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Poll Question: Which is your favourite Tangerine Dream recording?
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    Posted: April 02 2005 at 12:06
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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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.
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I voted for Rubycon my first Tangs album.
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Force Majeure, though I can't understand why you didn't include the mighty Zeit.
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Quote I don't know if there are any / many Tangerine Dream fans here (I'm one, and a fanatic one)

There are quite a few. A search will yield many posts.

Quote but if there are, it's interesting to know which of their albums you like best

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!

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Of the above - Phaedra

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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.
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Originally posted by dropForge dropForge wrote:

And anyone whose fave TD is Electronic Meditation needs their head examined!



Certainly one of my TD top 5 !!
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Stratosfear is my favourite 70s album. Poland is my favourite of all TD's output.

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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.

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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.

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that's a good question!

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Originally posted by Xanadu Xanadu wrote:

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.



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?
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i dunno WHY most of peple "STOP" considering TD after force majeure!
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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

 
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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!



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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)
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Quote this is the artist that sounds the most like TD of the 80's so far!

And recorded in 1979, to boot!
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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;

  1. Exit
  2. Tangram
  3. Le Parc
  4. Live Miles
  5. Underwater Sunlight
  6. Live Miles
  7. Optical Race
  8. Melrose
  9. Goblins Club
  10. Ambient Monkeies
  11. Mars Polaris
  12. The Seven Letters From Tibet
  13. Tang-Go
  14. Soundmill Navigator
  15. Inferno

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...

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Originally posted by Lunarscape Lunarscape wrote:

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;

  1. Exit
  2. Tangram
  3. Le Parc
  4. Live Miles
  5. Underwater Sunlight
  6. Live Miles
  7. Optical Race
  8. Melrose
  9. Goblins Club
  10. Ambient Monkeies
  11. Mars Polaris
  12. The Seven Letters From Tibet
  13. Tang-Go
  14. Soundmill Navigator
  15. Inferno

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...

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