Best Tangerine Dream Album (1970-1979)

... and White Eagle and Poland.

Beyond Poland you're in rough territory though

I like the first couple of ones with haslinger ok

Yeah I've repped for Optical Race a few times on TD threads

as I think I've said on every TD thread, I get off the bus at Underwater Sunlight, although it has a couple of decent tracks.

I've decided I really don't like "Force Majeure" very much apart from that awesome end section to "Thru Metamorphic Rocks". The rest of it is too like tasteful prog rock for my taste, too 'musical', and too much guitar and, as I think I've said ad nauseum, I don't like Edgar Froese's guitar playing at all.

i have never ever FP'd anyone ever on ilm as its not my groove, but damn ...

LOL I was just listening to it and thinking this really is not the flavour of Tangerine Dream I prefer.

I agree with you vis-a-vis Froese's axe-spanking. Dude seemed to think he was some kind of Neil Young-manqué, but he really hadn't the chops. None of that detracts from his talent as a visionary electronicist, mind.

I think he was hearing Dave Gilmour in his head.

Also, I don't think they were very good at writing melodies - Schmoelling was the melody guy, and he didn't join them till later, I think? This album is just Froese and Franke, right?

Force Majeure is probably my favorite album of theirs post-73 idk, tons and tons of cool melodies in the title track, not too much generic sequencer stuff, cool “bad” guitar sound, go ahead FP me

More like Force Manure

i have never ever FP'd anyone ever on ilm as its not my groove, but damn ...

― mark e, Thursday, April 23, 2020 3:49 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm skipping straight to suggest ban

dang, i am such a doofus. i love the tangerine dream records i have (zeit, phaedra, stratosphear, and Froese's Aqua), and i've heard their 80s music through various film soundtracks (ok, Legend mostly), but i had no idea about Force Majeure. i kind of assumed their band trajectory was the ambient early stuff --> soundtracks and more cheesy stuff i knew they had more traditional band roots but i didn't realize they had an album like this, and especially not one in the late 70s! oops.

You should be warned that Cyclone, the album preceding Force Majeure, has vocals on it

not too much generic sequencer stuff

Talking of Suggest Bans. Generic sequencer stuff is virtually my favourite kind of music.

Also, since TD literally invented that sequencer-driven style of composition, it's kind of a low blow to insinuate that their use of the technique was uninspired!

you're allowed to use every trick in the book, if you wrote the book.

I think vocals are only on one side of Cylone? But yeah, the non-vocal stuff on there rules

re:sequencer arpeggios n stuff....ehhh but I just don’t like the sound of it for the most part, sorry

if there were secret Patrick Crowley remixes of 70s Virgin TD, I’d be all in

re:sequencer arpeggios n stuff....ehhh but I just don’t like the sound of it for the most part, sorry

Is there another band called Tangerine Dream out there I've not heard yet?

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is there much sequencer stuff on the first four albums? I mean, I used to dig all the Virgin stuff but people change. they did a lot of cool stuff besides arpeggios

I think "Phaedra" is the first one with sequencers but it is pretty much their signature sound, or definitely the most recognisable.

I mean, "That sounds like Tangerine Dream", doesn't usually refer to guitar playing that reminds you of Edgar Froese, for instance.

right because all tangerine dreams before force Majeure only had sequencers, no other instruments or synthesized sounds

anyway yeah I know I’m a clod, whatever

just a bit of fun, Tom d, I’m not mad or anything

Sorry to everyone else for shitting up to thread

lol any excuse to bullshit about TD

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