Tangerine Dream

Chris Monk wrote:

burningbrain wrote:Worst? All tracks with that "Aaaaaheeeee"-Vocalsample.

Liked it at first....


...but it got a little over utilised.

Worse thah Ahhhhhhhhhheeeeee was the hey yeah on VFART.

it was only prominent in a couple tracks (if my memory serves me right)

sparrow wrote:

Chris Monk wrote:

burningbrain wrote:Worst? All tracks with that "Aaaaaheeeee"-Vocalsample.

Liked it at first....


...but it got a little over utilised.

Worse thah Ahhhhhhhhhheeeeee was the hey yeah on VFART.

Is this the voice of Jayney Klimek (who featured on Divine Comedy & TOTT)?

Chris Monk wrote:

burningbrain wrote:Worst? All tracks with that "Aaaaaheeeee"-Vocalsample.

Liked it at first....


...but it got a little over utilised.

There are some of these on The Island of the Fay also, but I think it only adds to the mood of the album. Not overused. And I can't help but really like that vocal sample.

Insvims wrote:

Chris Monk wrote:

burningbrain wrote:Worst? All tracks with that "Aaaaaheeeee"-Vocalsample.

Liked it at first....


...but it got a little over utilised.

There are some of these on The Island of the Fay also, but I think it only adds to the mood of the album. Not overused. And I can't help but really like that vocal sample.

Will listen to this with interest.


Actually I was listening to the Lisbon DVD this morning and much enjoying the vocals samples used throughout, especially on Carmel Calif. Top stuff.

To be honest, I'm not really fond of the vocal sfx on Views From A Red Train. I can live with 'em, but they actually leave me pining for Steve Jolliffe's singing on Cyclone. I can smell the death threats already.

To date, I'm not aware of any truly "worst" tracks. But one incredibly disappointing one would be 'Rolling Down Cahuenga' from Melrose. It starts off promising, with a nice 'Enjoy The Silence'-esque bassline, but quickly loses focus and starts meandering for several minutes. I don't usually skip tracks I dislike, but I tire of this one too quickly.

Don't like Optical Race (the track) very much.
I really love the album, but the title track is too "pop".

the title track^ has always reminded me of old Sonic games for some reason.....

PurpleTwilight wrote:To be honest, I'm not really fond of the vocal sfx on Views From A Red Train. I can live with 'em, but they actually leave me pining for Steve Jolliffe's singing on Cyclone. I can smell the death threats already.

To date, I'm not aware of any truly "worst" tracks. But one incredibly disappointing one would be 'Rolling Down Cahuenga' from Melrose. It starts off promising, with a nice 'Enjoy The Silence'-esque bassline, but quickly loses focus and starts meandering for several minutes. I don't usually skip tracks I dislike, but I tire of this one too quickly.

Really disagree about Cahuenga. was one of my early TD favorites in the early 90s.

Jon wrote:

PurpleTwilight wrote:To be honest, I'm not really fond of the vocal sfx on Views From A Red Train. I can live with 'em, but they actually leave me pining for Steve Jolliffe's singing on Cyclone. I can smell the death threats already.

To date, I'm not aware of any truly "worst" tracks. But one incredibly disappointing one would be 'Rolling Down Cahuenga' from Melrose. It starts off promising, with a nice 'Enjoy The Silence'-esque bassline, but quickly loses focus and starts meandering for several minutes. I don't usually skip tracks I dislike, but I tire of this one too quickly.

Really disagree about Cahuenga. was one of my early TD favorites in the early 90s.

Yeh. Nice tune. Not one of TD's very best but still very pleasant to listen to. Have to admit that it doesn't go anywhere very much but that doesn't make it a bad track.

first time i heard it was Arizona, so i might be biased towards it. i think it's great

I consider Melrose a rather odd album. For me, there's something desolate-sounding about the tracks in general that wasn't present in previous or later albums. Maybe it's the songwriting, the instrumentation, the production, etc. Strangely enough, my two favorites are 'Three Bikes In The Sky' and 'Cool At Heart,' which didn't seem too popular among fan reviews I've read.

I'm not too fond of 'Girls On Broadway' from Rockoon, although I've heard that many fans really like the song. It gets points for being somewhat creative in its arrangement, but I think the major-key doesn't do it for me. I never skip it, though, since it's not that bad.

Going back to the song 'Optical Race,' I keep imagining it as an inspiration for 'Under The Sea' from Disney's The Little Mermaid.

girls on broadway is cool as a cucumber

To have remembered some "worst" tracks, that means already they had a tune or something remarkable... Which isn't the case for a few dozens of tracks from TD, for instance many on "Mota Atma", "Transsiberia" or several of their soundtracks form the 80's...
OK, the five first albums hardly had any melody either, but the guys were experimenting with new sounds at least, and there were some special harmonies... not just two notes or two chords going nowhere over a bed of programmed rhythms without any specificity.
The "main title" from Sorcerer is quite meaningless as well.
And this is a man who loves some of their atonal music who speaks.

I love love love every track on Melrose, it's a very fine album

Girls on Broadway is extremely cool

Optical race, the title track is a youthful and enjoyable track if you can keep up with its energy. I love it