Tangerine Dream - My Appraisal.

[DanJennings]

Skimming through this thread has brought back some memories I can tell you....
I'd completely forgotten about Ashra for example, and have now gone rooting through my collection for 'New Age Of Earth' to find it missing. (d'oh!)

My two cents on this, is that Tangerine Dream are most definitely an acquired taste. When I was younger my dad used to constantly play 'Zeit' at me, which is one of their most difficult albums in my opinion, and to be honest, I used to beg him to desist.
However, after a while, I started to get an ear for the quirky, weird, avant-garde, possibly just by saturation, and now I own 'Phaedra' and my personal favourite 'Force Majeure' which I consider prog rock of the highest order, minus the guitars.

But having said that, I do like Can, Hawkwind, Gong, Spirit, Faust etc, and appreciate most people would rather do without. (my missus for example)

And no, I don't require a camberwell carrot to listen to em either

[DSJR]

Thanks to a PFM bake-off report, I was playing Talk-Talk's Colour of Spring - not loud at all, but of course madam heard it and said how awful it was when she came in (not awful *in her opinion,* just awful ..........)

I'm currently Tanged out, after playing so much of their stuff lately. I might try some Ulrich Schnauss later - "Goodbye" needs an incredibly well sorted system to delve through the murky mix (102 tracks used IIRC)........

New Age of Earth - "Deep Distance" is sublime..........

[Joe]

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 ! )

I think your analysis of TD is spot-on. but I also think JMJ is vastly over-rated. Indeed, anything featuring a mellotron or other noodly electronic device is. Get some Stooges on!

[DanJennings]

ooooh, steady on! Nowt wrong with the mellotron!
King Crimson? Yes? Pink Floyd? Led Zeppelin? OMD? XTC? Sigur Ros? Marilyn Manson? Opeth?
All used em to great effect!

[Gazjam]

Tried Tangerine Dream back in the 80's, and didn;t really do much for me.
I have a couple of their movie soundtracks though, not bad, a bit "stuck in the 80's" for me.

I'm surprised no-ones mentioned Vangelis already.

Electronic music? I meand B I G powerful electronic stuff?
He;s your man.

Dave C?
If your not that familiar with his stuff I cant recommend it enough to a JMJ man!

[Gazjam]

Cant believe no-ones mentioned Vangelis here yet.

Dave C, if your not that familiar with his stuff I cant recommend it highly enough to a JMJ man!

[Barry]

ooooh, steady on! Nowt wrong with the mellotron!
King Crimson? Yes? Pink Floyd? Led Zeppelin? OMD? XTC? Sigur Ros? Marilyn Manson? Opeth?
All used em to great effect!

So did the Beatles on 'Strawberry Fields Forever'. Thought the mention of Mellotron always reminds me of the Moody Blues.

Can't believe no-ones mentioned Vangelis here yet.

I thought they had: 'Albedo 0.39' and 'Heaven and Hell'.

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

Shock, Horror!

Oh well, each to their own.

Regards

[Gazjam]

thats what happens barry when you dont read the whole thread!

[Barry]

Thats what happens Barry when you don't read the whole thread!

Apologies Gazjam,

You're right - no mention of Vangelis in this thread. I was thinking of my post (no 12) in:

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...?t=2624&page=2 ,

though no specific mention of titles.

Regards

[DSJR]

You want BIG em music, try Redshift LOUD!!!!!

Vangelis could be good, but liked too much far eastern sounds and "tinkly bits" IMO. Apparently, he almost deafened himself and lost most of his high frequency sensitivity apparently.


I tried to listen to "Phaedra 2005" this last week. I dislike it, but so many of you guys may prefer it for the reasons I don't. "Movements of a Visionary" is superb in both old and new versions.