Should Tangerine Dream Be In The Archive?

going off on a little tangent here, but fellow fans of early electronic music should be interested...I just ordered a book/ CD from Raymond Scott- anyone else ever heard of him? I hadn't, until a week or so ago, but apparently he had most of the electronic pioneers beat in innovation and musical creativity (not to mention being a "Looney Tunes" composer!). In the 50s he was doing stuff that compares to Kraftwerk and Carlos.

Once I give it a good listen, I'll report back to ya  

Edited by James Lee

with 30 albums owned

That's all?

 

dropForge wrote: jM Jarre is too commercial and repetitive to be real prog. And while everyone is raving about Froese's Aqua, let me state that Stuntman is his best album!

 

Stuntman is his best, followed by epsilon in malaysian pale

jarre is too new age to be prog.

If you've never heard Kitaro's Astral Voyage, Oasis, In Person, and Ki, those are his best! I'd start with Astral Voyage, which is actually his first solo album from 1978. He's "prog" way more 'n' Jarre!

richardh wrote: Perhaps there could be a partial discography ie 1970-1983 (encompassing the Virgin years up to and including 'Hyperborea'). That would be my suggestion.Anyone agree?

I totally agree with you richardh for a partial TD discography...the blue and melrose years don't deserve a page on a prog site, commercial synth music...really far from the mindblowing and very complex music offered on albums such as Alpha Centauri, Zeit, Phaedra...

That's right, not to mention that the albums right after the Virgin years - Poland: The Warsaw Concert, Le Parc, Underwater Sunlight, Tyger, and the Green Desert reissue - aka the Relativity years, are excellent, just a bit different. Yes, the Melrose years (1988-1990) and Miramar years (1991-1996) (except for Oasis) and onward, for the most part are pretty stinky but it has to be all or nothing.

 

Consider this: their 2001 album 'Inferno' is actually an exquisite work of epic splendour, somewhere between their 74-77 era and Vangelis' latest epics (El Greco, Mythodea)... and it wouldn't make it in the partial discography shuould it be applied.

Regards.

Yes, Underwater Sunlight is a phenomenal work! It's the last really, really good album they did. Back when each album had a completely different sound than the last. If you like, you can also argue for Tyger, but even though I liked it a lot at the time, Optical Race was the end of TD being an *innovative* act.

Cesar Inca wrote:   Consider this: their 2001 album 'Inferno' is actually an exquisite work of epic splendour, somewhere between their 74-77 era and Vangelis' latest epics (El Greco, Mythodea)... and it wouldn't make it in the partial discography shuould it be applied. Regards.

I havn't got that one but I do like the Vangelis albums you mention.Maybe I'll check Inferno out if it's not too 'pricey'.

 

 

philippe wrote: richardh wrote: Perhaps there could be a partial discography ie 1970-1983 (encompassing the Virgin years up to and including 'Hyperborea'). That would be my suggestion.Anyone agree? I totally agree with you richardh for a partial TD discography...the blue and melrose years don't deserve a page on a prog site, commercial synth music...really far from the mindblowing and very complex music offered on albums such as Alpha Centauri, Zeit, Phaedra...

I don't know.  I mean, we don't leave post-Steve Hackett Genesis off the Genesis page.  Nor do we leave off Yes albums featuring Trevor Rabin.  Or Rush after Moving Pictures.  I think that if a band has had prog works, their entire discography should get listed, prog or not.