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I was just listening to this myself the other day. I hate the Seattle years but this album is slightly less than half bad. The reworking of Stratosfear is interesting in that it proves that older material can be reworked and still maintain a meaningful connection with the past. Phaedra 05 had totally soured me on reworked material.cantosis wrote:was never a fave of mine when I first got into TD in the 90s but listening to it again it is actually a pretty good album. I love the reworking of stratosfear and Catwalk is a good track.
I used to lump the Private Music years in with the Seattle years. But now, after a long time has passed, I now feel that the Private years are of astonishingly high quality. Worlds and worlds better than the Seattle years.Chris Monk wrote:I have to say, although apparently it was quite a popular period for TD, that the Seattle years aren't my favourite. Having said that they are pretty well produced albums with some really good music but it's just too middle-of-the-road for me. I still listen to them on occasion and get pleasure from them but not as much as other periods.
Not so keen on the classic track covers either, they are just too close to the originals with very little in the way of Tangerine Dreaminess to them.
Funnily enough if they were by another band I'd probably rate them very highly but, as they are TD, they are well down my list of favourites. Wouldn't get rid of them though.... as I say they're some great stuff on them.
I agre Tom...TOB is a decent enough CD but recently when I had a listen I could see it for what it is a lot of the tracks are quite bland...Living in a Fountain Pen is a fave though and I was pleased it was played on the Orang Odyssey Dooveedoo.rattymouse wrote:I used to lump the Private Music years in with the Seattle years. But now, after a long time has passed, I now feel that the Private years are of astonishingly high quality. Worlds and worlds better than the Seattle years.Chris Monk wrote:I have to say, although apparently it was quite a popular period for TD, that the Seattle years aren't my favourite. Having said that they are pretty well produced albums with some really good music but it's just too middle-of-the-road for me. I still listen to them on occasion and get pleasure from them but not as much as other periods.
Not so keen on the classic track covers either, they are just too close to the originals with very little in the way of Tangerine Dreaminess to them.
Funnily enough if they were by another band I'd probably rate them very highly but, as they are TD, they are well down my list of favourites. Wouldn't get rid of them though.... as I say they're some great stuff on them.
The Froese/Haslinger era was just way, waaaaay too short.
Those are my favorite tracks on the album as well. Generally, there's not a lot of TD's releases from the 1990s that really impress me, but this one is pretty good. Turn of the Tides is the best from that period IMHO.cantosis wrote:was never a fave of mine when I first got into TD in the 90s but listening to it again it is actually a pretty good album. I love the reworking of stratosfear and Catwalk is a good track.
TOTT was probably the one I really hated in the 90s but I might think differently now so I`ll give it another listen.rotwang wrote:Those are my favorite tracks on the album as well. Generally, there's not a lot of TD's releases from the 1990s that really impress me, but this one is pretty good. Turn of the Tides is the best from that period IMHO.cantosis wrote:was never a fave of mine when I first got into TD in the 90s but listening to it again it is actually a pretty good album. I love the reworking of stratosfear and Catwalk is a good track.