Best Track on Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure?

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.