Looking Back : WHITE EAGLE

sparrow · Post by **sparrow** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:23 pm

Awesome record and one of my faves from the Virgin years...Mojave Plan is astounding.

Chris Monk · Post by **Chris Monk** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:23 pm

Yet another great TD album. Four fantastic tracks, each one entirely different from the next. Stand out track for me is Mojave Plan which just keeps shifting up a gear until it totally goes off the rails and ends up as a big train-wreck involving a symphony orchestra. Utter genious.

How many bands have so many classic albums?

Mars · Post by **Mars** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:33 pm

My first album by TD! Mojave Plan is to blame that I became a TD fan!

alipaul · Post by **alipaul** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:04 am

24db wrote:
epsilon75 wrote:Is that out of the 82 programme Andy
No mate...TD fan club mag

Remember it well !!!

I have to admit like hyperborea initially not my favourite at the time

but get good airplay now

Hyperboreauk · Post by **Hyperboreauk** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:17 pm

Another Classic possibly my Fav TD studio album.

Peter Beasley · Post by **Peter Beasley** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:22 am

Having seen TD three times on the 1981 UK Tour (and having tapes), I was totally familiar with 'Mojave Plan' well before 'White Eagle' was released.

It was obvious in concert that this was a classic TD piece, but when I heard the studio recording I was very disappointed with its dry, compressed, seemingly rushed production and tape hiss.

Johannes' Mini Moog solos were better live and I've always felt uneasy that the band felt it necessary to sequence the PPG lead melodies rather than play them live.

tdream4ever · Post by **tdream4ever** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 5:22 pm

Fantastic album this is. I have two versions on album. One I bought here in the states, probably at Warehouse records or Music Plus. The second album, I bought the Japanese release when I lived in Japan. Also have this on cd. Mojave Plan. . .awesome track, I play this when I'm on my road trips driving through Mojave desert. A true classic.

out of 5

Insvims · Post by **Insvims** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 5:44 pm

I cannot remember if the first album I heard by TD was White Eagle or Tangram, but I remember listening to White Eagle on LP from my brothers collection when I was a boy. Really liked it, but it took several years untill I discovered more of TD. Melrose was the first I bought, and from 1990 until about 2000 my interest for TD was modest. But then I really discovered them again, and started buying more albums. White Eagle is definitely one of the most important reasons that I discovered the band in the first place.

hansx · Post by **hansx** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:30 pm

Another fantastic album in a quality we hardly get these years (sorry). For me also a topten album.

Mac cuber transfer · Post by **Mac cuber transfer** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:35 pm

Mojave plan is for me one of the top five best compositions of EM by anyone ever. I just love the way it deconstructs itself at the end of the first movement.

AS for white eagle has anyone noticed any similarities with Philip Glass's The Photographer if it's not somehow borrowed it's certainly a confirmation of genius!

A Hyperborean · Post by **A Hyperborean** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:59 am

This was amongst the first TD albums I bought in 1984 and one I rate as an absolute work of genius.

krismopompas · Post by **krismopompas** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:16 pm

mojave plan is one of the best pieces music ever composed......... the essence of sequencerlines with a great flow of chords, melodies and percussionsounds........ ok, this is something i could write for many td-songs

............ simply one of my alltime td-favs

Insvims · Post by **Insvims** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 4:25 pm

Just listened through this album. I came to think about the title track. I am sure this is featured on a recent TD release (but maybe with a different name, because it maybe is a new live version). Can't remember what release. Any ideas? Probably a silly question, but still...

Chris Monk · Post by **Chris Monk** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:01 pm

Insvims wrote:Just listened through this album. I came to think about the title track. I am sure this is featured on a recent TD release (but maybe with a different name, because it maybe is a new live version). Can't remember what release. Any ideas? Probably a silly question, but still...

It sometimes goes by the name of "The Girl on the Stairs" and has been played at various concerts in recent years. It was definitely played at Frankfurt a couple of years back. There was a great version released as a limited edition EP for the 1997 tour.

Insvims · Post by **Insvims** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:25 pm

Chris Monk wrote:
Insvims wrote:Just listened through this album. I came to think about the title track. I am sure this is featured on a recent TD release (but maybe with a different name, because it maybe is a new live version). Can't remember what release. Any ideas? Probably a silly question, but still...
It sometimes goes by the name of "The Girl on the Stairs" and has been played at various concerts in recent years. It was definitely played at Frankfurt a couple of years back. There was a great version released as a limited edition EP for the 1997 tour.

Girl on the Stairs it is! Thanks a lot. I knew it was on some live recordings I have, but I could not remember the new title.

Tangerine Dream

Looking Back : WHITE EAGLE

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