Tangerine Dream's top 5 albums
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I only have 5
Cyclone
Stratosfear
Ricochet
Rubycon
Phaedra
So them.
Cyclone
Stratosfear
Ricochet
Rubycon
Phaedra
So them.
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Zeit
Stratosfear
Ricochet
Rubycon
Phaedra
and I really like
Cyclone
Stratosfear
Ricochet
Rubycon
Phaedra
and I really like
Cyclone
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I’ve only recently started to appreciate them, a bit. I’m on a bit of an electronic trawl at the moment.
I’ve always liked Sorcerer and Thief but I am partial to Tangram, Zeit and Phaedra.
Oh and Phaedra 2005 is very good.
I’ve always liked Sorcerer and Thief but I am partial to Tangram, Zeit and Phaedra.
Oh and Phaedra 2005 is very good.
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Ricochet
Tangram
Phaedra
Thief
Poland
Rubycon, Force Majeure, Exit and Stratosfear very close nearby.
Tangram
Phaedra
Thief
Poland
Rubycon, Force Majeure, Exit and Stratosfear very close nearby.
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Jimbly wrote:Can't choose.
It is a very difficult one but the five that always come to mind are:
Phaedra (always their best)
Force Majeure
Stratosfear
Ricochet
Tangram
I also love Zeit from their early period and Poland from slightly later.
Then of course there is Rubycon and Hyperborea
So many wonderful albums
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Will be a while. According to Rate your Music, there are 103 studio albums and over 50 live ones
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C wrote:Jimbly wrote:Can't choose.
It is a very difficult one but the five that always come to mind are:
Phaedra (always their best)
Force Majeure
Stratosfear
Ricochet
Tangram
I also love Zeit from their early period and Poland from slightly later.
Then of course there is Rubycon and Hyperborea
So many wonderful albums
Have a listen to this Frank [a track of two halves]:
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all robust choices. then there's Thief, Sorcerer, Rubycon, Logos and many more.
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slightbreeze wrote:Will be a while. According to Rate your Music, there are 103 studio albums and over 50 live ones
Try over 500 'official' bootlegs as well....
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Rubycon
Phaedra
Ricochet
Force Majeure
Stratosfear
Tangram, Hyperborea and Underwater Sunlight are my favourites of the 80s. Everything I've heard after Underwater Sunlight from '86 has been hugely underwhelming and some it it downright awful but up till then there is something of value on pretty much everything.
I'm not a fan of Cyclone though, the weakest 70s album.
Phaedra
Ricochet
Force Majeure
Stratosfear
Tangram, Hyperborea and Underwater Sunlight are my favourites of the 80s. Everything I've heard after Underwater Sunlight from '86 has been hugely underwhelming and some it it downright awful but up till then there is something of value on pretty much everything.
I'm not a fan of Cyclone though, the weakest 70s album.
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Green desert is a favourite.
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Logos
Encore
Poland
Force Majeure
Hyperborea
Big shout out to Tangram, Stratosphear, Exit, White Eagle
I'm a bit less fond of the early stuff like Phaedra.
Encore
Poland
Force Majeure
Hyperborea
Big shout out to Tangram, Stratosphear, Exit, White Eagle
I'm a bit less fond of the early stuff like Phaedra.
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slightbreeze wrote:Will be a while. According to Rate your Music, there are 103 studio albums and over 50 live ones
That's true but for me anything without Edgar is not TD
and any remix, reworking, or rerecording (live or studio) doesn't count
and some of the latter day Edgar stuff is not wonderful
With one or two exceptions I would, personally, only consider up to Underwater Sunlight (1986) - their last great seminally robust album
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Jimbly wrote:Logos
Dominion Theatre, London
I was there. Of course
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Tone/Bore
Scab
Arschloch
Pogen
Tone/Bore
Scab
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OUTPLAY wrote:Biscuit-Risque
Tone/Bore
Scab
Arschloch
Pogen
Here we go again. Although that 4th album describes you to a tee.
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C wrote:Jimbly wrote:Logos
Dominion Theatre, London
I was there. Of course
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The full concert is on the Purple Twilight box set.
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jimboo wrote:Green desert is a favourite.
Yeah. The mystery album that sounded way advanced for its age (recorded prior to Phaedra)...
"Back in summer 1973 Peter Baumann had left Berlin to travel in Nepal and India, so TD were reduced to the duo Edgar Froese and Chris Franke. Virgin Records in London were impressed by the burgeoning following of the group and wanted to sign them up. In Peter Baumann's absence, Edgar Froese and Chris Franke entered the Skyline Studios in Berlin to record Green Desert, using such devices as a rhythm controller and phaser along with the usual synthesisers and keyboards. As Chris Franke remembers: "The rhythm controller came from Italy and looked like something from science fiction with its console of 128 buttons which all lit up. It could be programmed, it was analogue and it was polyphonic! The lights blinked, I had hands on control and later I used it as a sequencer to trigger other synthesisers."
In the summer of 1973, Peter Baumann took a longer journey to Kathmandu in Nepal and India, among other places. Froese and Franke were not restrained by that fact but took the opportunity to record some pieces at the Skyline Studio in Berlin. The music which was to become Green Desert was also made as a sort of demo to show their future record company what they could do. The music was still based on rock instruments like organ, drums and guitar, but it also introduced the sequencer, which was to become the trademark of Tangerine Dream.
There was enough material for a new album, but since Baumann had not been in on the recordings, they agreed to put them aside for a while. I was not put out until 1986 -- and only after Edgar Froese had recorded new voices in 1984, re-recorded some of the music and re-mixed all of it. In 1986 it was finally included in a box with six LPs called In The Beginning. This box was released to mark the first -- well almost -- 10 years of Tangerine Dream as a band.
Due to the very long time under way, it is therefore not exclusively the original material that can be found on the album Green Desert! [...] With the ears of today it sounds a little bit static and slow. It does not seem to reach the same intensity as the other albums from the seventies, but it has its good parts too; it is a little bit more melodic than the previous albums. Even Edgar Froese's very lyrical and melodic way of playing the guitar gets a lot of free space to evolve during the 19 minutes of the title track. Chris Franke makes vivid use of his drums and seems to improvise all the way through the album. This was, however, the last time he made that extensive use of a real drumkit on a Tangerine Dream record; legend has it that he sold his drums soon after these."
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