Desert_Voyager wrote:
Not me, I've played Encore more than any other album, and yet I have never tired of it. I will always love Encore.
I think Encore is one of the best albums to give to someone new to TD,
It has the 'classic TD sound,' lot's of sequencing, and 'tron, all four tracks are long so the album has a good running time. There's nice variation too, including spacey sounds (i.e. beginning of Cherokee Lane), acoustics (piano on Monolight), guitar (Coldwater Canyon), and darker melodies on Desert Dream. And some of the themes are based on music from Stratosfear, Sorcerer and Ricochet giving the listener a taste for those albums as well.
And when that sequence comes in at the end of Desert Dream, it leaves you wanting more. I love that guitar tone on Coldwater Canyon. Doesn't the jungle back cover photo remind you of Sorcerer's music/atmosphere?
I also love how the music just flows so well particularly in Cherokee Lane and Monolight. No doubt IMO Encore is a masterpiece, VERY solid. The obvious flaw is the sound quality (bar on Desert Dream), but the music is just so good, that you don't really think about it.
So as Jason says, Encore is an album you can easily play many times. Long live that double LP
