Yeah I've repped for Optical Race a few times on TD threads
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Saturday, 28 March 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
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.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 28 March 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
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.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link
i have never ever FP'd anyone ever on ilm as its not my groove, but damn ...
― mark e, Thursday, 23 April 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
LOL I was just listening to it and thinking this really is not the flavour of Tangerine Dream I prefer.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 22:55 (four years ago) link
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.
― The multiplying villainies of nature / Do swarm upon him (Vast Halo), Thursday, 23 April 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
I think he was hearing Dave Gilmour in his head.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
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?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
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
― brimstead, Friday, 24 April 2020 01:25 (four years ago) link
More like Force Manure
― i am a horse girl (map), Friday, 24 April 2020 02:08 (four years ago) link
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
― mark e, Thursday, April 23, 2020 3:49 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'm skipping straight to suggest ban
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 24 April 2020 05:04 (four years ago) link
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.
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 24 April 2020 05:17 (four years ago) link
You should be warned that Cyclone, the album preceding Force Majeure, has vocals on it
― does anyone know of any choir-organ repairers? mine broke (Matt #2), Friday, 24 April 2020 07:53 (four years ago) link
not too much generic sequencer stuff
Talking of Suggest Bans. Generic sequencer stuff is virtually my favourite kind of music.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 24 April 2020 09:38 (four years ago) link
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!
― The multiplying villainies of nature / Do swarm upon him (Vast Halo), Friday, 24 April 2020 11:30 (four years ago) link
you're allowed to use every trick in the book, if you wrote the book.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 24 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
I think vocals are only on one side of Cylone? But yeah, the non-vocal stuff on there rules
― brimstead, Friday, 24 April 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
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
― brimstead, Friday, 24 April 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
Is there another band called Tangerine Dream out there I've not heard yet?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 24 April 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/56vOaoxFJ9-WnL2-pXWKiLAf7-M=/fit-in/494x480/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1029642-1185955842.jpeg.jpg
― does anyone know of any choir-organ repairers? mine broke (Matt #2), Friday, 24 April 2020 22:00 (four years ago) link
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
― brimstead, Saturday, 25 April 2020 01:25 (four years ago) link
I think "Phaedra" is the first one with sequencers but it is pretty much their signature sound, or definitely the most recognisable.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 April 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link
I mean, "That sounds like Tangerine Dream", doesn't usually refer to guitar playing that reminds you of Edgar Froese, for instance.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 April 2020 01:29 (four years ago) link
right because all tangerine dreams before force Majeure only had sequencers, no other instruments or synthesized sounds
― brimstead, Saturday, 25 April 2020 03:51 (four years ago) link
anyway yeah I know I’m a clod, whatever
just a bit of fun, Tom d, I’m not mad or anythingSorry to everyone else for shitting up to thread
― brimstead, Saturday, 25 April 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
lol any excuse to bullshit about TD
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 25 April 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
OTM
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 April 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link