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Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: May 06 2007, 10:21 I would like to get some stuff by them, but what album is best?? They have so much...   Im now listening to White Eagle (really nice) some tips and ideas would be great   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: May 06 2007, 10:33 Get Phaedra.Get Rubycon.Get Ricochet. -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: May 06 2007, 10:36 thank you very much   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

The Thin Man Group: Members Posts: 151 Joined: May 2002 Posted: May 06 2007, 11:02 Personal favourites are: Ricochet Stratosfear Tangram Logos Le Parc Underwater Sunlight which are mostly earlier rather than later albums.  The stuff from the last twenty years hasn't left much of an impression on me at all I'm afraid. A good starting point would be a best of compilation such as Dream Sequence which came out in the mid-80s.  This was a triple album when it came out in vinyl so there's plenty of jumping off points for you to try. The Thin Man Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: May 06 2007, 14:51 a best of album is not stupid either I find theyre music both electronic and nice, some scary, but they touch me really in many songs. I just had a look on cdon.com and what a GREAT HUGE collection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! must be alot of music. personally, i have never heard theyre music before he he... (it is such a shame) I get some "Onyx" feelings in theyre mood. Onyx is a song from Space Art. Could be some Kraftwerk too.. I think it will be great music to have in my collection   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: May 06 2007, 16:44 The best of TD,IMO,are the Virgin years. -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Alan D Group: Members Posts: 3670 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: May 07 2007, 03:44 Many years ago I was in a car with some friends - we were driving westward at the end of a long, hot day. The sun was low in the sky, so we were all having to shield our eyes against it. A piece of music was playing that increasingly seemed to fit this sense of onward movement, driving through the heat of a fading day, towards the dazzling light, and I asked what it was. 'Ricochet', was the answer. I bought a boxed set of LPs of Tangerine Dream's stuff on the basis of that experience, though nothing else I heard seemed quite so good as 'Ricochet', and even Ricochet itself never quite seemed to live up to that hypnotic first encounter with it. Never forgot it though. Back to top

The Thin Man Group: Members Posts: 151 Joined: May 2002 Posted: May 07 2007, 09:07 Your association with Ricochet must be the exact opposite of mine Alan!  I always think of a cold winter's evening, the light rapidly disappearing from the sky, and big fat snow flakes starting to fall with increasing speed.  I remember staring out of the window watching the flakes and being gently hypnotised by the music.  If the tape hadn't finished I would still be there! The Thin Man Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: May 07 2007, 12:01 I like the early years best. Alpha Centauri, Zeit and Atem. It's not for everyone though. Great moods but very little melodic content. Phaedra is great. For the average MO fan I'd recomend Stratosfear or Force Majeure. But I wouldn't recomend anything after 1987 for anyone. Absolutely awful music in my (not so humble opinion). So please don't pick up something like Goblin's Club or Madcap's Flaming Duty. You would get the wrong impression of this group. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Hyuuga_Neji_otaku Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: Mar. 2007 Posted: June 24 2007, 22:39 Hehe, their best pice of music is "Force Majeure" Pt.1 It makes me think of Tubular Bells 1 ^^ great group, Tangerine -------------- "LET ME GO!!!! Master I hate u so!!! how can I live my life, when my whole being cries!!!" Tony Kakko / Sonata Arctica Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: June 24 2007, 23:02 I've never been able to really get into that band. And I say I tried, really. I can't say I don't like them, but... I don't even remember if I ever managed to listen to Zeit in its entirety. Tangerine Dream's music makes my mind wander, far away into the distance, and makes me think of things... like "you know, I really like NEU!." I have to try them again someday, though. The only serious problems I've had is that I first listened to Alpha Centauri one day when I was ill, at home, and the whistling noises were making me nauseous; and Soundmill Navigator has a constant "squeak" switching sides all the way through the recording, which according to what I've read, was due to a fault in the tape mechanism. The rest is just not finding the real interest. I really like expansive, exploratory music, but Tangerine Dream's appeal is still a mystery to me. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

Bill Bobaggins Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: June 2005 Posted: June 25 2007, 09:59 My favorite is Tyger - Alchemy of the Heart -------------- Speak friend and enter. Back to top

DCDayDreamer Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: June 25 2007, 17:04 Tangerine Dream... Where do you start with the band that note for note, sequence for sequence, have been sampled more than any other band in history (and nearly always without credit). It all really depends what you want to listen to, the band's music ranges from awful to awesome, they started in the sixties and have recently released an album as diverse from the norm as you can get. go to 'voices in the net' for the most comprehensive guide of TD music: http://www.vitn.homepage.t-online.de/index.htm Their greatest achievements were always in the live performances, mostly improvising as they played, they experimented with all sorts of sounds and styles, they created trance and even punk sounds way before anyone else even thought the names up!. The 'Tangerine Tree' project was an excellent history of the band's live performances, I might even upload the entire set in MP3 format for download. Back to top

captain cavern Group: Members Posts: 267 Joined: Oct. 2003 Posted: June 25 2007, 17:23 For me, Zeit is the best... and also Phaedra and Rubycon... Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: June 25 2007, 18:41 Going a bit off-topic, and not meaning to keep on trashing the band, but one thing that bugs me about them is their song titles. I mean, when I read titles like 'Fly and Collision of Comas Sola', 'Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares' and 'The Big Sleep in Search of Hades', I almost wish Mogwai had formed back then and influence the band to give their songs titles such as 'I Am Not Batman', 'Folk Death 95', 'Ex-Cowboy' and 'You Don't Know Jesus', instead. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: June 26 2007, 18:33 I only have Phaedra, and I don't mind it. I wouldn't rate it very highly on my " I have to listen to this " list though. In a weird way it reminds me of Jarre's Oxygene but emptyer ( that can't be a word!!) Maybe a vacuum was applied. It's pleasant enough but has no real substance/guts/magical cleverness that Mike's music has. It's also a bit Pink Floydish, all from around that time I suppose. One thing I will say is I just love the text style on the cover very much. I really love text and handwriting & signatures etc, I like the way words can change depending on how they are presented. Infact from the inner sheet of my cd copy the pictures of all the other album covers look very interesting too. As for the titles of the music, they are a bit sort of [I]out there[I] but then Music of the Spheres could also be put in that category too. You could have a lot of fun renaming Mike's music in the style of Tangerine Dream... -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

EeToN Group: Members Posts: 845 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: June 27 2007, 13:15 My brother borrowed 'Dream Sequence' from the local library nearly 10 years ago. It's a compilation album from around 1985. I liked some of the tracks instantly, especially 'Cinnamon Road', the 'Logos' parts, 'Dominion', 'White Eagle' and 'Choronzon', they have catchy melodies and are interestingly arranged. Later on I got to like 'Tangram Part One', it's a quite varied 20-minute-long track. After some years I had the chance to get to know other TD albums, and I expected similar good music but I was disappointed hearing them. I found most of them uninteresting. So for me, 'Dream Sequence' was the only album worth getting, but that one really was, the 1980-1987 period was a nice one for TD. Many of you mention Zeit. As far as I remember, it's a very early psychedelic ambient record, and not really representative to their later work. I'm surprised that it seems popular as it's even more uninteresting to me than their music after 1987. -------------- If I were music, I would be Enigmatism. Back to top

Pertou Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: July 2007 Posted: July 19 2007, 04:19 Hi guys. In my conception of music, nothing is as good as Tangerine Dream. I've seen them six times live and have made a website with extensive reviews and comments The site for fans of TANGERINE DREAM -------------- Please visit my Tangerine Dream Blog http://tangerinedream.pertou.dk/ Back to top

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