Best Track on Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure?

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i think im gonna go with the title track, but i'll have another listen before deciding

Actually I might go for Thru Metamorphic Rocks

Wow, we're the only two people on the thread, Herman. I'll try to listen to this tonight or tomorrow.

haha

Surely Kate knows this album?

anyone?

I know this album - I used to have it on clear vinyl!
I saw them live during this period too - amazing. I cannot decide which track tho' I would lean towards Cloudburst...

I have it on clear vinyl! Bought it 10-12 years ago in Glasgow!

It's a thing of beauty.

Have you seen this? I never knew they existed.

haha no. I do have a Funkadelic 8-track someone gave me once though. Sadly nothing to play it in.

Are you buying it?

ok nate soon you will be able to vote, it's on its way!

anyone who would like to hear this i can sort you out. webmail isnt working so tell me your email here.

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This is brutally hard.

And part of the reason is that all three tracks are mini-epics with about eight different parts, sequences and melodies. It's not like you're picking "the one w/ the groove I like."

And part of the reason is that all three tracks are mini-epics with about eight different parts, sequences and melodies. It's not like you're picking "the one w/ the groove I like."

Which is why I don't like it! Preferred TD when they used to turn up at the studio; the engineer switched the tape recorder on; Edgar Froese fell asleep on the mellotron, the other guys set up the sequencer; went down the pub for a few hours; came back; woke up Edgar... voila, new album!

tom d doesn't dance

... you dance to Tangerine Dream?

you can dance to almost anything if you want

Easier with the older, more repetitive Tangs than this period though

you know from experience of dancing to them? Have you ever seen TD live?

No. No.

the only album they did after this one that really followed up on the promise of tunes & melodies was 'Le Parc' in 1985. the production is often a little square, but some of the melodies on that one are still with me. after that one, things get scary in a big way.

& as per Naive's post, absent the chance to vote for Force Majeure Part 3 I voted for Through Metamorphic Rocks, though I had to edit the first 4 minutes and 29 seconds off my version. A long long time ago when purging CDs I made a highlights disc with those two bits from Force Majeure, the first two tracks of Hyperborea, the nearly Zoviet-France-ish breathing & factory loops from Ricochet & some bits from Sorcerer. But every time Edgar picks up the guitar, everything likable about this band goes out the window.

OTM!!!!! Peter Baumann period was best.

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I listened to this today for the first time and definitely would have voted for the third track. Has anyone else noted how the initial theme was kinda ripped off by Moroder on Irene's Theme from the Cat People soundtrack? So good. Thanks Herman!!!

Glad you enjoyed it. I thought the title track would walk it. It's a great album though.

Even if tom d wont dance to it

I listened to this today for the first time and definitely would have voted for the third track. Has anyone else noted how the initial theme was kinda ripped off by Moroder on Irene's Theme from the Cat People soundtrack? So good. Thanks Herman!!!

Cat People was made 5 years later than FM.

Enough ideas and hooks on this album for like 5 albums but man is this perfectly sequenced and arranged.

its perfect

every time Edgar picks up the guitar, everything likable about this band goes out the window.

My thoughts exactly

no way

What you actually like that shit sub-sub-sub-David Gilmour stuff he churns out?

yes.

better than any dave gilmour floyd

Yes, and Robin Trower is better than Jimi Hendrix. It's only because I like TD so much that his guitar playing annoys me so much, it just isn't good enough.

yeah the guitar is not my favourite aspect of TD

Whilst I quite like "Force Majeure", every time I listen to it I'm reminded of late 70s schools TV shows like "Words and pictures" and "The boy from space", because it was at the same point the BBC radiophonic workshop did pretty much the same thing, which means TD stopped being ahead of the curve of music technology, and lost some magic along the way. Nice album, but not a favourite. Live drums didn't work for TD imo.

Oh man, i love the drums. Synth Floyd

Not the style of the drums, just their presence creates this whole thing like what if Pink Floyd got really into synths and also listened to more classical music.

I love this prog period they had for a few albums, apart from Steve Joliffe's godawful vocals on "Cyclone". Stratosfear / Force Majeure / Cyclone (side 2) might be my favourite TD era, I can only take so much of the sequencer noodling which is probably why I never bothered with the live box sets.

every time Edgar picks up the guitar, everything likable about this band goes out the window.

My thoughts exactly

― SomeTwat from Tring (Tom D.), Monday, July 16, 2012 6:30 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think as a rule I can sympathize with this, but have a hard time understanding that on this album.

How can you like TD but not like the part on the title track (part 2?) with the descending piano riff, disco-ish drum groove and guitar? These guys have never been about virtuosity. And the drums alternating between the motorik beat and open hats is totally thrilling stuff and it's by no means the wanky soloing on "Cloudburst Flight" (which is being played over such a mightily awesome synth bass riff I don't really care).

And while the synth arpeggios on "Thru Metamorphic Rocks" are indeed insane (and the soundtrack to the awesome heist scene in Michael Mann's Thief), the heroic melodic stuff in the second section achieves some kind of weird stately beauty.

I love this album unconditionally.

Boy should I not post when I'm watching my kids.

did you lose one?

check under the sofa

Put another way, Milton is dead wrong.

I think as a rule I can sympathize with this, but have a hard time understanding that on this album.

How can you like TD but not like the part on the title track (part 2?) with the descending piano riff, disco-ish drum groove and guitar? These guys have never been about virtuosity. And the drums alternating between the motorik beat and open hats is totally thrilling stuff and it's by no means the wanky soloing on "Cloudburst Flight" (which is being played over such a mightily awesome synth bass riff I don't really care).

And while the synth arpeggios on "Thru Metamorphic Rocks" are indeed insane (and the soundtrack to the awesome heist scene in Michael Mann's Thief), the heroic melodic stuff in the second section achieves some kind of weird stately beauty.

I love this album unconditionally.

― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, May 7, 2013 8:01 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I stand by this poorly written post unconditionally.

I’m back to agree with myself yet again.

I'll agree with both of you

This is notably the start of their descent into unnecessariness, sorry.

I still think Big Edgar was a crappy guitarist.

They still had like 5 albums after this!

More like 50.

Sorry I meant to say 5 good albums!

Ha, yes, more like it.