Hi,
I came from classical music, and popular music was a late addition to it all, much later in life. Basically, a lot of popular music was not that great and I did not think that it deserved the complimentary notes that it was getting, which was sort of like a bad Hollywood movie that everyone calls a "classic" ... and it's still bad ... and will not look at the play cardboard sets that are creating an image for us to worship!
By the time I heard TD ... 1972 (Phaedra) ... I was really scared as the music up until that time had not drilled a hole into my soul ... there were a lot of things I loved, but even though they were important (Jimi playing the national anthem, Janis and her strength while singing and so forth), the brutality of some rock bands, that thought their work as "music" to rip you off and take advantage of your money ... in exchange for you liking their fame, augmented by the record companies, instead of the movie companies making sure you liked their star and spent money to see that movie!
After "Mysterious Semblance At the Strand of Nightmares" ... it all changed ... and I knew what music was ... and what a song was ... and what advertising was ... and Black Sabbath was off my list, as were many other bands that I did not think were that good. Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield, Vangelis ... replaced all the over rated and over advertised meaningless rock music that was selling ... and then ... my motto became the same as my old roomie ... none of the hits none of the time.
I have one of the largest collection of electronic music, and its history, though I'm missing Penderecki, Heinemann and Housman and others ... but Riley, Roach and many others are well represented, since then. Even Beaver & Krause, to whom even TD paid a tribute!
All in all, the line about hits is important ... because "hits" is a way of saying that "everyone likes it" and that is a very socialistic and populistic idea ... to make sure that you do not learn much about your own indivuduality ... after all, when you are into something else, you are not into you! That makes it easier to tell you that this is the way that it is, and you will follow it and go to church on Sundays to get your ... _________ !
To this day, and we're talking 40 years and then some ... TD has always remained at the forefront of that "inner freedom" for me ... along with others, or course ... but the example here is important ... it doesn't mean you can't sell and that some famous stuff is not good (Pink Floyd), but it does mean that there is way too much empty stuff out there ... that really does not deserve teh label of "music"!
Rediscovering Tangerine Dream
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