too few I believe. I'll put in my 2 cents for the ranking of the albums:
 
Music that died alone 3,75* (Up Hill from here is superb, what an energy !)
The World that we drive through 4* (4 excellent tracks)
A Place in the Queue 4,25* (In Earnest is in my top 25 songs of all time !!)
Not as Good as the Book 4*(the shorter song disk is better than the epic disk to me) 
Down and Out in Paris and London 4,25* (most equable album of the 5)
 
Anyway, great band and what a modest guy Andy Tilison is. Just read this interview on DPRP:
 
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Three things for me dragged A Place in the Queue to four stardom:

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3. "A Place in the Queue"
(much too long for its own good- could've been trimmed to 16-20 solid minutes)

Somewhere I've got an early stage demo for "A Place in the Queue" which is about 16 minutes.
 
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Thank you to The Captain for the welcome and I have now posted my first review on Progarchives and it is of The Tangent's "Down And Out In Paris And London" please let me know if I have breached any site guidelines or rules.

I hope you enjoy what I have written. (Took days!)
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New album is just amazing..i love it. got some feeling that they cut jazzy elements a bit..
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I absolutely loved Not as Good as the Book, one of my all-time favs
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Points: 1335 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 05 2009 at 12:44
Originally posted by grimtim grimtim wrote:

Fantastic CD and I want to write a review of it. I am new here so is there any kind of restriction about how long you have to be a member to write a review? I don't want to annoy people!


First off, welcome! You can write a review as soon as you become a member.

Roj, I felt the same way about The World that We Drive Through. I'm not sure whether I like that or Not as Good as the Book better, but they're both excellent.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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Fantastic CD and I want to write a review of it. I am new here so is there any kind of restriction about how long you have to be a member to write a review? I don't want to annoy people!
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I got The World That We Drive Through as a birthday present recently and I've just listened to it for the first time.  This is only the second album I have of theirs (A Place In The Queue is the other).
 
I know it's only the first hearing for this, but it sounds like a fabulous album to me.  I enjoyed this much more on first spin than I did APITQ (I really grew to love that album after hearing it a few times Tongue).  My initial thought is that this is more of a pure classic symphonic prog album than APITQ, albeit with the usual jazzy excursions.  The contribution of Roine Stolt is sublime and the other Flower Kings members make their presence felt too.
 
Of course I need to give this album more spins, but for initial hearing this has made a very favourable impression on me Big smile.
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I ordered it directly from Tangent 'cause I wasn't sure if the limited first pressing digipak edition was available elsewhere but apparently it is.

If I buy CDs online it's usually directly from the artist or PLAY.com but otherwise I like to buy my music from Keltainen Jäänsärkijä - the best CD store in town! 
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Actually, just after I posted that post, I realised my mistake. I actually bought it yesterday from Keltainen jäänsärkijä. I received Transatlantic's new album in the mail today and that was already enough to mess my small mind up. 
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@Sausage: did you order it from Tangent's website? I did but I still haven't received mine.
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I received the new album in the mail just yesterday. My expectations were very high for this album, and I'm happy to say I'm not dissappointed. I have a feeling I'll like it even more with repeated listens. So far my favourite song on the album is probably Perdu Dans Paris, but all the other songs are very good too.
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4 facts :)

1) I like The Tangent
2) Andy Tillison is a great songwriter & storyteller
3) I like Tillison's voice - though he's not technically great singer there's that great (british) feel  - another gentleman with same qualities is Roger Waters
4) The new album DAOIPAL (I do hate these abbreviations) is brilliant!
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