Best Tangerine Dream Album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Lately I've been rediscovering Tangerine Dream by listening to some of their classics such as Zeit, Ricochet, even the much maligned Cyclone (which btw I believe is a very good album). Which one's your favourite?

it's still Force Majeure of the dozen or so I've heard

I really cannot choose. Too many great albums and great listening experiences with TD.

Edited by Manuel - October 06 2018 at 20:22

Encore. Of the choices, Alpha Centuri

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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

Ricochet > Rubycon > Cyclone = Stratosfear > α Cen

As an avid listener of the music of Tangerine Dream for roughly 35 years, such polls never cease to present a conundrum for me. There is so much goodness in TD's discography up to a point, they blazed so many trails other continue to follow, that to even contemplate picking a single favorite album is simply doing them an injustice. For many years Stratosfear, Force Majeure, Exit, Poland and Underwater Sunlight have been my "favorites" (plural), interchangeably, depending on the mood and season.

But then you've got the equally immense Rubycon, Underwater Sunlight, and yes, even the "lost" album Green Desert (which some argue Edgar retrieved and "finished", but it doesn't matter), all of which bear the same landmark stamp for carving new vistas in progressive electronic music.

Tangerine Dream is just one of the most important prog bands out there. Yes, they took a severe detour into questionable realms in the '90s, and eventually made a comeback halfway through the mid-2000's (and did some nice stuff again, like Views From A Red Train), but the good far, far outweighs the bad and their detractors can't change that.

P.S. I cast a vote for Exit, because it's rather underrated and doesn't get a lot of love in polls. Worth the price of admission for "Pilots of Purple Twilight," the ominous title track, and the endearing "Remote Viewing" (one of the best ambient pieces ever recorded).

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I am a big fan of another not listed: Poland.

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

Zeit. No album terrifies me in the way that one does.

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I can go eenie meenie miny moe between 5 of them but recently I have fallen under the spell of Atem, John Peel’s sweetheart. Just something about it that really speaks to me.

Just an fyi: TD fans who haven’t yet checked out the recent Official Bootleg Series should get on it asap. To me it was like finding a new Ricochet as well as a more exciting Stratosfear.

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I don't know; Alpha Centauri, Zeit, Atem, Phaedra, Rubycon, Stratosfear and Green Desert have all been my TD-favorite at some point... maybe Phaedra these days.

If it were my own poll: Encore, Sorcerer and Exit would be included instead of White Eagle, Underwater Sunlight and Tangram....

Poll Question: Pick your favourite
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Electronic Meditation	2	[3.39%]
Alpha Centauri	1	[1.69%]
Zeit	8	[13.56%]
Atem	1	[1.69%]
Phaedra	10	[16.95%]
Ricochet	4	[6.78%]
Rubycon	10	[16.95%]
Stratosfear	4	[6.78%]
Cyclone	2	[3.39%]
Force Majeure	9	[15.25%]
Tangram	2	[3.39%]
Exit	1	[1.69%]
White Eagle	0	[0.00%]
Hyperborea	1	[1.69%]
Underwater Sunlight	1	[1.69%]
Green Desert	1	[1.69%]
Other	2	[3.39%]
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