Hobo wrote:24db wrote:Hobo wrote:
That thought had crossed my mind as well, but any such posts will probably fall on deaf ears here. Who knows, there may be a new found appreciation of post '84 TD, for those that find their way to this forum.
Maybe, maybe not. I've always thought what marks you as fan is what you like, not what you don't. I don't collect music I hate, so why spend so much energy discussing stuff I don't like?.
Personally, I welcome anybody that wants to discuss pre '84 TD, as I prefer that era also. I have however unearthed many gems after this period and I'm grateful for this, as it stops me repeating that "the Virgin years are the best, FFB was my favourite line-up and Stratosfear is the greatest"
Do you like Stratosfear Mick?
I guess I'm weird (feel free to agree
)....in that I can hear a direct connection running through every single TD album, whilst others want to split up TD into seperate TD's, eras, lineups, fair widths etc
Nobody enjoys a discussion on old TD as much as me (well, possibly BM and Colin do...but moving on), provided there's a degree of give and take between the fans of 1967 and 2007. It's just music, you can minutely disect every album and say why Rubycon isn't Rockoon (no Sherbbet!), you can get your frequency meters out and compare Phaedra with Stratosfear and say one had more bass, but in the end it always boils down to whether I like the music. The technology (although rather nice I might add), means nothing, absolutely nothing if you have nothing to say, sequencers, ring-mods and laptops do not 'alone' good music make.
I still think Ricochet is the best
...but then again I love Neptunes as much...go figure