Tangerine Dream (and Chritopher Franke) Classic or Dud/Search and Destroy

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as an sidebar to the "25 Most Influential Ambient Albums" thread, I ask this:
Tangerine Dream...fabulously talented crafters of soul-melting soundscapes who put Pink Floyd to shame; or...
overrated keyb twiddling bores grunting out albums that sound "like Enigma...but without charm or even a beat."
LET ILM DECIDE!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 7 June 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I have put a lot of thought into this, and I have come to this conclusion: TD is crappy crap.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 8 June 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Listen to TD's output from Electronic Meditation to Phaedra
late at night while on acid. You'll never be the same.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 8 June 2003 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave is otm, my personal faves being Zeit, Atem and Phaedra.

― dleone (dleone), Sunday, 8 June 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

apart from electronic meditation they're pretty much a bunch of suck

― duane, Sunday, 8 June 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

alpha centauri is cool... of the later stuff i like force majeure.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 8 June 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

like Enigma...but without charm or even a beat."

Ugh! Those beats were the worst thing about Enigma!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 8 June 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

force majeure is my favorite of the later stuff, the last piece is a meltdown. I also like 'no man's land' from hyperborea.

phaedra is just a beautiful record no matter what.

― jl, Sunday, 8 June 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I meant to say 'also my favorite' of the later stuff, but I'm posting to ILM at 11:17pm on a saturday night about 4 minutes into side one of 'phaedra' and I just plain forgot to type the word

― jl, Sunday, 8 June 2003 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Most of it is crap but check out "Thief", an early Michael Mann movie with a TD soundtrack, and Manuel Göttsching´s E2-E4; fantastic proto-chill out-ambient-eurohouse-Cafe-del Mare....

― Vincent Vern, Tuesday, 22 July 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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