Hi,
In commom with my current provocative theme for posts I offer the following for your consideration and comment. As I am currently (apparently) inclined to 'give' it, I am equally expecting to have to 'take' it, so feel free, in the normal spirit of this forum.
This post is mainly aimed at the kind gentleman/men who contributed to my posting on Jean Michel Jarre and recommended to me that Tangerine Dream were a much better example of EM. Sorry but I cannot remember for certain who the guys were (I'm hopeless with remembering names). I just thought that I would post my findings to update you.
I have now acquired Distant Trains Passing By and Rubycon, on CD, and Phaedra on vinyl, and listened to them all a few times. My opinions are mixed.
Distant Trains is OK (at the moment but it may 'grow' on me), nothing more I'm afraid. Phaedra is a bit like the Parson's egg, OK in places but less so in others. Rubycon I find to be just noise, nothing to recommend it at all in my opinion. In general give me JMJ and Equinoxe and Oxygene every time !!
I agree some of JMJ's later works could be described in the same terms as I have described Rubycon and Phaedra but Equnoxe and Oxygene remain for me the supreme examples of the genre.
So there !!
I have no plans at the moment to dispose of any of the TD music so they may get further chances to impress me.
I await your comments with interest (always assuming that any of you think that such opinions are worth responding to, of course ! )