TD's music hits the brick face of Journalism

24db · Post by **24db** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:09 pm

I had to share this piece of 'journalism', it's a classic

'Phaedra' (1974) was the album which brought them to wide public attention, a work of monumental beauty or boredom, depending on your point of view, on which they said all they really have to say. It's not "rock" music-their intentions lie more in the "serious" classical area (although Froese's 'Stuntman' (1979) has some refreshingly light-hearted moments), as do legions of other dreary, po-faced compatriots, best-known of whom is the dreadful Klaus Schulze No-one need own more than one Tangerine Dream album ('Phaedra'); no-one need own any Klaus Schulze album ...

I'll show the same lack of research or insight and not even bother to find our which one of the UK music weekies it came from

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:12 pm

...gawd reading that woke me up from my vigil in front of 3 monitors for them TD gig announcements

who wrote that fuching : bilge

24db · Post by **24db** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:13 pm

bigmoog wrote: ...gawd reading that woke me up from my vigil in front of 3 monitors for them TD gig announcements

who wrote that fuching : bilge

I can't be arsed looking, I think it's funny personally

Hobo · Post by **Hobo** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:14 pm

I'll not bother to even remember the article!

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:14 pm

...dreary, po-faced.....

sounds like a goth band.........

24db · Post by **24db** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:16 pm

Hobo wrote:I'll not bother to even remember the article!

lol...and this was a 'History of Electronic Music':

..."At the other end of the scale are Kraftwerk, mindful purveyors of robo-rhythms for the mindless masses."

Cheers mate, nice to know my IQ was so low

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:18 pm

......reminds me of Edgars quote on de MFD promo about Sh*t and flies

24db · Post by **24db** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:18 pm

Yep, I need to get hold of Steve Lakes 'classic' review of Phaedra....'Eat flowers, 1 million flies can't be wrong'

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:19 pm

posted above you re flies

24db · Post by **24db** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:21 pm

bigmoog wrote:posted above you re flies

My favourite review contains this line (from memory):

'Last time I saw Edgar Froese he looked dead, judging by this music they should have checked his pulse'

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:24 pm

24db wrote:
bigmoog wrote:posted above you re flies
My favourite review contains this line (from memory):

'Last time I saw Edgar Froese he looked dead, judging by this music they should have checked his pulse'

yep I seem to remember something like that

but I feel dead at the mo : been on line 36hours now....how sad am BigmOOG?

24db · Post by **24db** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:43 pm

Another classic Steve Lake quote:

from MAKE MEIN MUZAK, Melody Maker, april 6, 1974. Page 13

"...Tangerine Dream's history reads like a B-Movie script. It's all the brain child of Edgar Froese, a failed heavy guitarist...

...As far as I'm concerned "Phaedra" is gutless and spinelss, devoid of inspiration, imaginiation or plain old fashioned funk. But maybe a few hundred thousand potential record buyers can't be wrong"

Don't sit on the fence Steve, just say if you liked it!

24db · Post by **24db** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:46 pm

I think I'll make a list of the worst quotes (TD did that on their first website I seem to remember)

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:51 pm

a list of worst quotes: why not : I could do with getting a rope and finding a tree...................

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:56 pm

if you do a deep trawl of the web : there are loadsa reviews by Mr LAkE : he hated everything......except the sound of his own voice in print*

*OH GAWD THATS ME