Tag: ambient

80. Tangerine Dream

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(March 2016) I have completed phase 80 of my “opus project,” in which I listen to an artist’s complete discography.   This edition: TANGERINE DREAM. This was a lesson learned for my project, of falling down a rabbit hole, not being able to get out, and forcing myself to make it to the end. I absolutely love Tangerine Dream’s work in the 1970s as pioneers of electronic music.   From the 1980s, it was mostly banal, new age, synth drivel, although it had some value in soundtracks. With 98 albums and parts of 22 others, this was quite a time suck.

Favorite album: Phaedra

Favorite song: Phaedra

Favorite period: 1971-78 (mostly the “Virgin years”)

Favorite soundtrack: The Keep

Worst album: among many, I select the recording of cover songs “Under Cover — Chapter One”

Compared to expectations: ↓

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49. Brian Eno

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(March 2015) I have completed phase 49 of my “opus project,” in which I listen to an artist’s complete discography.   This edition: BRIAN ENO.   This was a long one; more than 50 albums. (If I had included the hundreds of albums which he produced, it would have taken me a year.)   My favorite period is the mid-1970s, when he simultaneously put out eclectic glam-adelic rock albums and essentially invented ambient music. He continued (and continues) to innovate in many directions.

Favourite album (rock): Here Come the Warm Jets

Favourite album (ambient): Music for Airports

Favourite album (collaboration): Evening Star (with Robert Fripp)

Favourite song: Needles in the Camel’s Eye

Compared to expectations: ⇑

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