I am really really confused right now.Im interested in Tangerine Dreams music.

  Progressive electronic.I listened music preview .I was stunned-wow!!! Emerald Beyond, some live

  edition .  I like it.But there are lots of albums and lots of ERA`s

   Witch ERA`s and albums you recommend to me.

    What do you think about these bands?

    What can you talk about Procol Harum ,Klaus Schulsze

    (correct me if I spelled Schulsze falsely)

BaldFriede wrote: The first era of Tangerine Dream is the era from "Electronic Meditation" to "Atem". Very little rhythm, the music is more a texture. The 2nd phase is the "Phaedra" to "Ricochet" phase. ("Green Desert" belongs into that phase too, but was not published before the 90s). Meandering improvisations over sequencer rhythms. The 3rd phase I like to seperate into two sub-phases, a) and b). Phase a) begins with "Stratosfear" and ends with "Encore"; rhythms become much more important now, the electric guitar is rediscovered, and there is less improvisation; the music is composed now. In part b) of phase 3 drums are added (beginning with "Force Majeure"). This period I'd say lasts until "The Warsaw Concert", which in my opinion is the last album of Tangerine Dream that can be recommended. I stopped listening to them after "Tyger", which was the low point after a series of bad albums. Maybe they released some better ones later, but I am honestly no longer interested. They were good when they made weird noises, but their compositions are just too ordinary for my taste.

no, no, no, no! Johannes Schmoelling completely redefined the TD's sound and style from Tangram! and you forgot post-poland albums like underwater sunlight & livemiles, who are brilliantly composed!

             Procol Harum is "sort of" in the Classical Rock genre.  Nice lyrics, singing, playing and arrangements.  The reason some consider them prog is the occasional long epic song, with proggy lyrics.  Piano and organ, but no mellotrons or synthesizers.  Robin Trower was guitarist on early albums, and "Broken Barricades" has a bit of Hendrix guitar sound. 

             First few albums: rock with some psych-prog elements.

             Then more mature sounding for a few albums...

             I have all albums up to "Grand Hotel".

             I can recommend "Salty Dog",  "Broken Barricades",  "Live" (with orchestra), and "Grand Hotel".  The other early albums aren't bad, but the first album is in mono and doesn't sound that great.